Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Ten oh two in h Town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Thursday edition to The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety test. They win it tonight,
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we had a good time, did you Yeah? Who bought
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of that. Really. Yeah, I think I've given you two phrases,
going Dutch and kissing your sister right a tie? Or
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my wife didn't know better. Yeah, I don't like it.
It's not great. I mean, ties aren't great. Whoever goes, man,
I can't wait for a time I kissed my sister
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mean anything more than that, Happy birthday to her Happy birthday? Yeah, yesterday,
my favorite Billa Reale. I think i've ultimately Oh she's
in my top ten. Well, she's a bloom now she's married. Okay.
Raising your nephews, yes, doing a great job. Yeah, thank you,
better than I ever could. Thankfully you're separating from them
just enough so you're bad and for it's not a
bad part of their life. Oh, man, I think I'm
a great uncle. I don't know what you're talking about,
but I would say, yeah, I spoil out him. I
spoil them. I don't really scold or yell at him
or nothing. That's good. And they want a snack, I
say to get it. If you want an eighth cupcake,
go ahead. You know what, Why don't you have a
cup of ice cream and a coke? Yeah, you enjoy yourself,
go home to your mom. That's that's what the uncles do.
The uncles are supposed to uncles and grandparents. Yes, right.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: It is a Thursday edition of The Bat Thomas Show
with Ros It's nice to see you, hey, Matt. Uh
and uh yeah yeah, last night was a turnover machine.
Twenty one turnovers. Oh is that bad? I mean it's
not great. It's gonna get fixed, right, No, it's not.
Which I've mentioned this numerous times on the broadcast. This
is gonna be a and it's gotten better the last
probably the last three or four weeks. But it's creeped.
Its ugly head out there. Weird. It's ugly head again
for back to back games. And I've got an email
Doka catchphrase for you playing in a crowd. He's saying
it every postgame now, because that's so he gets asked
about turnovers about every postgame. Yeah, so they're playing in
a crowd too much. Yeah. I always think sometimes it's
playing to the crowd. Yeah, but it's really playing in
the crowd. Eight turnovers, one for one. Kevin Durant, Kevin fantastic,
thirty six minutes again after you know, doing that the
previous night. Hey, Tar Easton played it back to back
for the first time in a couple of years. There
were some positives Reed Shepherd hot was hot from a three,
not so much in the second half where he was
on the bench. No, yeah, that's true. Rockets. Twitter is
very upset he was not on the floor in the
last sequence, Yeah, they were. Did he may ever give
an explanation to that. I could not find anything. I
don't know. I didn't catch the post game because I
wasn't working the post game, but I imagine he was
asked about it because Reid was, you know, five to
ten from three, love it, and and that last sequence
it was they were down one, right, they were down
two because it would have the free throw tied the game.
And then Kawhi Leonard hits the mid range. He's fouled
very late by Jayshon taperm byham fenterfact, didn't even see
it until after the basket went in that there was
a foul call. So they wind up being down three,
and that's why they went for the three point shot.
The ball went to Shngoon, kicked it off his lee
knee slash leg and ended in the hands of Tari
and then he just put up with a shot that
had no chance and his foot was on the line,
so it wouldn't acount. It wouldn't have been a three anyways, Oh,
I hate when you bring up the semantics. I'm sorry
it wasn't close. So yeah, Rockets are thirty three and
twenty at the break, eighteen and seven and home. And
now it'll be Reed Shepherd representing the Rising Stars Challenge,
and then Oupura and Shangoon and Kevin Durant representing the
Rockets in the real All Star Game. And Kevin Durant
spent some time talking about how the Euros have got
to stop bragging about how awesome they are and actually
compete in the All Star Games. So we'll be playing
some of that audio later on the show. That'd be interesting. Yeah, Okay,
here's the conundrum. Uh, this is the official All Star
Break Again, it's very late. We've order the Rockets have
played fifty three games, there's twenty nine left, so it's
not a it's not a mid season classic. And I
have been the leader of and I remain a leader of.
I hate All Star Games, and I know there's a
lot of financial dollars and uh put to this, there's
a big corporate sponsorship to it. Everything is sponsored by them.
I'm sure there'll be logos all of those lowest sponsors
on it. It's a drag, and the NBA continues to
try to figure out some way for us to be interested.
You know, the number one way of keeping an interested
ross is having the players interested. They're trying, No, they're not.
They're then the players are not trying. No league is trying.
Say the league is trying. The league is trying. I
mean they went with the Remember they did the draft
and like, whoever gets drafted last is gonna be all upset, right,
and they I mean they then they with Kevin Durant
as the captain and bron James as the captain. Now
they're doing USA versus the World. I mean, yeah, they
keep trying to reinvent the wheel. It's not working. It's
like a it's like a restaurant that was doing something
that worked for years and years and years, and then
now they're all of a sudden, like let's add wings
to the menu, or let's add this or that, so
that they're trying to reinvent the menu, and nobody just
wants to come because the quality of the food is
still not good. You can add whatever you want to
the menu, but the food not good. Nobody's coming. This
is a bad comp Uh. Oh, go ahead, rocking the rocks,
always trying to add new stuff. They're going. They going
with the protein bowls, now, well they've got They went
with the chicken feet to pet up many years ago.
Then they wasn't bad. They went with the egg rolls, yes,
and then they went with uh starting with breakfast. Yeah.
I think they're thriving though. Rocking the Rocks is. I
think so. I mean, I the only is the time
I ever hear about. I mean, for the fast food restaurants.
Thriving is basically Rick Laying and Rick Renalds. Yeah, they're
not the Yankees or the Dodgers, but they're like a
the Cubs. Racking Rocks is yeah, okay, you know what,
I don't even know how you would stack it up?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 4: Do this?
Speaker 5: I can.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna say I can figure this out.
Top fast food revenues. Yea, I'm gonna go top fast
food revenues. I'm gonna go with Rick Donald's. Rick Donald's
Starbucks is gonna be up there. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go Randy's over back in the box. Well,
it looks like you're right. According to ai. Rendy's is five. Uh,
we've named one, two and three, McDonald's, Starbucks. I'm just
gonna say Chick fil A go ahead, that's fine. Wendy's
is five. We haven't mentioned number four. Is it Carls
Junior slash Harty's. No, it's more national. That's more kind
of not water Burger Nope, more national. Burger King, No
Burger King. Seventh, I forgetting about Burger King, McDonald's, Chick
fil A Jack in a box, Wendy's a true national
fast food chain. Is it Popeyes? Nope? Give me the
first letter tea. Taco Bell Yes, hmm. Taco Bell is
always trying to reinvent the wind, but they seem to
be doing okay, yeah, they're adding chicken. They they you
can only package cheese, beef, beans, and tortillas so many
different ways. And by the way, that Mexican pizza still
slaps it just no, it doesn't. Oh it's amazing. No,
disagree love it. No, it doesn't taste as good as
it used to. Different. Yeah whatever, I still like it,
though the shells different. I was telling Jonathan this the earlier,
like fast food, you see a lot more quality now
they shrink everything and the ingredients are way worse. Yeah,
and it cost Oh you didn't like, Jason, are the
only people in there under seventy five? Yeah, that was
a tough It was a tough horrible. I mean it
tasted fine, but it's just too expensive for hot dogs.
It just is. Yeah. I think I spent forty six
dollars on the three of us or something like that.
And Jonathan only got one dog.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 2: I got three dogs and giving one of mine to you. Yeah,
I took one. You took a dog. Huh. Yeah, that
was a regretful. The next day, the stakes were made.
Oh there's not another radio show that's giving you fast
fooding rockets in the same conversation. There just isn't. You
can guess and discuss the Texans of free agent needs,
or you can actually be entertained for a few hours.
How did this even start? We were talking about, said
jacket of boxes, the cubs, the cubs of the fast world,
the Chicago cubs of the fast food world. Yeah, you're right.
Nobody else is given nobody to go and this is
the content you need, well you just because it's look,
it's lighthearted for the middle of the day. Yeah, you
want to talk about the Rockets turn them ball over
twenty one time, I want to do that. I'm not
a big fan of talk about Kawhi Leonard cooking the
Rockets in the fourth quarter and not getting doubled in
the last possession. Well, that's what I mean. When I
did the call, I was like, did he just they
just give him the ball and he just wiggled his
way around or was there something that the Rockets defensively
could not do? They I mean, men, Thompson was draped
all over him and jay Sean Tait was behind him. Yeah,
and that's where the late whistle came in. So twenty
three points in the second half for Kawhi Leonard, nineteen
of them in the fourth quarter, I know, called them
all men Thompson was on. I mean, men, Thompson was
playing good defense. You play good defense. But Kawhi Leonard,
I mean, he's a freaking Hall of Famer. Kawhi Leonard
is a Hall of Famer. Now he's a Hall of
not playing a whole lot, but he's a Hall of
playing his best basketball in three seasons, safe to say.
So that we got that to get to today on
the radio show we have, I mentioned Kevin Durant speaking
out on the international flavor of the NBA basically with
Katie hears, and Katie's very socially aware of everything because
he's on Twitter all the time. Is that the NBA
game sucks. What he hears generally speaking, not for Mary
Vall Star game. Yeah, well, I mean he's talking about
the entire sport too. Everything about the NBA sucks. He's like, well,
you know what, guess what if the NBA international flavor
is taking over the league, in which I believe seven
the last eight NBA MVPs are from Internet, from not
the United States, then they those guys got to start
bearing the responsibility of but too, he doesn't want to
wear the NBA sucks and he happens to be the
greatest American player going on. Well obviously m Lebron James.
That's what his point was. So we'll get to some
of that on the show today. Also, Uh, what's I
gonna tell you? Oh uh, we're gonna get a spring
training update with Gordy come up at the bottom of
the hour. Let's go. Yeah, and we have I just
don't get at eleven thirty today so we've got a
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ten o'clocker's Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, it's Matt
and Ross. We're gonna check in with Tony at the
bottom of the hour, and then in about twenty minutes
from now, twenty five minutes from now, we're gonna hear
from Kevin Durant. He made a quote. Michael Shapiro of
the Chronicle asked a question to him about the quote
unquote old heads competing at the All Star Game, and
he had a funny response to that, he said, you
know what, stop talking to ogs. We're about the Internationals,
the Euros, the Jokices, the Dontices. They were showing video
of previous All Star Games where guys were throwing the
ball sixty feet in the air to hit the glass.
I could find the teammates, they could dunk it in
after that. It it is a of all the jokes.
I mean, I look, I take my shot to the
NFL and they play a flag football, which is utterly ridiculous,
and thank god people didn't watch, but they actually put
these people on a real court they're supposed to be playing.
So I'm telling you Ross, if they don't play hard
for this, then Adam Silver's going to have a really
deep conversation about scraping the whole thing that it's not
gonna happen, no chance. I don't understand why why do
they have to play hard? Why do they have to
try to go out there and risk injury?
Speaker 4: Do they?
Speaker 2: You shouldn't do it at all. If you're having an Internet,
if you're having in a mid season classic, whatever you
want to call it, a spectacle to highlight the stars,
you shouldn't be highlighting horrible pickup games. That's what they said.
These are horrible pick up That's what it is. Man,
I go to the Lifetime Fitness and with this full court. Man,
you get tired, But you're not an all Star. You're right,
I'm gonna all start life time. I'm an all start
in my own mind. Well that's true. I mean you're
all star in summer story.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean there's people who don't go to the other
don't even go to the other end of the floor
on full court. Yeah, do you take your shirt off
or you scared? Are you a skins guy? Why would
I take my shirt off? Shirts and skins, I haven't
take I haven't played with my shirt off since like
tenth grade. Okay, so you're just protecting the goods, I
got you. Yeah, what do you mean you gotta keep
everything intact? No, No, I I think it embarrasses that. Yeah,
if they should go out there and play like they're
they're Kobe Bryant or something like that in Game seven
of the finals, it's just not I you think if
you're expecting that, it's not gonna be realistic. But even so,
it's an exhibition game. Even going back to the early
nineteen nineties, they gave a damn. Kobe and Michael and
n Keem gave a damn. David Robinson gave a damn.
Maybe if we watch those games, how hard were they playing.
I don't know, harder than now, of course. Yeah. And again,
I'm not asking for this to be a playoff game,
and I'm not asking for guys sitting nasty. I mean,
I'm looking for the Pistons to play. I mean, put
it that way. But no, I think I think there
is a you can go to the guys in the
locker room, shut the door and say give a damn.
And every time they've been saying for the last fifteen years,
it goes in one air and out the other, and
it comes more and more of embarrassing. And I love
the sport of basketball. I fight constantly with our audience.
Embrace the world of basketball. It's a wonderful sport, the
best players in the world. And this crap that they
put out the last five years doesn't help our cause
it just doesn't. And I'm I want it to be better.
It doesn't. But I understand why they don't. Why why
they don't try, uh, the why they they don't want
to go out there and like I said, get hurt.
If you don't try you should then you should just
stop doing it. There's there's there's no value, and helpfully
people tune it out and they're starting to do it
little by little. And here's the thing you can you
can talk about the numbers and the reach and the influencers.
If x y z inlooks face it, the biggest automobile
sponsor in the NBA is Kia. If Kia doesn't get
return value on this, they're gonna they're gonna stop pulling.
They're gonna pull the money out. Yeah, and that's when
they will figure something out or get rid of it. Yeah.
The money's pouring in and they keep trying to rein
in the wheels trying to do so. It's onto the
it's onto the sponsors. If the sponsors don't get value
off of it, then NA should the nahould They should
put their foot down because that's what that moves the needle.
It just doesn't everything. You're not going to be able
to do anything outside of money. And it's gonna take
a lot of money, like money that the sponsors aren't
gonna want to pony up. Talking about more than a
million dollars a person. I would make it a three
day weekend and goes to a beach for a couple
of days and then just kick off the second half
of the year. Maybe what if Kevin Durant goes into
the All Star Game and he's playing hard and he
tears his a cl That can also happened on a
practice field too. It could, but you're but you're also
you're exposing yourself. So you don't want baseball players to
play in the WBC, but you want NBA players. No, no,
I no, I no. I've been consistent. I don't want
any All Star I'm done with it. Okay, So you
want the game to go I want it completely gone away. Yeah,
But if you're going to do it, and I know
there's a financial impact to it, at least shows some
assemblance of what the game, how beautiful the game is.
I mean, it would be nice to have it a
happier to what you're talking about. Maybe in the nineties
or whatever, but you needed it was more of a
showcase then, or even if you go back to the
old days like in the seventies, like the purpose of
the All Star Game was to say, hey, look at
these great like you have these floundering fledgling league, right,
and like, hey, look at all these great players. We
have come watch them and things like that, because in theory,
having Luca Durant and Lebron James on the same team
sounds awesome, doesn't. Now it does, but nobody ever talks
about that. When I was a kid watching Magic Johnson
throw a pass into a kim Elijah wan Was, it
was awesome to me, and I and I and I
wish today's kids could appreciate it, but they they don't.
It's put their heads They're gonna put their heads down
and get on their phones. Well let's get well that's yeah,
we didn't have smartphones.
Speaker 6: Well, and that's the point you said yesterday you didn't
like what the influencers, But that's the whole point to
get to those kids, to make it interesting.
Speaker 2: So it's not just passed by and they put the
heads out, you know what I mean, Get mister beast
out there, get the kids watching them. Let's go them,
mis john Then you're takings they're putting the influencers are
putting videos out to go, but watch on your phone.
That's how everybody's been watching I mean it's yes, twenty
twenty six. I mean everybody's streaming, but nobody's But even
even Adam Silver said, we're not a League of four,
league of highlights. No, the league is not built on highlights.
No wonder the re tension is terrible. We're showing eleven
second clips that of great games. Nobody's got that attention span.
I mean it's a problem for everyone. It's a problem
for all the leaks. Yeah, hey, guess what, it ain't
gonna get better. Put your head down or worse, put
your heads down during timeouts when you're watching a red
panda do or thing. But during the game, lift up,
look up, it's a good game. Let's talk to Ryan
and Montgomery at ten twenty eight. Hi, Ryan.
Speaker 8: Borning, guys, I was gonna talk about the Rockets, but
you all seem to have gone on this day and
now I want to talk about this. But first I
couldn't sit idly by while you've besmirched the good name
of Jack.
Speaker 2: Jack in the Box is amazing.
Speaker 8: They can reinvent whatever they want.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna eat it that being sick after midnight, yes,
before midnight. No, let me tell you what they have.
They got good eyes rings. I don't give them, give
them credit for that.
Speaker 8: Tacos. Come on, man, we can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has a lot of things, a lot of
things there.
Speaker 8: Lunchie meals awesome.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 8: Anyways, all Star games, Matt, I agree, they have become
tragically bad. And now you're again you're competing with you know,
a league of Highlights. I mean, it's kind of been
away for a long time. That's why Sports Center even exists, right,
But also, no one's ever going to live up to
what the NHL All Star Game did? What was it
last year? That was insane? Nothing will ever compete with that.
