Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Ten o one in h Town. Good morning and welcome
on Monday edition of the Matt Thomas Showing. Ross. This
is Sports Talk seven ninety eight. A dominant second, third,
and fourth quarter to help your Rockets win it tonight
here in Smoothie King Center, Bottle score, Houston one thirty four,
New Orleans one two one. Happiness Day. Oh, it's a
happy weekend if you feel like put you mostly well,
I mean Thursday and Friday's a little dicey. You're not
a Duke fan. I didn't sleep in the yard last night.
How you did? Yes? Is that because of you? Or
is that because of Yukon or both? It was because
of Yukon. Yukon. You go to the U backyard where
you sleep, you come back and hit a crazy three.
You choke nothing like March. Yeah, that was a collapse
back when I was a young man learning this business
and saying, man, how dare you you ball? While I
wasn't bald at the time, you partially haired, fat guy.
You cannot be calling people chokers. But we're changing. No,
because I lost weight and because I've lost my hair.
I'm just saying that Okay, we as a society are changing.
That's an that's not about the last play. It's a
nineteen point joke. Choke and joke. To me, choke should
only be used when somebody completely panic froze in the
moment and didn't try comebacks happened like really the Rockets, well,
we can call it a choke, but it just it
was a comeback. They they weren't frozen, they weren't lost,
They just started missing shots and then the Timberwolves made everything. Okay,
so you know what, then you can choke then, I
I mean Duke choked. Okay, so you think it was
a yeah, I it was a complete panic. Yes, Then
when you're a panic, that to me is that's so
that's to me, this is my definite all right, So
let me let me rephrase. I hate I hate the
term choke. I understand, So let me back off. I'm
going to back off on the choke. Yukon completely panicked.
I'm sticking with choke. That Duke choked. Yeah, Duke semantics right,
when you make or misshots, that's how the cookie crumbles.
When you got completely panicked and froze in the moment,
that's a choke, and they choked nineteen points, dude, and
see that. I was getting ready for the game. I
had an extra television monitor with me at the Smoothieking
Center last night, so we said, hey, let's put the
game on. And it kept getting smaller and smaller. And
then I didn't see the last few seconds because I
was obviously about to call the play. I play off
a basketball game. I didn't. I can't. As much as
I wanted to focus on the game, I couldn't. And
then the replay showed. And it's funny because Carl's boozer,
that's the dad of the boozer Twins, has not been
afraid to talk about how awesome his team is and
how awesome his kids are. And there's always video of
him waving off goodbye to teams, and I mean that's
been put out there quite a bit, and you get
CEO Carl's doing anything. Last night epically bad back to back.
I mean, they gaffed a fifteen pointer against the Cougars too,
right with the fourteen or fifteen last year? I think, yeah,
it wasn't like like ten or something around a minute
and a half or something or under that. I don't
remember what it was as a bad choke. Oh man,
old man, old man. Yikes, yikes, yikes. But that's their issues.
We got our own here in Houston. Hell, we're feeling
good right now. So I was thinking Saturday because I
did watch the Astros game on Saturday. I had nothing
to New New Orleans on Saturday, which is actually nicely
by the way, kudos to New Orleans. And y'all know
this or not. It is a different place than it
was even when I was there in early in the year.
It's clean or not, we're going to be clean. You're
come about the city, Yeah, the arena, everything, okay, primarily
this city. I've only arena for a couple of hours.
It was very pleasant. There wasn't nearly now again, I
wasn't there during Marty Graw ordering uh spring break. It
was late, you know, late March New Year's but everybody
was New Year's, Christmas, Thanksgiving a Rando Tuesday, sure, yeah Tuesday, Yeah,
fat one especially. It was a really pleasant experience. And
I and I love New Orleans. I I like New Orleans.
I don't love it, but I like it, but I
liked it more this time around. Good. I love it. Yeah,
So music, food, history, gambling. Yeah, pretty much takes care
of all of it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The casino boxes. Casino got me Friday, but I got
it back on Saturdays. Okay, good, you're not gonna be please?
Uh No, lost a little bit bit, but better it.
Feel better about the situation. Okay. So I'm not gonna
be the mid shoe. Change from fifteen to twenty five
dollars a table is fine. I can live with that, yes,
But when you don't change it from six five to
three to two on the twenty five, that's why I
have the problems. I got up and left. I'm proud
of you. I think it'd be I'm actually I said, look,
it's your money. I'm done. I mean, I'm still gonna play,
but I just like I could if I'm gonna spend
twenty five at a table, which I did. Ultimately, I
went to find with twenty five tot of three two.
That's good. So all right, I'm gonna cry. That's okay. Hey,
So Thursday and Friday people were losing their minds. Yes,
no clutch, hitting fire, the hitting coaches. Joe Spot has
lost his team already. Oh my god, is Dana Brown? Chemistry?
Chemistry is a bad juju. And then Saturday and Sunday
did not get off to a great start. Look, the
pitching this weekend was not great the entire four games
is now you're a over sex for the start the
starting pitching staff that we thought was going to be uh,
and then we thought Fangrass was crazy for having the
eighteenth athletic you don't know what's talking about. Well, maybe
they do for at least a week. Yeah, well we're not.
We are smarter than that, and we are not going
to allow you guys to do what Astro Twitter does
lose their damn mine out in every single game. Okay,
so I put the AO out the warning like should
we do? Aos came back and one Saturday Sunday gave
Tatsui Emi a very nice four nothing lead and well
he didn't want to stick around to see it. He
squandered it. And uh, it's okay. The Astro Bats came through.
You heard some of the highlights there, Christian Walker, friend
of the show doing a great job. Yes, and the
Astros wound up getting a split, which again not what
you ultimately wanted. But first week in the series of
the season. Yeah the season, Yeah, I ain't scared. Okay,
nobody's ever want nobody's ever want a division championship in
late March, I mean, no one. A lot of bullpen usage,
a lot of RODERI removed, and the boys Steven ok
way too much rottery, way too much AJ Blue Ball
and brian O Brady will get to.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I did ask you via text what your gut feeling was.
You know what, It's funny. I was like, oh, he
must be doing bad because I know I'm not gonna
hear from you if he's if he's getting h if
he's going three up, three down, I know I'm not
hearing from you. That's true. Now, you said he was
not gonna blow a save in the month, which he
did not so far, I'm good, but I said, by
the time hater comes back, but it's not the start
that mister Burriy would like to have seen. Well, also clean,
and also there's concerns about his velocity. He's normally a
guy who can is around you know, ninety seven ninety eight,
can run it up to one hundred, and his fastball
was around averaging ninety three yeah yesterday, So that is
certainly something to keep an eye on. Early season, working
the kinks out. Yes, we'll see we need again. Nothing
is ever gonna be determined off of two performances or
four baseball games. But I do like the grit the
Astro showed. I do love the comeback ability and it
does make me feel not go. We're only using a
ridiculously small sample size of four games, and you've got
a lot of help from the Angels defense on Saturday
especially they're butchers. And look, the Angels of the lat
are projected to be either fourth or fifth in the
American League West. Three errors from the Angels, the baseball
was kind of baseballing, was it? Walker? Or who want it?
Off of two gloves? I mean, they got a little
help from their baseball gods and a little help from
the Angels too, But hey, wins are wins. Winds are
victory wins or wins because again, you're gonna win about
eighty fo hopefully eighty five more of those, hopefully ish
enough for a wild card spot rotation rounds in a
form is carorall I got to hit?
Speaker 5: Yet?
Speaker 2: I don't know, because every time I watch a hotload,
he's striking out. I've been kind of more focused on
all the things going on in Houston sports. A little
bit of the tournament. I haven't watched. I haven't been
paying attention to baseballs at large. Right, So here's the
agenda today. Yes, we have Astros versus Angels. We have
the Rockets winning their last two games on road trip.
Woo beats the crap out of the Pelicans yesterday, I
mean annihilated them Opera and shangun the three point bandit
five of them. Don't get confident please he started. I
was like, oh no, and then he's kept making him last.
Nek and them over and I think you finished with
five or six and three something. Yes, good to see
Kevin Durant now play the fourth quarter. I'm always in
a good mood when Kevin Durant doesn't play the fourth
he needs to rest. Yeah, in a lot of minutes.
The basketball game between Duke and Yukon, I don't know.
I mean, nationally, it's certainly a huge topic of conversation.
I don't I have a really distinct feeling that when
the Cougar's left that collectively Houston sports fans said, yeah,
shut down.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. The Iowa Illinois game on Saturday
looked like there was a nice crowd.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if tickets plummeted and price and people
scoom up at the last second, but perhaps maybe some
is if you're if you are a fan of either
one of those teams Houston and around the corner. I mean,
you're not just jump on a plane to run down
now to come here to play for watch a team
for the final four. So and I would say, well,
maybe Iowa has a big fan base. Probably not you,
probably not. How many what's the let me ask you,
we'll see you kind of lung group, a long group
in Houston looking like yeah, if any if any of
you went to the Iowa Illinois game, just tell us
maybe some Houston fans kept their tickets, couldn't find a
price they didn't like, and go catch a good game.
It's an e lead eight game. I don't think it
doesn't happen a whole lot around here. I mean, I
don't think we'll get a call, but it's worthy of
at least asking. So if you went to the Iowa
Illinois game, we'll get to that. Uh, we got the
the comments are back in town. Yes, that was announced
officially today after the rumored conversation took place over the weekend. Yes,
and they're bringing you back as play by play voice.
I mean, we haven't talked about it. Make it offer
tillman negotiations can happen. That's true. Three hundred million dollars
that it feels like a ridiculously high price for a team.
But I remember people were like, hey, what do your
thinking of thoughts about? I'm like, well, you know what
if there is a segment of the population that enjoys
that women's basketball And again, how was it Caitlin Clark
turns everything up a notch. Now, you shouldn't build your
team around one player, but the NBA builds three in
the eighties, right, you shouldn't build you league around one player.
But sorry, good yeah, saying you know, if Michael, Magic
and Larry can do it, then maybe Caitlyn can do
it for a smaller extent. That's the hope, and here's
the reality. It can It can go two ways, right.
It can be she's she's the pop and then there's
a fizzle, or she's the catalyst. So we'll see. All
I will say is this Timan doesn't make bad business deals,
so he does not so I would think he is
buying a stock hopeing it flourishes. Yes, right, But here's
the thing. He didn't buy the stock low. He bought
the stock. I mean three hundred million dollars. That isn't
it's true? Or are you getting in after the bump and
the crash is coming? I don't know. I don't so
to me, it's about he must think down the road
ten years from now, this thing is going to be
even ten times bigger than it was it is now.
And then ultimately he's looking to fill build knights in
his building too. The very good thing they have is
that they're grabbing a lot of young people with Caitlin Clark,
a lot of young girls and young people, right right,
So that's that's perfect for a league growth. Yeah, yeah,
and again. But the thing about that is not necessarily
to fill in the building up. It's about corporate sponsorships
and television deals. And you know, Adam Silber, to his credit,
has been able to grab a lot of money for
TV deals, and I'm sure the WNBA, to a lesser extent,
it's also gaining some traction off of that. All right,
So we got a lot to get to today. We
have to tell the truth at eleven thirty this morning. Okay,
I've already got three of the four nine. I think
of one more thing. Okay, how many truths I can't
tell you yet? Okay? Interesting? Now, last week you both
got it right? Or did you get it right? And
John got it right and Jonathan got it wrong? Okay,
so it's five to three. I'll keep you trick, good track.
Who's got five you? Okay, so it feels like it's
more like eight to two. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, Jonathan, Oh,
you had a great weekend. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Are we going to use the term choke?
Do we have parameters for it? Because if you go
back to the game last night, there were multiple chances
just by the by the left of the lack of
time on the clock. If Booster ROSSI holds onto the
ball and just takes a ten violation, there's no time
for for uh, you come to shoot crazy Matt and
Ross with you on a Monday seven one three two
one two five seven ninety ten twenty two on a
Monday morning. Thank you for being a part of our show.
Astros split the series with the Halo's Astros good news,
drew twenty three walks, unfortunately surrendered twenty eight of them.
Oh is that bad? That's is that true? That's a
lot of walks. No way, twenty eight in four games. Well,
I mean I'm looking at ctaggart's tweet now, okay, Oh,
Brian McTaggart, he wouldn't lie.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Astros have drawn drawn twenty three walks, which
is second most in MLB behind the Angels, who drew
twenty eight walks. But I mctigger when i'd lie. Oh,
it's early. It is early, all right, very early. Abs
Astros failing grade so far? Oh my god? What? Yeah,
twenty eight walks? The Dodgers have issued five. Don't greek.
I'm not going to allow you to talking at Dodgers
baseball this year except when the Astros pulled the Dodgers. Okay, Oh,
it's just three games. At least they've only played three
five walks. Hey, are we gonna check on former Astros
around big leagues? Like once a week? Do you want
to do that as a segment? Okay? Like where are
they now? Like it'd be Kyle. Oh, here we go,
Tucker Yes Fromer Yes, Bregman, I mean you want to
go Carrett cole hole and you're forgetting the greatest utility
player in Astro's history. Mauricio Maurisio Dubon. Okay, is anybody
else that you would like to really inquire about? No,
you know what, I will give Caleb ort No, why not.
I'll give you those five and we'll do it in
the We'll do it every Monday from here on the
rest of the season. I'll handle that responsible. Okay. Yeah,
I love it, and now we need to actually kind
of don't love it. We need a good song for it,
like where I Will Remember You. That's pressing. That's when
someone dies. Missing you at all? Oh, miss John Waite right,
missing you at all? Yeah, John Waite right, missing you
at all? Well, I thought that was missing you John
wait w A. I t look at Jonathans can find
that song. I thought that woman who did that song? Uh, bitch,
what do you remember that song? I'm a bitch, I'm
a mother, I'm a sinner. We're not playing that song
during it? No, I know, yeah, Meredith brooks Or she
didn't do that. This is it right here. Well, I'm
every Monday, and oh I just came up with a
segment idea on the show, organically on the show. It
just shows you we don't pre work, we don't pred
our show. We think of things organically. Every Monday right here,
Sports Talk seven ninety. Every time I think this is
the man, Yes, Jonathan quick, quick thought about this. I'm
just asking, well, let it, let it get in the group.
I able right now. Yeah, sure, may be quiet for
like twenty seconds. What I thought there was a woman.
My whole life strange too. This isn't bad, It's fine.
This is very eighties and its hurry it up, guys. Yeah,
let's get to the chorus. Here, come on now at
sports empty on Instagram and yeah, follow sports RV. We
have to tell you truth at eleven thirty. It's the
longest ramp up ever. Here we go here it is.
So this is where you'll start the song, Jonathan at
that point, because we're not living the whole thing us
too long. All right, So I ain't missing you what
you are will We don't know that yet. Every Monday
at one twenty, okay, so y'all write that down. Tell
your friends, tell your enemies, okay, every Monday. Well, and
if there's somebody else need to add to the list,
tell me Garrett, you said Garrett Cole, But he hasn't
pitched yet, correct. I don't think so well. I mean
that's the update. Oh yeah, you'll find out at one
one twenty Missing You here on Sports Talk seven I
let's talk to said Ryan Gusta. We're putting on the list. No,
come on, oh, Charlie Morton to retire, We can't put
it on the list. He did, yes, oh man ground
Chuck Rip, all right, if it was anybody else did die?
If it was somebody else, you want to know? With
the Missing You update, it's at one twenty Mondays here
on the Sports Talk seven ninety, let's talk to Adrian. Adrian,
did you go to the game on Saturday between the
Alani and Iowa?
Speaker 8: I sure did? And you forgot George Springer.
