Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross one nah Town,
Good Morning.
Speaker 2: It's a Joey Loper Feto Friday of abut Thomas Show
and Ross. That's his sports Talk seven ninety so. Yes, folks,
Ross got hard, then it got softened. One one three, two,
one two five.
Speaker 3: All Ross.
Speaker 2: There was a cloud over the city of Houston for
a year plus the Rockets, excuse me, the Astros needed
to make a move to get some starting pitching, and
they said goodbye to one of their all time goats.
When you think of the greats of astrohistory, you think
of a Bagwell, you think of a Bigio. You think
of a Ryan A Scott, A Wagner, Jose Al Tube,
clearly Jacob Myers, Jake Myers. But there was something missing
rass in that whole mix. My friend and his name
was Joey Loperffito. A cloud has been lifted, the man
that caused a firestorm.
Speaker 4: When he was traded away. Yes, Stana Brown is an idiot.
He's the worst general manager in his driver. Joey Lo
Baffedo is back. Maybe let's go.
Speaker 2: He is back. He is nationwide. He is uh, we're celebrating.
In fact, what do we do all day today. We're
just going to celebrate Joey being an astra all day
long run. I think it's four hour low Berfito coverage. Well,
frankly it should be instead of calling it to the
Torol district. If you the lowe fo district, that's how
Pipelar is. Yes, he's the best, He's amazing. I'm gonna
say this, franchise, I got news for you. What if
you decided to jump ships and end the Jake Myers
fan club, your lower praffrido club may be a little
bit bigger. I'm not gonna jump shit, but I mean,
could this not signal that maybe Jakey's on his way
out along with Yeah, I mean, first of all, let's
let's put this down in order here in terms of priority.
Dana just shipped a bunch of money to the Toronto
Blue Jays. I mean low Praffito makes what pennies and
the dollar compared to what hat sus Sanchez made League
minimum seven million, So that would be it would make sense.
It is the precursor, too likely an estock paradus move.
And who knows about Jake Myers? Are they ready for
Joey litt Prafido to be every day starter. I don't
think so. I don't think so. I think this is
a fourth outfield move. But again, this is a money
saving move as probably a precursor to another move, is what.
That's just what the vibe I'm getting. Yeah, that's what
I do as well. All right, So again hay Sue Sanchez.
And by the way, the Astros, I give the Astros credit.
You get won it bad as an Astro, you get
a tribute tweet. They thanked Haysus Sanchez. They did for
what for his handful of games that he was relevant
for the worst platoon splits in history. I mean they
didn't think it for his rot running. They didn't thinking
for his lack of clutch hitting. I mean, he had
that great first week. Remember when he was He hit
like a home run in his first game, right, I
don't heard that he hit like a couple home runs
or something like that in his first week, and we're like,
oh my god, Hasius Sanchez has arrived. That's right. Well,
here's the thing. All of our problems are solved. Do
you do it? Hayesue Sanchez tribute video. When the Blue
Jays come to town, oh it's maybe. I mean, you
gotta keep that video department busy. I guess yeah. I'll
tell you what, if you ever want buddies in sports
and you want to like have the inside knowledge on stuff,
get involved with people's with teams video departments, because they
set this stuff up weeks in advance. They're like, hey,
this may be coming down the pike here that there
may be a trade. We need to get something ready
to go, because they don't just organically go, hey we
just heard a Joey Litt Braffito is coming back, or
Hezu Chantons is leaving. Can you can you draw something?
Can you whip them up real quick? It's not like
a scrambled eamelet. It's this thing was put together weeks ago,
not necessarily the tweet, but I mean they get stuff
in advance, so in case it is a big move,
they can certainly have it ready to go on their
social platforms almost immediately after the trades happened. So that's
a little that's a little hint if you ever want
to know who the Rockets are looking for, or for
that matter, Texans or Astros and free agency budding up
member of the video department because They're like, here's what
you could look like as Houston astro or man, imagine
playing forty one home games at the Tota Center and
hearing the people scream your name. I mean, that's that's
happened quite a bit over the years. I'm sure you
could find a Chris Bosh in a Rocket uniform video
back when the Darryl Mory days. Don't you get they
put it on the iPad. Yeah, that's back when iPads
were cool. Like Darryl Morry gave Chris Bosh and iPad.
This is amazing, by the way, sancha iPad right now. No,
I have an Amazon fire tablet that I sometimes use
for reading. When there's like a book I want to
buy and it's like twenty bucks and then it's six
dollars on the pad. I buy it on the pad. Okay,
so you reckon on? Oh yeah no, But I like
the physical reading though. If it's I like the book
in my hand. But anyways, Sanchez did not hit a
home run in his first game. It was a six
game hitting streak that he went on basically when he
got here. And did we try to retire his number?
Do we have any air checks of us talking. I
don't think so, because then it was bad. It was
real bad. Yeah, all right, this isn't anything goes Friday ROSSI,
but it's really a low Perfito Friday. Right, it is
a low Perfido Friday. It sounds good, does it not. Yes?
I can't believe that Dana Brown fleeced the Toronto Blue Jays.
They gave him up for Jesus Sanchez. Low Perfito is
the greatest outfielder in Astros history. And all it costs
you was Hazeu Sanchez. Amazing that that's it. And you
save money too. Okay, So now you have to help
me out a little bit, because I do believe you're good.
You got good acumen on this. This is a precursor.
I want you to explain what you think the precursor is.
I think it's a money saving move so that they
can take on more money when it comes to whatever
whatever's coming. I think something's happening where they're going to
have to take on some salary and they want to
stay under the tax Because Dana Brown said this morning,
as a matter of fact, down in West Paul Beach,
we'll get anop date from Gordy coming up at the
bottom of the hour, he says we're not done yet.
He literally said his words, we are not done. So yes, yeah,
I don't exactly have the crystal ball out calling this
a precursor move. Well, I didn't want to. I wanted
to give you a little bit of shine before I
said that. But I know, I mean, well I thought
that before I saw those comments. But that's okay. Yeah,
when you shave money, that means you're probably trying to
allocate that money towards something else. Of course, so that
sounds like to me, ross that if Peretti's is moved,
that we're going to get somebody. That's going to be
somebody that's recognizable. Now, I don't think the Astros are
hitting the fact they're not moving Estak predits for prospects.
They're moving somebody in too. Get in here right away,
and I'm going to presume be a starter for this team,
whatever that may be. Yeah, obviously the outfield, the reality
is this, you are now trying to gain arms and
bodies and bats for the outfield because you must be
You are obviously bullish on Zach Cole. You did move
Jacob Melton. You may not be super bullish still on
Jake Myers. I mean low Perfito can play all three
outfield positions. Ah, I Like, I'm not saying these are
moves that are gonna necessarily take this team from say
an eighty eight win prospect to one hundred and four.
But I love intrigue around this time of year. I
think it's fascinating to me. Yeah, I mean this is
I mean, this late in the game for multiple trades
being made, seems pretty late. Well, I think we're seeing
a trend. I mean we've seen the free agent signings
signing later than later. I mean, remember back in the day,
you'd always when the first day of free agency would
come out, And it happens still in the NBA, but
doesn't happen so much in Major League Baseball. There are guys,
I mean usually at the winter meetings. It got done
within days or during the winter meetings. And now we've seen,
you know, Kyle Tucker sign late, Alex Bregman sign late
from Barvaldez just signed a week ago, Justin Verlander signed
a couple of days ago. And I'm just using a
few examples, but it just feels like to me that
the free agent calendar has moved way past the turn
of the of the calendar year. Yeah, there's there's a
couple calendars, and probably a lot of that has to
do with Scott Boris, but just guys waiting and waiting
and waiting. Yeah. Is Scott Boris have anything to do
with Joey lit Barfito, I don't know. I don't think so,
because we were looking for the Boris puns. Well that's true. Yeah,
we're gonna have to figure out which clients are his
and maybe like maybe send him a few to help
him out along the way, because I mean, he's got
a gonna be up there in age and can you
think about all this stuff again? I wonder if he's
got a if he has a pun writer in his
offices and he can afford everything else. I mean, they're
pretty weak. He needs a new writer. They're they're not
good at all, not good at all. All right, it
is and anything goes. Freddy ross At seven one three
two one two five Sebinnati seven one three two one
two five Sabinati. I'm actually here in Dallas. Uh. My
daughter is playing in one of her rare tournaments. I
get to go to because the All Star weekend, and
I said, you guys got to get out of the room.
I do the show. And so they said they're going shopping.
So while I'm trying to earn money for the Thomas family,
they're going to spend it right away. So I'm saying, Ross,
you had a pretty good life path. You're used to that.
I unfortunately I am on the show. We'll have Gordy
coming up at ten thirty. We have I'm sorry, he's
at eleven thirty. We have the News at noon, non
Flora stories at one thirty, and hell yea, and not
have we done a Joey low Perfido Hell yeah or not?
I'm sure? I mean, can you go back in the archives.
You don't want to do a joy life? He strikes
out a lot. I believe it. I mean, yeah, he's
on the cover of MLB. The show according to Astros fans.
Not well, that's actually believe it according to Astros fans. Yeah,
the low Perfedo truthers are back, aren't they? Good for them?
I guess if they have crushed Dana Brown for a
year plus, we imagine how good this out feel big?
And then we'd go look at the numbers. Well, he's
killing it for Buffalo and Triple A, although he didn't
have a bad what a bad last two months? Correct?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think he was. Yeah, and then he I think
he was left off the World Series, right, not the Yeah,
the roster, wasn't he? Yeah, there was some punchment on
that roster. Yeah, yeah, I can't remember. All right, It's
and anything goes Friday seven one three two one two
five seven Nini seven one three two one two five
Sevani A lot about the Astros and again we'll check
in with Gordy. Also, the NBA hand out a handed
out a massive fine yesterday to one of its teams.
Will explain what they did, and a lot of other
things going on. Plus Ross, we are taking your ideas
for the Toro district of more restaurants we need. Have
you been able to catch up on your Bridgeland geography
since the big announcement that uh uh cal McNair is
excited to bring. Oh my god, I kept watching the
video over and over again. Is my impressions that off?
Is it? It's God? I want to rip you for
it because it sounds so forrest gumpy, but it's not
far off and it's so what is it? What is
the opposite of organic? Inorganic? Is that right? Sure? What inorganic? Yeah? Yeah,
It's it's like he's literally reading off a tele prompt.
There's no emotion, there's no extemporaneous style. He he's just
an awful public speaker. And even his rehearse stuff sounds
like it's just like somebody else wrote it for him
and he's having to You know how when you read
a teleprom when people read teleprompters, the smart ones, the
Polish ones can read it and it's in a conversational form,
it's like he you see his eyes move from left
to right and then down the line left. I mean,
you know what, Look, it's the right decision. It just is.
Bridgeland's an area that's growing and he'll be doing just fine.
And my guess is, now that I've had a chance
to think about it, that stadium is gonna go out there.
They're they're gonna love Tooral District and they're gonna make
it the Toroal Dome or whatever they're gonna hell, they're
gonna call it seven one, three, two, one two, five, seven, nine,
eights and anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
I ain't Matt and Ross with her here. Good morning, Houston. Well,
thank you very much for being a part of our
show today. Three two one two five. Sevanai the man
that made the move today, Dana Brown sending Hayesus Sanchez
to Toronto. Joey Low Borfito is back. Here's Dana on lope.
He's ready to return. He's fired him.
Speaker 6: He's uh, you know, it was very tough when he
left here last time. Uh well, when we traded him,
and so very emotional for him. As I said, you know,
we know all about the makeup and how special his
makeup is. But to get a guy like this that's
trending in the rank direction with five years control made
it more appilling.
Speaker 2: And save money because I gotta do something else. He's like,
did you did you see did you see the contracts? Guys?
Come on, he's twenty six, so he's not a spring chicken.
Speaker 3: No, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: No, he's the he's in, he's the prize young prospect. Matt.
I think he's a player. I don't think put the
it's funny you put prospect in and automatically means like
that guy's gonna be a future star. Now hopefully he is.
He will be twenty seven in May. He had ninety
six had bats for the Blue Jays last year, ninety
six game. I have a quick question, that's it. Can
I find the Space Cowboys win total somewhere? I want
to slam that over. The Space Cowboys might not lose
the game. Well, how about this, they could. They could
have four twenty game winners. They're coming after the seventy Orioles.
Well whatever that Wola and anybody Juliola and anybody else
that is not going to make the rhyme. Jason Alexander
might be there. Jason Alexander's be carving him up down there.
You know, Lancer Kellers Junior might get a start there
or two. I got one for you. How many no
hitters will aj Blueball throw? Dude, they're gonna be stacked
in triple A. Wait, you know what what did you
What did you mouth low per Fido and Space Cowboys
in the same conversation. That's not nice. I'm just I'm
asking a question. You're asking for a friend, I understand, Yeah,
for a friend. Can I get the Space Cowboys win
total over somewhere? What book?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: Is a shady book from Sri Lanka. Do I gotta
find to get that posted? You know what, if you
can find a space cowboy prop, we'll actually give him
a sponsor plug. Is that fair?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: We don't normally don't do that. Here's Joe's spot at
Lope Frito's return.
Speaker 7: Obviously, when Joey came up in twenty four, we, you know,
super excited about what this kid kid can do on
the baseball field and what its likes to me more
is that he's trending in the right direction offensively. He
makes some changes last year where strikeout rate went down
ten percent, hitting the balls hard, he's staying in the
zone and and it's a pretty dynamic defender too, can
play some center feel immediately think about that play that
he made a Minnesota against the wall. It was a
huge play at the time. So he brings a lot
of good things to the table. So we excited to
have him back.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go, Ross Now that I'm taking
what you just said a minute ago and thinking about
a bet. Yes, we're gonna. We're gonna. People love our
bets and I don't know why, but it's just funny.
We're going to bet Chips and Caeso. Okay, okay, okay,
you get either side. Does low Berfido not injury related
take a plate appearance and in a bet it's literally
a plate appearance for the Space Cowboys in twenty twenty six.
Either side of yours for Chips and Caso. Hmm, now
right now, I would say no, but if they trade
for an outfielder, it is possible. Let me think I'd
have to put let me let me uh, I need
a second. Don't give an answer right now. Okay, you're ready,
I understand, and get the Astros roster up. I mean,
he's gotta be out Zach Cole and if Jake Myris
is he's left handed, bats left handed right, and so
does Zach Cole. Yes, he throws right, bats left? Yes,
what throws right? Bats left? Yeah, that's rare, but it
seems like it's been happening a lot on the Astros lately. Oh,
let me think of the outfield depth. Okay, Sanchez is gone,
but that's a swap. We're doing this live on there.
They just well, let's give me to the next break.
Probably my initial inclination is yes, you mean, oh so
you you again? There's no odds on this either way.
Either you either he plays for a spaces and again
if he's going on an injury or assignment, that doesn't count.
But a strict send down. But like I said, Dana
Brown said, he's not done, so I still think whatever. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. He trades for an outfielder or
even two, which I don't think is gonna have. I
think I think one outfielder is coming. It just feels
and that's a good field. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not trying
to talk to you anither way. That's why I feels
either way you can have it. Chips and Queso, oh
you Gotnzo too, Hey you got a Zenzo and Loo
we get the Italian legends. Let me tell you that
is a great it's the let's go to uh, let's
see z and L's Italian bestro. Yeah it's uh, it's
a lorent Oh man, I think about this Lorenzo and
just call it Zenzos. That sounds like a good Italian
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And then if you want
a like a sub sandwich with Maren Aaron Tippet's a Loperfido.
