Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: One an Ex Town. Good morning, and welcome to a
Monday edition to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This
is Sports Talk seven Attie Ross. I took your advice.
I said, you said, Matt decompressed, don't do much. Yes,
I cooked the steak on last night for the family. Wonderful.
That's all I did the entire weekend. I could have
gone to the strips, Sirloins went strips and Rabbi's strip,
went to the went to the butcher butcher. Oh wow, yeah, okay,
uh yeah, so I could have gone on a boat ride.
I could have gone to a variety of March Madness
selection tournament parties. And I'm like, I'm just gonna stay
home because we've got a busy week coming up here.
We got two we got four Rockets games this week,
two huge ones of the Los Angeles Lakers. Massive yep,
must win, must split games. I'll be cranky Thursday if
it don't win at least one. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: It does, just throwing that out there. What else we got?
We got World Baseball Classic Championship on Tuesday. Yes, I
did watch the night. I'm just I gotta be brutally
honest with you. I watched the ninth inning, that's it. Okay,
I'm trying, But I watched the highlights. Yeah, I saw
it was on them. But I had to go back
and watch the Rocket game for Friday because I missed it.
The amount of rhetoric coming from other teams not named
Team USA, although I can tell you the Tark School
obviously was an emotional basket case after he had to
go back to the Detroit Tigers after not being a
part of the TVBC. Yes, it's like they're saying, I'd
rather win this but than win a World Series. Like
check yourself, Matt. No, they can. They can have their opinions, opinions,
but I'm allowed to disagree with it. And that's what
this show is about it. And they're disagreeing and agreeing
with opinions. They're the ones playing the game. Yeah, and
we're gonna just like Team USA with all about hockey
and all that. We forgot about it. Two days after
we're gonna figure out the WBC, two days after we
got a baseball season coming out. Okay, the World Series,
we got big, we got I'll tell you what your
team abs should have abs yesterday. I know, Lordie like
to it. No, it's okay. Everybody loves the human element
lasers like I gotta flight the cat that's open up.
You know what's great about baseball, the human element. I
love me some human element. You know who's not loving
the human element? Tr give me the Kim Republic's not
really feeling so hot about the human elements. One subtle
guy also got buzzing of calling anything. Apparently that was
way off too. I mean, my gosh, it wasn't even closer.
That was bad. That would have been bad calling a
little league game. Yeah, why can't we just stupid just
please allow me put the homeplate on Pire next to
the picture. I mean you saw next to the picture. No,
the pictures further away. That's why the pictures aren't making challenges.
But you could have saw the glove movement go from
the lower to thee. They need to be closer like
the catchers. Okay, and the view is blocked. Yeah, how
about the side whatever something and catch a foul ball
in the dome. You say, do that anyways? And fox
So the finals, Mason Willa throws the strike three again.
The game they take like three minutes to show the replay. Yeah,
like god, LB, well that showstrike three. You have to
show Mark de Rosa. Was he blocking the video like
he did the video of him saying they clinched. It
was almost like I wanted to go back and use
the DVR and hit rewind because like, it's taken you
forever to show this replay because I thought that looked
low and then they showed the replay like, oh it,
there was no chance, no way, there was never a strike.
Congrat's team. USA. We need some normalcy, yeah, USA US
a good crowd of MI. I mean, it's so crazy
to watch a game in Miami and actually have people
in the stadium so that it looks like a fun
place to go. Yeah, it does. It's except that Marlins
play there. Yeah, it's right very close to Miami Airports.
If you noticed that there's a big stadium next to
Miami Airport, that's what they call it, the Loan Depot Park,
And I'd be confused with Home Depot Park. That's confusing.
But it looks very, very beautiful and it got people
in there, and there are probably some people sitting in
seats that haven't been sat at in probably three or
four years. Yeah, they're dust all dusted off there. That's funny.
It's funny. How was your weekend? Okay, weekend was great.
Didn't do much of anything that a whole lot. I mean,
the Rockets didn't play Longhorns, weren't involved in the SEC tournament. Yeah. So,
I've been teasing Ross about Dayton for about a month now,
and I didn't think I was being serious when I
was teasing it. Well, they were. Well when they lose,
you lose your last three games of the season and
finish with a five hundred record in the league play
and then don't win literally a single game in your
conference tournament, you would up up on the bubble. And
they did. And Dayton's lovely and mid in mid March.
That's fine. I don't even care. You know what, go
wolf Pack, so you want him? You just want to
be done when the game starts, you know how you
know you know who I'll be rooting for when the
game starts. Where's the watch party? There's no watch party
for Dayton games, Matt, Are you sure?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: We can't find Texas exits somewhere around town. I mean maybe,
I don't think so. I think you're probably maybe for
the regular tournament. By the way, shout out to Joe Lenardi. Yes,
did you see what he did? No? You got all
sixty eight right?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Good for him? Yeah, people, you know what, People need
to put some respect on his name. Maybe too, he's
getting crushed on the basket college basketball Twitter streets. You
gotta be a real nerd to be on college basketball Twitter.
By the way, let me take you a college basketball nerd.
I don't want to hang out with them. It's too
much transfer portal. Like every year Texas got like seven
new players. I gotta figure it out. Then I can't
even pay attention to every other team. It's ridiculous. Yep.
I can fairly pay attention to my own Cougar team.
I can't pay attention on other teams. Again, that's a
little Let me give you a little one on one.
Anybody that tries to discuss the bracket that's not been
discussing it since November doesn't have any business discussing the bracket.
Just wait. Well, that's what I got to do it.
My bible is Kim Palm. I'll just go to Kim
Palm and fill up my bracket. Yeah, we gotta take
the wet take the chalk picks right. Basically, it's better
off that over the years chalk is smarter. But some
years it'll burn you. We'll see ye. Last year all
fourst got in. This year it'll be three ones and
a two. Last year I got second and third in
a big pool. Nice, real nass?
Speaker 4: What was it?
Speaker 2: What did you do with that? Buddy? I saved it,
put it in my roth ira Nice. That's very responsible,
of course. All right, and then I've donated the rest
of the church, so we call you Saint mita real
thank you. All right, all right, let's go over we're
doing today. We've got a little bit of astros chatter
to get to. We can actually start looking some box
course now, yes, because the pitching numbers are amazing, the
battery numbers are still a little mid. I would say,
get used to that. Good pitching, mid hitting all year longer,
just until like eight May first, all year long last
year fifteenth and team ops this year twelfeenth, twelfth tenth
if they go fifteenth in ops with the way this
pitching staff is gon at least during spring training they're
going to the playoffs. Jordan should play more? Should was it?
Forty eight games last year. Let's get more than I
would expect that elevated number of that I would Yes,
unless something disastrous happens. Of all the things I have
made you do on gut feelings, I really hope I'm
wrong about the one thirty. No, you put your name
on it, and we made a bet. I gotta pay
you off on that coffee. By the way, Yes, how's
that going with the shot foot? What's the latest on that? Uh?
Because you told me you inside sources, make give you
a little confidence. No, you didn't say that I'm gonna
fall my sword on that. Okay, I'm gonna say something's
externally sketchy with it. Okay, that's still scary. I knew
that was coming in. It's scary. I'm talking about jova
Allen right there, All right, That's what I'm talking about.
All Right, We got that to get to. We have
mentioned Rockets Lakers for two consecutive games. What an interesting
weekend for NBA basketball. There was a hell of a
game on Saturday that I know none of you watch,
between Denver and Los Angeles. We will not discuss, but
it was I enjoyed it. Watched a lot of the madness.
Honestly and again painting broad brush on this, I could
see five teams comfortably playing for winning the national championship.
I don't think there's a significant favorite. Cougars are one
of them. I think the Cougars are probably five out
of that five. But you know what, I'm always gonna
have them. They have their back. So they'll be opening
up against the Idaho Vandals in Oklahoma City on Thursday
the nine to ten tip time on Thursday night. Fifth
in the final kin Palm regular season rankings, Duke Arizona, Michigan, Florida,
then Houston fifth. Yea, all, I mean those are the
five to me that would become across as if you
gave me five of the field, I would it's that
stupid to just stick the five. And no, it's probably
gonna be one of those. Yeah, that's how I feel
about that. So we don't have a bracket contest next year?
Won't you start one the sports MT bracket contest. You
know what, if you fill out a perfect bracket, I'll
give you one gazillion dollars. Okay with the deal, yeah,
one gazillion empty bucks. You could we could make a
bracket pool. We can't winner gets like a signed eight
by ten of Matt Thomas. I don't have any eight
by tens available. You're all out. Let's try to think
of that. Down to five by seven. I can give
you two T shirts. A RAMS Volleyball T shirts Rams
Volleyball Rhode Island and a Good Morning Trippers shirt. Okay,
picture of my face on it?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 2: All right, no, I'll pay for that. See, I don't
want you paying for You're not paying for anything as
long when you were going those Good Morning Sugar shirts
you got left five, five or six? You want one?
You don't have? Nan? Would you want to have a
picture of my face on your chane? I think I
have one. I think I use it as a as
a rag to like to wash my car. What'sh your book?
Write it down? What I use a nice shirt? I
mean I use the shirt to wash my car? What's
wrong with that?
Speaker 3: Is that rude?
Speaker 2: Is that mean?
Speaker 5: Is that so wrong?
Speaker 2: All right? Fine T shirt remark? Let me write this down.
What's today? Monday? Start out? We should get the tiptoe.
How many segments are we in? Yeah, let's see what
else going on? We mentioned NBA. We got baseball by
the way Astro's played today. But it's a tape lay game.
We're gonna go full four hours for you guys today
because you've missed it so much. We have to tell
the truth. Eleven thirty I've already don't believe it or
not today, which I cannot take the cable. It's very googlable, okay.
But it's concerning the sixty eight teams in the NCAA tournament. Okay,
So that'll be coming up today at the one fifty.
Let's see what else was I going to tell you? Oh,
we have NBA expansion news. Our friends Juicy and friends
in Seattle, Las Vegas are very excited that they are
going to be the teams that are probably going to
get the franchises. Yes, and every NBA team is scheduled
to make and if it sounds out right, about four
hundred million dollars in expansion fees. Excuse me? Yeah, four
hundred million per team? What yep, seven to ten billion
dollar range for by It to buy into an NBA team.
What m It's doing?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: People that are people that are very very easy to
poop poo on the NBA and their lack of success,
don't know the economics of sports. Wow. Wow, Okay, that's why, honestly, Rossie,
when you think about this, you know, we were talking
about ways for the NFL to expand and make more
money once they get downe with this playing everybody in nationally,
they're gonna they're gonna have two more teams in the NFL.
This might not be the hottest tease ever, but I
think one of those cities is a mistake. And I
think you know which one I'm talking You know, you
know which one it is. But you've already discussed it before,
I know, not even a tease, no different audience every day. Okay,
so you can you want to tell us later which
one of that which one of those twos? And then
you have to come up with an alternative because you
have to expand by two. So you okay, you have
other city of mind. I'm sure. Why not? You get
like seven minutes figure out. Yeah, I'll go look at
a map of Canada. You're gonna put an NBA team
in Manitoba. Okay, that that feels about right?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not seven one three, two one two five seven out?
If you'd like to be a part of our radio
program that we'd love to have you seven one three
two one two five seven euty seven one three two
one two five seven. I need to tell the truth
today at eleven thirty. We've got to believe it or not.
Today we have the news at noon and uh, really
kind of a relaxed weekend for for local teams because
again Astro Spring training rockets didn't play. We have the brackets.
Uh tell me about Let me ask you this. I
always know who bracket guy is the office. If you
can describe who your bracket guy is that you work with,
let us know who that with that bracket guy is
all about. Okay, because bracket guy to me, I don't
know if he's in the top three or four annoying
most fan you work with or have relationship with. But
he's up there right because he's going to burn around
and tell you about I got Saint Mary's winning. Can
you name a player? No, but I just know you
know where they're from. No, but you know what conference
they're in. No, can you name any players ever played
for Saint Mary's.
Speaker 6: No, but.
Speaker 2: Guy annoys me. I'm gonna be a bracket guy. I
usually do four. I lose on this every year with you.
I know why I win. I did quite well last year.
I can stand on my philosophy principles. A good man
only should fill out one bracket. Yeah, why not? Why
pick one combination of the power ball? And when you
can get a couple, I pick up multiples. I never
seen to win. I never went anyone. You give yourself
a better chance, though, don't you? It feels like I do,
but I don't. Alright, So the conundrum with games and controversial,
and this is something that could happen in any sport.
There's always a thought of you don't want to let
the game be decided by an umpire or referee, of course,
so let's balance that for a little bit. It's Matt
and Ross by the way, Sports ten twenty one. Let's
trike three called in the game was atrocious. It was
a bad call. It was horrible. But the easy low
hanging fruit is you scored one run the entire night.
Don't put yourself in a situation where you're allowing a
game to be in a one run game. So how
do you navigate those murky waters of yeah, we had
other opportunities, but yeah, we want calls, right, and that's
could be a foul that's called late in the game
of a basketball game. It could be a pass interference
call in a seventeen thirteen game in a football game
where you weren't able to score two touchdowns in a
first half. How do you do it? I think it's
hard for us to compartmentalize doing what we should have
done earlier in games with the immediacy of we got
screwed by an official call. I mean, it was just
it's a bad call. They should they should still be playing.
And that's I don't know how you reconcile that, reconcile
that you just said. I mean, it's the rules of
the game and it's how it was played. I mean,
was any sort of abs ever discussed with the WBC.
I don't know. I don't know who runs this thing.
I don't you have no call. We'll be an issue
in three years, so it'll be there, So it'll should
be back. I mean probably with a challenge system then.
But even then, what if both teams are out of
challenges in the ninth inning, you can You're still going
to get this. So what I'm going to ask you
again is, can you, as a sports fan get past
the quote unquote we got screwed on the final play
of games, knowing there were so many other opportunities in
life in a game that said, well, if we'd have
converted that third down, or we would have made that field goal,
or we did hit that free throw, or we would
have had that base, we would have got runners at
second and third, Nobody at one runner could have scored.
Can you compartmentalize that maybe ninth inning of games or
fourth quarter of games, you're gonna get hosed by officials.
I think that's that's what you have to go with.
And that's what normally players will say. And then and
it's true, Uh, you had I'm trying to look at
eight left on base by the Dominican Republic throughout the game,
two for nine with an unders in scoring position. They
had some other opportunities. You scored on one solo home
run the whole game. Of course it'd go against Paul Skins.
It's some other great pitchers and Dason Miller. If we're
doing DR Sports today, DR Sports today, we got screwed.
This is a United States conspiracy, United States umpire behind
home play. Yes, I don't know. I think you and
I if we're on the other side of this forgetting
about what what what? If it was Game seven the
World Series, we you and I would we'd be losing
our minds over this ross. And that's what I'm say.
It's hard. It's hard for us to say, well, okay,
if the Astros lose Game seven the World Series to
the Dodgers on a strike three call to end the game,
oh but man, we had our chance in the fourth inning,
runners at first base, loaded nobody out and didn't score
any runs. All that should have been the chance for
us taken lead. You know, it's we don't work that way.
We we have sports fans don't work that way. I
think we I mean, well, we have to and we have.
And when it comes to football games or you know,
the missfield goal at the end of the Baltimore Ravens game,
you can say, oh, well, you know, we had the
other opportunities, of other opportunities to win the game. When
when a certain NFL team doesn't win on the last
drive or doesn't get it done, or there's a bad
passer interference call, stuff like that, it happens a lot
in other sports. So I think that's just where you
have to go with it. And it is the truth
as well. Is it coping, I don't know, but it's
also the truth. They had other opportunities to win the game,
but it's it's true to say that, but it's also
true to say they got their best opportunity, and not
best opportunity, but an opportunity robbed Mecu. You got to
run it at third with two outs, the guy would
have walked. They gote to first base, you did first
and third two. I don't know who the next hitter was.
For the DR I'm gonna go with the stance of
I don't think you have. You got to live both ways.
You're gonna have to be pissed the moment and be
upset and be grouchy, and then also realize there were
other opportunities earlier in the contest in order to take
the leads. In sports, it's many, Like many things in life, Matt,
you can change your perspective on however you want to feel.
If you want to feel like you got screwed and
it was the worst thing ever, you can do that.
Or you can say, hey, we had some other opportunities.
