Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show ten two in
h Town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Wednesday
edition of a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Met with the Orange batting gloves ready and waiting. First
pitch and that's driven pretty deep to right center field.
It sends back for Mira still going back out the wall.
Seat later out of the grassy perm a two run
hold run the other way for cam Smith. Boy was
that impressive and the Astros lead seven to four. Man
Smith hits an highs the air pretty deep to center
de Los Santos going back toward right center field at
the wall and make it two hold runs the other
way for Cam Smith.
Speaker 3: The Astros lead is eight to four.
Speaker 2: The Astros number one prospect putting on a show this afternoon.
Speaker 1: How he squares up to Albeas, gonna back into the
left side the lane to the dotted circle of the
restricted area, slides it over right side for Jabari, a
three pointer on the way and in there's now five
different rockets and double figures. Smith the Lemon Houston's up
seventy five seven. The name scored seven straight. Shalen between
the rings, gets a Paris greens from Alfie, a straight
on three for Jalen knocks it down, big time triple
off the hands of number four. He's got twenty three
ninety five ninety one.
Speaker 4: Rockets up Tatari to stay with Damian Lillard as he
has been for the last four minutes.
Speaker 1: It's Alpi and Giannis at the jump circle there at
mid court. Three point seven seconds remaining, Milwaukee wins. They're
gonna have a chance of to look, Rockets can tap
it in the backcourt. They're gonna win this game. Faulty's up,
tap Lillard catch treble shot, three pointer back on Ron
Ram no good and.
Speaker 3: The Rockets win.
Speaker 1: It is a beautiful day, a little spring training baseball.
Rockets win last night. Another Rockets game this evening, and
of course the midday festival that is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross here on Sports Talk seven or eight.
Rvey Gerard. Last night, I put the clock at five minutes.
It was obviously a little bit of embellishment on my part,
but the man went strong. You know that we are
in almost playoff mode. When Gerrod can give you four
strong minutes on the Rockets Rap postgame show, on Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's heating up.
Speaker 5: We appreciate him calling in to last night's Rockets rap program,
and I.
Speaker 1: Mean he gave you the complete rundown. It was like
you had not watched the game. He started with basketball history.
Speaker 5: It's going over the Minneapolis Lakers and George Miken the
couple of times.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, the merger, yeah, all that.
Speaker 1: It was great. Yeah. He brought up the fact there
was an NBA fifty at fifteen and then ran through
all fifty players and then he added the twenty five
for the NBA seventy five and seventy five. M We
love him.
Speaker 3: I thought it was spectacular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and really at that point you could do nothing
but just agree with everything he said. Correct, That's pretty
much it.
Speaker 5: And then our guy what James and garden Oaks says
he needs to be an analyst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he does. James and garden Oaks is probably going
to ask for him to be a full time analyst
on Rockets on television. Correct. I think he wants a
bump of Ryan Hollins off the broadcast. Yeah, whatever the
case may be. Hey, good morning everyone, and he's ten
six on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is a Wednesday
edition of The Matt Thomas Show at So Promised and we
are with you today until eleven fifty when we send
it back to Florida for another spring training affair with
the I believe Washington Nationals. Of the opponent today, the
Astros will be the road team, not that that matters
to you, but they split the facility. For those of
you who've never been to West Palm Beach, the Astros
on the left side of the Cacti Ballpark facility and
the Nationals are on the right side. And I think
they play each other with ross twelve times during the
spring training.
Speaker 3: Somewhere in that neighborhood.
Speaker 5: And we also took a brief tour of it our
first day in spring training, the National side.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 5: Remember my Ways took me to the ballpark, ye yah, yeah,
yeah yah yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm having issues with Ways. I really am,
because Ways on Monday told me to turn right my
way into the work because you know, we always go
the cross streets. Huh, and traffic's terrible. I missed the
turn and I kept going straight and I saved three
minutes by missing the turn. Interesting Ways coming up at
eleven twenty. Guess I'm gonna take you to what to do.
Speaker 5: Hey, you don't have to use it, Matt, but it
helps you more than it hurts you. It's not perfect,
but it helps more than it hurts.
Speaker 1: It does help more, especially when you have like accidents
ahead of you that you don't know their coming your way.
Instructure one night, but you're absolutely right about that. All right?
Uh so the Rockets won last night. That was good.
Cam Smith, I mean, can we call him Front of
the show Ross? I mean, he did do an interview
with us last week.
Speaker 5: I'd say let's retire his number, but I don't think
he's going to keep number ninety.
Speaker 1: No. I mean, if he's number ninety, that means the
Astros lost to Kyle Tucker trade. Is that fair to say?
Oh no, Maybe he likes it, Maybe he wants to
keep it. Yeah, what was was, jose bra you seventy nine?
Am I correct on that?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: I believe so. Yeah, he played like a seventy nine
for the ass I think that's why he kept his number.
I think he got it in spring training, like early
in his career, and then he's kept it.
Speaker 1: I think, do you think we'll ever get a three
digit number in sports with any team.
Speaker 5: No, unless you're at the Combine, that's true, or boss
on Runners or your Boston something and they run on
numbers so they retire. Yeah, they might have to.
Speaker 1: Actually, that's true.
Speaker 7: All right.
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where Tamiko Rant's, a head coach of your beloved Houston Texans,
spoke about getting ready for the Combine, which really gets
underway tonight. It is now a nighttime affair. I'm telling you.
Ross the NFL, no matter what they do, I mean literally,
no matter what they do, they draw ratings. The Pro
Bowl is an utter joke with the tug of war
and the flight football people watch it. Exhibition games, preseason games,
you know what, don't care. Put them on the NFL network.
They'll draw ratings eight thirty in the morning. NFL games
involving crappy teams overseas, we watch it. M there's nothing
the NFL couldn't do, Like if they put up nine
offensive linemen and had a oatmeal eating contest in the
middle of the day. I've watched that. Good to be king,
isn't it.
Speaker 5: They are the king and anything they too touches, anything
they touch goes to gold.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Exactly how Yep, it's a very flowed product to me,
with all the flags and the way the game is
played today. But it just continues to keep on churning
like a machine.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And when you have players outraged over the thought
of an eighteen game schedule coming up, and you have
players outraged about the thought of how they go overseas
every year, the NFL is like, don't care. Just take
a look at your chip paychecks. You guys are making
more money than the other sports. You're you have a
greater piece of the revenue pie than any of the
other two sports. Everything Again, every television. I mean, every
time there's a new TV contract, you're gonna get more
money every We just sold two Christmas Day games FO
one hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 5: Wednesday Night football, Yeah.