It's the Lowberfiedo special. I like that, and they're gonna
put it in the Toro district. They could. You gotta
drive a long way to get you a Lowperfido. Okay,
Cam Smith, Zach Cole, Jake Myers is still here. I
love this year. Mulling this over. This is awesome. Dezenzo.
Who's better Joey Loperffito? Or is that Dezenzo? I would
lean lo Perffito, but again I havenout. We haven't seen
him in a year and a half. Not that we're
spend a lot of time watching blue Jay baseball. Well
we were the World Series, but that's not a hero there.
Just think about it. Mull it over. I will say,
you know what my lean is, Yes, but give me
a minute, okay. Seven one three two one two five
Sevenati it is in Anything Goes Friday. It is Sports
Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two five
Sebananni seven one three two one two five seven Ross.
We have an ABS system in format now for twenty
twenty six. I won't want to run three through some
of the particulars on that with you see what you
think on that and Ross, I'm going to lose a
gut feeling. It appears about the college football playoff, and
as soon as I said it, you told me immediately backtrack,
get off of this. I didn't, So I'm going to
take a loss. We'll discuss that. We've got the NBA
Big fine to get to and of course Joey is
back ten eight Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's spend a
few minutes with our buddy Chris Gordy. He is in
Florida and we will inherit the coverage beginning Monday from
West Palm Beach Ross and I will be there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Right now, Gordy is there and he is courtesy of
Willy's Ice House. Chris, tell me how the day win?
Did you get to the stadium and go, oh, by
the way, there's a trade. How did the whole thing
go in terms of Kenneth in the dots here that
Joey little Burfito's now wearing Astro gear again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we we did the normal clubhouse thing.
I interviewed some of the guys this morning and we
were wait outside for Joe Spotta to do is normally scheduled,
you know, press uh, you know availability, and here comes
Dana Brown walking up that we're like what Indus with
the Astros communication team says, hey, guys, data, Brown has
an announcement he wants to make, and we'll go whoa, Okay,
something went down. And when he says we made a trade,
we're all thinking immediately, oh he thought Paratus they moved him.
And when he says we've traded Hazu Sanchez, he went, oh, okay,
well what's this going to be.
Speaker 5: And when he.
Speaker 8: Said Joey low Persido, I think everybody's side was going
out like wow, okay, yeah, an interesting move.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think maybe speaks to the lack of
you know, depth in the.
Speaker 8: Outfield as far as you know, guys with a ton
of experience. So we know how high they were on
him before. Obviously he was a fan favorite, almost probably
too much. I know Ross used to you know, put
pop fund at some of the fans that acted like
he was the next coming of Mickey Mantle.
Speaker 5: But it's good to have him back in the system.
Speaker 8: And obviously, in the small sample size he played last year,
I think about sixty sixty games, his average was good.
I mean, the numbers look good, so he'll be a
welcome edition now. Am I automatically penciling him into the
everyday lineup? Is he gonna be in the opening day
lineup for opening Day?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 8: He's gonna have to go earn that. But you know,
Jake Myers, I just saw him a few minutes ago.
He's here in camp, and obviously, as long as Jake
Myers is on this team, he's the everyday center fielder.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this. We've talked about this almost from
the jump, and I'm sure you guys assume the same thing.
This is just part one of and even Dana alluded
to it, not loaded to it. He said it, We're
not done yet. This feels like this was a satary
dump for sure to open up some space. So if
I'm an Essac Paradis fan, I wouldn't be going to
buy a twenty twenty six jersey with his name on
the back of it.
Speaker 8: Correct, And Dana said, I mean, he said we're not
done yet multiple times, and he said it again when
he walked off.
Speaker 5: From the media session. We're not done.
Speaker 8: Okay, we get it. I mean, you might as well
put it in bright lights on the marquee.
Speaker 5: You get you're not done.
Speaker 8: So yeah, and it seems like, look, Monday's the day
we're all the position players are supposed to report. Well,
let's not make this awkward. If you're trading, he'sack paradus,
let's get that done before Monday before it makes it awkward.
And he's got to go, you know, go to his
locker and clean it out and all that kind of stuff.
So I would expect, yeah, they're going to move him,
Now what will you get? I mean, I think you
feel pretty good about all the arms you have here,
so you know, are you just dumping him for some
minor league pieces? I still think backup Catcher and I
almost say platoon Catcher is still a need here. Nothing
against his ar salas are, but I just don't I
don't know if you want to rely on him to play.
You know, almost fifty percent of the games with jan
or Diez. We know jan Ar Diaz last year and
his production slipping that, you know, you'd like to maybe
get him off his feet a little bit more. So,
I don't know it'll be interesting, but I would still
say Catcher is still a need, and if there's another
piece to be had, whether it's another outfielder or something
like that, I think they'll make that move.
Speaker 2: Hey, Ross, I think Gordier brings us a good point.
When we get down to Florida on Monday, do you
think Pradies will be in gear even if he's not
officially traded by then? Think about that for a minute.
I mean, you do want to end some awkwardness, but
he does need to get ready for the season, no
matter who's playing for. I'm gonna gut feeling that he's
going to be gone by then, because it feels like
something imminently is happening with this first move, right.
Speaker 8: I think when you guys hit the air on Monday
at ten am, it needs to be Parades update.
Speaker 2: We're a parade is watch by the way, boys, We
will have a new update next week, debut here on
the Matt Thomas Joward Ross. I haven't even told you
Ross what it is, and Gordy doesn't know you, Okay,
but I'm gonna save it for next week. I'm going
to give you a massive hint right now, Gordy, were
you shooting video of Josh Hader throwing a baseball today?
Speaker 5: Oh? No, I was, Yes, he looked. He looked good.
Speaker 8: Still they call it playing catch, but he's actually throwing,
So I don't know why you playing catch. I'm more
concerned with when he throws the ball as opposed to
when he catches it. But but yeah, I mean all
flat ground, still not you know, high velocity. But I
mean he's out there for a while throwing, so concern
level for him, I'd put it at too right now.
I think he's gonna be fine. He's just a little
bit behind.
Speaker 2: Sketch you say, two meaning two on a scale of
one to ten for the start of the season, or
two as in I don't think this is gonna be
something that's gonna be lingering all season long.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the latter. But I mean, look, if he if
the season starts in two weeks in he gets in there,
we will even remember that he didn't start the season.
I mean, you know, I think they can survive a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Without him, all right, Chris Gordy with us down in
West Palm Beach. Jeremy payneis book today too. What was
he up to?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean just you know, Jeremy's not the most
talkative guy, but talked about just you know, his off
season and getting ready and obviously one of the big storylines.
He got engaged and his fiance is is an athlete
as well, and he said he went to some of
her soccer game games and was just a fan sitting
in the stands, eating a hot dog, yelling at the
at the reps or umpires whatever. So yeah, so it
was kind of fun to hear that that side of him.
But looks in great shape. I mean, look, it's it's
the thing we always said when we get down here.
But I mean, Jeremy Penny is always in great shape.
Says he still wants to be in that lead off spot.
You know, obviously it's Joe spot his decision. But he's played.
He played extremely well there in that leadoff spot last year,
so I'd expect more of the same.
Speaker 2: I maybe it wasn't the time or the place so
I could fully understand it. Was there any talk of
and this may be more of a question for Dana,
any thought of Jeremy visiting with the folks about extensions
during the off season. Was that even brought up in conversation.
Speaker 8: No, there's been no extension talk on anybody so far.
He did bring up that a year ago, he brought
up to them that he wanted to play in the
World Baseball Classic and said that was something really important
to him, so obviously that you know he's going to
go do that.
Speaker 5: But but yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's the it's the elephant in the room,
Hunter Brown, Jeremy Panya, I mean, a lot of these guys.
It just seems like, man, you'd love to start talking
long term extension with any of those guys that are pillars,
because the Astros have said goodbye to so many of
their pillars in recent years.
Speaker 2: It's Finnie Ross. I don't think the Askers are hiding
the fact that they don't want their players playing in
the World Baseball Classic and their even Bad Bunny was
ready to pay the insurance on it, and I think so.
I think Bad Bunny wanted to see Jeremy wear in
the Puerto Rico gear well, they said it was an
insurance issue, So I don't know. I said, yeah, I mean,
I think I think that Bad Bunny was like, I've
made some I'm doing okay money wise. I think I've
had any bad money billion downloads. Yeah, he's doing quite well.
When you beat Taylor Swift and songs listened on Spotify,
I think you're doing okay. Yeah, so all right, what
else going on for I let you roll.
Speaker 5: Uh just got to see Lance mccullor's throw aside today
and he looks good.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know this, this might be the first
spring in a while that Lance mccullor's is healthy and
ready to go for the start of spring training. And
I know people roll their eyes when you say his name.
Speaker 5: But he looks good.
Speaker 8: He was throwing well the signature, you know, signature of lansmacullors.
You know, look when he throws, throws the baseball, throw
it hard. So uh, I'm I'm encouraged. I know he's
got a chip on his shoulder and he wants to
wants to get out there and prove everybody wrong. Another one,
Nate Pearson, we got the sea throw today. That was
one of the off season acquisitions that you had an
elbow clean.
Speaker 5: Up a couple of weeks ago. But he was thrown
and thrown pretty hard.
Speaker 8: And you know, the other thing it's so cool to
see guys too, is I was standing next to Tetsuya
and ma as he watched him, and Maya is really
just like he's putting himself in around every player, trying
to get to know everybody. And obviously there's a language
barrier there, but his his uh translator is with him.
Aj Blue Ball was trying to, you know, asking him, Hey, what.
Speaker 5: Does this mean? You know, how do I say this
in Japanese? So it's just kind of cool.
Speaker 8: It's the first kind of you know, real, real big
international signing the Asters have had in quite some time,
and so it's just kind of cool to see that
a guy like.
Speaker 5: That, who's very down to earth, very.
Speaker 8: Humble, kind of assimilate himself in with the rest of
the group.
Speaker 2: Does he have a four media contingent with him too?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, he has got I mean it's I may
actually ask the dozen or so Japanese medium out to
follow you around when you get here, to make you
so more important because everywhere he goes, I mean he's
going to the.
Speaker 5: Bathroom, they're like, oh, oh, get your camera, gets your camera.
Speaker 8: They're running and following him around. So it's pretty fun
that you watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you do that with SEC players, that's something
out of the norm.
Speaker 8: I think I only did that with Nick Saban. Oh
he's going to the bathroom, he's good, get up, get up,
go all right?
Speaker 2: Uh, you're coming home today, right, are you coming home tomorrow?
What do you do? Are you schelling off for West
Palm for the weekend. We gonna find you there, or
what's going on? What's your travel schedule? About how much
vacation time you got left?
Speaker 8: I'm actually not a plane going to New Orleans for
Marty Grass for a day or so and then and
then I'll be back in Houston on Monday.
Speaker 5: So, uh yeah, I'm gonna go straight.
Speaker 8: From from baseball to uh the bauchery of New Orleans
and Marty Gras beats.
Speaker 2: All right, And when you get back to Houston, you're
gonna be going to get some crawfish assuming yes.
Speaker 8: Yes, the sun is out, it is warming up, and
it's time for craft fish season. Get on over to
Willie's ice House and Girl and of course multiple locations
all around Houston. So craw fish season, get over to
Willie's and appreciate them presenting all our covers this week
on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your hard work. Friend. We'll look forward
to catching up with you when we get back town
next week. Thanks for the time, all right, fellas, all right,
it's Chris Gordy with us here from West Palm. Beach
where Ross You and I will be there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Are you bringing? Uh? What are you bringing for gear?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: What are you wearing? I'm going to bring a raincoat
and maybe one light jacket. It's supposed to get I
think sixties at night and like seventy five during the day.
So we're supposed to be pretty good. But didn't it rained?
Was it last year or the year before? It was
raining on us? So I want to make sure I
bring my raincoat. Yeah? Are we outsider? I don't even
know where. I asked Gorty to tell us where our
broadcast position was. Remember we used to have wind issues and
our equipment with flyers. Oh those good times, not great grimes,
I was. I mean, I mean, let me look at
the West Palm Beach weather. Let me look when we
look at the ten day for you, Matt. Yeah, we'll
do it. I'm doing the break, all right?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: Anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. If you
want to follow us on twit a Monday, there's a
ninety percent chance of rain. Shut up, Yeah, bring a
rain coat. Gonna be a high of lady too lows
in those sixties. Chance, Oh, that's Monday. It can it
can change. It's Friday, forty eight hours out. It can change.
We'll be fine maybe or maybe not. We're maybe were
gonna get rained on. I'm just afraid of lightning. You
know how me and Chats are about. We can be
inside in that little meeting room. It's fine where I
go and steal their m and ms in the kitchen.
Maybe that's the reason why we don't get to go
there anymore, because we got sent inside and then they
like there's like there's hot danishes that were for the
regular astro staff was gone. There was a big bag
of those caramel min ms. I would take a handful
every morning. I like right, Athing goes Friday continues seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero Ross,
you want to talk abs or college football playoff proposal?
What do you want to get? I don't know which one?
Were you wronger on college football playoffs? All right, let's
do that then, Ted forty six on seven ninety oh
Perfido Friday on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We'll
get to more on that as the Asters are starting
to make some more moves, other things that get to
including a massive NBA. Fine, the Texans receive some good news.
They're not a part of something ross that every other
team in the NFL is. I'm not talking about Super
Bowl Sunday. Hmmm, okay, so keep on that. But all right.
I was always a proponent of if you were going
to expand the CFP to sixteen teams. At sixteen this
sounds like a good number. Twenty four sounds ridiculous, and
I said as much. But apparently there is a story
this morning on ESPN. There is incredible interest and it
sounds like more acceptance to a twenty four team format.
Go ahead, now, No, I mean, look on its face,
I told you I agree with you in principle. Thank
you at least, but thank you. I said, I will
never My words were that I will never underestimate the
greed of these colleges and these presidents and these athletic directors,
and more games equals more money. And the FCS playoffs
didn't well that. What was really opening for me is
when we looked at the I think the SCS playoffs
are twenty four right or at least twenty they're twenty
or twenty four or something like that. So once, I mean,
if it's these nonprofit teams that aren't even making money,
of course they're going to do it when it's when
it's where they are. Can't they can make money because
because the argument of ohs they need to stay in
school goes out the window. And we went out the
window a loong time time ago. But I mean, it's
just it's all about the money. And as I said,
I never underestimate the greed of any of these and
that's that's bad. I think it was for basketball, baseball, football.
It's just everything is more and more and more and
more and more, and that's the way of the world.
And I understand that, and I under it. It works
even like that in sports where it's all about the
money and the players will get their share of this too.
I mean, I'm sure there's a component for that. Yeah,
better more than they used to, which is great. Yep.
Let me give you the component of this. Twenty four
teams will comprise the twenty three best teams in the
country and one spot with a group of six. Okay,
so the only only guarantee in the group is it
will be among the twenty four There'll be one group
of six. Okay, no automatic qualifiers, by the way, so
let's just straight up who's the best. I like, I've
been arguing for that for a long time. Okay, top
eight teams get buys. There would then be eight first
round games on campus, and then an extra week of
home games, with eight second round games played on campus.
Remember we were talking about campus, so you get two
rounds of on campus. You gotta be on board with that.
I'm not opposed to that.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 2: Again, more more games on campus, the better, uh huh.
Then you would then go from there. The quarterfinals would
fall on New Year's even New Year's Day at Bull Sites.
The semifinal games would be the following week at Bull Sites.