That's on us. But bitter fans don't want to do that,
and guess what we If we were better fans, if
we were team dr we would better to I think
you should be. I mean, yeah, it it was gonna
It was per Domo that struck out. It looks like
it was gonna flip to the top of the order.
Fernando Tatist Junior was that the leadoff was up next.
Speaker 7: He knows.
Speaker 2: The second thing I was thinking during this, what's you know?
Mason Military is now a pottery was at any for
the longest time and got traded up to no surprise.
Freaking haws. Dude, he's throwing one oh two. Yes, let
me ask you. This is he throwing one oh two
in March sixteenth in a game in Yuma, Arizona. Probably,
I would say so. He threw over twenty pitches in
the ninth inning. Now I don't know if he's doing that.
I'm just saying they got one more game to go
to play for the whole thing. Yeah, how many games
has he pitched in? Do we know? I'll go look
it up, you look it up. I don't. It's just
so leverage. And I know this once every three years.
I keep I keep trying to put that through my brain.
It's only once every three years, Mack, get over. Okay, okay,
but damn you are asking and your dude, if you're
how does Padre fans dree Field's got to be feeling
like what is he doing out there throwing twenty pitches
in a March spring training or in a March game.
He's trying to win for his country, Matt, That's what
he's doing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's also really weird last night and it's I don't
want to say this for for Thursday. I just don't
get it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The for U tab is dangerous as dangerous. A lot
of Ken Rosenthal hate out there. Really, Yes, he doesn't
bother me. He's not a reason why I watch a
game now. He didn't do himself, and he favors last
year when he raned that guy fell down the camera
guy and he stood out the way and stared then
shoot him down at him, which made him look like
a douche.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, the bow tie thing is kind of a bit.
I know he tries to raise some money for that,
which is a good thing, but there is a lot
of hate for that.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: Four games, four innings pitch for Mason Miller.
Speaker 3: How many?
Speaker 2: How many? How many pitches per in those those first
three is to say yesterday, I don't have a pitch
count on this. The WBC stats that are actually kind
of hard to come by. I don't have a pitch count.
It's okay, but yeah, I know the presentation was fine,
you know, to get the Derek Jeters out there and
to do the pregame. I mean, obviously Fox treated his
big deal and their ratings are fantastic, and he used to.
We did a great a bunch of people out there.
It's a full stadium there in Miami, which is so normal. Yes,
they weren't used to it were they understaffed. Everybody able
to get their dogs and they're not chos, Yeah, because
they usually fit like they staff are like eight thousand people.
They're like thirty five thousand there. Yeah, how about our
boy break not even playing, dude, that's tough. That's okay,
he's representing the USA. Well, all right, let's go take
a quick time out. Come back. Jonathan wants to talking
about the WBC. What else we got to get to
We got some asteroids, chick, those astro numbers. I think
we're I think the pitch numbers are gonna really enjoy
good hitting numbers. We can pass up well if you
got a ride un roll, it's just oh hell ridde
l row credit about hell baby? Where is he now?
Did he get sent home? Please have many We don't
need more ride unroll? Why not guys playing six days
a week. I've never seen a guy who had his
jersey retired in spring training, but it's about to happen
for him. Seven one three two, one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven. How
our time is ten twenty nine. It's Man and Ross.
We are with you today until two to tell the
truth at eleven thirty. Here on seven ninety we're gonna
go to Jonathan and Fulscher. Here we all gotta pay
off on another tease you had about WHOA one of
the two expansions cities not being a good one. Oh man,
I gotta pull back up my list of biggest media
markets in the United States because you put me on
the spot. Made me come up with an alternative. I
had to because if you're gonna dump one, you gotta
add one. He's gotta add two. By the way, all right,
Man and Ross, you on Sports Talk seven, I had
seven to one three two, one, two, five, seven. I
need Jonathan and Fulscher with this on seven. Iey, Jonathan,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6: What's up guys, get your mother love and ears on.
Speaker 2: That sounds very early familiar.
Speaker 6: I know I kind of miss it. Uh listen, i'mt
I know you didn't tune in until the ninth Russy
watched the highlights. The one thing I'll say is that
umpire throughout the entire game. He expanded that strike zone
like nobody's business. I mean, I remember just early on
in the game looking at my wife and was like, look,
how far off these pitches are? I mean, and it
was on both sides. So while I will say yeah,
it was rough to see that call, it actually wasn't
too far off from how wide he had expanded that
strike zone, So I would just say yeah. And to
Matt's point, I mean, and that's exactly what I told
the wife last night. I'm like, don't put yourself in
a position to where you're letting the umpire dictate whether
you win or lose the game. But at the same time,
it was fairly consistent to what he was calling yesterday.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, I don't hang up yet. You
just said widening the strike zone, and you're not the
only person's ever said that. It's it's an often used
sports term. The strike zone is the strike zone. It's
not supposed to shrink or grow. It's supposed to be consistent.
And that's what I think one of the biggest complete.
Speaker 6: I totally agree that's what the strike zone's for. And
I feel like it makes it worse the fact that
us as viewers. I mean, if you're at the ballpark,
I mean, yes, it was super low. It probably a
lot of people noticed it from the stand. But when
you're watching it on TV and you see the you
see the strike zone clearly and how low that that
pitch was, Yeah, it makes it. It makes it worse
for sure. Uh but yeah, No, I mean I have
been all for the you know, using technology because it's like,
just get the freaking call right. Just get the calls right.
That's the group I'm in. I don't care about it.
Seems like baseball is the worst sport to want to
accept using technology because it's just goes against the you
know how how the game has been played for one
hundred years or whatever, but it's just bs, just get
the calls right. That's all I mean, That's how.
Speaker 7: I feel about it.
Speaker 6: Anyways, I'm going to hop back into work.
Speaker 2: But thanks, thank you, Jonathan. Just get the calls right, Jonathan,
Jonathan Ross, get the calls right. I'm standing from in
this way. I truly believe this will be the gateway drug.
Like I said, I don't know if it's going to
be three years, five years, ten years, but eventually people
the light bulb will go on. People will say this
technology is already in place, let's use it for every pitch.
Here's the thing to your argument that you're gonna have
to fight mm hmm. It's not gonna be the get
off my long guy. It's gonna be the twenty seven
year old baseball player too. Because we've interviewed plenty of
players over the years that aren't all in on this.
So let me ask you this, how do you convince
besides saying getting every call right, why are you having
to you being the let's get abs for every single call?
Why are you fighting twenty seven year old? Right, I'm
not twenty five. I'm not fighting most of the twenty
seven year olds because a lot of them were younger
and they were in triple A and double A and
they had to deal with it. A lot of the
older players that we interviewed certainly are like, oh, I
love the human element. I love the human element. That's
because that's how they came up, That's how they that's
their tradition, that's what they're comfortable with, that's what they're
used to. But the more players we've talked to as
the years have gone on, Matt and we have been
interviewing these players at fan Fest and here on this
show and out It'spring training, it has been more of
a tide turning with the guys who are like, oh, yeah,
I've already dealt with it. Oh yeah, I already like it,
I go or I don't like. They have opinions where
you know, we heard from multiple guys who want either
all or nothing, or they're they're in favor of all
of it. So I think that that's where the tide
is turning to. You have these players who have dealt
with it, and I think eventually, as I said, people
will see you're going to get big miss calls where
teams are out of challenges and say, hey, the technology
is already in place, let's just go ahead and use it.
That's where you're going to win your battle when you're
out of challenges. Mm hmm. That's what happened last night.
The WPC happens in a World Series game and everybody's
out of challenges. I mean, and it has happened. It
does happen. Bad calls have been happening in playoff games
for all, I mean for years. Yeah, I wonder how
much of it, how much of it is Team USA
had a USA umpire behind it. I don't know. You
want to go to Santo Domingos, sports leader, you take
a tap in out of the Japanese umpires, poor, I
have no idea. Probably I'm gonna guess Major League Baseball
has the best umpires and the world. So, I mean,
maybe I'm just being a foolish, uh borish American. I
don't know Japan. I would love to find out. Thoseres
on my list. I want to go see the world
before I die, So let's go. If I can get
a paid trip, you can pay for it. No, I
mean you said you're gonna send me. Oh no, I'm
sending you to San Antonio for the second playoffs. I'll
go there. I'll take the Mayhound. There's what's that? What's
that one dollar double decker bus thing that that's not bad?
Mega bus?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Hey, I believe they folded oh those dollars to be true. Yeah,
that's gonna put you on that ROSSI sorry about that,
and that's okay. Seven one three two one two five
seven hounty. Look, I you know me. I love technology,
I love replay. I should be on your side. I know,
why aren't you? I mean, you are traditionally some many
things too. But I guess what I'm worried about is
the practicality of it. And look, if we're not talking
about this being a something in five years from now, that,
if it's a streamline process, then I could probably certainly
flip my opinion on this. I just think that there's
going to be way more logistical issues than uh, peer
at the red first blush And again, hopefully I'm wrong
about this. I also gotta deal with some egos too.
You're basically telling the world of baseball that you've been
doing this one thing for over one hundred years and
you're getting it wrong too much, and we're going to
let these umpires just stand back there. That's why I'm
calling this the gateway drug is you're going from one
to the other. And I don't know, Like I said,
when the when the CBA lapses with the umpires union
and how you get them on board and stuff like that.
There's obviously a lot of hurdles and ones I don't
even know about. I'm sure to try to get this
in place. For every pitch he goes. You know what,
and this is an analogy in place. Tell all this,
Oh we love you, love this, but yet we don't
love call centers that are automated. You don't love it
a you know what I'm saying. I'm just out there's honestly,
let's just go ahead and sholve that one. Are you sure? Yes?
Because are you sure it's bad? Yes? Because this is
about the rules of the game. The twenty six thousand
miss calls last year, thirteen hundred strikeouts that should have
not been strikeouts. But there's a different streamline process, just
like a streamline call center is going to get no, no, no, no, no.
This is a bad analogy. I'm sorry, you're correct, you're
getting right what has been done wrong. That's all you're doing.
You're correcting mistakes. If I said, hey, there was twenty
six thousand mistakes last year in a sport that we
can fix with the snap of a finger. Would you
do it if things were if? Yeah, of course I
would do it. Well that's silly. Yeah, okay, that's all
I'm saying. And you're also taking the power away from
a human being. Can still brush off the plate, call
home safe, and I can throw the ball not make
it as much. Why wouldn't they That's another that they
have that have to bargain that. And guess what union's
been busted and in these times, in these days, twenty
six unions. Yeah, I mean, Matt, we can get you
out there. You can call out save at home, and
you have the safety net of replay as well. With that.
You can toss a ball. How's how's your arm? You
can toss the ball to the picture when he needs one.
Guy takes one off the shin, So you gotta walk
in the picture and take some time off. Let me
take the umpires out of this. Okay, why do you
need this at all?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 2: But all those things I just said, you gotta brush
off the plate, you gotta get the ball to the guy,
you gotta you gotta watch the pitch clock and base
third base. Yeah, we need you to call out and safe.
Why can't we use the computers to do that? Maybe
you can, and then we'll get rid of you too.
And guess what, then you don't have to pay you
what do you to go to your rocky call center?
Same thing as I'm power home plate, first base, second base.
John Elimination is a thing in this country, Matthew. That's
so I'm saying you, and you should know this. You
and your way. Most you are trying to get I'm
trying to get the car comps out there. I'm trying
to get the calls right. Most of these umpires have
Do they have second jobs or no? I don't know.
They're they're all full time. You're taking jobs away. That's
what ROSS does, take jobs away. They can still be
back there. They still need to call fair and foul
out and say you know what, get you to do it.
Why do we need umpiring training for that? Yeah, you
get trained, But the most difficult job you're helping them out?
What if they get crushed? Most for if I looked
at the mentions of Umpires Association Universe, Major League Baseball
Umpires Union, Waite sizes, No, it's balls and strikes. I'm
making your job easier. I'm taking the heat off of you,
and you're gonna make You're gonna cost me money, but
you're not gonna pay me as much. Why wouldn't they
Because they're gonna say that the computers doing the hell
they're they're not gonna come to the tables say we're
gonna pay you. I hope, I hope you're right ross
the job elimitor. I'm the job keeper. Ten forty three.
It is Matt at Ross with you here on Sports
Talk seven seven one three two one two five Savinatti
seven one three two one two five Savinatti. I mentioned
this a little while ago. The NBA is going to expand.
According to Shams, no surprise. The two teams the cities
that are being talked about most Seattle, which deserves an
NBA franchise, and Las Vegas has become the new sports
playground for the world. The hockey team's very good. The
Raiders have done well. There's the A's are moving there
in a couple of years, and uh they're about to
get a fourth NBA four They're gonna have more professional
sports teams in the city. Houston will be I don't
count the Dynamo. I'm sorry, I don't Hey please, Uh yeah,
they're gonna get the team and you are against. Not again,
I shouldn't say against, but you don't think it's three six.
I have questions about the long term viability of the
Las Vegas economy to support three teams.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I do have a lot of locals there, but I
just feel like the way the casino have been going
and getting squeezed and losing a lot of money, apparently
they're taking a bat. The people who invested in this
sphere are taking a bath as well. Jump by the way,
that was in the very beginning, it was like they
put all these billions of dollars into the sphere and
they are losing a bunch of money. And I mean,
I guess they're putting a package. Did you even hear this?
Matt Pacquiao Mayweather two is going to be in the
sphere like in September or something like that. It I
just have questions how long term viable this this economy
is because the young young kids are not going there
as as far as the Jonathan twenty something age twenty somethings,
it's not as cheic of a destination. You have sports
betting that's legal in like thirty states now, so you
don't you know, matt when when you and I were younger,
one of the big appeals of going to Las Vegas
was to be able to bet bet on sports. You
didn't have to find some shady offshore guy or some
random bookie or anything like that. You can go there
and bet on sports. And now you can do it
on apps, and everybody notices, everyone you talk to the
that it is the least of our age or maybe
even a little younger Matty, Like they're like, oh, yeah,
Vegas used to be this. Vegas used to be that,
And I don't even want to go anymore. And it's
not as appealing. So I don't know how how good
that long that economy is going to be long term.
I'm not saying it's gonna completely bust, but it wouldn't
shock me. Uh, Vegas to me, you've lost that twenty
something crowd. It's too expensive, the resort fees, the airfares,
the hotel. When you and I were twenty, yeah, now
that was quite a bit better comps, better comps, but
waitress come by more.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 2: Vegas can clearly still give you a nine dollars taking
eggs because they're not they're that's a food that's a
sunk cost in order to get you to gamble that
they they're making the decision to charge you twenty nine
dollars or forty nine dollars compared to nine dollars. They're
making the conscious decision to charge you eighty nine dollars
for room that was twenty nine dollars three years ago,
and adding resorts fees to it. They're just being greedy.
It's still a destination for shows. It is still a destination,
but it is you're looking to fill up sixteen forty
two games a year, forty one games a year. It's
seventeen thousand people. I think you can do it. I
think baseball is gonna be way trickier than it's gonna be.
Basket baseball is gonna be trickier. And then you add basketball,
and I mean, yeah, they had the NFL. The NFL's king.
Remember wait a week. I'm glad we didn't follow through
on our bright idea of buying a Las Vegas PSLs
because apparently the ticket sales have been underwhelming there. Yep,
Vegas had a tenth consecutive month of tourism decline in
earlier this year. I just I just googled Vegas. You
know what Vegas says about that we don't care and
pisses me. I love Vegas. If visitors declining ten straight months,
they should care. They don't care. Twenty twenty five a
seven point five percent drop in visitors, three point one
million fewer visitors year over year from twenty five, and
then twenty six is already off to a slow start.
I think it's I think alarm bell should be going off.
I don't disagree with you at all. I just I
don't disagree. But it's the NBA. It's a sexy city.
You can get fans of other teams to make a trip,
even in the middle of the week for Charlotte to
play at Las Vegas, and people will come. I I, yeah,
it's forty two days. It's I think it's Baseball should
be way more concerned. Yeah. Now, since you've said that
Vegas may struggle, which I disagree with. Yes, you must
come up with a plan B okay, and I there's
a plan B s We're going this together. What is
your what is your idea? Saint Louis, you were to
Kansas City, Kansas City would be the place. Yeah, So
Vegas is the number forty market, Cincinnati thirty seven, Austin
is thirty four, Kansas City's thirty three. Kansas City has
a nineteen thousand seat areen that was just packed for
Big twelve basketball this weekend. They even have people go
to the game against Arizona Houston in a day. That's
a great that's a great, great basketball metropolis. Nashville's twenty six.
