Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: At ten o'clock at h Town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show minus
Ross again.
Speaker 3: Ross to is down.
Speaker 2: The home stretch, sources close to Sports Talk seven ninety.
But today's being a little bit of a shorter show.
We said, you know what, Ross, get one hundred percent healthy.
Matter of fact, I think Ross is going to do
the postgame show tonight, so we are going to put
him to work a little bit today.
Speaker 3: But I figured since it was an opportunity for us
to have a.
Speaker 2: Little intimate visit between you and me, as the show
only goes to eleven and fifty five tonight or this morning,
I should say we I thought, you know what, get
some extra rest and get ready to talk up the
Rockets against the Sacramento Kings. And that is indeed what's
happening inside Tota Center tonight. It's a busy Houston sports
day as the Astros will be taking their opponent today
in Fort it I think it's in Jupiter's where they
are Astro spring training. And yes, we're going to carry
today's game right here live on Sports Talk seven ninety
and we will be carrying many of the games live
for you here on seven and including today's game and
then tomorrow's game. It is a twelve to ten first
pitch between the Astros and the Marlins, and Hunter Brown
will make his start today for the local nine. So
if you are a Hunter Brown fan and you're an
Astro fan, you want to keep it right here and
dialed in to Sports Talk seven ninety all right, since
we have a shorter show, we only have one thing
scheduled today, and then, of course is a Wednesday staple
of this program, and that is shit your bom as
a mat and I just don't and also you know,
but I got time for that, so we'll do that
at eleven thirty. It's a little bit of a shorter
edition of that because again the show ends at eleven
fifty five. It since it's just me and a little
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I mentioned rockets are taking on at the Kings tonight
the Kings absolutely suck.
Speaker 3: The Rockets need to get another victory.
Speaker 2: It is helping out that the La Lakers lost last night,
so the Rockets are trying to separate themselves even further
from the likes of Denver and the Lakers in the
Western Conference. The team to beat the Lakers the Orlando Magic,
and that'll be the team that the Rockets will be
seeing tomorrow in Orlandos. I'll take this show to Central
Florida tomorrow for the program.
Speaker 3: So a back to back again for the Rockets.
Speaker 2: Still six back to backs left to go in the
rest of the season, which is just crazy because we're
down to like less than I don't know, we get
thirty games left to go something like that. Still a
lot of back to backs before the end of the
year of it. So if you want to chime in
and talk some astros baseball, you can do that as well.
I want to give you a couple of astronotes and
then come from our friend Brian mctagger, because I'm assuming
that many of you are settling for this radio show, Joe,
and then ultimately we'll be listening to Hunter Brown make
his debut.
Speaker 3: Let me give you a few things, Uh, remember that.
Speaker 2: Remember yesterday, Jonathan, how upset we were when the Astros
were down five nothing to the Mets and Jason Alexander sucked.
It was the curse of Gordy. Did not Chris Gordy
yesterday at about ten forty five say I got a
sneaky guy who may make the rotation? Yeah, Jonathan, I
should say Jason Alexander. I always want to get Jonathan Alexander.
That's the Chronicle writer. Jason Alexander did himself absolutely no
favors by not surviving the first inning. But the Astros
came back.
Speaker 4: I called it.
Speaker 5: You didn't call anyth Did you really call it? I
was telling you elseay, we could still come back, We
can still come back. Maybe it was just more of reassurance.
Speaker 2: But you know, all right, Hasky, this when you left
the office yesterday, you didn't pay attention to one bit
of the Astros game.
Speaker 4: I thought we lost. I'm not gonna lie. See.
Speaker 2: I love the weak part of you. You grow up
as tro fan, you can say we.
Speaker 4: Yeah see Texans.
Speaker 5: I gotta stop saying that because I'm not a texting fan,
but Astros and Rockets I'm moday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You unfortunately it's this La Charger fan thing, which is
really odd from California.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it. So yeah, if you didn't know, the
Astros tied the Mets at six six and then like
we're done. Here is something that I saw from mctagger
that I thought was awesome, which is very helpful, I
think for Astro fans and especially those that would like
to see changes in sports when it comes to instant replay,
the ABS, the automatic ball strike system. We know the
challenges you can have. You have two per game, and
as long as you keep winning the challenges, you get
to keep the challenges, which I think is awesome. The
Astros yesterday were six first six on ABS.
Speaker 3: That makes me very happy. But at the.
Speaker 2: Same time, should we be alarmed if one team got
six calls wrong and had corrected six times? Now, I
know it's just the spring training, not to be confused
with it's just the preseason, but it's just the spring training.
But you got umpires blowing six calls on one side.
I don't even know how the Mets did with theirs
man ABS. You could not have come fast enough. But
congratulations to Joe Espada and the hitters and the catcher
and whoever else not named pictures. It said, you know what,
we are not going to have the pictures do it.
We'll let the other guys do it. The guys I
don't know, the catchers that are right behind home plate
make that call six for six.
Speaker 3: I love that. So that was interesting.
Speaker 2: Note number one, as the Astros are gain with the
comeback kids of spring training and we're able to get
the six to six time other things from McTaggart. Three
Great Fruit League games. It's just the spring training, it's
just the Greape Fruit League. The Astros have drawn twenty
nine walks. Well, if you're not gonna slug i e.
The outfield, you draw walks. I think when we were
left the air yesterday, Cam Smith had drawn two of them.
Speaker 3: So that's good.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine walks in three games. They all count the same.
They're ninety feet now. They're not big home runs. They're
not slugging doubles to the corners or into the alleys.
But walks can turn into runs too. Matter of fact,
I want to say the Astros did score a run
before we left yesterday by loan on the basis thanks
to walking. Then Zach Cole, our favorite left fielder got
hit by a pitcher driving a run. Just the start
of things, since the Astros overcame a five nothing deficit
to tie the spring training Ports Saint Lucy's showdown six
to six, A couple of the things from mctag worthy
of pushing along. Uh Emi is going to start tomorrow
for the Mets or verse the Mets, I should say,
Korea and Walker will also make their spring training debuts.
Lance mccullors will start against the Nationals, where Josel Tuve
will make his start first start of the spring as well.
Remember Jeremy Pingia playing a lot early on because the
WBC is going to start up in a couple of
weeks and they want to get as many at bats
in for as an astro before he goes in place
with the WBC. All right, other things going on in
the world of sports. It's not a super heavy day, honestly.
The NFL combine is underway in Indianapolis, where I don't
know if y'all know this or not, And again I'm not
a combine watcher, but I like the press conference.
Speaker 3: I'd like to see if people say funny.
Speaker 2: Things or starry to try something different or something controversial
comes out of it. But the thing that gives I
think people false hope about the combine is that anybody
that's there that gets on a podium, some dufest member
of the Houston media or any other media of the
other town says, what would be like if you played
for the Panthers, What would be like if you played
for the Texans? How would you like to be a
forty nine er? How great would it be to be
an LA Charger? What do you expect these guys, these
kids to say? Oh, hell no, I'm not playing for
the Lions, No chance, no way, Miami member, would you
like to come to Florida? I'm playing for the Dolphins. Nope,
I don't like them at all. I don't like the
new coach. I don't think to a tack of below
is pretty good. I have no interest. Of course, they're
gonna say all the right things. It's almost like, you
know what you should do if you really want to
find out who a savvy football player is at these
combine interviews, you should pepper them with trivia questions, like
you going to get talking to a running back that
may be up for a Texans draft spot. Hey, John
Jones can you name the Texans wide receiving corps? Hey
John Jones, what running back to the Texans had that
allegedly well, not allegedly. He didn't play this year, but
allegedly may have gotten shot in the foot.
Speaker 3: Not an insider.
Speaker 2: It just sounds much better to talk about a shot
foot than it does anything else.
Speaker 3: That's what you do.
Speaker 2: That's how you really know a guy wants to play
for your team if he's done some due diligence. But
to go up and say to have you know, Seattle reporter,
how cool to be to play for the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Oh man, it'd be awesome play for the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: Get a chance to play for Super Bowl contending team.