Speaker 1: There'll be Tuesday Morning football. That'll be Thursday mid one
fifteen football. I mean, I think we're just gonna have
constant games. And I'll tell you what if Roger Goodell
could he played a twenty four game schedule, if he could.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you figure the term market saturation or oversaturation, yeah,
coming to play at some point, but it hasn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But here's a crazy part of it. We as
Americans and for that matter, a certain summoner of the
world population, we love the NFL. You know, we don't
love we don't care for the UFL. We don't care
for the USFL. Back in the day, we didn't care
for the XFL. Back I mean, if either you're gonna
give us the best or we're gonna tune you out.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, and those products are just in ferior. I
guess the USFL had some you tell me some run
in the eighties when they were getting when they were
signing big name players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they signed a lot Mike Rosier, Steve Young, Reggie,
Reggie White, Rshalker, Kelly Herschel, Walker, Doug Flutie. I mean
they had some stars. They what they chewed is they
tried to cash whip some people and then they realized
it couldn't pay the bills. And that's when the league
went out of business. And then they sued the NFL
UH and got a one dollar settlement which basically put
the nail on the coffin for that organization. But we're
just you would think, and we've talked about this for
a long time, rossiing before you and I started working
together about how well Springley. I mean, we love football
so much we'll watch anything. Yeah, we're not watching I mean,
no disrespect to the Roughnecks, but Roughnecks versus the Saint Louis.
I believe that the BattleHawks. I don't know that for sure,
but we're not watching it and we're not going. I
mean the league is still around, yeah, I mean it's
cash infused by the Rock and some and a couple
of big name sponsors. I mean TV networks are obviously
putting a lot of games on, so there is something
to it, but the interest levels and the ratings have
not been good, and it's one of those crazy things.
If we love football so much, then why couldn't a
second spring lead to kind of you know, curber appetite,
you know, until the NFL comes into play. But then
people said, look, I look at the product, and you know,
the quarterbacks aren't good, the receivers don't run as fast,
the running backs don't break tackles. They are earning great
defensive players, man, And it's what it is, Rossy. You
worked Rockets. I worked Rockets obviously. Last night a thought
or two about having terrible flashbacks of Damian Lillard doing
things and how he didn't do it yesterday.
Speaker 3: Thankfully, Thankfully he did not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Damian Lillard for three and Rocket's history is just
it could be devastating. I don't know about you, but
I was like, oh no, oh my god. The good
news is even if he made it, it would have just
went to overtime.
Speaker 1: But and it didn't need to. I'll be what are
you doing throwing a pass twelve seconds left to go.
Speaker 5: In the game, He clutched up and made two big
free throws, and when I was just begging for at
least a split and then immediately he tosses the ball
away and that inexplicable play at.
Speaker 1: The end, he tried to go like harlong Globetrotter's pass. Yeah,
with twelve seconds left, he was.
Speaker 5: Going Irvin Magic Johnson with twelve seconds left, trying, you
need to run down the clock.
Speaker 3: You're up three. I was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was unbelievable. And I'm a man, a man, Thompson,
what are you doing? Club and Jannisopo with Adam Silver
in the building, I mean, that's not gonna be great.
Speaker 3: He lost his mind.
Speaker 1: It is funny he you know, And somebody put this
on Twitter he said, A men is one and I
know this for a fact. Is one of the most
soft spoken, sweet kids that you'll meet. I mean, he's
a really he's gonna be a star in this league.
Speaker 3: Those the ones you gotta watch out for sometimes, man, I'm.
Speaker 1: Telling you ROSSI. He hip tosses Tyler Hero and then
he's clubbing the one of the fin most recognizable players
in the NBA. Mm hmm, got crazy. All right. If
you want to talk some rockets, let's do that. You
want to talk about Cam Smith hitting a couple of
bombs as the Astros beat the Mets yesterday. If you
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Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on seven.
So you just heard the highlight of well, at least
a highlight for the Rockets of Damian Lillard missing a
three point shot at the buzzer that would have sent
the game to overtime. He's in our top five ROSSI
of Houston opponent Assassin's right.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: So let me give you a run off the top.
Speaker 5: I know number one, right off the top, go ahead
method Murray, Methan Murray.
Speaker 1: We can actually say his name. He's not a sponsor.
Stephen Curry one.
Speaker 5: Honestly, Klay Thompson might be two Thompson.
Speaker 1: Let me give you, uh, maybe Greg Maddox. I mean, honestly,
with all those years apart.
Speaker 5: Okay, I thought we were doing Rockets own sports. Pat Mahomes,
Greg would have to be up there. Albert Poolhols is
up there. All pool Holes definitely in that group. Pool Holes,
Maddox we go, Peyton Manning back in the day, Mahomes.
The Colts just owned the Texans for like a decade.
Speaker 1: Reggie Wayne, Marvin Harrison, oh t Y Hilton, t Y,
any any Colt receiver period. I don't care who the
quarterback was. We've had, you know, we've had too many
Houston opponent assassins.
Speaker 5: Now, you're just making me upset.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do that.
Speaker 5: We got the up and comers. George Kirby seems to
crush the Astros every time.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Mariner's pitcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we're not putting him in that category yet,
are we. I mean, I guess one more years he's
climbing the list. He's got time, he's young, he is.
He is mister seven three hit guy. That's true. I'll
give you that. I don't know. Dame scores what sixty
something against the Rockets a couple of years back when
the Rockets were terrible. He hits the shot against the
Rockets in the playoffs. Those are two that come to mind.
I mean, I'm sure there's a couple more that we're
forgetting about. We've had quote, I mean, I I guess
every city ROSSI wad they would have one of those
list of the greatest Houston opponent assassins. Absolutely, but hell
you could. If you're gonna go to the Braves, you
could go Maddox. Uh Smoltz probably had his fair share
of success.
Speaker 3: Chipper Jones, Glavin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think of the other opponents
in baseball that have given the Astros troubles over the years. Yeah,
Kevin Brown, Kevin Brown. Oh that's San Diego ninety eight team.
Speaker 3: Oh Sterling Hitchcock.
Speaker 1: Oh stop, you know what, this is a terrible idea.
