Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Rossano on an
eights town.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to a Friday.
Speaker 3: Edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross This is
Sports Talk seven ninety and one. Missus, what's this, No,
you're missing nothing. Somebody didn't grow up Catholic as fight
or spend time in a church. You're welcome. Wedding, mass, funeral, mass,
mass in general, free after Mass, after the enduring Mass.
Now they do drink spending spent all of Mass begging
my mom if we could leave mass homily. You know,
we're looking for our homily. Here. You sit back and
you'll reflect. You listen, you enjoy, you feel invigorated. Yeah,
shout out Sacred Heart downtown Houston. Shout out to you.
There's a Saint Anne's where my wife and I got
married twenty eight years ago. I thought y'all went to
the La Colombe or whatever that was where the honeymoon was. Okay,
that's when we got locked out. M that's gonna happen.
And then they caught you on camera. They very well
could have. We went to Takobanda, like at one o'clock
in the morning and came back and there were no
places for us to enter the hotel. Okay, so you
gotta do what you gotta do in hotels. You just
gotta stick go see not what it once used to be.
I had taco see this morning, matter of fact, and
they forgot my Salca ranch dressing. I want and drive
through a Nobody got time for that. Not a lot
of Rhodes scholars, man, I mean, Rick Lay, you are
batting nine ninety five. Everybody else you're bat seven twenty. Well, yeah,
you might actually need to be a Rhodes scholar to
get an application. Accept it, Rick Relay. Rick Relay can
do it. It just is what it is. Ross the
hell are you? I'm doing great. I'm a little sleepy,
but I'm okay. Okay. I actually I don't mind six
thirty stars, to be honest with you. We got out
a little bit earlier. Unfortunately, there was no single overtime
or double overtime you needed last night because that well,
you got a late start tonight. It's not good for me, Matt.
I gotta get up at six thirty for that. Manchester
Dobby United versus City? What you got in the game,
Manchester City? Of course? I like City. I'm good with that. Yeah.
English soccer is fun til you have to get up
at six thirty once you just DVR and wake up
when you watch it because you want to catch it live.
What's a big game? If it was like Manchester City
versus Wolverhampton Wolves, I wouldn't get up. But this is like, Matt,
this is like Yankees Red Sox. It's like I don't
even know bigger than that. But if you're sleeping, you
won't know anybody. I mean, would you be active on
Twitter during this time? I would get texts? Okay, well
then you probably needed right, that's the right thing to do.
All right. We are here today on Anything Goes Friday,
It Goes Friday. Matt Thomas is breakdown of the Manchester
dobby and a recap of the latest Rockets loss in
that particular order. Yes, I reached out to a guy
in Boston who has a really interesting stories or he's
like a digital reporter for Tom Brady. No, well, I
mean I would love to reach out to him, but
he was busy. He's not responding to either an email
or a direct message on Twitter, and so I'm a
little grumpy about that. How's Tommy Kurrn doing. Is he
still big timing us?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even bother with that. Okay, But this
guy that I've been trying to get on the show,
and he is a digital reporter for WEE. There's two
main sports stations there. This one guy's name is Tom Carroll,
and what's the other one. It's the Sports Hub ninety
eight five. Okay, they have two. The trend now in
sports is to go put your fms, your sports talk
stations on your fms. Like if we went to FM
ghit the hell out of everybody else. Yeah, they're they're
negotiating putting us on a ninety nine point one. That
station is so unsuccessful Sports Talks ninety nine point one. Yeah, okay,
I don't know if I've heard that Quoe ninety nine
point one up right right here on sports talk. M No,
I didn't say ninety four five. Oh sorry, sir, We're
at ninety four point five HD two. That is true.
So if you want to hear our dulcet tones and sterio,
you can do that on your HD two. Your friends,
tell your neighbors. So the reason why I found him
intriguing a because he goes to Patriots practice every day.
But b he has a substack and I don't have
a substack. You're saying, well, Matt, what's so interesting about
having a substack? The dude lost over one hundred. I
want to let me and let me make sure I
get this right, because I don't want to screw this up.
He lost one hundred and thirty five pounds eating nothing
but Chick fil A? Was he in the four hundred
range previously or at least high three hundreds? I would
say it looked like he by his before and afters
he was in the three hundreds. Okay, so, well does
salads count? I haven't read it? Is he tried to
be the new Jared? Just don't do it. No, no, no,
you don't want to be the new Jared. No, you
don't want to be the old Jared. For that matter, Well,
before Jared got caught unfortunately being a pedophile, he was
a massive success story of a guy who just ate
sandwiches and made millions. Yeah, is that what this guy's
trying to do? That's what I'm asking. No, he's like
I am Mark, I am in a tough spot. Blood
pressure was high, A one C was high. Everything's high.
Everything was high when Globin everything. When you are you know,
you're in a spot, you're you know, when you're one
hundred plus pounds syrup. That's true. So I thought I
wanted to hear this dude's story, and unfortunately he's not. Yeah,
he also one hundred and thirty two pounds eating Chick
fil A every single day for lunch, just for lunch.
And the process of my own life. He stepped away
outside his comfort zone and wrote an essay about him
his up and coming journey to get healthy, and he
wrote a little substack about it, and I started reading it.
But it's like it's a no ten minutes, Matt. You
can't read for ten minutes. Not really, that's not good.
I'm concerned. Look at it. You you have thirteen year
old TikTok brain. I'm concerned. Read all that's it's still
going and going and going and go. Look. I mean
you think I read all that. Yeah, okay, you said
it's interesting and you think it's a great story. You
can't read the article. It's easier to talk to him,
but he he's not called me back. Oh this, I'm
concerned for you. Right now, you're gonna get your reading. No, Look,
I had a busy day yesterday. I had Space City, chan.
Let me tell you first of I had Space City
around me all day yesterday. Echo. It was really fun.
We Vanessa picked me up here at the station and
we drove down to the TODA Center. We did a
little Q and A and talked about my life and
broadcasting and rockets and all that, and then it called
the game, and that was. It was decent for three
quarters and it got lousy the fourth fourth quarter was
and then I'm back here with you quickly. And then
I got another game tonight. I've got a conference call
with the coaches at Utah and Houston tomorrow today because
I'm calling the women's game tomorrow. I got a quick
turn around for that at one o'clock game. So it's
it's a very hectic time. But I promise I will read.
If the guy comes on the show, I'll read the substack.
If he doesn't come to the show, I'm never gonna
look at it. Well, you're a great play by play man.
I ammreciate that. Reading will make it even better. You
know what, for vocabulary purposes, you're absolutely cool. You're accurate
on that, all right, So we have Anything Goes Friday
today and here in the show seven one nine zero
seven one three. Does that make sense to you? You
could eat Chick fil a every day? Yeah? If they
get salads, I mean could you? Could you go eat
and grilled well? Also, he was obese, morbidly obese. Well,
chlora down taking a downward trend on calories is probably
gonna help you in itself. But my guess is you
could probably mix the soup. They have a good soup. Yeah,
the salads in the grow very high in sodium, and
the grilled nuggets, like you could just mix those three
and be fine. Right, Yeah, Like I said, a lot
of sodiums. So hopefully this dude will send me messages.
I want to hear about it. I mean, you know,
sodium is the hardest to kick for me. I don't
justice that you can kick sugars. I can kick Sodium's
hard because it's kind of have some flavor I have,
Like I have high blood pressure and I'm not happy
about it, and it's what it is. But I might
my cholesterol is exceptional. I don't know why that is
reading lower, reading low in cholesterolsure, yes, reading lower boot pressure. Oh,
thank you. I'll do that. I did read the two
verse yesterday, Ross when I saw that Jeff passing among
other uh what sometimes? Oh? What was that? Computers? Sorry,
we have computer issues, but you guys have listened to
show for any length of time. You know we're gonna
have computer issues. Yeah, it's taking you eleven minutes. What's
what's going on here? Go ahead, Jeff? Well, he was
your reported the latest phrage is signing and of course
that's Kyle Tucker to the Los Angeles Dodgers. I deserve
this every single segment, every segment. What's what's what we get?
I don't know what you're talking about? Boys? Because why
would I be so cocky every single day, multiple times
per day playing sound effects of things that will achievable.
I didn't do it multiple times a day. It once
a day, probably that's not true. Probably three. And you
kept adding it to the menu. We kept hitting home runs,
and he heard his calf and then I forgot about
the CBA. Honestly, was the biggest, my biggest mistake. So
and I gave you a chance to act out yesterday
you literally did. I said we can go to Rellies
and get the two for twenty and call it a day.
Sources close to the show said I was still doing okay.
Well I called that source today. Our texted him and
I said, you're giving Ross very bad advice. He's giving
you bad advice on two different players. Oh, well, you
lost in a Bregman deal and now you lost in
the talk. Sources close to the show said, I was
okay and I wasn't. But that's okay. You know what, Hey,
you can't you can't win them all. So I went
six and oh on wild Card weekend. I'm not going
to miss I'm going to miss some others. There is
a chance I'm going to give you an opportunity to
get out of the dinner completely. No, No, we're going. No,
I've been thinking about fried Rice and Habaji for too long.
We got to post it on our igs. No, weird go.
I was gonna say, now, I'm not cut. You offered
to cover Jonathan. I never did that, and I'll cover
you Jonathan. It's not your fault. I'm just I'm broke.
Bro You know I love you. I love you, Jonathan.
I'm just broke. He's broke. I've been waiting on a
certain something since quarter three. I'm broke, so I came wrong.
I can't pay for both of you. So you're saying
that if I get because I've got five things I
want you to utter, we'll split, Jonathan. How about that?
And if you utter the five things, you're off the
hook completely? Oh really? Yes? Okay, that's interesting. Probably not,
but will when we come back, or maybe you should
wait later into the show, a little later. We've got
some we got some grape projuice and I right here, yeah, later,
dok is gonna join us a eleven o'clock. Sure, I'm
gonna duck out for that. You can't. Who's doing the rockets?
Launch pan the night?
Speaker 5: Me?
Speaker 3: Well, then you're done. You gotta be on there. Matter
of fact sce you're doing. You should ask you know,
all the questions. I can do that. I'll ask one
if you want me. It's like coach, how are you?
You'll be like, what do you want?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 3: It'd be good, Uh Texans Patriots. By the way, I
gotta I gotta something. I gotta do a late shut
your boll mess up. And it was after a couple
of calls I heard during the morning kickoff with Dan
and Cole. This morning we got to stop doing this
Texans fan base and we'll discuss what that is next
ten to fourteen and said, anything goes Friday seven one
three two one two five seven nine seven one three
two one two five seven. Ninnis h Ross needs to
mention that you texted me late last night and said,
we got about fifty or so people tweeting you or
sending you messages about the hibachi And for those that
don't know, and one person doesn't know about it's a
great friend of the show. I've been great friends with him,
our friend Ramon from the Michael Berry Show. Oh yes, yeah,
we should have explained in the first segment. I'm meant
to actually, but I got distracted. Do you like Friday
rush Ramone? Do you like it when they do like
they set the iron on, you know, on fire at
the table chicken fried rice or shrimp fried rice? Ramone
dot com. That's our a m O N. Ramone dot com?
Is it feminine to catch a shrimp in your mouth?
All right? So those that don't know and we you
know different audience, We've had a long standing bed about
Kyle Tuger's contract seven and a half years. I foolishly
early on said seven and a half years because I
thought that, you know, eight year deals are not a
thing of the past, but they're they're not given out
nearly as freely as they were maybe even three or
four years ago. And Ross is like, oh, I'm on that,
and we up the bat, kept up in the bat.
And the nicest meal you can get is probably a
rowtens or a what would be a high end steakhout
the Walalm or you don't have to we just say
high end steakhouse a bunch of random places. Okay. So
we didn't want to go that high, which probably should
have because we have done it before. We've done that before. Yeah,
so we said we'll go do habachi. Yes, and uh
so Ross is feeling really confident every day that he
would look in like say November December, he'd look at
various articles by the Ken Rosenthals, Yes, and the Bob
Nightingales and the Jeff Passon pass and himself. They all
owe me an apology, Yes they do. You owe me
an apology for many things. Those guys owe you an
apology for giving your information. Every one of those articles,
said Kyle Tucker nine years two seventy ten years, three
fifty and I'm like twelve years, four hundred, and I
was like, I don't think so. I mean, first of all,
you were I was nervous because when the ravice come up,
when the experts were saying, and I was like, oh,
I'm screwed, but I didn't buy the play. Look, Kyle
Tucker is an excellent ballplayer. I'm not putting twelve years
in college three hundred and fifty five five four million
dollars in Kyle Tucker's picky bank. I'm just not doing it.
No too much money, I think on that point though,
the reason I didn't said the biggest reason that I
lost is is because the CBA is coming up and
they don't know what the economics of baseball are going
to look like. So nobody wants to do a twelve
year deal when there's about to be a lockout. Okay,
and we knew this lockout was happening in a year ago. Yeah, Yeah,
that's fine. Yeah, I'm not I don't think he wasn't
signed to a long term deal because nobody thinks he's
going to be good long term. I happen to now
saying nobody thinks he is and getting paid is different
than what an opinion is, and in my opinion is
paying Kyle Tucker four hundred and eighty million dollars for
twelve years would be a mistake for a franchise in
my opinion. And also think on Kyle Tucker's side, it
behooves him to have a short term deal if some
something happens with the economics changing as well, and he
can get an even bigger deal. So to the much
bigger point, we made this bet and we ras each
other mostly Ross ras me and the announcement came yesterday.
It's a four year deal. We're two forty sixty million
dollars a year is insane, insane money. So let's get
Let'll take you and I out of this for a second, okay.
And you were getting some of this from your when
you were responding to people on Twitter, and it's absolutely right.
Just hand the Dodgers of the World Series again, it's
just they're just cash whipping everybody. They just are and
they've every money they've dollar they've spent so far has
worked for them, right, buying large mookie bats, they're worked out,
they're back to back the World Series champions. Yeah, it's worked.
Had decking amount to It has worked. Freeman has worked.
I mean, everything they've done it works. They're not stupid
with it, and they defer eighty percent of it. I
know there's not a huge deferral on Tucker. There is some,
but there is also a signing bonus that they're paying
up front, so it's kind of evening out on that.
The bottom line is they're cash blanking everybody. They're just saying,
we have more money than you. Everybody else, get out
of the way. Because if you remember, we talked about
this in the last handful of days. The two leaders
in the clubhouse to retain or to get Kyle Tucker
with the Toronto Blue Jays and I want to see
the New York Mets. Both of them had Florida spring
training homes. Toronto has spent money in the past. He
loves being in the Tampa area. That's where he's from.
Spring training for the Blue Jays is in Dunin, which
is a suburb of Tampa, so he'd be home an
extra month more so than anywhere else. And at the
day he said, yeah, I understand Arizona's lovely for spring training.
Can you take the money like the athletes do? And
it's his best opportunity to win a World Series championship.
Another one, another one, yes, but I will just have
the one. Yeah, the vitriol is intense from the astro fans.
I don't know how cub fan feels today, but my
guess is they're not pleased because they gave up a
top end pitcher, top well, we hope the top end
right fielder. But the bigger issue to me is ross
The Dodgers are just going to continue to spend and
if any of these players which they have spent all
this money on that don't work out, which so far
the answer to that is no one. They're going to
just keep spending and spending. Their television deal is extraordinarily lucrative.
Ninety percent of baseball teams in the next thirty days
may have zero television deal van dual Sports network. For
those of you that knows a cable network, that's been
a variety of different things. It was Bally's for a while,
it was Fox for a while. What else has been
over there, It's been a lot of different things over
the years. They're about to go away, They're about to
just literally close up shop, where then the baseball teams
are not going to go to Major League Baseball and
they're going to distribute their games and pay the production cost.
They may have a sales staff they're going to but
they're not going to get the amount of money anything
close to what they got with when they were the
FanDuel Network. Yeah, and they're certainly get anything close to
the Dodgers. That money is going to go directly to
the Dodgers or other teams cannot get that, and that's
where they're making the money. Do we have any clue
how streaming revenues are relative to regular RSN revenues? Can
tell you. Now, this is going to affect the NBA too,
But the NBA just signed a new eleven year broadcast
deal with a bunch of networks. So no NBA team
is crying as much as Major League Baseball is going
to cry because major League Baseball teams that's one hundred
and sixty two games. The NBA is adding all this
Peacock and Prime Video and all that stuff there. Look
when the when the FanDuel Network goes away, NBA teams
are going to be, eh, this isn't any good. But
they're not. They're not really crying because the knew this
was going to happen. That's why they signed these hillatious
deals with Peacock and Prime. They knew that the future
of regional sports television was going to be a thing
of the past. The Dodgers' regional TV network is strong
environment because the Dodgers are the number one team in
that area. It's Dodgers and Lakers, and everybody else is
a distant third, and they have a massive reach, massive reach,
So that's why they can do it. Plus they draw
fifty thousand a game plus their advertisers. When you draw
fifty thousand, that means one hundred thousand eyes. Look at
billboards and you're back to back World Series champions and
the bill a full. Yeah, you can spend. They're playing
a different game there every So that's the thing. Go ahead, Jonathan, Okay,
because I'm just confused on just one part of all
of this. Because the Dodgers are such a good brand,
so to speak, this is causing all this money to
come into them and basically top side the entire league,
and now we're gonna have a shutdown because of that,
or we're having a shutdown because the owners don't like
the current situation where the salaries are going higher than
their profits are going. They're gonna want a salary cap.