Speaker 3: That'd be the best thing ever. Well, of course it would.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'd actually applaud it one time if a player
went up on the ponium and said, you know, I'm
with the New York media here, and how would you
like to play for the Giant to Jets, No, thank you,
I want them to pick anybody but me.
Speaker 3: I'm not interested.
Speaker 2: I don't like to New York weather, I don't like
the higher tax bracket, I don't like the coaching staff
and by the way the Giants and Jets have sucked
for a better part of ten years. No thanks, That
to me would be more respectful than going yeah, I
can't wait to play for in an insert team. These
are little quirky things that I find in NFL combine
talk as far as what they do in running and
how many passes are thrown, or how many reps somebody
does on a bench, or what they look like in
T shirt and underwear. I'll let those NFL general managers
hand that handle that and all. By the way, speaking
to general managers, the comment from Nicki Cassario yesterday talking
about how moronic it was for the CJ. Stroudrummers to
go and go creet crazy out there, well, of course
they did. One person that's got a national name brought
up the fact that he would be surprised if teams
were kicking tires on veteran quarterbacks, and he happened to
just mentioned Cjay Stroud. So instead of it being it
is what it is is just a blanket statement by
a blanket football guy, it became all the Texans are
moving along there, maybe trying some things. Think about it
for a second. We kept saying this over and over again.
If you're a dufist radio host spend in hour's talking
about where CJ. Stroud might go go to and would
you get in return, you gotta be ashamed of yourself.
Take it for what it was, and it was one
random dude saying it. But do you really think, folks,
if CJ. Stroud was up for trade conjecture that it
would be just one person saying it, You'd have everybody
and their mother saying things. You'd have agents of other
players saying it. You may even have a David Mulgatta going,
why are the Texans throwing my client's name out there?
Speaker 3: None of that.
Speaker 2: I want?
Speaker 3: And maybe we're just maybe the media. You know what
we are. We're not very bright.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna take one little thing and just roll
it because we have nothing else to do. And hopefully
we don't do that on this show. But you know what,
we're all guilty of things occasionally on that. But I
just thought it was very funny that Nick Cassario could
have said, no, I don't believe there's none of that
going on. He wanted to make sure he got the
dig in and say moronic. Are there people around this
world of ours that are in media that had the
opportunity to have a microphone in their hand, or at
least go on their YouTube channels and say, man, I
was a moron for even thinking this.
Speaker 3: Look, I ain't.
Speaker 2: Perfect on sports taks. I think I'm bad about seven twenty, seven,
forty whatever. I liked to bat nine fifty.
Speaker 3: But I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't go perfect. But I didn't buy it from
the start. I ain't buying it now. I ain't buying
it a long term future. Cej strad to be irresponsible
to do that. Even the Texans aren't even doing that.
But the thing there was even a serious conversation about
it is preposterous, and hopefully you thought the exact same thing.
Ten thirteen, you know the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: Did you say something, sir? I want to know what's
big city?
Speaker 6: We do?
Speaker 2: We're in a big city here it He's ten eighteen
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Ross has the day off.
Keep it back to help you back tomorrow. I'll be
with you from or Orlando. Ross not. I guess he's getting
over the last little symptoms of the flu. Flu kicks
your ass. It just does. I always tell anybody that
has a flu. Take your time and don't spread it.
This flu is spreadable, right, you can spull the proof
fluid to people. Very yeah, very very very contagious. Okay,
I'll stay far away from him. That's why I'm going
to Orlando, Florida. Then be far away from him. I'm
worried about you, John. I don't knowed you getting sick,
because you already got the sniffles earlier this week.
Speaker 5: I found better though I'm in a little studio, you know,
taking some medicine.
Speaker 3: I'm a right, but Chel said that we should tell
folks that that's study.
Speaker 5: The journey is usually about forty eight degrees, maybe maybe
thirty two, is that right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: In free gust bad All right?
Speaker 2: Uh, we gotta shut your ball mass up at eleven
thirty today and then we'll be out at eleven fifty five.
Before we get you to Astros, we're gonna play some
audio at ten thirty that came from an NBA podcast
and it involves a former Houston athlete. And frankly, you're
going to hear this and then you're going to say
I work with someone just like that. That's all I'm
going to say. But I'm going to tell you it's
going to be something that is going to be I mean,
on the disgusting scale, it's probably about a six or seven,
but it's relatable to almost every one of you. So
we'll have that coming up for you in about ten
minutes from now. UH seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one on three two one two
five seven nine zero. As I mentioned, the Rockets are
gonna take on the Sacramento Kings tonight. Houston will try
to continue to hold out of the third spot in
the Western Conference.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you caught this.
Speaker 2: We talked very briefly about it yesterday, but Kevin Durant
says he wants to play for the Olympic team UH
in two years, which I think is a positive sign
for the Rockets because even though he did sign a
two year extension, and even though the money is going
to be spectacular for a guy that'll be thirty eight
and thirty nine years old, first of all, he'd be
not guaranteed a spot with I don't know, could you
imagine being the USA Basketball telling Kevin Durant, we don't
need you. He's gonna find out being a top five
scorer in the history of the NBA, and he's slowing
down a little bit. Bettern ain't much still scoring on
twenty six points a game, he said, a boatload of
thirty point games with the team. I mean he wakes
up with at least fourteen or fifteen points before tip time.
But I would say that if he wants to keep
doing that, if he wants to play and go for
another gold medal, which he's got a pluthea of them already,
that's encouraging that he wants to maintain his level of
excellence for his primary job as the power forward for
the Houston Rockets. So not only would I like to
see him do that, it'll be again he'll be thirty
nine or forty years old when that comes into play,
but that will also mean he's going to want to
keep his body and his wit, in his mind and
his attention to what is in front of him, and
that is hopefully leading the Rockets to a championship in
the next couple of years. So even though he was
downplaying and saying I know, I you know, I don't
even know if I got a guaranteed spot. If you're
Kevin Durai, you got a guaranteed spot. I had the
great fortune, for those of you that don't know, I
had a chance to be the PA announcer would They
hired four of us to work in Atlanta in nineteen
was it ninety six? It was the second Dream Team,
And honestly, I don't remember every member of that team.
I can barely remember any of them. Honestly. It was
also thirty years ago. God has it been thirty years?
Oh my god, it's been thirty years. So get up,
I know, don't. I don't need you ad sound effects,
So let me peel the curtain back a little bit.
So in nineteen ninety five, when the Rockets won the
second Championship, they went to play in the World Championships.
They represented the NBA against a bunch of international teams
in London, and the folks in London said, hey, can
you bring your PA announcer with you to London to
work these nineteen ninety six NBH these World Championship. They
said you want to go? I said, oh, hell yeah,
I want to go. So I was going to go
just to do the PA for just the USA Games.
They wind up they wound up hiring me to do
all the PA for every game that was there. So
I would do USA versus say, China, or I would
do Turkey versus Canada, and then I would do an
Australian game versus.
Speaker 3: I mean, I worked my ass off.
Speaker 2: I went for like seven or eight days, and I
think I had one day of sightseeing while I was
in London, which is one day too many because those
people are rude. Guy on a double duck or bus
called me an a hole. I guess I was not
polite enough to him. You know, they called me mister
polite Jonathan. You know these things, right. So I worked
my ass off for this USA world, this World Championships
in London, and those same people that ran that tournament
called me and said, hey, do you want to go
and be one of the PA announcers for the US
for the basketball at the Georgia Dome at the time,
which is where the Falcons played, And now it's gone
because it's they've built a new stadium.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, hell yeah, I am.
Speaker 2: So. I spent a month in Atlanta in nineteen ninety
six doing a bunch of all the Olympic PA games.
Now I think I only did two USA games because
I think I was the youngest of the four p announcers,
and I had the less skins on the wall than
anybody else did.
Speaker 3: So I did. I want to say I did, men
and women, but I'm not. I don't.
Speaker 2: Again, it's been thirty years. But that was a great
experience for me doing that too, as I was able
to be there. But and it just and I'm trying
to circle back to this on the Olympics stuff here.