Speaker 3: Up shut bow mass up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I deserve that. But it's funny because, uh Dave Cohn,
who's the announcer for the Bucks, as a friend of mine,
and uh I came over and said, hey, safe travels
back home, and he's like, you know, Dame doesn't do
this anymore. He says, he doesn't make the big shots anymore.
He'll score, but the on the edge of your seat,
catch and shoot big make not happening anymore.
Speaker 5: Hmm, I guess I'd have to look through. It feels
like that's maybe a short sample size. Maybe he sounds
like he's being doom and gloom about the bucks.
Speaker 1: I there's maybe a part of that too, Maybe part
of that too, uh seven one three two, one two
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Dimko had to say about his squad and what he
wants to accomplish at the combine. Let's go to Andrew
and Katie on seven ninety Andrew, good morning.
Speaker 8: I know we've had a lot of heart break case
of sports moments, but I will randomly just go into
a rage remembering that shot over Chamberick Parsons and where
I was in that exact moment. My wife has sleep
in bed next to me, me trying not to slip
the whole bed and so she can get her rest.
I just like, even now, my blood pressure is rising.
So I was feeling shade to that last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did the postgame show that night. I was
not with the team at the time. And I think
I think I took calls one three in the morning.
I mean it was like I had to be like
a get people off the ledge kind of thing is
And how bad that was because not only did he
make the shot, but Ross help me out, didn't didn't
Harden and Parsons confuse themselves defensively or Hard shifted him over,
and it was they went from a bad defensive position
to a worse one.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, so there was a miscommunication. It was I
think it was Parsons are hard.
Speaker 1: It's just terrible.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So that's that's what I was feeling last night
when I saw them set up for that jump ball.
It's Haari set up on the inside shading Dane to thedeline.
Speaker 1: And obviously I'm not.
Speaker 8: An NBA player, but I didn't know why he he
got the exact look he wanted versus pushing him to
the middle, and just my heart was in my throat.
But yeah, yeah, I would Dame strong armed it. So
you know, I don't know if he can make those
shots anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the worst part about last night was the double
lane violation actually benefited the balls because it went to
a jump ball, and that's a lot easier to win
the tap get it to a player to shoot, as
compared to Dame missing the shot, intentionally rebounding it kicking
it out to somebody to shoot the three point shots,
so they actually caught two breaks. Alpy's turnover was, I mean,
I love Appy, but my god, what are you doing?
I mean, you have.
Speaker 3: Twelve seconds of the situation.
Speaker 1: Just drain the clock, run around, get found, do something,
but don't go Harlan glove Drouner on me. It was crazy.
And then the double lane violation which resulted in the
jump ball gave them a chance to actually set something
up as long as they won the tap.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and with sweat three and a half seconds less
than what he had, I mean, plenty of time. Cash
turns man, We'll take the win.
Speaker 1: You got that, all right? Thanks Andrew for the phone call.
Appreciate it. Yeah, there was. I mean, if you're a
Bucks fan Ross, which we have, I believe there were
actually quite a few Milwaukee jerseys in the building last night.
I don't know why that was. I mean, obviously Giannis.
Speaker 5: Is the is the fair amount of people cheering for Lillard,
which kind of surprised me. Be honest, I get there
are some Lillard fans in the building.
Speaker 1: Yeah, By the way, I love that guy. All he
does is just make deep three pointers. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He shoots like forty from three in the last three years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's pretty good. And who's their two guard?
I'm drawing a blank long hair. Oh, I gotta look
at my box score from last night. Um for the
Bucks helped me out here, and I'm gonna have to
look it up. I just called the game last night
and I forgot the guy's name already.
Speaker 5: You're talking about Uorian Prince, Tory Prince.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not a two guard, so I was confused.
Speaker 1: Well, he's a combo, but he shoots forty percent from three.
He's a number. He's like number one or number two
in the league. Yeah, in shooting. So yeah, uh but
Torian Prince, I mean Prince and Green. That's the thing
the Rockets are going to have to go find is
and whether it's a guy like Green coming off the bench.
Speaker 3: What about Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 1: Speaking to that, did you see that shot that not
Kuzma but lowpit Brook Lopez taken that thirty footer with
about ten seconds left. Yeah, you're welcome, Thank you very much.
Appreciate that man.
Speaker 5: He It was kind of sad to see in a way.
Being there at the game, you could see how slow
he is. He is, he is a shell of himself,
but he thirty six years old.
Speaker 1: But why in the world would he take a deep
three like that with that little time left when you
can find it, first of all, find a better shot,
and secondly, find somebody else to shoot it besides you.
I mean, you're a capable three point shooter.
Speaker 3: But he was open, Matt, he went hero ball.
Speaker 1: Of course he was open. It was the logo when
I went to the logo. But you get my point.
Speaker 5: He's a good three point shooter from thirty I mean,
I'm just saying I was scared because he was wide open.
Speaker 1: Well you know what if he would have made that
shout out be like you know what things were meant
to be, it just wasn't gonna be. The Rockets night
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on the Matt Thomlins Show with Ross Good to have
a little rocket chatter going last night as a big
lineup Kuzma, Denti, Goopo and Lopez. It's what six eleven
seven feet seven to one in that mix Gettorian prints
playing a two guard at six six two twenty.
Speaker 5: He's he's kind of a power forward or like a
small forwardly he's listed his power forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he played two guard yesterday, okay, So of course,
says ROSSI along, and how many rebounds for power forward
did he have? He had two five assists. That's that's
two good, okay.
Speaker 3: And he's not a two guard.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Played two guard last night. Seven one three
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do we find interesting? Ross for our friend Dimiico Ryans
Innapolis yesterday?
Speaker 5: Uh nothing, No, I guess, well, why don't we listen Matt?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: First of all, well, of course there are a number
of deeds the team has to address. But I'd say
the most important thing, Matt, is that you work well
with your general manager. Here's Demiko Ryans on how he
works with Nick Cassario.
Speaker 9: It's easy because we see football the same. We know
the type of players that we want on our team.
We know that mindset that we're looking for in players.
It's guys who have that relentless mindset. Guys who love football.
Those guys jump out to us, all right, Guys who
are leaders that jumps out to us. Those characteristics that
they don't they don't lose those when they come into
the NFL. Guys were leaders at college. Guys played with
a certain play style and demeanor in college that's gonna
carry over to the to the NFL. So those are
the type of players we look for. And we want
good people. And that's the thing that me and Nick agree.
Speaker 5: On the most.
Speaker 9: You want to you want to win, but you want
to win with great people, and we both believe that
you can't do that, and we've shown that by some
of the guys we drafted.