The players are not gonna want a salary cap. That's
the big thing. The Major League Baseball Players Union, Jonathan
has been fighting a salary cap. You have one in basketball,
you have one in football. You don't have one in
baseball because the A, the union has fighted fought it
so much, and B it's a very strong union that
has gone on strike, did go on strike in nineteen
ninety four and dug their heels in. So they've been
like the strongest most unified union, if that makes sense,
over the years. And so another big labor fight is
coming because the the economics have gotten way out of whack.
And the big problem with maseball is which on the
other leagues don't have, is there is such a difference
between how what LA wants to do with their future
contracts the Baseball Players Association, and what the Cincinnati Reds
want to do. Mm hm. So you don't have unified
thirty owners. You've got the Lake, You've got the Dodgers,
you have the Yankees, you got the Mets, you got
the Cubs, and then you have the Marlins and the Nationals,
and you have the Reds and the Guardians. So that's
why we're headed for a lockout because it's going to
take a very long time for everybody to be kumbaya.
At the same time, the projected payroll for the Dodgers
next year is four hundred and thirteen million. This is
according to Fangrass. Roster resource number two is two hundred
ninety five million. With the Mets there are one hundred
million more than the most who's at eight twenty nine
and thirty. That'd be the Rays, Guardians and Marlins at
eight seventy eight and sixty nine. So you're talking about
sevenfold on a sevenfold but seven times. Well, Kyle Tucker's
making sixty million dollars next year. The Miami Marlins whole
roster is making sixty nine. Now, those teams at the
bottom can spin, yeah, they can't. But where it comes
into the Mets and the Blue Jays and the Philly
like Astros and Lumpton there. Dare I say even the
Yankees they can't get to four hundred million now, like
it doesn't make sense for them. No, I think the
Dodgers are one and everybody. I mean, look, the Mets
aren't far behind the Dodger. The Yankees are not far behind,
but it's the Dodgers in on the top of the
heat and they're in. They're not in it to run
a bad business. They can do it because their finances
allow it to. Yeah, so I mean credit to them
for being so good. And they've also had a top
farm system for years that is allowed in the trade
for guys like Mookie Bets and stuff like that. But
it's the economic and there they're a well run organization.
I mean that that is what you know. Dodgers fans
are all in my mentions, well you could do it
two years. Just well run team. Yes, they have a
very good that their fom systems thought of his number
one in baseball. Depending on where you look, they had.
They are a well run organization and they can spend
when it's both you got no shot. And that's why
the next three championships may be in southern California ten
thirty one Sports Talk seven and I that's but you know,
as we say, all that did in Toronto, Dodgers go
to a game seven, they did Baseball's and anything can
happen sport mm hmm. More than the other two major sports. Well,
football is pretty much like yeah, but go ahead. I
was gonna say, we we can pencil the Dodgers in
for multiple postseason runs. Yeah, and if some team gets hot,
well that's a nice surprise, but the Dodgers will probably
be there. I equated it to kind of nil money,
like the Notre Dame can lose to Northern Illinois, but
for the most part, the Dodgers are going to be
They can lose, right, you can run into a buzzsaw
of a pitching staff on the other side and lose
a seven game series, But for the most part they're
gonna have massive inherent advantages over everyone else. All right,
time is ten thirty two. It is amount Tomas Show
at Raws seven one three two one two five seven,
NINTI seven one three two one two five seven, Nuntie,
Are you mad that Kyle's leaving? Well, he already laughed,
but you get mikeel Drift or are you especially mad
because it's the Dodgers. We'll discuss that plus Texans getting
ready for the Patriots. Emai Dokin one half hour here
on seven ninety ten thirty seven on Sports Talk seven
ninety There is a clip going around this morning that uh,
Shay Gilds Alexander and Kevin Durant had a little conversation
or the game last night, and you couldn't hear what
Kevin said, but Sga was barking back Adam and said,
I hope you enjoy that seventh seed. Hey, they're finishing
top four. I hope you're right. I've been saying top
three all season and I guess I'm not gonna back
off of that. So we don't get to see the
NFL smack talk that much because there's helmets on baseball
doesn't lend itself to a lot of spyck timing up. Yeah,
but basketball boy doesn't take much figure out what they're saying.
And Kevin Durant is the leader in the pack on
that kind of stuff, biggest bleep talker. Oh he and Luke,
I would say, Luca can talk. Uh, Dylan Brooks huge talker.
And Edwards coming into town tonight not playing though, so
oh he's not. Yeah, he's out. That's a shame. I
since the hesitation thought prayers of the Edwards family. Yeah, yeah,
you look, you look concerned over the whole situation. What's
his ailment? I want to say, let me look at
the latest injury report, because it came out. It comes
out multiple times, the NBABY every fifteen minutes. Now, yeah,
because there's been like there's been some issues in the past. Uh,
he's got out with right foot injury management. Oh yeah,
he is. He just manage that injury. This will be
their forty second game of the season tonight. They've played
forty one. He has missed eight of their forty one,
so this will be a ninth one. You know. Well,
if he gets down to seventeen miss right, he can't
be qualified for all NBA in or all NBA.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I know there's some people in the NBA that
would like to see that changed. That's that's their own business.
I mean that rule, I don't I don't really have
to any well, but that's what they're doing to encourage
people from load managing, right that that's what they That
was one of the measures they took. Well, the argument
they're saying is, well, sometimes you do have legit injury
like Nicole Yokich might not play until mid February, and
then he's going to be in a situation, right and
then make it sixty whatever. Yeah, I think the rule
is good. It's good for the health of the league.
You're pushing guys and you don't want them to push injuries,
but you don't want everyone missing games with the load
management and they have to do something. It's really skew too, because,
and those don't know this, there are some guys that
can get max deals and super max deals based on
whether or not they're named All First, second or third
Team NBA. The media should have nothing to do with
how a contract should we can put together. Yeah, you
pay what you pay based on what you want to
pay and off the parameters that whether you're named second
team all. Being like John Wall, remember that last year
he made like forty million dollars with the Rockets because
he made third third Team All NBA. That was crazy.
Third team needs to come off the list, you know what.
Point that should never even be a possibility, especially with
this rule. Now, let me look at third Team All
NBA last year. I'm sure it's very good to people.
I mean, I you know, it's just I would not
let the media decide anything. And that's why a lot
of newspapers and people that cover the teams on the
regular basis do not vote for this because they're like,
they don't want to be held responsible for their votement
impacting a guy's salary. Let's see third team last year,
Cad Cunningham, Karl Anthony Towns, Tyrese Halliburton, Jalen Williams, James Harden. Yeah,
take third team off. By the way, the Dodgers will
be in town to take on the Astros. Chad just
sent us a nice tweet about this. Yes, so let's
come back to that for a second. Okay, I'm gonna
make some people upset. Okay, so let me say my
blanket thing. I understand why you hate the Dodgers, I
even before the Cal Tucker situation. But the reality is this,
Kyle Tucker, like ninety eight percent of re agents, even
though dun Edon is a suburb of Tampa, with Blue
Jay's wet spring training, they didn't offer as much money
ninety eight percent of the time, not one hundred, but
ninety eight. It's usually about who offers you the biggest contract,
and so he took the biggest contract. Also, the Astros
traded him away. Astros fans, you want to hate the man.
I can't believe he went to the Dodgers. That's our
big rival. Are they a big rival? They played in
the World Series like almost ten years ago. They're in
a whole other league. They're not in division. They're not
playing them every year. Yes, I understand what. You know
what I'm saying, Like every year in the playoffs, right,
they're playing them, Yes, three games in Los Angeles. They're
not playing them in the playoffs every year, is what
I'm saying. They're not in your league. And the Astros
traded him away. Oh he's dead to me. He's dead
to me. Oh, get over yourself. That's ridiculous. He is
a human being who traded away from the Houston Astros
to the Cubs and then signed the biggest deal offered
to him that he thought was best for him and
his family and his financial security for long term. And
that happens to be the Dodgers because they have all
these built in inherent advantages that they can pay all
this money. Who cares? I will say it again, get
over yourself. I can't believe you signed with the Dodgers.
He's trying to big money. Do somewhere else. Okay, go
about your business and roof for jose Al Tuvey and
Jordan Alvarez and the Houston Astros, And yeah, you can
boom when he comes into town because he's a Dodger.
But like Kyle Tucker is dead to me that that
you are taking yourself and baseball way too seriously. And
I gotta just say it, kay, I got dozens of
that last night. Well, I mean, I understand when people
are upset, but you're gonna be upset no matter where
he was gonna go, If he was gonna go to
the Yankees, you've been mad. You've been making his mets.
You were mad if you would have with the cubbage.
I mean, it's just when your guy's gone, he's gone.
He comes into town, you want to boo him, especially
because it's blue script letters on his jersey. I get it,
but I mean crushing the guy calling it a slap
in the face to the Astros. The Astros traded him away,
the astrobo I got another thing for you. Astros could
have offered them same deal. They could have. Now, they
weren't going to ever, but they could have. Jim Crane
could cut that check. They could have gotten the sweepstakes.
I you know what, I don't mind the Jim Crane
economic formula, but not every team in here, so that
you know who could use a thirty to thirty gold
Glove right fielder the Houston Astros. Yeah, especially if Dana
Brown's not a big fan of camp Smith as we
all thought he was going to be. Still weird to me,
I just very odd. What's that How camp Smith is
seen as like garbage? Now, well he's not garbage. He
just he hit about one to seventy the whole last
four months of the season. He was great off defensively.
But that's why Who's who is the trusted voice that
always says, never believe numbers in September and never believe
numbers in March. That would be I believe it was
Don Drysday. No, it was me wrong. I'm just gonna
give you Sage information period and thank you, Matt all
right and Sage predictions ops plus on the season, Jonathan
league average is one hundred league average. He's eighty seven.
I get that. I'm just saying, I know this is
an excuse. I just feel like this season cannot be
something you could put on Campmi. No, no, no, no, They're
gonna work it out. I'm not saying he's garbage in there.
He's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna probably be the opening
day right fielder. You would hope his ops plus worse
than Christian Walker. Okay, that's enough, let's not. Let's not.
I'm just we come back as a fact. I'm sorry
we have I need to correct the narrative that is
unfortunately out there with some Texans face. I like this.
We're getting big teases all our baby. I just it
just knew it. It needs to be said. You come
after some people. I'm coming after. I'm just saying that
when you guys are mad about something, I'm not talking
about just the people that listen to the show or
someone in general. And sometimes I back you up, like
I get it, I understand. But there's just a narrative
out there that just doesn't make any sense that concerns
about the Texans chances in New England. On Sunday, we'll
dicuss that next ten forty four Sports Talk seven home
a Doka in fifteen minutes. Right now, he word for
the shell federal credit and you're not Mattie Ross and
anything goes Friday today and one twenty, the return of
the Fantasy five. We don't do it every week. We
just frank them run out of topics. We do one.
What's the category? It is unfunniest comedians, comics a comedic actors.
This could be a tough one. Who won the last
Fantasy five? I think I think I did? Jonathan only
did one? Did didn't Matt win? What was the top
I'll don't remember. I think you voted for me and
I lost. Still, Yeah, so we guts are writing down.
So the Fantasy five today is anybody alive or dead
when you see that person considered a comedic actor or
a stand up comedian and you go, eh, I don't
think it's funny. Okay, So we'll do that at one
twenty today. Here on the show, we've got email Doka
in ten minutes. We've got some names that are popping
my head. They're gonna make some people angry. Yeah, that's
some saying, because if you disagree with stay true to
your heart, you kind of have to. You have to
in this particular week, you have to. You can't play
to the audience. I'm sorry it's come up at eleven
thirty and Ross will lead off with I'm sorry he
is at eleven thirty. I will, Oh, yes, you will,
just cuz you're you know, you may have been a
we've been arrogant about a certain bet. We've made what
I mean, we bet. I'm in extreme, sir. Do you
have chat Don Briona. I don't have Chateau Brion in
the in the Japanese steakhouse. You don't know that. I'll
find out. Okay. So, uh, Larry and Stafford listens to
our doesn't call our show. He just calls the morning show.
He calls, Oh he loves thinking Larry the cable guy. Well,
I mean he'speaking of unfunny people that could be on
the list or is he or is he? We don't know. Uh.
So Larry and Stafford calls it and he's on Houston Radio.
I wouldn't say a legend, but just call her. And
he was like, I'm so sick and tired and I'm
paraphrasing here of the Texans not getting any of their
run and all this conversation is about Drake May and
all the things about New England. And I don't want
to speak just directly to Larry, but there's a few
others that feel the same way. I don't even know
if that if I'm speaking to majority or just a
vocal minority, the Houston Texans are getting plenty of respect.
Dan Orlofsky was on First and ten with Dan and
Coley the other day and he was talking about how
great the defense is. If you watch any of the
NFL live shows or NFL breakdowns or any podcastable thing
or anything on the social media streets, people are talking
about how ferocious Derek Stingley and Daniel Hunter are, and
Jalen Peatree and Demico Ryans and the entire defense. We
have got to stop this narrative of no one thinks
we're going to win this game. You are not favored
in this game. That's because Las Vegas told you so. Okay,
then that's and the betting public would either go with
you or go against you. It doesn't even matter what
Las Vegas thinks. You have just as good a shot
you being Houston Texans, have just as good as shot
of winning the game as you're losing. It's a fifty
to fifty game in my mind. But when I go
on the Today Show at seven o'clock in the morning
and they have this non sports person doing a story
previewing the four divisional playoff games this weekend, and when
the Texans come up and they're turned to preview it,
the first thing to talk about is the ferocious defense.
That means you're getting in respect. So enough of this,
we're not getting any respect. I'm tired of hearing about
Drake May. There's a reason why you're hearing about Drake May.
He's they're gonna finish first or second in the MVP voting. Okay,
and he's a quarterback and it's New England, a team
that has got much more of a national following and
success than the Texans would dream of having. It doesn't
mean that he's gonna have a good game on Sunday.
It doesn't mean he's gonna have the worst game of
his life. He could be just pedestrian. Your Texans are
getting lots and lots of run. So don't worry what
the gatekeepers that are running media networks are doing, because
guess what, they're loving your defense. It'd be different if
they weren't talking about it, and they spent all their
time talking about CJ. Stroud. In fact, Ross, I'll say
this to close up my part of this. I think
there's getting the c J. Stroud is getting more better
for the doubt than he is nationally that he certainly
is locally. I would agree with that. I think he
is getting crushed here in Houston, and he is getting
a lot of a more national run is CJ. Stroud,
And this Texans defense has the respective. I mean, any
I follow a bunch of NFL pundits and fantasy riders
and NFL writers and beat writers from different cities like
this Texans defense is legit. There's nobody sleeping on the
Texans or disrespecting, as you said. I haven't heard anybody
say that because I don't know. I don't look. I
don't go to my my for my Texans news to
Larry and Stafford. I'm sorry, I just don't. So it's
getting a ton of road. It's exhausting to hear about
how everything is anti Houston every single time. It's just
not possible. It's not you, guz the world. It's a
three point spread. It's not like, I mean, there's not
a Rudy Rutiger is not on the squad. Yeah, your teeth,
great under story, David versus Goliath. When you are being
brought up in the same breath, not saying that you
are as good as but if you're in the same
breath as the two thousand Ravens of the nineteen eighty
five Bears, that's that's high high territory. Didn't Bob Sochi
invoke that holy name? Yes, Bob soci is the Patriots
play by play guy. He's gonna be a Homer and
I mean that respectfully, like those are gonna be his guys.
He's bringing up the two thousand Ravens defense. When he
brings up the Texans, people are bringing up the Legion
of Boom, bringing up that crazy Von Miller led twenty
fifteen or sixteen or whatever it was Denver Broncos team
like that decade, decades long history of greatest all times defense,
all time defenses are being brought up with this Texans team.
They're getting respect So just enjoy it because you're getting it.
And I'm sorry, but there are two sides to a game,
and Drake May is a huge component of what New
England is. Drake May made the significant up grade in
his play from year one to year two that you've
frankly been looking for your quarterback to do. He hasn't
done it. Now. CJ's rookie year was significantly better than
Drake May's. Yes, but since then, since then, Drake May's
played better. Thirty one touch sounds, eight picks, number one
in the NFL in total QBR number one or two.
I think Stafford's gonna win it, okay, But I think
Dre's gonna finish some in the MVP. He's he's an
MVP candidate. He just Stroud is not. So relax. You're
in the Final four again, and I'm telling you this,
and I'm not telling you something you don't already know.