I'm just looking at Media Martin. Yes, Pittsburgh's twenty seven,
Saint Louis twenty four. Saint Louis struggles with sports teams. Yeah,
Nashville's really wants baseball really really bad. They're gonna put
to all their blood, sweat and tears behind it. And
then of course the biggest one remaining is SeaTac at thirteen. Yeah,
Seattle's a no brainer. I really, you're you're gonna lose
this one, and that's you're trying to lose it. No,
I'm not trying to win. I'm just saying I have
I have long term concerns about I mean, December visitors
in twenty twenty five year over year down nine point
two percent. That's a lot if that continues. I don't know.
Somebody in the in the market disagrees with me. They
should they live there good, So I'd love to educate me.
I don't know everything. I'm just talking out loud. My
My initial thought is, first aall forty one dates, not
counting preseason and playoffs. Second ball, it's only seventeen thousand seats. Yeah,
it's forty one day. But I'm saying at it with
the hockey, at it, with the baseball, at it, with
the I mean, you're adding three new teams in what
ten years? Can they support all those? But you're with
the long term, But how about the population explosion? Of course,
the thing is they have to win. That's the most
important thing. Yeah, at the Las Vegas whatever, twenty one,
they're not gonna be the twenty ones. It's the Las
Vegas Aces. Get there. By the way, you have Lebron
James gonna own this team, supposedly, Yeah, you don't mean
that there's gonna be some star power behind that. There
will be. Lebron James gets into gets into one of
his massive limousines and runs around town, goes to Henderson,
goes to other partners. Oh, here we go, ever go out? Yeah, okay,
come by season tickets. Okay, Ross again, you're looking at
seventeen thousand seats. If I'm the A's I'm way more
and worried. We'll see. I think the A should be worried.
I'm just talking about that. Yeah, the city and the
economy of the city as all, it's built on tourism
that is in a massive decline, and we get to
fix that. I'm doing my part. We're doing our part.
We're going going to July. We're doing our part. David
in Las Vegas. Hi, David.
Speaker 3: I have to try him in and I just have
to district I thank you guys. They're missing, like a
lot of people are missing the point about why all
these sports teams are succeeding here and they're going to
continue to succeed here. And I'll address the questions of
the visitation decline and the long term problems too. But
the meantime, as a city, we're still growing. They're two
to two and a half million of us here in
this Vegas valley, and whatever the figure is for the
media market, it keeps growing. But anyway, the thing about
Vegas it's so totally unique. Is not the gambling of
the legal gaming ping. It's that we've got this almost
two hundred thousand hotel rooms right here on the strip
in nearby, and they are filled any time with you know,
as for accidental visitors, conventioneers, business meetings, as well as
people have just come out here for the gaming and
the entertainment and so on. Tens the hundreds of thousands
of people are in these hotel rooms. They're there on weekdays,
they're there on weekends, they're there on daytime hours, they're
there on night time hours, and they are looking for
entertainment constantly. They're going to search to sole at shows,
they're seeing magicians, they're going to fancy night clubs, they're
seeing live music concerts. They're racing go karts, they're doing whatever.
And if you offer live professional sports as an entertainment option,
people flock to that. And it doesn't matter if it's
your favorite team, doesn't even matter. I it's their favorite store.
I can tell you from the you know, the lift
driving that I do around here. I take people all
the time to Golden Knights games saying hey, you know,
we don't.
Speaker 6: Know much about hockey.
Speaker 3: But we hear the team was in town, so we
thought we'd check it out. And the results are there.
The Raiders have the highest retail price or resale ticket
price in the entire NFL. The Golden Knights, where everybody
said hockey will never work in the desert, they have
the highest percentage of capacity attendance in the entire National
Hockey League. If you put live sports is an entertainment option,
and a city where's starved full A visitors, starved for entertainment,
the tickets are gonna get sold. So that's what I
just have to say about anybody predicting problems for the
A's or the new basketball team or whatever. It's all
gonna work.
Speaker 2: I I would tend to agree. I think even what
they decline, Las Vegas has the just has this. I
don't know what I'm saying. It has astique. Yeah, it
draws you that it does, and it's for us, and
it's matter and Ross and I've talked about this all
the time, and David, thank you for the phone call.
Was like, Hey, let's go to Let's go to Phoenix
to go gamble because we can get three to two,
or we can go to Biloxi. Or they just don't
carry the same cachet as Vegas. That's because the food,
the experience, the down we you and I are downtown
a haulics now we we love downtown. We can't get
that in Blexiopy. But it's yeah, I'm talking about long term.
I know, Yeah, I don't know. I I uh to
me the I if all the teams are gonna worry,
it's gonna be the A's. But even even David make
its a point. People just bumping around town looking for
doing something. We need to get these kids gambling. How
do we get these kids back gambling? You know what
they're doing. You know the reason why they're charging these
higher rooms speak you know, I think about this. Probably
reason one of the rooms are paying higher is because
the kids aren't gambling. They're going to They're going to
Las Vegas to go to the pool and to go
to the night clubs. They're not spending the money in
the casinos. If the casinos were the handle was higher,
maybe they would we start to reduce the rooms, but
they don't want to do it. They're like, all right,
so we're gonna get some twenty three year olds that
are gonna come to gamble. Guess what we're gonna get
them in the in the pocketbook. But for the hotel room, well,
they should offer the comps and then if they don't
get us, they don't get used. It didn't cost them anything.
They should just take care of us. They do go
to gamble. Yeah, hey, are you coming to Vegas? Yes?
What is your limit? What do you want to willing
to spend? Can you promise you're gonna spend this? Yes,
the room is taken care of. I will I will
never ever buy if you pay for my hotel on
the Strip, I'm down, I guess. But I'm gonna always
push for Downtown. I shouldn't say I will never ever
go stay on the Strip again, but I will be
huge push for downtown and once, if, if, and when
that gets squeezed, I'm gonna be done with the whole town.
But I know I'm not. I'm not everybody. I think
Downtown still got a shot for a while. Yeah, I'm old,
I'm going downtown. Give me that three to two ten bucks,
let's go. It's the Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 9: Ross love It Oh four Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three,
two one two five, seven nine zero on the agenda today, we.
Speaker 2: Gotta go over to the Astros spring training numbers to
tell the tree. Come on, man, no, we gotta give
you mine. We're down to two weeks from the start
of the season. Yeah right, let's not do Macron. Well,
I almost do myself a tower in the jar. Oh,
go ahead, you were gonna say. I know you're gonna
say something rhymes with muss and muss muss.
Speaker 5: Maybe I caught myself. I'm so proud I wanted to
do high five. Hey, Roman Anthony is on me MLB network.
He's a guest on sixty six. Not playing with Italians.
That's like the most Italian name you could have, Roman Anthony.
Speaker 2: Come on, by the way, somebody told me, and I
don't know if I should believe this, but people tell
me things like ninety percent of the Italian team is
full of American players. I believe it. I believe like
fifty percent of them hadn't even visited Italy. Oh my god, Hey,
that's okay. You want to represent your grandma grandma assist
from as Sicily. And it's also you're not good enough
to be on team Uskay, it's all good. You go
to I mean people do that in the Olympics, they
do it, in the World Cup, they do it. I mean, yeah,
it's it's not it's not exclusive of the WB right,
it's not seven one three two, one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five. I have
seven nine zero spring treating numbers. We got to tell
the truth. Coming up a little bit, love it. We
have rocket got them off the hook. It's hard coming
up with us to tell the truth. It's difficult. I've
got three. I got any one more. Whether it's a
truth or all, I don't know yet. You we do
like one a month. Take the burden off you. Yeah,
one a month. But I'm doing that. I do believe
or not for you today. As a matter of fact,
I was already locked it late. That's what I'm saying.
When I didn't, I'm just kicking. I got to tell
you something. I have nothing. This was my last It's
nice free weekend until the Rockets are done. Okay, because
we play every weekend the rest of the Seasonally. I
invited you out on Saturday and you said you're busy.
No I didn't. I said I didn't want to go.
There's a difference to the Sam Houston Race Park. I
had a great time. By the way, you did have
a good time on it. Shout out to Sam Houston
Race Park. I saw your photosh Did you see that?
Apparently the pro tip is to take the cocktail shrimp,
bring it to the pasta station at the buffet, and
then have him cook it there. The buffet was incredible.
I had a trifecta, made some money, had a good time.
Weather was beautiful. They got thoroughbreds for a few more weeks.
Sh RP was awesome. Yeah, go check it out because
you've been doing some reports for them a little bit
and it's been fun. Yeah. I love it. I I
wish I had more time because I do like I
honestly hadn't been in years, and I'm going to be back.
It was nice. I make this promise to you next
time you go, I'll go with you. You're such a fraud.
I don't believe you. And that's okay, though part of
your turn. Can I go in your spirit? You've been
saying you're going to owe you Texas for like ten years.
What else do you do? Find myself at the same
Houston race Park before I go to the Okay, let's go.
I'm ready. Okay, seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. Let's go on the phone to see what
you guys are thinking about. Uh, and we got astros,
We've got Rockets Lakers. Can we get some rocket Laker
buzzs tonight? I'd like to have it fill building full
now with a bunch of Lebron lovers. Blah Blah's injury
report looking like he was fine Saturday night. Okay, Austin
Reeves was to just that was such a good game.
I wish people cared James on seven ninty. Hello, James, Yeah,
you'all talking about the Empires.
Speaker 10: I was a high school and buyer for sixteen years.
And when you go to the Yeah, they're bad.
Speaker 2: James, James, let me hear your strike call.
Speaker 10: It was just short and loud like that. But nevertheless,
uh nevertheless, the coaches what they'll complain about the most off,
you're not consistent if that's a strike. If you're get
in the lower corner and you're calling the strike every
single time to five. But the minuting you call a striking,
you don't call us strike. That's when they start complaining.
So as long as you're you're consistent, I mean there's
a strike of course there's a strike zone, but the
main thing the coaches complain about consistency. If you're consistent,
there's five. And I got a lot of confidence on
my strikes. I mean, I'm not trying to brag it myself,
but I should.
Speaker 2: That's okay. It sounds like you are trying, James. You
are a lot of brag about yourself. That's okay. That's
good stuff, though, James.
Speaker 10: I mean college fucking talmball wanted me all the time.
They have a question your times, because so good my strikes.
Speaker 2: You have a what's the craziest story about? Like throwing
somebody out or some kind of incident.
Speaker 10: The craziest story I had, I mean, see, uh, well.
Speaker 2: There was we had one game where.
Speaker 10: I thought, I thought the out thild, I mean the
bass umpire had called the third out at third base,
but he didn't, but it looked like he raised his
right hand in and out. So the guy came home
and scored. And of course everybody goes ballistic because the
guy's come home and scoring, and I had to call
Tim and I had to go all through that nonsense
and talk to the base umpire. He was. He was
kind of a new guy, and I said, when you
raise your right arm, that looks like it out to me.
So I but he was obviously not anybody.
Speaker 2: Or like, uh getting in a brawl with any parents
or nothing. Let me ask you this, James, if you'd
have had a little leg mom behind you scream strike four,
how would you handle that?
Speaker 10: I'm really trying to tone out the people behind me.
Speaker 11: To do that.
Speaker 10: You don't want you want to be kind of a
calm guy when you're behind that plate. Don't let anybody
irritake you. But I had a basketball guy, Oh my god,
he was horrible basketball coach. I didn't have give him
a sitting team. He was so bad. His king team
was getting crushed. And I finally told him, I said,
you know what I call every foul you wanted me
to call, It wouldn't matter. Your stuff was this game.
I told him that at halftime. I didn't him that
during the game, but I said, you need you need
to calm down. And he's und I mean, yelling at
me all the time, And he did. He second half
he came out he's fine. But I approached people in
a in a way that they didn't upset him. I mean,
I don't sit there and try to be mister I
know everything and you know nothing.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, only when you call us,
Thanks James.
Speaker 10: Exactly, all right, thanks, see you later.
Speaker 2: You gonna hear my strike call? Yeah, I got a
couple of them. Okay, go ahead, Steve, right, ah, I
like that one. What about like a dramatic strike three?
Speaker 5: Damn?
Speaker 2: Okay? Little extra juice like a good morning strippers not
only extended? That would be zo on us. Right, you
cannot show the kids up. I mean you're doing a
car like three? Sit down? Your mom's hot? Can I
get a number of playa little little note? If you're
a single, good looking guy, you want to get a MILF.
Little League baseball is where it's at. I thought volleyball
is that it's at reliable sources. You played Joe mix
and gunshot one to send something else. I don't take
anything at this point. That's much better. Oh man, Yeah,
that is interesting. What what do I want? A characterist?
Because I've been a part of Little league baseball and
volleyball as an adult with my children. Which one is
that I would say pound for pound, the little League
mom is hotter. Okay, because again, if it's son, here's
here's what. Here's the good looking divorce a. She's wearn't
a sun visor okay, sunglasses, short shorts okay. And now
the only thing is she's probably going for a younger person.
She's trying to hook up with a coach because she
wants her. She wants her something to get free lessons. Hmm.
I'll help him fix his swing, but I can't pay
for those lessons. But maybe all right, this is getting
this is getting creepy. Sorry being on red Tube too much.
I've been home all weekend. I don't exactly.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 12: You know that I like you haven't rest, man, but
I like you haven't rest. He came here with a
new energy today.
Speaker 2: I did. It's I feel good. I gotta I got
a long ass week though. This week I can tell
you that for sure. Can I get two rocket wins
over the Lakers? Please? Both? Yes, that's great, John that
I'm asking for. Can I get that from you? You're
you're a you're your glass is always have full. Let's
get that was my good feeling. I'm already half missed
on it. What'd you say? I said they were all four,
but you know we're gonna go for the three one. Uh.
They beat the Pelicans on Friday. Friday, we just lost
to Oh you were counting. I don't know. Were you counting?
Then to the Homestown. No, you're you're talking to the homestand
I thought was check checked tomorrow. Yeah, we'll check it tomorrow.
Which are them all all right?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: Okay, we need some wins. I want the three spot
in the West. I just do okay, I'm being finicky,
by the way, real quick. On the Vegas thing, somebody
sent me a video. Apparently Vegas doesn't care that the
numbers are down because the big spenders are still coming. Yeah.
It's so yeah. They're like, we don't need twenty five
year old bit and ten dollars a hand or a
dollar one whale to count account for those. That makes
a lot of sense. Eleven thirteen, Sports Talk seven ninety
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I love this segment, but it's it's hard. I know,
it's a lot of work. So, uh, we appreciate you, Matt,
thank you. I have three man, and then we just
dump on all your opinion.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: If it's rude, I'm sorry, write it down ahead of time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't done it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to be rude about it. Three of
the four I do not believe. I only believe one
of them. Oh now, I'm really proud of you. That's
that's it's even difficult to do it, Yeah, for sure.
Seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
Let's talk to uh Ryan and Montgomery. Hi Ryan by
Warren Fellows.
Speaker 13: That forget what time it is, but I think it's
the morning.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 13: So you had that caller talking about when he was
an umpire. Honestly, all respect to him, being an umpire
is hard work. My grandfather, who was a wonderful person,
God rest his soul, was not a very good umpire,
and so he was an umpire in Sharpstown and you
were asking what kind of bad incidents they had. A
couple came to mind. The most funny one, not funny,
but outrageous was my grandfather in the middle of a
red robin, got into it with a dad and then
whenever he left afterwards, they had slashed one of his
tires and thrown a brick through the back window of
his car. And that guy was then not allowed to
come back and be at any of the baseball games ever. Again,
that was pretty That story always stuck out to me.
And then also, I have one baseball question, what should
we expect from Dana Brown before the trade deadline? Because
he traded Hazu Sanchez and said, you want everybody to
know we're not done yet. They haven't done anything since,
so I'm wondering where do you think dias go from there?
Speaker 1: And I'll talk to you guys later.
Speaker 2: Uh. First of all, he said that because that's what
general managers say. I think I think he had planned
to have made a move by now. I don't know
you and I have thought that was the plan. That
was the plan, but sometimes plans don't come through. Hey,
we're gonna do We're gonna be bigger, better things here
before with your bought with your boss. You know we're
gonna we're gonna steer this ship in the right direction.