Speaker 1: And CJ.
Speaker 9: Will Kamari Henry told it's just a lot of great people,
and it's fun when you're working with great people who
are talented and they're like minded, and we're all reaching
that same goal.
Speaker 5: So Nick Demko, Ryan's on the same page. Matthew whew
Man Ross I relieved. Oh Man, I was worried for
a minute.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: It's good to hear they're having the same football philosophies.
You know what he also wants, Ross, He wants good people,
want to be fun. If you said, you know what character, Eh,
we want to win. We haven't been on an AMC
championship game yet. Let's go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you need somebody's ready to crack some skulls.
Speaker 1: Well, we want a few dogs on this team. If
you know what I'm saying. Huh No, he wants good
character guys.
Speaker 5: Well, everybody wants dogs too. You want good character guys
who are dogs?
Speaker 1: Matt Can you go out there and what do you are?
You do? You want good people, of course, But you
know what, if we take three or four guys that
have been suspended by the.
Speaker 5: League, we're okay with that. You can you can find
the happy medium. Men Thompson's a good character guy. He's
a dog.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, do you think I would say that?
I mean, I know he'd want to say it, but
he's like, man, if our guys want to throw hands,
I'm okay with that too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but don't get ejected with four and a half
minutes to go in a close game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was tough.
Speaker 5: By the way, Adam Clinton, disagree with you and I
about the ejection. Is Tony Brothers in bad officiating. I'm
just gonna say this is.
Speaker 1: Tony Brothers is not a good official, but he's nice guy.
But he made the right call yesterday.
Speaker 5: It was once I saw the contact of the head,
there was no doubt in my mind it was going
to be a flagrant too.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 5: And I don't think a whole lot of people outside
of the Rockets fan base are saying this was some
bad call.
Speaker 3: No, And I look, I literally no one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love the Rockets more than life itself. And
I'm just telling you all I do is when I
look at these types of situations, if I see one
of my guys, if Jabari Smith would have been clubbed
by I don't know, Gary Trent Junior in the same
way I'd have said that's a flagrant penalty to get
him out of the game. I mean, that's just it.
We gotta we gotta have some sort of objectivity, do
we not?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he jumped.
Speaker 5: Well, no, that's okay. That's part of Adam Clinton's charm.
He isn't gonna be a homer and you know his
his pen tweet says it he's gonna put on for Houston.
Speaker 3: We appreciate him. But that was a flagrant two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and the thing I'm worried about, Hopefully he
will not get suspended, because you can suspend and the
problem was that again the commission was the building last night.
I don't know if there's if it's because you you
would suspend because it's a Giannis, it's a star, or
the he was in the building last night. That he
can actually call Joe Dumar, who's in charge of penalties
with the NBA, and say hey, I saw this firsthand
and that was terrible. Hopefully it's just a penalty two
and it's done with and no suspension.
Speaker 5: Meah, that's what I'm hoping for as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, you want to hear one more from Demiko
for a backup phone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's hear some more from Dimiko. Let's see offensive lineman.
We know that is going to be something that the
Texans are going to be king in on this offseason.
Here's Demiko ryans on evaluating them.
Speaker 9: First and foremost, looking at, you know, pass protection, like
how good is a guy in past protection? And then
no for everyone. For me speaking offensive lineman, I want
to see that grit. I want to see that toughness, right,
that nastiness of how guys are finishing their blocks. Right,
what type of leaders these guys are, How passionate they
are about football. That's very important to me when it
comes to the offensive lineman.
Speaker 5: Well, he's right out of coach speak one on one right, Well, yeah,
every day.
Speaker 1: I mean I respect the consistency.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're you're not normal. I mean, look, yeah, you
want guys that love football and they are good pass protectors.
Speaker 1: Let's go. That sounds about right.
Speaker 3: He's not saying anything wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, you know, I'm looking to get
a guy who doesn't show up for OTAs, doesn't show
for many camp, commits a lot of penalties. Already, I've
already got one of those guys. When you looking for
something little bit different.
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, now, you're talking about the veteran Pro
Bowler team captain, ho HO team captain and Pro Bowl.
What are you talking about, Matt. We're getting word from
larrymi Tunsel's camp. He said, he's like they're gonna be
calling in about eleven to twenty.
Speaker 1: Can't wait. I'd love to get that guest. Don Oh,
he'll just go run the Twitter and complain.
Speaker 5: No, let's do one more, Matt, because this has been
kind of a hot topic. We haven't talked much about
it on this show, but uh, there's been a hot
debate in the offseason in the NFL that would be
is or should the tush push remain illegal play.
Speaker 9: When it comes to that, you know, QB sneak play.
I think East team is different when they had Jason
Kelsey the whole teammate of mind, he was really good
at executing that play, and it just other teams have
tried it, some teams have stopped this. So you know,
we'll see how those discussions go over the next couple
of months. But for me, either way, like when you
executed a play, it's just difficult to stop. You keep
running that play and the Eagles benefited from it and
they've done an outstanding job.
Speaker 3: Sounds like he doesn't want an out log, you know what.
Speaker 1: I I think you asked me yesterday how I feel
about it. I don't have that strong opinion one way
or the other. Is it cheating? Is it circumventing the system?
Is it giving more assist? Of course the answer to
all that is yes. But you know, as if it's
a legal play now and it helps teams score and
it adds some points, because that's what we want, we
want we want scoring in our sports, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So.
Speaker 1: It is funny. The team that I believe was the
was it the Green Bay Packers that asked for it
to get a bann They always have an anonymous team.
Speaker 5: Ye, I can't remember, but yeah, it's been discussed the
last couple of years now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. Let's go to Vince in midtown at
ten forty one on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Vince.
Good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 6: Hey, I would love to hear your call the Matt
when Sengun made that boneheaded play, uh towards the end
of the game.
Speaker 3: I have we have we haven't seen?
Speaker 1: Do we really do we have to play this? I mean,
I mean I love Alby? All right, go ahead and
do it. Brooks to Albi across mid court, middle of
the lady, goes kicks a week side and he throws
it off the hands of Jabari Smith, who wasn't ready
for it.
Speaker 4: Absolutely no recognition of what's going on in this game
from Alpa and Ngoon.
Speaker 1: Why would you do that? Shot?
Speaker 4: Clock is off, Bucks are looking to foul, he needs
to get rid of the basketball. With a three point lead,
he throws it out of bounds.