This is the best chance in the history of the
Texans franchise to go to the AFC Championship. Let's not
kid ourselves. They weren't going to beat Baltimore, they weren't
gonna be Kansas City, and they weren't gonna beat New
England and previous trips they just weren't. Sorry, this this
is the chance it's gonna happen. My confidence is a
little shaken from with Niko Collins being out and stuff
like that, but I still think it's gonna happen. Eleven
o'clock hour coming up. I may Doka next here on
Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety's the Matt Thommash Thank you with Ross.
Speaker 3: Leven O one on Sports Talk seven ninety our weekly
visit right now with a head basketball coach of your
Houston Rockets who fell last night to the Oklahoma City Thunder,
and we'll talk about that and tonight's matchup with the
Minnesota Timberwolves. It is a late start. If you were
at the game last night, thank you for being there.
At six thirty tonight you get a chance to relax
a little bit and get a little bit there a
little bit later. You may donk go with us here
on the show and Ros could you pot him up
for me?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 3: My phone system is down, so let's talk to coach
right now. Uh, Emy, I'll tell you this. The first
three quarters weren't, i mean, the easiest thing to watch,
but your guys kind of hung around. Did you was
there a sense in your mind to say, look, let's
put together one good scoring quarter. We can win this
bad boy Instead unfortunately with the other direction.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're reminded me of Vegas a little bit. Last
year against them, we defended at a high level. Gild
As Alexander was kind of held in check. Williams only
at six points, but we couldn't make enough shots to
really ex in that lead and take advantage, knowing that
they'll get going eventually. And to your point, it was like, Okay,
seventy seven to seventy five going to the last quarter.
That's put one together and we went on a major
drought and they up their physicality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that your your squads not shoot well
from three obviously, and you're trying to find an answer
for that. But I will give credit, and I hate
giving credit because it's just what I don't want to do.
But they intercept passing lanes. They're ferocious there, even though
they've been a little more human the last couple of months.
Oklahoma City can make life miserable for teams defensively, can
they not.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're one of thus in the league and pretty
unique at what they do as far as they can plays,
getting steals, turnovers, deflections and all those things. And so
you have to be disciplined and get off the ball,
make the simple reads. But at the same time, you
have to knock down those shots. And we've been in
a little bit of a tough stretch right now where
these games will look a lot different if we make
some shots obviously, but still still garden at a high
enough level stests. Stay confident, you know, trust the trust
the working put in all year, and that the worm
will eventually turn, you know.
Speaker 3: And I think Kevin Durant shared your exact centimon on that.
But so if someone says, coach, hey, good morning, how
arey Let me buy you a cup of coffee and
can you guys make some shots? Hey, how does does
it come right down to that? I mean, no bat
the ball has to go through the hoop. But is
it spacing? Is it shot selection? Is it timing? Tell
me where a team that is collectively in a shooting
slof especially from three, try to shake itself when four
or five guys are kind of struggling at the same time.
Speaker 7: Hey, you have to do other things to interject yourself
into the game. The shots that are there at high quality,
looks that we've gotten all year and been one of
the most efficient shooting teams.
Speaker 3: You have to continue to take those.
Speaker 7: And it always happens throughout the year. You'll get a
slump or two and it snowballs into the entire team.
But at the same time, still take those same shots,
but do other things to get yourself going get get
get in the passing lane, guards some get some transition offense,
offensive rebounds.
Speaker 3: Things like that, to see the ball go through.
Speaker 7: And not just be relying on jump shots.
Speaker 3: ROCKETEC coach Imy was here on a Sports Talk seven
to ninety and what is it like you for you
as a coach when it's been a bit of a
bad run like this as far as the self evaluation
process of you and your coaching staff balancing saying hey, yeah,
this is going to turn it's okay, or we have
to make some sort of changes or tinker with some things.
Speaker 7: So it's a little bit of both understanding as long
as we've been around. And then some players you see
it happen once or twice a year, and like I said,
it sucks when it's the whole team and you just
need one or two guys to kind of step out,
step up and make those shots. But at the same
time you have to figure out other things and not
just say okay, the jump shots will fall eventually, go
to different actions, get other guys involved, and then tweak
the lineup if you have to to inject some energy,
and I think JD did that in the Chicago game.
Taking a look at some other guys and how we
can help them as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's who I was going to bring up next,
talking about tinkering and some changing. What led to the
decision with some more minutes for JD. Davison and what
have you seen from him that you like and that
you would like to improve?
Speaker 7: The injuries, I mean, Dorian being in out a little
bit sorry, going downs, the opportunity to get some other
guys some looks. You know, he's one of our more
natural point guards and guys that facilitate the offense and
get us into stuff, and so knowing what we have
with him there, it's just a chance to get him
a look with some guys being down right now, And
that was really what led into that. But had a
really good game against Chicago, I think. Okay, see, he
made it tough on everybody last night from a shooting standpoint,
nobody had an average or above average game. But just
getting a look at him over these next few games
and seeing what he brings the table. He's done it
all through preseason and very comfortable putting him.
Speaker 3: In you unfortunately, got a tea last night the A J.
Mitchell backcourt. Did you get Obviously you did not get
a satisfactory explanation. Did those referees even by the looking
at the screen at all, or they like, I don't
want to look at it.
Speaker 7: No, they never looked up there. They they don't want
to see if they're right or wrong by looking up there.
But it was just, you know, a culmination of some things.
So that one stood out that nobody's watching the ball.
They all tell me it's not my call, not my look,
and so okay, that's fine, But I think more so
a culmination of a few different things and frustration on
my part.
Speaker 3: Well, I understand that for sure, that's the thing. If
I was refereeing, I goofed it up, I would let
you have about a minute and a half and then
and then we go on from there. But the unfortunately
that was not the case. Tell me about Steven Adams,
A huge rebounding night for you. You've not you stayed away
from back to backs on him. We got one here tonight,
So are you ready to announce whether he can go
to night as he can take tonight on off? I mean,
you've got a bunch of games come up. Even after
tonight's game.
Speaker 7: He'll be out tonight, Dori, and he'll be available and
I'm hoping to have Harry back based on how he
feels after going through a workout today. And so you know,
Minnesota is another team with some big bodies, and you
know Steven is great against everybody, and so we'll be
cautious with him as we have been to get him
right throughout the season and have other guys available with
with Randall and Nasried and good to have some smaller
bodies to put on those stretch stretch fives.
Speaker 3: I know he wants to play. I know you want
him to play, but it's you got to follow a
rule book, don't you when it comes to Steven to
make sure he's ready for you come postias in time.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I think he's night and day from last year.
I mean last year he can go more than five
minutes to start the season, and now he can run
longer stretches and play up to twenty five thirty. And
so we're just, like I said, being smart about the season,
getting another guy's look. That's why you got Clint Capella
and all the guys that we brought in and get
them to the and go healthy and then a good rhythm.
Speaker 3: I mentioned Katie a little bit ago, and he gave
a good retrospect. What does he see through this? And
obviously don't get to talk to him a much. We
get to talk to you, but how is he pacing this,
because look, he has been through the highs and lows
of an NBA season multiple times over and this has
not been a great January. How does he see things?
And have you asked him or is he just doing
on his own to kind of keep the guys saying, look,
this is January. Nobody wins championships then, But as you know,
as things will be super competitive in the West like
they were last year, that every game especially it feels
like after the turn of the calendar seems to mean
just a little bit more.
Speaker 7: Yeah, thing playing as long as he has great perspective
on that. But at the same time, none of us
are happier satisfied, and he's on at the top of
the list as far as that and so understanding where
we want to get to. It's been to take a
little bit of time with you know, different personnel and
him being inserted. But at the same time, the standard
is the standard, and we want to play up to
that and not play down to level our competition or
up to level competition. We want to be consistent across
the board, and as we know it all helps to
make shots, no doubt about that. But we can get
guys going himself. He holds himself to a high standard,
and nobody's happening when we're losing, regardless of the time
of the year.
Speaker 3: And another guy that holds himself to a high standards Jabbari.
A couple of nice back to back games from three
from him. Is that a pull aside of conversation, say, hi,
keep it going, Let's change a couple of things up,
because he was as hard as harsh as critic after
those games earlier in the months.
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean, when you're getting right open, look, there's
nothing more you can ask than that. But like I said,
there's not just being reliant on jump shots. You want
to do the other thing. Get to his mid range game,
which he had mid missing some of those. I think
him and Kevin missed a good amount of good mid
mid range.
Speaker 5: Shots last night.
Speaker 7: But he's one of our best offensive rebounders, a versatile
offensive player that can do multiple different things, and so
it's not just sitting on the perimeter. Sometimes that happens
when when Portland goes zone or something like that, but
doing other things to get yourself in the game, get
the free throw line and all, and get some layups
and just to see the ball go through and so
great that he had to stretch against Chicago and he
had some carryover lately.
Speaker 3: Last thing you mentioned zone when teams struggle from three,
teams will do that. We saw quite a bit of
that with like OKC last night. If the three ain't falling.
How is the most effective way is basketball one on
one to break that zone? Is it finding those guys
in the baseline for those mid range It's a little
bit of both.
Speaker 7: I think we have two really good players that we
can flash in the middle with Kevin and Alprin. Kevin
is very much automatic that layup and the mid range shot.
But Alprin is such a good playmaker and finisher around
the basket if you get him in the middle. And
but at the same time, you don't want to just
rely on those that's going on on one there. You
have to get some ball, some ball movement and penetration,
not just pass the ball around. A lot of teams
get stagnantic and so own and song. As you penetrate
and relocate, usually get a really good white overshot.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the time, coach. We'll talk to you
tonight in best of luck against the Wolves. Thank you
you got with us here on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross eleven to eleven. Here's the times about that
time stamp boy. What I say uh for the no
for when it runs one, just saying okay, if you
love the interview, you'll hear it later on today. Absolutely
on the rock and stuff from the coach as always.
I mean, you'd want to hear me reading game notes
or you want to hear from the the the coach
of the team. Oh yeah, you reading game notes in
Arabic is really interesting. Yes, thank you, I'm learning. I
felt that you are doing Farsie as well. That's right.
You know there were some times that I must win games. No, no,
it's a very much. I would like him to win.
How about it make me feel better? Win? Yeah? Edwards
more and half point favorites. This schedule is getting more rigorous,
not so much with a competition, although obviously last time
on Coming City was great. Minnesota is a playoff team.
Noyan Edwards New Orleans you would think would be a
piece of cake. But you've also had a twenty five
point lead there and lost that. Then you got san
Antonio coming in on Tuesday. By the way, you see that.
What's the latest on him that I have not heard?
And again an injured reports won't come out for later today.
But uh, he banged knees with be honest, Oh, I think, yes,
that's two lengthy limbs banging knees together. What you didn't
like your description? That's what happened. But you were so measured.
They have lengthy limbs and they bang their knees. I'm sorry.
If you can't handle that, that's on you wrong. You
don't play that sound by all day long. I just
found it. It's kind of funny. Okay, that's funny. All right,
we need we I'm back up point you're no. You're
the play by play announcer. You can say we, uh,
we need a fifth, we need a forty six percent
three point night be nice because he's under thirty's or
at least Jabari did his part three for six. Yeah,
everybody else collectively was uh three for eighteen. M Bench
scoring has not been a big part of things as
of late. Problem is I just don't know if J. D.
Davison's gonna be a What Jad's gonna do is he'
can be able to move the ball around. I like him.
He moves all right out there, plays he's doing okay, yeah, yeah,
and Reid's got to get a shot back. It's just
reality of it. It's it's not been in the last
few days. Yeah, because the other end of the floor. Okay,
am I wrong? We are not happy when you say
these things. When I say the truth, you can't handle
the truth. You know I'm right? And guess what opposing
coaching stabs. No, I'm right too. Ree Shepherd highlighted, Yeah,
I don't need a J. Mitchell being a star. People
don't even know who. You walked in a bar in
Houston and guys say my name is a J. Mitchell.
They say, a J. What do you do for a living?
It's a good name, but it's not a J. It's
a J. A y oh, okay. And there was Jalen
Williams six, Jalen Williams eight, Kendridge Williams out there, Kenrich Williams.
At least there's no Jayalen Green to confuse you too.
Oh jeez, that was a hot mess last year. All right,
It is eleven fourteen on Sports Talk seven. Hey, coming
up at a bottom the hour. Ross will lead things
off with, I'm sorry, it feels so good, elegant, terrible
takes trust. But Baseball contract insider, you're blessing yourself another term. Yes, right,
you know what you deserve. I deserve all the flowers,
and I'm gonna take them. You know, I'm wanna take
those flowers to Big City when he's gona have dinner tonight. Actually,
I'm not gonna do it night because I gotta rock Rockets.
But if you want to watch the Rockets and go
to Big City late night game, oh, half price apps
after nine o'clock, I set you up your woo big baby,
the chicken avocado eggirls and I don't like the avocado part,
but I like eat everything else. Kicking you out of Texas.
You're not mister Texas. We're kicking you out. What if
you call me mister Texas for a week and I
may never pay for it? Okay, Oh, you're supposed to
give me the list I work.
Speaker 4: On that.
Speaker 3: Wax Are a Texas reporter is at the facility today,
final practice for the guys, jump on the plane and
go to Providence take on the Patriots on Sunday. Nako
Collins not out there, No surprise, Justin Watson. I don't
even know what Justin Watson does. He's a receiver, but
I don't even remember him back up return man. But
I mean he's been putting out to Justin Watson out there,
like and what does he do again? He's on the roster, Yeah,
but hanging out? What was Justin Watson's most important moment
is a textan this year that one catch for five
yards he had. Okay, in the third preseason game. Let's see,
how are we looking this year? Justin Watson four targets,
three receptions, thirty yards. So stop telling me that Justin
Watson out there. Nobody cares. He played thirteen snaps in
Week eighteen. Okay, did not make a catch or a target.
Oh well, he got a tackle. Who must be a
special team's demon. Trent Brown by the way of practice today,
Trent Brown is you do see him walk around? He
looks like he's a nineteen eighty four offensive lineman. Just
a massive human being. Behemoth. Yeah, behemoth is the word.
I would use sure a little bigger. Yeah, yeah, he's
I mean, he moves pretty well for how big he is.
And you know what, but okay, it's been a good
sign from Nick Cassario. So how would you like to
describe the Texans offensive line right now as we speak
at eleven twenty two?
Speaker 5: Mid?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yuess what mid to slightly below They can
run on that right side, Trim Brown and Ingram. It's
kept c jp Wright, has it not? Yes, it's gave
what he marks one hundred yards and rushing last week, Yes,
they were now what he marks had some good runs.
But also I mean he was like two three yards
down the field before he was getting touched. That they
they were mauling the Steelers up front, which is very
impressive and very important. So yeah, uh, it got from
atrocious to slightly a below average. Yes, And I'll tell
you what, h you can play slightly below average NFL
football on the offensive line and you're not gonna throw
the ball thirty five times, you're not gonna get five
yards to carry, but you can move the field. Look
this comes down to and look, we have spent it
feels like four days trying to break this thing. I cannot.
I need the game to be played. I am over
previewed out, I'm ready, battle Red Ross is ready. CJ's
got to have a I don't want to oversimplify this.
I mean, let me try to, let me can. I
don't even think it's a question two hundred yards. I
just think CJ just needs to you know what, I'll
do it. I'm sorry, and I mentioned earlier this week.
Manage the game. That's fine. Yeah, manage the game if
you if you get the stat line you got in
in the wildcard round without the fumbles, that's fine, that's good.
You know what else? Yeah, if they get two fifty
one and one, they're gonna win with no fumbles. If
the tech how about this one for you? If the
Texans score twenty offensive points, do they win the game?
Is that enough? Against New England's offense, which is put
up some huge numbers this year. That's the reason why
Drake May is probably gonna finish first or second in
the MVP Voning. I will say, yes, it'll be close.
Because of course, Matt as you know the Vegas implied
total for these I love it. I love implied total
twenty one seventy five so about twenty two points is
what they're Vegas is saying they're gonna okay, so there
could be a twenty three twenty game. Now, by way,
we've not made our official prediction. Jet. We kind of
hemmed and hard about it for a little bit. We
kind of did. I ain't on the Fance Maddie final
score nineteen seventeen is what I said Tuesday. I've got
to make my own one. Now I led with a
fifty one forty nine Texans. Now my gut, my gut
last week was correct, So I'm gonna stick with my
gut nineteen seventeen. Now you know I'm horrific at trying
to figure this out. I know That's why I need
you to pick the Patriots. But listen to your heart,
Matt Drake May is good.
Speaker 4: On the road.
Speaker 3: Here's what I can't get past. Snow flurries even colder
the latest. And the Patriots are better than the Chiefs.
They're better than the Steelers. So, as I said, there's
a fantasy website that I check with the meteorologists. Right,
they have a system. It goes green to red. He
has a green slash yellow. So it's not expected to
be bad same that I read yesterday. Snowfloury or snowshower
wouldn't be shocking wins under ten miles an hour, which
is what the most important thing is. Not perfect weather,
but not good enough to cause any major issues, according
to Kevin Roff. By the way, speaking of that it
is supposed to be, look at the Los Angeles Rams
Chicago game. Tell me how that looked, that little green
to red thing looks because the Rams fans are flipping out.