Yeah we've heard that, or it's already sinking. Uh, he
will make a trade. Okay, Look, put it this way.
Daniel Brown's fight first job. And the only way he
doesn't make a deal is if he knows he's on
lane dunk status and the team is twenty games under
five hundred, not making the playoffs, he's selling things off.
Because if you're selling things off, that's not what you
want to do if you're trying to keep your job.
M Now, he may be told, put it this way,
if the Astros are twenty un or five hundred, maybe
Dan Brown isn't even even here at the trade deadline.
I don't. I don't disicipate that being the case. But
if they're close, they're going to make a move. And
if everybody stays healthy in the infield, which is not.
First of all, the chance of the astro is being
healthy one hundred percent of the other season in the
infield is zero percent. Somebody's gonna get hurt, whether it's
a AB, whether it's a somebody steps on somebody's finger
slides on home play. Nobody plays one and fifty of
the same team, of the same line up out there.
So even if Paradis is traded, don't come across as well.
He made the mistake. You had all this depth. Nobody
has depth like that. Nobody has a top five hitter
on a baseball team ready in the wings, on the precipice,
on the on the cusp of hitting. He's gonna move
Paratis because I think at the end of the day
the outfield is going to be a mess offensively. I'm
sorry Ross trying to sell myself. We had such a
wonderful visit with Zach Cole.
Speaker 14: You.
Speaker 2: We're huge cam Smith guys. We love Sneaky Snake Jake.
But the but the thought these all these three guys
are gonna slug and Fops is above seven hundred is
just I think it's too too much to ask, is
that Cole spring ops? Please? Eight eighty that's from last year. Sorry,
twenty six, I'm sorry. I forgot what I would say
about March Sus By the way, Oh it's much worse.
It's like five eighty two. But he's had a lot
of hard hit balls man, the XBA, the x slug
is much high. I'm gonna tell you all something right
now and even and I don't like to give Adam
Clanton credit for anything, because lord knows that's the trouble spot. Okay.
He he was talking about XBA and how ridiculous it is,
and I can there are many metrics you have brought
to this radio show. XBA super sucks as one. It's
like again I whind the die and the girl. I
gave her good amounts of booze. I gave her flowers.
My expected sex average is probably about a nine and
seventy five. If she doesn't want to have sex, it
doesn't happen. Either you get a hit or you don't.
The XBA leaders every year are among the best hitters
in baseball. And I will say this, Matt, do you
want to be on the same side as Adam Clinton?
Ooh god, no, I feel careful. I saw you. He
looked like I just punched you right in the gut,
so that like wy you go ahead and get some
pause there no no, no, no, no, no no it
in spite of that, because I was the one that
brought up XBA last year, being ridiculous because what was
what was the XBA of Christian Walker, I'm sure was delightful,
although you don't get any points for striking out right, No,
you don't. No, every the metrics you brought to this show,
I respect, I cannot respect XBA. And that was the
same thing. And when Todd Callas says that, oh, that
was a four star catch, no, they damn ready to
do a three star catch. Did the catch get made? Yeah,
So that is weird. That is that's dumb. Nobody can
be shooing great and catches. Either you make the catching
you don't, and if it saves two runs, it's a
great catch.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't need some metrics to tell me if if
a catch is a good one or not. It was
done to me to save but any of you save it.
Everything else you bring, not everything but no, no, no, you're ops.
Plus I respect. Yes, it's great. What else have you
given me that I've respected so far?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's field independent, batting move, defensive run saved. It's fine.
It's fine with two ways. On the bottom of it.
We don't like it. If he's not, we love it.
I told you that's the thing with two metrics too, like, oh,
we love this metric when it's good for us, but
we hate it when it's bad. Well, I am metric
consistent two ways still, my guy. I like net rating
and basketball. That's every hundred processions. That makes a lot
of sense because you have a slew team here in
Houston that will not get to a hundred possessions any
faster than any other team. They're gonna They're gonna take
their wall to get to their hundred processions. I give
you that all right. To tell the truth, it's coming
up next seven one three two one two five seven
nine at zero seven one three two one two five Seveney,
we're gonna Ross and Jonathan are gonna play this and
again I'm telling you, Jonathan, three wrong things. That means,
how many truths do I have for you?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jonathan, got it, Jonathan Ross, I have one truth?
How many misses? Am I gonna tell you about? One truth?
Three lies? That's what I'm talking about. Seven one three
two one two five seven. But the great thing about
me and Rosster is even though I lie a lot,
I can't tell the truth when necessary, the truth and
I have to tell the truth in his segment I
love the lie. I actually don't love the lie. It's
terrible at alignment is I don't feel overly guilty about
lying about things. That's terrible, isn't it. Yes, listen to
being honest about that. It's part of your charm. All right, gentlemen.
I have four takes. I believe only one of them
three are lies. Number one new rule for the future WBC.
If your country is playing in that game, you can't
be an umpire from that country. Hmm. How are the
umpires in Nicaragua that I don't know? But Corey Blazer
team USA playing yesterday giving the nice low strike three
D in the game, okay, giving Themican Republic a little
bit of angst. Thus, I think we're going to find
enough good umpires around the world to have an Italian
umpire behind the dish of a USA versus Mexico game
in three years, all right, all right? Number two, If
it ain't my Houston Cougars, the national championship I believe
is going to go to the Arizona Wildcats. Okay, okay, hmm.
I don't know a lot about a lot of those teams,
but I've watched a lot of Arizona this year. I've
watched a lot of Duke this year. I watch a
handful of Michigan games. It's gonna be a hard one. Arizona,
to me is the best of the not name Houston teams.
Number three, Ryan Weiss, front of the show, right, friend
of astrofests. Correct, Yes, giant human being will make a
start for the Astros before Lance mccullors Juniors does.
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 2: Great spring for Ryan. He was brought here as a starter.
Can play bullpen, can pitch to the bullpen, but he preferred,
as he told us, to be a starter. Whldn't they
go to a sixth and they're gonna they probably have
to in the first week. If they want to do that,
they don't have to, but it feels like there's gonna
at least a sixth. I think Ryan Weiss makes the
start for the ass Tres before Lance mccollors and number
four when my Cougars boys beat Florida to win the
South Region. The NCAA is going to create new legislation
that will not allow teams to compete in a regional
final in the exact same city. Now, if Duke was
to play in Charlotte, that would not be the exact
same city. If Saint John's was to play in Buffalo,
that would not be the exact same city. But if
U c l A could not play in Los Angeles,
Houston could not play in Houston, Miami could not play
in Miami, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, so you only
believe one of these. I only believe one. Three? Okay,
I know. Reminder I said, Okay, now real quick, I
mean run, let me run through them again. Number one,
new role if your country is playing in the WBC,
you can't be an umpire in their game. Number two
if in Houston, Arizona wins the national championship. Number three
Ryan Weiss makes the start for the Astros before a
Lance McCullers junior. And number four. When Houston beat Florida
to win the South Regional, the INCIBELLA will create new
legislation that will not allow teams to compete in a
regional final in that exact same city. Which one of
those four? Just one? Am I telling you the truth?
These are just takes, by the way, Okay, Jonathan, he's
a deep thought. He's in doing Final Jeopardy. Are you Okay,
over there, Rat, I told you you've been really good
at this this year. General did not win last week
and you lost, and you marked that down in your
little I'm just making sure that's on your legend, all right,
because I know you tried to short me a couple
of weeks ago too. I got on you. Yeah, Alan Math,
I don't know if this is Allen Math is mathing?
All right, let's talk to this now, Jonathan, let's go.
I just don't think it's feasible to have I mean,
they're not going to import a bunch of umpires from
outside the United States, and are they really qualify by
I mean, if you want to use the best. I
don't know that there's some large movement from other countries,
the Cougars and the Arizona thing. I mean that that
kind of makes sense. I don't think Ryan Weiss is
going to start because Lance mccullor's junior. Did he get
hurt or anything? Is there something that I don't know?
I would I would not try to sneak something like, Okay,
that's just a take. Are they paying him so much
money still?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're paying him so much money
and the n Cuba likes selling tickets. I'm going with two.
We're gonna have to tie me. I'm going with too
as well. Dang, I think all locked in, locked in.
I'm locked in it too. The best umpires in the
world are from or in Major League Baseball. They can't
send umpires from other countries, so that was an easy one. Yeah.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 2: Financially, Lance mccutters has to get to start. It's just
for the optics that it has. I mean, even if
Ryan Weiss's he's been killing in spring, the optics say
you got to give Lance mccutters one final change.
Speaker 11: We gave.
Speaker 2: We give him the bump though the Matt Tommy Show
with Ross Bump Wiss we did. He likes this a
lot down to the last two. It's only gonna happen
once every seven or eight years. Yeah. The is not
going to create a new legislation. They like selling tickets, Yeah,
they they need tickets sold. They've been trying to get
the teams as close to their home stadiums as possible.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can have a better chance of filling
up a building with Arizona versus Arkansas or No, that's bad.
Choye Aroonzona versus Ohio State or Houston versus Florida, you're
gonna pick the closer region, so they're not going to
put in the legislation that you both win today. I
don't spend a lot of time looking at other teams,
but Arizona is really freaking good. CoA Pete, have you
seen this kid? How's really gonna feel like this about
this with all the international players? She's very upset. Well,
she can call and tell us Brandon Bury's by the way,
oh god, so good. And by the way, can I
say this too? Can I say?
Speaker 3: Eric?
Speaker 2: Playing the Big Twelve gets you ready for this? Yeah?
This year, this year, last year was the best. But
the point is that if you play these juggernauts one
after the other, absolutely it should get you ready for
this run. Battle tested, iron sharpens iron. Big twelve is
the best basketball conference in the country. Yep, all right, boys,
nice John, nicely done, both of you. Thank you this week. Welcome. Yeah,
any of those four preposterous? Like on my count I can't, uh,
but I didn't believe three of them, so it makes
it sounds better. So this might be your weakest one, uh,
what you mean? The easiest to figure out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you did great, man. I think it's actually harder to
come up with three fakies. It is, definitely, yeah, I
mean because you want the real things over the Fakeisn't there, right, Jonathan, Absolutely,
he's not a ten times out of ten, the fakeies
can work too. Sometimes you get one fakie and three
real ones. And what are you talking about, Matt, The
sports takes to tell the truth. Oh that's why. Okay
that that converstation changed. Mm hmm. By the way, that
was this girl, by the way I called it's on Friday,
And but I'm believe it or not. I know she
lost the first questions. I felt a little bit, but
the Parlso party is like, yes, you know what I
should have done? Next time she plays, what's your favorite
part of the show? And if she doesn't say, you
serious trouble? Of course it is. We give them a
lot of air time. Yeah, I'm gonna be devastated because
Florida play will play Houston in the regional final if
it works out with the one first two, and I'll
be in New Orleans. We had a Rockets game that night.
I'll take you. I think Florida's gonna travel. I think
they're gonna get in their cars and come to Houston.
I think it's gonna be bonkers crazy. I can't lose
them two years in a row, can I? Well, you
don't play, you're not on the floor. Have you have
you have you watched them? They look real, they live well,
I'll tell you Ken Palm has them at four Houston
at five toss up game coin flut? Yes, sir? Do
you want a coin flip? Gotta get there first about
this one? How many questions do you think the Florida
coach will get over? What is it like at being
in Houston for the South region? He'll get a bunch.
By the way, you got a tough three seed draw
Illinois seventh in in Kimpo. We play A and M
in round two. By the way, can I time my son?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 2: My middle son?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is he talking trash already? No, he's the anti Oh
he's the defeatist thing. He's got batter Naggie syndrome already?
Do you realize they were the last at large, second
to last at large team to get put in the tournament?
Not put in but announced you know they went by
region region? Were you watching with him? No, he's in
college station okay, And I'm like, hey, are you gonna
be okay? And we're like the whole families are went
around the television, except Peyton's in college station and he's like,
I'm like, if he doesn't get in, he's gonna lose
his mind. Because Texas got in. Yes, and AIM was
a better team than Texas was this year. Right, No, no, okay,
I thought they were just I'm just going by my
guy Kimpo. It's one data point please, thirty seventh Texas
thirty ninth, sixes they got it. So I'm like, you're
ready to smack talking his dad, you're gonna win? Yeah,
on two. That's good. He's alread, he's already pissed off
about the A and baseball team. Alright now, I'm like, son,
come on, he's got he's got the battered aggie syndrome.
But he loves you know what, I do appreciate it.
He his love for his school is well, it's love it.
It's actually love of distaining at the same time.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 2: That's I think that's that's right. That's right. All right,
we have the news and now coming up in eighteen
minutes from now if you want to join us between
now and then seven one three two one two five
seven Nanti seven one three two one two five seven
ninety we uh, let's get a little rocket Laker talk.
Is that okay? Next time? Let's go okay with that?
I'm with it. That's wanna make sure you're alright with him?
Seven one three two one two five seven Nintie Well
Is Alabama in the tournament? Rossie, I don't even know.
Went in doubt as you see teams are in the tournament?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah, bam is good. Alabama basketball guard Aiden Holloway. I'm
been arrested after a thirty, say more than a pound
of marijuana was discovered during a narcotic search of the Tusco.
Was the residence got lb on him? That's a lot
of it? Yes, it is way too much? Wait too,
what is he doing? You're trying to sell it? That's
gotta be He's gonna get slapped with intent to distribute
on that unless these boys? Did he get it at costco?
Is he buying in bulk? He's arrested this morning as
a matter of fake yikes? Is he a key player?
I don't know. Our Alabama expert isn't here. Our producer
Josh c who does the Astros and Rockets games, Bond
was said at five thousand dollars, which is you gotta
pay tempers. That's five hundred bucks. Yeah, they were number
there are number four ceing the in a tournament. I'm saying,
how much does he play? What was his name? Alabama basketball?
He's a transfer from Auburn, so he's staying in state.
Aiden Holloway A d E. N. Holloway, What are you
kids doing? Jonathan? A pound of marijuana? He's playing college basketball?
I'm kids, Hey, that pound is crazy. Way he's averaged
seventeen points a game. What is he doing seventeen points
a game? He's probably got some in IL cash. He's
buying both with his in IL cash before the tournament.
This is before the tournament. Ros he come on, now,
come on, Aiden, I mean, I look, I am, I am.
You want to use pot? I don't. I really don't care.
You just cannot have that much in a holly eight.
The obviously were tipped off by lots of different folks.
By the way, twenty eight games, seventeen points per game,
he's shooting forty four percent from three. This is a
big loss. That's well, we don't know. I mean, can
you still play? Oh, canny? Yeah, he's out on bail.
He's out on bail five hundred bucks. That's all I took.
I don't know. He probably can't leave the state. But
maybe he can get a special exception. Oh can you
not leave the state? Probably not, I don't I don't
know the whole full rule. They gotta band that. That's
some I don't know at this season. I don't know.
I would imagine you can get some kind of I
don't know we need How would you some kind of something?
I know I committed a crime and I had to
get arrested. But can I get a little visa to
get out of the state play in the tournament? Maybe?
I don't know. This is a question for a lawyer.
Where's locked on? Gordy? He should have the answer to this.
That's true, he's although he hates Alabama. When you talk SEC,
you've got a lot of legal issues going to if
you're if you host an SEC podcast, don't you have
to have like a legal expert on standby. Absolutely, this
is par for the course. I mean, if you have
it in the car, you're a couple of joints rolled up. Okay,
go on a pound. That's just crazy. He's trying to
sell it fair. I don't know that. Or he's just
wants again as his lawyer, I will say no, yeah,
he likes to buy a book. This is a case
of mistaken identity. Let's talk to Stuna. Hi, Stunner, what's
going on?
Speaker 3: Mad?
Speaker 10: Hey, hey, Matt?
Speaker 16: That World Baseball.
Speaker 17: Because man, I did not.
Speaker 3: Know the Netherlands had a damn baseball team.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 18: I mean I'm looking at these guys, I'm like, what
they have a team. I've been in Europe forever and
I've never seen a damn baseball field. I mean I
didn't seen basketball soccer fields.
Speaker 2: Uh that damn thing.