Speaker 1: There you go. Did you hear that? You hear the
despair in my voice?
Speaker 3: You hear the despair Wexer's voice?
Speaker 1: Did he did?
Speaker 3: Wexler flip the table?
Speaker 7: But but it doesn't bode well if we get in
the playoffs that he's doing stuff like that. Still, it's
just just just mind boggling. And I don't know, I
know that that's not what he'd been taught to do.
Is so it's just kind of worried me if we, uh,
once we get in the playoffs, and uh.
Speaker 6: We'll see. Anyways, I thought that was kind of funny
and stupid, of course, but uh I wanted to hear
what you what you guys had to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. By the way, I think he Mayo
Doka Ross was asked about it last night and he says, yeah,
some of the guys were laughing about it, and another
side said don't laugh at that or something like that.
Speaker 5: Today it wasn't very funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't find it funny.
Speaker 3: And you can laugh when they win, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yes. And the thing of it is is that Alpi
is a really good path for a big man. It's
a really nice pastor. He can do the no looks,
he can throw the behind the backs, he can bounce
the ball between people's legs and whatnot and do all
that kind of stuff. But then there are some that
you just shake your head at. And uh I went
and looked at the replay this morning. Uh it and
it went in. The pass was too far? I mean, Jabar,
I don't know if it even Jabari was ready for it,
to be brutally honest with you, but man, that was
that was a tough watch. That was bad, inexplicable. Yeah,
I did not crush him. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. It is the Matt Thomaschel Ross.
We take this program today up until uh eleven fifty.
Today we got shut your ball mass up at eleven twenty.
I'm gonna have one ross for a certain fast food
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just had to be honest with you. Seven one three
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Matton Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety Hell
dimension that uh close. Al Tuvey is going to make
his letfield debut Friday.
Speaker 5: In spring training and uh yeah, we'll find you down there,
right Matt.
Speaker 3: A moment by moment covered from Matt Thomas.
Speaker 1: I mean I could go. I mean the rocketsn't played
on Saturday. I got sech a go down if you
want me to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get you down there.
Speaker 1: You'd want to go? No, I know you don't like
leaving the house A special place in hell for you,
that really is. And don't say you're right there with me,
because I already know that you don't say those things.
See you there, okay? Whatever? Uh seven one three two
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. Dana Brown on the Astros radio
broadcast yesterday was uh asked about the players acquired in
the Chicago Cubs trade. One of them, Cam Smith, their
first round pick, hit not one but two home runs
yesterday in the game against the New York Metropolitans. And here's
Dana on those players.
Speaker 10: Well, Camp Smith looks like an NFL quarterback. I mean,
he's put together pretty good. We can't wait to see
him get into that lineup, you know. And west Nesky, Look,
I saw him throwing the backfield the other day, and
Will he was throwing a sweeper that was about eighty five,
that was at twenty two inches of movement on it.
It was it was pretty nasty and he was up
to ninety six. So and then this guy, you know,
you saw the first to bat grinding, go, you know,
make the pitcher, get the pitch count up.
Speaker 3: You guys didn't do that enough last year.
Speaker 11: I would imagine you and Joe Spot of those guys
had to be thinking about getting somebody who can see
some pitches.
Speaker 10: Yes, And that's the deal with these two guys. I mean,
you saw the first to bat see thirteen pitches and
you know, just grind those pitchers down, man, You you
grind them early. Before you know it, their pitch count
is up about one hundred after four innings or five innings, and.
Speaker 1: You you know you got I'm right there on the ropes.
There's a lot of excitement in that voice today, huh us. Yeah,
Look it's Camar Star. Are we gonna be like Kyle,
we miss you? But not really? Hmm, but a lot
of them aren't we.
Speaker 5: It's one spring training game and we interviewed him and
he was nice, and he was great, and he's huge.
Speaker 3: He looks the part, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he does look the part. As far as the
Astros are concerned. I must think there's anything else, Dana
we want to talk about. You know, obviously part of
the deals they have made, the the Chicago cub in
particular deal was talking about the future and the president
trying to balance both at the same time.
Speaker 10: Do you have to continue to look toward the future
because the future gets up on you quick and if
you're not prepared, you know, you could see your team
fall off a cliff.
Speaker 1: And we didn't do that.
Speaker 10: And so you know, if you don't sign Tucker and
he walks out after a year and now you get
just a draft pick that you got to wait for,
and so that would have been even more difficult. So
that's why we're you know, we're competing in the president
and we're building front of future at the same time.
Speaker 1: Do you think Ross And this is just a pure
guess on our part that maybe that Dana is a
little more forward thinking about the future, knowing the parameters
that have been given to him by his owner. What
do you mean he do you mean or Jeff didn't
have to worry about five years down the road when
he was a general manager, that maybe Dana has to
because this organization is now going to have to train,
has lost so many players and the final league system
has been so depleted that he has to start thinking
more ahead than maybe the previous general managers that we're here,
and again, I don't know, I'm just maybe talking on
the mind, you know what, but it I just get
the sense that that maybe Dana was able to whisper
something in the Jim's ear about moving away from some
guys because he's thinking, man, if you want us to
stay competitive in twenty twenty eight, twenty nine and thirty,
I got to make some deals here and not try
to hold onto hope that maybe Kyle Tucker is going
to change his mind and become a Houston aster for
the long term.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that was just the job that
he was hired to do, and I think it's a
difficult job is to restock.
Speaker 3: I think restocking the farm system was.
Speaker 5: His job number one, right, and then job number two
was winning at the major league level. And unfortunately some
of the restocking that was done, you had to make
trades for Kakuchie, make trades for Verlander, especially the Verlander trade.
I think when I say, both of those guys are
in the top one hundred, Drew Gilbert and Ryan Clifford.
So yeah, it's tough, and I think there there is
I think for Dana, task one and his most important
task and the one he loves the most is building
the farm system. But then Jim Crane says comes to
and says, hey, you need to make a move to
make this major league team better than He's like, all right,
I don't think he wanted to make the Verlander trade.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't think he wanted to give up all that
he did for the Kakuchie trade.
Speaker 1: I'm about this do you think he wanted five years
eighty five million dollars for Josh Hater?
Speaker 5: I would say yeah, I would say probably, because that's
not his money. It's not you know, he's he's not
his money. And at that point, if we remember that
we had a lot of questions at the back end
of the bullpen, Ryan Presley had slipped and then Kendall
Graveman got hurt.