This will be the coldest game they've played a long time.
One Rams Chicago really really cold. Temperatures in the teens.
He is ten to fifteen mile an hour wins, which
is fine, but gusts to twenty to twenty five. So
remember Toto this morning the tech the texta yet here too.
We're talking about how great that they're on the Today Show.
And the reporter that was didn't have no idea what
the NFL was, so they were saying, oh, it's gonna
be super cold in Chicago. Matthew Stafford, living in LA
doesn't know accustomed to that. The woman came. Her name
is Stephanie Goss. I think it's her reporters as well.
She tells the anchors on today's show. Well, you know
he does have experience playing in Colewathern Detroit indoors. Correct,
do they practice outdoors? Probably not? Probably not?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: Should be he This guy expects wins only to affect
longer field goals. Perhaps, all right, Jonathan, right now, BEFO
we get to I'm sorry Jonathan and me you we
are the only ones that have not gone on the
record with this ross. Has it at nineteen seventeen you
said that's a cover and an under like last week,
which whoever hymns and hawes last has to go first?
So Jonathan, here we go. Make a prediction. What just
listen to your heart. I'm so proud of our defense.
Texans default a whole charge dropping the R. Man, what
did you go in an R for the Chargers. I'm
playing this week? Charge, I'm playing this week. I think
you know they're gonna help mu charges out, give them
some redemption. It's gonna be fourteen to six. Ooh, Chargers
revenge fourteen to six. Our defense is like that, man, Oh,
I can see it happened in fourteen to six. That's
what the NFL wants. By the way, I was thinking
about this in the hallway. If we got like a
Texan Seahawks Super Bowl, what would the total be in
that game? That's the two best defenses in the NFL
and Sam Donold and C D Trout the NFL is
that like the least what is the least possible remaining
sexy matchup? And it involves the Texans AFC side, well
from the least sexy is Texan Seahawks two teams that
don't have any national cachet. Yeah again, you went to
a sports bar and said name the Seahawks coach. It
would take you all to find a correct answer. Mcmcsm
donald McDonald, Yeah, not Ronald. Here we go, final score,
Here we go, twenty one to seventeen Texans, battle red Matt,
it's coming, Liberty White, Matt, let's go. I want to
tell you all some plus you are two steps away
for me being lost, Liberty White. Lets go by the way.
While we're here, they're run the all Whites this week again,
which is their best uniform luck. While we're here, Bill's Broncos.
Bill's twenty four to twenty one Texans hosting the ASC
Championship game. Yes, wow, don't ask me about that.
Speaker 4: Game.
Speaker 3: I won't. We'll cross those bridges when we come to them. Yep. Okay,
Seahawks Niners. By the way, I'm with you. I think
Bills winning a clase from twenty three twenty one, Sam
just Go wins in Seattle a lot? Do they not
or does it? Seattle beats? Then what do we do?
Seattle minus seven forty four and a half. Sam frus
Go wins that one over Seattle. Seattle San franc Covers
doesn't win. I think Sam playoffs. Sam Darnold shows up again.
One score game twenty three, twenty three eighteen.
Speaker 8: I go.
Speaker 3: Thirty one twenty one Niners. Okay, I think I think
Seahawks gonna a tough day defensively, but hell, I could
be wrong. Seattle weather should be great. By the way,
upper forties, Calm wins no precipitation. Yeah, that's perfect. Samtch
is going Weather higher scoring m. Then thought I did Weather,
and then the other one I will go with. I
really believe the cole Weather is going to crush them,
But I had the Rams going to the Super Bowl,
so I gotta stay with the Rams, even though I
don't feel great about it. Rams over the Bears, seventeen
to ten. That's but that's more about based off my
preseason prediction than in what I really I think the
co weather is going to really affect the Rams. Twenty
one sixteen Rams. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, this is the
half hour of the week where you get to tell
people that you're apologetic, that you've made mistakes and you're sorry.
And if you've never done this before in a major
market radio show, my partner, Rossfield Realite is going to
give you the good way, the proper way. He will
lead by example, and it is next here on Sports
Talk seven. If you want to apologize for anything seven
one three, two one two five, seven ninety, I'm sorry,
so next eleven thirty here on seven ninety. I usually
have a lot of things I need to say a
few things too before this week, but you know what, Ross,
it's your turn to open up this edition of this
I'm sorry, so sorry. And you were a dumb ass, fool.
Speaker 6: That was it?
Speaker 3: A dumb ass? Okay, you're just a dumbass in general. Certainly,
Matt I didn't heed the lesson we all learned as youngsters.
Pride goes before the fall. Oh, you are full of
those little anecdotal the line I like it. Thank you
also is Hubris. You know what Hubris is? Right? Sure?
Why not? That's a color? Oh god? Okay, yeah, hey Hubris. Yes,
my hubritic overtures Matt by the way number to call
last year. I've met a lot of you. You owe you,
you owe some people of apologies seven one three two
one two five seven hot and if you doubted me,
callin apologize to me. I'll accept it. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seveny the four back to you. Okay,
thank you, Hubristic the actually correct pronunciation. But anyways, Yes,
Kyle Tucker had an ops plus of like six million,
and he was healthy, flying high, hitting home runs, stealing bags.
Thought he was going to get a big deal. Every
free agent article that came out had him at like
four hundred or five hundred million. And I thought I
was gonna win. I thought I was gonna win easily.
I didn't think there was any chance, at least middle
of the season that I was gonna lose. Then is
the off season drug on, and I heard about the
Mets and the Dodgers short term deals. Of course, my
confidence was shaken. But you know I was rude. I
really tried to twist the knife. Yeah, I really tried
to put it in your face because I had lost
a couple of bets recently and I was happy to
get back on the board. I counted my chickens before
they hatched. That was a big mistake. My biggest mistake
was not thinking about how the CBA and potential lockouts
could impact the deal as well. And the freaking Dodger's
wallet whipping was sixty million dollars per year. I was
rude to you. I overplayed my hand, and I should
pay the price. You will, yes, and I'm sorry forgive
me all right. I've got five things here that I
want to tell you that you can do should we race.
There's a financial portion of your vet. I'm going to
predict now. My predictions are wrong a lot. I'm going
to predict. I'm not going to agree to any of these.
That's fair to say. I would like you to refer
to me as hell baseball contract insider. Say hi, Matt,
you're a baseball contract insider. How many more long shots
can you hit? This is pissing me off, Jonathan, that's
Oer for one, He's not done that yet. No, the
Baseball contract insider, you didn't call him signing the Dodgers.
You didn't call him signing anyway, you didn't call I said,
I didn't say signing, I said, contract Insider. Number two,
I would like for you to acknowledge America's sandwich in
a positive light. No, I actually I am joining the
your talk what's america sandwich? Matt to make now? I'm
joining the class action lawsuit because there's no rib meat
in that press grishel sheet with this is not going well.
America's sandwich. America sandwich is the cheeseburger or is a
cheeseburger sandwich? Or is a hot dog of sandwich? Number three,
I would like for you to say that Drake is
better than Kendrick Lamar at what everything music, little more, hits, politics, society.
I'm just throwing things out. Just say you know what,
forget scratch that say that Kendrick Lamar is not the
Tchaikowski of music. He's an R and B pop star,
is Drake? He's a better R and B pop stars
not going very well every time. If you want me
to say he's better, yeah, he's a I just said it.
He's a better R and B slash pop wrap. That's
not a better rapper. Two more, I will you will
play a three to two blackjack a six five black
check of me eventually in the next count under year.
Why would I light my money on fire?
Speaker 7: Again?
Speaker 3: I will say blackjack tables get you about one hundred
hands an hour. You get a blackjack one and twenty
one hands, so a roughly five ish hands an hour.
If I'm playing twenty dollars a hand, I get thirty
dollars for a blackjack on three to two, I get
twenty four and a six to five. That's six dollars difference. Yes,
are we sticking with this? Yes, we're sticking away. Say
six times five is what there? Jonathan? So how much
money am I lighting on fire an hour? But you're
still winning thirty dollars winning if they if you walked
to the table and said, hey, you can get you
can get regular blackjack, but it's gonna you have to
pay us thirty dollars an hour to play, would you
presuming you're gonna get those five blacks in an hour?
It's on average if you play for hours and hours
and hours, which we do, which I have, and I
don't get blackjacks even out all right. And lastly, I
would like you to say that, yes, indeed, that Steady
Wonder concert way back in the day, Oh, that was
a large waste of time. I stayed, you left left,
I stayed. I was high fiving. People rose behind me.
They were jamming. It was a great concert. I will
that's like, I'm like going short list the greatest concerts
of all time. The only thing that mart it was
you and the other whiners screaming and screaming. Play the
hits Stevie Wonder. He played the hits. He played the
greatest album of all time, arguably songs in the Key
of Life. It's a great concert. No, it was the
whole concert, the whole day. It was the whole album.
Was the concert, and then he played a bunch of
hits at the end. Two. Oh, what a concert, all timer.
You're paying for my meal? Then I gave you chances.
I gave you chances. Yeah, but none of those things
are agreeable. That's ridiculous that you must for my Are
you dutchrip? We're going dutch on, Jonathan or I'll pay
for jo I'm sorry, Johnnan, he's so worried about your
paw ones. That's terrible. We'll get you next week, all right?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two seven one three five
seven Auntie, Hello y'all out there. I thought you were
gonna ask me to make call you mister Texas. That
goes out saying I should be called mister Texas. I
you know what you should think about naming the show
that mister Texas show featuring Ross. What'll come to you?
The fraudest mister Texas there ever was? All right? John
that what are you gonna apologize for? I don't know, guys,
I'm pretty good. I'm thinking this whole time. Oh is
that right? I don't know what are you apologizing for?
Speaker 6: Matt?
Speaker 3: You got a good week, Matt. I had a really
good week. I won this thing. I had a great week.
I had spasically around. I'm still going to get Uh.
We're going to JC and Dogs on Tuesday. Yeah, we'll
get We'll get about you taking care of one and
I need to bring some tons to work next week. Well,
I'm at warback. Can I finish the broadcast?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 3: Can we go? When can we go? We're going Tuesday
to jc. Oh, how about you? I don't know. We'll
work on that one thing. Playing her out, Jesus, I
got a lot of games coming up seven one three, two,
one two five seven, Auntie. If you need to apologize
for something, I know you do because I've met you
out there. WHOA say you're sorry? Hey?
Speaker 7: What you're right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Because no other show in the marketplace is gonna
give it to you. We got people cussing, discussing linebackers,
and we've done that as well as anybody. I'm giving
you a chance. You're sorry. We're gonna do some more
linebacker talk, all right, Henry to talk, Henry to Atoa
and uh alsiez a Shire or Elsie's the Patriots have?
What's is that? Robert Spallaine, he's good? Yes, did Teddy Bruski,
Mike Frables player coach?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, we take a quick time out and
then if anybody's out there and we will go to
their sorries. If not, we will discuss what are we
going to discuss? Well, rockets and rockets canna apologize for
all the miss threes? O that was? That's seven straight games, Rossy,
I need some three I need I need to I
need to call that's a six three in a row. Ooh,
that would be nice. That's the four to three in
the quarter. Instead, I'm getting backtap rebound Steven Adams another three. No,
that's the thing is more sagrevating, is you got a
rebound on Steven Adams. Who's getting you plenty of second
chance opportunities, a ton of rebounds. But also that's because
they miss shots, you know, I know. Seven one three
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All right, Ross, let's take this show till new We'll
wake the strippers up the news at noon. We have
the Rotten the Fantasy five coming up today at one twenty.
Problem is, I think you and I are in a
large agreement about who we think is not funny. We're
doing funny comedians and comedic actors live. Struggling to come
up with a list of ten I think I have
six and then I gotta I gotta do some more
scraping of the internet. Okay, now this is a live
or Dead, so if you watch, we can open it
up for a bit. Groucho Marx in the third round, Well,
I mean, I don't know if that's gonna hit. Groucho
Marx when I was a kid, scared me because of
his mustache. Scared you, yeah, oh absolutely, it was horrified
of him. Okay, Now he got older and was hosting
a game show. It was, it was as bad, but
that when he was young, Martin young, Groucho Marx could
give kids nightmares. I just saw the Dodgers projected lineup.
By the way, let me guess Kyle Tucker's betting nins,
the fifth, Otani Betts, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith, Kyle Tucker,
ta Oscar Hernandez, Max Munty, Andy Pajis, Tommy Edmond. Season's over.
Congratulations them to the Dodgers, the twenty twenty six World
Series champions. There will be, by the way, not be
a twenty twenty seven season. So you all ready for that.
By the way, I mean, I know that's the easy.
Don't scare us everybody, but that's that's being echoed by
a handful of people out there. It's not just somebody
just saying it just to say it feels inevitable. I
guess we would. I need somebody who is more in
tune than me to give them all the big sticking points.
Well there is any tune, because there's there's You're gonna
get thirty different opinions and thirty different owners pushing at
the players association, so you're gona get thirty one different voices.
But everybody keeps saying the owners are gonna draw a
line in the sand. They want a salary cap. That's
what they're saying. All right, well, how long are the
stoppages this is gonna be? Then the one thing I
needed four was a ninety four strike. Well, ninety four
strike ended middle of the season and then we never
had a finishing of a season. Yeah, that would have
been the year that Jeff Bagwell Probaly would have won
an MVP award. No, he did, Oh he did win.
He would not have because he broke his hand and
he would he would only played like one hundred something games. Yeah,
was that the here he won the MVP, He won
the ninety four MVP, but he broke his hand, so
he would not have won. Oh okay, I knew there
was some scenarios because you know, he's breaking his hand
like every six weeks in those days, that's true. And
he got a giant pat had like UFC gloves on. Yeah,
it was like he was in a four round bout
after hit the baseball game. Uh so, yeah, that's a
scenario that is certainly in place. So you might as
well enjoy this season because we have had a workstop.
Oh I do got a rotation looking. But here's the thing.
If you go get the National Riders on which we
will do, okay, they're gonna be only speaking to what
is being told to them by the agents and the owners.
They're not gonna they're not gonna be digging in the
books because the last time this sort of happened with baseball,
Major League Baseball said open your books up, and basic
owners are like, no, we're not. Yeah the players Union
that was in uh COVID right, Yeah, they're like, we're
losing all this money and we lost all the We're
gonna go from a longer season to use your last chance.
You get sixty games or nothing at all and we
got sixty. What a sucky season that was. Astros are
under five hundred, Mickey Mouse. There was nobody in the stadiums.
And then and then the Dusty Baker took them to
the merit to the American League Championships. Here down got
down three to oh, it almost came back. Was that
was that series in San Diego? Am I making that up?
Didn't they play somebody in San Diego? They did? They
beat the A's. I don't remember that was a twin?
Was the World's? I thought that year they beat the
A's in the playoffs? Was it the twins?
Speaker 5: Too?
Speaker 3: Could have been because they didn't win the West that year.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It all move, it's all mixed up.
Speaker 4: Ross.
Speaker 3: You're about to hit some new territory here in the
old Houston sports resume of your life. You're gonna have
a workstop age, a deep one, and you're gonna have
kind of a stadium talk. We made it through COVID, though, Well,
I want to know how that was. That's so interesting.
We topics daily were struck. We would literally have like
Monday recaps of the Last Dance episodes. Our entire show
was about the last dance. It was a it was
a three hour show, thankfully. What we talked about the most,
Jonathan topic a every day was when our sports coming back,
which it's leg because there was news every day. MLB's
doing this, and basketball is doing this, and football's doing this,
and yeah, they sill comes to the studio, like when
it happened that February, or like that March, when like
spring break was all and then everything shut down, y'all
were still coming to the studio or no, yeah we
were coming to the studio, but we it was yeah, No,
we didn't really work from home. No, we used to
do We used to do zooms with all of our
hosts on. And there's one we bring those back that
I threw a question out and I was right about
and I think I was the only one that said
this and it remains truthful to this day. I gave
out the statement there will never be a female head
coach in the NBA. Oh okay, and I'm still right
about that. And that was six years ago. Yeah, but
you got one hundred more years ago. That's actually accurate.
But I knew when Becky Hammond wasn't getting a Spurs
job or anything else, and she said, you know, I'm
giving up on this. Going back to the WNBA that
and again it would have to take a very progressive
basketball team. The NBA start got work for that. I
just I just don't know if guys, I mean guys
haven't hard enough time respecting coaches that are males, much
less females. Yeah, Astros did beat the A's three to
one in the DS and then they I lost four
to three to the Tampa Bay Raids. Was that was
that series in San Diego? Am I making that up?
I knew they played in San Diego for something. It
had to have been. I gotta get to the ball.
And in the World Series that year? Was it was
in Arlington? Correct? Yes? Yeah, pet Coo Park, Yeah. Bat
I would say, you know we always say good times. No,
there were not good times. There were bad times. It's
not great since Helly Garon, not today, Drake may Or
or Patriot players, Kyle Tucker. I don't think people would
want that here. They're grumpy. Remember you tell me they're
on their timeline. They were grumpy. He's dead to me, Okay, relax,
What would he have gone where you're not been dead
to you? That's my question. Probably anywhere, but there are
the Yankees. He wasn't gonna sign with the Cardinals. He
wasn't going to sign with the rock Eats. By the way,
Bobashet leaving uh Toronto to go to the Mets. Three
year deal there, Tick just came down within the last hour.