Speaker 18: When you hit the ball between the little rings. Yeah,
that even the horse jumping craft. But I haven't even
seen football.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I don't know. I don't. I couldn't
even name the Netherlands player, so I apologize in advance
from uh, well Japanese, I can't remember either. There was
a jerks and profile wasn't he Dutch? And he got
kicked off the team. Oh well, we got our legal expert.
If we gotta let you go Sona. We don't care
about other lands based on anymore. He's locked on Gordy
w We're good when we say Alabama, Mississippi state ls.
You all can't sell South Carolina is going to arrest.
We're going to see some arrest. We am are locked
on Guardia legal analysts with us Chris Gordi here, why
why are we arresting people from marijuana? It should be legal.
It's grown in the slam. That's so funny. I think
will be fine. Who they playing in the first round?
Happy is he?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: He's only Is he gonna miss the whole tournament? Or
what's They probably spend him for a game, suspend him
for that? Smart? Can he leave the state is a
bigger question. Yeah, I just spent him for a half.
I wouldn't even do a full game. And you leave
the state out on bail. Marijuana that's legal in half
the states across the country. Is it legal in Alabama?
You need explicit written permission from the court, which he
probably could be able to get.
Speaker 19: Well if he gets the same judge that what let
Charles Bettiaco go back to school after playing in the
G League.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're taking on Hofstra in the first round,
second round potential matchup Akron or Texas Tech. Yeah, he'll
be back for a second round against Texas Tech. So you,
as an as an impartial broadcaster of all things SEC,
have zero problem with the guy getting wrested for a
pound on a bust. I would say this about any school.
Let him play. I'd say this about any school.
Speaker 19: I think that's I think it's stupid in twenty twenty
six to be arresting college kids from marijuana.
Speaker 2: What are we doing you in here for some marijuana?
Speaker 19: Come on now, if it was like if he had
a whole truckload and he was intent to sell, Okay,
I get it, But.
Speaker 2: You're saying that a pound is not a sellable amount.
Let's a stash problem. I think it's a really really
big stash. I'm not an expert. Maybe we can't. We
need to hear from a pothead and or illegal expert,
preferably both. If you're a pothead, how much do you
have in your home right now? More or less than
a pound? Seven one three, two, two five seven.
Speaker 19: I did get a little nervous for you though, filled
up a bracket earlier that we could get a U
of H Florida rematch, and what would.
Speaker 2: It be a lead a coin flipper coin be a
regional final? Yeah? One v two? Yeah, scary, that means
scary Florida. It's really good. You don't think last year?
How about you know the Houston's pretty good either destroyed
Kansas in the semifinal. Better offensively, not as good defensively.
Chris Sanak, let's go Kings, some fllemings, let's go Jojo
Tugler was amazing on the championship game.
Speaker 19: They're gonna have to have an off night shooting if
they have an off night showing.
Speaker 2: Ou here's analysis nowhere else. You can't have an off
night shootings last.
Speaker 19: Year, they the last five years Kelvin Sampson teams could
have off night night shooting. It didn't matter because they
were so good defensively. This team is probably his worst
defensive team he's had. There you go, Matt, I'll let
you guys hash it out.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 19: Yeah, my name's Paul. It's between y'all. That was gonna
be fun. They got le baron filon one of the
SEC leading scores. Now, will you discuss this pot charge
on your show today?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 19: Yeah, tomorrow's show, we'll lead with terrible charge, drop the charges. Yes,
let him play. Let him what's his name, Aidan? What
Halloway natoates is by far though one of the like
slimiest you just like so unlikable guy.
Speaker 2: Who's that the alephos he oh? I thought you were
talking about the North American Treaty Organization. We got a
pot answer for you, by the way. All right, let's
go Joe on seven ninety Joe, how much potty you
got in your house right now?
Speaker 3: Well about uh, let's see about a half an hour.
Speaker 2: So that's that close to a pound?
Speaker 16: No sure, and and.
Speaker 7: So typically.
Speaker 13: You know, the most so I'll get is three ounces
at once, and that's quite a bit for one person,
and that'll.
Speaker 2: Last be many months.
Speaker 1: So a pound, I mean maybe to be sure with friends,
that might last to be here, I don't know, that's
a lot.
Speaker 2: All right, Gordy, time to change your tuning is thank
you for the phone call for information, Joe. We went right,
we went right to the source. Gordy. I think your
boys in trouble think Alabama could be I could be
right for an upset. No blaming the baronies. I'm putting
the Red Raiders through on my bracket. Why do you
text second winning? Because the guys the seventy point guys
a high at the kite right now? How about this?
Speaker 19: Though, the dumbass committee they to protect Yukon, they put
no SEC teams in the East region. The SEC led
the country with ten teams in. They said, oh, well,
don't put any in Hukon. We need Yukon in the
final four. Don't put any good good teams over there.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Kyle haslaid in on Twitter. He says I have three ounces.
Probably he's also lives in Colorado and works at a
dispensary and he's got three So I never this kid
ever put again? So how big is a pet?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Thinking like a bread? Yeah, that's probably one guy bigger
than this. I don't know what I'm doing. Put that
thing down. You can fit a backpack, right, I guess,
I guess, not like a Duffel bed. Not Google. You're
trying to get me to google my work Google AI,
my work computer was a pound of weed. No, I'm
not doing that on my work computer already. I already
got in trouble when I was trying to look up
snoop Dog's nineteen ninety three album Doggy Style. That was
a bad idea. Thanks Gordy for your completely unbiased fews
on these things. Alright, Peter Alabama's national championship hopes over
a pound of weed. The News at noon? It's next
eleven fifty Will this guest on seven day is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross? All right, we will. We'll
get to the News at noon in a minute. But hell,
we got pot calls?
Speaker 3: Why not.
Speaker 2: Pot talk? Seven ninety We almost did it again. Oh
I almost did it again. We're gonna talk Technan's offensive
line and we can talk pot. It's up to you.
Seven one three, two one two five seven. Somebody of
you are sending photos. Kyle's trimming up his work right now.
Jose L two eight. Dude, there are sixteen ounces and
a pound. Gordy's on crack if he doesn't think this
dude is in trouble. Graham is in an ounce. Sixteen
ounces and a pound. That's a lot, a lot. I
have three ounces, probably, but I also work at a spencer.
You already, Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. You're a Division
one player. You cannot have a pound of pot at
your house. You just cannot right seven one three, two
one two five seven ninety. Glenn is with us on
the Matt Tabas Show with Ross Glenn. Good afternoon to.
Speaker 14: You, Good afternoon about how you doing? Good friend, Well, Matt,
I am thirty four years old. I've been smoking pot
since I was fourteen years old, so that twenty years
every day since I was fourteen.
Speaker 3: So I would considered my SoCal plenty. Yeah, I would
considered myself a play.
Speaker 2: So the typical pot smoker smokes about seven grams in
a week. Okay, so do the math on that.
Speaker 1: Nobody needs a pound a week.
Speaker 2: I mean, say you smoke a.
Speaker 3: Lot, say you're smoking all day every day, which some
people do. There's some people that smokes more than others.
Speaker 1: But you don't need a pound of weed.
Speaker 3: You can get a quarter pound is reasonable as enough.
Speaker 1: I mean a pound a week.
Speaker 2: If you have a pound a weed, that means you're
selling it.
Speaker 14: Let's let's let's just get it. Let's just get it
out there.
Speaker 16: Nobody needs somebody.
Speaker 3: Buys a pound a weak or keeps a pound of weed.
Speaker 2: On the you know, at all times. So that feel
thank you information, That's why we love you. Guys, listeners,
because you come through for us. Thank you, Thanks Cameron.
We'll turn us up. Let's go smoke. Two joints by Sublime.
I thought you're gonna play when we get high? Because
I got high. We had a lot of options, Mary Jane,
I almost did. I got five on it. That's a
good one. One took over the line. That's the seventies hit.
What uh yeah, Mary Jane? How about Got to Get
You Into My Life by the Beatles? What is about pot?
What you can know this?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 2: Okay, let me tell you bout some about the greatest
rock band of all time. They were high, all ever
hot band of all time. They were high constantly and
it was much more than marijuana. What do you think
Paul and Ringo didn't smoke? It's a jam.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: One more pot, call one more? Brian on seven on
a hit.
Speaker 16: Obrian, Hey, guys.
Speaker 1: Hey, you go back on my dayy Heck yeah, I
used to.
Speaker 6: I used to soak it down.
Speaker 20: Man.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 7: But you guys remember Leon Lett.
Speaker 21: Of course, the cowboys like a hundred pounds something crazy
like that.
Speaker 16: You make him sixty million dollars here?
Speaker 17: What do you need that for?
Speaker 1: Dude, just pick you a bag and kill out.
Speaker 2: But he's trying to make a little He had a
side hustle going clearly this kid from uh Alamemodos too.
You gotta yeah, while you're crushing a young college kid
who's trying to get a side hustle, he's trying to
make a little lecture cash for he and his family.
Let the man live. I'm kidding kind of.
Speaker 12: That's in the smell in his car.
Speaker 2: That was in his car. Yeah, I mean, couldn't you
go to every college campus in America and bust somebody?
I mean that the college game is strong on that
is it? Not very Yeah, even as f A they
use this, they use the synthetic stuff. Who's Nate Newton,
by the way, not leon Lett. Leon Lett was on
to fumble the ball in the end zone. It went
in doubt. It's a cowboy, all right, twelve or six
Sports Talk seven two hundred and thirteen pounds for leon Let.
That's that's that's putting a truck, right, That's not like
going a small a white van. Little know. In fact,
I've never smoked a marijuana in my life. Five weeks later,
he had one hundred and seventy five pounds. What thirty
months in federal prison for trafficking leon Lett. He was
stopped in Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. Now, if he was
in another state that had legalized and be moved, I
don't think they let you have one hundred and seventy
five pounds. I think that I think the legal states,
it's legal up to a point. Coloring in Alabama nine pound. Yeah,
all right, twelve oh eight. Let's get to the news
at noon, and with that we go to who would
be your?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 2: Are you that? I don't know who you are? Names Ross,
you can just chuse that now I'm gonna go with
you are the Linda Cone of Houston Sports, Thank you well.
A quick preview of the Lakers and the Rockets Tonight.
Rockets at two and a half point favorites. It will
be a late eight thirty PM starts on Peacock for
the Rockets and the Lakers. It'll be two games. It's
a twin billing, although they're playing today and Wednesday. Right now.
In the Western Conference standings, the Lakers sit as the
three seed, the Rockets as the four seed. They're one
game ahead of the Nuggets. And the Timberwolves. But if
they win tonight, they will be the number three seed
in the Western Conference. And again I say two and
a half point favorites. You're Houston Rockets, Go Rockets, Go.
Rockets at the four spot could very easily be in
the three when the night's said and done, or could
drop to six in about twenty four hours. Controversial ending
in the World Baseball Classic last night, the United States
defeating the Dominican Republic two to one. In the ninth
inning with Mason Miller against Haraldo Perdomo, there was a
bad strike three count on a two to two pitch
that was well below the zone. Game should have continued, However,
Perdomo struck out instead of getting to the full count
and hoping to turn over the lineup with Fernando Tatiste
Junior waiting on deck. But the United States gets the
victory two to one over the Dominican Republic. They await
the winner of the game tonight Venezuela versus Italy seven
o'clock tonight on FS one. And we'll have a complete
breakdown from you tomorrow because I'm busy with Rockets coverage
as you are you right? Are you going the game tonight.
I'm gonna go Wednesday. Yeah, I'm still feeling like I
don't know an you look at you a doctor, Vincent.
I actually did go back to the doctor last week.
I've been better. I've been better. Okay, good, I'm just
don't get old folks. It's not funny and now just kidding. Well, wait,
you know today it was fifty four degrees for high today.
Apparently it's mea ninety this weekend, as my doctor told
reminded me fluke diggle for full recovery four to six weeks.
So I think I'm still just feeling some ill effect.
So that plus the allergies kept coming, and the CDC
announced over the weekend they flew vaccine was not effective
this year. Okay, great, great, but they put six to
seven strains in there, hoping whichever ones pop or the
ones that are in the in the shot. So you're
telling me not to get it. I'm saying, I don't
think I got mine. I don't know what else you
got today. Elsewhere in the news, Matthew, we were just
talking about it. Yes, well, Aiden Holloway, we were mentioning
it in the last segment. If you guys had not
heard Aiden Holloway averaging sixteen point eight points per game
of four. The Alabama Crimson Tide pulled over and had
a pound of marijuana. First degree possession of marijuana, failure
to a fix attack stamp. Bond set at five thousand dollars.
Unclear from jail records whether he is still being hal
Per Alabama law, the possession charge can carry a penalty
of up to ten years in jail and a fine
of fifteen thousand dollars. But yes, we can talk about
the bracket at large Man tomorrow night and Dayton go ahead,
no no, no, No, Texas Long Horns, come on, Wolfpack.
The winner will advance to the West Region to take
on BYU and get their ass kicked. So looking forward
to that, the Houston Cougars a number two seed in
the South Region. Their number one is the Florida Gators.
They will be taking on Oha Idaho. I should say
on Thursday nine to ten pm Cougar's twenty three and
a half point favorites, awaiting the winner of the Saint
Mary's versus Texas A and M matchup, Go Aggs. After that,
Illinois would be on the three line. Or perhaps they'll
take on North Carolina and then of course it would
be the regional final potentially possibly most likely but maybe
not against the Florida Gators. Go getas until the South
Regional Final. Then you'll lose and revenge will be sweet. Well,
they are the one seed they're taking on TVD. They
Vanderbilt is tough on the five line. Nebraska their four.
They could lose and maybe the Cougars could go back
to the final four. My ticket is I don't have
a hotel yet, So if you, if any of you
are going to Indianapolis and would like to have a roommate,
I'll be happy to join you. I'll pay for some
of the room. I'm good. You're not going No, no,
but I mean you could go. Well, you can meet
me there. Yeah, Cougar's I mean a longhorse will be there,
so I'm not so worried about it, all right, So, Yeah,
anybody has a room for me in Indianapolis, hook me
up at sports Empty on Instagram and Twitter. Instagram nice people,
Twitter mean, I agree. You can see photos of me
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because you're not you're on in public. It was casual
Saint Patrick's day. What Saint Patrick singing is tomorrow? That's
a dress up. No, it was they head dollar Green Beers.
Did you drink any No, that's what I was driving.
I was driving. That's good for you, probably good for me.
Well why were you driving a normal citizen? Because I don't.
I don't live near the park. I drove there I could. Yeah,
but it was a great time, all right. And you
went and you want Instagram sports Harvy? Yeah, I did. Yeah,
follow him into Instagram Sports Harvy because Twitter doesn't give
him much. It's all about Texas basketball takes and it's
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and a Poler Prize winner winner in a Voice for
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nine seven eight Rockets and Lakers snit. We'll have it
for the beginning at seven point thirty with the launch pad.
Brossfeld Ral will be the host for that show. Yes,
I will eight thirty, which means eight forty two tip.
Speaker 16: Plus.
Speaker 2: It's ESPN, right or Peacock's on Peacock. Okay, they don't
slide the second games of those. They don't typically do it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just started and I'm gonna switch the stream
over if you want.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's been excellent. Rockets Magic Hawks is the early
Peacock game. Sorry, good, Yeah, nobody's gonna watch that. I'll
have it on. It's waiting for the Rockets.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Let me get my notes out because I want to
give you a couple of things. Okay, great. You know,
if you're gonna go to a Rockets game anytime soon,
this week would be a good week to do it,
because Michael Jeffrey Jordan is going to lose his spot
in the top five all time in NBA scoring unless
Katie gets a dud, He's going to probably towards the
end of this home saying could be Friday against Atlanta
or Saturday against Miami. Oh, that's right, heat it all. Okay,
that's great because I know some people I'm going Friday.
Are you really good for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very gracious people. Do I know them?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Friends of the show of course? Nice. Yeah. Durant is
uh where do I put the numbers? I thought he
was one hundred and two away at some point eighty seven? Okay,
so now he's eighty seven from passing him. Now, what
do you think will happen when this happens? Do you
think there will be a video locked and loaded, just
like when he passed up Dirk for six ooh from Michael?
Speaker 16: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how Michael feels about people passing him up.