Even though I did not watch much of the Winter
Olympics because it's just not my thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, ratings have been really good.
Speaker 2: The ratings for the USA gold medal game with Canada
was awesome, even though it was in an early morning
for most of the country. I would tell you this,
and again, it's been thirty years since I've gone. It's
a once in a lifetime experience just to be able
to go to anything. So I know there's a big
raffle that they're going to be giving out and they've been.
You can go to the USA website to say, hey,
I want to secure tickets for Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: And I've done it.
Speaker 2: My wife has done it, my kids have done it,
my friends have done it, my friend's friends of kids, friends.
Speaker 3: Have done it.
Speaker 2: If you can get to La somehow, some way, if
you're a big sports fan, especially if you're a big
Olympics fan, it is absolutely worth it because there's something
special about rooting for people you've never met before or
had no idea what they did two or three months ago,
but they got those letters across the chest that just
makes you go crazy, and that those letters are USA.
Speaker 3: And look, there's a lot of security. It does not.
Speaker 2: You just don't walk in like you knew with most
supporting events because obviously they want to make sure there's
nothing in terms of you know, security or terroristic threats,
because that's unfortunately these world events sometimes have that. And
obviously I was involved in that a small way when
the bomb went off in Centennial Olympic Plaza in nineteen
ninety six in Atlanta. I wasn't there, but you know
my point on this, But if you can get the
time off and you can save up some money and
your kiddy to go to something like that, especially if
you love the Olympics on television, to be able to
see it in Los Angeles, I think would well be
worth it. But it's just I was just thinking about
when Kevin Durant was talking about, you know, he wants
to do this one more time. It is awesome because
you have the greatest basketball players on earth that are
all assembled on one team, and you're like, how old
world can anybody beat them? And for the most part,
nobody has. So if you're a basketball officionado, to be
able to see Kevin Durant on the same floor as
Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3: Is amazing.
Speaker 2: To have Lebron James addishing the ball off to you know,
anybody else that's that's a great NBA player, it's a
you know, a USA player. Get something else. To have
Jalen Brunson running point, throwing the ball deep down low
to I don't know, I mean maybe a Men Thompson.
You never know, Man, Men could very easily become an Olympian.
So I'm glad that Kevin wants to do it. I'm
glad that Kevin thinks he can do it. And by
Kevin thinking that he can do it, that means he's
gonna try, hopefully give it his all for at least
the next couple of years. Wearing a Houston Rocket uniform
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All right, I'm gonna tell you about Dwight Howard.
Speaker 3: I never called Dwight Howard's.
Speaker 2: Games as a rocket, so that was actually a little
bit before my time, but I was and I covered him.
We talked about him a lot on the show, and remember,
do you remember those of you that are OG fans
of the show. The first ever update of the show
was the Dwight Howard update because people kept trying to
figure out where he was going to go, and that
was the first significant, at least in the last fifteen
or twenty years, free agent that said, you know what,
I'm going.
Speaker 3: To leave my team and come join you in Houston.
Speaker 2: There was there was trades, obviously, there were you know,
releasing of players and guys you know that maybe towards
the back half of their career, but this was a
prime opportunity for a guy who was still had everything
left in the tank to come be a dominant player
for the Houston Rockets. So when Dwight Howard came here,
it was a super big deal because so many teams
recording him in Dallas and Lakers and other teams were involved,
but he chose Houston and it kind of got things
started for Houston becoming a better destination not only for
the Rockets, but for other baseball teams and football teams. Now. Granted,
at the end of the day, it was about the money.
It always is, but you know, there were so many
times that Houston was on the outside look at Anyon
when it came to free agents, that it was really
awesome when Dwight Howard signed here and things with him
and James didn't necessarily mesh as well as you would
have liked, and then he moved on. Well, one of
his former coaches was on a podcast I guess it
was the day before. It was hosted by Chandler Parsons,
another former Houston Rocket who decided he wanted to go
to greener pastors in Dallas and it didn't work out
well for him. He went to Memphis and got hurt
and didn't play well either. In Chandler Parson's career after
he left the Houston Rockets was never the same. He
made a lot of money, but it was never the same. Well,
Dwight Howard is probably not going to enjoy hearing what
was asked by Chandler Parsons and his podcast team to
his former coach, stan Van Gundy now coach.
Speaker 7: My last question during that time in that team, I
got an inside source and I needed to confirm this
of his chores that said she used to get pissed
at Dwight Howard during her pregame speeches because he would
just constantly FARTI trying to get the guys going confirm
or denying.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 8: You know, I would confirm.
Speaker 2: Actually I knew d I.
Speaker 4: Knew it was true, disgusting and awesome.
Speaker 8: Dwhite could goofer around and have fun. And I remember
having a talk with him once and I said, Dwight,
I need you to be more serious, you know, when
we're preparing. And he said, Stan, I've got it all.
I know what you're saying. I said, and he did.
Dwight's by far the smartest big guy I've ever coached,
I mean, and it was part of his greatness. And
I said, no, no, I know you've got it, but
then you're distracting these other guys in Moore on what's
going on. And Dwight understood that and things started to change.
But you know, he was just a fun, loving guy.
But he never got enough credit to meet because he
was out there all the time, played through injuries, I mean,
until he had the major back injury my last year
in Orlando. The guy was playing eighty two games every year.
And you guys know that's back in the days when teams.
Speaker 4: Practice, yeah, real practice.
Speaker 8: Practice, every day practice and Dwight never. I mean we
would try to get him on the side some in
practice and he wouldn't do it. Like I would put
Gor Todd on the same team as him so Dwight
could get some rest. And Dwight was always pulling Goar
Todd out. Love to play, love to compete, love to practice.
I mean, just a great player and a great competitor.
And that's what I don't think he got enough credit
for Bud.
Speaker 3: He broke win quite a bit.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask the uncomfortable question, how do you
folks handle that at work? If you work with coworkers
that have that issue as well. Now, Jonathan, you as
the producer of the show, don't have to handle such
issues because you're in your own room right.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be open and honest with you. Okay,
I've come in your studio before and have never had
to worry about that with you.
Speaker 3: So I applaud you for that.
Speaker 4: I no, thank you.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: You're welcome.
Speaker 2: But I believe crop dusting in the workspace is I
don't know. I've never had a desk job before, so
I can't speak to it. But could you imagine just
for a second, folks, Stan van Gundy is on the
white marker board or on the chalkboard, or he's showing
a video of the opponent, or showing a play that
he wants drawn up, and Dwight Howard at seven feet tall.
Speaker 3: Breaking wind m.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, Johnathan, there's a lot of protein, a
lot of food, a lot of cars. You know, those
guys got to eat seven eight thousand calories a day
because they're running up and down the court a lot.
Do you think Stan stopped the conversation midway through it
and said, all right, who did it? Is that what
you do?
Speaker 3: Or do you just go that's Dwight being Dwight.
Speaker 5: Now, because the question was did you get pissed off?
And it definitely he's confirmed it, so he definitely had
to say something while happened.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, just pretend all of you for a second
that aren't driving. Close your eyes for a second. If
you're driving, don't close your eyes, keep your eyes open.
And you are driving around town and you're listening, and
you're pretending you're in a locker room with coach Van
Gunding and you're getting ready for this game, and all
of a sudden you just have to stop what you're
doing because of the noise. It's childish, but I can
see it be an issue because if you're trying to
he was trying to, I mean, he obviously didn't feel
well and or he was trying to be hilarious.
Speaker 3: And there is time to be kidding around. There's times
to be joking around.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to assume the stamp bank gunny's trying
to teach something to his guys about a play he
wants drawn up, or a defense he wants to strategize with,
that's not exactly the best.
Speaker 3: Time to do it.