The MLB All Star Game now is is just dumb
because they're not playing for where the World Series is
going to be anymore, So it doesn't matter they're not
you know, the NFL Pro Bowl, that's been a joke
for a while. There's there is no reason to have
an All Star game, and I'm sure hockey won't even
do one now. But I agree that it should just
go away, just be gone, and then do a celebrity
game or in like a like a showcase, like a
skills challenge, but the game itself should just be on
and uh, I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys, Thank you Ryan for the phone call.
I mean again, you you want to give give me
five give me six days off in or between the
course of the season. How much would six extra days
off mixed in the calendar would help, would help retention
and keeping guys playing. I mean I don't I don't
have teams. I just still watch it. If you don't
like it. I don't understand when you have to call
for the abolishment of it, because it's a huge interruption
of the season, and those six days away that they
could potentially get hurt, as you were saying before, could
be used towards actually playing games, keeping guys fresh, playing games,
having the guys not have rest. I mean, it doesn't
get zero eyeballs. Clearly they like the sponsorship dollars. Yeah,
they're not going to play hard, but I mean that's
part of the reason why there's less injury risk. So
I don't know, Well, that means you don't like it,
just don't want I am a die hard basketball fan.
They don't get my eyes, so they don't want my eyes,
and that's okay, but they don't want my disposable income
because I got I got news for you. I can
pay for things that the twenty one year olds can't
pay for. It's just the reality. Well, what are you
going to pay for?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: From watching the game? Products? You just watch it products.
How many twenty two year olds can pay for a
forty one thousand dollars Kia? Not many? Well that's what
they're Okay, that's up for Kia to decide. But I'm
saying is that people that should be trying you twenty.
If you're if you're trying to get twenty two year
olds who don't have the disposable income of people that
are in the thirties and their forties, you're missing out
and thirty and I and I think thirty and forty
year olds are going to check out on this thing
because all you're doing is basically just making highlight films
to make sure twenty two year olds are satisfied. Now
you can get twenty rid of it completely, is the
solution I would get. I would get rid of all.
I get rid of all playoffs, all all star games.
Maybe the baseball is starting is actually give a damn?
Why is baseball start going to give a dam and
the other ones don't I don't think do they They
don't throw lollipops, they throw fastball, Yeah, but I mean
they die for the last time somebody got hit. I
don't know. I don't watch that All Star Game either. Yeah,
I mean you could be completely I mean, I look,
I'm never a huge All Star Game any Mostly there's
grooving fastballs and I mean, I don't know pictures are
getting bullpins in. Basically they're still swinging. It's more of
a time it's a competitive me versus you sport. Yeah,
when it's a pitcher versus hitter. Yeah, I just if
you know, and if you're if you want, I just
think you want as many eyeballs on it as possible.
And I think people as they get older one competitiveness.
That's all they're asking for. We're not asking for, you know,
eight second high like clips. Looking for a good basketball game,
and that's all that's all I'm asking for. But I
don't think we're gonna get it now. This year may
be different. But the problem is I won't know you're
you're gonna watch it for me on Sunday because I'll
be traveling, So I don't know. I don't I'll be
traveling to on Sunday. Hey, but you get the fort
a lot earlier than I do, so I don't know.
I haven't checked my itenerary. I just sent it two
this morning. Okay, very busy, Okay, all right, Gordy's in Florida.
We'll talk with him next ten thirty two on seven
ninety ten thirty six on seven ninety Man and Ross
with you. We are going to go to West Palm Beach, Florida.
Right now where Ross and I will be Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week. Right there now is Chris
Gordy with our spring turning update. Gordy, what did you
see in day number two of pitchers and catchers that
caught your fancy?
Speaker 4: Well, they did some PfP today and I will tell
you Tatsuya Amaya has a very quick release to first base.
It's almost like a shortstop throw. So that was something
that kind of stood out. But other than that, you know,
it's good to see a Lance McCullers junior out there,
and Christian Javier and you know Spitzer Raghetti. We spoke
with him this morning, who said he's feeling, you know,
feeling one hundred percent healthy and ready to get going.
Especially after his injury point season last year. So it's
all kind of coming together and noticeable too. I mean,
Renol Bloco and Hayden was Nesky are throwing back and
forth to one another, obviously not with a lot of velocity,
but you know, just almost a little bit of a
reminder on those guys that you know probably somewhere around
All Star Break they'll be back too. And you know,
we talk about the competition right now for pitching that
they kind of have a surplus. You'll have an even
more of a surplus when those guys get back mid season.
Speaker 2: It does feel like to me, and this even before
you got down there, that there is clearly strengthen numbers
and that the fact that the sugar Lands squad may
be awesome this year, but the reality is you're going
to need those numbers because last year we were the
Astros were searching for guys left and right just to
fill up a rotation spot and having to go all
over the place signing street free agents and guys that
were claimed off waivers. Hopefully that will not be an
issue in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: Well, and it's not just it's not just starters, it's
also you know relievers. We talked with, you know, Logan
van Wy this morning, and that's another guy that's you know,
competing for a roster spot. You know, got a taste
of the big leagues last year out of the bullpen,
but you know, even Oker this year and Brian King
and I mean so many different pieces that you know,
you get into a numbers game and you go, I
don't know if this guy has a role. I mean,
I interviewed Jason Alexander this morning. I'm going, where does
he fit in now? If you know, if everything else
is equal, sou And he was an important piece for
you for them last year. You know, it was a
pretty steady starter. So yeah, I mean, look, it's it's
easy to say that right now. Injuries are going to happen.
We did find out Nate Pearson had a little bit
of a setback, had some kind of elbow clean up recently,
and so he's a little bit behind. Joe Spot wouldn't
really give specifics, but he did say our goal is
to get him get him into some spring training games.
So that kind of tells you a little bit on
where Nate Pearson is. But other than that, yeah, I mean,
it's it is just a ton of arms and the
spotty even said, like a lot of big dudes and
and it's you know, it does stand out like a
lot of physically tall, big guys and they all throw hard.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he if Joe I mentioned this,
but is there any timetable when he wants to get
that six man rotation figured out? Or is it you
think it'll be right down to the last day Again,
that could be just conjecturing your part right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think it's easy to kind of
talk it talking out right. I mean, okay, so Hunter
Brown is the one. Either Hobvier or am I is
the two or the three. So that's your top three.
Arraghetti is your four, and so take the rest of
the pool of candidates for your five and six. And
that's everything from Mike Burrows that they traded for and
fully expect him to be a starter. So if he's
one of those, then you only got one spot. And
that's for the remainder of you know, Lance mccullor's junior
and you know, throwing all the other guys, Colton Gordon,
aj blue Ball. You know, the list goes on and on.
Ryan Weiss, I mean there's there's not a lot of
spot guys, Jason Alexander, I mean, it's it is a
surplus of pitching.
Speaker 2: Talking with Chris Gordie out at West Palm Beach Willie's
Grill and ice house bringing us this coverage. What about
the bullpen? Of course, we know Josh Hater going to
miss some time with the biceps thing, and you say, okay,
next man up, Brian to bray you. But what about
after that? How are we feeling the guys that you're
kind of looking at are hearing about as far as
possible roles and and where they're going to get some
help in these leverage innings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think the easy one to go
to is Brian to bray you. And then obviously, you
know Bennett Sussa is the guy we were watching throw today.
You forget that he's a guy that had a handful
of saves for them a year ago. I want to
say he had four, you know, so I think if
this thing does slide, if Hater's not ready to go
for the start of the season, you know, you probably
slide everybody back who kind of sold it as the
ninth ending guy, which reminder he was a little shaky
last year in you know when he was called on
the role. But Brian King Bennett sussa, I think they
feel pretty good about them. The other one that's interesting
is this Tang guy that that they got the Tylan
East pitcher and was just watching him through a little bit.
And Dana Brown has mentioned his name a couple of
times as a back end of the rotation guy, so
keep it out on him. But yeah, I mean all
the other cast of characters are the same, Like I
mentioned Ochred and you know Fan Why and all these
other guys that pitched last year, and I just got
a feeling guys, a lot of those middle to late relievers.
There's gonna be a tram going back and forth from
sugar Land to Houston this.
Speaker 2: Year, visiting a Gordie down in West Palm Beach. I
know you mentioned earlier on the Morning Show that some
of the position players are showing up. How intense of
those workouts. I know you said, Carlos Great. Anybody else
that's appeared early on?
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, well Korea was was today. Have not seen
L two. They have not seen Jake Myers yet. But
again mondays to actual report day AW two as typically
the weekend, either Saturday or Sunday before players report is
usually when he gets out here. But yeah, I mean
in Korea, as soon as he walked in, went around
the entire clubhouse wapping up or shaking hands with every
guy in the clubhouse. And as Joe spot A noted,
I mean, that's that's what leaders do. That's leadership. So
and again something you didn't have from Korea at this
point a year ago. So it's good to have him
back in there. But one guy that intrigues me a lot, guys,
and we'll posted the interview on our sports Fox seven
ninety twitter, but that coal is. First off, the kid's
a specimen. I mean he he has muscles in every
part of his body popping out. But I mean it's
a kid that got up here in September and played well,
and they like him a lot. Dana Brown's mentioned his name,
and I think they are fully expecting Zach Cole to
have a good spring, and if he does, I think
he's in your everyday lineup. I think he's grabbing one
of those outfield spots and you know, see if they
trade Jack Myers or if he's here to stay. But
it certainly pencils Zach Cole into left field. He told
us this morning he's planning to play all three outfield
spots throughout spring training, and I would not pencil in
camp Smith's right field just yet. I mean, as as
good as he wants to start last year those late
season struggles, he has a lot to prove this spring,
all right.
Speaker 2: I don't mean to put you on the spot here,
but if I've penciled in the three outfielders already, if
let's say Zach Cole sucks in March or camp Smith
is off to this little start, who are the backups?
Because this team does not have tremendous outfield death right now,
they don't.
Speaker 4: You know. That's where I say, you know, keep an
eye on that eastcoc Paratus situation if they do trade him.
You know, we know that Bryce Matthews. They've talked about
getting him into some spring games to play a little
center field, so you know, maybe that could be an
answer as well. But you're right. I mean, I was
surprised when they traded Jacob Away, and you know, they
were so high on him as a as an outfielder
in the system, and so you're you're a little tight there.
Speaker 2: The easy answer is, hey, sus Sanchez has major league experience.
I mean, wasn't great since the deadline, that wasn't gonna
move the needle. Jordan could play some more left field,
but that's not what Joe A. Spotta wants. Zach Descenzo
could play a role. But man, you that's why the
and I don't know what your thought on this is,
that's why the parides talk will not go away. They
need a bonafide every day. I'm not looking for a
forty one to twenty guy, but somebody that has had
significant major league experience, because I would be safe to
say this would be the most inexperienced outfield combination in
Major League Baseball. If indeed it is, Cole Myers and
Smith open up the season and they're good, that's great.
I don't care about agent experience. But there's just not
a lot of lieutenants behind the three leaders.
Speaker 4: So you say it like a Kyle to they could
use or something like that.
Speaker 2: He's making sixty million dollars somewhere else. Yeah, and it's
all deferred till he's eighty eight. Until he's eighty eight
years old, so well, well, and I.
Speaker 4: Mean let's create a doomsday scenario here, guys. Let's I mean,
let's say Jake Myers has a bad spring, Cam Smith
is bat in two hundred and uh and Zach Cole
is over throughout Stord drinks. Is this what does this
outfield group look like? Opening?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there there's a world where it's three subpar outfielders.
I think it's a storyline, Gordy, that's gonna that's not
gonna go away for a while. Now again, if they
all come up and hit beautifully and we're not gonna
worry about it. But if you're saying create the storyline
for twenty twenty six, number one is the crowded and
field number two is the outfield, everything else will play itself.
We talked about the depth and pitching. I think we're
gonna be the astros will be okay with even if
a hater doesn't open up the year. I'm not overly
concerned about backup catcher because everybody's gonna be wried about
their backup catcher. I think they're rotation is gonna got
plenty of options. But those two, the two things we're
talking about. One doesn't hurt a division race because if
you have extra infielders. You're in a good spot, but
a bad outfield no power can hurt you, especially if
you're all penciling them as a six, seven eight or
seven eight nine guys in your lineup.
Speaker 4: Well, and then your utility guy you added Nick Allen,
not exactly tearing the cover off the ball. I will
tell you, guys, the ward I've heard multiple times yesterday
and today is defense. They want to pride themselves on
being a great defensive club. But that's great. Uh, you
can't have the timely hitting issues that you had for
a good portion of last season because you're not going
to sell a ton of tickets. People coming out to
see a bunch of two to one and three to
two ball games.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't. I think and think. I think the
audience is smart and realized. You know, you don't care
if two to one you're gonna win baseball games. The
askers want to win baseball games, Well.
Speaker 4: I I met losing two.
Speaker 2: To one point. Yeah, nobody, nobody wants to do that.
All right, we're gonna need some crawfish this weekend. What
we're gonna do it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Willie's a grill in ice House, multiple locations, all
over Houston and uh, yeah, they sent me some photos
yesterday and uh it is definitely crawfish season and it's
time to ramp up. So I can't wait to get
back to Houston and uh apparently cold. Going to watch
some American hockey today, uh and enjoy some crawfish at
Willie's Ice House.
Speaker 2: Okay, and when are you back? Are you there tomorrow too?
Speaker 4: I'm here tomorrow as well, so I'll be talking to
you guys one more time.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you, Gardy. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks
for the visit.
Speaker 4: As always, all they've they've laid out your red carpet
already here meaning what oh the I mean Gene already
came to me said, hey, what's what's Matt's list of demands?
I said, I mean about red em and M's a
model wide.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, it was read on and yes, hand
hand picked, hand picked. I don't want to picking them
on my M and M's well else they gonna get them.
Thank you, Guardy. We'll see you later. Yeah, I don't,
I don't even you know, no, just give me the
that's fine peanut, by the way, right, I'm a playing guy,
but I think I'm in the minority. I think I
like him both. I like them both as well, but
I would prefer people. I like them both. But I'm
a plain guy. I'm enjoy or mom or mountains. You
have to neither. Really, I love them both. I also,
I'm more of a fruit candy than Yeah, say, I'm
in the opposite side. Did you know that a'm enjoys
tar patch? Kids, you give me a bag of If
you put a bag of nerd clusters right here, like
a three pound, it will be gone by the end
of the show. I cannot are you challenging me? I
cannot help my You know what I'm gonna buy you something.
We're gonna go to wa wall No, no time, no please, No,
I'm trying to quit. Why because I'm gonna get like
seven million grams of sugar. You're not playing shirts and
skins and baskets. I don't care your finger. I'm trying
to stay alive. All right, we're late. My fault ten
forty nine, Matt Ross shot is sports talk seven ninety
all right? Suret second here because we were Gordy was
talking about getting the red carpet treatment. I've never even
been a snob about eminem colors. I'm just all candy
tastes same to me. But there are some celebrities the same. Yeah,
there are some celebrities like they must not have brown
eminem's or something in their way. Well, a lot of
people say that they do that just to make sure
they're paying attention to other demands. They'll just slip something
in there, hmm, to see if the people are paying attention.
You know, like, uh, you're telling a story to your
wife and you can tell she's not paying attention, so
you slip in some of there about how you hit
a guy with brass knuckles and punch him in the throat,
just to see if she's she's paying attention. It's funny.
I did that to my wife just yesterday. She's like, man,
you look hot. I said, thank you. I said I
haven't been told that in a week. And she's like what,
because I thought she was just flippantly saying it. Oh okay,
the mitner do a double take. No, like you're warm, yes,
ross because I was warm. I had a fever. I
don't know. You're always sweating her head when you eat.
That's true. Wondering hot sauce does it to me, that's
for sure, all right. I don't know where you guys
were at a tie place or you never know that.
We got an athletic poll. Want to get to it
in the next hour of the show. I want to
let you hear what Kevin Durant said about uh, basically
throwing the international players under the bus for the All
Star Game. He's like a playful manner, but he was
he was being serious. Okay, So we'll get to that,
and we have I just don't get it coming up
at eleven thirty. So we got a lot going on
between now and two o'clock to day. It's a busy show.
We need people to call in and say hello, Yeah,
if they want to. I mean, we don't mind just
you and I just chick out, but we like it.
But we like to call in our interaction. Yes, of course.
I mean some listeners, some sports hosts in his town
hate you, and we don't. We don't. We love you.
We do love you. Now, we will not always agree
with you. No, And if you could have I say,
Jayalen williamsix jayl Williams A and I'm probably gonna mute you,
gonna get very upset. Yeah, I'm going to I understand,
but generally speaking, it's okay. You do a great job.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 2: By the way, shout out to my friend Kelvin Sampson uh,
a finalist for the Natesmith Basketball Hall of Fame really
and Mike D'Antoni, both of them, huh are for the
finalist list. Okay, So we're going to talk to uh
Kelvin next week, late in the week after we get
back from Florida, because a week from Saturday, the one
loss Arizona Wildcats come to town. It's a big matchup, folks.
So the Cougars have k State coming up first. Have
you heard the audio from k State coach? They got
their ass kick yesterday. He said the guys aren't going
to be on this team or something like that. I
saw that we should play some of that. We should.
And then we have another big twelve coach Colorado who
was embarrassed by his performance. These big twelve coaches that
are shaming themselves. So we'll play some of that for you.