Speaker 2: Oh, Joe, that's a good one. George Springer, good one, honestly. Okay,
I'm kind of joking, but kind of not. Hey, Sue Sanchez,
Sanchez ran into listen the whole segment. You're off this
whole segment, Springer. Okay, that's seven deep how's rely doing
in the Mexican League? No, not counting, all right? So Adrian,
how was the crowd on Saturday?
Speaker 8: It was awesome? So I went to the University of Illinois. Okay,
over four thousand alumni here in Houston.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 8: And we had a pregame at.
Speaker 2: Tom's watch Bar.
Speaker 8: We had about four hundred people and I went around
from table to table and talked to quite a few
people who flew in on Friday.
Speaker 2: Oh really, okay, has dropped.
Speaker 8: Everything and sick because nobody expected us to beat the Coops.
So they said, hell, yeah, we're we haven't been to
the final four and twenty one years. We're going to Houston.
Speaker 2: Outstanding. Okay, So how full was the building?
Speaker 8: I'd say nine, that's really good.
Speaker 2: That's that's good. Yeah, that's good because it looked lower
problem like it was completely full. I just don't know
how the upper that look. So. Uh So you you
said you're an Iowa alum Illinois Illinois? So are you?
Are you going to go to Indianapolis or you just
wanted to see your squad here in town.
Speaker 8: I haven't decided yet, but probably.
Speaker 2: Stay here, okay, because I'll be honest with you. It's
very expensive to get up there. And I'm sorry to
say that because I was obviously thinking about that from
the University Houston to your team ruined my memories of that.
But uh but yeah, thank you Adrian for the update
on that. Good to good to see. There were so
many people that filled the building up on site. That's
a good that's a good site for Houston sports team
and doesn't evolve a Houston sports team. Right, all right,
thanks guys, Thank you Adrian. Next one time, and we
had one. We have another person that went to the game.
Let's go. That's how I like this. Let's go to
Tim and Parland on seven one. Hello Tim, Hell yeah.
Speaker 9: I went to the game.
Speaker 6: Hawkeys always represent.
Speaker 2: Oh see. Now it's funny because we've had two people
and Tim, you're the second one that had a dog
in the fight. Mm hmm much. I guess that's big guy.
I never die. How How BIG's the Iowa alumni group
of Houston.
Speaker 10: You know, it's pretty big. I don't know if it's
bigger than the Illinois group, but it's big and we
represent and the stadium what ninety percent full? Sorry, Illinois
people ain't too smart. They're probably about seventy five percent
if that?
Speaker 2: Okay, So now we're getting conflicting reports.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well get it. Get the facts from an Iowa person.
You know, after all those Illini people cheer I L
L Google.
Speaker 2: That says yet.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm just a little pissed.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I can feel the anger in your voice. Yeah,
for sure, it was good. It was a great run, Tim,
Thank you Tim for the phone conflict.
Speaker 10: Iowa people drink more beer though, and what.
Speaker 2: I uh, okay, yeah, something to be proud of. I
mean it is. Yeah, I don't think so. I think
Iowa women are a little more attractive Illinois women. I
can't hold you to that. I have no clue you
have You have no clue? You mean you have no idea.
Why don't you google image and see what's going on? No,
I'm not going to google image hot Iowa Hawkeye women? John,
how you do it? Let us know how it turned out?
Do what google hot Iowa women? You know what? That'd
be a no, okay, that's fair. We'll just have to
Oh what about Verlander? The list? Thank you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Will wait a minute? How long is it seven gonna be? Okay?
You know what, if you weren't an All Star or
didn't we got to cut off, Like, no, Hasus Santaz,
You're off at the list. Okay, I'm sorry, but Hasius
Sanchez off the list. And I'm gonna take George Springer
off list. He's been going all stop, he's been going
a while. I think that's fair. And I'm taking Garrett
cale off the list. I think that's fair too, one two, three,
four five. For Pete's sake, you're taking because Verlander is
now a Tiger. I'm a former astro. Great too, Verlander,
dubon Bregman fromber Tucker, I'm coming back from Tommy John.
Why do I want to go see him up in
the movies? So bad? Every time you try to do this,
I don't know what you're talking about. Your impersonations. You're
Garrett Coles number one. Your your cow mcnare is like
one fifty six. Oh okay, well that's great, Actually no
it's not. I got a strong roster. Yeah, got a
lot of middle ground there, all right. Seven one three, two,
two five, seven ninety. By the way, for those of
you worried about me with Lauren she Hotti being in Houston,
and I was a little worried. I was in New Orleans.
I ye, okay, that's more than five hundred yards. That's good,
which is what the court says. Do we need to
play the audio of the Duke Radio Network? Oh my god,
do we have it? Oh, we can find it. It
won't take us long to find it. You'll hear it.
Could It's that's rude, It's I mean, and I know
the guy. He's been a guest on the show That
Hurts ten thirty two on Supports Talk seven ninety Matt
and Ross on a Monday. Good morning to you. It
is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. We look forward
to having you with us today. We do invite you
to join us on the phones at seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI. We have to tell the
truth coming up today at eleven thirty, and a brand
news segment every Monday. We just organically came up with
ten minutes ago called missing You at one twenty, and
we'll keep it to five players, I think, because if
you do something six seven eighty, it loses. It's it's
zest for the segment. So right now it's Tucker fromber Bregman,
Dubon and Erlander on the missing new segment, and that
could obviously change as things move if players get traded,
which very ultimately could happen. I we didn't use use
Kakuchi as a missing your segment. We because it was
a short timer. Yeah, so it's it's it can interchangeable.
Perfect good. All right? So play by play is uh
something I love doing and I wish I was I
wish I had a perfect broadcast. I still tell you
this after doing for thirty years, I'm still looking for
that first one. That's that's good Matt striving, always striving
for perfection. But I've told this to a lot of
people before. The minutia of the game, when you are
calling a basketball or baseball or football game, nobody really
cares if you make a mistake in theory if it's
four to two in the top of the fourth, or
if you if you make a play I misidentify a
receiver in the second quarter of a game ten to seven, Okay,
that's them's the breaks. There is something, especially with the
increase in social media, you gotta nail the biggest moments,
whether it's a superlative, whether it's Kevin Durant going for
number five. Whether it's a made shot, you have to
nail it because if you don't, then nobody's going to
say what the hell's going on now? Stage two of this. Universally,
Duke has hated by ninety five percent of sports fans. Yes,
there's five percent. There's five percent that loves them. My
family loves Duke basketball, all of them. All of them really,
every single one of them. Wow, And I'm married into that.
So the Duke I bore my children because of that,
the Duke mind virus spread in the Thomas household. My
oldest son's name most of you know, his name is Cameron,
named after Cameron Indoor Stadium. Yes, and your daughter's name
is Shisky. No that's not true. No, that's not true
at all. Point being is this. I have to really
navigate these murky waters because if I go too much
into the I get why you hate Duke, then I'm
going to be in the back of the backyard again
for the second stray. Yeah, make sure you take your
brug spray kidding, I mean a tent this time. You
haven't had a tent this whole time. I didn't pitch
a tent yesterday. I no, okay, So you have to
nail the call number one, yes, and number two. You
can't come across as uber whiney if you are with
a fan base that generally speaking hates you. When the
Yankees complain about something, we hate you, hm, when the
Knicks complain about something, we hate you, notre Dame, we
hate you. There's a variety of things, okay. So unfortunately
the Duke Radio Network did not adhere to these things.
I want you to evaluate the call, okay, and then
I want you to evaluate the post call. Here is
the last few moments of the Duke Yukon game where
the younger the younger, the Boozer twin It's Kaden gives
up the ball, Yukon makes a shot to win the game.
And here's the call on the Duke Radio Network.
Speaker 7: Hit it in they do for Boozer, bobbled it back
for Star needs to get rid of it.
Speaker 2: Does for Caiden seven.
Speaker 7: Seconds trying to throw it ahead, deflected, stolen by Connecticut.
Speaker 2: Two seconds It's Molin's up top for the win. Oh
hit it, but three tenths.
Speaker 7: Of a second ago cal Kai Smith ran off the bench.
That should be a technical, but with three tents in
a second ago, Connecticut has the least seventy three to
seventy two. As Connecticut got the three from Mullins after
the turnover from Cadan Boozer.
Speaker 2: Hmm. I would have probably called him more dramatic on
the three pointer because that end my season. Yeah, and
even though you're the duke announcer, you can still have
the raw emotion. Ye're like, oh, yeah, you gotta, you gotta,
you gotta belt that one out, like when uh, the
last Rocket loss that end of the season was the
three pointer by Damian Lillard, and I think Craig poured
a soul into that, going, oh my god, the season
ending on that shot. I can do that. Even though
I'm obviously pro Rocket and want the Rockets to succeed,
I'm not gonna EMBELLI. Oh, that was a great jam
by Lebron James. I mean, you still have to call
the shot and your raw motions are going to come
into play on that. What made it worse? And this
is where again you just you use this as an
example and I'm sure and the Duke announcers again front
of the show had been on with this before. A
nice guy really really nice guy. Actually he went to
the technical foul card. Not only did he go to it,
but he was wrong because the guy he said that
was not on the that was not supposed to being
the floor, was actually checked in and was legal on
the floor Malchi Smith. So not only did he go
to the tee the technical card, he was wrong about
who the player he was identifying, but he also basically
social media ross destroys him because Duke is a losing
there's happiness there and then you have the Duke announcer
wanting about a technical foul that was never going to
be called, that should have never been called to begin
with because the player was on the floor. I do
sympathize because not only it wasn't just that shot, It
wasn't like a back and forth knockdown. Was a collapsed
Yeah it was. You had to watch that house burned down.
I've been there and then the house collapsed. So I
feel bad, but yeah, he he should be better well
to social media. If I'm man, if I'm calling Houston
Cougar basketball the National Championship game, I'm not going, oh
my gosh, Emmanuel Sharp just double dribbled or can't can't
grab the ball. I would have I would have lost
my mind because that's what people do. Yeah, you're not
play guy. But if I say if, but if you
put the headset on and they I said, ross, describe
what happened to Manuel Sharp in the last ten seconds
of the game of Florida. You would have described it as,
oh my god, I can't believe that he pump faked
and left and left his feet and then to get
rid of me. You you would have sold. You would
have been like, oh my, that's what I'm saying. You.
You you have to do a channel emotion. You have
to Yeah, you have. That was an emotional moment. You
have to channel and let it. You can't you you
have to throttle it. You can't go full all emotion.
But you it has to be a part of the
call because that was an emotional part that you can't
get any more emotional if you're a Duke fan than
watching those last ten seconds. So you know again, just uh,
you know. Look, you don't want to be you don't
want to support the other team when you're working for
the one team. But you have to also acknowledge either
greatness or futility on the most incredible play and then
something as minute as guys leaving the court, and then
it was the wrong I just like, I just I
honestly want to crawl in the hole the guy die
with him because I know he's he wants he's killing himself,
he wants to kill and look, there will be moments
in my life that I want to call back. There's
Monny calls in my life. I want back just is.
We have play by play, guys go through that. But
just the past can only haunt you if you let it. Matt,
I felt like I'd do a show with the therapist.
I'm trying to help. I mean, why don't you you
know what you have? You can why don't you go
to night school? Go I'm thinking about it. Actually, I
don't think it'd be a terrible idea in your part. Oh,
what I got rockets tomorrow. I might be picking up
astros tonight. I have rockets on Wednesday, and then I
have astros on actually rockets on Friday. Okay, maybe maybe
in the fall, I'm gonna do six am class. I
get it at six am every day. That's a lie.
Ten forty five Sports Talk seven ninety Abs Oh and
Dan wants me to pick up Saturday, so I'll have
four games this week. Abs c B. Buckner, you may
want to retire ten forty six, Sports Talk seven ninety
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c B. D. Buckner is him and Last Diaz are
now the two worst umpires in Major League Baseball. You
could make it a trio when Angel Hernandez was umpiring.
You're saying, Matt, how do you know those guys' names?
Everybody that follows baseball knows those cats' names. They've just
been the three worst guys for a better part of
a decade, and once you get in the club, you
can't get out of it. Sorry, you just can't. It
doesn't make any sense. They routinely considered the worst umpires.
The players hate them, the managers hate them, the metrics
hate them. There's nobody that says, man, I got C. B.
Buckner behind the plane. I'm feeling good about today. Correct,
he had six overturned calls in one game. Wow, I
wonder what the record's gonna end up being. It'll be
fun to find out we got six within the first week. Oh,
there'll be somebody can get double digits. You can't be
in Major League umpire if you're missing that many calls
and having them overturned. And I think about that, that's
just the number of overturn calls. How many times did
he miss a call that they just said, Oh, I
just can't I can't take that chance. Yeah. I went
to umscorecards to find the worst from last year. The
absolute worst was somebody named Andy Fletcher. Okay, but then
it's last DS and C. B. Buckner literally next next up.
So I'm messaying, I guess Andy Fletcher isn't nearly as
cocky as those two guys are. Maybe not, because those
are Those two guys are khaki and they're terrible. Can't
be both pick a lane? Okay. So I have watched
a small sample size of games this year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I watched just about all of the Astros game yesterday,
watched some of the game on Saturday and Thursday, and Friday.
I was with Rockets and Travelings. I didn't see much.
And I know you've been looking for this ABS thing.
And again, granted we're only talking about four games, an
incredibly small sample size. I don't see how you're gonna
do it every pitch. I just don't I really think
from a logistical standpoint, why I think you're gonna get
because think about it, it's pretty quick, but it needs to
get even faster. It needs to fluid. I don't think
it's fast. I'm just I'm saying I don't think it's
fast enough. No, it's instant. This whole thing that we wait,
that's for dramatic. So T Mobile gets their plug. Oh
is that the case? Yeah, I didn't even know that. Yeah,
it's instant. They can have a little buzzer on them.
That's gonna bring an instant hmmm. Okay, well then forget
what I just said. Okay, because I really didn't know that. Okay,
you gotta you gotta get the graphic up there. We're
gonna make a whole show out of this, and then
we're gonna make it like it's a cool challenge thing.
And then here's T Mobile's plug. Maybe that's the reason
why we're never gonna get I know it's very easily
because it's pretty sexy. People will enjoy it. Well, if
you're forcing everyone to use it on because no matter
what right, everybody has, every local broadcasts were watching. It's
brought to you by T mobile. You'd have to have
the if they use a strike box, it's brought to
you by T Mobile. I don't know, but yeah, it's
it's avenue for for for revenue. Smart on Baseball's part,
not playing. I mean they sponsored the element. I mean,
I didn't say they were great and they're the best.
You'd say thing at all about them. Well, in my experience,
they're not great. So hey, there you go. That's a
good balance right there. Okay, Well then I thought they
were looking. They were just they were not instantly doing it.
So maybe no, I'm still gonna Okay, yeah, I gotta
I gotta stand that. I don't think it'll be the
gateway drug eventually. I'm not saying. I don't know. So
let me put it this way. If it's going, if
it's working so beautifully now, then what would hold them
back from just saying, all right, if it's working now
at a game, both teams are out of challenges and
horrible calls are getting made. Happened now to ve late
in the game, they were out of challenges and horrible
calls are getting made. It'll continue to happen in a
pile up in big moments, and then the tide will
turn eventually, the the grains of sand will eventually fall
over to my end. But it will take time. I'm
until scales. I think we need to make a grandiose
bet about this. Okay, I bet five years ago you
would have said there wouldn't be a challenge system. I mean,
it's it's just things change and it will take time.
I would like to, uh make a bet. Let's make
the bet. I get this in perpetuity. Yeah, So I'm saying,
how long are we gonna go on this? I don't
know because I I've already I'm gonna pay off on
the Joe Mixon gun bet, although I still believe it
Joel Mixing gun Johann Alvarez is on pace to pay
play one hundred and sixty two games. Yes, yes, he's
doing well. You're you're one of that pace game I'm
going to pay for Okay, wait year, we know in
twenty twenty six, you're gonna need You're gonna need the
younger generation. Younger generation. It's gonna take time because sometimes
things take things are generational. Like we talked about with
the players. The older players are all love the human
element because that's what they're used to. The younger players
are all more on board with this ABS and stuff
because they dealt with it in Triple A. Now that
it's gone away in Triple A, you're gonna have fewer
players who have dealt with the full ABS because they're
not tinkering with that at all. Right at Triple A?