Uh yeah, what do we have the years on that?
And I mean, I'm sorry, AAV. I could be happy
to look it up. Probably around fifty ish. You mentioned
your Instagram again, you know what. Follow me on Instagram
at sports RV. Okay, you know what, I haven't been
putting enough content on there recently, but I'm I'm gonna
do it the next two days. Put some more on there.
I've been posting some other stuff. I'm trying to build
my Instagram. Please at sports r V. It would help
me out. It hasn't helped out just yet. Yeah, I mean,
I'm up to thirteen hundred. It was like two hundred
in the middle of last year, you know what. And also,
I am following you back if you follow until twelve fifteen,
twelve fifteen, I will follow you back at sports RV.
Bulbushet's a three year to one hundred and twenty six
million one twenty six and three years. Yep, so forty two.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: By the way, if you follow me on Instagram at
false promises, go ahead. I cannot guarantee I will follow
you back, but I'll consider it. Yeah, see fancy, Matt
won't follow you back, I will. You didn't. No, no, no, no,
that's not true. Sports RV. I think I would consider it. Yeah,
Matt thinks he's better than you. No, I didn't say
no there. I'm just not going to give I'm not
gonna go for the cheap labor on this. I'm gonna say, hey,
I'll look at your account if I find an intriguing
if it's a woman in bikinis. I didn't say that either.
You thought it putting a lot of words in my mouth.
It's fine. You're not gonna deny it. You can deny it.
I'll deny it. Oh all right, that was the softest denial.
You want a hard denial. You sound like you denied
eating all the leftover pizza in the fridge. Just now
ask me again. Then I will consider following you back
on Instagram at sports empty. I will follow you back
at sports RV. You know, Matt thinks he's better than you.
I don't he's gonna unfollow you, then that's not true,
that you're wrong. The only people I've unfollowed are the
people that followed me, further follow and then unfollowed me. Okay,
at Sports Empty, all right, you ready to wake the
strippers up? No, let me tell you something. It's a
playoff edition of the Strap Stripper Wake Up. We're gonna
really wake them up here. Okay, I'm gonna try to
go for twenty two seconds. That good for radio. Mend
me too long, you're gonna cough you probably right, No,
you can do it. I believe in you, all right.
Is the record gotta be twenty five? Maybe your personal
record is twenty five seconds? In many things unfortunately, eleven
fifty eight the News at noon, and the Stripper Wake
Up is next year. On seven ninety is the Matt
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Speaker 5: Lording b.
Speaker 2: Is the Texans Friday mentioned of the Mount Thomas selling Ross.
Speaker 3: There's this Sports Talk seven ninety. Yeah, the biggest arbitration
spread in history, and it may not we may never
see it, this big big of descripcy ever again, I
mean this, I have never seen it this watch.
Speaker 8: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 3: Can you tinkle? Are you a free floor? A little bit?
Today show?
Speaker 1: I don't all right?
Speaker 3: That was a pretty meaty news at noon right there.
We'll give you a lot of stuff. Yeah, Matt, we're
bringing the meat, all right, the Bad Time A show
with Ross. We bring the meat. But we're like, we're
like the Arby's of sports talk radio. Yes, I like
to have I don't don't. I don't write that one
down to We have the meats. We may bore you
with it, but we're going to continue to give you
it over and over and over and over again. Are
you okay?
Speaker 7: Mat?
Speaker 3: I didn't go to my Catholicism mo move okay forever?
And my missing is what is that? They have hairy
armpits though?
Speaker 6: Do they?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The one place we go, I mean the one
place I know of? What's wrong with that? Won't you
let the woman flow free and be natural? Man? You
want to go to a strip club where the girl
has hairy armpits. I'm not looking at her armpits. We're
looking at other pits. Other What what did you say?
I forgot other pits? Hits? You know what that that is?
You are rude. You are a rhymer. You need to
apologize for that. No pits, never mind you walked in
said nice pits, You didn't. No, I'm sorry, I apologize.
I just walk in and say can I help you
pay for your college? Yeah? How many more years of
nursing st you have left? Always go to the we're
paying for school that way? God love them. It is
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Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: What is this middle of January? I don't know what's
going on in the calendar.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 3: If you want to talk college football playoff National Championship, yeah, coverage,
I wouldn't be trying that full breakdown coming your way.
You want to talk about how to stay warm in
the cold, I for that's about wrapping your pipes right.
And you want to talk about the divisional round Texans
taking on the New England Patriots. Yes, line stays heavy
solid at three points correct. It's Holden Steady at three.
All right, that feels about right, okay, but the Texans
are going to get it done. You want to talk
about the Rockets? Can you shoot it three? Can you
make a three pointer? The Rockets could use you. You
can talk about that as well. And of course, uh,
we know it's going to lead the news at noon
in a minute. It's not Kyle Tucker. We don't have
to talk about that that much. We kind of need
to move on. Barely mentioned rots if you want to.
And they got the timber Wolves tonight. They're four and
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I appreciate all of you. As I said, I'm following
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Time now for the news and nude to twelve oh
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Ross Hill, so you can follow me at sports RV.
So big baseball news on the hot stove, Matthew. The
Dodgers have struck again, Kyle Tucker agreeing to a four year,
two hundred and forty million dollar deal. I'm expecting HABOUTI
sounds any minute now. Why would he do that? Ross Well,
Matt and I for those of you, this is also
news at noon. Had a big bet for year. Not well,
it's been a year plus, I think around there. I
don't know when the bet was exactly made, but I
think it was the last offseason. So this is this
has been percolating for like ten years. Absolutely, I had
over seven and a half years for Kyle Tucker. Matt
had under Matt got the short term opt out deal,
which is of course his best pathway to victory, and
he wins as the Dodgers sign Kyle Tucker to a
four year, two hundred and forty million dollar deal. It
includes opt out after the second and third seasons. Thirty
million dollars of it is deferred present day average annual
value of fifty seven million dollars, which is a record,
beating Wan Soto's fifty one million aav of those. Of course,
Jean Soto's deal was a long term deal, and also
Kyle Tucker getting a sixty four million dollars signing bonus.
He is a Los Angeles Dodger. Kyle Tucker is a Dodger.
How we feeling We're feeling like we should just go
and give them every World Series trophy for the next
handful of years. You asked, I told you, Okay, Well, baseball,
anything can happen. But not looking good all right elsewhere?
Now the other dominoes falling. We mentioned the Alex Bregman
deal yesterday, what was it five one seventy five or
whatever that was. Then you have the Boba Schett deal
with the Mets. Now as is a three year, one
hundred and twenty six million dollar contra with bo Baschett.
He is a New York comet. Okay. Then you have
also some signings by the Houston Astros. It's a bunch
of guys we don't know, but there are thoughts that
a couple of these shortstops that the Houston Astros signed
with their international pool money are highly thought of. So
the Astros spending their five million dollars plus of international
pool alignment and the Dodger spent sixty million dollars. So
every loophole they can crawl through, they're getting through the
third payments, salary taps, outs, opt outs, they're just literally
taking whatever rules are in place and circummending them to
their advantage. And they're winning because every decent free agent
is going there. It feels like, well, big name, I mean,
this was the headliner, This was the number one, number
one of the free agent class, right even over Bregman
going to the Chicago Cubs. Yes, another former and then
one of the top free agents left, of course is
another former astro from ber Valdez, so we'll see what
happens with fromber Valdez. Okay, we did mention the Rockets
lose last night to the Oklahoma City Thunder Matthew only
ninety one points scored by the Rockets. Another poor three
point shooting night. People not named. Jabaris Smith Junior went
four for eighteen, Jabarismith Junior going three for six from three,
but it wasn't enough for anybody. Another bad shooting night. Now,
the Thunder do have a really good defense, but thirty
four percent from the field where the Rockets there twenty
nine percent from three, ninety one points scored is good
in nineteen ninety seven, but it's not nineteen ninety seven.
One hundred eleven and ninety one Rockets get handled by
the Thunder and no rest for the wary. The Minnesota
Timberwolves are in town tonight, although Anthony Edwards not available
as he is getting injury management. But it's not but
em Doka said earlier, may get Tarrysan back tonight and
you may be getting Dorian Finney Smith back tonight, so
that's a good sign all By the way, Steven Adams
not playing this evening. Also, somebody tweeting in sports MT
passed the twenty three second mark, waking up the strippers.
We have to get a stopwatch on that, also calling
you the throat goat, throat goat sports MT passing the
twenty three second I don't think I went twenty three,
but I went a while. Don't clip that. Also Trey
tweeting and he is going to be offended if you
don't follow him back on IG. Who's which Trey is this?
I don't know. It's just a guy named Trey. All right, Trey,
I'll I'll give you a follow back. Oh nice shout
out to astro picker and theater coach tre Trey Lopez
is mad r Joe appreciate you. His account is Primate
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like them mad so they okay? But I want to
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see that. Don't you want to see workout video? Because
don't want to see dudes in the pumping iron. It's
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I mean, oh, I see how you are. I'm just
saying with you know, follow for followed, but I might
not like might listen to so up? All right, follow
back trail. There you go, I requested him. You're so funny. Yeah,
thanks to all of you for following me on the
sports RV on Instagram. I'm still following everyone back for
a few more minutes. You'll quickly delete you or mute you. See,
that's not true. I haven't done that to one person.
The only people I've unfollowed are the ones the people
that unfollowed me. What else you got today? Anything else?
You want some more NBA news? No, nobody cares about
the NBA sadly. Oh well that's so we're getting there
a thirty to night, by the way for the Rockets Wolves.
I want to I want the building packed, well, okay
quick NBA news. Steve Balmer is trying to He's trying
to get these lawsuit dismissed that alleges that he participated
in fraud by funneling money to Kawhi Leonard all right,
there's your news at noon. Uh, we have a what
one twenty today? We have the Fantasy five coming up?
And you said you had six people on your list.
I have six on my list as well, and really
you have to go in with ten. It's gonna be
some crossover. Generally don't need eight, nine to ten very rare,
but just in case, you want to be prepared. All right,
So the Fantasy five is unfunniest comedians or comedic actors
as actors too. I thought it was like stand up comedians. No,
anybody anybody that's in a comedy movie. I mentioned that
multiple times. You just don't want to listen. Yeah, for sure.
So anybody that's been a comedy movie would be as
applicable for it. I mean you go to sign out
live cast and probably pick five or pick six people
out of that. Rubies Thompson, Wow, now that guy is
funny over right. Oh he's so funny. How many big
movies does he started in the last came movies he's been?
He is hosted Blackcha, he's host of Family Feud, He's
host of What Up with That? He's the Crash Davis
of SNL. He's just not good enough for the big leagues.
He's He's been on there for twenty years. He's really funny.
The Crash Davis. That's the number one show in the
history of comedy, the Triple A of comedy. Will Ferrell
moves on, Eddie Murphy moves on, Tina Fey moves on.
He's the Crash Davis of SNL. Crash Davis can hit
you some home runs a triple A. I mean he's
not completely unfunny. I re I what very much disagree.
He's the Tyler White of How can you disagree? He's
the John Singleton Wadam just a minute. He is way
better than man power. You know what powerful? You know
what he is. He is the ultimate. He is the
long term sixth man of an NBA team. He's not
the NBA, the Jamal Crawford of the NBA. Comedy movies
are the NBA. He's in the He's in the Triple A.
Speaker 6: Farm.
Speaker 3: People do those movies most movies and l's the farm system.
Come on, jasonsme going up and down the list Saturday
night at ten thirty in the in the evening, it's
all Eve around for fifty prime time exactly. Yeah, it's
good for Lars farm system. Stop. That is not the
farm system. Wrong. Look it runs hot and cold. I
get that man a farm system. He's going for a
sixth seventh year victory lap at college. Break the tire,
Jonathan Thompson funny, you're not funny. I mean he's fine.
I think he's pretty funny. Okay, but what about my
analogy though they're the farm system. No, I don't like it.
Terrible phnalogy. I'm just the young people us ten z.
We don't really satura my life like that. So you
know what you do? You watch the clips. That's what
I don't watch full episodes. Watch the clips. All right,
let's talk to Jay about the Rockets when we come back.
If you want to chime in, if we had one
Texans call today, you know why if you know what
it is. I think there is fatigue about preview fatigue.
I really do. I'm not fatigued. Okay, we'll see Okay,
bottom of the hour. We're gonna do Okay, full breakdown? Yeah,
position by position? Sure, why not? We'll let you lead it.
I thought we're gonna do something different here. Everybody is
previewing the game. We're gonna post preview the game, meaning this,
we're gonna set up some air. We're gonna record this, Jonathan.
We're gonna go over the five things that help the
rockets of the Rockets the Texans beat the Patriots, and
then we're gonna do the five things that cost the
Texans the game against the Patriots. I we're gonna see
how close we are on Monday. Okay, what do you think?
All right, and we'll play them back by tie. They're
not they can't tie. Okay, it's impossible to tie to
you understand, We're gonna do a countdown because my computer
won't record them. Well, we can recording later. I can
record myself on this computer, but I don't think I
can get you just gonna be a countdown. I can
get the time stand. Okay, So there you go. That's
what we're gonna do. We're gonna do the five things
said help the Texans beat the Patriots on Sunday, and
we'll do the five things, and when replan the money,
we'll see how close we got. Okay, all right, let's
go to some phones. First, we go some nice people
that want to say hello on anything goes Friday at seven, one, three, two,
one two five seven, ninetie seven one three two one
two five seven on Funniest comedic male or female actors, Actresses,
live or dead. Okay, it's part of the Fantasy five
coming up in about less than an hour as a
matter of fact. And then believe it or not today,
helly you or not? Would we decide you go with
Patriot players?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: All right, sounds like you're really enthused, Jay Cole Tucker
is so uninteresting. I would like to do Kyle Tuck now.
I don't want to do it hurt people's feelings. Yeah, Jay,
you're on seven ninety. Good afternoon, Good afternoon.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to win. That's all right, But I just
I just got a quick question. So I wouldn't say
I've tuned without the rockets like the first one of
the games. I watched it regularly, like the last ten.
I don't know, I've been eight to ten. I haven't
really tacked. But but I'm looking at the shooting wold,
So is it more open shots just not going down? Like,
what's what's a fixable solution besides any unrisklistic traits. So
that's my question that you think it is just a
matter of head jumpers or is it the system? Is
it the wrong players has actually sued them because they
don't look testing size. They don't look like a tested
size their business. But they both thought they're wide open,
So I'm.
Speaker 3: Just leaving a yeah, Jay, they are wide open shots.
Very few of these shots are contested. The Rockets do
a good job of moving the ball around. They have
a tremendous opportunity of grabbing a lot of offensive rebounds.
They're getting lots of good looks. I don't know if
this makes any sense to you, but sometimes the ball
does not look good coming out off the hand, and
some of the angles are a little peculiar. But to me,
more of it is the ball does not leave the
hand particularly well. Look, Amen, Thompson's never gonna be a
perimeter threat. Jabari has been up in down through his
NBA career. Kevin Durant is a very good three point shooter,
but there's again he's facing double teams more than ever.
Albi's on a big perimeter threat. He can hit the
mid range and inside, but again, outside shots not his Forte.
Tarr Easton's had a good season, but he's been hurt
during Finney Smith is just coming back from ankle surgery,
so he's not been considered. You're just kind of right
now needing a hot hand, and EMA's trying to find
that somewhere up and down his lineup, and he just
can't find anybody that's doing it consistently over the last
two or three weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I figured. I just I'm saying, like
people talk about the system, where in the NBA, there
really is no system, so it's just about hitting oversats.
So that was just my question. Well, I appreciate it.
I have a good weekend.
Speaker 3: Thank you. You appreciate the phone call, and don't give
up on the Rockets. It's I don't think again. Remember
I'm gonna be totally biased. I don't think this is
gonna be a season long issue. How about Shake Gilders
Alexander mouthing off to Durant Lesson. I hope you enjoyed
that seventh spot. Talking the NBA is good. That's what
I really miss being on the floor calling games. Yeah,
I was arguing with people on Twitter more than I
should have. Yeah, I mean it's reactionary and everybody wants
to cry over the spilled milk and this happens. I mean,
like the Astros get swept by the A's and they're
the worst team ever, and this team is searching for
answers and they need to blow it up and all
that type of stuff. And I'm with you, Matt. We
could end up being wrong, but I don't think so.