Speaker 2: So for as great of a rebounder as Dwight Howard was,
as a shot blocker, as a guy that hit everything
within five feet now, he was not much of an
outside shooter at all, was not a very good free
throw shooter. He'll also be known for other things in
his life, and that is in the most important times
of a practice or a pregame meeting, before you're ready
to really break down the game and get into the action,
he's cropped dustin. You have somebody at your work that
does it too, and if you want to tell them
to shut theirn I guess it would be not I
guess literally it would be Jonathan Wouvich literally shutting their
bomb ass up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the action nothing. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to get into a deep dive
of how you guys handled it work. But if you
want to send me a tweet, you can tell me
at sports empty or if you going to send me
an email MT at Sports seven eight dot com. I
thankfully don't have that issue. Ross's gas is contained largely
mine is as well. We have restrooms down the hall
if we have to so do things.
Speaker 3: But man, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I'm glad Stan is so jovial about it, but
I'd be mad, like, come on, can you give it
a rest? Thank you Stan for admitting one of the
flaws of Dwight Howard's game while I was a professional player.
Bab Why Dwight Howard going to the Hall of Fame, right,
I think is what he's going to I think I
think I saw that when he was when he came here, Oh,
we were going crazy. Do you'll remember that that was
early in the history of this show. I mean, it's
gotta be fifteen years ago. A free agent really came
to Houston and it's Dwight freaking Howard, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna pair him up with James Harden.
Speaker 2: We're gonna win championships until him and James.
Speaker 3: Didn't get along.
Speaker 2: Then we got Chris Paul, Then we got Russell Westbrook,
and then we went and got John Wall for a
while until that broke apart. And thankfully James is doing
his fine things with four of the teams since then,
and Kevin Durant scorn and doing the things he was
supposed to do when he got here via the trade
last year. From Phoenix seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. I don't expect you to comment on
what you just heard, but sometimes you gotta just point
out stories that uh don't hit the front page of
your websites. Seven one three two one two five seven
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see what it's like on U sload Sports Day ten
forty nine. The Matt Thomas Showood Ross Brosford back with
is tomorrow. I'll be in Orlando to uh see the
Rockets against the Magic. First things first, the Rockets will
take on the Sacramento Kings. Can I tell you something
that has bothered me, and I don't know why it does,
because I'm a fan of this form of entertainment and
I know the answer to this because there's a promotional
relationship between the two groups. But if you put on
ESPN for any length of time, and maybe people aren't
doing this as much, but I mean, if you're gonna
go to a TV channel and you're gonna really watch something.
Because the reason why I'm bringing this up now is
because this is happening right now as we speak on
ESPN in my office. Cody Rhodes is a WWE wrestler.
There's an event, a pay per view event called the
Elimination Chamber this weekend, and he's obviously there to promote it. Now,
the show he's on now is more about entertainment, not
necessarily breaking down sports. It's Steven A. Smith's show, so
you're not gonna get any real breakdown of anything there.
Speaker 3: But ESPN.
Speaker 2: Is treating the WWE like it's a sport. And as
much as I love wrestling, especially when I was a kid,
I don't like the current stuff now because it's not
relatable to me. I like to listen to podcasts of
some of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up,
But I was also twelve and thirteen years old when
I thought it was real. It's not real, But ESPN
will treat it like they're breaking it down like it's
an NCAA tournament basketball game.
Speaker 3: I know, we don't want to. I just don't get
it's on Thursday.
Speaker 2: But when did ESPN all of a sudden decide to
give the same integrity watch towards talking about WWE stuff
and they do when they're talking about the NBA or
the or the Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: Now they don't care because ESPN isn't is in the
business of making money and having viewers, and obviously they
feel like that putting on WWE wrestlers maybe gets them
a different audience that maybe wouldn't be normally watching Sports Center.
But they again, if you want to say, hey, we've
got these wrestlers coming on, you got to check out
this vary. I mean, they've had celebrities on, they've had
actors on before. That's not out of the ordinary for ESPN.
But like on this past weekend, I was I don't
know what city I was in, or maybe I was got home.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know it was. It was Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Sunday night they had the closing ceremonies on of the
Winter Olympics. And what did ESPN have on to combat that?
The rebroadcast the Royal Rumble. That's not a sporting event,
that is our that was predetermined. It's acting.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 2: If you want to say ESPN presents this presentation of
this form of entertainment, I guess that makes sense to me.
But every time I turn on ESPN, and I do
because look, it's got all the things.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, ESPN is the it is the easy, low hanging
fruit to beat up on because of some of the
editorial decisions. But when they broadcast games and they put
on you know, basketball or football, older baseball, they do
a good job, generally speaking, and there's really no competition.
FS one tries to, but they're not gonna eat be close.
I mean, ESPN just has way too much firepower over
anything FS one does. But they legitimately have these serious
conversations with these guys on and they're trying to break
down how this guy's gonna do against this guy, or
who's gonna win this match. Brah, it's already predetermined. It's
like one of my favorite college basketball football announcers, Joe Tessitour,
he works for he works for ESPN, does their college
football games, he does boxing, and he's also one of
the announcers for the WWE. And he's up on this
stage and he's sitting there like he's breaking down a
debate between Trump and the next candidate for the presidency.
Speaker 3: It's just odd.
Speaker 2: And again, maybe it's because ESBN has to transform itself
into something different, but I can't imagine twenty years ago,
with all the other things going on in the world
of sports, even today, that unless there was some sort
of promotional attachment to it, which obviously there is between
SPN WWE, that they would have to give it the
time of day. Because thirty and forty years ago, when
I was growing up loving wrestling, nobody gave wrestling the
time of day because they knew what it was. You
had superheroes and trunks using legal objects and throwing dusts
on people, but that wasn't sport.
Speaker 3: It was entertainment.
Speaker 2: Except to me twelve years old, I was scared the
death of scandrect bar Kamala the again a giant. I
hated Jim Cornett because he were he was his minnine
Express were being at my rock and Roll Express. But
that's a different issue for a different time.
Speaker 3: I think it's.
Speaker 2: Odd, but you know what what you have to do.
And I'm doing this as a sports broadcaster and you
guys are probably doing this as sports consumers. You gotta
just change the times a little bit. And you got
to realize that just getting into the nuts and bolts
of a particular sports topic, it just isn't going to
cut it like you used to. Just like the second
way just put a minute ago the podcast, when would
you have ever asked about to stan Van Gundy, about
Kevin about to Dwight Howard in his.
Speaker 3: Interesting ways to interrupt conversation. You wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Because what we've done in twenty twenty six, and it's
been going this way for a long time, is we
just don't really particularly care too much about the x's
and o's anymore.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: If there's something happened to just happen yesterday or is
going to happen tonight, that's different. Like if we're talking
about a Game seven of a Rockets playoff series, you
guys are hopefully calling the show saying, hey, how are
we gonna do this?
Speaker 3: How are we gonna do that?
Speaker 2: Or if the Astros are about to play an important
three game series against Seattle to determined first place in
American League West, or the Texans just finished playing a
game against Chiefs, you'll be ready to call and discuss it.
But other than that, we as sports fans tend to
let these things slip pretty easily, and we find other
things to get to and thenk it's what the ESPNS trying.
Maybe I'm answering my own question that you just can't
spend a whole lot of time talking about what happened
yesterday when people tend to forget about it pretty quickly.
All right, we are a one hour in the books.
We've got to shut your ball mass up coming up
at eleven thirty today seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. If you want to chime in seven
one three two one two five seven ninety, some Astro
notes will get to the top of the hour. The
Rockets play the Kings tonight and more from the Combine
at Indianapolis, where teams are looking at players and asking
questions and trying to figure out who to draft. If
you had a chance to whisper in Nick Cassero's ear.
It's offensive lineman in the first round, right, or am
I missing something? Seven one three two one two five
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with you for another hour before Astro Spring Training baseball.
Here on seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
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seven Ainty. We have Hunter Brown making his Astros spring
training debut. You'll hear it right here on the Sports
Talk seven ninty and we've gotten that coming up in
about fifty five minutes from now. First pitch will be
at twelve ten. We'll have the games for you tonight
and the day and Thursday and then Friday, Uh, they
play an evening game. I think. So we'll have a
daytime based for you for daytime baseball for you today
and tomorrow, and I will be in Orlando tomorrow after
the Rockets hopefully beat up on the Sacramento Kings tonight.