There would be a mid January title game at a
neutral site. The preference in this twenty fourteen model is
that there would be no regular season rematches would be
permitted in the first round, but games between the league
foes could be played if they didn't play in the
regular season. All right, so it seems a little it
seems like a you could play them. It seems like
a good idea. But I think you can get rid
of that unless they literally just I don't know, I
don't have a problem the rematches. Yeah, so let's say
that this twenty four team team format was in play
this past year. Here's yeah, they have you got the bracket. Okay,
seven SEC teams will be in it. Hey, you have
AH six, Big ten, five Big twelve, which would include Houston,
three ACC Notre Dame, and two Group of six, which
obviously would have been what James Madison and Tulane tu Lane. Baby. Now,
the big thing they have to figure out is they
got a wig of themselves around the NFL, because ross
is as awesome as these playoff games sound. You put
the Chargers against the Panthers on opposite a playoff game,
and the Chargers Panthers regular season game is going to
be the playoff game. It's just pro football just is
number one over everything. So they're gonna have to really
sit and think about this calendar and try to put
it around days where I mean there could be some
Wednesday games. My guess right, what because you know Fridays
and Saturdays you probably are occupied by pro football games.
I mean, the NFL is gonna expand their games and
they're gonna ad a package of games, right, I think
to some extent, especially there's so many first round games,
they're just gonna have to go a little head to
head because look, I mean, five million people watching USC Arizona,
which would have been a matchup instead of zero million,
is more eyeballs, it's more sponsorships, is more money. I
think you're gonna have to bite the bullet a little bit, right.
I don't think you can't have playing every Wednesday, and
they are like puddle jumping around all the puddles of
the NFL. They did that this year, But it feels
like when you add this mini games, it's gonna be impossible.
There is one college football game that kind of gets
its own marquee, and maybe it's for the right reasons
because it's one of those things that tugs at your heartstrings.
But they're gonna play the same weekend as Army Navy.
Army Navy is going to be kicked to the curb.
What if they're in I don't know how what if
the people feel about that. What if they're in it,
that's gonna make things more confusing. Maybe they're gon have
to move Army Amy. Maybe they will maybe move Army
Amy to week zero. Honestly, Oh, it's supposed to be
a winner. I know, August twenty first in Baltimore seems now,
But I give them an auto bid and whichever team
wins is in the next round. I'm just kidding, that's
what you want to do now, Because we're America, all right,
we've got to honor our serviceman, Matt, excuse me, air
forces raising their hand with it. What about us? Yeah,
you're good, all right, Let's get the second hour of
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross and away here in
a matter moments. If you'd like to join us. It
is in Anything Goes Friday. We got Terry and stun
I want to get in. If you want to join
the conversation, we'll start taking your calls me If I'm
Sorry's ROSSI coming up in a half an hour, And
I feel like this segment of I'm Sorry should be
just called the Ross segment because it's just there's a
lot of things over the course of the week that
I shake my head at. What I'm dismayed, I'm disappointed.
I don't eve remember what I need to be sorry about.
I'm gonna start writing it down Jonathan. That's'm gonna added
that something to your plate. Everybody wants something rude. Write
it down so he can apologize for it. Okay, you
know I can do that. Hey why Hey, why is
he so eager about that? No one gets sure. I'm
trying to help Jonathan's crew, though he knows. Ten fifty
eight on Sports Talk seven is the Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 10: Ros That was a mood shot to write Bill deep
into the seats, loperfdo out of the nine hole. That
is Dandre Bang.
Speaker 3: Jesu Bang excited.
Speaker 2: You remember there were people crying. Oh is it was crying.
Somebody was crying when he got it was lovely. They cried, right,
I think he did. You know what, It's okay. It's
an emotional guy. I mean look, I cried daily myself.
Oh daily.
Speaker 5: But that.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's great.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 2: Crying is healthy, Matt, Oh my god, it's in a
release of emotion. Yes, it's good. I encourage everyone to cry. Yes,
not on our show, but just in crying general. Some
people cry about the show. But that's okay. Oh yeah.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. Lope
is back and we don't call him hope you do.
I don't want to do that. Yes, who it was back?
Lopepes is back? Feto what about fo?
Speaker 3: Mmmm?
Speaker 2: This Joey's back? Hello, friend, keep going? Guess who's back?
Jonathan Herritt. Come on, let's let's go. Let's let Ross
the little freestyle. That's good. Wait a minute, I freestyle
like two years in the Morning show. Not on a
rat beat. This is high tempo. Come on, this is
your this is your time, Ross' shine? Sure?
Speaker 5: Why not.
Speaker 2: Back again? He little Bee's back? Hello, friend, Guess who's back.
Guess who's back? Guess who's back? The whiffers back. Yes,
he's back, and he's got great hair, and he's back
making catches at the wall. Robin Hart's stealing your souling
and missing at baseballs. Enough from you?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no what optimism. He's got a
high WIF percentage. I didn't make that up. Check the numbers.
Don't get mad at me, get mad at him for
whiffing and everything. Give him. He's a more mature player. Now, okay,
on the phones, we go. That's why he was just
traded for Jesus Sanchez again. Shout out to the Astro
of social media department. They said, thank you, Hajesus for
your two months. Appreciate you. Jesus gone but not forgotten.
Astro's a legend. Who else got goodbyes for two months? Brandon?
What's his face at second base? Brendan Rodgers. Brendan Rodgers,
Brandon Rodgers. Yeah, poor guy. Didn't he fracture his orbital
bone or something and running into somebody in the minor leagues.
He was trying to come back. He was talking about
how the ball went on his head. I thought, right, no,
bauld and leno his head. He's not Charlie Brown. Come on, man,
he is a Major leaguers, a Gold Glover, Matt he
I think he ran into somebody running after a ball
or something like that. You got like a scale of
or get a farewell tweet?
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 2: Wait he's gone, Yeah, I think he did. Actually, yeah,
he's thirty. Caleb Ord's thirty four years old. Jesus, I
like Caleb Ard. He was a hoss. You can come
out there throwing ninety nine miles an hour. Now sometimes
he can get shelled, but it was still fun. Yeah,
he was claimed U in January by the Los Angeles Angels. Yeah,
I knew that. Now I knew. I knew he got
let go, but I didn't remember who he was. Well,
now you know, tell your friends today. Hey, I know
where Caleb board is. Hey, guys, it's time for Caleb
Ard trivia. Folks. No, it's not, by the way, is
hell yare not Friday the thirteenth today? No, it's got
to be it, right, I'm good. No, ok, okay, let's
talk to uh Joey. No, it's not Joey Liperfitoz. You
don't know you're not doing eight questions about hayesus. Let's
skip it. I'm tired, Tyre. What do you mean we're
skipping on all next week? Okay, he's Monday. Who's new Wednesday?
I mean you can give us one more quality. You're
you're you know, somebody run it out and we need
Florida stories. Somebody brought up next week. Oh that's next week. Yeah,
we're gonna be in Florida when we're in the state.
That's exactly right. Stunner on seven out of Good Morning Center.
Speaker 9: What's up, Matt and what's up wrong?
Speaker 5: How y'all doing today?
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 11: Well that's good.
Speaker 9: Well, hey man, I was telling them about the college
at the college lineup from the playoffs or they gonna
have it designated for who can actually make what section
because last year didn't nobody know about that. I guess
that that small school getting in were the two small
schools getting in, even though they had pretty good recres.
But it was kind of a I think a blind
a blind sided hit for some of the big schools,
especially Texas.
Speaker 2: You know, I can't comprehend what you just said.
Speaker 12: I'm saying that Texas.
Speaker 9: Or some of the Notre Dame kind of got blindsided
with the actual automatic bids for the smaller.
Speaker 2: Schools, which God again in this in this new run,
if they go to twenty four teams, if what's being
proposed is going to happen, there will be no automatic.
It'll be the twenty three best teams and the only
automatic will be one group of sixteen will be guaranteed in.
Speaker 9: Right right, Because when they came up with that final
thing and said, hey, you got two smaller schools going in,
I text us out there, so there was no way
they was going to get in.
Speaker 5: And one other thing, Hey.
Speaker 9: Man, I got a thing to tell you, Yo, when
your daughter graduated at dyking park Man, you're gonna have
to worry about that frigging parking man because they charged
us at and like out there out the tail bowl.
Speaker 2: Man, you almost set out the ass, didn't you. Didn't you? Stunny,
you almost set out the ass, didn't you.
Speaker 12: Hey, I had to pull it back in.
Speaker 2: I understand. Thank you, Hey, Sonna, thank you for the
good word, my man. I have a good weekend. I
appreciate you listening. I'm going to be staying at a
hotel that night because we got to be there super early,
so I don't know if the parking at the hotel
will be any cheaper, but my guess is it won't.
Y know, it is what it is. I mean, it's
my daughter's graduatetions. I'm gonna worry about forty dollars parking. Oh,
you guys are getting got I want I want to
Parking is gonna be like in the Toro District. I
still like Toro Town better. I just like it better name,
but I want to be respectful. Uh, parking is probably
going to be scarce and expensive. That's all these town centers.
That's not all of them. That's that's not fair. It
was free parking garages and a lot of them Welcome to
the Toro District and park and oh you could have
you could have like the valet section, which would be
the Hanna McNair section, and then you can be in
the very top level, which is cal Cal hangs out
and puts his big trucks and stuff. M yeah, but
can you even get up in the garage with your
lifted truck? I don't know. It could be an issue.
Been running into issues. Yeah, he was getting more damage
to our vehicles at our that the office is at our.
I think he had to write some sternly worded letters
to the garage folks. Did he really and you have
copies of this? No, I think he got it in.
I don't want to put his business out there. So
he can't go up the garage, so he has to
park in the basement, which is visitors. But then they're like,
you can't punking visitors if you're an employee. It's for
visitors only. But there's like fifty spots and only three
of them are used, so it's like, shut your moss up.
Let me tell you something. Our security at our at
our building. Oh my god, they're mean people. Are you
talking about that short guy? He's got Napoleon first of all?
A lot of times like the security guards. I love y'all,
but they're security who got Napoleon syndrome, and they're like,
you know, like referees or umpires, like you want some
authority and you want to exercise that authority, or some
police officers. And so yeah, this guy is like acting
like he were like he's a super CIA spy watching
me park in the visitors because because the regular parking
is is walled off and I can't get up there,
and he's out there getting his NO pad like he's
CIA intelligence. And then I got an email. I mean,
you've been parking in the visitors. You can't. First, there's
seventy five spots in there, and they're all there there
in their seventy of them are vacant. I can't park
in the visitors when there's literal cones in the regular garage,
and I can't go to the visitors. Shut your bomb
messes up? Love it. My favorite is and they say
can I help you? And I always say no, but
thank you because they want me to respond with they
want you to sign in. Look, they're security guards. They
want safety and all that type of stuff. That's great.
They're on a power trip. Sorry, they just are well
some of them, yes, not everyone. Most of them are
mostly very cordial and nice. James. I like the late
weekend guys. They don't care. Yeah, they're like, man, I'm
making eight bucks an hour, I'm missing relax and I'm
gonna watch you some wheel. They're watching the Lakers and
the Clippers.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: They don't care what I'm doing. That's right, James, you're
on seven ninety.
Speaker 13: Go ahead, I'm a vision vision for this sports program
of views.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 13: You said you wanted to give Jonathan some more responsibility
and further his career. Why don't you have a segment
that just called The g Man with Jonathan Allen and
every week he comes on Tuesdays or whatever week. You
can give them five minutes and nothing. He talks about
nothing but the gamblers. That way, you don't want to
talk about the gamblers.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven. Nintight is a
Matt Thomas show with Ross. So I took the lost
Ross on the CFP Yet there's time. Even though you
said never ever ever in your life more than it's
been two weeks, you don't never ever ever in my life.
This is a story later, It's just a story. It
doesn't mean you're yet. I'm taking the L.
Speaker 5: I know it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta take the L and you just know
that's gonna happen. It happens, all right. Sometimes you gotta
get the W. You know what that means. Take getting
a win? Yeah, eat a W like jamis uh. I mean, yeah,
that's not a bad pull on that. By the way,
the name of the next segment for Jonathan will be
called this week with Hognuts. That's what the same segment.
Oh man, what a classic. We gotta save these classic
segments and like just roll them Monday's We're off or something.
I don't care we're doing Yeah, you don't get Yeah,
we can do that. Anything goes here on Sports Talk
seven ninety and anything goes Frindie seven one three two
one two five seven, Nintis seven one three two one
two five SEVENATI. A lot of folks in the Texans
organization are very excited about uh Torol District. I like
toroal Town better, but like I said, I need to respectful.
So here's where. Uh, you should be very excited also
Ross because uh, we have word that Uh the Epstein
Files has a list of people associated with NFL teams.
Did you see this? No, you're not in the files?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 2: I am not in the files? Okay? Good? Apparently eighteen
different commanders are in the Epstein files. Commanders, players. What
does this mean? It says this is from Luke Christensen.
NFL teams ranked by number of appearances in the Epstein Files.
So that's what that means. It could be probably anybody
could be front office, ownership, could be players. I mean,
I'm presuming it's everybody. Commanders lead to the group at eighteen.
Niners are second at seventeen, the Patriots are third at fourteen,
Dolphins are tied with the Jets at thirteen at fourth,
and the Cowboys are in a three way tie at
seven with the Broncos and the Bears. Every team in
the NFL is mentioned in the Epstein Files except for one.
It is your beloved Houston Texans. That's great. You can
say what you want. And also, I mean the well,
when how long do these files go back? I couldn't
tell you. Okay, now do you sell that on? Hey, everybody,
we want a new stadium. We weren't in the Epstein
files support us. You put that in the Ring of
Honor zero Epstein, you do not? Oh my god, could
you imagine? No, you put your you know what you do?
You put a band out there? Yea, not mentioned in
the Epstein files. There's only one team that can put
that up there, and somebody else can say it. Say, certainly,
I haven't even remember when everyone made of fun of
the Colts for putting like the SC Championship game participant banner.
Texans can't even do that, know, you know what they
can do Epstein non participant. Yeah, kind of a like,
who can we read the Epstein files now? Is it
for me?
Speaker 8: How?
Speaker 2: Is just they're heavily redacted so we don't even know.
Necessarily there are mentioned of players of teams, but you
don't know if it's players or coaches or administrator or
stuff like that. That's just weird. Does that startle you
that there are somebody sports references in this thing? No,
I was startled. I wouldn't say startled. I'm not surprised, Okay,
I mean I know there would be politicians. Clearly, there
would be influential business people. There would be celebrities. Yes,
I guess athletes. He wasn't West Palm Beach wasn't he? H. Yeah,
that's where, not far from West Palm Beach is where
the owner of the Patriots was involved with his extra
cricket activities. Well, yeah, that's a different thing. I don't
think Epstein was involved in that. But no, no, I'm
just talking about it. It didn't Epstein have a house in
West Palm Beach. I don't know enough about it. I
don't want to tell you because I watched it. I
started to watch the documentary, but it was so bad,
like the things in the atrocities committed by Jeffrey Epstein,
horror like. I got so uncomfortable I couldn't finish. I
had to stop watching it. Yeah, it's it's nothing worth
making light up. But it's just interesting that there were
thirty one NFL teams that were mentioned, and that in
itself would would if you had have said, I mean,
you know, there are thirty one teams mentioned. I've been like,
come on, what thirty one are these mentions? Like these
are employees or these are people or players or there's like, hey,
we're just talking Texans football, because then it's sad if
they're not mentioned in there at all, or so uh,
because I think a lot of the emails are just
regular their daily emails. Right. It could also be, hey,
we went to a game between the Giants and the
Eels and that could be mentioned that. You know, yeah,
I don't know, no mention. All right, are you ready
for another ridiculous thing. Yes, So the NBA is trying
to crack down on tanking. The Utah Jazz sat healthy
players that had already played in the game and sat
them for large chunks of the fourth quarter when they
would ultimately lose. One time they lost, one time they won,
and they've done it in a few times. So the
NBA yesterday find the Utah Jazz five hundred thousand dollars
and said, don't you do this. You're putting you're you're
resting healthy players in the middle of the game when
you're either leading or competitive. You sat them for the
fourth quarter because you're trying to tank.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 2: The Utah Jazz sending back and return Rossie. I'm just
I'm just speculating, should you bro mess up? No, here's
a check. Yeah, so go ahead. They're finding them five
hundred thousand dollars. And then Commissioner Adam Sober said, look,
if we're gonna come after you again, we're gonna drive,
We're gonna draft, We're gonna take all your draft picks. Really, yes,
what draft picks?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: You only get what two? In theory? Maybe he he
It might be that's so severe that if you if
they continue to have been tanking like this, they may
take the pick they're trying to tank four. That isn't
the preposterous thing of it? That seems pretty insane. That
is insane. What's the insane part is he's trying to
create Adam and again maybe this is Adam Sober. Just
you know how you work with any bed in your
life that just throws bad ideas one at you day
after day after day. No me either. He's now contemplating,
at least as being talked about in the NBA circles,
a let's have an end of season tournament for teams
that don't make the playoffs, and if you win that,
you get a higher draft pick. That's pretty funny. Do
you know where the illogic Isn't that where so you're
gonna ask a bunch of guys to play hard for
you for their replacement. So they're for their replacement. That's
pretty funny. They pay him, just pay him extra game checks.