The Imodoka is too good of a head coach. The
whole staff together is too good. Kevin durant Alprinching, Gunam
and Thompson and the pieces that are hurt that they're
gonna get back, and the guys that they are, they're
all too good. They are going to be fine. Look
at the team, the things that are happening. The number
one reason they've been losing these games is because the
three point shots have not been going in. I know
people don't want to hear all the schedule, but the
schedule has it's the fact of them. It's a fact
twenty three games on the road that are the first
thirty six tied for an NBA record, and they come
home and they're not getting days off. So I don't
know when exactly it will turn. But the other teams
in the West are not infallible either. Spurs have been
losing some games. Thunder, We're losing some games, and you
want to keep pace for them. It's not ideal, it's
not what you want to see. But it's going to
be fine. They're in a storm right now, but there
will be a calm at some point and they're going
to be ripping off wins five out of six, whatever,
and where this is going to be a distant memory
in a couple of months. That's what I believe is
going to happen. Look at this roster, look at the players,
look at the coaching staff and the track record they
all have. They're going to be better. This is not
who the Houston Rockets are. They're not going to be
in the seventh seed. They're not going to be in
the plan. I don't believe. I do not believe they're
going to be in a seventh seed. They're going to
have to fix a three point issues if they're going
to get into the top four. I don't think it
goes without much needing to verify that conversation. And I
don't know if Tari is the three point solution. Frankly,
to me, it's got to be Reid's got to get
to three point shot to be the consistent guy off
the bench. You can need Drian Finney Smith to do
some of the things that made him a fraidg and
it made him worthy of coming here to begin with.
I'm not saying there's a lot of pressure on him, Kogie,
I wouldn't count on much. Offensively, numbers are probably gonna
He's gonna knock down some more threes. I don't think
that goes out saying. I mean, start of the season,
Jabbari was over his career numbers. Same thing for I mean,
I'm sorry Albrun, Shangoon and Josha Kogi some of those
waters that are finding their levels. And the three point
regression is hit hard. You would hope it'd be a
little bit slower, but this regression boom, it's hitting real hard. Okay,
So on seven ninety K, So what do you got today?
Speaker 4: All right, guys, I am a probably most die hard
Rockets fan listener y'all have, and it's getting pretty hard
watching this team as of late. I mean yesterday I
didn't even bother to check in on the game. I would.
I haven't felt like this in a while, but watching
that offense kind of gives me that feeling of watching
that Mike D'Antoni offense without having that offensive engine and
James Harden there is too much standing around and watching
KD or LP cook something up. It's I think you
may as a good coach. I like the coaching staff,
but this is what year three or something like that,
where we just haven't seen any, if anything at all
as an offensive punch from the Rockets.
Speaker 3: It's it's really hard to watch.
Speaker 4: What do you guys think? I mean, I understand Fred
being out is probably the biggest catalyst, but this this
team just does too much looking and watching as a
thirty seven year old to go and cook. It's just
not sustainable and I'm a little worried about this team.
Just wanted to chime in and let you guys know,
I hope you'll have a great weekend.
Speaker 3: Thanks Ca. So I'm I don't think standing around is
a issue. They are passing the ball around a lot. Look,
Durant's finding a lot of double teams. That goes without saying,
but that's again because no one at this point is
respecting the Rockets outside game. And once those some of
those shots get knocked down, that won't be nearly as
big of a factor, but right now it is a factor,
and that's why you're gonna see more zone. I would
not be surprised if Chris Finch, the coach of the
minnicoptember Wolf zones their hell on the rockets today until
they get it beat him from the outside. Yeah, they
were even This is sad to say. It was sad
to see, but eventually Jabari made them pay. But they
were doubling off Jabari last night, like normally he's a
three point threat. You don't see that. But as I said,
he puniched him. He made three out of his six shots,
so that was good to see. But you are going
to see some zone until they can knock down three points.
That is gonna make it difficult. I don't think there's
a much iso ball like it was Mike D'Antoni, and
it's it's some where they're trying to get Kevin Durant
in his pet spot, which of course is the elbows
as you know, Matt and and working a two man
game at the top of the key with some with
some pick and rolls with alprinching Goon and Kevin Durant.
That is one of their go to sets as well.
Because you got to do those types of things because
A you don't have a primary ball handler, and b
if it's a Men Thompson running point, guys are just
gonna back off them and sag off in the paint
and net clogs things up. For where Durant liked to
be in the elbows, where alprynchin Goon likes to be
at the elbows. So you don't have a whole lot
of super dangerous three point shooters, and you have guys
in a Men and alprynching Goon. You normally don't want
to have a in this day and age in the
NBA one bad shooter on the floor, but you have
two bad three point shooters, and depending on if Steven
Adams is in the lineup as well, then you're adding another. Yeah,
it's gonna be tough to figure things out, Thank goodness.
Kevin Durant is about automatic from those elbows when he
can get a little wiggle room. Yeah, And if you
have a man in a Kogain the floor, your backcourt
is not considered a perimeter threat. Now, a man can
do a lot of other things to damage you, but
it's just it's going to be inside of fifteen feet
and teams know that. Yeah, and that's why if you
get one or two a game from a man to
soften things up a little bit, to give him a
little more respect from the outside, it'd be a wonderful thing.
I know, maybe the name Jalen Green doesn't want to
be heard here in this town, but you're missing an
element of what he brought. He was somebody who could
blow by the defender that he's going against on the
perimeter and either get to the basket or cause the
defense to collapse on him and drive and kick. You
have no drive and kick element in this defense. I
wouldn't say no because I'm in Thompson does it some,
but players know and teams know that they can sack
off of him as much as possible, and he does
it with a little euro stepping with fakes. He can
craft his way to open shots with that. But he's
not normally unless it's in transition, blowing by everybody all
the time. You miss you're missing a little bit of
that driving kick element with your with your ball handlers
because Oprin shin Gun's not doing that. Kevin Duran, unfortunately
this stage in his career, isn't doing that, he's working
at the elbows, backing down a couple dribbles and throwing
and putting fadeaways up and then popping, stopping pop fifteen
twenty footers which are money, which has been incredibly efficient
for him. But it's not collapsing that you don't have
the shooters as consistently and you're not collapsing defenses with
a with a dynamic dribble drive element of the offense.
More on this coming up, We've got oh our Texans,
why they win and why'd they lose? And Jonathan's gonna
record it. We're gonna see how close we were on
from Monday okay seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Matt Thomas Show at rossk at ten years, twelve
thirty eight, Sports Talk seveny anything goes Friday, All right,
here we go. Which one would you like? It's not
like if we repeat ourselves, it won't be nearly as entertaining.
Would you like? The five reasons why the Texans win
and we play them back? Or the five reasons why
the Texans losing? Me playing back on work because we're
gonna play one of them on Monday. What do you mean,
which one would I like? I'll give you. Would you
like to do the five?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 3: I thought, well, we can just a ping pong them
one files do that. Let's those ping pongs. We can
both get our voices on the air. Sure, why not?
So let's get uh Johnny, let's get Cool in the Gang.
Ready here, Okay, we'll put this in the background. Now, seriously,
I'm not kidding about this. We're gonna see how close
we got to this. Okay, off a Monday show. So
let's set the mood. By the way, no other station
in town's doing this. Then celebration what we do. Celebrate
celebration Cool in the Gang. We're gonna pretend the Texans
won this game. Okay, that's not necessarily pretend. It very
well could happen. This is the best opportunity ever for
the Texans to go. Here we go. I'm gonna put
this in five four three two one record. Oh, Ross,
it is a Monday I'm the Matt Thomas showing Ross. Wooo.
What a win for the first time ever a f
C championship against the and Man that game against the
should be great. It should, but it could be ugly,
like this win this past weekend, like this game. Man,
let's go over the things we loved in the game.
I'll starry. Okay, Texans defense, you were as advertised. You
were ferocious. Yes, you made Drake May make mistakes, you
made enforce a bunch of bad throws, you got some turnovers.
You didn't let the weather affect you. You were swarming
in New England. Thank you, Houston Texans. Yeah, definitely the
headliner there, Matt with the high pressure and able to
get to Drake May and make him uncomfortable, get him
a little bit rattle. But also I think that the
steadying force of the Running game was important. Woody Marks
as we know normally yeah, I mean he had that
one long one, but normally doesn't bust a bench of
a bunch of long runs. It was a steady dose
of Woody Marks and a couple of the other guys.
I thought the Running Game, especially on the right side,
did a great job of controlling the game. Xavier Hutchison,
that was a key Graby made to play in the game.
I was very impressed to that. That was a really yeah,
I was wow, huge part of the game. Wow shocking
huh okay, and also back to the defense a little bit.
Not only was the pressure a good as they they
just didn't let Drake may get loose because the Texans,
as we know all season long, had been susceptible to
the running games. Now he had a couple of runs,
but for the most part, he wasn't gashing them over
and over, so he got loose somewhat, but able to
keep him pinned in for the further majority of the game.
I thought the Texans defense did a great job and
the few times the Texans had to punt Tommy Townsend,
you pinned him back deep. Thank you for we love you.
And I thought Dalton Schultz definitely with Nico Collins being out,
as we all knew he was going to be, especially
in that play action game, it really works second and
a half the season and that was the case in
this game as well. And that bone jarring hit that
Jalen Petrie hit applied to was a huge factor in
the game. As Guardian cat flew off. I love the Guardian,
I'm such a big fan of that. They got to
snap back on though. He's good. And back to the
special teams, Kimie, you just are mister clutch the matter
of his indoors or outdoors did just enough. Oh, thank
you very much. Yeah, win wasn't that bad. A little
bit of snow flurries, but weather was overall not as
much of a factor of the Texans took the crowd
out of the game. Yeah, and CJ, you game manage brilliantly.
Made the throws and you had to didn't have all
those fumble issues like we had last big third down
throws were nice. They were as the Texans beat the
Patriots and now we await the in the a FC Championship.
Nice in fade. Oh no, I don't want to do
this all right when we come back, Okay, thank you,
because I'm not ready for this mentally after that, I
just I'm feeling so good. But you have to be
fair and balanced. We just do. When the Matt Thomas
show with Ross returns, we will prepare for the opposite Ross.
You and Johnathan come up with the most depressing song
humanly possible to play with this as we continue the show.
Here how the Texans fell to the Patriots on Sunday.
The pre the prequel to the Aftermath is next seven
ninety twelve forty four all right. We gave you the jubilation,
and uh, it's only fair that we do the harder part.
And this is the one that's going to hit a
little bit because battle Red has been battle reading all
year long and wanted me to become pasty white. I mean,
I'm always pascy white. Liberty white, liberty white, liberty white. Matt,
let's go, baby, here we go, cat down, Jonathan. You
ready to remember we're gonna play one of these on
Monday for sure in five four, three two one. Everybody cry.
This is the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk Sevenatti,
where we are here to take your calls at seven
one three, two one two five SEVENATI. Unfortunately, the Texans
lost yesterday in New England to the Patriots final final
score of two. Uh, let's get to it. What were
the reasons?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: God, CJ that terrible, terrible picky through into double coverage.
I know the pass rush was coming from the edges,
but he just threw it into a crowded area with
so many Patriots. You knew that when receiver it bounce
off his hands and landed into hands that was not
a good sign for the rest of the day. Yeah,
as you meant to know he wasn't getting a whole
lot of help. And we've talked about this all season.
We like Woody Marks. He had a good game in
the wild Card, but the consistency is not there, the
yards per carry aren't there. Y, I know, the game
just happens, so we don't necessarily need get into off
season draft mode right now, but they running back has
to be addressed. I like Woody good, third down pass blocker,
pass catcher, all that stuff, but he's not an RB one.
He's just not. Yeah, Ross, I was highly concerned about
Demko's play calling and use the two min o'clock after
the warning in the first half. I thought the Texans
had a chance to at least get three on that
last series. Yeah, playing not to win on the road
against the Steelers made sense because you're also going b
up against a conservative head coach, brut you can't do
that on the road against Mike Vrabel, who's willing to
roll the dice and has a better offense then you.
I thought that was frustrating as well. Matt and those
Drake may scrambles key on. I mean, how many times
could they not get off the field on third down?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: And another thing killed you. Two more illegal formation penalties.
This has been a problem all season, longeh. You couple
that with the one false start by and then that
terrible holding call against and it backed the Texans up.
It wasn't It wasn't the way you wanted it to go.
And with Nico Collins out, I mean, Christian Gonzalez basically
taking Jayden Higgins out of the game. Yeah, and you're
searching and Dalton Schultz is nice, and he had a
few catches and some good targets, but he's not a
downfield threat. And how in the world could you ever
anticipate Kimie Fairbarn missing that yardfield goal when he's so
money all throughout the course of the year. And Derek
Stingley can't get ejected like that punching Steffan Digs in
the face?
Speaker 8: What that was?
Speaker 3: That was such a tough call, I mean, right in
the nogging. That's that was so hard to watch. Yeah,
how do you kiss? You know you can't have games.
Stefan Diggs is gonna talk some trash. You got to
know that coming in. Yeah, the one thing that got
me was why are you trying a fake punt at
your own eleven yard line. All right, wait a minute,
you got you've got Stingley being thrown out of the
game with the punch. That's the least I can do
to combat that. It was what we thought. I mean,
it's what we talked about all CJ had to be
better and everybody around him had to be better, and
it was none of it unfortunate en scene, Okay, we
had it going into You said that stingle was gonna
get thrown out for a punch that was terrible. You
think he could mix it up with undo chance? You know,
there's zero chance. Okay, I'm sorry, Just like I said,
as zero chances of fake punish mixing it up with
nobody's mixing anything up. You could have said a fifteen
yard penalty, that'd have made more sense. But can we
end that out? No, you gotta dare to be great, Matt.
Speaker 1: No, but if nailed that, you'd.
Speaker 3: Be dare to be stupid. You are just like you're
Kyle Tucker Bett. If they win, we don't get it there.
It wasn't stupid. Oh, it's true, Johnny. You're right if
if if the Texans win, that's not aired at all. Yeah, exactly.
I didn't even worried about it. Texans nineteen, Patriots seventeen.
What did I say it was? By the way, I
don't remember. I think you said forty three to six.
I did, not twenty one. That sounds good, you get
the over. This feels like an easy under. I don't
know why, just because every Texans game feels like an
easy under. Yeah. I think the weather's gonna I think
the weather's gonna be bigger factor than people are letting
it on to be. I know your weather boys like, oh,
here we go, mister meteorologist too. You know what they
call me? What mister meteorologist? No they don't, Yeah they do.
Literally nobody's ever called you that ever. Yeah, they call
me the Neil Frank of Houston Sports, if you say so.
All right, I'm trying to check the updated the updated forecast,
So Jonathan, please don't lose either one of those. No,
I gotta I gotta get them clipped ready to go. Okay,
and then just get rid of that last part about
the ejection, because that's thirty five degrees forty eight percent
presuppitation right now, but wins very low, five to four
to five miles an hour sustained. That's fine, but a
wet ball and c J stroud No, no, no, no, no,
you got the textas winning. You're gonna He's there, He's
not going to turn the ball over three times, and
the text is still gonna win. It'supposed to be fifty
nine percent up to seventy two percent. Four and five
o'clock right now, that's Eastern time. W that's a three
o'clock kicktime, Eastern time. By the way, I'm saying this
is during the game. Okay, I am worried about fumbles firs.
Speaker 1: CJ.
Speaker 3: Now you can speak a little louder. I'm worried about
fumbles for CJ. Now why why him? It could be
a very equitmen, it could be Drake may too. That's true.
It's taking a ring for the same amount of time
on the field. Let's get practicing with a wet ball.
Let's go.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 3: You know what I have not done. I have not
checked my I put a poll question up like three
days ago. I think I probably buried it into my
tweet feed about how people are gonna think the game's
gonna go. I'm gonna look at watch my twitter. Uh
bad way. Thanks everybody for following on Instagram. I really
appreciate that. If you don't follow me on Twitter too,
I'd love that. Oh wow, thanks to those of you
have followed who I followed back, I appreciate. I think
I give everybody shout outs except for a hell bound
slowly stung at a boy, Trey and Adaman and Super
saying appreciate y'all, thank you. I gotta bry anyone had
a baby eats a boy. Congratulations to that Twitter follower
or that Instagram people are getting that reference. I don't
care if only one does well. I'm the one. I
feel like it's accomplished. Eighty six percent Texans fourteen percent
Patriots on the vote. I got one day left. You know,
say eighty six percent Texans fourteen You did the poll
for three days. I did well. See, I did Texans
plus three and I mine ended at eighty seven and
a half percent. I'm pinning them to the profile I
pinned it. So if you've not voted on my Twitter account,
who you got in the game, Texans or Patriots, get
your votes in. Okay, all right? We are twenty five
minutes away from the Fantasy five this week, which is
worst comedic actors, actresses, stand up and or movies, anything
that anybody that portrays to believe they're funny and you
think they're awful. That's the contest. Now, if you use me,
you're going to lose because I'm not a comedic actor.
I may be funny, but I'm not a comedic actor funny.
How when you're all excess? Spot gonna run either next
week or the week after. All right, let me know,
I'm just gonna look for myself and then turn it off.
You're watching the whole thing, you think, so at one
you are one hundred percent watching the whole thing. You
better watch it. I'll be upset. I'm gonnaques you on it.
Oh yeah, I watched it, man. It was a great
I thought you looked amazing. Wow when you were they
had you call in the game. That was good. Okay,
go ahead record my reaction to the rockets all access.
That was great. That's cool. What was your favorite part?