Houston in the third spot in the Western Conference again
seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety. Astros'
got a six to six tie yesterday with the New
York Matts after being down five to nothing. So all
the negativity we had earlier on long gone because things
are going right there. Astros did it in terms of positivity.
Were six for six on ABS calls yesterday. I think
you guys are gonna love it. I'm looking forward to
it big time. That's an automatic ball strike, six challenges,
six correct answers. Also, according to Brian mctagger, twenty nine
walks have been drawn so far for the Astros in
spring training, which means there's a good eye, which is
very encouraging on that. And then a couple other game
notes for you. EMI is going to start tomorrow for
the against the Mets. Carlos Korea and Christian Walker will
make his their spring training debuts, and then Friday against
the Nationals, Lance mccullors will make his first spring start
with jose L Tuvey in the lineup for the very
first time. As far as the Astros line up today
that you would care about, Jake Myers is going to
playing back in center field today. Get was Cam Smith yesterday,
Taylor Trammell's gonna be in left field today. The DH
is going to be yan Air Diaz, So obviously the
running program is okay and good enough for him to
be able to do that, so we'll look forward to
seeing him. Wickham, Sullivan, Winkler, Saco, Yanick, that's the first
round pick up a couple of years ago, the catcher
from Sam Houston State, and then Day I don't know
who that is plays first base, and then Hunter brownlo pitch.
So that's some of the things you want to pay
attention to as the Astros play that spring training game
coming up in fifty five minutes from now. I mentioned
the Rockets are going to take on the Sacramento Kings tonight.
Sacramento ending a sixteen game losing streak with a victory
over Memphis a couple of days ago. So the Rockets. Well,
hopefully we'll be able to get a second straight win
and to get on the road. They've got some winnable
games coming up. Orlando is okay. They did beat the
Lakers last night in Los Angeles. You've got Orlando, Miami,
and Washington on a three game road trip after tonight's
home game. Rockets tonight are a thirteen and a half
point favorite at home. The Kings are thirteen and forty six.
The Rockets are thirty five and twenty one. As far
as news headlines the day, not a whole lot. As
I mentioned a couple of times, and I'm sure many
of you know by now, the NFL's Sconting Combine is
going on in Indianapolis, will be there for a few
days where all the draft picks go up there and
talk about how they want to play for each one
of the thirty two NFL teams over there. They're probably
lying to you and they don't want to play for
five or six. One of the things that was quickly
dispelled yesterday was the thought that cjstri was a trade chip. Again,
that was completely erroneous, and as Nick Cassiro said yesterday,
that was moronic. I Rapaport, who I think for the
time being works for the NFL Network. You know ESPN
owns that now, so I don't know what's going to
happen with his job. He was kind of talking about
whether or not he was gonna be resigned. He didn't
bother me. Will my life be okay without Ian Rappaport's reports?
Speaker 3: My guess is yes.
Speaker 2: I guess is the Ian rap Report's been around long
enough that he knows that he's going to be able
to get a job, whether it's staying with NFL Network
or going to ESPN or doing something else. But he
was on one of their NFL shows yesterday and that
kind of gave us an update on what CJ. Stroud
is doing right now in the Texans offseason.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and the quarterback, who's the team leader, who has
done it right, who has Nick Caseius that has bounced
back and responded to every situation in as positive a
way as possible. He's out in California now working on
his game, honing his game and trying to get back
to the level of play that he had as a
rookie and certainly at times last year as well. You're right,
the question really isn't Is c J. Stroud going to
be the Houston Texas quarterback?
Speaker 2: He is?
Speaker 10: Is he going to be the elite, elite franchise guy
that you have literally no choice but to pay. And
the fact that they don't have a firm one hundred
percent answer, the fact that the contract extension may Mike
wait until next year.
Speaker 2: That is okay because what we've learned.
Speaker 10: Including from Sam Darnold who just won the Super Bowl,
sometimes it takes a little bit of time for a
quarterback to figure out what they are and what we
are going to see. And I think for cd Stroud
that is what is on him this offseason to see
how good he can be.
Speaker 2: Hmm, all right, again, I don't want to go sentence
by sentence here on this, but I'll say that I
appreciate the fact that he's working out, that he's in
California working on his game. I mean it'd be better
than saying, well, he's on a beach in Mexico and
has not been seen for months.
Speaker 3: I mean, that makes kind of sense that he's doing that.
Speaker 2: But the reality is, and unless I'm missing something about this,
is that he's only going to get better when the
lights are on right. I mean, if he's throwing in
on a high school field with a couple of his bros.
Than are receivers with nobody, with no pads on, no shells,
no pass rush. I mean, is that going to all
of a sudden change who he is? I guess the
answer is it can't get worse, right. He's probably not
in California developing more bad habits. He is a guy
that is saying, look, I know what I did wrong
in those games against Pittsburgh New England, and maybe whatever
I can do to stay sharp in the off season
will help me get back into good graces and have
a better training camp. I can't, but we're sitting here
in late February. They don't put the pads on and
really get after it until middle of the late July.
So I would say this, I'm happy that he's doing
that again. He could be running around doing forty different
podcasts and going on fifteen or seventeen different vacations to
Japan and Malaysia, and you could be going to the
Titi and all that, and people are like, do you
really care about your craft? I mean, he's doing, for
sure the absolute right thing, but the one thing I
don't think we can say is I don't think guaranteed
success right now, in this time of year, is going
to all of a sudden be different, is going to
make it give us a different results, unless he's learning something,
unless he is spending an hour in front of a
television a couple of days a week, or two hours
a week in front of him on her saying hey,
oh what did I do there? What did I see?
What can I do differently? I think, And this will
be a topic that will continue to be discussed for
months and months and months until they start playing real
games again in September.
Speaker 3: Will be.
Speaker 2: Is he happy with the people protecting him in front
of him? Is he building trust with a receiving corps
not named Nico Collins? And obviously he had that with
Tank Dell, But Tank's been going now for entire season.
And whether Tank comes back that's a mystery. If he
does come back, it'll be great. But again I've said
it kind of a handful of times.
Speaker 3: I'm not for.
Speaker 2: Sure that this is the guy that's not gonna be
battling injuries for his entire career because of his frame,
and does he trust his own instincts? And does he
trust the field in which he's playing on, and does
he trust the fact that he is in a situation
where he's had multiple concussions during his NFL career, and
is that something that's going to bother him in the
back of his mind. It would do that, It would
do all that for me if I was him. I'm
not blaming him if his hesitation in his in his mind.
But if you have hesitation, then maybe this is the
time that you get you try to get rid of that.
But if he you know, he should given a clean slate,
He should be doing the little things to try to
erase the memories of the last year. And it's not
And it's maybe like, maybe we're not fair because he
didn't have an awful regular season, but it wasn't. Again,
it was a slight downturn from what he did and
obviously his first NFL season, and that's what we're still
waiting for. The biggest thing going against him is one,
the two losses were so bad, and number two, you've
got to start thinking about how much money you're putting
into his account. And when you put that crazy amount
of money in a quarterbacks bank account, that's when the
pressure is turned up even more. Look at all the
money that Coller Murray got to stay with Arizona, it
has not panned out. Look at all the money to
attack of Aloa has received in Miami, it hasn't panned out.
Pat Mahomes yes, Gosh Allan, yes, Joe Burrow, yes. But
there's as many guys bumping around the NFL that are
making crazy, crazy money that have handicapped their team because
so much of that money goes to that one particular player.
And that's what the Texans have to think about. Ian
Rappaport basically alluded to the fact that he knows an
extension is coming, but CJ can't be foolish enough to
think that he would be. He would be offended if
they waited one more year. They've got until May first
pick up the fifth year option. That's going to happen,
and when it does, you' all going to lose your mind.
Some of you will be, but some of you also
realize the economics of the NFL, especially with rookie contracts.
Speaker 3: It's it will be the right thing for the Texans
to do.
Speaker 2: It just would be. But yeah, there is a lot
of indecision. There is not a lot of guarantees coming
out of that. I mean, I know that the mcneer's
are opening, are going to talk about Torotown today. I
would hope somebody that goes to that event that's covering
with media would ask about the CJ situation, Well, I
get will you get a clear answer?