And I mean, I would imagine players who are on
long term contracts are gonna want to play hard. They
want the team to improve. It feels like to me,
Adam silver is and I love the NBA, and look
his owner, the owners love him because they just he
just signed a ten billion dollar television deal. Yeah, a
bunch of networks that streaming services in streaming service. And
then Bezos check is nice, Maddie. I mean, it's a crossing.
It's a great check. So all the other stuff on
the side, the owners are probably saying, that's just Adam
being Adam, But it feels like so many of the
things he's trying just ain't panning out. He keeps trying
to reinvent the All Star Game, it ain't working out.
The n Season Tournament doesn't have any luster at all
for except the teams that are actually at the n
Season Tournament. He's trying to create this maybe potential get
together where the worst teams fight for playoff posit for
at better draft picks. It just feels like that he's
the he's is he the badda guy in the room?
I don't think. I mean the n season tournament. What
are the returns on that? What does it cost him?
And what is it? It's I think it's fine. It's
only one extra game, right for most people. No, it's
for only one extra game for two teams. That's it.
The party are any two games schedule? I'm saying, yeah,
that's I guess I said that incorrectly looking for he
was looking for a ten to fifteen percent bump in
television ratings over games during that time in November, and
he didn't get that. Yeah, I think there was some
initial at least interest in the first year, But also
I mean, what is it? What does it cost them?
I mean they're trying to do something because everybody knows
nobody pays attention to the NBA regular season until after Christmas?
Right right? And then Yeah, I don't know, just you,
we all we all have people on our on our
work life that you know, hey, we're gonna have a
brainstorming session. Oh, Margie's got some good ideas. Oh Greg,
that's a good idea. And then darnel like this, like,
oh my god, somebody said, you call it instead of
the playoffs, it's the way offs, the NBA way ups. See,
it's not so bad. And then you get way fair
to sponsor it, right, I mean, oh there you go.
See Okay, maybe you don't see Look at this man,
you got the gears turning. No matter what dumb idea
somebody comes up with, as long as you attach a
corporate sponsor to it, it's okay. Care get the dollars,
get them cash. Maybe by the way, we have I'm sorry,
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acting like a jerk today. That's a good idea, all right.
If you need to apologize for a divorce lawyer, you're sorry,
don't go yeah, here's yeah, all right, So here's we're
gonna do it for the next half hour. You need
to apologize for things you've said and done. I've met
you seven one three two one two five seven seven
one three two one two five. I'm gonna I'm going
to speak for people that don't follow me on Twitter
that sent me responses to it. Just just a generic,
simple tweet that I sent out yesterday. I'm gonna speak
for those people and tell them, uh willing to shut out,
to shut their bums up, and I'm gonna ask them
to apologize to me. I'll explain that, Oh, you're asking
for apology, I'm asking for apologizes eleven twenty eight. It
is the Matt Thomas Old Ross seven one three two
one two five seveny if you want to apologize or
anything you've done or said, the next half hour will
cleanse the rest of your day. Seven one three two
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five seven ninety ten to call us right now and
say these very simple words, I'm.
Speaker 14: Sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 2: And I've been a fool. I'm going to start it off, Ross,
I want to apologize to those people. And I forty
five heading north bound yesterday. My wife was honking at
many of you for not driving fast enough. Wow, Okay,
she doesn't know that she's out shopping, so I apologizing
and heart it a blast. So I'd like to say,
I'm sorry for uh, missus Thomas yelling at you to
drive eighty four miles an hour in the far left LANEO,
she's speed demon over there. Huh A little bit, little bit,
I'm sorry for that. Now, speaking of my trip yesterday,
we normally go to Buck East on the way there,
and I can say Bucky's a great place. We've clean
his restrooms of seventy five different options for food and
drink for both beef, jerky, Kulatchi, SODA's icy snacks. I mean,
you know everybody knows the Bucky spit. Yeah, we decided
to do something different. We went to Woodies yesterday because
I was familiar. I as mister Texas likes to branch
out into different areas. You're not mister Texas. We went
to Centerville yesterday and went to Woodies and made a
pit stop there where wood is is delightful. It's as smaller, obviously,
it's more old fashioned Texas. Like I am mister Texas,
You're not mister Texas. And had a great experience and
was like, you know what, I'll go back to Woodies
a guy. I haven't been to Woodies in years, but
it was a good experience. And I simply put this
nice little tweet out and said, hey, we skipped BUCkies
and I went to Woodies instead and had no regrets.
Everybody that lives within three hundred miles of me has
tweeted about this. Most of the people don't follow me
on these but decide to give me their commentary anyway.
Ross my tweet just as simple tweet as nineteen thousand views.
I told you, Matt, mute this conversation, okay, But what
I do mind is about halfway in it got political.
What how in the hell can you make something political
out of between BUCkies and Woodies? Sophy. If you made
it political and you sent me a tweet and you
don't follow me, you owe me an apology. Twitter is
just an unceasing cesspool. It's ridiculous. I hate it. I'm
I'm loving Instagram much better. Everybody's more cordial on Instagram.
Go follow me on Instagram at sports RV. It's terrible.
I hate Twitter about it, and I mean it's an
after yesterday because I just want no, no, i'n't do that.
My point was I maybe should stop even putting anything
in terms of editorial on there at all, like, uh,
what our show is? Maybe retweet some news information. But
I just said, you know, sometimes people like I like,
I like to know what's going on in your life.
Some people like to know what what we're doing with us.
That's when Twitter started out. It was like head in
a happy hour with the boys who wants to come?
Like it was. Twitter used to be this smaller community.
Everyone was nice. He'd be like, hey, good night, guys,
talk to you all tomorrow. Like it was so cool.
At first. I wasn't throwing shade at BUCkies. I was
not trying to pump boyes. I just said, hey, I
tried something different. It was good. So if you if
BUCkies is super busy, which sometimes a lot of times, frankly,
is I liked you made an innocuous tweet about a
stop you made, a pit stop you made on a
road trip eighty four eighty four replies Yes, So I
muted about seventy five percent of those people because, uh,
it was just god. I was, so, why do I
do this to myself? You're right, Instagram is not nearly
as brutal now I can be brutal too, but not
nearly as brutal. I just said I went to Woodies,
and I'm getting the wrath of people saying, well, go
glad you went to there. It's compared to Bunkies. Or
when I went to Woodies there were flies in my
in my beef draf like what you did? It all wrong?
What folks? If you do use the social media, and
I know people are, I'm losing followers left and right.
It's because not because people don't like me. I mean,
people aren't fine, but there's a lot of people are
deactivat in their accounts. They're just like, you know, I
had enough, and you know what, sometimes there is toxins
in your life. You'd get rid of those seconds everybody's
being nice. I don't see anybody being I was gonna
go like all these people and mean that to you,
but I don't see it. Well, I muted them, so
I don't even know what. I can't see him anymore.
Speaker 15: There's one guy talking about how the independent truck stops
are no more because of BUCkies.
Speaker 2: I think that's the Matt's going away from BUCkies. He
should be on Thatt's side. Yeah, I just thought it was.
I don't know. I just was like, you know, one
is a Republican place and one is a democratic I
don't I didn't know. I don't know. Everybody's being nice, Matt,
Are you sure? And I see? Yeah, the turkey jerky
is worth to stop. What is this fantastic?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 2: You need to apologize for getting all wrong up about this.
Mute the conversation, muted. I'm sorry, you make me, make
me prove my point here one you have one They
called you liberal. Yeah, but if that guy's wrong, yeah,
I just muted that guy. I love, you know what
I love. I love going into other people's like Chandler Rome. Oh,
I mute farm out of those bad boys. When I
read all these idiots and Chandler Rome's mentions, I mute
farm them. It is so awesome. It's like a collection.
It's like a trowel for it's like a shrimp boat.
Instead of picking up shrimp, they're picking up dumb asses
on Twitter. It's awesome and you can go. You can
mute like fifteen people and one one reply bat To
replies it's amazing. I am mister Texas and mister Texas, no,
you're not wants to support small business in Texas. You're
not even a fan of brisket stop. I'm gonna give
me a brisket stuff potato next time I go to
what he is, I already had dinners. I couldn't do it.
Matter of fact, I had dinner at a great restaurant
in Centerville owned by some friends of mine, because you
know what I like to travel throughout the state. You
fine cuisine, You hate enchiladas. We should vote you out
of the state. You're kicking me out because I don't
like an I that feels rather rude and doctor Pepper,
you're gone. You're out. I like root beer. It's it's
easy on the stomach. You're more likely to be voted
out of the state than be voted mister Texas. Let
me take something I spent quality money in time in Centerville, Texas.
That I should be like the de facto mayor of
that town. All right, I'm done, Ross, What are you
apologizing for? You should be the mayor there because you
bought some some skittles and a barbecue sandwich. You should
you should be mayor of the town. Now it was
a corn meal dusted shrimp. There you go. Thank you
very much. That's ridiculously sorry. You know what, I don't
want to apologize to Joey lit Braffito Stance. You know,
I've been coming after you on this show, and I've
been talking about how ridiculous you were when you were
all crying and falling to your knees because Joey Obrafita
was traded and calling for Dana Brown's head. Now, you
were wrong, but you know what, I shouldn't have to
rub it in your face so much. That's rude. I
welcome Joey Oprafido with open arms. I hope he hits
thirty bombs for the Astros, and I don't think it's
gonna happen, but I'm wishing him the best. And I'm
sorry for coming after you, Joey low Perfito Stance. So
sorry a week except your apology. Thank you, Jonathan. What
do you got this week?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Saying sorry to my girl?
Speaker 15: Yesterday I went to Target and well, you know, I
gotta I got our Valentine's little basket. That's what the
you know, gen z does we get a basket like
whatever holiday it is?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know, when shocked, I was doing good.
Speaker 15: I got some pieces to customer Q tops, you know,
and just went through the self checkout, scam my little
items and went out and I'll showed a term. I'm like,
oh here, like she's loving it. She's loving it. Then
she sees one of the shirts I got. She's like,
you didn't get the tag off, like the you know
what they had the like the people have to undo
or you can't, so they think you're stealing the little
plastic piece.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah one.
Speaker 15: I don't know how I got to shut out with him,
but so I got.
Speaker 2: She was like she thought you were a shoplift. She
was like, did you steal this? It's like no.
Speaker 15: I was like, I just bought this that on the
wedding talking and then I was like here it gives me.
I'll get it off And before she can even say anything,
I go hurt and it rips the back of the shirt.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 15: I went sorry, but at least she's still wearing it.
Speaker 5: I hate.
Speaker 2: I felt bad, Jonathan. I got your back on something.
Your girl thought you she was you an apology.
Speaker 15: She know she does, but I just I don't know
you how that happened, Like why can't like there was
no warning when I was standing up the self check
out nothing.
Speaker 2: Hm hmm, Well so it's a lesson learned. Jonathan's gonna
wear that she gonna wear. I'm gonna make sure she
to wear it with a hole in it. Our hare
can cover the back of it. The no, no, no, no,
take that thing back.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: No wonder she hates you today. That's ridiculous. All right? Uh,
those are ours if you apologize or something, and Lord
knows you need to apologize. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
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got uh text for my buddy Wade. You know eight
says enchiladas are highly overrated tortillas with ground b for chicken.
It's a soft tackle with a creamy topping pass. He
stands with mister Texas, thank you very much. Wait for that. Okay,
Wade and Matt, and then Scott sends me an email
tell his Ross apology is not accepted. Joey is dropping
thirty bombs this year. Book It let me not except yeah,
let's book that bet, let's go twenty nine and a
half bombs. Let's go. God, don't you know what? They
love him? They being Houston. I know you try to
trigger me with this mister Texas bit and it works
every time. That's what makes me really sad. I can't
control myself because you were the absolute worst candidate from
mister Texas. I've been to Amarillo, what Beaumont, Victoria, Corpus,
christ Kay Centerville, Huntsville, Lufkin, Knackadoties, I wind and dine
with kings and queens, and I'm hung out and had
some polking beans. That's why they call me mister Texas.
Nobody calls you that. I just got a new Instagram said,
yes you are mister Texas. Thank you very much. I
don't believe that. I'll show it to you right now.
A matter of fact, I'll go to my comments right now.
Let me take a look here. Uh, Slim Johnson says
you are mister Texas. Thank you Slim.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: He's trolling you because if I put it up for
a pole question, I will lose. I know how you
devian people are. I put up a poll question. I said,
who's the worst candidate? You are Santa Anna? And then
people voted you. I forgot about that. It was like
Matt Thomas, the Doctor Pepper hater. I'm a sensitive soul.
You don't. You don't own a hat, never stayed in
any state park or national park.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: But don't like doctor Pepper, Enchilada's, Tamali's or brisket. But
I've been on fifty nine thirty five, You've been on,
You've driven on the highways. So now you own the state. Yeah?
I travel the state. I meet the people. I'm like,
I'm like a like a politician. I'm moving all over
the place, easy on seven on the easy. What are
you sorry for?
Speaker 16: I can I drop two? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 16: First, I'm sorry, is I walked. I was walking into
the robber Tree yesterday and I long couple walking out
holding hands and the girl was walking out with eight
dollars fifty balloons. I'm sorry, ma'am that Rockefeller spurs on.
Speaker 5: You that day.
Speaker 16: Maybe that's a baller on a budget.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. So are you? Are you sorry for
the guy taking his girl to Rollerie? Is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 16: That she that her president was eight balloons and they
walked out holding hands.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you, easy. Valentine's Day is
too expensive. It should be a card, maybe some candy,
a dinner out, but let's not get to the jewelry card.
I'm sorry. I just wouldn't do it. It's a made
up holiday.
Speaker 16: The second I'm sorry is gonna be to the USA
and Swedish curling team. The last thing I was watching
was the Stone and the Score, because wow, beauty, and
I love the job the pants are doing. I'm sorry
I didn't watch it for this score.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, your warm blooded is what you're trying to say.
Thank you, You should thank you. Easy. Look, we watched
stuff for what's what they're look what they look like.
We don't necessarily have to see the competition. Do you
really care who wins in beach volleyball ross when we
watch it summertime?
Speaker 3: Hm?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: While I'm usually rooting for Brazil, I was gonna say,
we like Brazil to get a nice long run going,
but if they don't, we see a couple of matches.