But yeah, Arizona, Iowa State, and somebody else that's really
a juggernaut, Iowa State, Oh, Kansas three really tough Houston
games down the stretch. Then you get to lay up
with Colorado before the tournament. So big twelve sounds like
it's all wins. It's a better be Gotta keep that
number two seed, keep that South region alive. Well, what's
going on? Get that one seed, baby, let's go. I'll
talk to Kevin about that next week. Okay, ten fifty
seven we get to to uh, some grumpy coaches and
a grumpy player about international All Star competition. Next here
on seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety's The mac Thomas Show with Ross.
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seven nine zero seven one three two one two five
seven Honey, rockets last night committed too many turnovers and
I think we're repeating ourselves. Unfortunately, that was it's just
gonna be what is what it is this year? No
twenty one turnovers.
Speaker 11: That's like.
Speaker 2: Christian Wood rockets stuff and Kevin Porter Junior and Jalen Rookie,
Jalen Green and our goat had eight of them. I know,
get him some rest. Don't trying the Star Game. He's
zero effort. He's gonna try in the All Star Game.
Listen to this. Here's Kevin Durant talking about man, stop
going to us quote unquote old heads when it comes
to competing in the All Star Game. I thought, I
thought I sent it to you. No, that's that's the
Colorado coach. Don't don't put the wrong on you, I thought,
I said to Kevin Durant, all right, Okay, well I thought,
I said, I thought I sent it to him. Okay,
we'll try it again. Uh. Basically saying is that, hey,
I'm gonna give a damn. Why don't you tell Luca
and you tell Wemby and the rest of the Euros
to give a damn Jokic. So uh oh, here it
is Europeans.
Speaker 6: In the World team thing will compete because I look
at Luca Shows and Nicole jok Now, let's go back
and look at what they do with the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: Is that competition, So we have a question what they've
been doing.
Speaker 12: But we're gonna question the.
Speaker 2: Old heads in Americans.
Speaker 10: But these two dudes out there, Luca and Yokis, they
don't care about.
Speaker 2: You should be laying on the floor. They shooting half court.
Speaker 6: But you gotta worry about the old hids playing hard
between the lines.
Speaker 2: Bro, I'm just thinking about the times. I'm just saying
that I can read between the lines, and it's not
just about you.
Speaker 6: It's just an overall topic that everybody's talking about.
Speaker 12: You just have to.
Speaker 1: Ask you that question.
Speaker 2: Hmm, there's an awkwardmedia lite was a general chuckling. I mean,
he's funny. I thought it was funny because he's not
being serious. But he I mean he is, but he's not.
There's truth to every joke, well most jokes. Oh, I
believe that to be accurate. Yeah, so he he wants uh.
I asked the question to Nicole Yokichen why he's putting
up half court shots? So don't you so? Jokic will
be asked tomorrow the media day, do you care about
the All Star Game? Ago? I don't even care about
the He doesn't. He doesn't even care about the NBA finals.
So we used to get home to his horses. I
live I triple double every single night, and I don't care.
He wants to just go and brush his horses. He
didn't care about the finals. He has twenty triple doubles
this year. That's it. That's it. Miss also missed a month. Yeah,
there was, wasn't there some video he was talking about
going for Russell Westbrook's. I guess Russell Westbrook has a
triple double record, right, I think so Oscar Robertson's gotta
be up there as well. That of course, but my
guess is Russell, because of his longer tenure, has probably
gotten more.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Russ is one, Jokich is two all time, Oscar Robertson three,
Magic Johnson, Lebron James Form five. Yeah, how do you
celebrate Yokis when you become the all time triple doubles leader.
I'm gonna go take a break. One hundred and eighty
four triple doubles. He he's not thirty one yet. I
told you what I said. He's top fifteen. Now I
got to put him in there. So he's getting the
top ten when he's done, done, done, which always access
I have an uncomfortable conversation. Who were bumping out three
time MVP. Did Larry Bird win? He probably maybe won three.
Greatest passing center ever in the history of the NBA.
Most MVPs I believe is Kareem at six and I
think Jordan at five. Then there's a couple of guys
who have four. Lebron won't be in one of them.
Are we kicking Larry Bird out? Are you gonna do that?
Who's I didn't say that. I'm just asking though as
a friend, I will. I mean, I didn't really watch
him play a ton, so I have a bad perspective
on it, Hine. Mostly I watched him and he had
a broken back for the Dream Team, insane competitor, incredible,
dead eye shooter. If you talk about you know how
Michael was known for the dagger big jumpers, Larry Bird
did it the same way. He just did it. He
did it with more primeter than Michael would slash the
lane and drive lambs or get dunks. Larry Bird would
just hit three pointers and baseline three and long two
point shots would just kill your soul. Okay, I'm just
gonna give you the list. Three or more MVPs I
already said Kareem and Jordan, Bill Russell had five, which
I forgot, Wilt Lebron with four. Three would be Bird, Magic,
Moses Malone, and Jokic. He's already on that list. Well,
Moses on the top ten list. So that one, when
we're about that, No, the top ten list, you're saying
goodbye to you. Magic Johnson and Larry Burg won the
MVP twice with the Rockets. That is legendary. Once with
the Sixers. Young Matt love Mo Malone. Young Matt loved
Mom Malone when he would come and when I was
doing you of h games and Elvin was there, and
Mo would come over and say hi to us. So
it makes you Elvin not to me. But that's fine
here there. I was still mesmerized. Man, I guess Moses Malone,
Kareem got three with the Lakers and three with the Bucks. Okay,
Ross is kicking out Magic Johnson and Larry Bird said,
I didn't say any of that. Well, we're gonna have
to have that visit down the road. Yeah, I mean
he's getting in these conversations with everyone I just mentioned. Okay,
so uh yeah, So Durant just wants a professional approach
at the All Star break. I hope it gets it.
I hope that when I watched the highlights, because that's
what I'll be doing, is I'll be traveling on Sunday,
that they'll be like, man, this was the best All
Star game in the last twenty five thirty years. We
can reinvigorate it because if the NBA is set on
having it, then you might as well make it competitive
and at least give us some assemblance of the best
in the world. Give a damn for a couple of hours.
Speaker 10: I think it was.
Speaker 2: It was one of the years where I think it's
maybe the first year they had the draft, it was better.
I'm trying to remember. It was a few years ago
where it was actually there was some there was a
little bit of company. When one team got the two hundred.
That's when people are like, you know what, you can
have your game. Uh, twenty twenty four was two eleven
to eighty six. I don't even remember this. I forgot
about this now until now. Last year it was Chuck
and Kenney and Shack and Canvas picking teams. So it
was TV driven, wasn't There wasn't there one year where
you had to score a certain number of points first
to that number one the game, the elam ending. I
like that, that was good. I want them to do
that in the overtime. Oh, first to fifteen regular season only.
Huh first to fifteen? Who needs triple overtime in the
regular season. It doesn't have very ham it doesn't, but
it at least double overtime happens. It feels like that.
That's that's fair. And especially when you're on back to
backs and all this stuff. First to fifteen, what's up?
You know what if you're gonna do that, do it
for the playoffs too, well, it wouldn't be gimmicky. You're
still having to compete hard. Okay. Yeah, I mean I'm
not a super big fan of changing rules for regular
season into postseason. I know it has to happen because
I know you can't play football games that are six hours.
But baseball it makes sense too. Yeah, I mean baseball
is there, let's go home. Yeah. The thing about baseball,
the difference is that you don't want you run out
of arms and you're sitting in the nineteenth inning of
a July Mundane baseball game and you wind up ruining
your season because you've went to your seventh pitcher for
the six consecutive day. All of a sudden, you got
capsule sprains and biceps ten good all bad juju words
for astro fans, that is for sure. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven. And I was talking about coaches
that are grumpy, so uh and I know you're a
big connoisseur of Texas Tech basketball. Ross, No, I'm not. Okay,
play with me as we go along. Okay, here the
legendary Darvin Ham. Uh, yeah there was Lance Hugh. Lance
Hughes was a white guy used to dunk for text Tech,
went back in the day. Okay, yeah, who's that a
guy that was there for like ten years? Andre Imtt
or something like yeah, Andre, that's right. That's a good
call on your part. So yesterday, uh, Texas Tech hosted
Colorado and Colorado won by thirty four points. No excuse me,
Texas Tech one thirty thirty four seventy eight to forty
four was the final score. Okay, something called Tad Boyle,
he's the coach of Colorado.
Speaker 8: Boil.
Speaker 2: If you have a name called Tad Boil, that doesn't
it sounds like you should be a yacht captain. It
was like, your basketball Is that just short for Thatius? Yes? Okay,
because I used to work for a Tad who is Statius?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Who's that Tad Brown? Okay? Whose son in law is
Jared Sidham?
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 2: And Tad was a long time president of the Rockets.
Now he's in charge of three teams, the Commanders, the
Devils and the seventy six ers. Wow, conglomerate there. So
Tad Brown met with the media yesterday. That Tad Brown.
Oh yeah, my fault. Yeah, I'll take the brain blame
and the blame and the Walliam too, Tad Boyle, Now
you tell me, is he asking to be fired when
you say these thirty four golden seconds of commentary? I,
oh knows.
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 2: Is it running? I don't hear it. I don't hear
it either. It's just a good old fashion.
Speaker 13: There's just no their way to say it. You know, everybody,
I love you guys are from West Texas, you probably
know what that is.
Speaker 2: And we took one tonight.
Speaker 13: So credit Texas Tech. You know they have a motto
with their program that the toughest team wins. And there
wasn't even question who the tougher team was tonight And
that was the that was Texas Tech, and we weren't.
And so I'm embarrassed by our performance. I'm embarrassed for
a university. I'm embarrassed for the city of Boulder. I'm
embarrassed for the state of Colorado. I'm embarrassed for every
former player that's worn this uniform.
Speaker 2: And we got to own this.
Speaker 13: But you know, when you give up seventeen offensive rebounds,
the biggest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tad. He was not overly pleased. He basically said,
I suck, My players, suck, my school fields. Should be
embarrassed by everybody who's ever Warren the jersey, who's the
greatest Colorado basketball player of all players in the NBA
I and within the last two three years, I just
can't remember on somebody roab me back in the day
it was pretty good. But I don't think you know
there's somebody that's been in the last five years to
play for Carla. Yeah, but I mean, don't you kind
of I mean, self deprecation is appreciated at times, but
I don't know how thin of an ice ted boil
is on there in Colorado. But that doesn't normally help
when you basically help write your obituary Alec Burks, their
all time points leader. He might have been the Colorado
guy I was talking about look for Utah jazz for
a while. I want to say, m yeah, so yeah,
I don't know if that's where you want to go.
There's a fine line between we didn't play hard enough
and I'm mad at my guys than basically saying we
need to apologize to any student that ever went to Colorado.
If your grandmother's grandmother was a student at University of Colorado,
we apologize. Derek White Colorado. Yeah, Boston Celtic, great legend.
I knew was somebody I recognized recently. There you go,
all right, So what do you think do you go?
If you're a CEO A lot you're like, man, thanks
for saying that. It makes me feel I mean, what
do you want him to go?
Speaker 4: Say?
Speaker 2: Would you get you said? I asked, seventy eight to
forty four? Yeah, they almost doubled you up in Division
one major college basketball in a Power four league. But
then I l and money. Then I almost been going
all to Oldeon. Yeah, basketball squads are not looking so hot.
They're four and eight in the Big Twelve. No, we
got another coach. We're gonna play a little bit later
that basically is it the Kansas State one? Yeah, I
want to hear that. Yeah, we'll play that coming back.
I do want to get you to this Athletic survey
about you know, sometimes when you don't ask the person's
name or say, hey, we'll keep all of this in
between us and won't tell you, we won't announce who
you're saying, they're a little more forthcoming. That's how general
people are in life, right. Yes, I'm not gonna put
your name behind it, but what do you think about
this person? Like when you talk about Clainton, Oh, all
the time, all the time, but we have to attach
your name to it, so you kind of saw play though.
Imagine if what you'd say about Adam if you didn't
have to mention, Oh my god, be incredible. All right,
So yeah, uh, the Athletic has an NFL survey about
a variety things including Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny made the
survey list. Oh really, Yeah, I'm curious. You'll stay tuned
to fin out exactly what players thought about a variety
of things, including concussions and bad Bunny. But right now,
word for Big City Wings. No, the Athletic does these surveys,
and this survey apparently was done before the Super Bowl,
so the bad Bunny question is going to be a
little dated. But that's not really the key part of
the whole thing. It is Matt and Ross here on
Sports Talk seven ninety seven to one three two one
two five at seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Now, they were not like I
was doing some more reading about this. This is not
about yes or no. This was basically trying to get
quotes from NFL players. So we don't know if they
were stars, if they were special teamers. We have no
idea who these people are. Okay, but it's it's synonymous.
So it's just going to be a random push here
of people, a variety of questions that were asked. One
of them was number one, how do you feel about
the tush push? Is it time for the tush push
to be outlawed? Responses? It's a dumb rule, dumbest roll
we've had in a while. In my opinion, it's bull
blank rugby. Okay, I believe we were sold on the
change being related to player safety. It just doesn't make
sense to me, honestly, have you ever seen a plant
involving the tush push and then Texans use it themselves
where it hasn't worked. I mean, how many times have
you watched a tush push? Not its rare, but I
feel like I have seen it not work very rare.
I feel like the Texans botch one or two before.
Are you presuming that or are you just you saw
it yourself? I mean, who was the backup ten? And
that was the Reverend Jordan that was doing the snaps
still over, That's what it was. Yeah, he was doing
good because you got to jump to the side because
then everybody now everybody piles in the middle, and so
you got to find some room to the left of
the right. Yeah. I don't like it because again it
feels like it's indefensible. But the real reality is there
should be more off side calls on the offensive side
then they're not calling. That's the thing that bothers me.
You have to really be strict with its calls, and
I think there's a lot of teams getting an unfair
advantage because they're not calling the whistle because the guys
are crossing line of scrimmas before they're supposed to be
that would be my thought. Do NFL players ever hide
concussion syndrome symptoms? Here's what the variety people say on
the athletic sometimes you go lights out for a second,
you just have to play it off. NFL doesn't want
to hear that, do they wross No, But I mean
that's you could see that happening. Somebody will see they're
not lights getting knocked out, and their teammate will pick
them up and try to get them off them off
the ground and stuff like that. Another person says, we
don't mess with brains. Smart. Yeah. The results were eighty
percent say no, they never tried to hide concussions since symptoms.
Nineteen point five percent said yes. Next, football is about
availability more than ability. You're going to hide whatever you
can do to be out there. I know it's shameful
to say. That's shared by probably quite a few people.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not something you want to do, but it's
what you do. How widespread sports betting affects NFL players.
One person says people have said they'd kill me. Another
person says people use slurs. People have said they'd killed me.
In college after the National Championship Game, I got a
lot of Venmo request. It's funny. I really don't even
like watching football other than just playing it. I can
see that. Yeah. So the Athletic made an a full
article out of every one of these questions. Okay, so
I guess they did that for some good clicks. Have
you ever seventy percent of them say they have been
confronted by a fan or contacted about sports, bet losses
or fantasy football. It feels seventy percent. It feels low.
That's low because I think we've deftually had a lot
of long snappers. If you call out or the left guard,
I remember interviewing great players and Yester, you are saying
thank you for your service and your fantasy football helping
me win. Yeah, that's kind of an inadvertent way of
saying you helped me that doing that our NFL players. Okay.
With Tom Brady's dual role as an owner and a broadcaster,
one says it's just a conflict of interest. Even if
Tom is being careful, the optics are not good and
it could create an situation down the road. Tom's those
broadcast meetings. Tom's gonna do Chiefs games, Tom's gonna do
Charger games. Now he's not gonna do Raider games, but
he's gonna do other teams, probably in the AFC West.
Eighty four percent are okay with it, six point six
I say no, and nine percent don't care. Next quote.
If he's getting information and sharing all the raiders, so
what they sucked anyway doesn't seem to be helping much. Yep.
One more quote. Teams just had to be mindful of
what you tell him, just like with any broadcaster or reporter.
All right, next question, Uh, how do how do NFL
players feel about Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl halftime show.
One person says, I don't speak Spanish, so I'm not
a big fan, but I do think it's cool to
have him because America is based on diversity. America was
built on immigration, so I feel like having him just
furthers the American dream. Another player says, I'd prefer anyone
who's synonymous with football and football culture. I feel like
there are tons of artists out there who are fans
of the game. One of their quotes says, heck, yeah,
it's going to be a good time. The girls like
Bad Bunny, so of course we're gonna like it. It's
been truthful this is a fun one set inn NFC
offensive player. I don't even know who bad Money is.
I always think it should be an American. I think
they're trying too hard with this international stuff. Puerto Ricans
are American citizens. Just for those who aren't aware. Okay, uh,
should it be our fifty first date? I don't know,
I get, I don't know what's what's the benefit that's
a good well. I mean, we're trying to buy green
of the vote. We're trying to we one was making
Canada our fifty first day. I'm sorry, I'm the last
person that I don't know either. I thought the whole
Canada thing bring fifty first date was pretty full. I think,
I mean, apparently they're having infrastructure issues still from Hurricane
Maria from years ago. If I can get some more time,
I can get them help the people some help. Sure,
let's make them the fifty fourth first date. If we
can get more. Tim Horton's here, I'm all for Canada
being our fifty first time. Okay, all right? One more?