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 2: But that's why there's so much angst about this year
is because now you're really gonna have to have those
hard decisions with the door closed about what to do
about that, because you've got other guys in your team,
namely Will Anderson, who has done everything, and then some
to deserve the long term extension that he's supposed to
get after his third NFL season.
Speaker 3: That's c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud at this point is not deserving of seven one
three two one two five seven nineties. What up, Bridgeland,
Let me hear from you, Cyprus. So today.
Speaker 3: The Texans.
Speaker 2: Cal their pres.
Speaker 3: Somebody from Howard Hughes Corporation.
Speaker 2: Come to Toro Town. We're gonna build restaurants, bars, flag,
football fields, a great facility, and then we're gonna dodge
questions about whether or not the stadium will be out
here too. A Toro Town let me tell you something.
I'm going to Toro Town. They gotta check it out,
are you?
Speaker 4: I would drive for you?
Speaker 8: Know well?
Speaker 2: I mean, if the restaurants are good, why wouldn't we
go to Torotown?
Speaker 4: It's good point.
Speaker 9: Good point.
Speaker 2: Now, if they're all bringing up a Reese Cake rockery there,
I don't care. I can get that anywhere. So if
they gave me some c J straud Sliders, I'm in
for that. What would Will Anderson's dish be of choice?
Speaker 6: See?
Speaker 3: That's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2: You gotta open up a Texan steam restaurant and just
name after your favorite players. I mean, honestly, would would
it not be a Kimi Fairbrand foot long?
Speaker 4: That is? That is? This is a rudway at that point?
Speaker 2: I don't know. But if Kymi Fairbrand's making like you,
you know, you get to meat some cheese, that's way
you want it toasted, bun heavy, oil heavy, oil heavy vinegar.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Today, I'm not kidding you folks. They're doing a Welcome
to Toro Town.
Speaker 4: Torot Town sounds so much better. I'm not gonna does.
Speaker 3: Didn't sound better than the Toro District.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: If Hannah and Cower listening right now, which they're not.
They don't I don't know if they. I don't know
if they even know he exists, which is fine.
Speaker 3: I can live with that.
Speaker 2: It'd be kind of nice for them to come over
and say hi to us, to tell us what's going on.
I mean, i'd be let me tell you. I love owners,
I love talking to Jim Crane, I love talking to
Tillman Forteita. I would love to sit with Callahan and
talk about it. In fact, if anybody from the Texas listening,
I think this is a genius idea. I really do.
And if I were them, and I've told you this before,
I told this to Ross many a time, I would
figure out. I would put up as much money of
my own personal money as I possibly could without really
being mad about it, and I would forgot get out
of energy. I'd go build the Toro Dome. There's all
that land out there in the Bridgeland. That's where everybody's
going with. That's where your money is anyway, and who
cares if people and Galveston are clear Laker friends would
have to drive an hour and fifteen to a game,
you're doing it nine times, ten times a year. Because
I'm gonna tell you this again, Torotown isn't being built
for the city Houston to come run to see the track.
Speaker 3: The Texans practice facolda.
Speaker 2: You got you've never how many have you been in
the Texans practice fasolda in your life? Less than a
half percent of people in Houston maybe get one tenth
of a percent. I mean, they may open up for tours,
but that doesn't necessarily you're not driving fifty miles for that.
You're doing this because Cypress and Bridgeland needs more stuff
to do and eat and drink and sit in movie
theaters and maybe you build a you know, a small
stadium that you can house football games, you know, like
you know, uh, scrimmages and high school playoff games and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3: That's what you do this for.
Speaker 2: You're not building Toro Town because you want people from
Katie to run over there. O Loo Katie wouldn't be
too far, honestly, And you think about it, Baytown, You're
let me tell you, Baytown are leaving the BUCkies off
of it. Ten.
Speaker 3: They're not going up to Toro Town.
Speaker 2: So cal and Han if you're listening driving out to
Cypress today, I fully endorse this.
Speaker 3: Now you better.
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you not because I need. I'm trying
to get into your piggy bank. But it's gonna be
very hard for Harris County voters to help you with this.
You might get a sweetheart Land deal, you might get
some tax breaks in a variety of other things, but
if you're staying in Harris County, you're gonna have to
write a really big check because I think the City
of Houston has done at least they have been the
last twenty five or thirty years of running a lot
of checks for sports facilities. Did it back in the
nineties when you needed Dyke in Park? I mean you
needed the Tote Center. You're not necessarily needing it here
in twenty twenty six. So yeah, Toro Town gets its
official debut. Everybody's gonna I guarantee you Cal Is gonna
say the word excited at least ten times. We're very
excited to be here, very excited about this, very I
mean he's going to use the word excited times.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 2: I know, Joe, I know from our morning show, Cole
and Dan are gonna go out there to Toro Town.
If those boys are listening right now. Every time you
hear Cal say excited, you have to take a drink,
are think gon assume fer and drink out there? I mean,
I don't know where they're gonna necessarily do it, man,
I guess a plot of land. I guess you could
set up like a lemonade stand or something. I don't know,
but yes, Toro Town the first introduction to it, aka
the Torol District. Again, Torol Town to meaning sounds a
lot better. And if and if the Texas will want
to steal that idea from me and Toreltown, then I've
not copyrighted it like I should have copyrighted Crush City
and trade marked it.
Speaker 3: That was my mistake, my Air. Just give me season
tickets for a year.
Speaker 2: With parking like good parking at Energy because it's hard
to get in out of Energy Stadium.
Speaker 3: So let's get.
Speaker 2: Started the day. Toro District sounds fine, Toro Town much better.
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety James
is with us here on seven ninety James, what do
you want?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you were talking about rocket duos. You thought we're
gonna bring the championship. I always thought that yoo Ming
and Tracy McGrady, we're going to do it, And that
kind of disappointed me that they never got to do
I know, yeah, but the reason I called is, you know,
every day I drive forty four. I don't do it
every day, but occasionally I drive forty five and I'm
looking at Green's Point Mall and why don't they level
that thing and build a stadium there. It's close to
the airport. I don't know if there's enough lane to
build a stadium there, but it's an eyesore. They need
to do something with it. What do you think.
Speaker 3: What part of the town are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Green's Point Mall? Level greens Point Mall? Tiar that the
whole mall down. Use that space there and build a
stadium and be close to the airport.
Speaker 2: Well, why would he worry about being close to the airport.
What would that make a difference.
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, I mean in case you have visitors
come in and you know, from other cities one watch
the game. I mean, it's it really doesn't make a difference,
but it would be a good, good location at a stadium,
and you're not having to buy a new land, you're
actually improving the land. That's there. I don't know if
you tore down the mall that'd be enough for parking
and everything.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well there's that's there's too much stuff over there.
That's that stuff's already built. You there's not enough room
that the area that's the spot of air and then
the city of Houston and in that part of Harrison's
got the most space is out there by out there
and near the Bridgeland Cypressurrey that's where the space is.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was fifteen minutes from Bridgeland. I've been out
to Bridgeland. Yeah, there's land, but they're also expanding communities
after as well.
Speaker 3: That makes a perfect sense town then.
Speaker 9: Well it does, it kind of does. But but I
was just thinking get rid of one Eye saw and
put something nice there instead of having them drive by
greens Point Mall. It's you know, it's carnivals or whatever.
Speaker 2: Put out ther Yeah, I have. I don't go by
greens Point Mall. It's it's not not for destination. Yeah,
it's it's fine. I don't think I've ever gone to
a carnival at a mall parking lot.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 2: I'm just I don't trust amusement park rides period. I
certainly don't ones that are like temporary that get set
up in the middle of a parking lot at the mall.
Speaker 4: Right, oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Like I would have to tell you my favorite ride
not at an amusement park. You know what a Tilt
the World is When you get in there and it's
like you're in a little mushroom and it's like seats
two or three people, and you have this one bar
that crosses over you to secure you, and you're going
up and down on a on a circuit like a donut,
and it moves around.