Are they just going full challenge? You're going full challenge.
I'm gonna say, here's here's the bet all and you're
gonna get odds on this all expense paid trip, no
stop to Las Vegas. You're ridiculous. I don't like Las Vegas. Okay,
all expense paid trip to Phoenix. I've never been to Phoenix.
Will then that'd be a great trip for you. Then
by twenty thirty, No, No, twenty thirty is four years.
I say, you're you're saying it's never ever ever gonna
happen in our lives, and I'm saying, I don't know
when it's gonna be, but I think it'll happen eventually. Okay,
all right, so no bet. Then I'll call you in
the home. Yeah, when I'm retired in the Jupiter Retirement Castle,
you go to Florida. Why do you think no, I'm retiring.
That's a great question. Am I retired? Probably on the
the Florida panandles Why not Galston? Eh? Well, Matto, I
love Dalliston number one, I do. I like that. I
like Galazon a lot beautiful. But I'm I think we're
gonna go to probably the Florida Panhandle will be my
guess Panhandle. Yeah, and like like a Rosemary Beach if
you will, Okay, big money you afford that. No, that's so,
I gotta keep working. My floral one k isn't a blanker,
by the way, I mean, I don't want to look
at it anymore. It's fine, No, it's not fine. Better
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Empty to tell the truth is today at one at
eleven thirty, we have a brand new segment on the show.
It's Starnay today. Excuse me, it's Nieze. It's at one twenty.
It's called Missing You. It's five former Astro players and
how they're doing. I've done research on one. I've got
four more to go. You'll be pleased with one of
the results already for one Astro missing Okay, so we
can change it around. We recording, yes, okay, I'll make
sure so ROSSI uh. Thursday and Friday were disappointments, big
crowds all weekend, frankly, but you know Opening Day, the
bunting and the pomp and circumstance, American flag, and the
Astros didn't score, running only in three hits, more problems
Friday with the runners in scoring position, and then Saturday
and Sunday a couple of comeback victories. Do you know
how encouraging it is for me to be an Astros
fan to know that my team can get behind in
a game significantly, or can surrender a leader then get
it right back. My glass is more than half full,
despite the fact it was just the Angels, despite the
fact the Astros and not gets great starting pitching, a
lot of clutchingting, and I need a lot of that
in twenty twenty six. Yeah, I think that's a good
way to look at it because of as you mentioned,
the offense is one of our big worries. It was
just the Angels, but they're still a baseball team. You
lost the first two. You have a pitching staff right now,
the starting pitching staff where the ERA is over seven,
but I expect that to get better. It's the start
of the season. If the hitting can sustain, and again
we're just one weekend in, but this is all we
have to go on right now. So if the starting
pitching Hunter Brown's gonna round in a form, you might
can be more accurate as well. And the other guys
who got starts, I feel like that can settle and
if you can still be good, especially right now the
way that the roster is constructed. Jordon Alvarez staying healthy.
We talked about that start of the season. He was
productive this weekend. I'm feeling overall encouraged about where we
thought this team was gonna be. Between eighty five eighty
nine ish wins and fighting for a wildcard spot this weekend.
Didn't do anything to deter me from that. No, I
did not want to go buy playoff tickets after the
victory yesterday. Now did I want to have everybody fired
and never go to a game again. Just a couple
of Randall thoughts from it, first and foremost. Joey lo
Berfido nice start, yes, number two, Joa Spotta moving the
puzzle pieces around every single day. Yeah, you got a
couple of Jordon Alvarez in left field. Perette is playing
second base, yes, which I like. Well, good for him,
because the thought was, okay, third base, you could live
with first base. He's done before second base, you really
think you're gonna put a guy out there. I hadn't
done much of that, and he held his own well,
he hasn't done much of that. But again, I know
we don't like to say bad things about the number
twenty seven. You say a word about it, but he
can't be worse. That's just the fact of the matter
of this stage's career. He's turning thirty six in May.
That's it, just is what E's oparatus cannot be worse
defensively than Jose al Tuova. Both of them not very rangy,
but they gets the balls that are hit to them,
So that's fine with me. I'm good with it. I'm
actually we'll see how much long term we get yord
On in left field. But the fact that he was
out there a couple of times. Of course, it's at
dyke In Park, so there's the shorter porch. He did
have that one ball that he jumped for and it
hit up against the wall. But he's okay, It's all good.
Don't worry about I don't need gold glove. I know competent, No,
and he's always been competent. Absolutely. Jake Myers mixing in
and out, Jeremy Payna not playing consecutive games, and that's
probably just just to keep an eye on that finger,
to make sure there's no swelling or anything like that. Yeah,
it was almost like a preview weekend. I'll be curious
once Jeremy Payne. We had Brian McTaggart on last week.
He said, probably about a week or so into the season,
it'll be starting the he needs to be out there
every day. He's your best defensive shortstop and last year
he led of your regular hitters. I believe he led
the team in ops. Yeah, so he needs to be
out there all right. So what I did like again
was clutch hitting. What I did like is that you
can score some runs when you're starting. Pitching needs some help,
and clearly they needed to help, especially on Saturday and Sunday.
That's going to regress back to the norm of what
I think the certain rotation is going to be. The bullpen.
We're the Astros are gonna flat out miss Josh Hater.
They just are. And it sounds like to me that's
gonna be later rather than sooner. H Remember when it happened.
Originally I said waking up when he plays it was
I think there, Well, I guess we could play find
that Hater update, but I think it was the looking
for live batters come mid mid month of April. Yeah,
I would think at the very earliest he's in May
first start.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: The aubradial velocity. I don't normally worry about that a lot,
but if it's down three miles an hour in just
the second performance of his season, my guess is Joe's
gonna have to probably treat him with king gloves for
a while and Joe talked about it. Brian King, let
me tell you something. You may he may be the
saltiest mineral reliever the askers may have this year left
handed and the ability to get people. I like Brian King,
but I don't want to say, hey, ninth Inning, who's
coming in to shut him down? Brian King? Let's go?
Could you get you better off a plan b though,
if a braid is going to have to worry about
velocity to be planned, c that point something to keep
an eye on. But overall, again, do you want a
winning weekend? Yes? Do you want to beat up on
the lowly angels who are probably gonna finish fourth or fifth?
Reality is baseball works crazy ways. You're not gonna win
every series you're supposed to win, and you're gonna have to, uh,
you know, hold your on. And the reality is it's
four games of a season and we're not gonna do
We're not gonna make any massive like if they had
gone four to oh, we're not starting a World Series parade.
And if they're gone all in four, we're not asking
ready to be fired except Astros should probably would have
done that. Yeah, I'm just looking at Brian Brady was
throwing mostly fastballs, some as low as ninety one point
seven miles an hour. He didn't even get over ninety five.
And he was hitting around or sitting around ninety three
ninety four against Mike Trout, who he he walked and
then was pulled for Brian King. So something to keep
it on it just is yes, not ideal, no, uh,
And you're just gonna have to probably give him some
off days more than you would. I mean back to back.
Probably ain't gonna be in the plan for a while.
You know what great pitching, starting pitching and great offense
that means less. Brian A braid. What the reality is,
You're gonna have to get deeper into games. Who was
starting pitching and he might is going to have to
really just kind of soak into everything that he saw
yesterday where he never got into good rhythm. And I
expect him in five or six days to get back
in that rule. He talked about being nervous. He talked
about mixing more of his secondary pitches rather than just
the slider. Yeah, so we'll see they're worried about his fastball.
Sliders supposed to be his best pitch. That was the
sole air home run was off his slider. I throw strikes.
That's number one thing. Well, that's exactly huge pitch count
in the first inning of the game yesterday. In fact,
I think it was twenty five you know on pace, guy,
I did not like that. I'm not a good on
pace No. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
We'll also get into some early thoughts about the ebs
in yesterday. Obviously there's a marketing tool chip to that,
but there was like if you if you were to
watch the volume meter when a play is challenged, there's
it's like it rises the crowd, it kind of gets
juice for it a little bit, and it's strange because
it's just a It's almost like do you want the
umpire to look bad? Or does the empire want to go? Gotcha? Yeah?
Do we have a percentage from the first weekend? I
bet we do, yes, and we can find it. But
I mean, let me tell you, there are metrics everything.
Every challenge by a hitter will be discussed, every challenge
by a catcher will be discussed, and every challenge by
a pitcher will be discussed. Yeah, I'm trying to find
it looks like the A's are the best in I'm sorry, yeah,
spring training fifty two percent. Don't listen to me. I
won't listen to sorry. Seven one three two one two
five seven nine if you want to chime in on
the conversation seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. Other things that get to the Rockets were
awesome yesterday in New Orleans beat the crap out of
the Pelicans by thirty two points. Rockets have a big
week coming up. They are right now in a mathematical
tie with the Wolves for the fifth spot in the West.
Minnesota has the tiebreaker right now because of conference record,
but the Rockets and the Wolves play one more time
in Houston in two weeks to close out the second
to last game of the regular season, so that will
be a huge game on that outbring Shingun was awesome,
Kevin Duranton up by the fourth quarter, and the Rockets
blew out the Pels to finish up their Midwest road
trip at two and two College basketball, I have your
overall success rate, please, fifty three point seven percent. First
Weekend Challenge success as in umpires are losing the players
are winning fifty three point seven percent of the time.
I think the Empires would take that get if it
gets If it gets higher, that's going to make the
umpires look really bad. You could the umpires. Let me
tell you, if I go the umpires and send an
email out at MLB dot com, if they're saying that
fifty four percent, they can live with that. And by
the way, I don't want to say one more thing
about this challenge thing. Okay, even with CB Buckner, because
I watched the video of all the calls that were
overturn there's there're micro inches here, yes, a lot of them.
I mean, it's it's not professional in uh negligits. It's
very very very cool. What if we had a machine
that could get everyone right? Hmmm. Hitters forty two point
three percent correct, catchers sixty four point one percent correct,
pictures just two for five. If I was a major
league manager, I'll just tell my catchers it's on you.
And I agree with Joe, I would under Zero's acceptance
to allow pictures to do it well. The catchers go
out pacing the hitters obviously balances the scales towards there's
more advantage on their side. On the pitching side. Mm hm,
oh it would be yeah. So that's interesting. But the ego,
especially as you have you don't have an ego behind
the dish. You have an ego at the play. You
don't want be called out or you don't want you
know what I'm saying, you don't want to you don't
want to be strike three call, like there was some
infatist strike three calls that were turning in the ball.
You know what that That is actually a great point
from Thank you, Matt. Pre catcher is least the catcher's invested,
but in terms of the hitter and the pitcher, they're
way more invested because is their individual numbers. It's a
hit to your own ego if you're wrong, that's right. Hmm,
Thank you very much. A stude point, Matthew. That's why
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one twenty Missing You debut segment today, I kind of
like this, let's me to work a little bit ads look, uh,
kind of check on things and it's it's good for
the show. Morning crossword puzzle for you or douco Yes,
su Doku. Get your cognitive juice is flowing. Yeah, gotta
always be thinking one step head always have you know,
a little little little uh. Benchmark segments say hey, I
want to I wonder how Maurica Dubonde's oh Madden roster
about on during Missing You? Yes, water cooler talk where
the you know what we are? We're water cooler fuel.
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: Can I tell what this show is? Can I tell
you a funny story? Yes? Uh? And I don't think
I'm going to speak out a turn on this. You
better not a friend of the show. Pete Mayock. Oh yeah, okay,
we can talk about Pete. I think so. Uh. So
Pete is brothers with Mike Mayock, the former Raider general manager,
and he's been on television for a long time. Yes,
so uh. He sends me a DM like super late
Saturday Night, okay, And I was like, what is it,
I wonder where everything was. Okay, Well, he says, hey,
I just want to let you know. I was at
the Space Cowboys game last week and a couple of
fans or a couple of people, maybe it was just
one came up to me and said, hey, Matt was
talking about Jack's Biggers and how guys that with the
name Jack's come across his douchebags. Yes, Pete's step son
is Jax Biggers. Oh okay, now, so Pete says, hes
gonna kick your ass. No, he was like, Jax doesn't
mind you saying that we both found it funny, No problem,
And I said there and I saw I send a
reply back. I said, thanks Pete for listening and or
telling the story. I said, it's not Jack's maybe the
Salt of the Earth guy, but reality TV Jacks is
a douchebag. Yeah, reality TV. That's the show about being
under at the on the boat, that's the uh summer house,
that's the real help whatever. Anybody that named Jacks on
those reality shows like the vander Pump Rules, they're douchebags.
I'll take your word for it. Like Jack's who I
don't know, stay with me on this Okay, there are
two douchey names in reality television, Jacks, Jax Taylor and Brody.
Anybody's named Brody douche? I just put in Google Jacks.
Oh wait a minute, there's a Jax tailor and the
vander Pumper Rules. You nailed it. How many how many
vander Pump Rules do you watch? I don't watch any
of it, but I know it's on our DVR, and
I'm down to like eleven percent of my on my
on my DVR at the house. Okay, so shout out
Jax Biggers. Could not be a nicer guy. Apparently he
thinks you're a douchebag. But I mean, Pete didn't have
to send that to me. But it was just a
a funny little still, it's prety funny. So yeah, we
are water cooler talk for some people, Yes, water cooler fuel.
We are, Well, you think it would be water. But
I think, and I think he understood. I wasn't not
attacking Jack because I've never met Jack Biggers. It looks
like a great kid. Yeah, he'll break you in half.
You don't know that. How big is JAXX? We'll see
how big? Does it matter? He's a professional athlete. So
you're saying every professional athlete he's he's five nine seventy five.
He'll break you in half. I'm six one five. What's
his bat speed? He oh, better than mine? For sure,
he'll break you, unless it's like a professional like maybe Cupstacker.
So let me tell you right now, I am actually
rooting for Jax Biggers. Now, okay, because we've got a
friend of a friend of a front of the show.
So good, okay, good, all right, then you just want
to pass it alone to you? Where are we going
with this? I don't know. I don't. I just want
to I just forgot to print Prinson that to you,
so thank you. Just again. We we don't. There's only
a few people we don't like, Jeff Passing being one
of them. I don't mind Jeff Passing. Oh he was
all over my for you tab this weekend. You know,
I'm a reporter, and we really respanked each other. And
who's he talking? Who's he talking about? People were asking
him about do him and the Rosenthals and they the
other beat reporters that are like the big breaker of
news stories that they get along with each other, and
like we respanked each other and I just it depends
if they're good dudes or not. I mean aause eating
another thing on Twitter by the way, we were talking
about how what a cess pool it is. Yes, but
we still use it, so we're I want to get off,
We're part of it. We're part of the sas. I
want off the train. But because I have this job
and I need to be on top of sports news,
I'm on the train. Yeah, and I'll be the same way.
We're seeing a lot of media fighting media. Have you
noticed that? Maybe you haven't, but I I would say
in general some Yeah, wlock, NFL dot Com, Saman's Marline
and one of the guys from Fantasy Points is your website.
I follow Grass Scott Barrett or something. They were going
at it. It was getting vicious, like Jason Whitlock and
Steven A. Smith are fighting, Cam Newton's fighting with everybody
who's the guy Ryan Clark is fighting. I'm like, do
you guys realize in the big picture of life, Like
I could have beef with a lot of media, which
I do, but I don't put it on the out there.