Who would NFL players pick for the US Olympic Flag
football team? Responses fastest dude in the league turn him loose,
especially in flag football you have to go with a
dual threat. I hope he is the unanimous choice. He
can catch, throw, run, jump, he can do it all.
He should automatically do it. Who's it? I don't know.
I didn't say he Lamar Jackson. Uh oh yeah. I
went to the poll. He got the most votes. If
you had one pick for the Olympic Flag football team,
twelve of the respondents picked Lamar Jacks Jackson. He would
never guess. Number two. Tyreek Hill was second with seven votes.
Then Justin Jefferson, that's a good pick. Pick. Yeah, it's
why I like Jamier Gibbs, Miles Garrett, Jamiir Gibson, and
Pat Mahomes. But Lamar Jackson the runaway pick. Any c J.
Stroud votes in that group, I did not see one,
all right? Was Ay Flowers got to vote? Zay Flowers
fumbles the ball too much? I guess Jon Robinson that's
a good one. Yeah, all right. So I just wanted
to pass along a few things on that. The thing
I love the anonymous player polls. I'm with you. Oh,
I just again, it's we're not in a heavy sports season,
so I just with me a little anedotal things to
bring out there to the audience a little bit. And
obviously the one thing that I think has infiltrated sports
in the last ten years that I'm surpris it has
not even done. More so is the gambling. Did you
watch again? I didn't watch any of the Super Bowl pregame, No,
but I got it. I got it like before the
anthems and then the game. I saw Green Day, but
I was you had ads every five seconds. The amount
of money of these prop what they call prop not
prop services, but prediction prediction prediction markets like Calshie, I
mean all of the place on that I've been dabbling,
have you. It's legal here in Texas, so the other one.
But the juice is not good. Yeah, it's they juice
both sides. So I would say long term, it's going
to be difficult. Just strictly, I'm talking about sports betting.
You can bet on anything. Who's going to be the
Republican nominee in twenty twenty eight? Stock market going up
or down? In the market, you can you can predict
a bunch of crazy stuff. There's like weather forecast you
can predict too. So but yeah, that's the amount of
pressure that the athletes at least publicly are getting is
small ko I thought it would be. I think I'm
surprised we don't have more now. We do have the
Chauncey Billup situation and Damon Jones and all that stuff
that was in NBA that hit, But those are happening
once every handful of years. I'm get college kids that
are involved in that too, but those are with some
low end schools that yeah, nobody car games are being manipulated.
And I wonder, because I was naive, I thought I
thought it would be so obvious and easy for people
to get caught that that would be much of a deturn.
But when you get money and you get desperate people
in desperate yeah, anything can happen. But I think with
the amount of people getting caught caught, is this going
to get lessened and lessoned. I don't know. I would
say yeah, logically, I would say yes, but I've been surprised.
I'll say this, I think we're due for another big scandal.
I had to say a couple of months ago, but
I mean, I think we're That was Jerry rose Eer
just got cleared. Yeah, Showy Tony was kind of it
was a different thing. Well, it's more of a story
for us to presume that he was get involved in game,
but he never really was, you know. I mean there
are some people in sports radio that like to take
stories and act and embellish them to help their own
calls with a program like there's no real evidence that
you know who shot himself in the foot, but for
the second the show people love it, but a bunch
of sensationalists. And I apologize for such of Jabronis for
being sensationalists because it does sound good and there's no
proof that tells me I'm wrong. Yeah, you can never
prove a negative proved to me that there are mutant
teenage turtles in the sewer right now. M you can't,
I think they're there or UFOs. Yeah, you can't prove. Yeah,
But we have to have logical thinking here and logically thinking.
My argument to my Joe Mixon shooting himself on the
foot is when players are hurt for a long period
of time, somebody eventually says something. This has been very
very tight lip. I feel like if he got shot
in the foot, he would have a gun to the hospital.
And generally when somebody gets shot, aren't the police contact
may maybe he was in a private hunter astantic. Okay,
so somebody helped me out with this. May perhaps somebody
in the police or a hospital or something. If somebody
shows him the hospital and they got shot in the foot,
isn't the police. Don't the police automatically get involved? You
would think so. So Thus the logically thinking result of
this is free coffee malpractice. And you're getting a coffee
in a treat We already got your coffee. Oh you
want good coffee, I get it. That's fine, go ahead,
subpar mid it's fine. That'll se my line. It is
a my Thomas show with Ross. You know what I
ask you sometimes, Ross about things I don't get and
I need you to help me with some things. Okay.
We do a segment every Thursday in the show called
it I just don't get it. If there's something in
your life that you think Jonathan or I could help
you with, Ross probably will give you bad advice. I
think Jonathan I can give you sage advice. If there's
something in your life you just don't get, whether it's
sports later or not, let us know right now. It's
seven one three two, one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven one either or
something you don't get let us know. We'll discuss it
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Speaker 11: Do you have something in.
Speaker 2: Your life that you just don't get? No need to worry,
no need to We will to do the topics to
see if we comprehend the thing that they can use
our friends. It's time to stay.
Speaker 11: I just don't get it, all right, what don't you get? Rossie?
Speaker 2: This is an opportunity for you to just basically end
the confusion of your life. I can give you sage advice.
Jonathan will give you the younger person's thoughts and dreams
and aspirations of it. Okay, that's what you got this week?
Speaker 7: Me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going straight to me. I am going to you.
I guess I just need this explained because this keeps happening.
And now recently an Alabama player was ruled ineligible. Is
to going to the courts. What is happening with these
players who have played in the G League as professionals. Yes,
and then they're going to be who want to play
college basketball? Well, the Glabama kid got shot down. You're
not going anymore. But there apparently there are still others
who have played in the G League who are in
college basketball and eligible and playing. I don't get it.
I want to wrap my head around it. Because Darrel,
I'm anti NCUBLEA. I know I want to go against
the NCUB in any way possible, but I can't wrap
my head around this one. I have not gotten into
it at all. It's highly confusion to me because some
players have been given clear and some have not. I
don't get it. I would lean towards there's probably some
good evidence to support each case. I just can't give
it to you, so I'm I apologize to you for
not being given You don't get it either, Okay, Yeah,
that's it. So I just don't He's a you know what,
he's the amateur athletics. It's clearing house leader for us. Yeah.
Speaker 6: To the point for insto double A for different sports.
You have to look at gymnastics. We have athletes that
compete in the Olympics and still come back to college,
which shouldn't even be at all. We have like metal
winnings that are there. It's to the point, and basketball
is tricky because it gives such an advantage to the team,
and they're complaining because they want to be kids, but
because of what inn double A is at right now,
you can't. There's no old guidelines and it's really you
still ENTI a wild West. Yeah, and that's just the
whole point of it, Like you have no guidelines, you
have no structure to where you can't say kids can
leave college and then come back because they still have eligibility.
And that's why it's the problem with the JUCO athletes
saying that they need more years, but you already did
college but doesn't count. It's too much great area to Yeah,
do you think.
Speaker 2: JUCO should count? I'm kind of I don't understand. Yeah,
I can't. I don't have a strong opinion on that,
which is bad in this business matter. I gotta have
a strong opinion and I have to yell it loud
and act like I'm smarter than everyone. But I just don't.
I kind of see both sides when it comes to this,
should JUCO years count against your eligibility? My initial blush
reaction that is JUCO years should count. You're still going
to as you're still developing. I mean, yeah, it's it's
a year of development, so you gain any advantage, I
don't know. But also part of me wants to say, like,
if you're in school and you're actual actively pursuing a degree,
not taking ballroom dancing like Matt Lioner, not not in
classes at all, that Carson back. If you're literally like
a PhD candidate, I technically go to the school, you
should be able to play for the schools athletic teams,
I guess. But then who's to decide what courses are
gonna right, like the general studies, getting your masters in
general studies at LSU, Like, for instance, you got kids
bouncing around playing four schools in five years. There's no
serious interest at all in getting a degree. You are
simply enrolling in a class to say that you're a student,
You're not going to that class. You're gonna play your season,
then you're gonna leave and go somewhere else. Problem is,
here's what I don't get you ready for this? How
do those kids able to transfer all their credits that
probably some of them don't. They don't get their credits
yeah most of the time. So you're just spinning in
your wheels, right, You're just going around and around and round.
You're chasing the dream of the NBA or the NFL
or you're saving that nl cash. It's man, When when
did our college athletic system become so convoluted in such
a hot mess? You know what it did? And I'm
gonna blame the NCUBLEA on this. When they started taking
the Megan Megan Megan Megan million dollar deals. When you
when you brag about your billion dollar contract with CBS
for a march madness, everybody says like, I want that
part of my piece myself. If it ain't for me,
you ain't get any of it, So give it to me.
And then instead of having regulation in some sort of
normalcy to this business, it is just nuts. It's it's wild.
I wonder, I mean, it feels like it's changed even
from like a year ago to two years, to go
to three years ago. Where's it gonna go in five years?
Schools were not able to directly pay twenty million dollars.
How they can directly do it? How many active law
I wonder how many lawsuits the NCAA is actively in.
These lawyers keep taking els too. They gotta change law firms. Yeah,
you can't go to keep going a Dowey cheatment. How
every single time I'm out a lot of billable hours
for the n C double A. All right, so if
you got something in nine fiar you just don't get
They're i'd be sports related seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety I just asked Ai, not everything that
I'll I'll be wrong, Oh would you say? And I
just asked Google? How many lawsuits is the NC double
A on? It says at least fifty five active lawsuits
without legibility cases. Who's the law firm on that? Whoo?
And can I buy? Are they publicly traded? Can I
buy their stock? You cannot, They're they're privately owned. Okay, Jonathan.
In your life, I know you've been busy the last
couple weeks, and in life you don't get uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, are you guys familiar with the fusion of innovation theory?
Speaker 2: The fusion of innovation?
Speaker 6: So basically it's the theory that goes back to the
seventies of media theory about how people adapt to different
cultures and different media outlets, or just.
Speaker 2: In diffusion of innovations, diffusion of innovation rating on it
right now, go ahead, So it's for the audience left
to right.
Speaker 6: It's of being the both ends being at the smaller
percentages goes from left the right, innovators, early adapters, early majority,
late majority, and at the end laggards. So talking about media,
and I challenged Matt to this as well, I don't
understand is when you go and talk about the All
Star and how they're marketing two different audiences. When you
speak about it, you're speaking out of European as a
laggard because you don't like what's happening. You don't like change,
the same way as it went with paying the athletes.
You didn't like it until everybody was like, oh no,
this is better, until there was proof. There's people like
that in general as a population that are always going
to sit back on these innovations. What I don't understand
is when you're saying, like Kia is no point because
I'm the person that's gonna buy Kia, Well you have
to think about it in the media's perspective. The older
people are going to be more loyal and more conservative
to their Chevrolet. They're forward their key, you know, whatever
they have. But what they're going to keep doing is
target the innovators, earlier adapters, which are going to be
the younger audiences and the younger demographic because they need
to boil that brain into their head. And so what
happens is you have people that don't like it. That's okay,
that's a completely different scenario. But saying is it's not smart.
Same thing with the Super Bowl and saying, okay, that's
not smart as bad production. But we found out it
has the biggest streaming numbers of the whole team. And
you said, oh, because there's more streaming. Yeah, But I'm
saying in general, when it comes down to it, you
have to think about back in your day, what did
Nike do to the early invarious They put it on
Michael Jordan that's never been heard of. There was probably
a lot of people like, oh, this is not fair,
this and this and this. It blew them up, and
it blew up Nike as a whole into the whole category.
It took people, Oh, I like these sneakers, I don't
really like it. And so now it's main street pop
culture Nike and Jordan's shoot. So I challenge you when
you're saying and I don't understand is when you're like,
doesn't make sense, it's not smart. That's a different thing
than you saying you don't like it because it's a
change for you. And I don't understand because you're not
the only person that does this, because Ross on the
other side saying, well, don't watch it then, But you
guys have to understand these people don't want to be
stuck like the MLB that can't bring in the younger
audience because they're not doing anything like Ross always speaking automate, automated, automate,
make it better for the game. And this is the
things I don't understand why people just kind of put
negative opinions on it instead of saying I just don't
like it and saying it's bad for the business.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense or like they're trying to get
the younger audience is what you're saying, and they're trying
to get them.
Speaker 6: And to the point with the influencers, that's the whole
point you have to get. It's got to start somewhere.
The innovators are going to pick up no matter what.
And this is the point of the theory. The laggers
are always going to stay behind until it's proven.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: You gave me a lot there, let me get a
break in and go to it. Because you mixed a
lot of different categories in one. But I I think
I can. I can kind of all wrap it up
and give you one generic answer. I think I can,
and we'll do that we come back. So again, what Jonathan,
I think you're trying to say is that there is
a certain segment of the population that says I don't
like something, they should get rid of it, as compared
to just saying I don't like something.
Speaker 6: And you do it.
Speaker 2: I guess also, I guess it's the statement about Kia
should be catering to me rather than the young audience
who doesn't have disposal income. I didn't say cater I
said they should not try to forget about us, because
we're the ones right now that are more apt to
buy their product than twenty two. I think it's an
interesting point what John to bring it up about, because
you know people our age, Matt, it's more Kia is like,
you know, the poor person car or the cheap car
or whatever, and maybe they are I own a Kia,
they get cheap. Yeah. Now, well it used to be
I'm saying the stigma, yes, yes, yes, and so trying
to the old one. I'm not saying that's the way
it is. I'm saying, that's that's what the old thing.
If you talked to you from ten years ago, twenty
years ago, I was like, oh you got a Kia,
Like are you okay? Can you eat?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: The key keys are a lot nicer now. They are
trying to infuse that with with a younger audience and
and okay, So I will try to address what he says,
because I think there's some there is some value in
what you were talking about. Eleven forty five on Sports
Talk seven eighty five seven, Christian Walker spoke today and
asked for the spring training and at twelve twenty will
play that for you? He said, I'll just want to
play eighty games. And DHB saw him, and maybe I'll
play some first base? Is that what he said? You'll
find out in one half hour from now. You know
what I'm sad about. We haven't played the Olympic theme
at any point. We have merely beginning many Olympic updates.
But yeah, thought Canada's beating Checchia for for nothing. Well,
we have the news at their period, You're right, Oh no,
oh yeah, you end up playing the news at noon theme.
The Olympic theme is that's top ten?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 2: Did we draft that in our in our top themes?
I should have I went with Wimbledon, sending up my
ask rightface at Wimbledon was yeah, terrible price. You didn't
go with the rolling arrows, the French open. Oh God?
All right, So Jonathan, I'm going to try to take
all your thoughts and try to wrap them up into
one tight topic. Here. I'll help you finance it. Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I am in a business in my industry, like most
people that listen, that have to adapt to change. So
I am not adverse to adapting to change. This is
just me myself and I okay. I was for the
longest time dead set against athlete payments because I thought
it would be a hot mess of an industry. And
I've always loved the belief that getting a full four
year ride with tuition and books and food and all
the good stuff that came with being just a scholarship
athlete was going to be worth it, because it still
has a tremendous value too, especially if you go to
an outstate school. But I've seen now in the change
of the last twenty to twenty five years, the amount
of money that is going in to the NCAA coffers
and these conference of coffers, and there should have been,
and there was, and there now is distribution to the athletes,
and I'm happy about that. I still believe to this
day there is too much renegade, too much craziness, no
self policing, and it's continuing to spiral out of control.
I don't have an answer for it, but that's just
how I see it. But I'm adapting to it. I've
adapted to rule changes in sports. I've adapted to abs,
I've adapted to designated hitter in all baseball, adapted to
the Astrosmerica. I mean, if you don't adapt, if you
don't adapt in our industry about how we do our shows,
you're mad the outside looking in. What I find, how
do I want to say this? What I find to
be disappointing is is that we have taken groups of
people and said, well, we're not going to like one
group of people can't like everything, so we're just going
to take a small group and make sure they're satisfied.
And I use as the NBA game as an example.
The NBA All Star Game was university loved thirty years ago,
forty years ago, maybe even twenty years ago. It has
been worked over and done and over again, and they
keep trying to find new ways to reinvent the wheel.
And instead of just going to the athletes and saying, hey,
play harder and let's have a competitive game, it's like,
you know, let's just do it and just make sure
the twenty one year old kids can enjoy it and
get think of their video clips on there. I don't
think that's good business. So I'm not trying to narrow
it down just to basketball. So while I have accepted
changes in sports, I do not accept the way the
NBA is handling its All Star Game. Because I love
the All Star Game as an adult and as a child,
and I want to continue and enjoy the All Star Game.
I don't enjoy the All Star Game anymore. I don't
enjoy I enjoy the Pro Football All Star Game, the
Pro Bowl. They've tried to change that. It hasn't worked out.