Speaker 3: They needed to do something, and that was it.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, I'll say this, you know, even though I
don't know how he would have felt about Hater. When
the boss says, go spend it, You're gonna go spend it, right,
that's the reality of it.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And so maybe he may have been he may have
thought he was overpaying him. But if if I guess,
look Josh Jim Crane hadn't in the fact that the
trade deadline the year before, he wanted to go get
Josh Hater when he was supposedly available. So sometimes an
owner gets a guy that he just loves so much
and that the owner says, go get it, you go
get it. All right, second hour the show is going
to start. We're going to open up with something we
didn't talk about. The first hour, and that is Luka
Doncic's return to the court against his old team for
the very first time. Dallas played the Lakers last night
in Los Angeles. Lakers won the game. Are you seeing
some of the stories that are coming out in the
last twenty four hours from the athletic about how the
Mavericks felt about Luka Doncic. I have that. I'm going
to read you a series of quotes.
Speaker 5: Okay, that is mind blowing from anonymous sources. I imagine.
Speaker 1: I would think so. I wouldn't want to put my
name on these bad boys. Although they were screaming thank
you Nico last night at the game in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's really good Nico, of course. Nico Harrison, the general
manager of the Dallas Mavericks. Ten fifty seven. We start
this second hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
with shut your Ballbass Up in twenty five minutes here
on Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers, this is the Matt
Thomas Show.
Speaker 12: I can't wait to see the facial reactions, the trash talking,
the histrionics, the body lang whiche. Things could get real
spicy here throughout this game, as Dodge.
Speaker 1: It's rich and member had immediately turned to the Mavericks
base Loka Dodges.
Speaker 9: Did you know he wants to make a statement and
boy has the here?
Speaker 1: Ross? Am I correct? Tripled uble last night for Luca
and the Laker win.
Speaker 3: Yes, m.
Speaker 1: All right, this is the really funny part of this.
By the way, this is the second hour of the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross with you for fifty minutes
this hour, So if you want to get in and
say hello seven one three two one two five seven
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Astros win yesterday to Camps with home runs, Rockets beat
the Bucks, and Josel Tubey will be leading uh off
playing left field Friday in the Astros spring training game.
It'll be his spring training debut, and of course we'll
have all the action right here on Sports Talk seven.
So the Athletic did a story today about Luka Dotcch
and Ross. We need to peel the curtain back for
our great audience that listens to us. The media can
be used to persuade an argument. I know this is
going to come as breaking news.
Speaker 3: Of course, manipulation of the media.
Speaker 1: I know what's a stunner. It's a stunner.
Speaker 3: It's only been happening since media has been around.
Speaker 1: All right. So what you have is you have a
story involving the athletic and the behind the scenes. This
is from the Athletic about the behind the scenes of
the Luka doncicch trade between Dallas and Los Angeles, one
of the most controversial trades maybe in the history of sports.
So somebody from the Mavericks obviously whispering some things to
the Athletic and they here's a couple of quotes from it.
Make no mistake, the people who witnessed his last days
in Dallas do not paint a flattering portrait of the
twenty five year old's professionalism. They call him lazy. They
talk about the weight issues that were such a frequent
frustration within their walls. They mentioned the social habits that
the Athletic has reported on, such as his taste for
beer and hookah, which has been a point of concern
for NBA type since he was nineteen year old Real
Madrid star who was entering the NBA Draft. They predict
his basketball demise, highlighting a health history. That quote, as
some see it, will likely lead to catastrophe in the
next five years or so.
Speaker 3: Catastrophe catastrophe.
Speaker 1: I've never had hookah before, Ross, I don't know if
you have, don't want to judge. If you have, want
not ask, No, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: It's just uh, it's just tobacco.
Speaker 1: Okay. Does hookah and attached would you usually come in
the same sentence?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Who could become very popular over the years, and people
love it in the clubs.
Speaker 1: In the club scene, when they're in the when they're
down in the Galveston clubs, Long Strand that's where I
saw hooker last It's neither here nor there, all right.
So the one image I remember from last year was
it when they beat the Wolves to win the West.
Luca had a beer in his hand, and I believe
Michael Finley was an assistant GM for the Mavericks, took
the beer out of his hand. Yes, maybe he likes
the cold, crisp taste of an ice cold beer.
Speaker 5: Maybe a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: I think that was.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you'd call it, not an alarm bell,
but kind of issue like, oh, okay, it seems like
he might have the organization might have issues with his
drinking for them to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to name names, but there are sport
teams that are concerned about alcohol consumption.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but they were celebrating, and I mean we've been
around a lot of these, right, I've been in I
don't know the clubhouse for astro celebrations like five six times,
if not more. I ain't never seen anybody rip a
beer out of anybody's hand. It's surely there to celebrate.
You're there to have a good time. Maybe it's different
for the NBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, they used to be beer used to be
readily available in clubhouses after games. They got rid of
that about fifteen years ago when that Angel's picture drank
and then got in a car crash and died. Now
does that mean that alcohol can't be found in a clubhouse,
I wouldn't believe that under any circumstouse.
Speaker 5: You can sometimes see bottles of liquor in guys lockers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that's more they bring in themselves,
as compared to the team saying here, here's a couple
of coal ones after the game. There can be alcohol
consumption on planes. I can tell you for a fact
that sports seems typically do not give it to the
players when they're going home. That they're going from say,
city BE to city C on a road trip, you
can probably have some beverages if you so choose, because
you're not driving. But look, there's alcoholism in general life.
There's gonna be alcoholism among professional athletes, especially those that
have lived that lifestyle where you're working hard, you're playing hard,
you're playing to all hours of the night, you're traveling late,
and you want to, you know, take the edge off,
whatever the case may be, or you just have a problem,
whatever the case. But it feels like to me Ross
that the Dallas Mavericks are one hundred percent banking on
Luka Doncic being a human being with out of control
tendencies from hookah to beer to his weight. They're hoping
and frankly in their mind, they are praying that Luka
Doncic can't maintain an NBA lifestyle and effectively play.
Speaker 5: Here's the thing, though, Matt, all of that could be
well in and maybe they were right at least on
the path that he was down as a Maverick. He
never would have turned it around. But you still gotta
get back better than Anthony Davis in a first round pick.
You gotta get a better return, and outside him committing
murder that you could have gotten more from any number
of organizations.
Speaker 1: So my point of contention on this is that were
they afraid that if they spread the rumors, out spread
the word around the league that Luca was up for trade,
that the that the blowback from Dallas fans would have
been so much they would have been forced to keep him.