I don't have a lot of beef. I just have
some with some people. But I don't, but I don't
bring it out just you're not gonna like everybody. But man,
it's gotten so full of timeline. And are you team Whitlock,
Are you team stephen A or are you team Ryan Clark?
Like guys you analyze professional sports, you ain't rein eventing
the wheeling. You ain't caring cancer. You're not helping my
four oh one kgro It's a thing of everyone taking
themselves too seriously in general. God, do you understand that
the one of the blessings of you and I working
together for all these years is we do not, under
any circumstance take ourselves here seriously that much. I take
my profession very seriously. I take the time that it
takes to make this, hopefully the show enjoyable seriously. I
take my play career very seriously. But just general us
just talking here in sports. Yeah, again, we ain't caring cancer.
I don't even know what the biggest on air fight
we got on too is about. Besides Stevie Wonder, Stevie
Wonder still is there and you're wrong. But anyways, no,
I don't know. I mean, we disagree. Have we ever
had a beef with anybody at another station here in
the marketplace. I don't I don't think I have. I
don't even know. There's some people I don't respect, but
that's a different issue for it every time. I mean,
I don't, I don't listen to the other stations. I
don't even know who's on. You're probably in a good
spot then, but I hate listen. So it is what
it is. I have faults. I mean, I have an idea,
but I don't really know. I got you. There's a
lot of shifting, especially remember places, stay right where we are.
We're grounded, Matt ross this table as long as we can. Yes,
count your blessings. Okay, I have come up with my
four to tell the truth. Count your roth Ira. I
don't want to count that right now. Okay, yeah, maybe
next week seven one three, two, one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
All right, we have to tell the truth coming up,
and I have let me see what I did. I
have three truths and one lie. Do you like that
or do you like the lie? Is Is it what
way I've always asked you this? Is it easier to
tell my truth or is easier to figure out my lie?
I think it's it's more difficult when you do three
truths in one lie. Okay, so I have three three
truths and one line. Okay, these are four opinion I did.
And by the way, everybody calls everybody baby there yeah,
manab I love it. I love it. But if you're
a single guy and you haven't had loving in a
while and a girl calls you baby, you think it's
like the next step in your relationship development. Okay, well
it's the problem. Oh whoa, I got confidence? Now this
is horrible. Yeah, that's good. If you're twenty three years
old and the and the pit boss is calling you
baby and she's thirty eight and hading love in a while,
you're like, do I slipper my number? And why not?
What's the worst could happen?
Speaker 12: You?
Speaker 2: Ever hooked up with a pit boss? No? No, you're
also not twenty three or a dealer, not anymore. That's
my hamstring. It's not good. Yeah, stretch those hammies out,
I know, Jonathan. How's the prize vault? Are we?
Speaker 9: Are?
Speaker 2: We robust with a prize vault this week? Robust it's
a good word. And you're like that way I do?
Let me see let me see, let me see, because
you always use a word that kind of fits but
kind of doesn't.
Speaker 13: Oh, we got some music festival tickets, how long musical fest?
And then we got a pair of tickets to see
Dave Matthews band.
Speaker 2: Just one pair, that's all they gave us. Now, now,
is that like Tupac in the Outlaws or is that
like uh Willie Nelson in his Oka show? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait,
Willy Nelson is still doing He's like ninety six, So
it says no, the messenger weed helps, not that I
would know, but it helps. It helps Willy, he's ninety two.
All Right, we're gonna do this week. We're gonna let
the we're gonna let the content. We're gonna let some
audience people play along this week. Okay, So all you
gotta do is call into seven one three two one
two five seven ninety because you're believing or not. It's
been tough. We've not been giving enough prime truth and
you've been you know, like, no, I don't want to lampup.
We're gonna we're gonna go these tickets this way, believe
it or not. Seven one three I'm not believeing on
to tell the truth. I have three truths and one lie.
If you can figure out the lie, you'll win one
of those great sets of tickets we just gave away
a moment ago, are offered a few minutes ago seven
one three, two one two five seven ninety. If you
want to play to tell the truth, it's up next.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. I
never know why, but laws, I do know how to
tell the truth. Oh do you all right? Jonathan's four
sports takes? One of them is lies? How many truths
am I telling? Tris? Tris? Three truths? Yes? One line, Jonathan?
What could they be playing for? Can Scott, Brian, Kyle,
Corey and Ike be playing for? Today? All right?
Speaker 13: Today we got the Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson,
will Coe show Crow, Lucas Lucas Nelson.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't know any of these people. Seven Sammy
Davis Junior, said Stephen Wilson until fifth at the Woodlands Pavilion.
Speaker 13: And okay, of course we got the parents tickets to
see Dave Matthews Band live on May eighth at the
Woodlands Pavilion as.
Speaker 2: Well favorite Dave Matthew song, Jonathan, Okay, here we go, gentlemen,
three truce one line. Take number one. Dan Hurley is
an outstanding basketball coach. He's just a massive tool. I
cannot root harder against Dan Hurley. What's the take? That's
the take? Okay, I just I don't like him. I
don't like his boorishness. I don't like his attacking of officials.
I don't like his being rooted people. Okay, this is
the Yukon coach, Yukon coach. Okay, then you go forehead
to forehead with Afial. Yes he did, and he yells
at them all the time. That's take number one. Okay,
number two, So the shot was made by Yukon. Yes,
and Doke have to go full court to win the game. Okay.
In the NBA, when you call a timeout, you can
advance to front court. I think college basketball should adapt
the NBA rule you can advance the ball into front
court after a timeout, giving teams one small glimmer of
hope for another buzzer bee. Literally the only way reason
that rule was instituted, right, correct, I think college should
adapt that for the from the NBA. Okay, all right, gentlemen,
Take number three. NFL is currently hiring replacement officials, and
as part of the labor negotiations, they're going to try
to make the current NFL officials full time. In my opinion,
I do not care if they're full time officials. I
think making him full time is not going to make
them better. The best way you can get officials to
get better is to grab them at a younger age
with not as many years in the business, so you're
not grabbing guys at fifty two that are fishing their
first NFL game. Do whatever you can to get officials
at twenty one, twenty two to twenty three and get
them ready by the time they're twenty eight twenty nine,
so they get a longer, zestier, more successful NFL career.
I think making full time is a bargaining chip or
a demand is a waste of time, because again, what
are they gonna do with this time of year? Just
watch game film over and over and over again. It
seems stupid. I don't know. Yeah, and number four, I
had a really wonderful, relaxing weekend in New Orleans. Took naps,
went for walks, to a little gambling, it'd some good
Cajun food, and I actually put some football on this weekend.
I cannot believe I'm telling you this. I watched some
of the Gamblers run a game game. It wasn't nearly
as bad as I thought. Okay, I wouldn't say I
was fully vested, but at least there were some offense
that made me think. I never know if a game
is on on a Saturday, a rando watch some of it.
I actually enjoyed. And I can't believe I'm saying this.
I actually enjoyed some of the rambler the Gamblers versus
Rene game game because again, Kevin someone was coaching. I
wanted to see how he was doing. Okay, it was
Houston's team wasn't terrible. Those are my four takes. Which
one of the four do I not believe. Number one,
Dan Hurley is a great coach, but a complete d
bag and tool. Number two I think college hoops should
adapt the NBA advanced in the front court after a timeout.
Number three making NFL officials full time, in my opinion,
will not will not make them better. And number four
Gambler's run a game wasn't terrible, better than I thought
it was gonna be. I had zero expectations. I now
have minimal expectations. Okay, one lie one of those four
is a lot? Which one of the four am I
lying about? All right, Jonathan, how are we feeling? Number
One's easy to dismiss to me, one of four, I'm
dismissing Dan. Dan Hurley is a massive tool and way up,
way too. Seriously, why would he make that one?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 2: But you know what, Dan Hurley, this guy going nose
to nose with officials after games. He's a sweet kid.
Speaker 13: And why would Matt ever come on air and admit
he actually at the gamblers with James and Klin listening
if he didn't actually believe it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why I think he doesn't believe it. I
don't know. Two. I could see going either way. I
could see the argument for both sides, like, hey, it's
college basketball, it should be it should stay the way
it is too. I'm honestly on the fence. Three. I
agree with Matt, and I think he believes that because
I think he said this in the last couple of
weeks that NFL officials full time or he was talking
about some other officials being full time, and it didn't help.
So I'm down to two and four, which I'm on
the fence, but I just don't believe he was enjoyed
because well you know, I'm not gonna say why. I'll
give my reason afterwards because there's contests. So if there
weren't contestants, I would reveal my what I why I believe.
But I could be wrong. I'm gonna go with four.
I'm gonna go with two. Okay, all right, let's see
what the audience has to say. All right, you heard
the four takes I online one like which one of
those fours I lying about?
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm gonna say, uh, take number one.
Speaker 2: You think I think you think I think that Dan
Hurley is not a douchebag?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, I think you like him?
Speaker 2: You think I like him? Okay, So hey's number one
and hang up. I just go ahead and go by
your day, Corey. On seven ninety, which one of those
four am I lying about?
Speaker 1: Matt?
Speaker 14: Come on, there's zero percent chance that fancy Matt sitting
in a five star hotel with winches feeding him grapes
one at a time, waiting for his duck col C
is sitting and watching some Loser by Product football game.
Speaker 11: Number four is absolutely a lie.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Corey, Ike, by the way, hung
up right, I was kidding. Sorry, call back if you're right, Kyle.
Which one of those four am I lying about? As
soon as I said that, I was like, that was stupid.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 15: I'm going to have to go with number two. I
think you're knowing you a little bit. I think you're
a big fan of the college integrity and keeping the
sport different, keeping the way it is. So I'm gonna
go number two.
Speaker 2: Very logically thought out. Thank you Kyle very much. He
has number two. Let's go two more here, Brian on
seven ninety Brian, which one of those four am I
lying about?
Speaker 3: It's either two or four.
Speaker 12: I'm on the fence, but I'm gonna go with number four.
Speaker 2: Okay, number four. You think that I did not enjoy
the gambler's running gag game. Remember I said zero expectation.
Now I have minimal and last one belongs to Scott
on seven ninety Scott, which one of those form I
lying about?
Speaker 3: I'm also going to go with the college game number two?
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you very much. Uh so you so it
came down to you guys saying to what was your Jonathan?
Which one do you think too? All right. Number one,
Dan Hurley is a complete douchebag. I totally believe that. Okay,
I'm glad I told I like to hang up. Yeah,
I was like ninety nine called back number two. Making
NFL officials full time is not going to make anything.
It's any better. It's just not now that they're gonna
be staring at film forty hours a week, but it's
one day a week job. Yeah, I'm sorry, that's you
go get younger, you go get these college guys out
of there faster. To me making them full time, it
just feels like that's just I mean, you're telling me
they can't be accountants during the week and then still
study up. No, no, no, ridiculous. I watched some of
the Gamblers Versus Renning gag game on Saturday afternoon. Yeah,
it absolutely sucked. It was worse than I thought it
was going to be. Okay, this is the piece of information.
I looked at the box score. It was thirty six
to seventeen. I'm like, there's no way Matt thought that
this was so crazy. It was awful. It was terrible.
I completely lie about that, completely, completely lie, Jonathan. You
know how I feel about the ufl it no longer
it is. You know what shocked me? I didn't say
anything possible. I'll give you another tip. Jonathan watched that
he couldn't keep a straight didn't want to say this.
I was trying to keep that. I'm glad I saw it.
I couldn't look, couldn't keep a straight from face saying it,
and normally, Matt, your poker face is not know it's decent.
During this, I'm going to start turning away from you
from now on because that I couldn't. I couldn't keep
a straight face during He checked the tape. You can
hear me laughing. I didn't want to blow it because
we had contestants and I want to be Jonathan. Yeah,
but I have a competitive advantage being in here. I
can live with college basketball not giving in advance. But
I think if you want to add just even one
more little better, it would make it even better. So
I would I would not be opposed to college basketball
advance in front court. Why not? Rather than asking why,
I ask why not? Because how many times can you
go think about this? Last night? Point three? That is
a sixty foot pass, forty five fifty foot pass. Then
it's a catch and shoot. You just don't there's not
enough time. Volleyball bump it in, yeah, basically, which I've
been advocating for the old volleyball bump. Yeah. And there
was a team did it earlier this year. I can't
remember who it was against the Rockets. I think you
know what, I think you may be right? All right,
So congratulations to Brian and to Corey. They know me
when I don't tell you the truth and you But again,
what I should have done is I should have probably
I should have turned the lights off in the room
because I was like, I was like chuckling. I was
saying sure, but no, I don't have to be sure
like home. So really quick they played this, I don't
know they played in like I want to say, they
played in a small Uh does Nissan Stadium sound like? No,
that's a Naissan. Where do the Renegades play? Can you
look at up really really quick? It's a small one
half of the stadium one and a half. Ross was no, no, no, no, no.
Dallas Renegade is different. So that's Arena. Sorry, hold on
what is where are they from? It's the Dallas Renegades. Yeah, oh,
chuck taw Stadium which is that's the uh. Isn't that
the old old ball ball market. I thought they were
at somewhere smaller. One half of the stadium was completely
draped off and Fox because I did watch the game
some of it. At least they were never showing crowd shots.
There might have been two thousand people there. I will
say one of the all time amazing horrible takes in
my life. And this is not going back. In the
last five years. I really thought for a while that
we could, that we would be able to live with
spring football and enjoy it. We don't like it. It's
just the product. And we have so much else going
We have so much else's going on. We have March Madness,
we've got golf, we've got the NBA, we've got baseball.
And the number one thing ROSSI is the product's terrible. Yes,
receivers can't catch passes, quarterbacks under it's just not good. Yeah,
think about how bad it is watching Garrett Stidham. The
quarterbacks are all worse than him. That's fair. Front of
the show, Bill Bill's Usten, Good morning to you.
Speaker 3: Bill.
Speaker 2: In the Woodlands, women in college basketball get to advance
into front court. Finally, a time out.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I've not called a women's basketball game in a long time,
so I did not know that. So there you go.
So they're doing it. What's good for the ladies mine,
that's good for the fellos. What's good for the goose
is good for the gander too. Yeah, so women can
do it, So men should do it, all right? News
and nude coming up in ten minut's what us today's
edition to believe or not? Oh? You know what, let's
do the Hurley fan family Roderie Munos of the Hurley family. Yeah, no,
I'm good. He's such a douche. By the way, who
the hell are we going to root for in the
final four? Are we even gonna care? Are we even
gonna watch? Houston? Television ratings are gonna be epically low
for the final four? You know? How do they monitor
like the top forty markets? And my brackets are all
I have no chance brackets. So Duke and my best ones. Boy,
I would like to say, I'm not surprised that Kevin
Sampton's coming back. Kevin took up the fire in the belly.
Oh you announced it? Yeah, basically he had announced it.
I think he either late Saturday or early yesterday because
because all the kids are asking are you coming back
or not. I think even if he'd won, he loves coaching.
I think he will first. I loves coaching, and the
money is really good, money, very good, really really good.
He loves coaching. He got a great support staff. I mean,
he's got his family around him. I mean they do
the lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to recruiting.
I mean, those young guys almost reads transfer portal. It's
got to cut the chick. Yeah, how we thought Dusty
Baker was gonna ride off on the sunset in twenty two.
He's like, well, if I win one, I want to
win two. You know what, you know what it may
be and this isn't life in general. It maybe just
be harder retiring period. Well, I think if you rise
to the heights of what Calvin Sampson had, I mean,
in the Dusty Baker examples, he lives baseball. Baseball is
his life. Kelvin Samson, Coaching has been his life. He
loves it and he had to get away from it
for a litt while at least, you know, as a
head coach. And I think that's something that he I mean,
I'm guessing I'm not. I don't really know him that
well or anything, but he just seems so passionate. And
that's why he's so a lot of times, you're so
good at something because you're so passionate about it, because
it is your life. And that's why he's a great coat.