So while I can adapt to some things, there are
some things that I don't adapt to. And what I
don't adapt to is seeing this ridiculous exhibition that shows
the greatest ATHLETs of the world playing the best sport
that I love and watch. Treat it like it's a
pickup basketball game in your backyard, and I don't like it,
and so I'm not going to adapt to that. I'm
not going to change that and say, well, if the
twenty three year olds like it, that's more. That's that's
the most important thing as I'm a consumer of sports.
Speaker 6: Well, so I guess the question I'm asking you the
NBA with the Americans versus international, no problem with that.
So that's what I'm I guess I'm trying to hone
into as well for you to answer is like, that's
their way of doing it. And like you said, and
you're very permanent, and what Katie was talking about, they
had to make these players care, and I get and
right now in the NBA as a whole, it's just
the Americans getting all the scrutiny when these international people
aren't doing anything. And that thing is why Wimby is
making that change, Like, Okay, I'm going to do it
real hard. I'm gonna start this new flow of things.
And like you said earlier, and I'm not this isn't
a castrits or anything like that, but it's like you said,
earlier it could be the best also game and like
they actually changed it around. And I guess what I'm
trying to say is like we have to as you know,
being I mean, like you said, you've come through so
many of these changes that when these changes do happen,
like these influencers and stuff like that, it's not because
they're going to forget about It's not a negative. It's
because they trust their base is gonna stay. Yeah, they're
gonna have some criticism, and everybody, there's no business that's
for your criticism, but you have to the bas is there.
They're trusting that the base is gonna stay there. We're
going to fix this for you guys, but we also
have to grow and get these younger kids in there.
That's why I brought MLB as an example. MLB doesn't
do that, and that's why they're stuck doing this and
still doing these budget cabs and having to do this
and going on these like getting out and not doing anything.
And that's what I guess the example I was making
because at first I thought from you was, oh, I
hate it, I'm gonna I don't want to do anymore.
Is it's horrible? There any idea is bad, but you know,
speaking right now, what you're saying, it makes a lot
more sense.
Speaker 2: All All I want, all I want the MBGA to
do is to try and to give us something that
they gave thirty to four years ago on and I
don't know if it's possible. So my philosophy is, if
it's not possible and these guys don't want to do
it because they're risking injury, then scrap it. Yeah. I
think math perspective is that he's coming up as seeing
something that was great and competitive and fun and got
a lot of eyeballs. It's in decline, there's no there's
no denying the NDBA All Star Game from what it
once was is in decline, and the root of that
is the lack of competitiveness. So the NBA is trying
to innovate. They are trying to do something they have.
They came up with the the this team staff versus
Team Lebron where you do a draft, and then they
did the Chuck and Kenny thing, and now they're doing
the USA versus the World. So they are trying to
do something. But is it trying to resuscitate something that
is already dead or is it making an innovation and
trying to usher in a new generation. I mean, that's
I guess that's that's where we are. I feel like
in this discussion, I'm willing to contemplate something that should
be dead. I should say, like the last year you
said about the Team Kenny team that that didn't impact
the HUT. I totally forgot that even happened until I
just looked it up. I mean, it was a cool
way to draw up the players one year ago, and
I forgot. Yeah, by USA versus the world. I have
some intrigue if I remember to watch it. You said
it's on Sunday. Yeah, okay, Okay. Now you're gonna be
in Florida, So the question is gonna be do you
want to have anything to do? I was gonna say,
and be in the hotel. You could probably watch it. Yeah,
I'm watching it at Rachel's Steakhouse. Duh, soup, salad, steak, yes, ass.
I mean it's really good, not bad. So I've heard
what's our new expense reporting system? By the way, Well,
I'm going to have with our budget. Our market manager
is going to be his his's going to help me
with that. Okay, you may want to put that on
a scard, but it's tight. It's it's really tight. Just
like the telling it. Rachel's should ask what Rachel you
can contata about one second to figure it out. It's
a Brian McTaggert's favorite place I've heard. So all I'm
going to tell you is, Jonathan, is that I am
because I'm in a industry that requires change. And if
you are, if you are doing sports radio today like
you did it thirty years ago, you're out of the business.
They're trying to resuscitateate d it.
Speaker 5: R No.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's not resitated. I think it's shift
the focus. Don't keep trying to invent new, crazy ass
ways to play a game that was really good when
people gave a damn. I like USA versus the World,
and you have these athletes now who train three hundred
and sixty five days a year and this game is
an exhibition a world and throws the ball at half
court off the backboard for god to don't that's not
going to do any different good.
Speaker 6: And then actually at that point, Matt and Russ, I
would agree with you. After this year, if it doesn't happen, then.
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody turning any I don't want any
grade two ankle sprains or I have to make grade
three ankle sprains. If Kevin Durwan is out there now there,
and he's running up and down the floor, and you're
trying to change to get chased down blocks and he
flies and then runs his knee into the stanchion, I
don't want to see that. I don't. Yeah, and you're saying, well, Matt,
there are there is there a hypocrisy in what you're
saying a little bit. But I've been and look, I'm
not anti I'm anti WBC. I'm anti All Star Game
in general because to the initial point of I don't
want my guys getting hurt. But as I said, if
you're going to do it, then at least show up.
The WBC is competitive. Those guys are out there trying.
They are very competitive. I don't the timing of it
really hurts, because I think it's more about the body
in March, competing when you should be getting gearing yourself
for the start of the season. Let can't be that
much more rigorous than how many All Star Game injuries
were there back between nineteen and baseball I'm talking aboutasketball
between eighty and ninety five. Did did a young David
Robinson get hurt in an All Star Game? Known did
Michael Jordan get But you're also in the pay you're
I mean, I don't know how many major injuries there
have been in All Star Games. It's probably a very
short list. We could probably try to look it up.
Oh yeah. It's also just a different era as well,
because the pace of the game in the NBA game
and you know, uh, it's it's different than the nineteen
nineties where every team was running down the shot clock
and the games were ending eighty six to eighty. I
don't want to see. Don't I love today's NBA when
it comes down, I don't want to see eighty six
eighty four under any circumstance the Rockets, unfortunately ROSSI gave
it away. They gave it away. Now we'll have that
plus coming up in about twenty minutes. Christian Walker speaks
for the first time at Astro Spring Training twelve to
one on Sports Talk seven ninety is The Mat Thomas
Show with Ross. After falling behind by as much it's
fifteen points in this contest, they win it tonight one
to five one and split the four game series against
a team that they might see come playoff time. You
never know. They're gonna probably be the Tennessee in the
Western Conference, the Clippers. They beat in the Rockets last night.
This is our number three of the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. We've got the All Star break coming up?
How do we spend the All Star break? Get to
watch the daughter play little olleyball this weekend up in Dallas.
I'll be with there tomorrow. We'll hang out with you
for four hours. You know you're walking to come if
you want, but I'm good. I figured super busy. And
then you now will meet each other in West Palm
Beach from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Flying from Dallas to
West Palms A okay, flying a legit airline going there,
and then flying from Fort Autodale to Charlotte on a
non legit airline. It's gotta be legit enough. If you're
getting on the plane, you would hope you'll be five
I hope, So get out of here. Fancy, Matt, I
mean I do have a lifestyle. Look, I gotta be honest.
These airfares are ridiculous. All about the budget I used
to be like, I'm never getting on spirit again. I'm never.
Now I'm like, eh, maybe I will once I look
at the I can talk a big game till I
check those airfares. By the way, you're flying Dark Breast.
The people that are complaining about Dark Breast new boarding
procedures is ample. Why isn't it just like a regular airline? Now, Well,
but you have a lot of people that didn't, that
had like nice perks with the airline. Oh okay, that
are being treated like cavalry. Uh yeah, And so the
for you tab is all over it. So okay, I
want to get yours, and you get travel horn and
your for utab. Dude, they got you down, Pat, I
kind of do. My new favorite one is girl like,
there's a girl on the photo, Hey, how does this
dress look? And then then the answer the first response
is groc take that red dress off of her. Oh
my god, I've never seen a post like that ever.
I'm sorry to say, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, I'm on this. Thank you too. He knows,
he knows, we got we get the Virgin Mary over here.
Oh you know, I try to keep those things out
of my eye. Here driven snow. I'm not saying that.
All right, We're gonna mine's all never mind? Yeah, what
is yours about? It's Chandler you want? Who am I
for you?
Speaker 11: Right now?
Speaker 2: Let's see Chandler Rome but Manchester City? Okay? Well, I
don't have any soccer on mine, so uh but I
don't rock to take the photo the towel away from
the girl. I got news rock, we can find it
if we need it. All right, I'm sorry, off your
for you tab. I got analytics on there, zero surprise,
all right. Let me I'll do this honestly, and then
we'll get to the news at noon. I'm gonna go
to for you tab right now, Okay, And here we go,
uh McTaggart mm hmmm, Legion hoops, some dude named Matt
Young our seven ninety and j Goodman. So it's NBA stuff.
Mm hmmm. Keep scrolling NBA News, get up awful announcing
OnlyFans model, No, you know what I'm here we go. No,
I can't read that one. All right, Let's get to
the news at dude, all right. NBC Sports presents the
two twenty six one Olympics from the Lawn Sports desk
here's Rossville Reale. Actually, Madam and Cortina, they'll play Pilezo
or whatever it's called about two hundred and fifty miles away.
Why is it called Milan? And they're in Courtina and
it's two hundred and fifty miles away. Every time you
say quarteina, I think you're saying cantina. You want to
go either a couple margo rita's no salt you get
the I'm a no salt guy as well. Thank you.
Frozen over rocks, you know it. Actually, you know what
I discovered move the wave in my later years. Sugar
half rocks, half frozen. Oh, really, give it a shot.
Speaker 11: I got one.
Speaker 2: I just don't get really quick beer in the margarita
beer ritas. Yeah. As for alcoholics, okay, I just want
to make it. I mean, I don't mean to call
you people out who are drinking those like you know,
it'd be great with this super high fructose corn syrup
infused margarita drink with tequila. How about if I put
a beer in here? Oh and let me get a floater. Yeah,
I mean it's fine if that's how you want to
get down, that's cool. I'm not judging I'm just saying
it's just an alcoholic move. I just feel like a
lot of alcohol and one beverage. Yeah. You can't nurse that,
by the way, can't you. It's just it's just gladnous.
All right? To the update. Please again, I don't mean
that in negative. I guess it sounds more negative than
I mean it to be. I mean, I've had some
beat ritas in my day. I'm not judging. Sometimes you
had a stressful day at work and you need to
have a liquid lunch, all right. Anyways, Yes, Matt, let's
get to the metal count on. Norway still dominating seven
gold medals, but Italy has cal lined up the rankings.
They now have six gold medals and they lead the
overall medal count at fifteen. United States in third with
thirteen overall medals, four gold, six silver, three bronze. We
gotta get those medals up, Maddie, because we're trailing Norway,
which has a population of like six million people. What's
the population in Italy. I'm gonna guess it's around fifty
million or something. Let's see fifty nine million people in Italy,
says the Google machine. So United States currently third in
the overall medal count trailing Italy and Norway. Also in
Olympic Action mat interrupted go ahead. Yeah, absolutely. We got
a marriage proposal yesterday and then two days before we
got a guy spilling his heart out because he wound
up cheating with another girl.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 2: He wanted to get out with he'd get back with her.
So he apologized on worldwide television and she's like, shut
your ball mass up, don't bring this. Not gonna work.
It didn't work. He said he was committing social suicide
whatever that means. And he's accurate. I guess. He is like,
I'm coming with you hat in hand, baby, I'm sorry.
And also he was I think he said, babe, where
was he from? He was from from? I don't know.
I honestly I told job was giving him fifteen minutes.
That's all I've given it. Oh, don't hate me. You
also have us in the curling women's preliminaries Sweden depeting
Japan eight to four. As there's a lot of curling
going on, and in the cross country screen skiing met
some dude named Carlson from Sweden one and some other
guy named Anderson from Sweden got second. Okay, I figure
you wanted more Olympic updates. Okay, fine, yeah, you can
go back to sports. Oh you want to do other sports? Yeah? Sure,
why not? Rockets got their ass swamped. Okay, they it
felt like me they got They were up fifteen and
they turned the ball over twenty one times. Kevin Durant
turned the ball over eight times. I mean, we love you,
Kevin Durant. You're one of the greatest basketball players of
all time, second greatest shooter of all time. But hold
onto the basketball. Stop turning the ball over, please. Eight
turnovers for the Houston Rockets, twenty three points off of
those fast break points. You got beat twenty two to
two in the game matt on fast break points and
you lost by three. Also, Emydoka under fire on social media.
Stop me if you've heard that before. But I'm gonna
go with and I get it with terms of the
firestorm not fire. I'm gonna I say, I don't get it.
I need you were like, would like further explanation is
what I should say? A little bit, no, Reed Shepherd
two point zero seconds left, Rockets needing a three with
the game on the line. Reed Shepherd was five to
ten from three in the game and was not on
the floor in the final two seconds. And I don't
believe I've been looking. I cannot find anybody that didn't.
Nobody after the game asked the question why that was
the case. Yeah, except Rocket Twitter, Rockets Twitter. They want answers,
maybe the in the pregame. Well, no, no, it's gonna
it's all Star break. Nobody's gonna be asking about that. No,
it's done and come back, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Matt.
Speaker 2: Elsewhere in the news of sports, Jared Jackson Junior's out
for the season as the Jazz continue to full on tank,
sitting guys in the fourth quarter, not playing people. And
now Jared Jackson has a gonna have a growth removed
in his left knee, but he's gonna be out for
the remainder of the season as the tanking is on
for the Utah Jazz. And that was your news at noon.
All Right, we gotta call her Neigel, our friend Needgel
is gonna give us an update on his Southwest boarding issues,
because you're gonna be You're gonna be flying the old
Dark Breast this weekend. And we'll see what Christian Walker
had to say, not about Dark Breast airlines but about
uh playing with a crowded infield of twenty twenty six, Yes,
can't wait, believe or not James vanderbek is ever going
with that today?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I forgot about the beak? You have any Do you
have any pictures with him? You got to rush to
social media and post all your pictures with them? No,
you know who did? Was Stacy Keebler. She was with
him like his last days. What happened? He got a cancer?
I didn't know. I didn't know the beak was sick.
I didn't know it either. Now he was in what
was the movie? The sports movie he was in? It
was so good. Varsity Blues. Yeah, yeah, that good. But yeah,
mock mocks that girl. Don't won't your laugh Mock's girlfriend
that had the shaving cream on her.
Speaker 12: You know what?
Speaker 2: We're great? Mm hmm Ali Allie, Ellie wonderful. Ally Ally's perfect?
What is she doing now? Acting? We could do fantasy
five of girls that were hot in the movies that
we didn't ever hear about, Like, you don't know the way,
here's Malarder, Ali Larder, what is she doing now? Hanging out?
Speaker 11: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: What do you want? That was seven that movie was
twenty years ago. She's in your she's in demo, she's
forty nine. She's in land Man now, oh Lamb Man
really nice? Yeah? Ali latter Varsity Blues was an alzheimer
as she look now looks great good, I guess like
Mia Stara from Ferris Buler's Day Off. Yeah, looks good too.
But time did hurt a little bit, as it does
for all of us. Did her did hurt a little bit?
She was so great? And Ferris Bueler and then there
was the girl from Caddy Shack that with guttural noises. Now,
I'm just bringing up women that hot women. You know,
nobody can hear it. My microphonees are not working well. Hey, Ross,
why am I gonna watch lamb Man? Now? I'm just
curious what you just said. If Ali Larder gets nude
in land Man, you will watch? No, you're a liar,
I'm a watch it.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My wife's already two seasons in. You didn't bring it
up two seasons in. Why would she bring that up
to you? So we can have great television viewing habits together.
Oh think okay, you use that cast button. It's funny.
I've not watched lamb Man apparently beloved, and I never
watched Tombstone? Yes, you never? Did you ever see Tombstone?
I just disappoint you constantly. My No, No, it's not
you're disappointed. My nose is itch. I'm gonna try to go. No,
it's it's I'm gonna try to go once a week without.
You don't want to do when when you say did
you have you ever had or did you ever see?
I'm gonna say yes and lie. I don't feel bemoaned. No,
it's fine. You don't like you don't like violence and
violent movies. There's a lot of violence. Uh, there's a
lot of violence in Tombstone. Okay, great movie though. All right,
let's go to Nigel Needel. It's gonna help you out
all my screen's networking here. Let's see, all right, you
pop up line one there, I guess, So, Hi Needel?
How are you?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 14: How's it go on?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 7: So I was gonna give you a little little insight
into the Southwest Boarding because my wife works for them
and I fly a standby all the time. So it's
actually great. Now the people that are complaining are actually
the people that are spending the least amount of money
on tickets. So before, if you paid more to be
in group A or group B, you know, you would
expect that you got on first and you got to
pretty much have the pick of your seats. Well, now
that there's a sign seating, they no longer do the
If you're traveling with children, you get to board before
everybody else. If you're active military, you get to board
before everybody else. If you have a sprained ankle, you
get to board before everybody else. So all of the
people that were going up that were spending the least
amount of money on tickets were going up and getting
endorsements on their tickets to where they could board first
in front of everybody else, and the people that were
paying the money were not. So the people that are
paying the money are actually happy with the system now
because they get to get on and get their assigned seat.