That's when they had you sleep and that was hilarious.
That was so good. You had that funny pillow case.
I just made it. It made it. I thought all
the little attention to detail, all that that was great.
Seven one three. Can I talk to somebody else? I've
been talking to you for three and a half hours.
Got a couple k so came in, talk some rockets ball.
I would like anybody to call in besides talking to Ross.
And Jonathan doesn't talk to me very much, so we'll
move on from him too. Wow, you don't want to
talk to us. He's basic. I'm making sure this postered
up and everything. Yeah, he's been thank you John blaming him.
I'm just five job and when the show goes like this,
he can upstead of everybody'll call in, come in, you
say on three seven nine, I'm sick of talking to
negative Nelly. Over goes Friday. Anything goes Friday. I just
said your segment was great. You negative said you weren't
going to watch it. I said, no, it's great and
I can't wait to watch it. Now you misheard. I
think I heard that too. Ross, you right, you're right?
All right?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: The Fantasy five and twenty minutes here on seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: One O three on Sports Talk seven NINI, The Matt
Thomas Show with Loss continues. We've got the Rotten five
coming up in about to fifteen minutes from now. We have, uh,
really one of our segments for our show already locked
and loaded for Monday. That's one lass segment we gotta
worry about. It's true four hour show. Baby, let's go.
They can't lose because that last run of that last
minute of it, we gave up two of the most
preposterous things that could potentially happen in the game of
fake pont They eleve in yard line and Derek stinging
the ejection on a punch. That's he was swinging on
Stefan Diggs. That was crazy. Everything else made sense. Okay,
well we can cut that part of you probably we
should probably play it all right, but they're not gonna lose.
They're gonna win. That's my gut feeling, all right, Twitter account,
I want to know this is not worrying about a sprags.
We don't care about spreads. Can't bet legally in Texas, Okay, uh,
And let's take a look here. The pole question has
an eighty six percent Texans, fourteen percent Patriots. Okay, mine
has the spread and it's eighty seven and a half.
So I wonder if if we did the show and
if we were Boston hopes one. I yeah, Boston, What
did Boston accent? I get? Yeah, it's like that. Pick
the crap, pack the car. Then we could ask the
Miko Ryans has no chance? You think they do? You
think they make fun of us like the way we
make fun of them. Oh yeah, we're on Houston Radio. Yeah,
let's get our horses out there. I don't know if
that noise was I'm sorry. Two things I hate in
life what stereotypes and Longhorn fans seven three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety mean at the Rotten five coming up
not Rotten five, Fantasy five in about fifteen minutes. I'm
very excited because I think you and I are gonna
have a pretty similar list. Maybe alive or dead, unfunniest people,
male or female. There's your category. Let's talk to the
great people of Houston and say hello. Two in terms
of no longest wait, we'll go to Paul and my
damn screen. My computer is acting up. Paul and myerland
on seven ninety at one o five, Paul, thank you
for holding a good afternoon.
Speaker 6: Everything goes Friday.
Speaker 3: Anything we'll tell you.
Speaker 6: I want to tell you a little story about how
Daryl K. Royal changed the history of country music.
Speaker 3: All right, hold on, hold on, hold on. If you're
gonn go country, were gonna have some country music in
the background, don't you think put on.
Speaker 6: Some Willian Nelsons.
Speaker 3: This is about Willie Oh, Willie Nelson. Huh okay, yeah,
bought Willie Nelson played, He played, Yeah, he played dB
for darrylky Roll. Right, all right, we're gonna we're gonna
get up. Hold on, We're not ready yet, Paul, you
should tell our producer what you're doing here so we
can know what's going on here. There we go, go ahead, Paul.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: So, back in the early seventies, Willie Nelson's drummer, Paul English,
shopped the steel guitar player in the band.
Speaker 3: So Steve guitar player was.
Speaker 6: Out of the band. Just so happens that after a
ut game, Darryl Okay invited Willie. He was there, but
he introduced him to a young harmonica player named Mickey Raphael.
Now we switched from the Steve guitar player to a
harmonica player. Completely changed the sound of his band, and
that was the start of the outlaw music revolution that
made Willy Nelson's sound what it is today. So thanks
to Devil k Royle for hooking him up with this
harmonica player, changing the complete sound and made Willie the
start that he is. And he's ninety three years old
now and still going.
Speaker 5: That's my story, my love is.
Speaker 6: Now you may ask me is why did the drummers
shoot the steel guitar player?
Speaker 3: Go ahead, if you like we did, go ahead, tell us,
well it happens.
Speaker 6: Come sad story. The drummer's wife committed suicide and the
steel guitar player holding she decided it with you. I've
killed myself too, So that's what's heard it all. He
shot the steel guitar player.
Speaker 7: They got the.
Speaker 6: But Darryl k Royle changed the history of country Western
music for say the better.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Paul.
Speaker 4: You'll have a great weekend.
Speaker 3: You as well.
Speaker 6: Take you hey, riot from the riot from the game.
We've got the coopan basketball right.
Speaker 3: Yes we do, Arizona State. Glad you brought that up.
All right, turn up great, We'll get you too. Just
can't wait at all you want to say it. Don't
you got nothing? My friend, Jonathan rate this. I'm assuming
you've never heard this song before in your life. I
wasn't consut for two years. Now, come on, now, I
know comes wrong. I'm not a huge Willie Nelson fan.
I do like whiskey River and I do like beer
from our horses.
Speaker 4: What do you what?
Speaker 3: Do you hit it? A duet with Toby Keith? That
song is no okay? I think actually Toby Keith is
more credit to the song than Willing is. I don't
want to admit.
Speaker 8: You know what.
Speaker 3: Let's get crushed together. I don't get it. I don't
get it. Mister hold on, But Willy Nelson, mister Texas
should adore Willie Nelson is mister Texas more than you.
He's mister pot smoker, okay, and he's mister Texas. He's
way more mister Texas than you are and should be.
He's like the candidate. He's like a frontline candidate. You're
a back line like worst candidate. But maybe I need
to listen to more of it. Let me tell you,
Let me tell you if we're in looking back Texas.
Like George Straight, I get it. I love I like
George Straight a lot like I get it, like I
want to go see George Trad and love.
Speaker 1: It just kind of talks.
Speaker 3: On the road again, like is it hard to carry?
Are people like scared to karaoke Willie Nelson because he's
such a powerhouse singer. Well you should. You shouldn't judge
somebody based on their karaoke val you No, you should.
Well they're singing prows, yes, And I know it's other things.
It's the music, maybe the lyrics or whatever. I mean.
On the Road Again is his most famous song. And
we just heard it and it's like, okay, it is
his most famous song. I can't wait to get on
the road again. That that's cool. I do like Whiskey
River a lot. That's one of my old time fans.
You know what I'm gonna you know what, I need
to give myself an assignment because I haven't dove into
Willie Nelson. Or how about we do this next time
you and I go to like Charles, let's listen to
Willie Nelson on the road. I'm gonna do two hours.
We're not doing two hours. I'll give it thirty and
see how we feel. Okay, Well, ten ten songs at
five minutes a song will be fifty minutes. Well, I
in those days, the songs are about two fifteen, okay,
to fit them on the forty five. Then we're done
in a half an hour. Then that's what I'm saying.
I'm gonna check because I use a Ratify and I
like that. This is blank artist. It's just it's a
playlist of like the best of the best of certain artists. Yeah,
I just feel like we're gonna get crushed. I'm gonna
listen to that, and you know what, but I gotta
I gotta say my heart true. I just don't get it.
I'm going I'm literally saving the playlist right now. Where's
my This is Willie Nelson Mama's Oh Mama, Don't let
your babies. That's classic. That is a good song too, maybe,
you know what. That's why we didn't everything on here.
We did not discuss rated over or under. We just
didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 3: Always on my mind is a jam. Oh that's a
good song too. Whiskey River is a jam. Blue Eyes
Crying in the Rain a good song too. I don't
know that one. That's the Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.
It's not bad here, Johnathan, give us this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, while.
Speaker 3: See this is why I know this is good. This
is soulful. Yeah, this is uh all right.
Speaker 6: You know what.
Speaker 3: We didn't say anything.
Speaker 8: We were right.
Speaker 3: We were said, I don't get it because I haven't
gotten into it. You know, I have to you know
what I'm gonna do. I'm in fairness. I'm going to
download some more songs. Making model airplanes can be great.
I just haven't gotten into it, so I don't know.
I don't judge. All right, you know what, Yeah, I'm doing.
I'm Willie Nelson. So Willy Nelson Friday is good. The
rest of songs in the show are gonna be Willi
Nelson's no Next Friday. Next Friday. Well, we've got three
songs left and we can put something. We gotta do
Fantasy five next. Okay, all right, for those that don't
know about Fantasy five, we need five of you to
be our judges. Jonathan, you are judge number six, all right,
Judge number six. Yeah, okay, I don't want. I don't want.
Jonathan made the deciding fall, although he probably we're gonna
name a bunch of people he'd never heard of, you know,
looking up every time you know what you mentioned that week. Okay,
you're not gonna name anybody in that twenties. I don't enough.
I'm gonna give on both somebody else you are you
are out this week. Okay, So here's what we're gonna do.
We need seven judges. Can we get seven phone lines
or is that most we max it gets? Six? Okay,
we need six judges At seven one three two, one
two five seven nintis seven one three two one two
five seventy, We're gonna go through a Fantasy five of
list of uh people we don't believe are very funny
in either movies or in television or stand up and
you got to give us the list that you most
agree with. Now, since I won the last Fantasy five,
it'll be up to me to take you the first pick,
or we go on a snake system where I get
picks number two and three. So if you'd like to
be a judge seven one three two one two five
seven nintis seven one three two one two five seven
ninety unfunny people that are considered comedic actors and actresses.
That's the Fantasy five next at one thirteen on Sports
Talk seven ninety. I hear we go Fantasy five time.
By the way, great front of the show can't listen
to my neighbor mine sent me a message as twenty
dollars says, you can't do thirty minutes straight of Willie
without wanting to drive headfirst through into an eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 3: So not an unpopular topic because I also got Colton
said Willie Nelson as overrated as it gets. M He's
got some hits. I just it just doesn't come top
to mind. Hi, I'm gonna listen to some old school country.
It's Johnny, It's whaling. Is it more just the large Jones,
the legendary like the aura stuff like that, because of
the outlaw country music, shooting guns like uh Paul was
talking about. Because you know what, I'll I'll give you
a rap parallel. Snoop Dogg like Doggie Style was an
all time great album, but like outside of that, in
the early stuff with Doctor Dre and maybe b. Please
let me know when I can jump into this conversation.
I feel like Snoop Dogg doesn't. He has a couple
of hits, but he's not. He's more the aura of
who Snoop Dogg is and being a famous rapper than
naturally being a good all time rapp Is he just
a mascot. Now, hey, put me on the He's america
sweetheartut me on NBA basketball. Yeah, he's out there with
Martha Stewart doing all kinds of crazy stuff. He's America's sweetheart.
Yeah Snoop Dogg. And I completely choked when I chanced
to say hello to him. That's I've introduce myself. You've
get him next time? All right, here we go, Uh,
Fantasy five. It's a snake system. Worst comedians, male or female,
dead or live anything, comedic actor, TV series, movie, stand up,
whatever you want to choose if it ain't funny. He
put on the list when he won More Judge for
the Fantasy five. It's seven one three I won last time.
I will go first. Oh, I wasn't expecting this go ahead.
There are a lot of good candidates to me. This
guy has been around for twenty ten, twenty thirty, about
fifty years in the comedy industry, with movies, television, and
now a game show. He wasn't funny in his little characters.
He isn't funny in commercials. He's not funny hosting a
game show. Pound for pound, the most unfunny overrated comedic
actor slash comedian of all time for me is Martin Short. Now,
Martin Short was on my list, and I knew you
hated him. I knew he was on your list. Yes, okay, Yeah,
I'm with you. Stet's and I just don't get it.
Martin Short, Martin Short, completely unfunny. All right, I'm gonna
go with an actual stand up comedian. And it also
kind of became like an in vogue to hate on
this person, kind of like Nickelback. But there's a reason
people hate on Nickelback. They're not good. There's a reason
people hate on this comedian. He's not good yet he
sells out arenas and he's massively famous. Dame h is
a punchline for everyone, and I just don't get it.
I've never watched him, but I know that there's a
lot of out there. Yeah, I'm just not familiar with
his work. But he sells out arenas though, ROSSI, yeah,
he's not good, Okay. And then I think he had
some grooming accusations or something too. What it's a grooming
accusation like he was grooming a teenager to be his
girlfriend once she turned eighteen. Uh uh, terrible. I don't
I'm not familiar with his work. But I know that
every time I go we go to an arena, he's
always got a spot open painfully unfunny. Okay, have you
heard of either of these people? Get Jonathan No until
you're definitely out all right, keeping it going?
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: This guy completely continued to fall upwards in comedy. He
started in the minors in SNL, where his best attribute
was breaking character and laughing the whole time. Damn it.
Now he does a late night show and he's not good.
He doesn't do good interviews, he doesn't do good monologues,
Yet he falls upwards. I don't get it. Jimmy Fallon okay, okay,
like painfully unfunny, just do anything but giggle. He's a giggler,
and now he does if you put his show on,
he sings half the time. He's not a good singer. Yeah,
and the only funny thing he does, as you said,
is break character. Now, the scene where he's breaking character
with everybody else breaking character in that Debbie Downer is
one of the funniest sketches of all time. But it's
because Debbie Downer was funny, not because Jimmy Fallon was funny.
He can't he can't even stay on character for five seconds. Terrible. Next,
I get the next two. Go ahead, SNL character actress. Ooh,
she's done a couple of movies here and there. She's
done Parks and Recreation I think, which I don't even
really watch. She hosts a bunch of shows. She was
prominent on the SNL anniversaries. Amy Poehler, you're not funny.
I'm sorry, really, you're just not funny. I think she
was funny in Parks and rec didn't watch it for
a reason because she was on it. There's another I'm
trying to think of them. There was like another movie. Oh,
she was kind of funny induced biggel o'mel jiggelow. Okay,
that should further prove why my list is good. She
was the woman with Tourette's. I mean that movie sucked
for sure, but sucked. Speaking of sucks, Okay, go ahead.
This next one is again not a funny guy. And
as a matter of fact, he's been out of comedy
for twenty years because people said, you know what, you're
not funny. He's back doing some comedy movies now. It
was on SNL a few weeks ago as a host.
I went and saw his movie back in two thousand
and six because it was a wrestling movie and I
like wrestling painfully unfunny. I'm speaking of a guy. His
name is Jack black Jack not funny at all. The
School of Rock is funny. He was good in Cable Guy.
My God, it real dark. Not brace so Fo Panda
is a classic. How was good? Stop your Soul? Yeah, Matt,
you're not Year one was funny. One Wait wait, you're
not a voter. You're not voting anyway, so go ahead. Way,
I'm just saying you're one with Michael Sarah was funny.
I disagree, but no I'm not. I disagree, but I'm
gonna say I get it. Thank you. He's old. Yeah,
he's definitely one note one unfundy note one one note
that's off tune O. Alright, I'm gonna keep it going.
Oh my gosh. Actually, I'm ending up with a lot
of candidates now at this point, but I'm gonna go
with you know what, a woman who was a comedian
and also became a movie star, and that was and
I just don't get it. She had a bunch of
specials on Comedy Central and then for whatever reason, she
was the hot hit girl, and then she got called
out for stealing all her jokes Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer
not funny, didn't love the movie, But she's good on
the Comedy Central roast or was she was good on
the roasts, and see, if you're a good roaster, you're
gonna you're gonna get better. Her stand ups not good
and the movies were terrible. Amy Schumer. Next on my list,
all right, all right, keeping it going. This guy that
I actually saw as one of the openers for Dave Chappelle,
who was ridiculously funny, and he keeps falling upwards and
he was he's on commercials now too, and he was
on SNL. And when I saw his comedy set, I
was like, this guy's gonna kill himself. It was depressing
and it wasn't funny, and the only laughter was awkward laughter,
like hoping the guy wasn't gonna pull out a gun
and end at all. Pete Davidson, I don't get it.
What's the funniest thing Pete Davidson had ever done? In
your eyes? You know why? Uh this this may not
resonate because he's not been giving a lot of great roles.
He was giving him not funny. He's not funny. He's
not funny. He's on every commercial and he was on
s SNL for everywhere. Well, the reason, the one thing
he's got going for him apparently is I know what
you're gonna say, and you're right, and it's hurtful, and
apparently apparently is hurtful, but it works for you. Gonna
jump your hand again and we're gonna jump off the
ledge together. You're right. His father, unform fortunately died. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
that's strug with that. Apparently he's got a long package.
Oh that too. You see we're on. But I think
for whatever reason that come. His father unfortunately died in
the nine to eleven nine and I don't know if
everybody just feels sorry for him about it because he's
not funny. I'm sorry, obviously an unspeakable tragedy, but he's
an unfunny comedian and actor Pete Davidson unfunny. Even these
these Amazon commercials he said, or what is Alexa? He's on?