And I also think it keeps you occupied, Yeah, keeps
you young. And I think people when they retire worry
about you know, what do I do to stay active? Yeah?
My grandma's eighty three. She still works. She loves going
to work, keeps her young, keeps her a Just think
you and me together another thirty years, all right, It
puts it forty six years together. Really like an old
married couple may look at the job markets. James on
seven ninety at eleven fifty four, James, how the hell
are you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not doing very well. I don't like Charlos comments.
There's eight teams in the league and he was lucky
enough to get one of them.
Speaker 2: Were not lucky enough. Nobody cares the football, nobody cares,
nobody's watching, nobody's going against. It's absolutely horrible. It's it's
nobody's going to the game. You'll be the only one there.
Speaker 4: No, Ludcras is gonna be there too. Ludcros is a
halftime show Ludacris. So they're trying to make this thing work,
really and.
Speaker 2: They're gonna fail. What's your favorite Ludacris song, James, I
don't like.
Speaker 4: I don't know any Lucas song. It's okay, I'm going
for the game. But nevertheless, if you watch the second half,
Deckers wasn't that bad. They were horrible in the first half,
I'll give you that, but Deckers actually came around look
pretty good as a backup quarterback.
Speaker 2: So you're going to the backup quarterback can week one
of the season? How is that going to play off
for the rest of the.
Speaker 4: Start, But he'll be the starting quarterback next week?
Speaker 2: He played, Yeah, I trust me.
Speaker 4: You know you're watch it again.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I will not watch it. I'm done.
I'm out on the Gamblers done, Finito zero. You know
what I watch? I watched the thousand. I mean I'll
tell you something. I didn't know they were on. I
had no clue they even brought like old front of
the show. Joe Klatt was doing the color commentary. Was
he He's like, I gotta get this check fox check.
Speaker 1: Han.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 4: I mean after the show, you need to sit down
and figure out when you're gonna have gamblers game day.
Speaker 2: So that's never gonna happen, zero chance. No one cares.
Speaker 4: All right, well I try, you did try.
Speaker 2: You are the gamblers of sports talk callers. Thank you
friend for the show. I appreciate you, Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, they had Longhorned legend Kyle Loxley on the squad.
He was not good at you t he went to utip.
Do you kicked him to the curb? Huh? I didn't
kick him anywhere. Wish him the best. And now he's
on the gamblers. You know we could do you know,
we'll get you or not. No us UFL player or not.
I like this there it is there if you want
to get working on it right now. It's in less
than two hours. Okay, So just you should do. You
should get some actually people that are recognizable names you
sound made up. No, there's nobody that's recognizable. Oh to
his brothers, and the is a gambler. Tua talk about
his brother Taulia. Where did he play? Did he moved
to a bunch of colleges didn't. He moved around the question.
M hmm, Jonathan, I think you should play for the Gambers.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I already gotta messed up a c on. I'm
it's gonna be over with. They have nothing to lose
in that league. It wouldn't it be fun to have
no is a gambler? You could you just put the uniform?
I mean because they always try. You know that Karl
Lewision was drafted by the Cowboys. There's a Christopher Allen
from Matton Rouge. The only thing I got your second cousin,
and I'm gonna get lit up. That's all I got.
What do you got return? That's only the field poe return.
I kick off return, and I gave you two times.
Speaker 2: When you when you get tackled, would your bones crack
immediately or would you wait to get the signs before
falling over and pain? Oh no, I went for the sighlines. Yeah.
Speaker 13: You know, once I got trust on bad in middle school,
I I saw I was white and I had to
walk it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called a concussion. You know you lived with
it all right.
Speaker 1: It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: It might seem crazy and what a both.
Speaker 16: Say scored Houston, New Orleans happiness truth because whoa, everybody
is happy.
Speaker 2: Three and one be better than two and two.
Speaker 1: But take it.
Speaker 2: You can get for one team or both both both.
So I was doing some research on Justin Verlander. He's
yet to throw for the Tigers yet. Okay, so that'll
be a very easy part of the Missing You at
one twenty. Okay, do you see their uniforms? Those the
new uniforms. They have black uniforms, orange with the word
Detroit across the front. They are sick. Oh you like them?
I love them me. By the way, I met Millmad
at the Astros. They didn't wear the blue uniforms on
Sundays like they normally do. I wonder if emails against
them could be because usually the pictures get to choose
the uniform from the Fridays are always the orange. They
had the City Connects on Monday. Mm hmmm, and then
uh yeah, and then they didn't. They didn't wear the
blues yesterday. That blue uniform is my favorite. That's you know,
the spring training tops they wear. But yeah Fromber used
to always wear them. Uh So I'm just about done
with Missing you at one twenty today. Okay, can't wait. Umm,
you're not going to be surprised at most of this.
It's just one week in this one week. But you
know what again, missing you Monday's at one twenty is
going to be something you're able to tell your friends
when you're setting the baseball game tonight. Okay. I listened
to Matt and Ross today and they were talking about
blank blank, So we're we're actually providing a service. We
should actually charge for this, we should. But in the meantime,
just patronize our sponsors. Yeah, just take care of our
sponsors and listen to us every day and tell at
least fourteen friends of your show by the show. Yeah, no,
just you know what, tell three friends this week, tell
three friends about the Matt Thomas show, Ross, and then
tell three people you hate. That's six. It's something that
so you know it's something if you hate them, you
can bond over it, correct, you can build a bond.
We're building bridges. Honestly, that's what we're doing in this town.
Were peacekeepers. Yes, let's get to the news of noon play. Sure,
why not?
Speaker 14: And with that.
Speaker 2: To you, Rossfield real in the news room. Yes, Matthew,
the news at noon. Well, we'll go ahead and start
with the Astros. They get into an O two A
hole against the Angels in their four game set. Then
they bounced back with a huge comeback victory over the Angels,
even though things got a little dicey in the end
of that game. On Saturday, Brian A Bray you through
I believe twenty five twenty six pitches. Then yesterday they
got in a hole again but came back. Oh, actually,
I'm sorry. They got a four nothing lead, and then
Tatsuya Emi unfortunately not effective two and two thirds innings,
four walks, four earned runs given up as well on
seventy four pitches. He was pulled for Rodre Munos. So
you got eleven and nine runs in the last two
games of the four game set. But Matt, the starting
pitching has not been where you want it to be
for the Houston Astros and era over seven by the starters,
A whopping twenty eight walks issued by the Houston Astros
in four games. For those of you playing at home,
that's seven walks a game by the Astros pitching staff
over the weekend. And ironically, or I should say not
ironically enough, all the games are going like three hours
in Norse pitchclock me damn walks slow games down. Well,
there was a record setting weekend for the Astros. Do
you know what their previous record for walks in four
games was? No, I don't. It was in nineteen seventy six.
It was twenty six Kenny fors damn you. So they
blew that away. Couple of extra walks, my god, seven
point six four era by the starting pitching with the Astros.
It's gonna be better. It has to be better, and
it will be better. Let's go with them. Followay Mariners
two and two in their first weekend against the sucky Guardians.
So everybody, it's all good. Relaxed with are elax. We
don't have to have just yet. I like that, Lauren
Shiati already in mid season form. Go on, please, yeah,
were gonna have to find another channel to watch. You
literally are turning it right now doing the news. One
thirty four to one O two of the Houston Rockets
defeat the New Orleans Pelicans, and I don't want to
hear nothing about all the crappy Pelicans Pelicans giving the
Rockets problems. Bad teams have given the Rockets problem. Do
you know this. Here's a little anego for you. Until
last night the Rockets Pelicans three games were separated by
a total love six points. So there you go, one
thirty four to one oh two. I'm feeling good. How about,
of course, the headliner Matthew thirty six points from outbrun Shinggoon,
five of seven from three point Land also had thirteen rebounds,
seven assists, I won zero turnovers. I don't want him
getting very cocky from the three point line. I'm just saying,
I don't think he just unlocked this untapped potential last night.
But we'll see. But quiet, Matthew. Our good friend Tari
Easton has been playing better. Back to back double digits,
back to back, multiple three point shots, a horrendous march
with an uptick hopefully towards April. Uh well, yeah he was.
He made a three thankfully in a couple of games
recently one for six against Memphis. Not great, but he
still had sixteen points three of five. That's four of eleven.
It's the last couple of games. Tan Tari Easton be
inching back towards effectiveness for the Houston Rockets. If the
Rockets are going to win a first run series. He's
got to be the main go to guy off the bench.
Now will he play well enough to maybe supplant him
at the back in the lineup. I don't know. I
think that a men He'll never publicly tell you this.
I think a man having a little more freedom sports
rvy not to have the ball in his hands as
much is invigorating for him. Yeah, rockets twelve than four
with Reed Sheppard in the starting lineup. Okay, also a
huge upset this weekend as the final four is set,
it is going to be Michigan Arizona, Illinois. And you
can on an insane duke collapse and in insane final
moments of the games ahead, who's here?
Speaker 16: That pop starts caravan two seconds Billings tosses it up.
Speaker 12: John goes.
Speaker 2: On CBS. Yeah, and I'm standing job per usual. Best
thing Grant Hill and Bill Raftery did is he laid
they laid out. Let their announcers say it yes. And
then a few seconds later, after Bill got his pacemaker
going again ononds, Bill Raftory a national treasure eighty two
years old and still has his fastball. Yeah. The the
video of him like he's he's in disbelief, as were
the rest of the America crazy crazy moment in that game.
And I'll wrap up your news is a new matter.
Who you got winning the national Championship Arizona feels about right,
go big twelve, no SEC team left. So I think
my best remaining bracket has Michigan. I think I can
sneak into like winning a couple bucks. So I'll go
with Michigan. And that's the great thing about is the
money that you win will be going directly to the
villar Real Family Foundation. Yes, all right, twelve thirteen, it's
matten Ross. We have Missing You coming up at one twenty.
By the way, you'll be doing Missing Your next Monday,
So you do. I am yeah, because I'm an out
next month. Yeah, oh yeah, we'll do yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, no,
I can't wait to do Jonathan, write this down. He's
gonna do Missing Your next month. Oh man, it's gonna
be great. I can get that. Yeah, it's gonna be fantastic.
He's gonna forget, Jonathan. You always forget. I will forget
to tell the truth now, Jonathan. Next week you're handling
to tell the truth a lot. I gotta get some
I think we'll get I'll give you a whole week
for takes. Okay, okay, look at these something these West
Coast games terrible like we don't even play to like tenecds.
It's system, all right. Twelve fourteen Sports Talk, seven ninety
Matten Ross with you seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. We'll talk to you on the phones. Let
me ask you this. And I brought this up very
early in the show today. I hate the term choke. Yes,
did Duke choke? Yes? Oh we'll get Ross's answer maybe
after this. I've said this for sixteen years. The best
conversations on the show are the ones during the break.
And when I write a book, Ah, now, just change
my name. Oh no, no, no, yeah you I will
have to. It can be called mister Texas Bears all
please boom a good title. I'm not gonna lie. Oh stop.
Nobody wants to see you bearing anything when I When
I write the book, I'll tell you everything, okay, good
and bad. Problem is, no one's going to care outs
out of Houston about mister Texas. I may get a
few people in Corpus that make care, but that's about
as far as it goes. We got some fans at
San Antonio. We do fans of the ballot. We got
our Doug in sal Potdre listen to the show. We'll
have to get you a good ghost writer. I don't
think we do very well in the Dallas Fort Worth
area San Antonio. All I guess we got some Austin folks,
got a few. I just want to I don't want
to write a bookunless I'm gonna make a lot of
money on it, because I'm I don't do it bear
a lot of my soul. Yeah, I think. I mean
Brian McTaggart wrote that Astros book and I think it
was doing quite well. And I don't think he made
a ton of money off. No, it's just not worth it,
So don't do it. All right, thank you? Seven to
one to three. I'll write a book. What would your
book be called? Mistakes were made? That's a good one. Actually,
I like that. I actually I am actually happy that you.
I did text you yesterday and you got within the
two hour range. Yeah, I think you're within two hours.
I must have got lucky. I got lucky because you know, yeah,
I was asking about Brian a Brew. When was this?
Oh yeah, I was just getting back into town. You know,
Brian a Brew's contract ends at the end of the year.
I think, oh, yeah, he can go. They know his
arbitration clock. They know there's a reason he's been out
there seventy games over and over. Tomorrow eleven thirty. Got feeling,
don't you think? Okay, like you not agree on it.
Oh no, we're going to agree on it and say discomfort. No, okay, good,
I don't know. I can't predict the injuries. No, he gone.
I was talking about the future, and you need leverage
release though you can go get that. Yeah, we say that,
who's but who's after Brian to brave you? I'm talking
about in the frigent market, Okay. I I can't see
the Astro spending big money on him. I just can't. Well,
if you're looking for a free agent, he has a
good this year, If he has a good year, he
may think he's he's in a rally. It's fine, okay,
nothing to worry about. Just two games and velosity down. Yeah,
just it's in ninety one point seven. Okay, it wasn't
that bad, wasn't Yeah? This for one, this is like
its first one Easy twelve twenty two on The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross Easy.
Speaker 9: Good afternoon to you, Good after you, gentlemen. I'm all
for the Ladies to come back for three hundred million.
Speaker 2: That's a lot man union paying Wait whoa wha well,
union pay care? What do you or you care about
mage of cost?
Speaker 9: Because of ticket they're going to be one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's about it's a plot to supply
and demand, and if there's demand for it, then one
hundred dollars will be in. If it's no demand for
it'll be nineteen dollars.
Speaker 9: Do you remember when the Hilton Furniture guy was trying
to buy the team for eleven million dollars?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: He bought it all right, and then sold it really
quick or got rid of it because the league is like,
you can't hold this team anymore.
Speaker 9: You went broke the I watched the bacle with the
Renegade game.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 9: The only reason I watched is because we had squares,
and we're degenerates on that level.
Speaker 2: You're doing gambler squares. I guess that fits. Yeah, Okay,
you're a sick human being. Easy, I respect it. Easy, easier.
Do you work? Are you retired?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 9: I worked?
Speaker 2: Their Wait a minute, can can I ask what you
do for a living?
Speaker 9: I'm an IT professional and you and.
Speaker 2: You got money to spend on two hundred dollars squares
for a UFL game? What is wrong with you? How
do you find enough people to fill out the square?
Speaker 8: It was?
Speaker 9: It was a hundred on there, and I mean, I'm
guessing one twenty. We're watching the game, but I know
a hundred of what they were on the on the board.
We're watching the game too, But yeah, that was that
was like pulling teas gentlemen. Would would a h Eastern
Michigan versus Achron be a better game on a Tuesday
than that game?
Speaker 2: That's pretty good comp.
Speaker 9: Third thing I was going to bring up that was
a Brian bra you thing that you guys just brought up.
What do you think it's going to happen? Who is
going to step up in that role? And I'll hang
up and listen, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Well, no, there is no role to step up. That's
his role. He's not yet. No, no, no, And when
I were, I will add into existence. Why don't want
to bring that up as a conversation. Don't even do it.
I'm concerned, don't be No, I'm not concern. I'm not.
I'm saying that maybe the thought of him going back
to back probably isn't going to be in the in
the in the future for you. Yeah, he pitched a
lot on Saturday. They didn't want to use the bullpen
as much as they did. I mean nobody got to
the sixth inning, did anybody. I don't think anybody recorded
it out in the fifth inning. No, the starting pitching
gets a D for their performance over the week. But actually,
maybe even culture or that, I mean, Hunter Brown isn't
even doesn't even get you five. So nobody even got
five innings. It's an f starting pitching was an from
the series. Doesn't necessarily mean it can't. I mean it's
going to rebound.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not worried about it. Yeah, Mike Burrow's co ace
off to a rocky start, but will be fine. We're
calling him a co ace. I said, it's off to
a rocky star Mike Burrow's co ace. Does he know
he's the Brown, He's the I'm saying the co's campaign
is off to a rocky start. Oh no, yeah, he
did he did get he went five and two thirds.