They don't have half the plane already full by the
time they get on there. The people that are complaining
is the people that can no longer take their twelve
year old kids that are supposed to be seven and
board in front of everybody else and take seats in
the front. So that's the people that are complaining the
most is the people that were paying the least.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, because the complaint I've seen Negel is the A listeners,
the A plus preferred, the frequent flyers. They're the ones
that felt like they're being not treated with the extra
little love that freaking flyers typically get. That's what I
primarily have seen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, there's not really any extra perks, and
they're not losing anything because now I mean, they're gonna
get those seats that are in the first four or
five rows automatically. They're not gonna have to worry about
getting on there and fighting for a good seat. But
the people that were getting those good seats before and
not paying for them are now not able to do that.
Speaker 2: So okay, now you are. So you are a stand
by guy. How often you get to go on those
little stand by trips?
Speaker 11: A lot?
Speaker 2: Infrequently?
Speaker 4: Frequently?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I'm going to Shreveport to the casino
tomorrow and last week I went to Vegas, So I
mean I travel pretty often.
Speaker 2: Like wait a minute, and it can't fly southwest as Shreveport.
Speaker 7: Well, okay, so let me tell you there's a little
inside thing. So all of the airlines are partnered, are
partnered up with one another. So because my wife works
for Southwest, she can fly any other airline, United American,
whoever it is, and all she has to pay is
the taxes. So this trip round trip to Shreport's gonna
cost me fifty one dollars.
Speaker 2: Would you like a son in law? Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I love one.
Speaker 2: Angel. Thank you very much. Now you feel better about it?
Speaker 5: Ross?
Speaker 2: No, so what He's basically saying, you didn't stick me
in a middle seat, so I'm happy about it? No, No,
I actually why?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: I actually a higher fair that allowed me to choose.
Let you choose your seat. Yeah, thank you. And you're
a window guy, which makes me happy because I like aisles.
That means if you love a window, you are not
taking one of my aslespots. Yeah, I am not gonna
get my elbow hit by fifty people and then the cart.
So I'm good. I'm chilling in the window going ninety night,
absolutely depending. Yeah, I'm doing better on a morning flight. Yeah. Okay,
let's hear from Christia walk you want to, Yes, he
sounds pretty chipper Chipper Jones, not Chipper Jones, just generally speaking, Chipper.
We'll hear from the astro. First baseman, every day, first baseman,
every day, first base for now and forever and ever,
Amen twelve thirty, Sports Talk seven ninety Fat Ross and
we are happy to have Chris Gordy down in Florida
covering the team. And he was in the clubhouse earlier today.
We'll be down there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, next week. Hey,
it's a grime man. We get there early in the morning.
Talk wait around, Yes, still waiting for Chas mccormber to
come back to his locker. I could talk to him,
and I said I would wait, and I wait and
I waited and he brushed me off. And now he's gone.
Now he's gone, So he's going going gone, see you later.
That's what he had to say. Robert Ford's I'm not
gonna say that for him. It may work. You may
say McCormack home run, deep left field, gone, but he
won't say Cela, I know here is Christian Walker. Hopefully
Robert Ford will be saying a lot of see you
laters to Christian Walker. He was asked today what it's
like to have at crowded infield, and he has some
previous experience with such a tactic. What do you think
of it?
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't necessarily like talking about
the past or anything like that, but but my time
in Arizona, we've we've had some similarly, you know, put
together teams where there's some guys that can do a
bunch of different roles and wear a few different hats.
Speaker 2: You know, I think it can be a great thing
for a team. I think more weapons is always a
good thing.
Speaker 15: You know, we're we're talking about potentially, you know, what
to do with another really good player and a really
good bat and and a high value to a team
that that won us a lot of games last year
and is gonna win us games this year.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean call it.
Speaker 15: You know, it's it's a little bit of a puzzle,
but but I think it's gonna I think it's gonna
make the team stronger. I think it's very much an
all in mentality and and it'll be it'll be fun.
Speaker 2: When you look at last year, and I know you
didn't like to talk in the past, but when you
assess it, do you feel like maybe you're putting too
much pressure on yourself or anything like that. You know,
a big free agent deal and all that kind of
stuff or just it's baseball.
Speaker 15: And sometimes it's you know, yeah, yeah, I think I
think it's it's for me, it's more that category. It's
it's it's baseball. It was you know, it was a
tough first half for sure, I'm not gonna deny that.
But and I think the second half things started, you know,
falling back into place, and yeah, it's it's hard to
sit here and say maybe why or what. I don't
I don't think it was any of uh, you know,
the situation. I think for me, it was just about
my swing. I had a hard time repeating some moves.
Spent a lot of time in the cages over the
course of the season, in this offseason just trying to
figure some things out. But uh, yeah, yeah, I feel
I feel like myself and I'm excited for for another season.
Speaker 2: Right there, you go, What do you think he sounds
chipper again? I didn't mean to use chipper a third
time in a segment. I apologize. Upbeat, sure, positive, and
he did go off of what a lot of Christian Walker,
not truthers, but people that are rooting for him, saying
that his second half was significantly more productive than his
first half. Does he have truthers second half for Christian
Walker two fifty average, seven ninety nine ops, fifteen home
runs in sixty two starts, where he had in ninety
games ninety starts just twelve home runs in the first half.
So everything improved. If you put those numbers up against
what he had the last year in Arizona, it's pretty
much on par eight hundred ops lot of power. Yeah,
so how much did that oblique at the start of
the season hurt him? He just talked about having issues
repeating stuff in his swing, getting bad habits. Hitters always
talk about how any sort of little thing gets out
of place and they can throw all it can just
roll downhill and keep ruining the entire swing to him
being able to correct that in the second half and
then he can be good. And there is a reality
ross that he is facing a little bit of heat,
because there is somebody on that bench that could take
his spot in a heartbeat if he's in for any
sort of prolonged slump. And I think Roscier Walker has
pride even though he's making great money, has been a
successful Major League baseball player, and has never sat prolonged
on a bench any point in his life and doesn't
want to do it here in Houston. Escuk Paratist is
a better hitter than Christian Walker as of this this moment.
If you go just based on second half and you know,
of course estok Paratus was hurt in the second half,
we can make some arguments, but just one to one
in a vacuum, esak Paratus is a better hitter. So
I mean, how do you how do you figure this out?
How do you keep him out of the like talking
about Estoch keep him out of the lineup every single
day when Christian Walker, of course we know, wants to
be out there every single day. And oh, by the way,
you're paying him to be out there every single day.
By the way, I wonder when the pitchers, the pitchers
and catchers are there, where the position players get there,
there's going to be an escoch Praidius. How's your hamstring?
Because that was as bad of a hamstring injury as
you're gonna possibly get. Now, he did labor and get
back on the field, not to the play defense, but
he able to swing a bat, So kudos to him
for trying. I mean, he he literally getted it out.
But where or is that hamstring. Is it one hundred
percent healthy? Is it ready to go? Can he feeld
his position? Because here's the thing, if you're trying to
trade him, you know there's gonna be medicals on the
other ste He's gonna have to pass the physical wherever
it goes. Yeah, okay, uh, Look, selfishly, we're not anti
Christian Walker. In fact, Christian is one of the more
thoughtful players in the team in terms of hearing from
him and being able to discuss the world to baseball,
discuss his team, discuss his own swing, discuss his ups
and downs. There's no reason why we can't root for him. Yeah,
I think the for what he was, I think in
my mind I kind of write him off a little
easily because of how poor the year overall as a
whole was. But he was much better in the second half.
But you know what reason another reason why we're running
him off a little bit is because it was generally
speaking a down year for him, and he's getting older.
So yeah, those two things together and it's like, are
we starting to see the downward trend of his major
league career? But that doesn't mean he can't bounce back.
That doesn't mean he can't be what he once was.
And that's that's what the astros have to figure out
and what we're gonna have to kind of see play
out depending on how things happen with the possible Esselec
Paratist trade. Guys can play thirty five, thirty six, thirty
seven years old and still compete. They just can't.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 2: Can Christian Walker do it at first base?
Speaker 12: You can?
Speaker 2: Yeah, But this organization does value defense. This organization does
value great first baseman, and Christian Walker still fields his
position very very well for a guy that has been
around as long as he has. So you're not losing
anything from a defensive standpoint. It's just about the number
of missed opportunities that there was a song or a
scenario that came into play. Last year, there was a
lot of times where we would say, all right, runners
at first and second less than two outs? Can Walker
get one of these guys home or at least advance
the base runners and when you strike out, you leave
them right where they are. It was bad, and it
was bad for times, but I think even I can
find his risk even his risk numbers weren't bad. Yes,
seven thirty seven ops with runners in scoring position. But
that's consistent about where I think he was consistently there
his the whole season. He just wasn't good enough in
any any kind of leverage situation. Well, you don't want, honestly, ROSSI,
you don't want your three four to five guys that
have less than seven to fifty ops. You just don't.
You can live with seven thirty seven if it's Jake Myers.
You can live with seven thirty seven if it's You'd
love it if it's Cam Smith. But you you look,
you want your heart lineup guys to be ops and
around eight hundred and in yourdance case nine hundred. And
he did in the second half, but last three years
ops plus one hundred being an average of course one
twenty ninety seven. You can't have a ninety seven ops
plus at first base or batting in the three four
five spots. And I still think he's penciling in. Probably
is what a five hitter you would think for this team.
Probably is he's like Paradus in the lighting now uh
Al two Olpina Al two ve Jordon Korea Walker. Yeah,
that sounds about right. I put yord On into two personally,
but I don't know if they're going to do that.
Joe Spotty keeps trying to do it. I I just
a gut feeling. It's like he's Jordon maybe doesn't like it,
and maybe some of the players don't like it. Does
or On strike out too much to be a two hitter. No, okay,
he's one of your better on bass guys. That's all
I want, is man, How does this sound Pania Jordon
Paradus or Penya Paradus Jord on working counts, get on base.
I am not your top three hitters. By the way,
I am not a Nazi. When it comes to a
line of managing, I like, I have this crazy idea, Well,
your best hitter should get more plate appearances. Yep. Yeah.
If as long as the strike out numbers are low,
like they were especially early in his career, you can
put them a number two spot for sure. But people
are saying Ali Lard are still a smoke show and Landman,
let me see that's her. I show you stuff every
day on my laptop and this is the first time
you've you are getting the binoculars out. I haven't recorded. Actually, Jonathan,
there's no belly fat at all. Wait a minute, I
actually we could actually post this. No you couldn't. Okay,
if you don't want me to, I want you go
ahead to you Why didn't Kim tell me about this?
Why didn't your wife say, Hey, this woman you're gonna
lust over as a smoke show in this show I'm watching.
You're saying, why didn't she ask you that LUs is
a strong term appreciate, Like she appreciates good looking men.
I appreciate good looking women. Okay, So you ever goes say, hey,
come look at this hot dude in the show I
might have you never know? Have you talk about athletes
all the time? Okay, I don't besmirch that. All right,
Steve wants talk about East Soak predes and we have
some Texans real estate news to discuss. Okay, you're like what,
I am like what? That's what you gotta listen for.
It's about Thomas show Ross seven one three two one
two Sevenati truth be told. Ross and I will be
in the same room in West Palm Beach, and I,
because I love him like a brother, I will be
slipping on the sofa bed and Ross will be sleeping
on the king. Well, you recognize it would be a
douche move to get there later and demand the king bed.
No I have I ever said I'm taking the better
bed over you, never ever, ever, because like you know,
the reason why I largely because I can slip on anything.
And I thought it was rude when you brought me
Coral's bed. Coral does have a great bed. So just
Sadie for that matter too. Uh seven one three two
one two five seven ninety dog talk with your beds
coming up here. We have some Texans real estate news
that's intriguing that I think it's partially partially a gut
feeling hit for me. That could be a precursor to
a really big gut feeling I had about the Texans.
But first let's get to you love stadium in Land
to real estate talk. Well, I like the business of sports, okay,
And it's not about it's not about the real estate.
It's about what the endgame is for Old Hannah and
Cow's is long for the ride. Steve on seven ninety Steve,
thank you for wedding, and good afternoon to you.
Speaker 10: Hey, good afternoon, Matt ann Ross, Good afternoon to you.
Why would trading parade is be a good thing for
the Astros, and how would it make the Astros a
better team? And I'll be hang up and listen, guy,
I guess that's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Steve. I don't think it's better, it's
I think it's by necessity. I'm really concerned about the
outfield average and power. I think there's concern they're missing
a left handed bats on this lineup. And I think
if you're dealing in a strengthen one category and a
problem with depth and quality of the other, if you
can improve on that, you can make the move. That's
if you have too many guards and no centers, you
trade one of the guards to go basketball on you.
So that's basically where they are. You have Christian Walker.
If they to me, it would be them. I think
we as fans and pundits are And like I said,
I'm guilty of this myself. I'm putting Christian Walker. I'm
downgrading him more in my mind than maybe the than
probably the Astros are. The Astros are saying, hey, he
had this oblique issue to start the season, he had
a great second half. He can be our everyday first baseman.
That's fine. And so you have this surplus because you
want to have Jose al Tuove. You're not getting rid
of Jose al Tuove. That's just a non starter. You're
in estoc Paratus has value and can help you shore
up the outfield. So you're saying it's gonna hurt you
a little bit in terms of infield debt, but it's
gonna help you with the outfield. So at the very
least it would it would be an equilibrium and it
would help solve an everyday lineup problem with where are
you going to stick easoc Pretis every single day because
he's mostly going to be a defensive third baseman or
first baseman. He's a corner guy, he doesn't move that great,
and he's coming off of major hamstring injury. You don't
want him as much at second base, especially way much
of it over his professional I understand, I understand the
question that's and I get it. Likes praise is one
of your's. I keep saying it, and I'm gonna keep
saying that he's one of their best three hitters. And
also again for those of you under the let's keep
it as is, guys get hurt. Every single player in
this infield has had some sort of ailment that has
seen them away from the game. Carlos Korea Jose was
more of a hands I don't usually use that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Jeremy two Bay, well, he had a what was his
oblique intor was that two years ago?
Speaker 13: Ya?
Speaker 2: What about Jeremy's setback?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: And uh?
Speaker 2: Al two Bay was playing with a foot injury at
the end of last year. We had the oblique for
uh for Brandon uh so for Christian Walker. So I
was like Brandon Walker, Charls Craze had I mean literally
got failed. A team failed his physical thinking. There was
a problem with his leg long term, ye like, And
he wears the back brace in the in the dugout
every day and that caused terrible concern for astro facts.
He's been wearing it for years. Should be fine. But
if I tell you a guy who was putting a
heating pad on his back every day could possibly he
is prone to a possible back re injury. That's not
gonna be crazy. In a perfect world, you would like
to have this kind of incredible insurance policy. But you
moved Jacob Mountain to go get Burrows, right, Yes, so
you improved your pitching staff. You had to give up
an outfielder you were probably gonna get rid of Jake
Myers if and if it wasn't for Melton. And right
now you're sitting there looking at probably the weakest starting
outfield in Major League Baseball. Can you live without a
kid if it exceeds expectations? Of course you can, right
Can I say? What if Zach Cole is a diamond
in the rough? Jake Myers keeps the momentum going from
a career year. That's another thing. I have to remember.
It was a career year and it won't even close
for him of the plate. And then cam Smith continues
to blossom and then goes into full bloom or whatever
you want to call it. That could happen. Here's the
first round pick. The expectations for Cam Smith is to
not be what he was last year, was to be
a solid major league Yes, he adapted to the outfield
after never playing it before. The bat's got to come around.
If yeah, we're going into the Doctor Strange multiverse. There's
a multiverse where what I just said is true and
all three outfielders continue and impress. There's also one where
Jake Myers is batting average balls and play falls back
down to Earth and he falls back to what he
was previously. Cam Smith is second half of an ops
over five hundred continues, and he's struggling at the plate
with people having a book on him. Zach Cole is
September lightning in a bottle that doesn't translate to the
next year, which happens more times than a guy taking
his good September and turning out to be a megastar
in the following April. So then what you then look
at is say, wait a minute, I've got a baseball
team with too many good hitters in the infield and
I've nowhere to put him, and I got an outfield
that I'm just dying to see it play. I mean dying.
He's gonna slight die a slow death. I think they're
more worried about the outfield spots. And we just had
Chris Gordion, well, I guess it was a couple hours
at this point, Shows Flying. We had Chris Gordy and
he talked about, hey, guys, from feeling he's getting out there,
there's no guarantee for cam Smith to get it get
a starting role either, and they're trying to get him
in center field and figure stuff out. The SOO doesn't
necessarily brim confidence your hay, Sus Sanchez. I mean, yeah,
much of an outfield edition. Your cup is spilling over
in the infield and you need some help there in
the outfield. You're trying to balance it, and unfortunately Christian
Walker to other teams probably has less value than he
does to you. The only value you would have with
Christian Walker being sent is if you pick up some
of his taps. I don't think that Jim Crane's overly
anxious to do such a thing. All right, come back,
we'll talk with you about the Texans real estate news
and more of you on the phone lines. Chris and
Houston wants start with the Rockets and the Astros. We'll
get to him if you want to follow him up
or her. I think it's presuming it's a guy seven
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Today's edition, I believe or not? In fifty minutes here
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Ross seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven to one, three, two, one, two, five, seven ninety.