We're good, Spain, very strong, Sweden's always strong and everything. Yeah, oh,
we want the Swedes do as well as we do.
All right, last call for I'm sorry, he's it's seven
one three two one two five seventy. I'm sorry to
the people in the rooms next to us. I'm gonna
wake the strippers up in about five minutes. I'm always
worry about getting really loud in a hotel. Excuse me,
you're by yourself. Yeah, but the people next to me
could be, you know, getting ready for their job or
on a zoom call or something like that. That's the
last thing they need to do is screaming good morning
strippers in a in a high end, west end, downtown
Dallas hotel. Right, yeah, but you're gonna do it. You
don't seem to care. That feels like that's actually accurate. Yeah,
all right? Anything else?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Any else? Do you want to cleanse your palate for ross?
Because I feel like there's a you haven't done enough. No,
I don't think I'm good. You made to tell me
you had nothing to apology. I'm sorry that people truthers
about half an hour ago when they when you, when
they resigned or got traded away. I want to apologize
to our audience that they have to endure you calling
yourself mister Texas despite you besmirching everything that's great about
our state. I love the state, I love the people
for the most part, and I love the food. I
do love fajitas. I do love just ribs and smoke,
sausage and beef jerky and beef jerky. I do love colachies. Well,
but maybe they don't have a Clatchis anywhere. They don't
know what that colachis are. Oh, good point from Ashley.
I forgot you don't like guacam that's I don't like avocado.
Doesn't mean it doesn't make me not a part of Texas. Okay.
I don't feel like I'm getting any points with you
on this. You're you're doing great. Maybe you should get
some mister Texas T shirts built. Man, Oh god, I
don't mean to aggravate you. I don't want to. I'm
gonna take I'm wanna take a walk, take a more
call like the strippers up. Dave, What are you apologizing for?
Speaker 4: Dave?
Speaker 5: Hell? Ahead, this isn't Dave.
Speaker 2: What's your name? Dave's not here?
Speaker 17: Man?
Speaker 12: Oh, my name's Kathy.
Speaker 2: Hi, Dave.
Speaker 11: Well, I'm good, I'm calling to do it.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: That's probably twenty years in the making. Well, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 11: So I think it is two thousand and five when
the Astros were in the NLCS against the Cardinals and
Brad Lidge.
Speaker 2: Was unhittable, yes, and.
Speaker 11: Watching the game at home, we get into the ninth inning,
I think we were up by a run or two,
and I call my brother on the phone to let
him know that we're going to the World Series, and
he said, what the hell are you doing? And I
looked at the screen to see Albert Pouholz hit.
Speaker 2: A home run that has not yet landed.
Speaker 11: And my brother blames me for the last twenty years
for rooting Brad Lidge's career. So I don't know if
Brad listens, but I'm sorry, Brad, I ruined your Astros career.
Speaker 2: Apparently, Yeah, he came back and won a World Series
of the Phillies. Though he's good with the film sounded
you don't take a loss by yourself.
Speaker 5: He got it back, just not with the Astros.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Casey. I'm sorry, case It's okay. Do
you feel like Casey's been carrying that with him for
twenty years? Yeah, I'm glad you go let that off
his chest. That's what this segment's all about Yeah, that's
when we're here every Friday eleven thirty for you to
say I'm sorry. Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
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Ross this his Sports Talk Sevendy. Let me see, let
me look full throat Thomas, that's what they call him.
I think I got myself at nineteen seconds. Rosse went
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It is about Thomas Show with Ross. Hour three of
four is underway. It isn't anything goes Friday but Ross.
We've got a major news headline. Oh fire five? Is
it five? Breaking news? Sounders, It's not breaking, but well.
In the history of the show, Uh, Deshaun being traded
was a fiver? Yes, Uh the second trade. I submitted
that Verlander, the second trade back from the Mets was
a four. But we did five. Okay, we would have
done a five when DeAndre hopkinscott trade. But we need
we needed a breaking news Satdery Tack we did that, well,
you used to do one, but then we started doing
it as a joke for stuff that wasn't breaking news.
So then we had to do a recalibration of the system. Yeah. Yeah,
that's craz frankly ridiculous system then we used now, but
it's it's ours. It's like it's like our ideas. Yeah,
and that people use it too. Yeah, they go, how
many was that? I'm like, that's an ode to us.
You're welcome. That's I like when people tweet. That's two.
That's exactly right. All right. Time now for the News at.
Speaker 4: Noon, yesmouth heel the News at noon, headlined by the
Massive News this morning.
Speaker 2: The Toronto Blue Jays trading for Hayesus Sanchez. The Houston
Astros have the Prodigal Sun returning. Joey lope of twenty
six years old. It'll be twenty seven on May eleventh.
Split last season between Toronto and Triple A Buffalo, he
hit three thirty three and forty one games the Blue Jays.
He's back, baby, Joey Loperfudofdo is a Houston Astro. You
know what I didn't do today? What was your favorite?
HEYESU Sanchez an astro moment. I gotta send on that
right now. When he struck out with the bases loaded.
Speaker 5: That's rude.
Speaker 2: Probably eight seventy nine oh ps for Joey Loperfido last
year in a very very small sample size of forty
one games. And I was reading a Toronto Blue Jays
writer saying, there's probably wasn't pathway to playing time with
Joey li Berfdo this year for the Blue Jays, so
he wasn't even gonna play for them, But hey he's
here now. Strikeout percentage was down last year, only twenty
six percent. Well, how many sand what's your sample size?
We said, what? Ninety six at bats total last year,
one hundred and four played appearances. Okay, so he'd do
eight walks or maybe sacrifice? Do you never know? Walk? Great? Okay,
it's got some power. He had four home runs. Is
one hundred and sixty two pace in his career would
be eleven home runs. They do like one hundred and
sixty two game average, Like what if you make your
whole career like average to one hundred and sixty two
games for Joey Librafido, that would be a six eighty
nine ozh ps with eleven home runs. So needless to say,
maybe the Astros are looking to make some more moves,
and I think Dana Brown allttle to do that. This
is a this is a salary saver, because it was
going to be six point eight million dollars for Haesu
Sanchez this year. It's a league minimum for low Berfito.
Dana Brown said, basically, weird not done. Well, I should
have done this before, Matt. Do you know which one
of these cuts? He says, We're not done? Oh, here
he goes. I think. I think here is Dana Brown
talking about more moves to come, and we're not done yet.
Speaker 6: By this is just one of those moves that we're
locking into as we continue to focus on left hand
bats in the future disorganization.
Speaker 2: So we're not done yet, says Dana Brown. I like
the fact that these moves are coming into play, because look, Ross,
we've spent the entire week, as the pitchers and catchers reported,
we're still worried as hell about the outfield are right now,
I don't feel significantly more confident than I did, say
two days ago, fact that, in fact, Hayesu Sanchez has
a more distinguished Major League career than Joey Liperfito does
say what you will about what you don't like about Hays. Yeah,
and it's not even close. Yeah. Oh we never I
never finalized. Does Joey lo berfdo get AB's and sugar Land?
Oh yeah, what do you want to do on it?
You want to make your decision. I think they're gonna
trade for I think they're gonna trade for an outfielder. Okay,
and have this Zenzo low braffdo could stay up the
whole season, but he's not gonna get a lot of work.
He he does have options. I will say yes, at
some point he gets an A B and with the
Space Cowboys. And again the rule is it is because
of performance, not because of a rehabitt assignment or something
like that. Yeah, he could even start the season there
if they trade for somebody. Okay, so we're betting Chips
and Case on this, but that means I gotta have
a whole dinner though or case after work from where No,
I know where we can go. There's a place really
really really close close to the bandals. Oh, just to
give Chips and Case. Yeah yeah yeah ROAs three rows.
Yeah they got they got a happy Hour too, the
puffet casos. It's not bad too. I'll even buy you
a drink. No, no, I'm good. I don't need a drink,
all right, but I'm gonna have water then with lemon.
Let's continue on. We have a little bit of NBA
breaking news. By the way, did you see this? I
did not see. Go ahead, hit it. I'm gonna give
it another one, another one. Yeah, Chris Paul has been
released by the Toronto rapt Oh but that's not the
that's not the breaking news part. He's done done. He
has said he is not coming back. He is not
going to be a host any Houston Rocket or any
team for that matter. He has done though. Oh so
we don't have to take any more calls about him
becoming a Houston Rocket, do we. That is correct? Okay,
thank god. Look, I love all of you who even
care about the Rockets enough to say they should get
Chris Paul. But it's he's he's washed. Okay, So with
that being said, he's believing it today? Uh you could?
I mean, it's up to you. What's for their candidate
Joey lit Brafido, Eh, I don't know, but here's so,
where are we putting. I'm gonna give you a quick
less of four or five amazing point guards better or worse.
You're ready, okay, Chris Paul? Oh? God, magic Johnson? Okay magic,
Chris Paul to John Stockton? Who's Stockton?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: Chris Paul to who's a great great point guard? Do
you want me to throw something at you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Throw something, Jason Kidd. Chris Paul's better score, better shooter.
But who's a better player? Chris Paul, Steve Nash, Steve
Nash ooh, no, I go see I go point God? Hey,
fifty ninety okay, so what Steve Nash wins? I believe
Chris Paul had a fifty forty ninety season?
Speaker 4: Did he?
Speaker 12: That?
Speaker 2: Did Steve Nash have multiple? Not fifty?
Speaker 5: Pol?
Speaker 2: Yes, there's only I think, who the is it? He
and Kevin Durant the only people to do it ever
multiple times. Yeah, I'm turning other people that we watched.
Gary Payn's more defensive than offensive. Oh Chris Paul never
got there, but he was close to fifty four? I okay,
anybody else that come to mind? The guy's been around
a long time. Russell Westbrook, Oh that's a tough one
Russell because of the rebounding, rebounding, I mean, triple double
guy for Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 3: God, Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: What about Bob Coosey, I'm just kidding. How about how
about the Oscar Robinson? K C. Jones? Uh, you have
to go on Robertson? Sure? Why not? I don't know.
I mean, there's no it's impossible to compare. I'm gonna
go with I'm gonna go with CP three over Isaiah Thomas.
It's close, okay, Uh Steph Curry. Of course we're putting
above Chris. Yeah, just for shooting, but yeah, playmaking. But
he's he's in the conversation. Top five point guard of
all time, Hall of Famer, first ballot, all Right, four
time first Team All NBA. This will a lot of
this is gonna be unelieve it or not. Twelve time
All Star, four time All Team NBA, seven time All
NBA Defense first team and two times second team, nine
times All Defense. That's why I got him over nash
and the King of the Midbrain. Sorry never never. Nashville
defended like a saloon door. A saloon door, that's a
good pull for you. Salon door. You don't hear that
very much on a major market radio show. That's what
That's the material I'm here to bring. All right, We're
gonna come back to any references. I feel like we're
doing a Team fifty three sports radio show. Open saloon door. Hey,
let's hear from uh Dana, let's hear from Joe and
let's hear from Jeremy Paine about the new acquisition, well
sort of new me. Welcome back to Joey little Berfito.
It is a Matt Thomas show, would ross and anything
goes Friday at seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine eighteen. You know the Matt Thomas Show would loss
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
Frosty just got word and my daughter got her prom
dress today. Are you gonna cry? I'm gonna cry. And
he's not my daughter, so fuz our baby growing up?
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: I remember when you so little. I was a hot
mess at her. Oh man, I have not gosh. That
cut me to my stomach. And he's not even my daughter,
are you okay?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 2: The thing is I didn't when she played her last
volleyball game for King Wood I was okay when it
was senior night, was this building up? This is all
building No, you're Last Wednesday when she signed her letter
of intent to play at Rhode Island, I okay, every
single thing, every single kid that signed it was crying
because I was like, this is because it's so much
hard work for these young people to compete athletically and
to get an opportunity to extend their careers, whether it
be at Division one, two, three or junior college. I mean,
it does take time and effort in support not only
for the individual athlete, but they're families. So yeah, that's
one of the things. You know, people talk we have
careers in sports, Matt. We love sports, and there's a
number reason we love sports. But one of the things
I tell people that I love the beauty I see
in sports is that when you are watching somebody, when
you're watching them make a step back three or like
you're talking about make volleyball plays, you're not only watching
that individual play. You're watching the hours and hours and
hours and thousands of hours and time and dedication of
practicing and working on the craft to where they get
to that moment and they can execute those things. That's
What I love about sports is it's not only like
you know, you get to watch these ice skating you're like, wow,
that was pretty cool. This dude was in the gym
by himself, on the ice ring, by himself for hours,
doing all these things, honing their craft so they can
get to these moments. That's what you're watching when you
watch sports too. And the reality is this too. You know,
we always talk about these fringe players and how we're
kind of teasing about sugar Land and whatnot to just
to get to sugar Land. Yeah, it's a triple A.
You're insane baseball. So good at baseball, Yeah, since you
were five or six. But it also does tell you
again there is such a difference in getting all the
way there and getting almost all the way there. There
are hundreds of thousands of athletes that just could not
reach the very pinnacle. I know, so you we I
think we sometimes we lose sight of that, whether sure
a fringe NBA player that's in a G league or
a minor league player, or for that matter, of high
profile college athlete that just the four years are done
and they're not gonna go play in the NFL. Oh,
he's trash. Or he sucks or he's terrible. No, he's
not trash. You got people making fun of Joey low
Perffedo's with rate. I mean it's terrible. Yeah, what kind
of d bag would do that? That's what I want
to know. But just to let you know, I will
not be retiring anytime soon, because Thomas came and told
me how much the dress costs, and I'm like, oh
my god, what I actually don't even want to ask,
what the what's the going rate for address these days?
Custom made? And now they're in the room with me
right now, they're high body of each other. This is
not awful. They're like, we got dad custom made in Italy.
It's being ship they bought it here in Dallas and
it's being shipped back to Houston. You know that's gonna
be an extra.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: What did I do? Ross? They bring me a lot
to joy So I think I just wanted I think
I just got my rental rented tucks from either Men's
Warehouse or Boal's normal Bear. Yeah, by the way, you're
definitely invited to her engagement party and engagement her high
school graduation party. Wanting to bring a check. You just
want me to get we can bring a Yes, I haven't.
That's exactly right. That's unfair to your other sons because
I didn't go to those. Well, you can compensate. They'll
be there too, So give them money too. I'll pay
her a hundred bucks to say, unfollow sports MT she
would do it. Shouldn't call me mister text. She called
me daddy Texas. That's I mean, yeah, you're her father.
That's right. Still feel uncomfortable hearing that, But that's fine.
All right, So let's get to the audio. Uh, the
big day. We're segueing. But way, we have a d
of the Year candidate coming up at twelve thirty, Joey opf. No,
of course not, he's our hero. Continue on, go to
the audio. Sure, why not? Here's joe a spot a.
Joey Lopaffedo is bag maybe.
Speaker 7: Obviously, when Joey came up in twenty four, we, you know,
super excited about what this kid kid can do on
the baseball field and what it's likes to me more
is that he's trending in the direction offensively. He makes
some changes last year where strikeout rate went down ten percent,
hitting's balls hard, He's staying in the zone. And it's
a pretty dynamic defender too, can play some centate feel
immediately think about that play that he made in Minnesota
against the Wall.
Speaker 2: It was a huge play at the time.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: So he brings a lot of good things to the table.
So we be excited to have him back. Yeah, Lopes
is back, baby. Now who's he back for? We hope
it's the Astros is potentially a you know what if
he wants a challenge for a starting spot, I'm okay
with that. But let's again, let's make sure Brady knows this.
The Astros are saving millions and millions of dollars on
this situation here. Yes, that's it's it's a precursor to
another move. This is what it's probably gonna be. But
Joey loperfdo is back and David Brown's ready for him too. Yeah,
hired him.