I'm sorry, Mike, Mike's not listening, okay, but nobody went
six innings, didn't didn't Joe spot a home? A little
bit of a red ass? Yeah he is. I like
when you get red asses on the show. I like
when they like when we get red outs. Oh wait,
hose l twob okay at second base of the week. Fine, sure,
why not? Did he embarrass you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I wasn't embarrassed. Did he batch a ball? Not that
I know of a couple of double plays he was turning. Yeah,
you know why he's comfortable. He's back in a familiar spot.
By the way, I remember when the show was two
to four. We were like, okay, we'll do it. But
it's not great. It's different. We're not in decline, Matt.
We're on the uptick. Yes we are. Cam Smith. By
the way, I think I saw one hundred and thirty
seven feet he covered on that catch he made in
the right foul territory. Oh, his glove's going to give
him a not complete benefit of doubt, but a little
bit more wiggle room. That ground he covered was more
than any catch of last year. How about that? Any outfielder.
The most outfield ground caught covered was one hundred and
thirty six feet last year by Nathan Luke's on that
catch he made, he covered one hundred and thirty seven five.
I got news for you, and this is nothing that
you don't already know. He's an athlete. The reason why
I made the transfer five star grab Matt. Of course,
as you know, plus point eight out's above average on
a single catch. Maybe you lost me there? Did he
catch it? Yes? What was he catch?
Speaker 3: Ball?
Speaker 2: Good play baseball? Want to make it your level for
if you want? How about drive to right field? Cam
Smith running and he makes the catch, and there's no
need to give you some room. Week asked stat about it?
Good percent? He catch baseball? Good? Okay, I use verbs
catch baseball good? Cam Smith is an excellent defensive player baseball.
Good catch, Cam? I use verbs? Ross, doesn't I got
one a verb before you? I'll take during the break, twelve
twenty eight, Sports Talk seven ninety It is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven zero. I'm gonna ask a question. I'm gonna ask
it again. Because we've got no response the first time.
Ross that we're moving on. Did you kind of win
that game or did do choke? I have your answer,
I'm not allowed. I would like a caller to tell
me what they saw if you watched it. I'm afraid
the numbers an't gonna be great for Houston. We had
some people that went to the Iowa Illinois game, but
they were they had local ties to it. By the way,
I brought this up in the first hour of the show.
Did you go to the Iowa Illinois game it was
on Saturday? Because maybe you were a Cougar fan like
I already bought the tickets moth as we'll go and
you're probably too hurt. Try to dump them for whatever
you can get. Did you go to Iowa Illinois without
a dog in the fight? We had two callers in
the first half hour of the show today. One was
an Iowa fan and one was an Illinois fan. These
ticket gougers are That was anybody in the building that
just said, you know what, I want to watch high
level Elite eight basketball and that damn scoreboard went off
again and just buzz for like fifteen straight minutes. Apparently
got to use the air hoorn sometimes one today. Our
initial segment of missing You, I wrote it on my
the notes on my hotel notepad. I got four more
this weekend, uh in New Orleans. I think I got
twelve of the trip overall between the four cities. I
have an addiction. You're you have a sickness, correct, But
I am amusing paper, and I'm sure it's recyclable, so
it's okay, all right, So the question for you is, okay, Yeah,
did Ukn craft up beautifully executed, made shots not gonnadn't
watch the second half because I was busy with the rockets,
but I did see obviously the last few seconds. Did
u kan chip away or did you tag Duke Duke
excuse me? Uh Sean tweets in Duke choked the last play,
but Yukon fought like hell to get it to that point.
That feels fair. It's a choke. To me, I defined
a choke as the moment was too big, You panicked,
you froze, however you want to put it. That's a choke.
People make shots, people misshots, people make great plays stuff
like that, and and they don't choke. Duke choked, Yeah,
like a panicked in the last moment, threw the ball away.
And also it took an insane shot. Was that like
a thirty five footer? I mean, the logo was huge,
but it was part of the logo. Logo also carried
about fifteen yards, but that's on the hearing there. The
logo is almost in the paint. Do you want to
see a logo? Three? And again, I've said this a
lot of times are on the show today. I don't
like using a term choke. That's a very obusive verb. Well,
you got a bunch of guys getting big paid, get
big bucks on Duke too, that you do, and they
this is not this history did to repeat itself with
it a double Digitlian against the Cougars last year in
the sweet final four semifinal game. Yeah, you know I'm
gonna I'm curious about that one because they I mean,
that was more. Also like the Cougars took that one,
but they threw the ball a couple away a couple
of times at the end of that game too. Right,
that's the thing that fun Even in the NBA, even
when it's a rockets like inbounding the ball can be
so difficult. Sometimes it's wild yep. So because I don't
like to use the term choke. I don't use it
in my mind as my entire life as a huge
in sports fan with even when I was gone to
Minneapolis into Salt Lake City. Hm, can you name in
my mind? There have been chokes in Houston sports, but
the greatest choke of them all. And I don't even
think eighty three it's even close? Am I correct? Which
was that your final answer? Eighty three Houston Cougars. That
is not the correct answer. Oh really?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: You know the bills thirty five to three, Yeah, bills
being the orders. I mean, at least they came back
and forced overtime. Is that what you want to go with?
I don't know if that's what I want to go with.
Forty one thirty eight overtime bills. I think if you're
up thirty five to three early third remember if I'm
miss if I'm correct on this, I think Bubba McDowell
it took out a pick six early third quarter. See,
basketball is different because basketball shots can be missed. You
don't if you if you shoot forty five percent from
the floor, that's pretty good, right. If you shoot thirty
eight percent forty percent as a team from three. That's
pretty good. I'm gonna miss shots, but you're going to
miss shots. I think it's hard in theory to choke
a basketball game. That's why I wanted to bring it
up to you, because you do miss more shots than you, Mike.
So if a team gets cold, what I would have
to say is, if you choke something away, it has
to in basketball. It has to involve multiple turnovers, multiple
silly fouls. Yeah, and then add a sprinkle of you've
gone five or six minutes without making a shot. Duke
missing free throws would be choking like the Cougar's in three,
especially if you're like a good shooter. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Duke was up sixty seven to sixty one with a
minute fourteen. They were up six with a minute fourteen
and con Kiniple missed it. kN k Nipple and Cooper
Flag on that team. How do we do it? I
don't know how we did it. Yeah, then they made
a three, Duke turned the ball over. Duke was missing
free throws. You have to understand, I was really drunk
and Samprus going that game was taking really Yes, you're
having a good time. I was especially at that time.
And then when they came back and they won, I
had everybody in the bar hugging me. Oh, that's beautiful, Matt.
And then I got on a plane to go to
San Antonio and then watched that in person for the championship.
I'm sorry, it's fine. It happened. They were close, real close. No, Cigar,
didn't we lead like thirty eight plus minutes of the game.
You don't have to bring it up, worry about it.
You just it was a great team. Flora was a
great team. Players in the NBA right now, what's their
their coach's name? People think he might go to what's
going on with UNC basketball. The name that it keeps
bringing being brought up is Billy Donovan. Who's the coach
the Bulls right now? I guess, And he's been He's
been the NBA a long time. He's sixty years old. Yeah,
but break Patino reinvigorated Saint John's and he's no Springshick.
That's true. Yeah, Todd Golden, what about Todd Golden forty?
I don't have any thoughts about North Carolina or hiring now. Funny,
North Carolina loves hiring their own. But I think they're
going to go outside the North Carolina friend zone to
hire their coach. Okay, I didn't realize. I didn't realize
Todd Golden was coaching in Israel at some point too.
Feels like a very believing or not category I'm playing
when he gets the job, if he leaves, seems like
a great candidate. It's been doing very well at Florida,
literally a national champion. Thanks sorry, next year coach Sampson's back. Yeah,
you know what the beautiful thing is when he four
starters though, you know it's great, you know, let's know,
that's what I'm saying. In the own the old days,
you do negative recruiting like they did when Mac Brown
Brack Browns towards the end of his career, when Nick
Saban was in the Hey, man, I don't know if
you want to commit there for for multiple years because
coach might be gone. Well I might be gone.
Speaker 1: So guess what.
Speaker 2: Everybody's on a one year contract. Anyways. You can't negative
recruit against Calvin Sampson when the whole team's there for
one year too. You know what's awesome about recruiting that
you know you don't have to go into the school
of business and talk about how great the dorm is.
You just get. You sit in the room with a
mom on the day you say, what's the budget? Yeah,
it's that's your check. Yeah, it's not even a deep conversation.
Does matter some when people are offering some er money?
Why would the wild matter of architecture matter to me?
If I'm a one and done, it wouldn't. No, I'm saying, yeah,
if you're a one and done, it doesn't. What it
might if you want to come back? Oh, I got.
I was listening to a national radio show. I think
it was mad Dog last night coming home from New Orleans. Okay,
not not mad Dog, the mad Dog Radio mad Dog Great,
which is support. The guy that was on the show
brought up a decent point. He says, you know what,
maybe freshmen can't lead to national championships. Cooper Flag and
kN Kinnepple last year, two very talented freshmen. This year
you had the Boozer Boys. Can freshmen eighteen year old
men nineteen? Maybe in some cases I can't. Is the
pressure too high? That was a lot of the thinking
with Kyle Perry's lack of success. You're bringing in four
or five guys and every year, and it doesn't always
work out. I'm trying to think of a recent examples,
because when calipariy won it all, i mean, Anthony Davis
was a freshman and there's a bunch of freshmen on
that team and they won the national championship. But I'd
have to look at like the list of a lot
of national champions and there could be something to that experience,
tournament experience. But you know what, they're choking in the
big moment. I'm going to take my chances with the
All American freshmen over the nice ball player who I
might be with me for three or four years. Who
are they the recent like number one top overall picks.
I'm trying to think of who come off of teams
that won the national championship. It's not a lot. Off
the top of my head. You had two guys that
were lottery picks that played college basketball at Rutgers. They
make a tournament not even it's not indicative. Tournament success
is frankly not indicative of your NBA success. I mean,
you're you're you know you're gonna go to those thoroughbred schools.
I mean, obviously with Knipple and Flag, you went early
to those guys. We're also talking about a very volatile
tournament where I mean, if if Yukon and Duke play,
you know, ten times, Yukon probably wins six or I
mean Duke probably win six seven. Maybe I would say, yeah,
at least seven times. So you're also we're dealing with
I mean, it's tough to get a massive sample size
and a one and done tournament too. It's part of
the charm of the tournament though. Yeah, you have to
play excellent forty minutes every single time. You don't. You can't.
You can't be a our down zero two. We'll get
this fixed. Yeah, the best team does not always win
the national championship. And I think I do believe if
you kind of Duke played ten times, Duke and wins
seven of those ten times, they're the better. Hell ross,
if Duke and Houston would have played ten times last year,
Duke would have won seven of those games. I gotta
win the one that's on happening on the floor, Get
that right, all right? Uh, if you'd like to join
us at seven one three, two, one two five seven
nine at zero seven one three two, one two five
seven ninety astro start a series with the Boston Red
Tonight seven to ten, First pitch, six o'clock on the
On Deck Show. It's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday matinee, and
then the Astros head west for their first road trip
of the season. Seven one, three, five, seven nine. If
you want to talk some Asters baseball, some initial impressions,
what you saw with the first four games. If you
want to get into some Rockets as Apprins Shingoon had
an amazing night last night for the Rockets against the Pels.
We've got the college basketball, uh, anything else that I'm Oh,
the comments are now in town. Yes, I don't know
if there's much of a buzz for it. There's some buzz.
There are some buzz for sure. Around the office. They're
talking about it. Oh that they are, that they are,
And I'm sure the Rockets office is like, man, our
boss has spent three and a million dollars to goad
and sell some tickets. Yeah, it'sna be weird. I wonder
what Connecticut's going to do being a lame duck up there.
We've we've done lame duck in this town before and
ain't a pretty sight. Yeah, those those Houston Older games
last season with Steve McNair and Eddie George and Jeff
Fisher coaching is. You can get a pretty good ticket
at the Astrodome, but that's kind of gets worries. You
get a decent section and get that right. Seven one three,
two one two five Sevenati, Matt and Ross with you
till two. This is Sports Talk seven nintis for the A's. Hey,
this is Mike Fires.
Speaker 11: Sometimes I'm getting fired up for more Houston sports talk.
Speaker 2: Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk seven ninety Astros
Baseball lives here.
Speaker 3: Hey, I got that.
Speaker 2: Others just get rid of that liner. We were done
with Mike Fires. It's just a bad part of Houston
sports memories. Enough. Yes, it's he's been Uh it's probably
time we can delete that one. Oops. Who was that?
That's a video? Check out a video of our show.
We're going to put up a little clips on occasion. Yeah,
we're tu you peel the curtain back of the show
on Instagram. Needed ruling from this weekend. Okay, I got
a great friend of mine. I won't say who it is. Hmmm,
has a wireless earbuds in his ears. Twenty four to seven.
I know who it is I know, and I just
don't know if he's talking to me or talking to
somebody else. And I'm I don't know. Do I need
to continue to ask? Go ahead, it's not good. We're
so that's why I brought up. I went to the
bathroom and there's a guy. There was a guy walking
to our deli which is next to our office, and
then we had earbuds on. I was like, I gotta
I forgot to ask rosc about this. Yeah, I I
I understand having the phone with you, always available to
you because we use it for texting, or we use
it for phone calls, or some people need it for
their jobs, but most of us just are obsessed by it.
When you're in the elevator, what do you do? You
don't look around and say hello, how'd your day gone.
I try to stay off you get down, Even in
the elevator. I try to say, I'm trying to be better.
You're that's you're better man than I guess. As soon
as I got the elevator today, I went right to that,
went to the phone. Look, man, I don't have my
Apple Watch on very so that I can I'm trying
to stay off my phone more that's great. Uh, but
the damn earbuds, the wireless ones, you just give off
the impression of I may be talking to you, but
I might not be talking to you. I'm worried about
those people. If you're doing it for work, that's one thing,
But if you're doing it all day every day, it's
over stimulation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 13: I saw a guy with wireless earbuds yesterday at the
Astros game on the whole time.
Speaker 6: Was it now?
Speaker 2: I wonder if he was listening to the game. Some
people do do that that I get when you're at
the baseball game. Did this person like they were looking
to be on the iHeartRadio app? Just tell the truth, dah.
Was he like watching movies that's the thing. He had
shaves on, glasses and airbods. Was he being forced to
be there or was he there because he really wanted
to be there? Who's you with? I'm trying to stay
off my phone as kids? You know. Apparently there was
some settlements some people wanted, like a class action lawsuit.
It was against Google and somebody else, maybe Meta for
they you know, they built the algorithm in less scroll.
Remember when were first on Twitter, there was no inless
scroll it would be whoever you follow, and if they
weren't tweeting, if it was like two am, there was
no tweets, so you'd get off the app. They said, hey,
we got to stop this. We need people on this app,
we need people addicted to this app. That's where they
for you tab comes in, and that's where they try
to go with the following. That's why they tried to
put in this most popular follow you're following rather than
recent because if nobody's tweeting, you're getting off the app.
But now they have endless scroll on all these apps,
so you stay addicted.
Speaker 13: But no one's going to win the court cases because
of the terms and conditions we signed on.
Speaker 2: We that now, but they can still get around that.
So no, they won the court case. I believe. I'll
go look it up so we can blame somebody for
our addiction to our phone engineered. Yeah there, Yeah, Meta
and YouTube found Neglige and Landmark Social Media. I'm not
going to pay New York Times. I'm just really not.