I would assume the answer that would be no. When
Lebron passed Kobe, Kobe tweeted out like, yeah, keep pushing
the game forward, Derek. Of course with the video as
you're mentioning, I honestly, I could see it where Michael
throws in a jab like he's not happy about it
or something. He's like, you're still not better, you still
don't have six rings. He throws in something like that.
Kevin to his credit is exactly very much respects the
people that preceded him. Yes, he's a hooper. He's a hooper. Whoop.
He doesn't say our game is better than theirs. No,
he loves everybody that was when he watched when he
was a kid. Michael was a kid, when he was
a kid, when Michael Jurnan was playing. Yeah, so maybe
there's a relationship that would be there that maybe we
don't know about. But if I was a betting man
on this, Michael Jeffrey can't be. We'll be a little busy.
Now here's the real juggernaut. Let's say that he has
a couple of off games during this next Fourkay, He's
got eighty seven to get to four, So that's twenty
something points a game. Yeah, let's say it's gonna fifteen
point nine. Could happen the first game of our five
four game road trip next week is in Chicago. That'd
be fun, he should say. Would you imagine Kevin Durant
passing Michael Jordan on the center floor. I wonder what
the reaction from the fans would be. My guess would
be total indifference. Indifference. You gotta have some kind of
feeling you wouldn't stop the game. You're not gonna stop
the game here in Houston for that, man, I don't
think you would. I don't know. Top five, I don't know.
Let just talk to your game ops sources, you know what.
I would assume, even Houston the next time out, they
didn't stop the game. Yeah, next time out. Yeah, you
stopped it when Mike, when Lebron got there. But that
was number one. Yes, I don't think you do it
for five. Who's four? Is Kobe four? No, Kobe's already
been passed. Uhh no, who's four? It's Lebron? Is it
Karl malone? Or is he three? One is Michael? I mean?
And one is Lebron? Two? Is Kareem? Three? I think
is Coke?
Speaker 3: I mean? Uh?
Speaker 2: Karl Malone? Is Chamberlain four?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, he's already passed.
Speaker 3: Oh man, we.
Speaker 2: Should know these awesome I should know. We should know
this are bad. You're looking it up, Yeah, I'm looking
it up. I put all time, Oh, I put all teams.
Oh yeah, Kobe's four. Oh, Kobe's four, Koby's four?
Speaker 3: OK?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why I thought Kobe was further back.
Durrant's going to Durant's going to pass Kobe, and Durant's
gonna end at four because I think Durant wants to
play in the twenty twenty eight Olympics, which I mean,
he'd want to be active playing in the NBA's some
money's good. Yeah, he's he got a contra extension, so yes,
he's not he That would put Kobe's at thirty three,
six forty three, So that's a He's about fifteen hundred
points away from Kobe, is is Durant. Karl Malone is
another three thousand points in front of Malone and on
top of Kobe. So yeah, I think I think Durant's
gonna finish at fourth. Uh. He's got sixteen hundred points
last year, He's already over sixteen hundred points this year.
Will Michael Jordan give him his flower? I would say,
I would say it's not going to be a video.
Maybe it's maybe some kind of tweet video. He's not
gonna send a video to the Rockets. I don't think though.
Speaker 3: It would.
Speaker 2: It would blow the building away because that we're not
anticipating Michael Jordan doing that. Uh, but if you're Michael,
if somebody, I mean, I know, the Rockets have had
to ask what is Michael going to say? No, I'm
too busy, he's not getting Yeah, this guy his Nascar
thing going. He's busy on Nascar. He's crushing in Nascar.
Was he changing the all or what you know? Yeah,
he's on the pit crew. Yeah, he's got the headphones on. Yeah,
Breaker one Niner Keith on seven Ounty, Hi, Keith.
Speaker 16: Hey, good afternoon.
Speaker 2: How are y'all amazing? Great?
Speaker 7: So my brother lives in in Annapolis. He's a big
time Lakers fan. So we got a double bet. I'm
feeling pretty good about it because, uh, we normally do
pretty good against the Lakers.
Speaker 2: How do you think about that? What's your bet?
Speaker 16: Twenty five hours per game?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think you're a break even Matt. What do
you think I think you're gonna win a lot of money?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 16: I got Hey, I got a prediction for you.
Speaker 3: Ross.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me write this down, because let's see, you
had your Bari and Tari traded by the deadline. I'm
just looking at it. I'm looking at your old prediction.
Look as Keith, he's bringing right up calling the brag.
So that's why I was like, all right, we're gonna
keep tabs on this. I'm doing pretty good. I may
I may not be bad in a thousand. But you also,
you had Katie on the I R and the Rocket's
not making the playoffs. How are you feeling about that?
Speaker 7: No, I said, if Kate, if they keep playing, he
would go on the I R and we wouldn't make
the playoff.
Speaker 2: Well, he's been playing a ton of minutes.
Speaker 7: Well, the season's not over.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant's averaging thirty six point five minutes per game.
Thirty six point five.
Speaker 7: That's a lot for a thirty seven year old.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, you need the Rockets to miss the
playoffs for that to be right. You're gonna be wrong
on that. Go ahead.
Speaker 7: No, I don't want I don't want the Rockets to
miss the playoffs. I want them to go as far
as they can go.
Speaker 2: I got the document ready, Go ahead. I'm ready with
the document where you're you're all right?
Speaker 3: Prediction?
Speaker 16: Go ahead, here's here's my prediction.
Speaker 2: You got your partner.
Speaker 7: They're always is hating on this individual, and I'm I
got something that I'm predicting. This individual is going to
be in the top twenty QBR if he don't get hurt.
His name is Malik Willis.
Speaker 2: He sucks. Top twenty, come on now.
Speaker 7: Top twenty. When these is always gonna be in the
top twenty.
Speaker 2: That's not that out of thirty two out of thirty two. Yeah,
it's not that great any prediction. But okay, already down.
I want you to be right, because you know I
love when Matt Trump.
Speaker 7: Yes, he's always wrong about Malik Willis. He's he's been
Willis fin he's the tight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was terrible there. He'd be terrible as a packer,
you'd be terrible. Is where'd he go? Now, Steelers? Where's
the hell is he now?
Speaker 16: Miami?
Speaker 2: Miami? Oh well that's gonna be great. That's gonna be
just with brand new coach, new new. Yeah, that'd be
a lot of kills gone. Tyreek Hill's somewhere in Winnebego,
Winnebago cruise or something. I don't know. He's just terrible.
Get out. Yeah, your predictions are terrible. Yeah, No, I know,
Medigue Willa is not good, not good at all. I'm
rooting for Elk. You can root from all you want to.
You can better throw with his left hand, And he
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MT twelve thirty seven ninety We will resume on the
phone to a matter of moments. Did you watch election
some day itself? That is a big deal in our house.
I mean a matter of fact. I had the whole
family over had for dinner last night. We love seeing
where the team's go and whatnot. And then maybe it's
just something for our family out others. But it was
interesting to see where people were going, and a lot
of criticism about Bruce Pearl being on the broadcast. I
normally check it out, but I just I didn't. Is
it because you're you know why I was in Milan?
You're you you don't have for a squad? You know
you don't care. I care, But I don't want to
stress over it. Okay, how about that. So Bruce Pearl
is the analyst on TNT and CBS, and apparently, you know,
he has been very critic of Miami Ohio getting in. Well,
his son's team, the team that he coached last year
did not make the tournament, and there was a lot
of Bruce Pearl sucks, Bruce Pearl's bias. Bruce Pearl doesn't
have any skins in the game. He's just a loudmouth
that wont say these things. He's going after the committee
chair for not putting in Auburn when he put in Miami.
And then it came out that he is still being
employed by Auburn through some sort of secondary services country. Really, well,
what did Auburn fan do to back that up? Apparently
Nick Saban is still being paid by Alabama in a
secondary services Really, yes, I as an ambassador or some
kind of whatever. When I know this for a fact,
when Calvin Sampson retires, he's going to be the same
sort of thing. He is going to be given a
contract to be a ambassador, consultant to the athletic personal service,
whatever the case whatever. So it's not uncommon, but It's
so funny we find ourselves in sports in particular. I'm
sure this happens in politics too, but we don't talk
about politics. And I got you a moment until somebody
else gets you with it? Gotcha?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? So what about this? Yeah? How
did this happen? Well, you weren't so mad about this
when this happened to your team. Hypocrisy time proves everyone
a hypocrite in politics. Now, I'll just say this, Bruce
Pearl doesn't bother me. I don't watch a lot of
college basketball studio shows, but the reality is I wanted
to watch this one because I want to see where
the Cougars were going to be playing. But it was
such a big deal for how dare Bruce Pearl be
on there? And Bruce Pearl did obnoxiously say that Miami
should not be in. Now, he was wrong, but he
wasn't that wrong. They have to go to the playing
game to play, so they're barely in. They were one
of the last four at large teams in the tournament. Yes,
with a schedule strength of two ninety six. I believe
that is the low. You may have checked the sun
on Kimpom. Are they the lowest Ken Palm ever to
reach an at large spot, I wouldn't. I would say probably.
I would say from a scheduling standpoint, they're probably the
lowest ever. They they're ninety third on those ranks, the
kin Pomeroy's net rankings, which I always use every year. Yeah,
ninety third. How many ninety third teams in Kim pom
get at large spots of the inncibility turn Probably probably,
I'm gonna guess it's a zero. Never ever happened. So
even though people are ripping on Bruce pro because there
is a conflict of interest, I mean, the sun is there.
He he won that far off. They're six and a
half point dogs and well, according to Kim Palm Roy,
the highest ranked team to not be in is Auburn
at thirty eighth. I mean again, I don't know how
many Auburn fans are just beside themselves over this seventeen
and sixteen Sure it's not a great tragedy. Yeah, it
just I would say for anybody that wants to root
for the underdog, had the underdog play somebody because you
got in by the skin of your teeth. Yeah, if
you can't make the top sixty eight.
Speaker 16: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not crying over you. I'm really not. I'm sorry.
Play better win one or two more other games schedule
somebody seriously, So there you go. But it was funny
because everybody's like, oh, Bruce Pearl still on the payroll
of Aubert Well, Nick Save apparently still on the on
the payroll it. And my guess is that, I mean,
there'll be a lot of coaches that will be on
the payrolls of other schools as consultants.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Jay Wright was a guy that was still getting paid
by a Valanova when he quit and worked when working
for CBS. It happens, didn't Bruce Pearl like, didn't he
interview the Miami of Ohio coach something and he was
trying to play nice. Well, I don't know that. I
think I saw that. I know he was. He was
interviewing the NCAA tournament chair and dropped a little auburn
on him and then Set Davis, his TV partner, came
to his rescue said, Bruce Pearl, for you being on
the TV set for the first time during this, you
did a really good job. Everybody's like, Cheth David shut
you'll bamb ass up. We defend our colleagues. Yeah. He
had him on an interview and was like, Oh, it's
just business, nothing personal. It's a hundred percent personal.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: I think Bruce Pearl's gregarious. I think Bruce Parrol can coach.
But Chris Brice Pearl has been a convicted h cheater
in the NCBLA. He said some NCAA issues, Yeah, that happens.
He's probably not the most e'sical guy in the world.
I don't know, which makes me crazy that he's not
selling it. Well, if his violations were legal, now, then
he's all good. Just like Kelvin Simps exactly could have said,
I don't remember what his violations were. Oh, Calvin's texting
too No, I'm talking about Pearl. Oh I don't know.
But Calvin's was texting too much, which again, maybe that
I'm too close to it, and that's fine. Call me
a hypocrite, hypocrite, but why can't you text a kid
a bunch of times unless the kid says, leave me alone.
I don't know. See if you get if you get
a five year banishment because you text too many, you
can't you can't contact that much. N Cuba Investigation uh,
members of his family to a cookout unofficial visit. This
is a Pearl right, yeah, I guess they were doing.
He wasn't supposed to be with the coach and he
was at a cookout and Bruce Pearl told everybody not
to tell anyone about it, and then the in and
then cuble A came and investigated, and Pearl lied about
the cookout. So here's a double liar. And also told
Aaron Kraft the Prospect to tell his father to lie
about it. Triple liar. There you go. Remember average person
lies what I'd say four times a day, Rossie and
Bruce Pearl might be over, yeah, Scott on seven on
a Hello Scott.
Speaker 1: Ross what's going on?
Speaker 3: Guys? All right?
Speaker 1: I have I have four small little things. I'll try
and keep them as concise as possible. Number One, this
past weekend I was at a gender reveal slash baby shower,
which don't even get me started on why men are
now invited to those things and that's now normalized. That's
another thing I didn't need to have on my calendar
this weekend, although it was a good time. While I
was there, I got to know the wife's or the
mother to Be's father. His name is mister Matthew Speck.
I don't know if he's listening at this moment or not,
but he's a long time listener of the show, and
we had a really great conversation about how much we
love listening to you guys, and I would prefer this
network over the propaganda network that's, you know, also local
to the area. So I wanted to just give him
a shout.
Speaker 2: Out and shout out both of you. Major shout outs
to both of you. Yes, thank you so much. Tell
ten of your fellows.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So number two really quickly. I was leading the car
about thirty minutes ago listening and I tried to call
him in, but I know I wouldn't have enough time.
I had to get out. I've never spent calling to
you guys all the time. I've never had a chance
to actually speak with Chris Gordy, but I heard him
explain his dislike for Nate Oates, the Alabama basketball head coach,
and his reasoning for that was that Nate Oates is
a slimeball and there's nothing about him that anyone should
be able to root for. He shouldn't be allowed to
say that being he's an LSU fan.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 1: I remember when just a mere few months ago, when
I was upset about my ole missed football team losing
Lane Kiffin and Matt You would try to say, look,
you would say, hey, look, I understand Lane's there, he's
a good coach, whatever, but he's a S lineball and
he wouldn't even admit that Lane Kiffen is a sline ball.
So his credibility on the line ball meter is at
an absolute zero, and no one should take anything he
says with that seriously at all. Number number three, the
U of H in Florida, potential matchup in Houston, as
crazy as that could be, And if I was Florida,
I'd be upset. Just people don't forget this has happened before.
We had to go play Auburn in Birmingham as a
one seed a few years back, so that, I mean
that was absolutely ridiculous as well too. I would be
upset if I was Florida. And then finally, I don't
know if you guys remember I called in last week
talked about the ABS challenge system. You wait until the
playoffs this year in a game ends like it did
in a little baseball Classic. With a call like that,
they're gonna go to an automated Ballton strike system very
very quickly. That's my full time should say.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thanks Scott for the phone call of the
gender reveal. Yeah, unfortunately, maybe I'm close. I'm too old.
Never been no gender reveal. Really well, my people, my
friends my age, are not having children. They've already had children.
Unless you know, some accidents happened or your Are you
friends with al Pacino?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, we've never He's still he's still getting after it?
Speaker 4: Is he?
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah? God, you think you said that in gender reveal?
Probably not. You're thinking about doing an al Pacino? But
I could see the No, I could see the gears turning.
Keep you're thinking about doing an al Pacino impression? Keep
the tip jar out there. Wah no, I can't. No, no,
no other than the bathtub twelve forty. Oh, there you go,
that's mine. I'm not kidding. No, I'm trying to provoke.
Thank God, I'm not a good person to provoke him.
I wish I was good. Let's talk about synergenetics. Sure,
you know what al Pacino might need might get his testosterone?
Speaker 15: God?
Speaker 2: Oh no, left all right, Well, al Pacino is still
getting after it and he's like in his eighties. But
you know what, it is a serious conversation. If two
five seven, Honie Ross, we were talking about whether or
not we believe it. Bruce Pearl is an honest man.
Bruce Pearl was a guest of the Dan Patrick Show,
which is a Premiere Radio Networks show which we can
grab some audio for our friends, so they are our friends.
And here is Dan Patrick with a couple of minutes
with Bruce Pearl talking about just the fact that can
he as an analyst talk about Auburn Tiger basketball? Can
you look at Auburn objectively?
Speaker 11: Yes, on one hundred percent, Ken Like, I think it's
okay that Auburn and Oklahoma, for example, aren't a field.
I think it's okay they should have won one more game,
and so there's nobody complaining about it. But I pride
myself on telling what I really think.
Speaker 2: Was I rooting for my son?
Speaker 11: Of course I was rooting for my son. People say, well,
you got your son the job. No, I didn't get
my son the job. My son played for me. My
son was an assistant for me for eleven years. He's
the associated coach, he was the defense and corner. Did
I help him?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 11: I did?