Speaker 6: He's uh you know, it was very tough when he
left your last time, well when we traded him, and
so very emotional for him. As I said, you know,
we know all about the makeup and how special his
makeup is. But to get a guy like this that's
trending in the rank direction with five years control made
it more appilling.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine if Joey le Perfido, if he if
Dana calls him and says you're coming back, and he's like,
I kind of like it here in Toronto. I mean,
we went to the World Series, played Game seven. I
guess I'll show up. Everybody usually with trades is excited.
When do you We're hear about a player going oh, no,
I'm good. I'll say I'm going to pass. Yes, yeah,
got a big fishing trip coming up. Well, the reality
is this he probably has, as you brought up on
a tweet somebody brought up earlier, he's got a better
chance of playing. Kids want to play ross. They just do.
I have met so many athletes in my life covering,
especially cover the NBA. The guys will go from a
six win team and not play. They would rather go
play for a sixty loss team and play. Not every time,
but a lot of times. As long as the money
is the same. They want to play. Championships are important.
But that's been the one thing if you really want
to peel the curtain back of how I've learned through
the years about this, this sports industry, winning is I
don't want to say largely over Raty Bross, but it's overrated.
Guys shake off losses significantly easier than we as sports
fans do. They just do. And I remember players. I
think I remember, was it Bruce Remember Bruce Brown? He's
with the Denver Nuggets now? He said, like a backup
guard for them? Yes, And and Bruce that you remember
when Denver won a championship and then he got Then
he he got traded in Indiana. I think after getting
a new deal. I don't know what it was, but
he got traded once or twice. And I talked to
imay Doak. I said, do you think Bruce Brown's upset?
He goes, no, he got his bag. Yeah, when you
get the bag and you're offered an opportunity to go
play some more. Winning is not saying secondary, but it
doesn't carry the same cachet as it would be if
oh my, like Bennett Matheren is now a member of
the Los Angeles Clippers. He was a guard for the
Indiana Pacers during their championship run last year. He's playing
for the Clippers. They're not gonna win a championship this year.
They're probably never gonna win a championship. Again. Meanwhile, the Pacers,
once Tyreese Haliburton comes back and is healthy next year,
they got a significant chance of running through the East
pretty easily. Ben's like, Yeah, I got my money, I'll
go play for them. I wanna play. I'm gonna play
twenty five minutes a game. So that's and I hate
to say that to our audience because there are so
many people that live and die with every at bad
or every shot that's made or every pass is thrown.
The athletes don't run that direction. They just don't. Yeah,
open your eyes. I would do the If you're gonna
only have ten years of a prime and even less
than that for many people, go make as much as
you can, Go make as much you can. That's what
they're doing, all right. Twelve twenty eight on Sports Talk
seven ninety is and Anything Goes Friday Here on the
show seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
If you want to chime in seven one three two
one two five seven ninety, we have a d of
the Year candidate Ross. Anything Goes Friday here on the
program again. Joey Little Berfido in for Haesu Sanchez Ross
and I do you want to make like a super
early gut feeling. I think I alluded to when we're
on with Gordy a couple hours back. Does Hasu Sanchez
even put an astro uniform on by the time the
full squad workouts begin on Monday? You mean Esak paradis
what I say, Haesus Sanchez? Oh, I'm sorry. Isak Paradius
not Haston Haychez? I will say, no, Okay, all right,
uh ROSSI, So let's get something else real quick. This
is a d of the Year Canada. Unless you don't
think he is. Do you know who Joe Judge Ish? No,
he's the coach at Old Miss. Okay. He completed testimony
in the Trinidad Chamberleiss Injunction hearing. Hearing this happened a
couple of days ago, talking about how Chamberliss would would
be better served in a year of development for his
future in the NFL. It was able to get another
year of college eligibility at Old Miss. Well, he brought
up that and if he was talking about Chambliss in
particular or other athletes, but he brought up the responsibility
of football players when they are fathers, which is one
thing again, I would I would my advice be to
wait till you get older and get out of school
and get married and you know, regular life. But sometimes
that isn't is the case. But Joe George is basically
George George, Joe Judge. Excuse me, maybe Joe George is
like the same thing. You never know. Joe Judge believes
that you got to leave the players alone during the
football season. And here's another here's an example of such.
Speaker 18: But we would have to educate This is always a
tough conversation to have and it's not even a popular thing.
This is the truth is we would have to educate
significant others who may have been pregnant in the season.
We're going to have a baby during the season, and
you have to educate them on you have this baby
in the season. That father has to play good football, right,
it's a day by day production business.
Speaker 2: He has to be able to perform and go out
there and play. And what I say that is you
need to let him sleep. He needs to be in
another room detached.
Speaker 18: You have to explain to the mother like, hey, listen,
he ain't waking up for the midnight feedings every season.
Speaker 19: He's full metal jacket.
Speaker 2: You do whatever you want with him. He change of
the dicer. But in the season, he's got to have
a different priority. Now, all right, you're the father, so
you take the lead here.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna I'm gonna delicinitely walk this line
a little bit. I would think a good mother would
understand that the father has to go to school, has
football workouts, that his time is. It's it's to the
hour what he's doing. I mean, it's it's a regiment. Okay.
But even with that being said, good fathers just can't
turn off being a good father only when they want
to be good fathers. You gotta be a good father
three sixty five. You can't be a good father for
six months and an absentee for the other six The
life doesn't work that way. So if you have a
good wife, which you do, is you have open lines
of communication. You say, hey, I got a game coming
up on Saturday. Can you take care of a couple
of days from a Thursday and Friday with the feedings,
and maybe I'll help out on Mondays or Tuesdays. I
did that a lot with my kids with my wife.
You know, hey, you know this is a day where
this is tough for me to get up and help.
We and you have a reasonable adult conversation. If you
can't have a reasonable adult conversation about this, then you
probably shouldn't have had sex. And if you had to
have sex, you obviously need to figure out a way
to make sure that you do not procreate. But for
a coach to come in and say that and say, hey, listen, mother,
you leave the father who was just as responsible as
you were for bringing this creature, this child into life,
he needs his rest is at asolutely ridiculous. And maybe
Joe Judge was thinking that, but the way he says
it in a courtroom where it's recorded makes him come
across as a total b I. You know what, I'm
curious Jonathan's perspective on this. As a former college athlete.
Speaker 15: Uh, I've had multiple teammates that had children, even in
doing track and football. I have never heard this in
my entire Okay, see Pocket, you're trying to, like Matt said,
you're trying to get your responsible of a father away
because you want to play more. For it's real life, bro,
you had a kid, Like, let's go.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Yeah, you don't do it. Yeah, you don't
get to be a regular student athlete when you became
a father. That's that's the chance you took by you
and maybe you did it intentionally, or maybe you didn't
do it intentionally. I again, everybody's different, but you just
can't turn There's no on and off button for being
a parent. Now, is there reasonable expectations? Yeah, if you
have a decent relationship with a woman that you create
this child with, then you would have some parameters. And
I'm not against that. If there's a big game on
Saturday and Friday night, he needs straight sleep. I get that.
I'm not We're not naive to this, but to just say,
you know what, he can't be handing these feedings. He's
a college athlete. Well that that was the case, then
he needed to zip his pants up, not worry about being,
you know, a college athlete. It's just nuts. Honestly, excuse me,
it's nuts said hog nuts? Is it hognuts? It's more
than hog nuts? Coconuts?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: Ross? And you want to anything, you just want to
stay out.
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 2: It seems crazy. I was just saying my first blush
as a nonfather and a non college athlete. It seemed
in it's and I think both of y'all have backed
that up. So yeah, I just I you know, look,
that's the thing was when I was working, when I
was you, I was working a lot of postgame shows,
going to bed twelve thirty one o'clock. Kim would say, Okay,
you got here, what's your schedule, Like, let's figure this out.
And that's what it takes. Now if you have you know, again,
who knows if people have irresponsible relationships or not, or
if there's somebody's not diligent enough to or practical to
realize that somebody's got something going on. Okay, then maybe
you needed somebody else step in and say help out.
But no, come on, you cannot. Yeah, you had all
the fun and you get to hold the baby when
it's during the daytime hours. But if mom needs a break, sorry,
you're playing football.
Speaker 15: So I had, you know, I had, and I'm not
gonna say any names, but I did have a teammate
where she had a child with the football player and
he is so happy to go and you know, go
pro and had to move right. But even during college,
and she was a track runner as well, we would
have Saturday morning practices ten eight ten miles away or
what case may be, baby, you would be in the
stroller doing the work out with us. You get what
I'm saying, Like that, you don't drop your responsibility just
because you got some football play. You know, like that's
your child. You've got to make sure it's a better life.
And it's this, it's weird, it's I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was extremely tone deaf at the bare minimum and
beyond stupid even bringing up in a conversation at all.
I'm sorry. Do not go to your college football coaches
for how to raise your family you just because they're
gonna they're like, choke. I mean, could is there any
party he's probably thinking? I never should have said that.
I may have thought it. Those are people that think that.
I mean, I get it. I'm the breadwinner, I'm the athlete.
I'm the one doing all this and all you gotta
do is take care of the kid. Tell you some
having watched my my wife do a lot it for
three it's hard raising children. It just is. And you
gotta be there's much as you can. Can't be there always,
but you try to be as much as you can.
I just who it was. I just heard that quote.
I'm like, what are you thinking? Seven under oath? Under
oath to in a trial in a courtroom with a
judge for the permanent record?
Speaker 3: What it was?
Speaker 2: A female judge like, man, it shuts yobumas mate. Oh man,
he's getting crushed. Yeah, it's not going well. Not going well.
I think the number one thing is don't listen to
this man under anything. That's what I'm seeing. Let's talk
to j W at twelve forty two one seven on
a j W. Good afternoon to you. How are you
guys doing good? What's going on? Okay?
Speaker 20: First of all, I made a comment to Jonathan and
SAMs and Meloc Olbourne needs to get a big bretches
on an act like a man instead of a kid.
Second of all, huh, woies. I went to school with him.
I'm very, very very proud of him. He brought his
self up from his bootstraps. Went to high school with
him in junior high. He's done well for himself. I'm
very proud of what he's accomplished.
Speaker 2: Who is this you're talking about? Jonathan?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, from what's your beef for Jonathan? Now he's talking
about them guys? Oh Chambers? Okay, I was confused, and.
Speaker 20: I can't even pronounce the guy that they got from
the Jays, Louis whatever.
Speaker 12: I got a feeling he's.
Speaker 20: Probably gonna be bait.
Speaker 2: Bait for what.
Speaker 20: To try to get somebody a little bit more for
outfield along with another trade.
Speaker 2: So the Astros traded for Joey Loperfido only to trade
him again, is what you're saying.
Speaker 20: That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I don't think.
Speaker 5: So, j W.
Speaker 2: I don't think you. I would. I would, Sanchez, I
would change your thought on that.
Speaker 20: Well, been an Astro fan a long time. Maybe there's
some way that we can trade Dana Brown and get
aj hanschback.
Speaker 2: You reckon.
Speaker 5: Just being sorry.
Speaker 2: I reckon it's probably not going to happen. Yeah, I reckon,
that's finely gonna happen. It's no one's a general manager.
Speaker 20: One As a manager, you're gonna have to start eating
some guacamole.
Speaker 12: Man, it's good for you.
Speaker 2: Wait now, JW's making some good point, JW. So let
me let me get this straight.
Speaker 5: J W.
Speaker 2: You're a guacamole consumer.
Speaker 20: Oh yes, sir, it's good for He's got all kind
of antioxids and it's good for your body.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you, JW. I appreciate that. I'm I will.
You know, apparently Ross's mom makes a delicious guacamole. I
m try some soon. It's the best in the world world,
so Ross. The The general ton of that is, if
I want to be like j W, all you gotta
do is eat some guacamone. You don't have to be
like him. He's just trying to give you some helpful tips. Matt,
I appreciate it. That's what I'm saying. Maccado is great
for you. Yeah, maybe he'll put a little peak of
the guy. I wanted to spice it up a little
bit if you want. I mean, guacamolea generally does have
tomatoes and onions and basically got pico. It's like Pico's
mixed in there, Cilantro, if you'd like. Do you think
Jew thinks that mister Texas. No, I think he thinks
you're anything but and we're and we're an agreement on that.
I don't think that Joey low Perfido is trade bait,
but I do, But I do think that you are
not mister Texas, and should the Astros trade Dana Brown
for a J. Hinch seven one two two five seven
ninety not good, not wrong, Well I was coming wrong.
You brought up a question. I can bring it up.
Thank you, JW. Have a great day, have a great weekend.
By the way, some slight breaking news the Rolling a
Ral and Humble closed down but the health department shut
them down or what? Oh, I don't know they got
too expensive? What what?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: I promise?
Speaker 15: This is back in college we were all trying to
use up our DM and say little cash.
Speaker 2: You knows it will come back. It was always gonna
go golden raw.
Speaker 15: It's like fourteen dollars to get in for a person now,
like it was never that expensive.
Speaker 2: How much is it? I guess I remember when it
was like nine to ninety nine back in the day.
I honestly haven't been in many moons. That's too expensive.
I'm telling you. I I used to go to Rolling
a Ral for breakfast. It wasn't bad. But the problem
is you went to Rolling Around for dinner and you
because your kids wanted to go to the chocolate fountain.
People sticking their hands in the chocolate funtain. That's gross.
Mm hmm. It's got to dip your strawberry. You gotta
dip in and dip out. I think it's pretty safe
to say we should stay away from most, if not all, buffets. Yeah,
but man, I miss Chinese buffets. I miss miss Vegas,
Oh Vegas. Yeah, but they got expensive too. It's probat
of the reason why let the Vegas loss it souls
charging too much money for the buffets. Let's talk to
Roger at twelve fifty two on seven, Oney, Roger, good
afternoon to.
Speaker 12: You, Good afternoon, Andywhere am I mad? I've been trying.
I forgot the congratulations on your daughter. Man, you must
be brought one.
Speaker 2: I am. Thank you very much for saying. It's nice
you to say that, but.
Speaker 12: Then I'm gonna get you. You know, played at rich
a ladder's flattered along with a slap slap of glack
and some briscuit nachos. No check that chop brisket fon, dude,
how about that?
Speaker 2: You know what, I'll have some brisket nachos. You want
to you want to slice up some chop it up
and put on some tortilla chips. Excellent idea.
Speaker 12: I'm all in yeah yeah, so uh who is that
previous called blasphemous Joey Joey Low Praffito day trying to
associate at Joey Low Peffito Day. Louis Piffos is just
being his cousin. That Come on, man, everybody knows that
in the South Side. So anyway, Uh yeah, I think
he's on the h the boy Danna's on the on
the on the right track. I think automatically, our outfield
is better just like that. I mean it's not much better,
but it's better. Uh. And uh, I think, like he said,
he's not done yet. I think he's gonna get uh,
mister Christian Basque is back, uh back in the folds
because I don't way Yanna did to do a whole
season with him. And what's the other kid that got
hit by farmber. Yeah, they're gonna need some help back
there because I see him. I mean I just don't
see um, I just don't see, uh what's.
Speaker 5: His face.
Speaker 12: The backcatcher. I just don't see him doing any and
he did. Yeah, he's a he got. He backslid so
bad last year it's played. Discipline is just beyond horrible.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 12: I just I'm so sorry for the guy. But he's
just not there, and I'm not sure he's gonna reach it.
Speaker 2: So all right, guys, So obviously Rogers Rogers Gold on
the catching situation for twenty twenty six. No matter who,
no matter who's behind it. I think they need somebody
they're gonna have. Maybe with this extra cash they unloaded,
they can get somebody, somebody. I saw somebody on Twitter
saying Christian Vasquez is still available. That's what he brought him.