I appreciate I paid. We trust you, I mean with
a headline and jury found the company's harmed a young
user with design features that were addictive and led to
her mental health distress. It's all of us, no matter
what age, demographic, color, race, Absolutely, it's all of us
trying to get better. Went out of the woods this weekend,
went out in nature, stayed off my phone, caught up
on all I watched the Rockets game. When I got home,
watch a lot of astros and when I got home.
The only time I'm on my phone is when I'm
at the casino because I can't be on my phone.
That's true. So maybe blackjack is a good cathartic way
to get off your phone. It's bad dopamine where we're
all chasing. Let's talk to Jay in downtown at twelve
fifty five. Jay, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 6: Hello, Okay, yeah, hey, so I have a couple of
different things we talked about. I am one of those
guys that actually listened to the game on my heads
that while I'm at the game, the lady is it's
a little annoying, but it's nice to hear all the
stats and oh this is like the fifth pay or
our three bays two away from three thousand or something
like that.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 6: Now you're talking about you want to see coaching, the
one that really got my ears pert and I was like,
it's not really gonna happen with Kange Smith. I would
love to see Kane Smith if they keep it in house,
that would have been awesome. Now with a rocket, I
saw the report yesterday that coach was like, Hey, we're
not focused about this year this year, We're just focused
on that year. I am not a fan of that.
I want I want this year back then that time,
I invested into this and I decided a couple of
your co workers got us really pumped about this year,
and then I mean, it's not our fault that the
injuries happened, but it's like, dude, what the heck.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if anything anything they would have done Jay,
it wouldn't have gotten them better than probably the Thunder
or the Spurs. If they had to shuffled a bunch
of stuff around and gotten a better point guard, I
don't think that would have been like, Okay, all of
a sudden, we are going to win the NBA Championship.
By the way, that quote largely taken out of context.
I did a little due diligence on it. Do you
really think an NBA head coach JA would go to
a member of the media and say we're giving up
on this year when you are Kevin Duran, You're about
to win forty eight to fifty games. That was That
was poor journalism.
Speaker 6: So I was on the other side of the bar
of shining to serve people. So it was a power read.
Speaker 2: Sure, I understand that you're a bartender.
Speaker 6: And yes, where do you work? Uh netbar? Okay, excellent,
I'm I'm you and Ross you are a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know you are. You're a good dude.
We like you.
Speaker 6: I kind of wanted to go by Brad Burner chout
today on this call in, but I.
Speaker 2: Was no, you can't do that. You can't do that.
You're off today. Are you working tonight?
Speaker 6: I am off today. I'm actually going to the game
again today. And then ties into I tagged you and
the post yesterday. I was at the game yesterday and
the bottom of the second ash Us put up the
fore run inning. I looked over at session one to
be one the old king Such corner and what do
I see?
Speaker 2: The wave?
Speaker 6: The wave, the waves, It's ridiculous. In the bottom of
the second Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jay, thank yeah, Jay, go ahead. No, I'm just gonna
say I I got to get to the top of
the hour break. I appreciate you calling in. Thank you.
We're never gonna learn. We're just not gonna better. I
think it's getting better thanks to wave busters. Ho you.
By the way, if you really want to follow a
Twitter account, if you don't want to follow me, I
get it. But if you're anti wave wavebusters, ho use
your friend. We out people politely, but we out them.
And again, ninety percent of the people, maybe close to
ninety five percent of people that like the wave don't
care about baseball. They usually wear jeorts, they probably have
a mullet, they got to pack of cigarettes and their
upper left shoulder, and they have no issues with trying
to become bigger than the game. Don't let baseball, don't
let yourself become bigger than the game. But yeah, that
still happens, and it makes me sad. Sorry, Matt, I'm
gonna check the old wave Buster's hou account. Wavebuster's hou
is the Twitter account. Okay, I think I was close
to fifteen hundred. Let me see where I am on
the follower count here. It is my burner, by the way,
one thousand, forty six. Great, all right, everybody, right Now,
if you're wassing a sign on my voice, I want
you to follow three accounts at sports rv mm hmmm,
at Sports MT at Wavebusters Hou Let's get let's let's
get into a nice good number so can spread the word.
One thousand forty six ain't bad. I'm good. We get
a little higher. The wave must stop. And the problem
is the wave is only going to get worse come
summertime with all those kids are gonna be out there,
all these kids enjoy themselves at the games. The worst,
it is the worst. All right, one o'clock Sports Talk
seven ninety with a reminder, we've got Missing You coming up,
the debut segment of Missing You. Did you cute the
song up properly? Jonathan, by the way, and make sure
we got it good? We got it good, We got
it good. I like that seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Missing You in twenty minutes, believe it
or not. Highly googlable today, and it's about the UFL
at one fifty here on Sports Talk seven NINTI is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross one o five on
Sports Talk SEVENANTI I was definitely afraid. Rossie. We were
gonna do a AO to open up the show today.
We didn't have to do that because the Astros bounced
back with two victories over the weekend. Bounce back twice. Yeah,
come from the behind after well, first of all of
it being down huge on Saturday and then Sunday getting
up to a big lead and then giving it that
up and then eventually coming back to win the contests.
So yeah, uh could have been a disaster. Well, put
it this way, when the Yankees came in and swept you,
it was up two or three years ago. That was
the Yankees. You can't have the sucking ass Angels doing it.
It was a four game sweep. Winn't it too? Yes?
Oh let's go through ops's Oh okay one weekend. Yeah,
we have some music for some oke ps music, don't
what do you want? We always play centerfield. You played
in centerfield and opening day, right, that's like, that's like
a staple. It's like the tradition. Yeah, I mean trying
to cheesy and cliche, but it's tradition. No, it's a
great baseball song. It's fine. I'm gonna have you find something.
Then you tell me I don't know what, like, you
just want to instrumental or what do you want? What
we're gonna go with the highs and lows of the
first four games, just going something. Well, oh he already
got centerfield, but does that work? It's good. Jodon albarez
o PS eleven forty one excellence. Okay, that's good. Christian
Walker nine seventy six. Oh the Hills, Yeah, okay. Joey
lit Berfdo eight thirty three. I don't even know what
these are. I'm just putting stuff in here. Jonathan, you
just fire things off, change it up if you want
to change it mid song there. Jose al Tube seven
fifty two, not bad. I like this. This is actually
pretty good. This we used to do. We were sorry,
we were doing therapy or at Google MT right, I
think so. Yeah, East Soak Perettes small sample size. Oh
I like this six fifty three. Ay maad, We're having
a wonderful time here. On Sports Talk seven ninety Carlos
Correas ops, Yes, five eighty three. That sounds number. Sevember
seven fifty is good. Eight hundreds Elite nine hundred is awesome. Yeah, okay.
On your DZ three ninety eight ops. Okay, that's fine,
He's going to be just great. Cam Smith's ops three
seventy one wonderful. That's it. No, No, that's not can't be.
There's other guys, right did uh? Yeah, it was a
like just qualify you're on the qualified guy's list or something.
I don't know what I'm I just happened to go
to the astros website. Okay, what do you want? Qualified
players are hidden by default? There you go. How about
how about Christian Vasquez? Excellent? By the way, porches ourselves
are cleared waivers and like nobody want you? I go
back to yeah, exactly, how does Space Cowboys do this weekend?
Now start? But when they do games? Now we're wait,
as are we getting a massage going over astro stats? Hello, Matthew?
Now they now do e ra as We're doing well,
it's too based on balls, say positive, hold hold on.
Jose has drawn five walks in four games. There is
not a better percentage in the history of his major
league career. Probably the five walks in four games. That
sounds great. Albarez five walks four games, awesome? Cam Smith,
I'm getting slip three walks okay, sorry, bumping up, change
it up? All right, Now to the negatives. Jan Air,
Diez Isak Prettz, Cam Smith all with five strikeouts, Altuve Matthews.
Bryce Matthews has four k's in two games. Yeesh, it's
not good. Three ks for Alvarez, three for low Berfeito,
two for Carlos Korea. Are we done with the Astros
hitting numbers? I guess so let's do pitching numbers. Jonathan.
I wish you and I could go back on the
time machine and we can go in the Soul trained
dance line in nineteen seventy four. Oh my god, Jonathan,
we'd have such a good time. All Right, here we go.
Now we're going to the pitch. Shut that down. Yeah,
he's like, I'm not going to that. I said, see
you later, all right. Leading the Astros ERI with zero okay?
Is Hunter Brown love it?
Speaker 6: Next?
Speaker 2: AJ? Blue Ball two point zero eight. Let's go next.
I like blue Ball, by the way, friend of the show. Yes,
I'll bet you we get him tomorrow. Old sol is
just a gun on that one. That's a good guess.
That's a good guess. Right, well, he might be on
the eighteen Mike Burrows third Lois era and the Astros
seven point nine to four. Christian Hobbyer eleven point five
to seven. Oh God, that the hell happened. It's not great.
The other guys are not showing up here, so I
don't think you can put an infinite on some of these.
There's not an infinity symbol. I don't think No, who Oka,
who do you want? Brian king Go. He's listed by
the way as the close they are on Baseball Reference
three points not nice. It was the only one of
the save three point three eighty r A bray you
twenty seven. It's early, so early. That guy with a
weird first name, Roderi Roderie Munos, Yeah, six seventy five.
And then there's a dude with three letters, Kaiwaiting was great. Yeah,
I mean well, actually he was shay okay e R
what this is why ERA is misleading Era. But he
was shaky when he first came in, but then he
got some outs. Christian raw six point seventy five, Ry
Christian row Memorial High School kid, Ryan Weis's Friend of
the show nine. Yeah, he was early. He did not
start his career. He gave he gave up like a
home run run lay. But then he got three outs, Hey,
three out of four am bad? We go in the
back on the soul tray in nineteen seventy four. No,
I'm good, all right? Oh wait to give up another hit?
Two I forgot and uh and walk the guy anybody
else you want to collective era starter is a bullpen
of the whole thing. The whole whole thing is six
point two foulh okay, Well that's what's Mike trial. One
point six whip for those who are know, that's walks
in hans per innings pitch. You want it under one?
One point zero is elite or lower? One point one's fine?
Reverse started like one point two is okay? One point
six ninety four is like that's let's uh get ready
to learn. Get outrighted, buddy, Yeah, enjoy that fifty nine
drive to sugar Land. It's early, it's early two and two.
Pitching gonna be fine. Cleveland and Seattle split the four games, pitching,
pitching and more pitching. Speaking of which lands m Colors
on the mountain tonight, we will we will predict how
are feeling when we come back, and we'll talk to
Jay and then after that we're gonna be missing you okay,
because I have done the research. You know what. The
show preps like a mother even I'm on the little
hotel note, thank you, Matt, thank you. One thirteen Sports
Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Just we thought the congratulations of Space Cowboys
off to a fast start ross How they doing two
and one opening up the season? A minute? Wait a minute,
week We're not on pace to win one hundred games
if the Space Cowboys are playing two or three. Yeah, no,
they are right. No, they only pay one hundred and
forty four. That's fine, close enough. No, he gets the
ninety plus wins as the Space Cowboys be crazy. They
just cannot lose it home this year. Big eight to
one victory yesterday over the Round Rock Express Andio Dello
Santos earning the win. How about this lineup? Are you
ready for this? Go Taylor, Tremmel, Shay Whitcomb, Zach Cole,
Oh my gosh, uh Gordlos bets at Catcher. Oh no,
I don't know who A lot of these, says our
know in d H says Oar Salazar's in there. Jack's Biggers,
our friend of the show, Jack of the show. You
know I should have known them play because I because
our friend Pete Meo sent me that text edther day.
I know they got some heavy hit, heavy hitters Jack
Jack Winkler calling price. What about the guy Rode Unru
Spencer Arraghetti throwing four innings of shut out ball? You
who doesn't like to hear that? Rants Mullers? Why not
stay down? It's all good. Just stay down there, it's
all good, baby. Last coach junior picked the line. Okay,
I'm gonna give you four number four stats really quick. Okay,
let's write down and then we're both I don't want
to write one. I think it's gonna be here. We
go here, we go over under three and two thirds Okay,
oh you're doing you're doing betting lines, Yeah, betting lines
over under three and two thirds over. I'm gonna try
that again. Over over strikeouts okay, uh three and a
half over over walks, two and a half over over. Okay,
I think we're done. Okay, that's freeze plenty. I earned
runs oh three and a half under Johnathan. You notice
when Ross is lying to himself and our audience, he
just starts to endlessly laugh. He's not a good poker faces.
Huh exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 2: When I play poker, I just stare at the middle
of the felt and I don't talk. That's easier. So
during actual poker, I can be fine. Just just stare
at a spot in the middle of the felt. Whether
you're stronger weekend, don't talk. I'll take over Jay on
seven ninety good afternoon.
Speaker 11: You can hear me.
Speaker 12: Yes, Okay. The Rockets, did they go from a two
seed to a number six?
Speaker 2: Uh? They have in the last They were never number two,
they were number three. That dropped to September two for
a little while here and there, I think, but that's
been a while, long time, long time.
Speaker 12: Okay, So now we can't beat the Spurs, and now
we can't beat the Lakers. So once they get bounced
in the first round, emy Odoki or Doka, Ristina is going.
Speaker 2: Not having.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Rattina is going fire.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Jay, listen to me very carefully. There is
a zero percent chance Emai Doka gets fired this year,
zero round, zero percent chance. Believe it zero We'll.
Speaker 12: See no no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: No no, there's no will see believe it zero percent chance.
All right, Okay, this is noster common common This is
this is not even your common sense. This is common
sense kicking in here. This is not me making a
prison sign an extension. This it would cost a lot
of money to get rid of him, and they had injuries.
Zero percent chance. Believe it. I believe, Thank you very much.
Trust me when I say these things, eat as ross.
He didn't say the same thing. Zero percent chance. I
never like to say zero in life. So I'm bout
two one percent. I'm going zero. Will on seven Nati
at one twenty three. Hello will Hey.
Speaker 3: Man, I agree with you Europe present chance he'll be fired.
Second thing, I got a question about Tugler. Is he
coming out this year?
Speaker 2: I hope not. He needs to stay.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 3: I tell you what I kid remind me of Beach
stew from Detroit.
Speaker 2: Oh you think what you think? He's Isaiah Stewart. Wow,
that's that's high praise.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you that kid. I will take that kid
on this team at this time.
Speaker 2: Here's the problem. He's got energy. Here's the problem. He's
got two problems going against it. One, he does not
have much range, which doesn't necessarily mean you have to.
You can be in the NBA and have limited range.
He just is so foul prone, and that's it's not
gotten any better. And I love Jojo, and he's been
so enriched in this program, and he has everything that
you want from a big man, the wingspan, the athleticism,
but he just doesn't have much of an outside shot,
and the foul troubles have just haunted him his entire
college career.
Speaker 5: But I just wanted put the bench, just wanting for
the bitch you mean, like to sort doesn't have any
outside either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but but Isaiah Stewart can stay on the floor
for thirty minutes at a time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I think Tugler, I think tug would be
a good fit.
Speaker 2: Second point, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: Late in the season baseball Astro's got two aces in home.
Speaker 5: They say that they run into problems, may not make
the playoffs. They can deal parades and they could deal Walker.
What would you get in return for him?
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, first of all, if you if you trade Walker,
you're gonna pick up some of his salary. You don't
have to worry about that with Paradis. Yes, no Christian.
If Christian Walker gets moved to the Astros are paying
some of that salary. Okay, now the different Now, another
issue in the con under me have is if you're
paying for salary, then you're gonna want better prospects in return.
Then look, I think I don't. I think Dan's gonna
want a haul for Esach. You may not have to
worry about a hall for Christian Walker. But again, uh,
those names will we brought if the if things turn south,
well they they will throw out all those names. Everybody
will be up for grabs that the Astros do not
succeed this year, and that includes break you.