Harris County owns an RG stadium and currently leas's out
the facility to the Texans and the livestock show on Rodeo.
They share the facility. That lease ends in two thousand
thirty two. And now step one in the let's get
something done to build better Houston Texans. Not on the field. Hey,
they're building on the field. Not with Nikki see hey,
now with j Straw's contract, all pro players, pro Bowlers.
But are you ready for Toro Town? Toro Town? Toro Town?
See this sounds familiar. Sports are to me, Matthew. Restaurants okay,
hotels okay, bars, activities for football fields for both private
and public use, and would be your new home for
a Houston Texans practice facility? All right, all right, all right, right,
yes you're thinking, okay, well, what is it going to
be on Holly Hall or the other side of six'
ten Where astorod used to? Best? Oh maybe on a
Little South.
Speaker 11: Maine if you. Will, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: They going to the, burbs AND i mean going to the. Verb,
no they're in the. Sticks, Okay i'm, Sorry i'm sorry
to you people Of. Bridgeland it's the. Sticks have you
been out To. Bridgeland, no there's money out, there lots of,
us very. Nice that's WHY i haven't. Been i'm not.
Invited we're talking The bridgeland area Of. Cyprus. Bridgeland, OH
i thought it Was, bridgeland Not. Bridgeland It's, Bridgeland. Bridgeland
you gotta say it Like Southeast Texas. Bridgeland why is
your Seventy sam And Foghorn? Langhorn NOW i, Say, NOW
i Say. Bridgeland. OKAY i Just i'm trying to GET
i never told. YOU i never heard of this. Place
it's mysterious to. Me the city invite me over. Here
it is In Harris, County. Okay But Harris county is, like,
man you ain't getting primary. Estate we're going to send
you out To. Cyprus we're gonna send you To. Bridgeland. Bridgeland,
yes the facility and the accompanying area around it will
be eighty three. Acres. OKAY a private public partnership between The,
Texans Harris county And Howard, hughes which has developed The
bridgeland area and how notably of The Howard Hughes corporation
found whatever what it wouldn't. Him but you know the
crazy guy from The, Aviator well he didn't do. It
but The bridgeland area was created by This Howard hughes
group and they're most notably known for helping create The
woodlands along With George. Mitchell, okay so the facility is
going out far far Northwest houston on the very, edge
the very very edge Of Harris, county where there is
lots of land. UNDEVELOPED i, mean anybody that's been in
that area knows there is lots of real estate over.
THERE i, mean this that's A i was Thinking Jersey
village ish esque, area but there wasn't as much room over.
There there's plenty of room out there on the top
on the on The Grand. Parkway so that's step. One
now step second step is going to be are they
going to love it so much over there they're going
to find a big old plot of land to build
a seventy thousand seat football stadium next to, it or
are they going to take what they enjoy In, cypress
call that their little Taj Mahal monday Through saturday and
then just Place sundays And energy stadium in a refurbished
ENERG i think you just said WHAT i what came
to my. Mind this is step. One they want a
stadium right. THERE i told you that May. Bridgeland, NO i,
said they're going out of the. Burbs. Yeah the only
THING i was going to say WAS i thought they
were going to be not going to get anything done
In Harris. County technically The bridgeland, area in The cypress
area Is Harris. County you can five minutes From. Hockley,
man they're way. Out you cannot go any further northwest
In Harris county than The bridgelann. Area i've got great
friends that live. There my daughter's got some teammates that
play club volleyball out. There very affluent. Area, Okay and
the reality is, This and you AND i argued about.
This if you're going to Build Toro, town you ain't
doing it at ost In South. Maine you're doing it
where the money. IS i. Guess but AGAIN i will, say,
Like i'm not going To. Bridgeland they don't want. You
why don't they want? Me i'm A? Houstonian because they
want everybody that's In. Cyprus where CAN i Go? Waller
they want the, woodlands they Want katie they want that,
pocket they can Live torotown can, thrive which you're gonna
come From katie up To. Bridgeland how far is? That twenty? Minutes,
yeah twenty minutes something that. Night, okay, Yeah i'm sorry
to answer your question that, way but that's just the.
Reality they they have no interest in clear like people
going Up torotown unless they just wanted. To, OH i
don't live In. Clearlake but my point IS i live In, Houston. Texas,
okay well they're The Houston. TEXANS i. Know, well The
Dallas cowboys have their training facility In frisco and they
play their games In, Arlington so this is this is
the new. Norm but if there's no stadium, there why
would ever go? There why would anybody ever go? There
because they're going to. Town they're gonna build. It they're
they're gonna make it literally like not like a movesement,
park but a what's the appeal In? July In, July
i'm gonna go To Toro district The Dallas. Cowboys the
exact same thing In. Frisco there's Nothing Dallas cowboys asking
frisk do they what what restaurants? Is Jerry, jones there's
all restaurants right around The. Star, yeah They're Jerry jones's.
Restaurants know They're Jerry, joneses but they are probably A texas.
Roadhouse there's a big don't you don't you bespirts that it's?
Fine What, yeah the roles are, cool that's. Fine shut.
UP i didn't say anything is. Bad it's really.
Speaker 9: Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fine the rolls if your if your steak restaurant
is more famous for your roles than anything than what
okay FOR i said it delicious For and they're From. Indiana,
okay don't try to act like it's All texas stuff.
TOO i wasn't trying to, say now it's a bunch of.
Carpetbaggers NOW i am Mister, texas BUT i appreciate your.
Statement matter. Worry oh you're not Mister. Texas. Yeah, ross
they've done the. Demographics they've done. It they know where
the money, is, okay and they're gonna build fifteen ten
restaurants out there and, say you know, what if you
live anywhere within ten miles of, that it's two. Ninety
That's Graham, parkway that's parts of the Same houston Toll,
way a little bit OF i ten come eat at our.
Restaurants how many people live out? There, oh my, gosh you.
Will it would take you too. There it would take
you two seconds to figure. OUT i don't drive up
there BECAUSE i mean, no there's no reason to. Exactly,
well since you're now here's What i'm worried. About adam
Wex er loves going to. Practice oh he lives five
minutes From Energy. Stadium Wex i'm a little concerned about.
THIS i, mean if that text tag, going he'll be all,
right you, Probably i'm Assuming i'm flying down ninety nine
half attack on your car, Course, okay so make sure
some people. Don't most people, do but Most you're, right
some people do. NOT i would, say, yeah most can,
do but some. Don't SO i am it's a grift.
Screw you told told PEOPLE i am going TO i
don't want to put my name on it BECAUSE i
don't know the. Injury CAN i? Go CAN i stop?
Them CAN i? Go CAN i double down a little?
Bit are they gonna put a stadium out? There if
they don't put a stadium out, there nobody's gonna. COME
i disagree with. That they'll just be. Restaurants they CAN
i mean people live In frisco and need to. Eat,
yeah but is it a. Destination, no you're not going
there for an all day. Thing well how close is
it to The cypress Outlet molls over? There, yeah but
that that there's too many people that live. THERE i
need some OFF i need some off sacks.
Speaker 5: Off.
Speaker 2: Fifth, well here's What i'll. Do we have audience that
lives out. There if you are north and west of
the Toll, way which would be directly that, area.
Speaker 12: You.
Speaker 2: GO i, mean, look if you have a Boost miss
steakhouse out there In Torel, town you'll go eat. There
you don't care If torels goet the logo on it or.
Not and if it's A Houston texans gift shop there
you made by a. Jersey and guess, what there's gonna
be ten football. Fields and by the, way you Know
hannah loves her some of that flag football stuff and
flag football fields all over the. Place they're gonna create
a little mini football, town just like The Dallas cowboys
did with The star In frisco where there ain't anybody
nothing close to where they play their football. Games From
frisco To arlington's gotta be forty miles they're far from each.
Other they literally they literally go to at And tsy
didn't even play a game and then. Leave all their
other business is done In, frisco which is on the
other other side Of. DALLAS i, mean the land's, cheap
the land is, cheap and what they did Ross And
i'm just gonna, SAY i don't want to SAY i
told you, So, BUD i told you they want they
wanted to go where fine with the money was and
the money in the indisposable income is gonna go Up,
katie Which i'm really not that far From Katie cyprus
twenty minutes right, then you know these things twenty. Minutes, yeah, Nothing,
yeah that's. Nothing, now WHAT i can't tell you is
do they go to the? Stadium do they go to?
This or do they or do they do what The
cowboys do and, say just a wanna. Stadium the infrastructure
is already, there AN. Nrg let's just build and get
with the, rodeo be kumbaya with, them and let's build
a new, relative a, refurbished majestic. Facility because right now
in the world of, sports we're seeing as many stadiums,
refurbished so we are seeing brand new Because, look it's
just the cost of. Refurbishing it's you, know in a
lot of cases is less than starting from. Scritch, yeah
but it's a lot of times the lipstick on a.
Pig that's. Right and that's what you're. Saying if you're
gonna SPEND, x do, this whether you SPEND x ten
percent more OF xs and get it burning. Facility i'm
looking at The Ford. Center they got a what's a concrete?
Cowboy looks like a. Restaurant ratings are it's so. Good
that's a probably concrete. Cowboy that's probably that's probably owned
By Jerry jones or. Something right, now it's Called you
got A Rachel's kitchen like the one In. FLORIDA i don't.
Know they got A Petez dueling piano. Bar, yeah they
got all these restaurants out there In. Frisco, now you're,
right the chances of you AND i intentionally getting into
our car and going over there, FIVE i would, say under,
okay four per UNLESS i got a funeral out there or.
Something maybe they're adding new funeral. Homes, okay you know
what's got a Weird but that would be just souning
on that other thing on the practice facility Con texans
confins and you want to get buried out, Here toro
will do your last rites for appearance. Fee Toro, Town
now there could be A. Houston they're calling it The Toro.
District what schefter, Says Toro town is. BETTER i like
your idea. Better Toro district Like Toro town much. Better
it's scheduled to open in twenty twenty. Nine, Oh hannah
is so excited she got stay In Harris. County, yeah
it laid the groundwork down for potentially building a facility out.
There there's still more, space you. KNOW i mean, again
here's a. Ross just go out, there you'll see. It
there's plenty of. Space ryan's tweeting in That Toro town
would be a massive hit out. There that's what the.
Population there's no other place to. Go my area of
north of is all what are. Normal, Yeah katie is
just about all. Developed everything Off Grand. Parkway, honestly if
you're buying up land Off Grand parkway is. GREAT i
think if you're opening, restaurants probably Off Grand. Parkway that's
where neighborhoods are getting. Built, yeah people are moving out,
There cities growing and. Growing it's really the only part
of town that it's got. Space, honestly at this, point
as long as you're staying In Harris, County So i'm
not shocked at the. Location i'm not shocked that they
didn't stay in the. City the only question is going
to be If hannah's already having this much fun Getting,
toro The Toro district, built that's a Whole what if
she that's? Right what if she does she want The Toro?
Dome and Will Harris county now giving eighty three million
building any three acres is one price building a majestic
seventy thousand seat probably closed door. Stadium is their land
from out there for a stadium? Somewhere plenty of land
to Bridge that's so nice, there Suburb. HEAVEN i, Mean,
oh here's you doing over in Bridge? Land? OH i
know why he's over. There don't just protect your protect
your identity?
Speaker 9: There what?
Speaker 2: Seven why are you doing that with your? Hand? MATT
i know why you like it out? There what fourteen
of The Matt Thomas show At. Ross we'll talk To
chris next about the rockets of The. Astros if you
live in that, area let us know The Taro district's
coming your. Way, yeah do you want to go to
the pizza do you dueling piano bar in a restaurant
with three point eight stars On? Google you can go
to A toros cafe where you can get A. C.
Speaker 11: J stroud.
Speaker 2: Turnover oh, stop that's too. Soon they're not gonna do, That.
Matt you can go. Ahead give me Some give me
what's A kimy fairbarn? DISH i don't know what's a
Uh Tamiko. Ryan if there's any dish with feet in,
it dimiko Demiko ryan's all the, food zero spice to.
It it's just plain hamburger on a bun with no
no seasoning on. It nothing chime crossbar. Cafe oh you're
you're giving me his own. Restaurant you hit the you
hit a field, goal you get like twenty percent off
an appetizer like. THAT i like that a lot. Too
kicking competitions one. Fifteen it's like Top, golf but for.
Kickers you can you can you can kick against the
screen and then there's a. Life there's like a ten
foot long. Mustache you can pretend your cow for a,
while but your face on top of it and then,
yeah you're. Talking you want call McNair's mustache. Ride what's
wrong with? You you said THAT i was. Sick you
SAID i didn't SAY i said say mustache?
Speaker 11: Ride you?
Speaker 2: Did you said you can ride the. Mustache you Said
nare's mustache on? Top did you not say? That don't blame?
Me one sixteen On Sports talk seven to. Eighty all,
RIGHT i promise with one of the phones BECAUSE i
got some folks want to. Talk but here is literally moments,
Ago cal And, hannah, well probably Mostly, Hannah i'm presuming here,
right let's hear. It Here's hannah And cal about the
new news about The Toro district.
Speaker 9: H.
Speaker 12: Town we have some extremely exciting news to share with
you about the future of our team and our.
Speaker 16: Community as you, know we have been working tirelessly to
explore all our options when it comes to our head
quarters and training. Facility our organization is growing rapidly and
we want something state of the art to match where
we are headed.
Speaker 12: Today we're thrilled to announce our plans to partner With
Howard hughes to build a world class headquarters as part
of our new mixed youth sports and entertainment destination And
bridgeland on the northwest side Of.
Speaker 16: Houston this will be the new home of The Houston
texans outside of game, day and it's a major development
for us In Harris. County it will reshape the way
we engage with, fans, youth, sponsors and the Greater houston.
Community it's the biggest move our organization has made since our.
Speaker 12: Inception this provides our football team with a competitive, advantage
so our players and coaches can be put in the
best possible. Situation our business is also growing in a
number of different, ways and that allows our entire organization
to work out the same building all.
Speaker 16: Year one of the best parts about all of this
is it allows The texans to stay In Harris county
and continue to invest in our. Home we Love, houston
and this project will open up opportunities for everyone in
this area commercially and.
Speaker 12: Economically we want to get a special thank you To
Commissioner Tom ramsay And Commissioner Leslie brionees for working with
us on this. Project as a side for, Grad i'm
extremely familiar with the area and excited to build on
the momentum that's already happening in Northwest Harris.
Speaker 16: County When Howard hughes who is a national award winning
leader in community, development came to us with their. Proposal
it was, clear this is an opportunity to build something world,
class not just for our, team but for the Greater houston.
Area it reinforces our goals of bringing a championship To,
houston enhancing the, community and making football more. Accessible it
is truly an Industry Tom.
Speaker 12: Setter you'll hear more about this world class project than
the coming. Weeks, well we wanted to be the first
to share this historic news with. You thank you and
go tach. Sings it must warm the cockles of your.
Hurt such exciting news.
Speaker 2: Today, yeah this is exciting news for, Us, HANNAH i
said breed known as AND i did not. Stutter are
you proud of? Me AND i went To Scifai High?
School yes he. Did congratulations to him for graduating high.
SCHOOL i mean it's kind of, needed, right all, right
make sure you slap the most generic stock music we
can on this. Thing you know what the song that
it should have been it is, money, money money maney, okay.
MANEY i mean that's little cash rules everything around. Me
Wu Tang. Clan, yeah they're not building The Toro district
just for blank and. Giggles they're doing. That they want
to turn a. Profit, yeah it Is howard to USE
i mean doing all these. Things, yeah this is not
this is not to use corporation or something. Like, yeah
it's not Literally. Howard it's not the guy that went
crazy and, no, no this is this Is these are
companies that are building areas and, look they did their
due diligence and they are, like, yeah we there's a
Pocketive northwest Pocketive Houston harrismond is underserved and that would
be The virgil area and happens being a very affluent. Area,
Okay toro district by the, Way Chris gordy got exclusive
news on and some other places are opening up in the.
Area oh, gosh here we. Go DID i get these?
Two Joe mixon's foot, massage all, right come, On Derek
stingley's Sting Ray, emporium that's A, okay foot massage is
A i'll give that AN a Sting Ray emporium is
gonna get. Us D. C. J stroud's sack SUPPLY c
Plus Derek Deshaun watson's full body. Massage all, right that's
just he's not on the. Team. Anymore that's an F
i'm gonna add. One, okay go, ahead, Uh nick and
sario salad words bar that's not bad. AGAIN i didn't
think of anything but the last five. Seconds let's talk
To roger on Seveninety, roger good afternoon to.
Speaker 9: You good, afternoon. Guys i'm so happy that we are
not moving to the northwest side of town THAT i
wouldn't have to go to the barren wasteland that is
sixteenth And. Kirby, no, seriously, man that is that is good.
Speaker 11: News.
Speaker 9: MAN i live on the northwest. SIDE i mean it's,
start but STILL i don't have to go to that
duff that, is you, know in our g. AREA i
can't say the stadium's, nice but everything else is just.