It's a second ago. Let me ask you this, would
you rather get a better catcher? Well, I mean, were
we with yan Air Diez generally speaking as an overall player? Uh?
Last year he was just a guy. Does he throw
anybody out? I mean I don't No, No, He's bad,
not great at it, not a great framer. Because the
just always had was that Yaner die was, ultimately is
gonna be playing first base with the Astros. Plus the last
three years has gone from one twenty eight to one
sixteen to ninety two. That's that's trending in the wrong direction.
He hit twenty bombs last year, but he only hit
two fifty six with a seven oh one oh ps.
What I would do is a catcher you don't need
somebody you know, you don't. You don't need a buster
Posey back there. But if he if he's just an
okay defensive catcher, you you would like more from the bat.
Well I got, we get. We gotta do what we're
gonna get down to Florida. We gotta find outbout Walter Gannick.
If he is where he is on the on the pipeline,
is its two? He's two years removed from the draft. Correct, Yeah,
he's so. He's twenty three after full college too. Yes,
and he's not on any top one hundred lists. First
round pick. By the way, first rounders are not only
supposed to be at the big leagues, but there's supposed
to contribute. He uh, do you want his Arizona Fall
League stats? How good are they? By the way, he
was in High A Ball last year? Twenty three at
High A. Go ahead, I'm afraid to ask. Go ahead.
He only played thirteen games. You get two forty one
with the seven to seventy oh ps three homers. He
had some pop. See, I'm not really I don't know
the awareness of what the fall league is bring. I mean,
if that is that guy, I would imagine it's it's
like he's in the ALCS. It's not like a futures
game or something like that. Twenty three at High A.
I mean he's got to start the year probably at
minimum Corpus Christie right going to are the flags are
going to start to be right? I would hope. So
how long is it supposed to take? Because man, all
I kept hearing everybody that was a college baseball fan
within three hours of us was talking about how this
kid is amazing, this is gonna be a steal of
a selection and I and if it is, let's go.
I'm ready to see it. But I can't bring somebody
if he's not ready. But you don't want to be
you know, you can't be it. You can't be twenty
four at High A. You just can't. Uh he is.
He's about six months older than Cam Smith and he's
two levels down. But I'm gonna presume, Well we'll catchers.
Catchers are different and everybody. First of all, everybody's different.
They are, they are, And you're in no hurry at
this point because you're not looking for a starter, but
you're definitely looking for a backup. Twelve fifty eight, it's
Matt Thomas Showood Ross, I got a final hour left
to go here on the program, Ross, we got non
Florida stories coming up in a one half hour. Where
is your non Flora story from? It's from ti It's
from Thailand. It's funny you go to Thailand quite a
bit for your stories. Yeah, well usually it doesn't end
up being from there. I'm sorry, Sri Lanka, all right,
I'm Madagascar. Yeah. And then we have Hellier Nott that
did you figure out what you're going with? We're going,
Chris Paul? What are we doing? Helly? I thought we
say we cancel it? No, that's next week Monday. Tusy
wins Chris Paul. Sure, I mean twenty one years in
the NBA All time great, first one in the Hall
of Famer. He's an Actually he's gonna make the Basketball
Hall of Fame and actually deserve it. In twenty one
disappointment disagreements with his head coach over the Yeah, he's
going to be inducted with alongside Samaki Walker. He is not.
Why did you pull Samaki Walker out of there? I
don't know. They let everybody in the Basketball Hall of
Fame These days, the ones I get bothered by are
like the Russian players that played in the nineteen fifties. Hey,
those guys are ballers. Man average nineteen point four points
in Soviet League. I must be in the Order of
Basketball Hall of Fame as a horrific attempt at Russian
That was great, man, fantastic, No was it was terrible.
I almost wanted to pull it back in before I
even let it out. Seven final hour of this amazing
edition of The Mad Thomas Show. We salute Joey. He's back.
Here on seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 10: Ross go around the outside, O Braffeto out of the nighthole.
Speaker 2: That is, Joey is back. Astros fans are happy, and honestly, Ross,
I think I'm happier about the precursor, which means I
think we get to spring training Monday and we're talking
about a brand new player and or players. That's how
I feel about this. Yeah, this is the It's like
the opener to the headliner. Yeah, and it's the right
decision to make. Hayesius Sanchez was not a long term fixture.
He made do you know? He was making almost seven
million dollars a year and little Berffito's on a rookie
deal so or a second year deal, which is not
You've got many years of arbitration left. And I know
here's the thing. I think people are going to get
caught up in the well that little flash of excellency
had and he's missed. He didn't do anything in Toronto
that made you severely miss him, right. I mean, there
were may have a few plays, but that's what major
leaguer are supposed to do. Make a handful of plays.
But he didn't supplant anybody in the starting lineup. He
didn't make a playoff roster or two, and obviously was
willing to be expendable for a guy that Frankly Ross
we know who hates su Sanchez was a little bit
of power, a little bit of outfield, but largely erratic
in his two plus months as an astro. I mean, remember,
you were not You're not You're not stealing away Joey
little Brafito for You're doing this because you're looking to
save money and you actually have found a trade partner.
Oh now, we already apologize as Joey Lo Praffito truthers,
but I mean, no, I think we need to be
a realistic. Yeah, Okay, we do. Yeah, it's a money
saving move. Maybe Joey lul Pafito will have something he
turns twenty seven in May. He's I mean, what we
know the book on him is there gonna be some power,
There's gonna be a lot of strikeouts. And Joe Spotta
mentioned he's gonna play good defense and out in the outfield.
He's gonna be your fourth or fifth outfielder. Maximum Well,
the reality is we're gonna root for him because any
you want to win every trade and you want to
improve a part of the Astros out the team that
is probably on pay for the worst going in. So uh,
I don't think anybody was like, hey, Heysue Sanchez is
gonna is going to give cam Smith a run for
his money. The reason why cam Smith Haysue Sanchez would
have started the year for the Astros in right field
is because Cam Smith didn't do his job. I do
believe it's m Smith's job to lose. They may be
just trying to create a narrative, but camp Smith's first
round pick. Camp Smith was an amazing player coming out
of spring training. There were some signs in the first
month of the season. This was an awesome acquisition. When
the Kyle Trucker Kyle Tucker trade. He's not vorative talent.
It's just you gotta just got to put it together
and you gotta do it consistently. Because we've talked about
on multiple occasions, the back half of last year was
a tough watch. Yeah, that's putting it nicely. Now leftfield
to me is more intriguing to me. I mean, are
you really ready to go all in for a guy
who gave you one good month? Deck Cole's ready to
do it? You're gerty Gordy talking about his muscles. That
was a little odd, wasn't it. What was odd about it?
He was talking about he had zero body fat, he
was sculpted like a Greek god. Huh. It was odd
when he said he was gonna bring baby oil to
the I mean, Gordon said, there's a few beads of
sweat coming off of my probative. When he walked. We
were talking about that last year. Cam Smith and like
Zach Dezenzo, they looked like they were like tag team wrestlers. Yeah,
that's right. Yeah, today was good And I'm not even
saying if indeed Paritis gets traded that it's going to
be great, but it's going to probably solidify some other spots.
They're clearly not happy Ross with the outfield because they
took a major leaguer and hates sus Sanchez and said,
we're going to move you out because I can go
get somebody that's going to be eighty percent cheaper than
you are, and you probably gave us the same production.
And oh, by the way, now gives us some some
salary flexibility, so I can go get somebody else if
I got to make a trade and bring back more
money that I than I'm bringing out. More moves are coming, baby,
Let's go all right? Seven one, three, two, one two, five,
seven nine. We have non floor stories coming up at
the bottom of the hour. And helly, a're not at
one fifty Ross do this once a year and every
radio sports host does this. You know how the NFL
Players Association has that survey that's the anonymous survey of
how does your team treat you when it comes to nutrition, travels, facilities? Oh,
what do you think about your owner? Oh that's fun
and cal five years ago got annihilated and it got
better largely because of Hannah. But it was tough for
a while being a textan fancying those reports. Well, the
NFL filed an injunction against its players Association saying that
those team report cards were not fair, they violated the
CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future
report cards, and the arbitrator today agreed with the owners. Really,
we will never see those reports ever again. No, they can't.
They can't appeal this. Why can't they do their own
anonymous polling? What they can do it, they just cannot
announce it, which I don't. You know, I don't if
those if those findings go right to the players Association,
and I guess the nfl PA is the one that
distributes them. That doesn't make any sense to me. I
think it makes a lot of sense if you're an owner,
if you get bad grade, you don't want to be embarrassed. Yeah,
I know I make that that, but that's ridiculous. That's
like getting rid of the Betest Better Business Bureau. So
I can't report bad things that are bad practices about
I don't know, restaurants or whatever. That doesn't make any sense.
What I don't ever try to portray to myself as
an arbitrator on the air, But neils to say the
players are upset. In fact, JJ Watt three hours ago
retweeted Adam Schefter talking about this instead the following the
NFL won't let actual players grade the workplace they attend
every day, but they'll always third party grading service to
display their rankings of players on national television every Sunday night,
i e. Pro Football Focus. Huh Yeah, that that I
just don't get that. How how could a judge possibly
suppress that's like that. They'd be like, you can can't
do presidential polls, Well, there must be something in the
second president I was having bad, bad approval ratings and
then they shut down the presidential polls. That would be terrible.
That's that's suppressing freedom of speech. Let me let me
further read again.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: NFL informed all thirty two teams today in a memo
that it prevailed in its grievance versus the NFL Players
Association and its team report cards an arbitrary to determine
that the nflpa's conduct violated the CBA in order to
stop making public any future report cards. Yeah, I mean,
if there's something collectively bargained that there's some rule of
the CBA in theory. I don't disagree with you. There
just must be something in there that says, hey, there's
some information that needs to stay in house. I wonder
what language is in the CBA. Oh you know what,
let's have you read the legal brief on this, Matt
kind of it after the show. No, you gotta do
it right now. Oh, there's a long memo that Adam
Schefter attached to it. Oh my god, you can ask
to summarize it for you now. They report cards for
the Texans last year and the coach A on the
owner and the food be on the travel, B plus
in the weight room, and B minus in the treatment
of family. Wouldn't you want to know if your players
think you have crappy facilities? All they do know they're
not stopping the report cards to be published. Well, I mean,
I guess that's something, But I think you should be
publicly a shamed if you have bad facilities. Well, the
jetlier's gonna be Arizona disagrees with you. Bridgeland is going
to be great. Yeah. Uh, we're gonna have to take
like a like a road trip to Bridgeland. Graduate at
the office drive up there, we eat some mid mid
food and look at the new facilities with all the
flag football fields. I'm good, all right, he's a carpool.
He's gonna need apartment up there. I think he's gonna
move to Wexer family to Britain. You don't need the
Wes Wexler Expressway. He's a direct line to the studios here.
I can just tell you. Listen seeing him yesterday before
we left, he was not happy about this. No, he's
got to go cover practice. Well, thank you. My inside
of work has done on the phones, on text and
tweets and the channels. No what I trust wex all right,
we Wexton tell you about Joe Mixon not playing this
ad all well, you are losing your title forever. If
it comes on nothing about him getting shot in the foot,
I've already lost. It's a botch prescedure. Well we'll see.
And now I will take the coffee and I will
allow you to. I mean, I'm gonna dispute you being
the Texans Insider, but I'm gonna fully and more wholeheartedly
dispute your Texans Insider claims. If you lose this Joe
Mixon bet for sure, for sure, and something comes take
a small amendment to the Joe Mixon bed. Let me
explain it. All you have to say is no.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Nick Casara said, there's nothing salacious to it, nothing irresponsible,
nothing irresponsible. Can I have anything irresponsible and win the bet?
Speaker 3: No? What?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I must take a gunshot wounded the foot. You said
he shot himself in the foot. No, that's when I
heard on the streets. I didn't say. You weren't on
any streets. You don't know that they're not. They're not
talking about that at the Beverly Hilton or whatever you're staying.
I was in Centerville yesterday. A guy come says, hey,
listen show all the time, Sorry to hear about Jonah's foot. No,
you're a liar. It's the gunshot woundows. This is one
of your seventeen Last a Day one fifteen of the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross and this is Sports Talk
seven ninety story about the report cards not being allowed.
The team that apparently spearheaded it was the New York
Jets who got fs mainly the last couple of years.
Whatdy Johnson did not one is dirty launder aired. That's
pretty funny. Okay, real quick, before we get to our
non Flora stories today, and we look forward to having
that for you in the next segment of the show.
So officially, yesterday, the Major League Baseball folks announced the
rules for the ABS, the Automatic Ball Strikes Challenge system.
I'm gonna run through some of them. This is the
report that I got from Jesse Rodgers from ESPN and
just Ross. You come in if you'd like to on
each one of them. If a team, let's make sure
we get this right. I want to put this in
a timing order here. If a team enters extra innings
without a challenge, they'll be given an extra one every inning,
every inning, every inning. The challenges will not accumulate if
not used, so we're not gonna have like nine of
them in the third. That's good, and I'll keep them
in your back pocket for the fifteenth. That's right. Teams
will never have more than one challenge per extra inning
unless they entered extra frames with their original too intact. Okay,
so you get to bring them carry them over if
you didn't use them during the game. So these are
two per game, okay. Umpires will be given discretion on
plays that happen on the bases, even when a pitch
is being challenged. For example, the outcome of a stolen
base attempt is likely to stand no matter the outcome
of the challenge. With a loan exception coming on a
ball four or a strike three call that is overturned
if the umpire deems player behavior and he put that
and they put that in quotes, has been impacted. For example,
if the catcher stops playing because he fears ball four
and the calls overturned, he might send the runner back
to his original base and the stolen base won't count.
That's going to be fun having subjective world on that.
That's gonna be interesting. Hmmm. A pitch may not be
challenged if a position player is pitching. That's good because
if you've got a position player in the game's out
of hand, it is positive that it's possible for both
an ABS challenge and a video replay challenge occur on
the same play. If that happens, the ball strike call
will be adjusted first, followed by a video replay on
the basis say that again, Oh and I got rid
of it. Okay, sorry, we'll forget it. It's okay, we
can move on. Yeah, sorry, we can give you a
Do you want a Men's Free Skate Update. No, but
I want to make sure everybody knows. According to this,
you get two initial challenges per game to review pitch
location via the scoreboard. And from what Joe A Spot
had told us, he's gonna let the hitters do it
and the catchers and the pitchers are gonna be told
not to bother because it feels like the sentiment we
got was that every pitcher thinks that every pitch they
throws a strike, yes, and they're further away. They're sixty
feet in six inches away. The average review this is
according to Google, which again Google Ai, you got the
gymini going yeah, yeah, okay. The average or two review
takes less than fifteen seconds. That's good, great, that's really good.
If the challenge is successful, the team retains their challenge.
If they fail, they lose it. So you can be
sitting there with two for quite a bit of time.
You keep challenging. And that's the thing I keep saying
about the NBA, which I wish they would do, but
they're not going to do that. It's shameful that an
obvious call you have to burn a challenge because an
official is out of position or just goofs the call up,
you know, it's even more shameful. Yeah, they can get
every call right, every a single call they can get right.
They can do it. They're installing the technology everywhere. How
about this, I don't know if you're ever gonna get it, ross,
I would lean towards you never gonna get it, stupid,
but listen to me. But if they can streamline it
where it's an average of five seconds, then you got
a better chance. The the the faster these challenges come
into play, the more fluid there's no app you know,
then I think they will experiment some more. No, they
said no. We had the minor leaguers on. They said
it was basically instantaneous when when they get the full
system going. But you have to convince a large segment
of the population that this is gonna work. And that's
the players. We can't. We can't get unified on that.