Speaker 5: If I'm Astros, I'm gonna go to Boston and I'm
asked for cassas the big first basement.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he's doing, and I don't. I don't.
I don't know it does. His name doesn't ring a
bell to me. What's this? Are you sure it's that's
his name? Yes?
Speaker 3: Better?
Speaker 4: All right, check him out.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at his numbers now. He betted one eighty
two and eighty ninety nine game at bats last year.
Tristan Cassis are speaking of twenty twenty four, he betted
two forty one, twenty twenty three, two sixty three, twenty
twenty two, one ninety seven. Why do I want? That
sounds great? No, it doesn't doesn't sound good at all.
Oh not at all unless I'm missing something. Oh yeow
oh yeah, turn it up. I thought this was a
woman my whole life, did you really? Yes? Come on no,
I never thought that Jonvin a little bit like a
you know, like a like a scratchy voiced woman. But
I had prints back in the day. Yeah, babe, man
a little right. Okay, you can shut your bomb ass
up on that. Here we go really quick. Kyle Tucker
first series of the Dodgers two for eleven, one eighty
two batting average, okay, no home runs, two RB eyes,
four strikeouts, two walks. Ops. Didn't write that down? Should
I write that down? Okay, I'll see the ops is
about four hundred. I don't know. Get up from Bert
Valdez one start for the Tigers against the Podres five
eighty US close? Really from Bert Valdez one start, six innings,
seven hits, one earned run, one walk, five k's. Did
you say seven hits? Yeah, one inn run. He's working around.
He got some curve ball, double ball a double plays.
Did he working around? Working around some issues? I mean,
g IDPs? Did he have that's a that's a quality start,
by the way it is. He was mister quality starting
so many quality starts at the Astros get over the weekend.
Alex Bregman two thirty one batting average first weekend for
the Cubs against the Washington Nationals, three hits, two ribis
those two hit two of those three hits solo home
runs two thirty one. Breckman three for thirteen, Mauricio Dubon
two games, yes, one for six, a walk to strike out.
That's about right, just one justin Chandler Verlander. Brooks makes
his debut tonight for the Tigers against the Diamondbacks in Arizona.
Most importantly, Lance mccollor Jr. On the Hill tonight for
your Houston Astro. We're in the city connects again. Yeah,
I love it. I'm gonna say something. I'm not proud
of it. What the song's kind of a jam? Turn
out bad? Not bad at all, that's fine. It's kind
of a jam. It's kind of a defiant song, isn't it.
This lady sings great? It's not a lady. John Waite?
Is he still alive? Let me look, don't what do
you think? Take a guess? On it, Come on, it's
it's todd imagine Yell's palms were like, yeah, okay on
wait is seventy three years old. He's a British English
rock singer and musician. Nineteen eighty four, Missing You reached
number one on the US Billboard Hot one hundred reach
what number one? That was a number one song, number one,
number freaking one banger. I'm not gonna lie It's fine.
He was born on July fourth, How about that? From Lancaster, Lancher, England. Lancaster, England.
He was a fore member of the Ringo Star, a
star in Irish. Why do he go to Ireland for
some reason?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: No, he was in the Ringo Star All Star Band
ever had some points in the Ringo Star eighties or
stads enough. He's lived in Santa Monica since twenty fourteen.
It's crazy, Jonathan. Best place to eat drink in Santa
Monica would be there's only one answer, the peer the
Regal Beagle. One. Did you get that reference? Yeah? What
is it? He knows about the Regal Beagle his professor
in colleges who work at the Regal Beagle. That is
a fun fact. That is a fun it's exactly a
fun fact. You don't remember the story to you? Was
I not here? You were at Ross?
Speaker 6: Was time?
Speaker 2: I see? I don't know if he was here or now? Oh,
all right, we'll tell the story off air. What thirty
five Sports Talk seven. I ain't matted Ross with you
for another twenty five minutes. Tomorrow, Joe Aspota makes his
first appearance with us on the radio program. We have
very likely we have the manager and the coach of
the two of the three sports teams. Dimiko will not
be on this show. We'll try, but we'll be rejected.
But we'll keep trying. But yeah, Joe Spota on the
show tomorrow. Also will have got feelings on the show
tomorrow and a lot of highlights of an Astros win
against bo Socks, love it, lance for Colors shutting him down, Baby,
nothing but Lancema Color's highlights. To bury him in the ah,
don't bury him on the mound. Give the man a chance.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 10: I went.
Speaker 2: I went optimistic on every line you played till the
very last thing. You say. No, I said under a
three and a half an runs you set over nine
seven Astros tonight. Yeah, I'll sit back, relax, get ready
for three hours and fifteen minutes of baseball. Im not
saying he's gonna go and throw a perfect game. It'd
be nice we did roof closed. By the way, we
need to stop talking about the roof. It's gonna be
closed the rest of the year. Nobody wants it. You
guys want to open. The players and the managers don't. No,
Don't's terrible, but it is what it is. It's that
you were. You can die on the vine for it,
like I want the waved en angleand I know you
want the r Apparently seventy five degrees yesterday for the game,
really but it got it was at eighty. You know,
they don't. They don't want the roof open. The last
time the roof was opened, ross, wasn't it because Manas
League Baseball mandated during the World Series. The World Series.
That's so, I mean, that's that's what's gonna happen. You
know what I want, open air baseball in Houston. You're
not gonna get it. Matt. No, you're saying they're not
coming to the I'm saying I want open air baseball
in Houston. Open air baseball. That would mean the World
Series and Jim Crane's already called Rob Manfred and said, uh, sorry,
we're gonna have to close the roof technical issues. Let's go.
Let's talk to U Vince in midtown. Hello, Vince, Hey, guys.
Speaker 11: How y'all doing good? Hey, real quick, before I get
my main point, I had a dream this morning that
I called in the show, and uh, you guys accepted
my call and I start talking, but like the words
aren't coming out very well. You guys cut straight to commercial.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, it's funny because I had a dream
last night too that didn't involve this radio station.
Speaker 3: Vince.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be brutally honest with you.
Speaker 11: Okay, Hey, so I have an early gut feelings. I'm
not gonna get to call in tomorrow.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 11: First, I wanted this double check Flemings and Senac.
Speaker 3: They have not committed one way or the other.
Speaker 2: That is correct. It's this season still, I mean no,
they don't. There's there's a timeline, but it's not any
in the next thirty days or so. Okay.
Speaker 11: My gut feeling need is either one or boats will
come back.
Speaker 2: Okay, there is zero chance Flumbings comes back.
Speaker 3: Senac.
Speaker 2: Maybe if the money is right, But I I think
that's I would put that at about twenty five percent.
But again, these are kids that could change her mind.
But Kingson Flummings is gonna be a top seven selection
in the NBA draft. He would he needs to go on.
Speaker 11: It is what it is, all right, all right, thanks
for taking.
Speaker 2: Go I know, and by the way, thanks for dreaming
of us. But Vince, it means a lot to us.
It's beautiful. I don't know. It's kind of weird, but
I still I find it to be. I mean, he
didn't dream of another show. He didn't dream about the
eight team? Probably not. You didn't dream about we are
the dreamiest show on radio? Really sure? Why not? Have
you ever had a dream about us? Seven? One three
two one two five seven? Now I'm scared? And were
were doing a radio show? We dream we were involving
something else? You know what, Ross is stop? I have
had sixteen years. You've never been one of my dreams.
That's great. I love that. What about day dreams? Daydreams? Well, Ross,
daydreams when I'm on the road to your Friday show? No,
that were you on the road? I was on the
road front of here. That was going all week. I
was struggling. How you feeling, By the way, I didn't
ask you, I feel a lot better. You look good. Thank
you looking in you. I don't think I did, but
I think you five pounds on a trip, okay, cool,
it's not cool. I don't want to move skame Okay,
not cool. Yeah, I'm gonna drop the five quart quick.
Thank you. I'm feeling better. I was feeling pretty good.
I just need to stay more. I think I'm just hydration. Yeah,
hydrated better? Right, Okay, it's all going to ask for
because I need you upright, I need you working. I
know I was checked out the last hour I checked out.
I was running on fumes. It's gonna happen to all.
I went home and I naw for like three hours.
Did you yeah? You dream during that time? I'm sure
I did. I dream like almost every night. Man, you're
supposed to dream. I don't want to dream. No, it's good.
You want to hear about my dream from last night? No,
all right, I want to. Oh it is the last
time I said no to me and then I said yes,
and then it was about him, like popping a blister,
which you're not supposed to do. Yeah, I'm going to
the foot doctor right for the show today. I screwed.
It's got infection, did it? It did? See, that's why
you don't pop blisters, folks. Man, that's like, you know,
oh this is nice. Is a cationary tale. There's a
reason your body. Trust your body. There's a reason the
blister is there. It is cushioning you, and it is
taking care of you and protecting the broken skin.
Speaker 13: I'm kind of disappointed you by Thomas kind disappointed. I'm
not surprised.
Speaker 2: You no better. I accept this jam. Folks, don't pop
your blisters because of the infection risk as well. I
did it. I'm guilty.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 2: Clock At my dream, me and my buddy Edward in
a car, okay, we were on a West timer or
some heavy congested street and there was an airplane parts
attached to a uh you know how you carry like
multiple cars, like you put ten or eleven cars on
What do they call those things when you have one
big truck that's pulling like ten or eleven cars? Okay,
I don't know what they call it. There was a car,
yeah whatever, car transporter carrying a chunks of an airplane
that were on fire. And was smited. Hmm, you have
some hear beyond my help. I love that you remember
all your dreams. That's why I tell you over and
over again. I don't want to remember my dreams. I'm
worried about you. You should be good thing. You travel private,
You travel private. Hm hmm. There's a lot going in
this uh this thick forest of mm hmm. You shame
me about the toilster. It's the tangled forest. You shame
me about my dreams? Anything else? You want to just
frankly attack in the life started gaming. You. You're just
I You're the one that popped your old blister. I
didn't do it. I know that's what it does as
a public service. I want to let people know that
doesn't cost me a copy. I got a blister on
my pinky toe from hiking. I'm not touching it. Don't
touch your Let the body do it work. Yeah, don't
touch your blister. Let it heal naturally. Yeah. By the way,
I bought like fourteen different things of h Neil's porn.
I don't know what kind of gang green you got
going on there. Well, I'm glad you're going to the doctor.
When are you going three o'clock. Okay, good, let's get
you looked at for many and if I need a
psychiatry appointment at four and then six, everybody's got a
spot up them for a psychiatric evaluation of my dreams.
Let me know. Astros on deck tonight starty to six
o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety seven to ten,
first pitch, Astros and the bo Sox Rockets will play
the Knicks tomorrow night. That is a national television game,
which means, if you want a purely biased perspective, you'll
listen to your friend Matt Thomas right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety Let's see what else going on. We
got gut feelings on the show tomorrow. Joe Spott will
be on the radio program tomorrow, and lots of Lance
mccullor strikeout highlights. Now here's the thing. We usually play
songs after every game. I don't have to really to
go to the deep dive in and find some new music. Here.
We played happy because we were happy because we're both
the Rockets and the Astros.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: So, Jonathan, we have to go to your uh, your
musical collection for some additional songs. I'm kind of running
out of stuff. All right, this fine. The astros a
gonna win ninety games this year. We got to think
of ninety different songs. We gotta use Space Cowboys this year.
We didn't use lesser. Oh the song space Cowboys? Yeah?
Is it a group? Or is there a song called
space Catboy? Is this good? You know what? All of
a sudden, I we gotta do believe it or not?
But I'll listen to it, give it to see if
it gets the seal of approval. Five minutes up to
go on the show. What should we do? We should
play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply
called it be leave it or not? And here's that work.
Should call seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
today's edition. And Believe it or not is whether or
not this person plays for a UFL team. And if
they don't hold on it they do, you'll say this, oh, sorry,
believe it. And if they don't, what do they do?
Ross they're former Texan? A former Texan? Yes, and then
you will say this not to believe it or not
in a row will win you apprize. Your choices today
are tickets to see the Outlaw Musical Music Festival with
Willie Nelson, Wilco, Ryl Crow, Lucas Nelson, Stephen wisen Or
Wizen Wisen and more, July fifth of the Wooden's Pavilion.
It's available tickets at ticketmaster dot com or repair of
tickets to see Dave Matthews Pretty Baby May eighth. The
Woodan's Pavilion. Tickets are also available for you there at
ticketmaster dot com. Let's play Believe It or Not? Felipe
on seven ninety Felipe, You're ready to play Believe It
or not? Believe it Felipe. Corey Littleton plays linebacker for
the DC Defenders. Believe it or not? That's great? Not
same a number two for the when di'angelo Ross is
a cornerback for the Orlando Storm. Believe it or not? No, Nah,
it's correct and nicely done. Brof What did Corey Littleton
play linebacker for the Texans? Oh? The positions are correct. Oh,
the positions are correct.
Speaker 11: All right?
Speaker 2: The things you learned on the show. Let's go to
uh Patrick on seven Nintie Patrick, what was your favorite
part of today's ten to two radio show?
Speaker 12: Definitely you talking about your dreams.
Speaker 2: Matt, thank you very much. Patrick Grayland Arnold is a
safety for the Louisville Kings. Believe it or not, I'll
believe it. No, you shouldn't, but thank you for playing.
Matt on seven NINTI, Matt, you're ready to play. Believe
it or not?
Speaker 9: Believe it?
Speaker 2: Teluyah tagabaloa quarterback Houston Gamblers. Believe it or not not?
We just talked about an Hourlier's too late. Oh man,
you got screwed, Matt. Mm hmmmm. That's a gimme because
he obviously wasn't a Texan. Yeah, Matt on seven nt
you're ready to play. Believe it or not? Yes, Matt?
Eno or n o? How are you pronouncing it? E Eno?
Benjamin running back Columbus Aviators. Believe it or not? No,
Ross made that up. It's a he's a former Texan.
Let's go to Taylor on Sevenati, Taylor, you ready to play.
Believe it or not? Believe it Taylor. Greg Ward junior
wide receiver, Dallas Renegades. Believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 2: That's believe. When the greg order play for the Texans.
You never played for the Texans, all right? When he
call our seven one three two one two five seven
Ninti seven one three two one two five Sevenati Hobby
aer on seven Nintie Hobby, are your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show? Rust Yeast, Russ Yeast, Safety,
Orlando Storm? Believe it or not?
Speaker 3: Oh, believe it?
Speaker 2: No, we talked about Russ Yeast last year. Yes, we
have no Dave Matthews winners. Huh. Wex would have crushed this,
by the way. Oh, Wex would live for this. Wex
would have would have gone back to his tweet deck
and been able to find all the names he tweeted
at people. Let's talk to John on seven ninety. John,
you're ready to play Believe it or not?
Speaker 6: Sir?
Speaker 2: Marcus Yarns running back Houston Gamblers believe it or not?
Speaker 11: Not?
Speaker 2: That's a believe it boy. We're having a tough time
today on the old program. E s on seven ninety Ees,
are you ready to play? Believe it or not?
Speaker 11: Believe it?
Speaker 2: Curtis Jacobs, linebacker, DC defenders Believe it or not?
Speaker 3: Believe it?
Speaker 2: There you go, Statement number two for the one last chance.
Chuck Philiaga offensive lineman, Columbus aviators Believe it or not?
Believe it. There you go, nicely done. All we do
is give away concert tickets, my friends, and we'll do
it every single day at one fifty during believe it
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in the wave. Up next, two men that have never
participated in the Wave before. They can give you one
of them. Can Every single player that's ever played for
the Texans in their history, whether they were on the
practice squad or they were active batman is Adam Wester.
He'll be joined by Adam Flatten and they are fete.
Talk to you tomorrow at ten right here on Sports
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