Whack so it's been that way for, years hasn't. Changed
and the only thing that was good about it was
was maybe After world we're, kids and now it's not so,
yes thank, You, no hold, on hold, on.
Speaker 2: Hold let's make sure we're clear on.
Speaker 9: This.
Speaker 2: Now you can, Say, roger you're going to go to
the too district to, eat but you were never going
to the facility. ANYWAY i, mean there was no public
uh allowing of anybody to.
Speaker 5: Go to the.
Speaker 2: Facility they were the facilities At Energy, stadium so there
was not any sort of relationship beyond what you saw On.
Sundays and this is not does nothing to do With
sundays at this point, yet because this is just a.
Practice sold out the. Stadium, yeah they open them for training.
Speaker 9: Camp, yeah but you don't even go Good gas over
there By Energy. Stadium you don't want to go nowhere
near around in our g stadium after you don't with the.
Speaker 2: GAME i, agree but but that's but that's.
Speaker 9: Different mere of you and your family and your loved.
Ones lull them up Like Cark, cliff Like griswold, said,
yeah pull them. Up, yeah we're really. GOOD i like.
It it's it's to start something you're. Getting eventually they're
going to move over there and we're gonna have the
games over. There but, yes good. Start where do you?
Speaker 8: Go all?
Speaker 2: Right Thanks Roger. GUYS i would say, this thank you
for the phone. CALL i would put the percentage of
them moving to a new facility at sixty forty out,
there would you new? Stadium? Yeah getting that approved By Harris.
COUNTY i have no. IDEA i, MEAN i mean complete
guess that's What i'm. SAYING i have no.
Speaker 11: Clue we're allowed of.
Speaker 2: Percentage we're Just i'll go the other. Way i'll say
forty sixty because again it's easier to they refurbish and
are at a lower. Cost that is going to, cost
and they still owe a billion dollars on energ what's
gonna happen over, there what's gonna happen in the actual?
Well The rodeo could also play a huge role in that.
Too rodeo has got a lot to, say don't. They
they could inherit and, say all, right you will fix
you fix. Us we'll make this a facility and then
we'll create our own football citium out. There and what about,
yeah concerts and all the other stuff that's out. THERE
i would say refurbishment of energy is the, favorite because
here's the. THING i mentioned this the other. Day you're
not getting A World cup again, here not that. Way
we're gonna get A World cup probably for. Decades. Correct, Yeah,
no you're out of THE cfp, Running you're out of
The Super bowl. Running you're probably out of the final
four running because you're. Here it's a problem with. That
you're out of the final. Four you've got no hotels
and stuff around. There people like to be close to.
Everything that's Why indianapolis does so well in other cities like.
That so you got to build hotels And bridgeland and
who's gonna want to stay In bridgeland when there's no game?
There how are those hotels staying? Full? Uh you're going
to then Assume i'm going this is just presumption that
businesses are going to. One they're gonna, create like they
created the business district In West houston By. Katie you
know The Energy. Corridor nobody was there are hotels all
over The Energy. Corridor nobody thought about every building hotels
In katie fifteen years ago what they. Did so you're
gonna get businesses to move out. THERE i, mean somebody's telling,
me let's see this guy ready And will says it's prime. Area.
Uh waller is Also waller is almost another part Of
houston at this. Point he, says that's outside Of Harris.
COUNTY i don't even know what is? That is that
brazilt NOT i don't know is That montgomery count where's?
Water that water? County there's not gonna be the Stage
rosenfell's helicopter landing. Pad, okay, guys come, on that's. Rude geez.
Uh he, Says dyken's complex is out. There, YES i
see a drama as a factory In. Brookshire, yep how
far is? That that's about thirty Minutes, okay that's. First
that's From West. Bridgeland that, yeah thirty minutes From. Bridgeland oh,
damn because that's west Of, Katy. Okay But dykin's out
in that. Area absolutely it. Is and Then chris brings
up to In. Frisco there there's also where THE Nhl stars,
train there's the minor League Rough riders In DOUBLE a,
baseball AND Fc dallas plays In. Frisco so they got
there's more going on In frisco than they're all started
by The star Or Ford center wherever they're calling.
Speaker 4: It, yeah.
Speaker 2: To the audience that's listening to, us it's primarily about
where The sundays are going to. Be that's the that's
the endgame of all. This this facility is cool and,
everything but really the general public is not going to
spend a lot of time going To texans. Practice they're,
saying if we build, it they will. Come they're going
to build all these restaurants in these. Bars, well you
probably could build the restaurants regardless of whether The texans
went out there or. Not but if you put A
texans them around, it and you said you kill two
birds with one, stone you create a little because, again
the district In atlanta does very very. Well now there's
a stadium attached to, It so that Hurt at dumps
to that area where The New England patriots. Are that
the community In foxboro has lots of restaurants in, bars
but there's also a seventy thousand seat stadium next to.
It the practice facility doesn't move the. NEEDLE a stadium
couldn't do. It, yeah there's The Ford. Center you can
seat people at fifteen thousand seats indoor two play games
and play high school. Games they can do that. That,
well we don't know that they're not doing. That, again
we don't. Know, yeah this is still very. Early they
could very easily build a star over there and put
twelve thirteen thousand seats sitting and put high school games.
In are you kidding? Me they would sell. Them they
would be that'd be the place to play a high
school game. Indoors not to worry about weather or. Not
worry about artificial you, know put artificial turf in, there
call it a. Day just think of. That think this
thing out. Lote that's what hand of them were thinking. About,
yeah they want to make some. Money, yeah let's get
a quick time. Out we'll talk To dave and To
brian and the rest of you at seven one three
two one two. FIVE i don't mean to call It.
Toreltown i'm sorry THAT i called It. Totltown it's better
Than Toro. DISTRICT i Like toreltown better it. Is BUT
i want to be. Respectful why is it it's not,
DISRESPECTFUL i don't. THINK i just want to make sure
they're the one that named the place after their. MASCOT i,
mean come, on it's. Ridiculous let me Say. Orbitville is
that what they're gonna call the place next to The?
ASTROS i don't think. So and remember a Young Matt
thomas interviewed a young young girl still with at the
Time bob. McNair, OKAY i, Said, BOB i swear To, God,
BOB i love the Name. Toros he said me. Too
he said it tested so poorly With hispanic focus groups
that we couldn't name it The Houston. Toros, okay thus
the Mascot toro In Toro town and The Houston toros
in our fantasy. League finishing second for like the fifth
time in the last fifteen Hours. Friday we'll get that
championship one.
Speaker 16: Day.
Speaker 2: Someday you are The Buffalo bills of the. League that's not.
Nice one thirty two on Seven my back of the
Phones ago one thirty Five Sports TALK. Sevenati by the,
way there's already people out there that want they're creating
a New twitter ACCOUNT nhl To, bridgeland not To. Houston,
YEAH i mean it's maybe this is the first major
domino of this, big wonderful suburbanian suburban district, because LIKE i,
SAID i never even heard of bridge that before. Today
So i'm pleading ignorance on all. THIS i don't. KNOW
i didn't Know waller was the new. Midtown waller would
be about ten minutes north and west Of, Bridgeland, okay
In Waller. County that seems solid to. Me, ooh and
by the, way everybody is saying, again how do you
have a facility so far? Away? Again The Dallas cowboys
an hour, uh THE La chargers play In. Inglewood they
do not practice In. Inglewood they practice out in the burbs.
Themselves it is very common for teams not to be
close to their. Stadiums let's, GO i gotta get a
bus out. There shuttle for. Sure call it The tourol,
tran and It's touro. Related by the, way everything toroed this,
total That Torol, town The torel toll, way that actually
is probably. Happening dave on seven Ninety good, Afternoon.
Speaker 5: Hey, matt Hey.
Speaker 9: ROSS i enjoyed the.
Speaker 5: SHOW i don't have a comment on the on the,
state or on this facility per. Se but WHEN i
was listened to Uh cal And hannah make that, announcement
ALL i could think of, is you, know these kind
of deals don't come together in a couple of. Weeks
this thing's been, months maybe a couple of years in the,
making you, Know and these guys have known that they
were going to make this announcement right about this time of.
Year and don't you know that a month or so
ago they had visions of announcing this after winning The Super,
bowl or at least getting to The Super, bowl and
instead we end up, with you, KNOW. Cj stroud pooping himself,
again you, know in a division round and The texans bowing,
out and you can just Imagine cal turning To hannah
after the fourth interception in the first half and going wolf.
Speaker 9: GIVEN i guess that takes all the, excitment all of
our announcement. Above Brudge, Wirium oh, listen.
Speaker 2: Well, Brian i'm gonna say, This AND i told this
To ross when it. HAPPENED i, SAID i think we
put to tell the truth on. This they were going
to have to announce this now regardless of how the
texts were gonna end. Up it would have been easier
to sell and not necessarily look into sell anything to
the audience. Today but it'd have been a much more
exciting announcement if you had playoff success to go along with.
It but now you've got a divisional. Loss so, yeah
they were gonna this was always under, calendar regardless of
how the team was going to turn, out because they
want to get this ready by twenty twenty. Nine, yeah
they were hoping for the. Best they didn't get the,
best but this plan was going to go forward TO i,
mean as the caller, said it was going to discipend
it in the works for probably quite some, time probably
at least a. Year alex And, conroe you're On Toro.
Town what's going, On? Alex what's?
Speaker 7: Up?
Speaker 3: Guys MAT i sent you A dm about this a while,
back Whenever hannah and col were first starting to let
it be known that they were interested in getting a new.
Speaker 2: STADIUM i sent you A.
Speaker 3: Dm with a photo THAT i did a screenshot off the,
maps AND i think they messed up so. Bad bridgeland
is a really nice bedroom community and that's. It there's
nothing out, there. Dude just to get To, bridgeland you
have to take ninety. Nine that's the most efficient way
to get, there, right, yes, Right so now you're expecting,
everybody Every Houston texans fan is going to be on ninety.
Speaker 2: Nine that's, no, no, no no no no no no
no no no no, no you're miss UNDER i told
this To ross twenty minutes. Ago they don't care if
you don't live fifteen minutes away From they want everybody
within twenty minutes Of bridgeland to go out. There they
don't care That baytown and Clear lake and what other
Else Eric kingwood for that, matter they don't need. Us
they're hoping that that area is going to, explode because
so far it has, exploded and it may be a
bedroom community, today but there ain't nowhere else to grow
in heat city Of. Houston that's the spot to be.
In they don't. Care that's not. True that's not.
Speaker 3: True the map THAT i sent, you there's a parcel
of land right on the very very north edge Of Harris.
Speaker 2: County it's on forty.
Speaker 3: Five it's on ninety, nine right there in this, corner
right where they built the New Shiver run Or exxon.
COMPLEX i think It's. Exxon and if they only needed
eighty three acres then they could have gotten it. There
there's A i, mean it's. Perfect it would have been
a perfect. Spot you'd have been right there on the.
Freeway you would have had access to The Hardy Tooll
road to get to the airport forty five to get.
Downtown The woodlands is two miles away with all the,
restaurants all the, hotels.
Speaker 2: All of the Shop but my point, Is, alex the
people in The woodlands already have that this is an
area town that doesn't have. It they're looking for it was,
cheap and then also they're looking for this area to,
grow not to say this is where the people are.
Now they wanted. To they want to grow, themselves and
they want to be the reason. Again they want they
want anybody that lives within five miles of there to,
say you know, what we're gonna go to dinner, tonight
and you could call It. Astroville they, Don't they're just
putting a name on. It the bottom line is they're
trying to occupy it with restaurants and bars that currently
are not. There they want to infiltrate the area because
they believe that's where businesses are going to start to.
Grow AND i guarantee you home sales are starting to.
Grow that's the reason why they're not doing, this because
they're they're trying to get everybody to come out to
go see what the great grass fields look. Like as The,
texans they could care less about.
Speaker 3: That if their whole goal is To like everybody's saying
That bridgeland is, perfect it's, prime blah blah. Blah the
only reason That bridgeland is prime is because there's literally nothing.
There so, like you're not gonna have to clear out any,
Woods you're not gonna have to do. Anything it's just open.
Speaker 2: Flatland, yes the whole.
Speaker 3: Concept is a build it and they will come well
THEN i mean, maybe.
Speaker 2: But that place.
Speaker 9: Sucks, dude they could have done.
Speaker 3: BETTER i.
Speaker 2: Couldn't, yeah go, ahead real. Quick one last.
Speaker 3: Thing everybody's dogging On Christian, walker and he deservedly. So
but just keep in, mind if he just if he
just performs like twenty thirty percent better than he'd if
he's Post All star Break Christian, walker we're gonna be.
Okay but he cannot be the dog Water Christian walker
that he.
Speaker 2: Was in his first. Season it was JUST i, mean
if if he, can if he can get it.
Speaker 3: Together we're gonna be, okay even without his, socks even
if we trade. Him christian can hold.
Speaker 2: It he just has to, help SO i really. Hope
so thank you for the phone. Call, YEAH i think
they're trying to BE i guess not back to not
The Christian walker. Thing but it's, like, uh what is.
That there's like a town the Sugar Land Town center
has a bunch of bars and stuff and hotels and
stuff like. That Market street in The woodlands has a
bunch of. Stuff, yeah what else it was In KINGWOOD
i don't even. Know sadly Town center but not really
not really, no but there is there's places in the
suburbs that are hubs for a probably a metro population
in that area they hope to. SEE i couldn't EVEN i,
mean you could go to the The Cypress chamber Of,
commerce they could tell me people in the. Area but
they want to they want they want that. Core they
don't have Any if you live in friends with they
don't expect you to come have dinner for. Them, okay
Because i'm not very FAR i, know let's go To
brian on seven on A.
Speaker 14: Hillobrian, okay, guys uh, there absolutely they want to build
a stadium out.
Speaker 10: There but the big part is going to be how do.
Speaker 14: They, ONE i guess their least issue.
Speaker 10: There then two what do you you?
Speaker 14: KNOW i don't think The rodeo can join them because
they're they're already in disagreements with The rodeo is about
what to do with the. Astronaut one of them wants
to keep, it.
Speaker 10: One of them wants to tear it.
Speaker 14: Down now you're going to have a second stadium if
The rodeo goes out there that we're, no.
Speaker 3: No, no.
Speaker 2: NO i have heard, no, no we Should i've heard
no conversation about any sort of relationship between The texans
and The. Rodeo this would be a true. Split this
would be The texans their own.
Speaker 14: Facility, yeah, Okay so does The rodeo have the financial
wherewithal to pay the you? Know AND i think part
of that leads into the, stadium what it would cost
to renovate anything like that as opposed to and it's
going to make me come down to renovate A nrg
the way they want it to get another to be
able to host Another Super. Bowl it's going to be
more feasibly uh and siscally responsible just to build a
new stadium out, there which, Hey i'm totally fine. With and,
yeah you want to build out In Toro, town that's.
Fine And russ's just just for reference two exits past
rookies out there And katie is Basically, brookshire so just
so you have an idea of where The brookshire line.
Is And, matt real, quick you're t what do you
all mentioned THE nhl Ex. Houston there was actually an
article THAT i read In The.
Speaker 10: Athletic back From.
Speaker 14: September they actually interviewed one hundred and twenty FIVE nhl
CURRENT nhl players and they gave them a list of
about eight cities And houston was number one by far
of the place they want to most see them expand.
Next so THE nhl players want to tell, THEM i
want to. TEAM i think there should be a team.
HERE i Think quebec was number.
Speaker 2: Two so just up WHY i.
Speaker 14: YEAH i mean there's a whole ton of land out
there for all sorts of. Stuff you can build A
Texas live like you have.
Speaker 11: Up there In.
Speaker 14: Arlington you can build that type of concept out. There
but they're most assuredly going to put a stadium out,
there and then we're going to have.
Speaker 11: A bunch of.
Speaker 9: Stadiums we have no idea what to do with in
a few.
Speaker 5: Years.
Speaker 9: Yep SO i have a good.
Speaker 2: Show, god thank, You nathan. Says chevron is building a
research and development facility out, there And apple is rumored
to be building an office out. There so, yeah it
sounds like they're trying to get in and make some.
Money and you have some restaurants and all that. Stuff
it makes. SENSE i will not be. VISITING i love,
you but they. Don't they don't they particularly. Care, No
i'm just SAYING i won't BE i know it's, fine
they want to they want the nuclear. Family you have
to be rude about. IT i, SAID i love. You
you have To, no it's very. Rude WAS i rude?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: JONATHAN i? THOUGHT i SAID i loved. It he'll put
me in. This that means, yes all, right let's play
believe it or. Not next we got we'll also try
to squeeze in A toro town call as. Well you know,
WHAT i don't care about you. EITHER i SAID i love.
YOU i SAID i love you. Too, okay WELL i don't.
Care you don't care that you love? Me, okay you
know What i'll pick you will go drive out there one.
Day i'm not going to. Bridge we gotta go see what's.
All i'm. Good it is so. Far what is out
there so? Faring let me know when they when they
build it, out it's fifty miles from my. House when
they Get kaymi's Uh Crossbar, Cafe i'll Go Kimei's Crispy.
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Good talk about talk about move and out of. Energy
turn it, up gotta move out to Northwest, houston gotta move.
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