I know it was. We interview how many different pictures,
like three or four. They all had different opinions. They
all had different opinions. Arrogated, didn't like it, doesn't like it.
I can't remember. Brandon Walter, I think, was on board
with it. One guy said, either do it all the
way or yeah, none of it, which I agree with
that too. It's kind of half from your half stepping
let's go. But maybe this is hopefully the bridge to
full time abs What was it? What was then the
amount of calls missed last year? Was it ten thousand
or more? Too many? Every night umpire scorecard was a
painful look at what if you could get to from
ten thousand miscalls to zero? Would that be crazy? I
guess you are. You are believing that every single call
to the video would work, that would be one hundred
percent accurate, no matter what how call the player was,
or or guess what, it's going to be better than
what we have, even though let's say there's what's there's
one hundred misscalls. What's our success rating right now? Ninety something? Yeah?
What if you got to ninety nine point nine percent?
I don't know. I'm pretty satisfied now I'll say this.
There is a byproduct of this. Remember when I was
told to you when I first graduated from high school,
I made a mistake. I went directly to college where
I should have gone to umpiring school. Yes, not a mistake,
a regret I should have I should have delivered it,
but I didn't know anything else to do but to
go to college right after high school. I should have
gone to an umpiring school. They have an umpiring school.
Harry Wendelstad was a longtime Major League umpire. His son
still umpire's hunter, And uh, they're closing their school down.
Major League Baseball now is going to now run their
umpiring academies because they're teaching this new crop of umpires,
the ones that are eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old that
want to become umpires. That technology is going to be
a bigger part of it. So as much as you
want to say that baseball still is behind the times
when it comes to this, they're basically saying we need
to do a better job of using the technology that
we have in teaching the future umpires of tomorrow. That
this is now in play. So look, I know it's
not the leaps and bounds you're looking for. Twenty six,
five hundred and sixty seven calls missed during the regular
season out of how many, I don't know, twenty six thousand,
five hundred and sixty seven misscalls and according to ASTRA,
resulting in twelve hundred and twenty five thousand were against
the Astro twelve hundred and three incorrect strikeouts. Twelve hundred
and three incorrect strikeouts. The ab should still be going
and the player is sitting down. I'm gonna take the
wins we can get them. I'll take me some abs
this year and keep the challenge system where we gets
it right. You get you know what, you can literally
go on and on and on.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It's also gonna do ross. I think it's gonna make
the umpires better, I would think, because they don't want
to be amas've gotten better. Yeah, they're good, they're good.
They're gonna be better. This is gonna be a little
bit what we'll wake up call of the guys that
just kind of just get behind the plate and they
don't like lollygag, but they're gonna have to be a
little more laser focused. I think it's embarrassing when you
get a call like that wrong, it's correct depending on
the sources you look at. Let's talk to Lull before
we get to our non Florida stories.
Speaker 17: Hello, Lull, Yeah, I was just happened to be studying
this while you started discussing it, and they were mentioning
that they're measuring the players for their individual strike zones,
and I don't know if they did that in the
minor leagues, but if a smaller player like Altov at
five ft six versus Judge of six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not going to have the same strike zone.
Speaker 17: Yeah, so they're going to have a smaller strike zone
and a picture. You're going to have a lot harder
time hitting an Altov strike zone than he would have
Judge strike zone.
Speaker 5: And knowledge of.
Speaker 17: That would make it maybe smart to put al t
V and lead off if he could learn how to
be a little bit more selective than he is.
Speaker 5: That's my thoughts.
Speaker 17: That's all I was saying.
Speaker 2: All Right, thanks, thanks for the phone call, Alight, would
you say something else?
Speaker 11: Long?
Speaker 2: No, okay, Loules done. Yeah. I mean the the number
one thing I've always worried about Ross's calibration, and I
guess the question would be how long would it take
to calibrad if you were to do every single pitch.
They have to calibrate everything. They do it every batter. Yeah,
so they they'll figure it out. Darren, Judge and jose
Al TV aren't gonna have the same strike zone. We're
gonna love it though, we are gonna love abs in
twenty twenty six, I can I can give you as
a gut feeling, we're gonna love it. There's gonna be controversies.
Are you really think what would be then? In your mind?
It just feels like somebody's gonna run out of challenges
and all like there's gonna be They're gonna be out
of challenges. There's gonna be an egregious bad call, and
they're gonna want more. Now I'll say this. I I
loved when instant replay could determine pass interference in the NFL,
and then they just growed it up even worse, So
maybe I should Yeah, that was something that's very subjective.
This is gonna be much less subjective. That's right, all right.
Non Florida stories are up next. It is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. We will have Helly are not
coming up in twenty minutes from now. Non Florida stories
are up next. Seven one, three, two fists.
Speaker 1: That cur outside the state of Florida and share them
with the people of hust.
Speaker 2: It's time for non Florida. I'll time for non Florida.
Store from coast to coast will bring strange and wilds.
No alligator trails, but something that will.
Speaker 3: Make you smile.
Speaker 1: It's time for Lass.
Speaker 12: From far and wild. In this crazy world, there's.
Speaker 2: Nowhere gentlemin I will first on this week's edition Non
Florida Stories. We're going to go to France. Ross. Okay,
what's going on over there? A hospital there was evacuated
really yeah, after a male patient.
Speaker 19: Arrived with a World War One artillery shell lodged in
his backside.
Speaker 2: Okay. The young man was twenty four years of age.
The poor fellow, according to the report, was in a
state of extreme discomfort, having inserted a large object in
an area. Surgeons conduct an emergency surgery, during which they
discovered the shocking source of his pain, a live eight
inch bombshell from nineteen eighteen that had been inside of him.
Fearing a potential fire in the hospital, medical personnel alerted
the bomb squad and fire brigade and evacuated the facility. Fortunately,
this retro munition, which was also pointed an over an
inch wide, was not deemed a threat. The bomb disposal
experts took the shell after it was removed, while the patient,
a French national, remained at the hospital, so he could
recover from surgery. It is unclear how the antique ordinance
ended up in the man's posterior, but experts suspected the
combustible could have been the result of a party stunt
gone wrong, springing a whole new meaning to the words
trench warfare. Shells such as the one found and this
is the story, not mine their story. Shells found in
the one and the Man's bum were used during the
First World War by the Imperial German Army, which deployed
one hundreds of thousands against the British and French between
nineteen fourteen and nineteen eighteen. The explosives, which are date stamped,
regularly turn up during the quote Iron Harvest, the annual
collection of often unexploding munitions from both World Wars which are
found on farmland, building sites at other disruptive land and
while a person's backside might not be thee a strange
location for one of them to surface. Shockingly, this wasn't
the first at a French hospital wow. In twenty twenty two,
a man eighty eight year old man arrived with a
World War and tillery shell summlarly lodged in that area
and that is my non Florida story. It's a real
no man's land. God, I hope not. I think I'm
out of World War one references Battle of the Somme.
It was a battle. Get better, thank you. If I
had more time to think about material would be more.
Speaker 9: D day.
Speaker 2: That was World War two? Boys?
Speaker 3: Your turn?
Speaker 2: What was the Treaty of the Versailles? I can't remember?
All right, anyway, let's move on. There's a lot of
verside treaties. Who knows?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 2: You want me to go? I'll go now. I've had
some explosive situations in my life. Oh, here we go,
but not that. Go ahead, well, Matt Heroin tale from
the Winter Olympics in Cortina where you were asking about
the Olympic village and how much copulating was happening there.
I know you're you're going to be shaken by this story, Matt.
A condom shortage has hit the Whimper Winter Olympic Village,
as supplies have vanished in Cortina in just three days,
according to the Italian newspaper La Stampa. Condoms, of course,
have been distributed to Olympians since the nineteen eighty eight
Soul Games, which of course happened at the height of
the AIDS pandemic right normally. For example, in Paris in
twenty twenty four, three hundred thousand condoms were distributed in
the twenty sixteen Real Olympics. So do you know you
really get down in Brazil, Matt Four hundred and fifty
thousand condoms were distributed in those Olympics. In Italy, they
did not plan well. Only ten thousand condoms distributed, and
they blew through their supply. I don't know how to
word this, but they in just three days, an anonymous
competitor said, quote, those supplies ran out in three days.
They promised more will come, but who knows when. I'm sorry,
more will arrive. Excuse me, I miss read? What did
you just sorry? No, I misspoke more more, more, but
who knows when. So let's put things in perspective. I
think this is more bit than it is more action.
What do you mean? I bet you guys are going
in there and girls are like taking twenty or thirty
condoms and bringing them home with them. You're not having
that much ten There are not ten thousand sexual experiences.
The win Olympics have been going on for about a
week a week and a half. There's fourteen thousand athletes, Matt,
but they all don't live in one area. They're all
spread out. Fourteen thousand of the highest tuned athletes in
the planet condoms with them before, and they're all very charged. Yeah,
I'm sure everybody's got their preferences right. Well, if they're
for her pleasure for yours, that's really that's a question
between you and her. I know I'm calling that. While
there is probably some activity, I bet you there are
people that are going in there because they think it's
funny and they're grabbing a paper back to the well,
there's somebody getting down because they're out, Matt. They don't
dorey three hundred thousand condoms just for for bleeps and giggles.
I mean, how much does that cost? That's that's a
significant portion of the Olympic budget. I imagine, Matt. What
does an average coundom cost? It depends on what pack
you get? Yeah, Matt, which pack do you guys get?
You're getting the variety pack? What do you mean by
a variety like the one size somewhat fit all. No,
there's different ones you get get smaller. Is that the
most embarrassing thing. Anyways, all right, let's move on, John
What do you got this week? You have to go
to Walgreens and check out. You gotta do the self
checkout then right, okay, if you get the if you
get the extra ones, the ones that are ever x
x XL, then you're like, yeah, I'm gonna show. Yeah,
that's when you go, right, and then some of those
can cause divorces. Remember half you go, you should go
and make a thud on the counter. He said, all right,
that's that's then you're suspended. That's going to cost you
there too. Thought I'm like, oh my god, Johnson, Okay,
you're all right, all right mine' from the Alaska.
Speaker 15: At the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, master student Nick Dwyer
submitted one hundred and sixty images made through collaboration with
AI to an art show The sun Star reported on
January fourteenth. Dwyer said his work explored identity, character, narrative creation,
and creating or crafting false memories of relationships after a
state of AI psychosis. Fellow student Graham Granger nineteen wasn't
a fan. The next day, he was found ripping artwork
off the walls and eating it in a reported protest.
The UAF Police Department said he chewed and spit out
at least fifty seven of the one hundred and sixty
images in dwire exhibit. Granger said he opposed Wire's use
of chatt TBT and the school's AI policy. He goes,
I'm surprisingly fine, Drain just said at the chewing up
the photos. I've eaten paper like this on like theirs before,
so I've learned a methods of like overcourts of my life.
He was then charged for criminal mischief and will appear
in court in March.
Speaker 2: I'm some of an issue about the whole condom, are
you okay?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: But I mean people eating paper is disgusting. It's protests,
mat it's protests. There's another way that's protests except eating
fifty six pieces of artwork. And that, my friends, was
this week's edition of Non Florida Stories. Now next week, guys,
since Ross and I are in the state of Florida.
Next Friday, the lowest of hanging fruit Florida story. Get
some actual good stories, actually good stuff. It'll take us
like a minute and a half to find a good story.
All right, Hell yeah, not all things about Chris Paul
I correct on that. Yes, that's up next, Chris Paul Hell, yeah,
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two five seven natis seven to one three two one
two five seven ninety. Carlo's career was in camp today
officially spoke with the media down in the West Palm
Beach and he confirmed that bad Bunny Rossy offered to
pay the insurance to play in the WBC. The Astros,
Scott Boris, and Major League Baseball all said it was
a bad idea. Mmm, so they're fighting this, well they will.
They fought the law on the law. One Carlos quote.
It hurts because I was envisioning my kids in the
stands watching me play in my hometown and the crowd roaring,
and me hitting homers and the kids celebrating and me
talking to them with we have some of the audio. Well,
I don't know if we have time. It's about a minute.
Probably not, but yeah, I'm sure the A team will
get to that. Yes, I just want to pass that along.
Full breakdown from Adam Clinton. He actually will do the
show in Spanish, so he's into it in Spanish and
wexy gonna do in English. He's bad money fan number
one Adam Clinton. All right, there you go, five minutes
left to go on the show. What should we do?
We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show.
Monday through Thursday, we called it be leaeve it or not,
but on Friday's we call it a hell yeah or not.
And here's how it works. You call seven one three
two one two five seven NINTI seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI. Today's edition of hell here
not is all things about Chris Paul, who officially retiring
after twenty one years in the NBA. I'll read your
statement about Chris David's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this,
I believe it. No, you'll actually say hell much better
if the statement te Ronnie is full of bunking, Matup
will say this not two hellyerre not outs en rowing.
When you either a seven ninety t shirt, a pair
of a four pack of tickets with pit party passes
to Monster Jam this Sunday at NRG Stadium, or a
pair of tickets he's stained on their break the Cycle
twenty fifth Anniversary Tour that is October the seventeenth of
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ticketmaster dot com. Let's talk to Bobby Joe. Bobby Joe,
you're on seven ant you ready to play? Believe it
or not? Or hellyer or not? Excuse me?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: According to rivals dot com, Chris Paul was only a
three star commit to Wake Forest. Hell yeah or not?
Hell yeah? Nah no, it was a McDonald's all American.
Let's talk to Bill on seven Aunty Bill, you're ready
to play? Hell yea or not?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 11: Sir?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 12: Come may the blue box, all the black box this one?
Speaker 2: Did you use black? In high school, Chris did not
make the varsity basketball team as a freshman or as
a sophomore. Hell yeah or not. That's so unbelievable, but
not he bye uh Jimmy on seven ninty Jimmy, Who
was your favor? A part of today's ten to two
radio show.
Speaker 12: Oh Astro straight outbuilt stuff, heating up.
Speaker 5: Always liked that stuff.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and five, Chris Paul was named an
academic All American at Wake Forest with an undeclared and
this undecided major. Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 5: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: Hell statement number two for the way And Chris Paul's brother,
Charles Paul, played college basketball and Hampton University. Hell yeah
or not? Not he did?
Speaker 5: Was he a good player of ross?
Speaker 2: Did you have any idea?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: Because any went to like South Carolina State Technical or something?
All right, Matt and Katie on seven ninety Matt, You're
ready to play?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 12: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: And Gore two thousand Joey all Right. In twenty eleven,
Chris Paul and his family appeared on the game show
Family Feud. Hell Yeah or not?
Speaker 12: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: He statement number two for the wain and According to
Basketball Reference dot Com, Chris Paul's nicknames include CP three,
the Point God, and the Skate Instructor. Hell yeah or not?
Hell yah? Hell Jash, that's exaually.
Speaker 3: Don't think.
Speaker 2: Cody on seven Anti Cody your favorite part of Today's
ten to two radio show? That part. In twenty twelve,
Chris Paul purchased a large mansion in Los Angeles from
rock singer singer April Levine. Hell yeah or not Avril
Levine Hell yeah, right, Hey, there you go. Statement number
two for the Wind. Chris Paul's a practicing Jehovah's witness
and holds an annual event in Winston Sale, North Carolina,
with proceeds going to the church. Hell yeah, We're not nah,
that is right. Congractulations. Rossi packed the sunscreen baby nine
rate on Monday. Get us indoors, Rossi. That's all I'm
asking up Next, it is Clinton and Wexler day Tea.
Talk to you Monday from West Palm and Astro a
scring training coverage here on Sports Talk seven ninety