Speaker 2: As an dad, of course I did. But you look
at are you paid by Auburn?
Speaker 11: You know what, I'm in an ambassador's position, and not
many Jewish days would walk.
Speaker 2: Away from thirty million dollars, but this one did.
Speaker 11: And you know who does that. My wife was like, Honeken,
why couldn't you just stink for a couple of years,
let them fire you and pay you ten million dollars
to do what you're doing now? But no, you go
ahead and quit, leave all that on the table. Yeah no, Dan,
I objectivity for me not an issue.
Speaker 22: Okay, But I don't know if you have to disclose
that that, Hey, I'm still paid as an ambassador for Auburn.
If it felt like you were kind of dinging Miami,
Ohio because Auburn was going to be on the bubble.
So that's the appearance, okay, that's that's how a lot
of people look. So the appearance of that, the optics
didn't look good.
Speaker 3: That's that's fair.
Speaker 11: And it certainly as a former Auburn basketball coach, what
former coach or former athlete? You know, Charles Barkley roots
for Auburn, he does. But Charles Barkley is always going to.
Speaker 2: Keep it real and and but he was paid at Auburn,
not after Auburn. That's fair enough.
Speaker 11: Hey, hey, listen, what if if if I wasn't able
to be objective, I wouldn't continue to be an Auburn.
It's it's sort of u uh, it's sort of the
best of both worlds. I would give that up in
a heartbeat. If if it if optics became such an
issue that I couldn't be an analyst jic. You know
Jay Wright works worked at Villanova for all those years,
he still worked there, and uh nobody questioned whether not
Jay Wright would have been objective?
Speaker 2: All right, Bruce lies He quit like three weeks before
the start of the season. There was no one else
he could get the job to. His son was there
for the longest time. That's number one. What else did
he say?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 2: Uh, he could object He's not upset that Auburn and
Oklahoma on the tournament. That's a lie as well, does
it again? Person? Lies hells four times four lives a day,
got like four and two minutes. Yeah, I mean he's
he's well above the national average.
Speaker 3: Wow. I mean.
Speaker 2: It's a it's an unsavory business. It's a business that
you have to lie, cheap, be corrupt. Ethical ethics are
out the window. I mean, I don't know what else
to tell you, but I like him. I'm not saying
I'm anti Bruce Pro. Bruce Pro want to come on
the show we talk basketball with him. I don't really
listen to his analysis, so I don't really have much
of an opinion. But it just calls spade a spade
on this one. I mean, you know, you got to
just be honest here on this. You got to say,
you know, look, I have a vested interest. My son's
hit by his son not making the tournament. It cost
him money, not Bruce Son's money. Does he is? He
pissed off the Miami with a schedule drink The two
ninety six got in Absolutely, he is say it. Do
we have history of a son taking over for their
father in college sports and it working out? First thing,
I think of his Bobby Knight's son that didn't work
at Nope, old old old school. Ray Meyer had a son.
It was it was a long time successful coach of
DePaul and he gave it to his son Joey, and
Joey did not do well there Auburn's and no, the
son taking over immediately and it worked. Not that comes
to mind. Yeah, the next one will be you know,
Kellen is scheduled to be the coach when Kelvin leaves. Yes,
whatever that may be. Well, you're hoping to turn around
the Ben said a president.
Speaker 8: Matt.
Speaker 2: That's right. That's a great question. Is there any son
that has been gifted the job that has been as
successful as Pops? I can't think of it.
Speaker 14: Not.
Speaker 2: I mean generally, it's hard to follow any great coach. Yeah. Literally,
you go to any coach who was even not a son,
and they follow an all time great, it doesn't go well.
Terry on seven Honty, Hello there, Terry, what's going on?
Speaker 11: Matt?
Speaker 15: What's going on? Mister America?
Speaker 2: Hello, Terry is taking on am I? Mister America. You
are mister America. I love it, Terry. You know you
sound like Joe Biden.
Speaker 15: Gee, thank you. You sound like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't think so, but go ahead,
go ahead, Terry.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I got a question for you. Remember when Mexico
played Italy at Dyke in.
Speaker 2: Last week.
Speaker 15: Yeah, my cousin went to the game. He lives in Houston. Okay,
do you know there are twelve ice agers outside dyke
In Park twelve?
Speaker 2: What I did not know that? Ice agents, Ice agents,
Ice agents. No, I did not know that.
Speaker 15: Yep, all right, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Terry, Thank you, Terry friden Man,
you're a one horse phony.
Speaker 6: Tell you.
Speaker 2: Ardan's sound like Joe Biden a little bit. We alle
these truths to be self evingent, oh man, and women creative.
Speaker 21: By the go.
Speaker 16: You know the you know the thing.
Speaker 2: This one's for Jonathan. You off the board. I'll come
up and drag you all alright, I'm done. Are you
sure you're done? All right? You want to play my
favorite one? Go ahead, just knock it out. Oh Joe,
Oh Joey b poor kids are just as bright and
just as talent as white kids. Oh Joe. Oh wait,
this is a good one too.
Speaker 17: But for a billion, two hundred trillion, two hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 11: What.
Speaker 2: I'm beginning to see why your wife left you. Friend
of the show, Adam Winkler says, Randy and Tony Bennett
m father's son. Is that a father son singer like
Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra Junior Randy, the longtime coach
at Saint Mary's. Tony was a former coach at Virginia
that won the national championship before retiring in twenty twenty four.
Will you take over a job for a son? That's
That's what I'm meaning, where the son was getting like
literally handed the job. Yeah, No, I don't think so, okay,
because you got the Drew family done quite well, but
nobody got in hand of the Drew. Yeah. Maybe I
don't know. Did Homer Drew hand the job to Bryce
that didn't work out well? Because I don't think Bryce's
a valp anymore?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Things that through my head? Yeah, let's move on. Sorry
he brought this up final out I did. Sorry, it's
my fault. It is your foot. Take the Blowe Emmanuel
and Ease is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross one
four on Sports Talk seven nine eighty Was that strike
still strike? Ross in that WBC Jamaican Republic not Happy?
Still goes down in the history books as a strike.
Speaker 17: Steer three call game over USA. I'm the w b
C Championship and up for a title. That's more important
than a World Series crown. The Astros are twenty seventeen
world champions. Spam Adebayo scored eighty three and that was
strike three.
Speaker 2: That's just how it is. Twenty twenty six, seven Nights Show.
All right, Matt and Rocks with me for the final
hour of the show. Believe it or not, coming up
in about fifty forty five minutes here on Sports Talk
Sided Yeah, and new Rockets and I against the Lakers.
Eight thirty tip times, sob may get your little nappy
in and if you're going with the game, aneven thirty
tip just say seven. Tip time is eight o six.
There you go. We got the lower bowl issues forty two.
Oh Ros, it's that's late for pops. You'd be all right,
get your extra coffee, get your halftime coffee. Oh my god,
I'll be drinking lots of coffee. I'll be wired tomorrow
morning and I'll crash with you about twelve thirty at
a half time. Or you don't have time to do
you come down and get the halftime tendys. I do not,
but our engineer sometimes brings back, so that's nice. Yeah,
I'm not gonna do it. The other side of the Bowl.
I know, so I know you were thinking about asking Wednesday.
You can do Wednesday. Yeah, see here we go. All right,
Rockets will get the tournament out. The Cougars are on
the number two seed in the South. Yes, Gary Parrish
front of the show, Gary Parish making Dallas. What does
he say? Gary Parrish says, this is a travesty that
the Cougars get to be have a home game on
the two. Oh the two line. Oh you got something
for him on Wednesday. You gotta write that down. I mean, honestly,
if I'm a Florida fan, I'm not happy about it. No,
but I think I think the logistics are just too much.
Speaker 4: So just.
Speaker 2: If they're they're the I mean, human Almond comes into play.
Phil buildings up. It's easier to get Houston fans to
go to a Houston game that it'll be Houston fans
to go to a game in Washington.
Speaker 22: D C.
Speaker 2: Did Jayhawks get every big twelve tournament every year in
Kansas City?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: And you know when they still lose sometimes being get
their asks by the Cougar's Absolutely they can still lose. Yeah,
home buildings make a difference, not the supreme difference, and
By the way, the Cougars have not been It's not
like they go to Tota Center and win by twenty
five points. The real home building is a for Tita Center.
Tota Center is the seventeen thousand Cedarreen. It's gonna have
a lot of Florida fans there. How was the Florida
State Houston game?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: Not great? Eight thousand? Really? Yeah, tournament will Oh, you're
blaming Florida State. They need to travel old God, your
fan base should fill that place up. But we only
like our home building. Oh okay, we feel more comfortable home.
Colum Boulevard's our friend. This is how many lies a day?
Did you say?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 2: Money from me? E? Easy?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 2: Seven on seven?
Speaker 16: Hello easy, I'm bringing back the conversation earlier about the
gender reveal in Albertino. You guys were talking about dementia.
You think he goes back and says money, it's gonna
be a girl. Elvidra, elvidra.
Speaker 2: That was. Let me let me tell you some as
long as you chuckled, easy, that makes the phone call,
you know.
Speaker 3: That, right? Yeah? Of course?
Speaker 16: And chicking the ball. How are we gonna do with
the outfield with the Astros who's out there, who's available, gentleman,
and I hang up.
Speaker 2: With thank you easy. Now did you tell me something
that Chandler Rome put out last day or so? Yes,
Chandler Rome put out his roster projection and he does
not at the moment have I don't believe he has
Zach Cole in the outfield. And he does it by
basically by position group. He doesn't say this is the starters,
this is the bench. When he listed outfielders, he listed
Jake Myers, camp Smith, Taylor Tremmell, and Joey Loperfido. It
must be because Tremmell is having a fantastic spring. He is,
and Zach Cole has options low Perfido also has options.
I want to say Taylor Tremill is out of them,
but I don't know that for a one percent fact.
Not not that it would matter, but yes, I there's
a difference set up. I mean, Zach Cole has been
given the opportunity and the numbers have not been great.
He didn't. Yeah, he's out of options Tremmeell, so it
makes sense for him to make it. Let Zach Cole,
who's been the as Chandler mentions the numbers have been great,
but the exit velos have been but he's also struck
out at fourteen out of twenty nine plate appearances. This
is a game. And if he doesn't make the team,
and that's Challenger's just one voice. But he's down there
every single day, so you have a better pulse than
we would at this point. That's gonna probably push Yard
on it in the left field more when everybody's healthy. Yeah,
because I mean, are you pushing with Myers? Smith has
been hitting some in spring and has retooled his swing. Yeah,
you're gonna start Taylor Tramill every left every day. That
could be a lot of yort on. I'm okay with that.
I'm okay with that. I like Taylor Tremill. Nice young man, yes,
but there's no sock, very limited defensively. He can play that,
he can play twenty eight years old. We're not talking
about some young prospect. Super nice guy too. You interviewed him. No, no, no,
that isn't the problem. The problem is you need power
in your corner outfield spots. Oh I thought you needed
nice guys out there. No, I have jerks and they
can hit Son. Go ahead, here's the button you're hitting
the panic button. I'm scared to death about the outfield.
I really am, and maybe I am just trying to
be I'm not trying to grab headlines here or do
you crazy something. I there has been nothing that has
made me think that the issues before Spring turning have
been resolved over the last month.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 2: I mean, the natural thing is for escoch paratists to
be traded and to get some outfield help. That would
be the natural progression, or in the natural idea, That's
what it feels like the idea has been. But now
you have the Jeremy Penia injury. Zach Cole is struggling.
But even if you wanted to move paraties, knowing what
other teams know that the Astros need to outfield help,
is your best value going to be picked up via
trade in the month of April. I don't think so.
You're kind of waiting for an injury. I mean, waiting
for injuries when it comes to pitching is one thing.
If you're waiting for somebody literally to have a third
basement hurt, that's kind of fuck. It's too much of
a long shot. It feels like I think Jordon Alvarez
is gonna be able to go into jo Aspata's office
and say, you need some sock. You got Preadi's You're
not gonna need to sit him once Jeremy's healthy, play
me in left field half the time. It makes natural sense.
That is the most simple solution. The keep it simple,
stupid kiss solution is to put jord On Moren left
and just wrap up Yornon Alvarez in plastic or whatever
you gotta do, bubble wrap when he's not in the
field or not on the play, so you make sure
he's getting eating his vitamins, saying his prayers. He's always
gonna work out, but in the field, the reality is
he gets hurt more on the bass pass than ever
in the field. That's true, but you're still trying to
limit his exposure. They don't want him out there, especially
running up against the I want to element out of
his game. That could potentially get him hurt. He hasn't
gotten injured against the fence, but he's hurt himself against
the fence. All of us good for Sureah Well, he
jumps up there, he's got a big arm, covers decent ground.
I just don't Jake Myer's helping you out there. As
much as I think Taylor Tremmell is a major league player,
he's a fourth outfielder. And when you already are worried
about your right side of your outfield with Cam Smith
and whether or not that Jake Myers can provide the
same sort of not necessarily slog but just overall ops,
you need a bona fide home run threat out there,
and you don't want to have huge spots of uncertainty
six seven, eight nine, even if they can defend the position. Well,
Low Braffdos told us in spring there were some things
that he did in Toronto that he really feels like
he can carry over to Houston. What amount of stock
do we put in that? Because I think it was
like eight to sixty ops or something like that in
very small sample size. And he also wasn't included in
every playoff roster for the Blue Jays. Can we maybe
try to hold out some hope there? Well, I think
there's gonna be plenty of opportunities for little Carafido to
take some spots. First of all, the Astros traded for
I mean, when you make a trade for a player,
even though you are trying to save money, you want
that player to succeed. You want to give him an opportunity,
you want to stash him on the bench. It's can
be a very fluid situation. We'll see, but I think
people are gonna lose their minds over pretty quickly. Can't
Wait Fire Joe Aspota. Takes are going to start at
the moment, the moment opening dayline anybody goes time for that,
the moment opening day lineups get posted. Can't Wait one
thirteen of The Matt Thomas Show at Ross seven one three, two,
one two, five, seven ninety, Will, Manuel Vince, We'll get
to all three of you in mere moments seven one three, two,
one two five, seven ninety. I asked Ross's questions during
the breaks, and he never answers them. I guess you
owe me. I often throw grenades at you right before
that we're coming back. That's as accurate, very off color commentary,
right when we're coming back. Well on seven ninety Will,
good afternoon to you, Hey, good afternoon, guys.
Speaker 21: I want to talk about the rockets, and I'll preface
this by saying I'm sure I'm gonna get burned for
this take or.
Speaker 2: All right there it comes, well, pass to get them
hold on, should I get some sizzle? There we go,
Let's get some botch?
Speaker 3: You going here?
Speaker 8: And here we go?
Speaker 2: All right, go ahead.
Speaker 21: Now, let me preface this by Let me preface this
by saying that I think if the Rockets had Van
Fleet and Steven Adams, they would be going toe to
toe with a thunder. So if they have the opportunity
to run it back by all means.
Speaker 4: Do that.
Speaker 2: But my question is about Sengoon.
Speaker 21: I look at his I look at his true shooting percentage,
you know, and it's not It's never been great, but
it's gone down year by year. So my question is,
is is there another level that he can get to?
Speaker 2: And if not?
Speaker 21: And if the Rockets have another first round exit, am
I crazy for thinking the Rockets may.
Speaker 2: Be a better team moving on from sing Gun? Be nice? Please? No,
First of all, you're not the only person thinks that. Okay,
it's not the craziest thing. That's not the craziest thing.
We're gonna send this tape to the people of Turkey,
so good luck with that. Now, if Turky's Twitter finds
out about you, will good luck. Your life's over. You'll
be buried in concrete in the next thirty six hours.
I'll just say this, Uh, I don't think he's played
his well post All Star Break as he did pre
All Star Break. His points are down, his turnovers are up.
His shooting percentage should be higher than it should be. Yep,
there are great things about him. He's in an elite
passer for US big man, decent rebounder when he charges
to the basket. The pump fakes get teams nine to
nine percent of the time. The outside shot is not improved,
the defense continues to be underverwhelming. Yeah, there are still
a lot of good things about him. But if I've
given you the awesomeness about him and the warts as well,
guess who also knows about all the things I just
described twenty nine other NBA tech every other team in
the league. So it's hard for me to move on
from somebody if you don't love him, to expect another
team to love him more than what you do. And
at this point, so that's the reason why it's hard
for me to get into conversations about well, you know
any play whether's football player, basketball player, baseball player. If
you know them intimately, so do the other people on
the other side of the trade. Of the phone conversations.