Those aren't funny. He's uh, I got the last two
and then you get the last one. Television star. I
tried to watch his TV show for a long time
because the female lead on the show I think is
kind of hot. Okay, he is not hot. The show
wasn't funny. Then he makes a bunch of movies that
aren't funny, including being about a mall cop. Okay, The
King of Queens never laughed once, Paul Cop, Chuck and
Larry or whatever. Jerry Stiller was good on that show.
Kevin James, you're not funny. King of Queens was okay.
It was not okay. It was not ran for my
laugh It ran for like a long time. Remedy was
I love Leon very nice? I'm with you on that.
Let's see it ran for nine seasons. Couldn't have been
that bad. I'm with you like Okay, He's not one
of the all time greats, but I thought he was
kind of funny. My last one didn't catch Paul Blart
Maltcop personly, Well that's you interested in North Amina. You've
seen he does youtubes as the sound guy on TV
movie sets. Those are kind of funny. Sorry. Next, this
guy gets made fun of in roast because he hosts
a bunch of shows. Apparently he has a comedy tour,
and apparently he'll never turn down a movie, which I've
seen none of them. He was decent as the MC
on the Tom Brady Roast because people were making fun
of how unfunny he is. Kevin Hart. You're not funny.
You're not funny Kevin Hard. Now, actually I'm gonna disagree
with that one. His stand up's actually pretty good. It's decent.
It's on his seventy movies he's made. It's not ten
out of ten, but it's like seven out of ten.
And he is America's comedy whore, and he's in like
sixteen movie comedies every minute. Yes, I mean, some people
are gonna agree with you, but I disagree, and I
think I might be in the minority. You got one left,
but this is tough. Actually, I got a lot of
people on my list. I'm gonna go with Tyler Perry.
The movies, the media, I don't get it. He's a billionaire,
so clearly some people think it's funny. But I haven't
left once in any of the previews. I watched like
half of one of the movies and I was like,
I can't even finish this. I don't get it. Not
funny at all to me. I'm going with Tyler Perry.
All right, so we're gonna take a quick break, yes, okay,
building the drama, Yeah, okay, sure, why not my list?
These are unfunny, funny people, actresses alive or dead. I
think everyone in our group's alive, right, yeah, I think so,
Martin Short, Amy Poehler, Jack Black, Kevin James, Kevin Hart.
That's my list. Okay you okay, back there, I'm giving
us out Affix, Ross, Dane Cook, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Schumer,
Pete Davidson, Tyler Perry. I almost went with Andy Dick
we left off. Oh and Dick was on my list.
Luke Wilson was on my list here, top was on
my list. Martin Lawrence also on my list. Basically a
mar Lawrence. Alright, get out of here. Okay, any one
on my list and one on my list? Okay, so
the list again. Sure, Paul Martin is a classic short,
Polar Black, James Hart, yours Is Cook, Follon, Schumer, Davison, Davidson,
and Perry. The Fantasy Five Judges will speak next one
thirty one on sports. All right, to be really fair
on this. These are two amazingly great lists of unfunny people.
Is this gonna be how we how how the draw
goes here? Seven? Again? My list is short, Polar Black,
James and Hart Martin short Martin short, Ross is Cook, Fallon, Schumer,
Davidson and Perry? Who has the worst comedians? List? Yes?
Who is the worst? Who's the worst? Like you? Who? Who?
If you had one hundred dollars least? The least funny list?
Let's go to uh, Brent on the Fantasy five? Brent,
who wins? Ross or me?
Speaker 9: Man, I'm gonna have to say that, uh, the people
that can be funny when they're not funny, like Jack
Black and Bernie that's funny to me? And then also, uh, yes,
Jimmy Fallon is not funny. I'm gonna have to go
to Rossie Man.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Brent. You know what I I
can't cry because this is a great list. I can't
say go to hell. I can't say, you know, go
get in a car accident. Can you do those things today?
Tell me a better person? Matt on seven ninety Matt
who wins the Fantasy five? Who is the worst? List?
All right, well, Matt, you had more unfunny people. Jack
Black and Kevin James.
Speaker 8: Are absolute jackasses, But Ross had the.
Speaker 4: Goat of unfunny comedians. Amy Schumer, her stick is stupid
and old Ross wins.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's two two nothing, it's early, it's come back,
it's early, it's you know, the team's come running back.
You can get four in a row. Hey, the Texans
went one three? See see I can I can do
intertwined sports on this. Mike on seven ninetie Mike who
wins the Fantasy five?
Speaker 6: Ross for me, man, I can't stand Jack Black and
Perry's horrible, but I.
Speaker 8: Would say Jack Black, but man, you got it.
Speaker 3: So Andrew Dice Clay in there. He is very unfunny,
very unfunny. But that he's out in our list. So
who wins?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: You do? Okay, thank you, thank you very much. I
for a one trick pony. Andrew Dice is pretty funny.
I don't listened twice before my time, I didn't really
Nick gury Dick, Gary Doc, and I can't read any
more after that. There was once an old woman and
who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids
her blank fell out. Offer that. Corey on seven ninety
Corey who wins the Fantasy five?
Speaker 4: First of all, y'all both missed out on that ginger
haired hack. Kathy Griffin the most.
Speaker 3: She's not funny either, that's a good as a hack
In Seinfeld, Yes.
Speaker 8: Matt, how dare you?
Speaker 4: Martin Short is an American.
Speaker 3: Legends from Canada. I would rather.
Speaker 4: Listen to my grandparents have sex than listen to Dane Cook.
Speaker 3: So and Martin Short is a Canadian legend, an American legend.
That's fine, all right? Three to one? I win? We
got one vote, no the vote, I win. I'm sorry,
That's what I was trying to say to Well on
seven ninety who wins the Fantasy five?
Speaker 4: Oh it's sad David actually, and it's ross. I mean, amye,
Schumer is the worst.
Speaker 3: So there you go, gotcha, thank you. I think she's
so funny and rose that I couldn't pull the trigger
on that, but I get it, all right. And then well,
last one here Roger on seventy Roger, who who's your
vote for for the Fantasy five?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Man, it's ross, but but you know, Kevin James at
least had some good riding, had good cast and they
had funny moments, whereas Pete Davidson and somebody lost the
bet somewhere with the producer and they had to force
that guy into wherever he's at. Now, all right, that's
all I.
Speaker 3: Got got you. All right, that's way more dominating win
than I thought you were going to get. I like again,
I don't I have a problem with you losing him,
you said, Zach Black, Matt didn't crush you. People people
do two people crush him. People don't like Jack Black Jonathan, Sorry,
they don't. He sucks. I don't know, man, I don't know. Oh,
here we go. Look look at you. You know I
took a lot of hits today.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker lost by Budgie and suck it, Kyle Tucker,
right over it, over.
Speaker 3: It, over again, under sun, terrible snack, right from my throne.
Speaker 2: You fall down and you get back up. Soup weird,
Oh not Champions, baby onions sucking saving the crown, swamp
the call time champ.
Speaker 3: Oh my is back? Oh my god, the winds keep
coming on the Los.
Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers of the Fantasy five, and the crown is mine.
Speaker 3: No Calci says, pay up, b when it comes to
getting some dinner. By the way, I'm gonna give you
some of that.
Speaker 6: We know.
Speaker 3: Who sent the following, you have to guess who it is,
and I don't mind telling this person because you're not
trying to be hiding. It's all right. King of Queens
is the funniest sitcom ever. Wow, Craig Ackerman, I watch
it every night on TV Land And I said, Raheemi,
is that her name? Remedy Leila? No, no, no, no,
not le ram Leah. Remedy is the only region why
I watch And he said, yes, I agree with that,
but the show is hilarious. All right, So we're gonna
spend one minute here what trying to figure out who
said it. It's somebody you and I both know, John McLain,
it is in the sports media industry. And you get
I'll give you. I'll give you ten guesses.
Speaker 6: Ten.
Speaker 3: That means it's way off the board. McTaggart, that's it, Yes,
tags King of Queens. I tried, I tried. It's not bad. No,
it's not it's not good. I will say it was
one of the It was in my after school rotation
with the Simpsons. Seinfeld. You know, you get home from school,
you watch whatever's on at three thirty on Fox or whatever.
It was in my rotation washing you have cartons sometime.
I like, when I was a teenager, I wasn't watching cartoons.
Question question, I was a I was X Men, Okay,
rotation then would be X Men, Ninja, Turtles, Power Rangers.
Here's the difference in Jonathan, turn your your phones off?
My rotation when I was in school. And this is
gonna age me, but it's just I'm just being honest.
What's happening Sanford and Son, good times? Yes, the Jefferson's Okay,
I believe it was a bonanza. No bonanza. Oh it
was a Coldgate hour. No cold Gate. I've heard all
those are good though, So I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna burn you too much. Hey, hey, Classics, you can go.
You can go on me, TV, Simpson Friends, King Queen's. Yeah,
that's why I was watching a lot. Anyways, I won
your Best Your best of your group is Jimmy foun
I just so and Pete David ay Shome. I had
a great list. Tyler Perry. I'm not familiar with his work,
but I know more time I want to hear. It's
where you went wrong? Martin Short, uncompletely unfunny. Amy Poehler,
don't get her at all. Jack Black. You heard people
have disdained for him, Kevin James, King of Queens, King
of Bad, King of boring, mctag's disagrees, and Kevin Hart
again did a nice job on the Brady Roast. But
everything else he's done. I mean, you watched those commercials
with him and doing with him and Lebron. There's no chuckling.
Any movie with him in the Rock not funny. Any
movie with him and Perry not funny. People are chiming in.
Adam Clinton said Chelsea Handler was on my list, but
I did not. I did not pick her. Yeah, I didn't.
I don't know enough of her. Chelsea Handler was on
my list. James Cordon, Carlos Mencia, Andy Dick. Those are
all the people I ended up with a list. Oh, Gordy,
let me let me just tell you why get him? Gordy,
Chris Gordy. School of Rock is a Jack Black classic.
He's right. If Gordy likes I mean, that means I
should have easily won Year one with Michael Sarah's Funny
two and the Mario movie. He's bowser saying Jack Black
is so versatile. I can't believe. Yeah, versatile kind so versatile.
He hasn't twenty years. Same guys even talked about the
fact he didn't work it for twenty years because nobody
thought it was funny. You have to be funny in work.
Maybe the new generations having a little bit new generally,
you mean the in your generation who gets me laugh
every time? I don't know. By the way, I won
the Kyle Tucker bag, Congratulations, you did you know what
you lost? The Fantasy five? Yeah, but we're not talking
about that. We talked about the first four hours. But
Roger's lost up whole stuff. You're seeing the you're living
in the past. Nobody's talking about that. Well, I'll be
talking about this for the future too. In the past.
You ready for the next contract to I'm ready to
do the Crown. Then he'll finally get his twelve year deal.
And uh, hell yeah. Kyle Tucker is up next at
one forty four here on the Matt Thomas should ross
after I tell you about by you want to play
for that, come on in and do so. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. All right, we
got Rockets basketball tonight here on seven ninety we'll start
the bad Boy off at seven point thirty with a
launch pad. Ross Villaret will be your host for that.
And if you missed the conversation with Ima Adoka, you'll
be hearing just about all that.
Speaker 1: Not true.
Speaker 3: Five to six minutes. Oh, I need to what leave
yourself a note? You can go home and take a nap.
I'm gonna do that, but I need to uh alert
rockets pr I'm coming to the game. Oh good, we'll
see at the game. Then. Yeah, you should do an
autograph signing outs on the concourse. Somebody did, and people
who don't normally show up. They just asked me, what's
where section one eighteen? That's actually where we're on broadcast
about it. I don't know. So where I'm ushering, you
are ushering. I used to I ushered a totas and
I think I'm joking, but a lot of times we're
wearing press boxes. It's crazy how often you get asked, Hey,
where's the where's this?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That happened to me when I was the Rangers. I
remember doing playoffs and I've done it. Happened to be
in the Astros. So are you at real fast when
you are sitting at the game in the press area.
Do you like to be left alone or do you
want to talk with fellow people who watch the game.
I don't like chatty Kathy's or people who are being
too loud or making too much noise or talking. No.
I like to watch the game because, especially when you're
at the game, I can't when I'm at home and
I'm gonna do post game, I can pause and rewind
what happened there or what who let the basket cut
go through? And I'll see OHP's opera shingoon those guy
who cuts at the basket. I can't do those things
at the game, so I try to pay more close
attention and take notes and all. So please, if you
remember the media, well legit media and you real media,
and you see Ross, just say hi, how are you doing?
And make sure that all that's done before the game.
Once the game starts. You can talk to you at
halftime too, just as long as or dead balls. It's fine.
But some people just like trying to talk to the
whole game, and like Van Borfleet, I'm trying to watch
the game. You get a half time snack too. Five
minutes left to go in the show Wait Shit Play,
America's fastest growing sports radio game show. Monday through Thursday,
we called it be Leaving or Not, but on Fridays
we call it a hell Year not. Here's how it works.
You'll call seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninetie.
It's today's edition of hell Ye are not? Is all
things about Kyle Tucker the Dodger. I read your saving
about Kyle Staates completely utterly acurate. You'll say this if
the same as Ironie's full of Bunk com minup, you
will say this two hell ye are nuts in a row?
And when you a pair of tickets to see Motley
Crue on their return of the Carnival of Sins Tour
with Tesla in Extreme on September the eleventh at the
Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets are on sale right now at ticketmaster
dot com. My buddy Ed went to college with me,
grew up in high school. Loved him some Tesla. We
listened to Tesla from Houston and Denton one time. As
far as my life, I'll never get back. Sure it's
great groove. Seven one three two point two five seven
ninety jym on seven ninety, Jim, you're ready to play?
Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 9: Hell yeah?
Speaker 4: If I can win about five pair of those tickets
to see Extreme They bit slapped me with them the
phenomenal album my senior year at A and M. I've
been hooked ever since. Let's go, Let's go, Let's go.
Speaker 3: Before being selected by the Astros in the twenty fifteen
MLB Draft, Kyle Tucker was committed to play baseball for
the University of Florida. Believe it or not? Hold on,
excuse me, that's not right. No no, no, no no no,
it's red wrong for Florida State. Florida State is worry.
He committed Florida State. Believe it or helly aa or
not not? That's right. It was Florida. Yeah, my new show.
I tried to trick you, try to trick me. Statement
number two for the win. In twenty fifteen, Baseball American
named Kyle Tucker the best high school baseball player in
the country. Twenty fifteen, Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 5: Hell yeah?
Speaker 3: You're going to the concert? How about that?
Speaker 7: Jim?
Speaker 3: I didn't fight? Oh yeah, atme know whatever? Just take
us one minus you want. Let's go to Steven on
seven Nintie Steve, and you're ready to play? Hell yeah
or not?
Speaker 7: Hell yeah?
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker is naturally right handed, but bat's left handed
because as a youth, he was mimicking his older brother Preston.
Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah, that's right. Statement number
two for the win. Kyle Tucker's one hundred and fifty
three home runs of the eleventh on the ASTROS all
time list, head of Glenn Davis and just behind George Springer.
Hell yeah or not.
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 3: That is right? He is not even in the top ten.
Is one hundred and twenty five glossy four statements, four
correct answers. We got ourselves a mini skunk going right.
New Chris on seven ninety Chris, what was your favorite
part of today's ten to two radio shows? The part
where you got destroyed in the comedian battle? Chris, I
hope you lose. While Kyle Tucker caught the final out
of the twenty twenty two World Series, he threw the
ball in the air and was eventually retrieved and given
to Jim Crane. Hell yeah or not.
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 3: Not yeah? He kept it. I'm really hoping you lose now.
Statement number two for the win. While with the Astros,
Kyle Tucker's stated that Chas McCormick was the teammate he'd
least like to be stranded with on a desert island.
Hell yeah, or not the least one?
Speaker 4: Hell yeah?
Speaker 3: Hell what did he say? I said his fair moment
in the show was when I got destroyed in the
Fantasy five. Oh that's rude, Chris. I hope we give
you terrible tickets. Let's go to this question. Suck six?
Then we got a skunk? Here going six? Correct answers
Brian on seven? And here ready to play? Hell yeah
or not?
Speaker 9: Hell yeah.
Speaker 3: Early in his career, Kyle Tucker did not use batting gloves,
which was a habit which he picked up from his
brother Preston. Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 8: Hell yeah?
Speaker 3: That is correct. Hey, here we go one more, No, no, no, sorry,
one more and one more sorry for us for a
full win. Kyle Tucker's favorite video game growing up was
NBA two K. Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 4: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's a perfect day.
Speaker 1: How do you guess that?
Speaker 3: Anybody guess it's NBA two K. This is making me up.
That's it. We gave away everything we had, no winners
for like two days now. It's everyone yeah, say sorry tomorrow.
I'm sorry, Johnathan. That's it up next, two gentlemen who
loved Tesla. You know what, I retire. You have the
right questions from now on now Monday, our show's already done.
Texans Patriots. You thought the four hours of preview was
good with us, it'll be half as good with Wexler
and Clinton. Talk to you for rockets at eight thirty
on seven Nut