Speaker 3: At that tilted world, that's a jam right there. You
know what I'm talking about, do you?
Speaker 2: I think I can imagine go google Tilt the World
and you were like, damn, man, I know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 3: That was a ride.
Speaker 2: I used to see tilted worlds at all, like the
little mall parking lot ride things, because at least if
that's if that thing breaks down, you're not you know,
like five two hundred and fifty feet above the ground.
Speaker 5: You don't mean this is just like some teacups. Yeah,
it's executive tea cups.
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna adell you because I actually don't. I
don't like I don't like going on roller coasters.
Speaker 4: I'm not a laugh.
Speaker 2: I don't know anymore. I'm done with roller coasters. I
was done with roller coasters five years ago. I am
done Gunzo with those bad boys.
Speaker 4: We have me thinking that this was like some big ride.
Speaker 2: Shit. Somebody backed me up on Tilt the World was
the jam. It's not that tea cups were going slowly.
Tilt the World will throw you around like a rag doll.
Don't you don't you hate on Tilt the World tea cups?
I get it, man, don't get no. I will not
accept Tilt the World slander on my radio show.
Speaker 4: I'm just surprised. I'm just shook.
Speaker 3: Stop that's terrible.
Speaker 2: All right now, I'm gonna tell Jonathan to shut his
bow mass up about Tilt the World. If you don't
tilt the world, you know you're not a friend of mine.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: If you want to get in seven one three two
one two five seven, and he one tells people to
shut their bumbasses up, let's go right now. Seven one
three two one two five seven. Annie, ain't nobody got
time for that as well. We want those phone calls
to come in as well. If you've got anything.
Speaker 3: This is the.
Speaker 2: Most cathartic favorite part of the week for you. You can
really tell people how you feel like. I just told
Jonathan about the Tilt the World seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven Annie for shut your bumb ass up
and ain't nobody got time for that?
Speaker 11: He don't, leny get tap here, Let me get he don't.
Let me get tampered here. Let me getting tampered. Dear,
let me get damp it, dear, let me get tamp here.
Let me get time here, let me get tampa ith.
Speaker 2: Here we go seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five Sevenati
to Jonathan Allen, my producer, Tilt the World slander, Shut
your bumb ass up, mane shits your bum ass up? Man?
Speaker 4: Who uh you know? It's what you like? That's what
you like.
Speaker 2: I'm not It's not my favorite, but it was it's.
Speaker 4: Again you like it. I love it.
Speaker 2: If here's the thing. If the machine breaks down, I
get out just fine. If the machine breaks down on
the ferris wheel, I'm up there for two weeks.
Speaker 4: You starting the ferris Wheel. Don't tell me that.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, I am what. Anybody got time for
ferris Wheel? No chance, no way, I know how.
Speaker 8: M M.
Speaker 4: You scared of heights a little bit? Okay, that's fair.
I'm looking. I'm not gonna not.
Speaker 2: It's not major.
Speaker 3: But the fear of getting stuck is what drives me crazy.
Speaker 6: Hm.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seventy? What else am
I'm mad about? Let's see what else? Oh to our
buddy emailed a minute ago, we were talking about Dwight
Howard's crop dusting. If you crop dust on an airplane?
Anybody got time for that? Ain't nobody get your private jay?
You never you had never called, you never done it
for it? Really its exists. Ain't nobody get tad? Uh?
Speaker 3: What'll shit the topic? He tried out me.
Speaker 2: That's no way. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety all right, we're gonna go to Brandon in a second,
But first, Johnally, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 5: I saw this statistic talking about how many people are
going to go different cities at spring Break. It's estimated
that Houston is the news spot for spring break this
march Over says five hundred thousand people were gonna come
here to do what the rodeo. I don't know, because
you know that Miami set it down, so they don't
want to go Atlanta.
Speaker 4: So everybody's going to Houston because it's cheaper. I don't know.
Speaker 5: But who would you get this from? I don't believe this.
This is this is like even my age, like everybody like,
no chance, no, no no way, no how you're gonna
see this six' ten filled.
Speaker 3: Up no you're. Not you went to some fake ass.
Website don't you know?
Speaker 2: What you shut your, ball, man you don't get.
Speaker 5: An information like, that Right i'm Telling houston right, now
there's gonna be a lot of people coming.
Speaker 4: IN i don't know.
Speaker 2: What the rodeo cook.
Speaker 4: KIDS i don't.
Speaker 3: KNOW i don't.
Speaker 5: Know i'm just telling. You i'm just telling you. What,
okay time where there is going on the? Phones if
you live In Kansas city Or, Saginaw, michigan OR i don't, Know, Lexington.
KENTUCKY i just throw Three rando cities out there right
in your nineteen twenty twenty, one twenty. Two you maybe
hearing a young professional and you're about to go on a.
VACATION i, MEAN i love our, city but we're not
a vacation. City nobody, says, hey let's go To houston
for four or five, days LIKE i, guess we got
clubs and you, know, no, no, no, no, no you're
you know you went to The Weekly World news for
your From.
Speaker 4: This is the way in the. Street, okay there are
no where on the.
Speaker 2: Street the downtown, Sucks Baytown's, flora rednecks and uh energy
is a dangerous part of The.
Speaker 5: Houston that's that's the word on the. Streets come, ON
i warned, everybody just be Worn.
Speaker 2: Now The Rodeo cookoff is gonna bring some, people but
that's usually drunkards From.
Speaker 5: Houston AND i think like all the people that are
headlighting in the, RADIO i think Like liz and all
of them are doing.
Speaker 4: It so it's just gonna be a.
Speaker 2: Company Doesn't liz FROM i, think, well then she would
be coming. Home that would not be a new. Visitor
But i'll tell You little's Company. Houston i'm going somewhere
far away from. Her that voice is knowing as. HELL
i want to apologize, ladies, Gentlemen john think giving you
all some band.
Speaker 5: Information don't come over here To Christ Kelly Clarkson. Christ
what as headliners they're, Performing.
Speaker 2: Yeah but that's because they're going. There they're not coming
To houston a.
Speaker 4: Vacation but that's what's going to bring the influx of. People.
Speaker 2: Matt, sometimes, no, no, no no, no don't don't listen to.
Speaker 3: You you just you don't know what you're talking. About
let me go to the.
Speaker 2: Phones we're not getting half million people coming To. Houston
next one on the street in the, ward on those,
streets your. Streets in a cul to. Sack let's go
to a branded on seven Ninety, brandon what's the matter with?
Speaker 4: You, Hey?
Speaker 9: MATT i just wanted to tell that guy that Compared
Brian hoyred to T J stroud yesterday to shut his mask?
Speaker 2: Up what the hell was he? Thinking that's exactly? Right
that Was that's one of the all time worst, Analogies.
Brandon i'm a terrible analogis SO i know WHEN i
see one in, here one.
Speaker 9: That was that was really. Bad. MAN i heard it
yesterday when over else it's me to your, show AND
i was, like, man does this guy even watch the?
Speaker 2: Games, like what are you talking?
Speaker 9: About?
Speaker 2: YEAH i MEAN i understand What and thank You brandon
for the phone. CALL i understand there's gonna be some C.
J stroud's slander AND i and for the right. REASONS
i mean he, WAS i mean absolutely, horrific and he
Went Brian hoyer. BAD i, MEAN i don't even know
what a comp would. Be he just. Sucked how about
a quarterback that, sucks that had a really really bad
day and really bad two, weeks but.
Speaker 3: E Brian hoyer? Bad and that The Brian hoyer fan was.
Speaker 2: Listening, Hello i'm sure you're out wonderful, people but you
but your your your, husband your, son your, nephew your best.
Friend he went to go TO nfl quarterback seven one
three two one two five seven Ninety andrew on Seven.
Speaker 3: Andrew what's the matter with?
Speaker 1: You, yes, SIR i Think stroud only there is a two,
year two and a half million dollar deal on his next,
contract because that's What Brian hoyer got in twenty. Fifteen
and anyone who's been at the FIN cj sprout and
he's a look at the, stats look at the. Paperwork
he's the same C. J Brian Hoyer. Straw ladies and
gentlemen love the.