Speaker 21: Yeah, and I agree, And I mean, I'm not under
any false pretenses that they're going to trade him and
get Janni Sante Tocumpo or something like that, but I
just feel like, you know, and I'm not an expert
enough to tell you who, but you know, if they
could get somebody, a facilitator, you know, somebody like that,
this team could possibly look better. I just for me,
you know, I feel like true shooting percentage is the
ops of basketball statistics, and it's very concerning to me that,
you know, I'm looking at it the other day and
not that it was ever great for a center, for
a five, but it's it's gone down pretty consistently every
single year. And you know, people want to call him
Baby Jokic, and obviously that's an exaggeration, but I mean,
if we're getting into the deep dive analytics of it,
he's nowhere close. I mean, and if the rockets, if
Rafael Stone came out, or if you guys want to
come out and say that they think he's going to
get to that level, I.
Speaker 2: Mean I'll buy that. I'm willing to wait on it.
Speaker 21: I just I kind of feel like he may have
hit his ceiling, and I'm just not sure he's ever
going to be a really efficient player and maybe even
fit what the Rockets want to do.
Speaker 2: So if that's just my key, Yeah, if that was
your take, and that's what sounds like you is will,
then what would you expect in return? I mean, you
can't give what you just described and two other players
and say I'm going to go get the For instance,
you would have to if you want to go get
Yannis and you wanted to get him in the sweepstakes,
I'm sure the Bucks would want Opera in shan Gun.
He has a two time All Star, but that's not
going to satisfy the deal. There's gonna be several first
round picks, or maybe another life player is part of
it as well. He would have to be a part
of a large package.
Speaker 16: A mono.
Speaker 2: A mono deal would not necessarily bring back a player
that you said, oh, this guy is free awards. I
think what he could do in a trade.
Speaker 21: If you're if we're talking Jannis, You're absolutely right, you
got to package a lot more. But I think his
biggest trade value at this point would be the name.
You know, if the Bucks, If the Bucks are trading
Giannis ante Tokumpo. You know, they're going to have to
sell that to their fan base and getting a big
name like Alpera and Sengoon, while the real meat of
the trade for them is you know, the what is it,
the Brooklyn pick in a few years. I mean, I
feel like that's his value at this point. Other than that,
I mean, you're probably looking at trading him for role players,
I'm guessing, but again I'm not an expert on this, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to trade a life human being,
especially when this human being is right now the second
most important player on your basketball team and a back
to back Area star. And yeah, it's an interesting conversation.
He's twenty three years old, Like, that's the thing we
have to remember as well, kid, there's still room for
him to grow and improve. And the shooting numbers have
gone down will And it's not exactly like ops, because
as your usage goes up, your numbers are gonna go down.
So his usage has gone up, and so the efficiency
has gone down a little bit. Turnovers are up, which
of course a lot of that is a function of
Fred van Vliet not being out. And also I will
throw in that he had that ankle injury in December,
didn't look the same, came back really quickly, and he
was horrible for a big stretch. That definitely seems playing
through paying he's got back spasm saying he's still questionable
for tonight's game, so that sank his numbers. Can he
I think the biggest thing that where I see improvement
for alpry ching Gun long term is if he gets
twenty six twenty seven years old, keeps with the weight
training programs and gets stronger and stronger. If he becomes
like a even he can push guys around, but when
he goes up against like a Jonas Valanciunas or some
of the like the other Sinners who are pretty big,
he struggles. If he can get to that strength to
where he can bully guys around, both offensively and on
the boards, then I think he can unlock another level.
I just don't know that he can do that.
Speaker 12: Yeah with chin Gun, A caller a couple of days
ago made a very good point he hasn't had a
break like he played all through the summer with the
euro Basket. Yeah, and then it came into this and
I mean that could be a thing where he needs
to lay off that coming back next season. If Van
Bleet's ready to go, I mean that could just be
he's exhausted, like he has no time his rest.
Speaker 2: The I think for a guy that plays beyond the
free throw line as much as he does, I want
to see he had some asseumblance of a three point
shot first months of the year, but that's gone away,
and now you can to put him and Amend Thompson
the floor for significant minutes on the floor at the
same time, with both guys not being able to shoot
outside of fifteen feet, that's troublesome. That makes the that
makes scouting him a little bit easier. Now, put his
head down, bowl in China shop, go to the basket,
go get it out, be go to those three sixty
twist moves.
Speaker 3: Go.
Speaker 2: His footwork for being a guy his size is incredible.
I'm ross, I'm kind of I knew what he used defensively,
I just know, can can he diverse by his offensive game?
Can he be at a sixty percent clip inside ten
feet as compared to being about a forty five percent clip.
That's where I see I think the improvement needs to
care of bulking up and filling out your body. He
is twenty three years old. That that would be that
would be the plan if I'm the Rockets, yep, emmanual evince,
We'll get to you. One two, we come back seven
one three two one two five seven ninety if you
want to chime in behind behind those guys seven one
three two one two five seven NINTI With a reminder,
it's a very googleable edition of today's Believe It or Not,
and that it's coming up at one fifty. It does
revolve around the sixty eight teams in the NCAA tournament.
Apparently Alabama guard Aid and Holloway will be available for
their first round game against Hofstra Nato. It's quoting Aiden
is a good kid. The whole thing is a big misunderstanding. Yeah,
it's gonna happen, big misunderstanding. Poweed's a big old misunderstanding.
We found a fall guy. So you're saying, Bob, we
have the three of us. How does this work out?
Am I? Y'alls fall guy? Absolutely Jonson in this situation,
any situation. Yeah, yeah, now you gotta we gotta get
yeah here, we got you down. I will be your
fall guys. Okay, good. You'll get off easy. Thank you,
Vince on seven a head events. Yeah, hey guys, Hey.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about this earlier before you guys started
talking about coaches sons. In terms of Calvin Sampson and
his son, Kellen Kelvin seventy. I mean, I'm guessing he's
got at least three three good years, maybe four or five.
And if Kellen is like the heir apparent, do you
think he's going to have the same type of respect
from his players that Kelvin does, you know, especially you
know in light of how Kellen kind of berates his kids,
you know, during games in front of everybody, which is
okay with me. I'm totally fine with that because I
know there's an aside to that, But how do you
think that, if that is the progression, how the players
and recruitse will react toward his son.
Speaker 2: I can't answer that question because every individual is different,
every coach is different. Thank you for the phone call, Vince.
The reality is Kelvin Kellen, which make sure Kellen the son.
It's been an assistant coach for a long time and
you've learned a lot of things from your father, but
Kelln's also half his age. And is going to be
dealing with eighteen nineteen year olds for the foreseeable future. Well,
Kelvin has been doing this for a long time and
is in the not downside, but there are a few
remaining years he's going to be a coach. Y does
that make sense? He's in the back end. Back in.
I give credit to seven year olds that can relate
to nineteen year olds because most seven year olds cannot
relate to nineteen year olds. Well, especially a high and
high compensated college basketball Well, it's usually when you have
a level of a success that's going to comeand respect
to which he does. Yes. Now, the big thing that
Kellen won't have that Kelvin has is that Kelvin can
go into a parent's home and say, I'm gonna get
your kid ready for the NBA. He's gonna get an education,
he's gonna work hard. I'm gonn give him some tough love.
Kellen can't do that because Kellen's never done it directly.
He's been a byproduct. I've been not directly said hey,
I've got this kid of the NBA. I got this
kid to graduate. But that's you know, that's what Kellen
could have easily got a head coaching job at a
lot of small division ones. He decided he wanted to
stick around with Dad and either soak it up or
enjoy the experience of being a number one assistant. And
the plan isn't placed for to be a head coach.
The leash will be short, however, is just what we imagine.
I again, when you are gifted a job, your leash
will be shorter than if you are not gifted a job.
Year one for young Pearl, no tournament, no tournament. Year two,
they don't make tournament. We'll see. By the way, Penny
Harley gonna stay at Memphis really makes a lot of money.
They said, you can stay if we hire a general manager,
which you're going to do, okay, and you get get
rid of all your coaches brand new slain House, sleen House,
And he said, okay. He must love the job. Plus
he's easier, it's easier to compensate those that are leaving
that it is the Megga millions that he's being paid
at Memphis right now. He's a Memphis King, went to
play at college basketball at Memphis. Hard to get rid
of one of your own, but it's it's been done. Yes,
it has signed Clyde Drexler. Uh, sign Cliff Kingsbury. Yes,
and that guy could have lived in Lubbock if you'd
just gone to seven wins every year. Let's go doing great. No,
I thought he got I thought he got hired up. No, no,
he a fired. He got fired at then he got
hired up. Everyone's like what, Yeah, he's still got it.
He gets work every year.
Speaker 3: Good for him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's targetting, like go by your
oble manor. I've got people that have got like friends
of mine have gotten like go by their manor. It's
very difficult. Manuel one and seven on em Manuel, what
do you got today?
Speaker 8: I just want to realizing that you're the new big
cub boddies and uh, they're gonna be running this.
Speaker 2: Oh it's that Zona fan.
Speaker 8: Yes, I mean all those who'll be real good. And
then what happened with Burnings looked up? Finally when the
pretty slump and then that was it?
Speaker 2: Are you calling us from the moon?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What kind of what kind of phone are you on?
Speaker 3: The ask?
Speaker 2: Is this one small step for man? One giant leave
for mankind? What has happened right now?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 8: You all, my little better and I'm not working.
Speaker 2: You sound like hell and your squad is gonna lose
to my Cougars. Known that things are great one of
the Hey, you get some bet it's hard to beat
out Arizona wins eight on five. I love eight on five.
By the way, I can't hear that enough. Manuel, We
love you. Thank you for calling saying I think you
said Cougar's by six. That's nice. I appreciate that very much. Yeah,
just calling us from inside of coal mine. By the way,
speaking of Houston, Coogan grates our friend read get it's
gonna be on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Love talking to Reid. I don't want to talk to
him about He will give you an update on Texas.
I don't want that. So you tell me I should
not ask him about textas. There's always next year you can.
Why are you?
Speaker 12: Why are you so negative? Ross Matt was just going
to somewhare do the same thing.
Speaker 2: Texas basketball has been hurting me longer than you have
been alive, Jonathan. Think of every memory. Think of your
I don't know what your earliest memory is. Think of that.
Think of what you were drawing in first grade. Think
of anything that happened, think of I don't know your
your first love and in high school whatever. At that time,
Texas basketball was hurting me. Okay, it's been too long.
I'm sick of it. Man. You guys are so much
older than me. Hey, hey said her bass up and
hoo come horns and there will be a watch party
for the textagame. We'll find one, folks on the show tomorrow,
you are going to give Ross a pep talk. You're
playing tomorrow or Wednesday? Tomorrow, it's a pep talk Tuesday
on the show. They lost their last three games. Arkansas
makes sense, but it got destroyed. Wasn't even close to
the twenty point Arkansas your SEC champions by the way, Yeah,
Arkansas is great, Go ahead, keep going. Oklahoma at home
did make the turnament in overtime in it it's fine.
And then Ole Miss o Miss hundred five hundred two
oh by the former Texas coach. Too great, it's fantastic.
You miss him. No, he's not doing much at Ole
miss they're thirteen and nineteen now. They went to the
semi what the semifinals of the SEC championship game. Yeah,
they beat Texas, Georgia and Bama loaded all right, Believe
It or Not is highly googleable. It's about teams in
the NCAA tournament. That's all I can tell you if
you want to play Believe It or Not? Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Lebron and Kevin Duran
on the flour at the same time. You will not
find any two higher scores player in a one active
game than those two guys on the floor at the
same time.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Wait, should I come to the game today? I'm gonna
go Wednesday. I'm just not feeling one hundred percent still. Oh,
you gotta go Wednesday? Okay, Wednesday thirty both? I need
uh thirty five from Durant tonight. If I were good Ross,
because I know Mack can't answered if I was. That
was kind of bits on this game? Correct has a
stay away from me two and a half rockets. That's
a that's a coin flipper. Are you looking for props about?
I cannot speak to these props. I don't have no
idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 6: Forever never.
Speaker 2: Now you can't. It's it's gonna be difficult to double anybody.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 2: Who am I thinking? No, I don't. I got nothing's
to stay away, Reeves, Lebron Luca, Luca put up fifteen
at the night before the two games before game winning shot,
a little bit of a push off. It is what
it is. Well, do you want to say?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Luca and Lebron wing defense lacking? So who you go
with there? Okay, I'm sorry, I can't talk to you.
Talk this out. The two of you. Give him one,
give him one prop, give him some. Katie's probably gonna get.
Katie has been getting blitzed and doubled a lot, so
that'll be something to keep an eye on. If JJ
Redi's gonna keep with that over under a nothing an
eyelons one and a half. I'm hoping I am betting
the over. That's why have it right hand hammah, right
hand hammers one and a half as well the men.
Tom's on the floor. Okay, he's been throwing it down
two hands sometimes two hands is true. All right, tomorrow
the radio show, we have gut feelings. We get it's
gonna be on the show to talk some college basketball
with us. We will break down the Rockets Lakers game
like a mother.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 2: Hey, if we have the Rockets win, we do I
love La behind it? Or no, let's say going back
to Cali notorious b I G going hello cool J.
You're right, yeah, I love La works million songs about La,
La Woman, La Lebron. You know we have Cordy make
a parody. Cordy has made parodies in years. What the
hell is he doing? He's been locked he's been locked on,
Locked on is what he's doing should be locked into
on our parodies? Oh the uh? I think if we've
played this before. I love the Bobby Willmeck version of
California Dreaming. It's great, Jonathan Ross, You guys get to
decide the song tomorrow. Okay, I will decide the song
for Thursday. Well what if they lose ling, Oh, we'll
play your favorite Hotel California. I like Keltel California And
oh really yeah I thought you hated No, no, no, okay,
you just think it's overrated. Yeah it's not. It's not
even close to being the Eagles best. It is their best,
it is not their best song. Sometimes you can keep it. Oh,
don't make me go, Matt Thomas, Oh, look at the
sales numbers on you because as sales numbers when it's
your opinion. The sales numbers matter when it's against your opinion.
The sales numbers the two best songs of O the
Eagles Lion Eyes and New in Town. Oh That's okay,
Lion Ees Okays, New Kid in Town Boom. I hate
the bleeping Eagles. Man my opinion. Five minutes lef to
go In the show, what should we do?
Speaker 11: Wait?
Speaker 2: Should play? America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We
simply call it be Believe It or Not. In Here's
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And we are playing today for tickets to see Triumph
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going to you, folks. You have three seconds. Ross. You
are the buzzer keeper here on this All right, let's play.
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Believe it? Yes, believe it? Statement number two for the win.
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on seven on Ey John, your favorite part of today's
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You believe it or not? Believe it?
Speaker 3: Yes it?
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That's right, Greenville, South Carolina nicely done. Michael on Sevenintie Michael,
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It's been a long day. The Northern Iowa Panthers are
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Too big cities the kids. That's too Biga. JW on
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or not?
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Speaker 3: Sorry.
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Speaker 3: I believe it.
Speaker 2: No, they're in Washington, d C. Thank you for playing.
Now Andy on seven ninety Andy, you're ready to play.
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Believe it or not.
Speaker 14: Believe it.
Speaker 2: That is correct. Statement number two for the win. High
Point University is in Greensboro, North Carolina. Believe it or not.
It no, it's actually a high Point in Carolina itself.
Thank you, though, I gotta tell you how many reason
did you do? Twelve? I think I got like two rights,
So I'm glad you didn't ask me to help. But yeah,
you're not good. It was terrible. We old the audience
a dead are a lot pretty soon. Yes, no, wait,
was the last time I did good or at the time?
I think the time before it was just direct. Yeah,
my apologies to all the deceased. See, we can't do
it this week because we just said the Grammys people died.
So there's our fresh batch of people. Why but congratulations
to one battle after another for winning Best Picture. Did
I see that movie yesterday? Hell no, there's no chance
you're right about that, all right? Read Getty's gut Feelings News.
Ross and Jonathan up with a great song to open
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