Speaker 11: Show heyybody got Tap.
Speaker 2: Ford i's gonna tell the shot has bout.
Speaker 3: Myself but he said he loves a. SHOW i can't do.
That if you love the, show you. CAN'T i can't crush.
Speaker 12: You.
Speaker 2: Right even Dumbass james and klines that he loves the.
SHOW i can't rip him too. Bad Even brad loves the,
show AND i can't rip him too bad. Either see
everything you can, do ladies and, gentlemen to get away
with murder on my, show like with horrible sports.
Speaker 3: Tanks just say how much you love the? Show seven?
Speaker 2: One did you already? Said two years two and a
half million? Dollars he makes more than.
Speaker 3: That, Now.
Speaker 4: I'm Just i'm he's ten toes THAT i. CAN'T i
can't even mad at.
Speaker 2: HIM i got ten toes that says they're gonna be
fifty people In houston over the next week and a.
Speaker 5: Half all, right you're gonna see You're i'm just telling
you there's nowhere to go to spring.
Speaker 4: Break it's Only.
Speaker 6: Houston oh my, gosh that's too.
Speaker 2: Funny by the, WAY i get some nice emails saying
you're doing a good job giving me grief Like ross
gives me. Grief you're feeling it, nicely my. Friend where's
next Year's oh you know? WHAT i just got word
From Jonathan allen's news. Feed, oh thanks for sending this to.
Me next year's big vacation spot is A Witchital. Kansas
oh that's really. Cool Thanks johnifer sending.
Speaker 5: That, Timmy, okay it's all.
Speaker 2: Seriousness people do come from out of town to go
to the. RODEO i get, that but we're not getting
a half million people here for.
Speaker 3: That i'm.
Speaker 6: Sham do you.
Speaker 4: Remember miami sitting? Down didn't anybody come to Spring?
Speaker 2: Break, well so we're not going To we're gonna go To.
Miami we can't go To, miami so we're gonna To.
Speaker 3: Houston song down.
Speaker 2: Here, Yes, No i'm going To miami this. Weekend Guess
i'm gonna be this weekend On South. Beach, baby my
white ass legs are gonna be On South.
Speaker 3: Beach you ready for? That anybody got time for? THAT
i bet?
Speaker 2: Hey nobody got time for? That all? Right final sex, up,
Man i'm gonna come back with dark.
Speaker 3: Legs, Johnathan you'll be so proud of.
Speaker 2: ME i don't see that problem IS i get them
all dark down In miami and Then i'm going To,
WASHINGTON dc On, monday where its supposed to be like
thirty five and. Snowing So i'm gonna lose The i'm
gonna lose the. Darkness something is wrong with.
Speaker 3: YOU i would agree with you on.
Speaker 2: That seven one three two one two five Seven naty final.
Segment if you have something that you want to tell
somebody to shut their butm on. Separating nobody got time for.
That seven one three two one two five Seven naughty With.
Speaker 3: Jonathan sent me the list.
Speaker 2: Where he got that the City houston's gonna have a
half million people visiting during spring. BREAK i got the
list of the other cities that are getting a lot more. People,
Omaha nebraska is doing really, Well, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Riverside, California Saint, Paul,
minnesota and Uh Fort, Wayne indiana also huge big training
spot spring break.
Speaker 3: Spots, yeah you could have.
Speaker 2: Seen i'm gonna see.
Speaker 4: All right, seconds that's twenty. SECOND i just, WAIT i.
Speaker 2: CAN'T i cannot wait to find out the tens of
people that come To houston for spring for spring.
Speaker 3: Break SHOULD i go To?
Speaker 2: Vegas, no should we go to L. A, no should
we go To New York?
Speaker 3: City?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Houston, yes, yes?
Speaker 2: Exactly what get Good mexican?
Speaker 4: FOOD i get. That i'll tell.
Speaker 2: You the club life is. Good the strip clubs are.
Speaker 3: Nice we're friendly people.
Speaker 4: Here, see you're making the case matter exactly just getting
hips of.
Speaker 2: That can you imagine your best friend who's going to
School Western kentucky hand what him growing a.
Speaker 3: Vacation where's the friendliest. City we can go?
Speaker 2: To? Houston let's?
Speaker 5: Go and there was people willing to go To. Houston mm,
Hmmm i'm let's, know we got four. Minutes we gotta
get these. Done get let me go line. One, uh
let's go TO i gotta put on the screen, here
g O. Gio what's the matter with?
Speaker 12: You, hey, Guys first and foremost great.
Speaker 3: Show thank.
Speaker 12: You, SECOND i want TO i want TO i want
to thank you for the for those tickets THAT i
want to about that. Rocket, hey, hey hey, man, look.
Speaker 2: Mister texas took care of, you didn't he didn't he
Mister kingwood did this. Thing.
Speaker 12: Man when we got, there, right we got there pretty,
early you.
Speaker 9: Know, uh and there was these two these two drunk.
Speaker 12: Guys man sitting in the seats and uh and they
Get i'm, like, hey, man these are our, seats you
know WHAT i, Mean LIKE i got these from Mister kingwood,
itself you. Know and they're, like, well you, know we've been,
here this and, that And i'm LIKE i had to
call the sure to come help us out and everything like.
That so for people trying to steal, seats, man especially
given to you.
Speaker 4: By mister King with, himself nobody got time for.
Speaker 2: That, man come on against Mister texas and thank. You
i'm glad you had a good. Time geo won our
trivia the other day about. That see you.
Speaker 3: Later you know, what because.
Speaker 2: You can't but you can't know you cannot go to
the lower bowl and sit in somebody's seats upper. Deck that's,
fine do your. Thing you have a little, bull you
have a little little lower. Bowl uh what do you call?
Speaker 3: It? Uh not? Sportsmanship but, uh.
Speaker 2: You get you got you just gotta you gotta act
like you've been there. Before you can't just kind of
screw your way down. There no nobody got time for.
Speaker 5: That and he had his son with, him so like
and then they were not trying to get. It that's
kind of messed.
Speaker 3: Up, oh the poor son may be scarred because of
the whole. Situation.
Speaker 5: Nah, Nah i'm just, saying, like you have that much,
pride you don't want to give up the seats that
nine even years and he has a son with, Him
like that's that's a bad.
Speaker 3: Look. Man the key to going to the lower.
Speaker 2: Bowl is the second. Half if you're gonna try to scoot.
Downstairs i'm talking about anything like a football, game baseball, game,
basketball you gotta do it in the second.
Speaker 3: Half you gotta take the l on the first. Half
you just do.
Speaker 2: All, Right. Jonathan i'm gonna figure out what Destination i'm
gonna take my family this sweting next week on spring.
BREAK i think we're gonna think about going TO i don't,
KNOW i Don't, Oh i'm gonna go To Little, Rock
arkansas for a.
Speaker 3: Week it should be a lot of fun from y'all's.
Speaker 4: Family that actually sounds. Accurate Little rock is not. Bad
i've been.
Speaker 2: There i've only been a Little Little rock one. Time
to see a, concert you should go.
Speaker 4: To The you probably go to that, museum The Bill
clinton president of.
Speaker 3: MUSEUM i am not going to that. MUSEUM i go
to The Bill clinton.
Speaker 4: Airport of course you.
Speaker 2: Have that's because you.
Speaker 3: Fly everybody has flies in The Little Rock cassecal to
The Bill Clinton. Airport some people.
Speaker 4: Drive is not that far from here eleven.
Speaker 2: HOURS i hate driving to my office much less driving
Enough Little. Rock oh, Hellmet that's exactly.
Speaker 4: Why in a week and a, half you're gonna see
why you hate it even.
Speaker 2: More Because i'm won't be back Until monday. Night so
maybe you, know y'all can. Do y'all can get all
the track begin you. Want traffic Next, tuesday WHEN i
come to the, station will be any worse than it
normally is on A. Tuesday hit the. Music Hey ross
is back with me. Tomorrow i'll be In. Orlando i'll
talk with you For rockets basketball tonight at seven o'clock
here on seven.
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