That has to be it, because you can keep one
team quiet about a trade, you can't keep twenty nine
other teams. Because even if you say, if you call
the Phoenix Suns and said, hey, Phoenix, we want to
offer you Luka Doncics, but don't tell anybody. Yes what,
somebody's gonna say something. It's gonna be only a matter
of time. And guess what.
Speaker 5: Grow up if you're the if you want to make
the big boy decision to trade away your franchise player
and it leaks out, so what Yeah, that means you
if you're so scared it's gonna get out, that you're
gonna be like destroyed around the league or something, then
that means you should know it's a bad decision.
Speaker 1: And were they did and did the Mavericks And we'll
never know the answer to this. Did the Mavericks do
everything on their power to continue to put him in
a position to say, hey, watch your weight, watch your
intake of alcohol and tobacco. Did he basically say, screw you,
I wake up every morning with a triple double for
your team. I got you the NBA Finals last year,
let me live my life. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Clearly they felt like they were at the end of
the rope, and we may he made very well. This
could be the shock to his system that he needed
to turn things around right, So it could be a
universe where even if he does turn it around, get
in shape and has a great career, and the Nico
Harrison and the Mavericks very well could have been right
that the heat it never would have happened as a
Maverick are in some sort of you know, sometimes in life,
when you're going along some way, you need a wake
up call, whether you're an alcoholic who gets a dui
or you're away you know, a gambler who goes busted
something like that. And maybe this is a wake up
call for for Luca dudgeons. We don't know that would
not come about this. I got a terrible analogy for you.
Speaker 1: Ready for this?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm ready for your telebonnalogies every day?
Speaker 1: This great. What if you have this great wife and
she's like you have to stop drinking, stop smoking? Uh huh,
or I'm gonna leave you, and she leaves you, and
then the second wife's like, you know what, I'll take you,
but you got to change your waist and you change
your way and.
Speaker 3: You do, I'll give you another one. Oh, it's better
than mine.
Speaker 5: How about sometimes yes, people will at at a job
that you work at, they'll ask for more money, they'll
ask for a raise, they get more responsibilities, and they're like,
you know what, I quit. Then they hire the new guy.
New guy gets more money and has less work than
the other guy.
Speaker 1: That's just unfair, that's right. But are we gonna have
this for the rest of Lucas career? Are we going
to is Dallas trying to do everything in their power
because let's let's let's think of it from their perspective.
If you have spent the last six years ROSSI telling him, Look,
you're an awesome player, You're a generational type basketball. You
are a guy that leads a franchise, but we're worried
about your eating habits, your lack of workouts, your consumption
of alcohol and tobacco. Please, we're going about to put
a super Max in front of you. That's the least
you can do for us. And if Lucas says, I'm good,
look what I've done for you. Again, I'm not trying
to justify the deal. But what are you supposed to do, Rossie?
If we're if we're a Nico Harrison or the Dallas
Mavericks ownership hands, what are we supposed to do If
we go to the guy and say we've been talking
about this for six years and you haven't changed your ways,
you get more in return. That's what you do.
Speaker 5: You can just find I mean I can I can
hear the decision. I can understand the decision. That's not
And I just don't get it. Getting Anthony Davis in
a first round pick, I just don't get that. And
of all ross Rudy Gobert got four. Rudy Gobert got
four first round picks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, four? And where did you send him to? Of
all places? Los Angeles? Who's you know? Who's on national
television twenty five times a year in the in the
I mean it's the Lakers, It's the Celtics and the Knicks.
It's those are the Those are the krem de la
creme historical franchises in the NBA. And you send him
somewhere in the most flashy city. Who, by the way,
his teammate now is the It's either the greatest or
the second greatest player in the history of the NBA.
The I don't know. It's just I don't know how
much you can do in terms of damaging his credibility
except all it's going to maybe do. If I look,
if I'm Luca, I say to myself, these stories are
coming out about me. I'm gonna prove them wrong, and
I'm gonna do everything in my power to ruin the
Dallas Mavericks as a franchise, including getting a triple double
last night. All right, seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero get more for him. If you really
don't want him, you just had to get more, and
you had to get other teams involved. You had you
had to just take the bite the bullet and say, hey,
we're thinking about making a move from Louca. We don't
want to give them the Supermax. What's your best offer?
Seven one three, two one two five seven nine zero.
Rockets and Spurs play tonight. We'll have it for you
here on seven ninety beginning at seven point thirty with
the launch pad eight o'clock network pregame, and then we'll
tip it off. I think about eight forty three tonight,
So trying to get a nap in in between uh
this show and the game that night. Astros in action
Frepar Valvede is gonna make his spring training debut for
the local Nineers to take on the Nationals. We'll have
that for you coming up in less than an hour
from now. Nick Casserio is going to visit with the
media today in uh Indianapolis at the Combine. I don't
think that I looked at the transcript. Yesually, Ross, I
didn't see anything about uh uh Stefan Diggs. I think
that would make me perhaps be a better question for
Nick Cassira. I would think it'd be one of the
first things would be.
Speaker 5: I thought I did see a quote that they're they're
in contact with Digs. They like digs and they're in
contact with DIGS or something like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, because I did look at the transcript, and maybe
it was just kind of a passing, a passing comm.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe I saw that. I thought I saw that
on the twitters.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine that Dimico wouldn't want him now.
I know he was asked about Tank Dell yesterday. For sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we loved having Steph on our team. We'll see
how things work out there. Blah bla blah blah. Yeah, Okay, basically,
you know, I think it's actually and I quote YadA,
YadA YadA.
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did he not?
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yeah Bob.
Speaker 5: No, that's a maybe that's not accurate.
Speaker 1: You believe Hanson was only one hit? Wonder?
Speaker 3: Yes, I very much so.
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What are they be in their forties now? I guess
do you think they've got enough to be on it?
Can you go see Hanson somewhere right now if you
wanted to? No, because you can't you can't. You can't
do the casino circuit on one hit.
Speaker 5: No unless you play it three times, maybe in different languages. Yeah, well,
where's the what's the portion usee version of Bob?
Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's our
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Speaker 1: The Mat Tana Show with Ross continue So on Sports
Talk seven ninety hear.
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Speaker 7: Dampa.
Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Time for
you to call this radio show and tell somebody. Ain't
nobody got time for something which I have to open
up this that's exactly right. Seven one three two one
two five seven untie. If you want to tell somebody
to shut their bumb ass up because you're mad at them,
you know, to find us seven one three two one
two five seven hounty sits obumass up, man Ross, I'm
gonna start. Uh. Yeahyesterday I did not eat a lot
of the media meal yesterday at the arena, so I
was hungry after the game. Okay, So I decided to
go to mcmonald's uh huh and get a fish file at.
Speaker 5: Oh, you are so wild to me. Why do you
get this conglomerated fish sandwich.
Speaker 1: Whatever?
Speaker 5: What kind of fish? I'm sorry, go ahead, it's whitefish.
It's oh, it's a full fill a Come on now.
The fish come out so like the chicken nugget of
the sea.
Speaker 1: So it's I can't let me finish, please. So I
get my fish filet, I get my bottle of water,
and I start to eat it in the car because
I want to get home and eat it before I
get home. I don't want to be cold or whatever.
And I'm starting to eat it and the tartar sauce
starts to fall out of my bun and so what
do I do. I go inside my bag to get
my napkin. Guess what ross, no napkin.
Speaker 10: In my bag.
Speaker 3: You don't got a stash in the glovebox?
Speaker 1: Well I did, but it took me about five minutes
to find it was deep down in the glovebox that
Rick Ronalds.
Speaker 3: So you're going deep into the box.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sorry. You're gonna give somebody file of fish
with tartar sauce. That stuff rolls down your chin and
on your shirt. You need a napkin. Anybody got time
for that?
Speaker 11: So you went in and then something was rolling down
your chin. Yes, you're talking too fast, I got I
can't mark it fast enough. Hold on so I can
mark the time.
Speaker 1: Anybody that's had a file of fish from Rick Ronalds
knows that there's a lot of sauce that comes out
of the bun.
Speaker 5: And it dribbles down your chin and onto your shirt.
You know, you're a sick human being. It's too easy.
Speaker 1: I've explained to you what happened to me yesterday. People
empathize with me, and people that are run around town
that have had a file of fish and Mcbronald's know
exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Now, maybe I'm just the weird one. I guess, uh, Connor,
do you eat file of fish from mcbroonald, from anywhere,
any fast food fish sandwich? No, it's not, okay, I'm
just curious. That just sounds completely unappetizing. I don't think
I've ever craved a mish malay.
Speaker 1: At ruer Ring they call it a whaler or a
BK big fish, and then at Butterburger they called a
what a catch?
Speaker 5: But they only do it during Lent these things I
found out. Oh, the Malayo mish is a year round. Yeah,
I thought that was around LNT too.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, but the Malaya mish has been around
for me.
Speaker 5: I don't know, because I don't eat the the chicken
nugget equivalent of fish.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I like it, so that's what I mean.
I know you do, all right. That's you also like the.
Speaker 3: Chicken nuggative pork.
Speaker 13: All right.
Speaker 3: I guess technically, beef patty is the chicken nugget of.
Speaker 1: Beef, and you're just a chicken nuggt of everything, aren't you.
I guess, all right, what's the matter with you this week? Rossie?
I don't know. Go to Connor? All right?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with
this cough that I can't get rid of.
Speaker 5: I called my doctor yesterday and then there's the nice
assistant was like, oh, he's busy right now, We'll have
them call you back. They never called me back. I
called him again this morning. Still haven't gotten a call back.
But deal with this dang call for like four and
a half weeks. Ain't nobody got time. I'm trying to
give you my money, doctor, and for you not to
call me back, but I love you. Let's get the
doctor saying let's know, no, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 3: I do love him. We're bros.
Speaker 5: We talk ut sports and astros and Ronnie terror extensions. No,
we do not talk about the nobody's talking about those.
Ain't nobody got time for those either.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody get it? All right? Conn? Are you next?
Speaker 5: So this morning I car pooled with my father, dropped
them off. You guys talked a lot of hockey, I imagine,
Uh not really, No, I hope you badmouth the roster
in the whole time.
Speaker 11: We talked a little shop. Anyway, We took the hov
Lane down forty nine South since we were riding together.
The first time I'd done that in years. He used
to take it with my brother on the way to
high school all the time. But so we're about to
reach that downtown exit going fifty nine south, and all
of a sudden, all these cars in front of me,
three cars in front of me, slam on the brakes.
That's because there were cops and the HOV Lane stopping
all the single riders and ticketing them, which I know
is a good thing and keeps the HOV Lane what
it is supposed to be. But anybody got time for
my first time in years for the cops to be
look slowing down traffic and looking at everybody's cars.
Speaker 5: Ain't nobody get down now?
Speaker 1: To be fair, you can pay a toll to ride
by yourself, but only during certain hours. So that's the
reason you must have been going in the morning drive,
because yeah, it was after our stretch.
Speaker 11: I believe it's after at least in my where I
get it on my entrance, after six thirty or something
like that.
Speaker 1: After seven you can't do it. I got you, all right, Yeah, So,
ain't nobody got time for you jumping in the lane
and getting yourself a ticket when you know you can't
go by yourself.
Speaker 3: Well, that's true.
Speaker 1: There you are.
Speaker 3: That's better.
Speaker 1: Hey, nobody get time today. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. This is from my wife Ross uh.
This goes to Schmida Airlines. Last week. They wanted to
go stand by on an earlier flight from Washington, d C.
To Houston. And when you go stand by, you tell
them you go stand by and if you bring your bags,
the bags that you are taking with you to go
on to the the through baggage claim, go on the
flight you want to go on, whether you get on
it or not, because it wouldn't make much sense for
you to put your bags on the originally scheduled flight
if you're on the earlier Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 1: So she gets to uh Rega National airport and the
women at Schmider Airlines say, no, we're not gonna let
you check your bags. We're gonna put them on the
original flight. Mm hmm. So they tagged the butt, they
tagged the bags. My wife does not go on to
stand by flight because she was told the bags weren't
gonna be there. We she lands at Inner Continental and
she finds out the bags which we were told we're
not gonna be on the earlier flight have been sitting
in Houston for three hours because they went on an
earlier flight. Anybody got time? Schmiinded Airlines for messing with
my daughter my wife's bags.
Speaker 5: Ain't nobody and we were delayed to West Palm and
coming back or Florid Lauderdale. Anybody got time for that either?
Speaker 1: No, ain't nobody.
Speaker 5: It's terrible.
Speaker 1: And the rule should be if you're delayed service something,
give us one of those three.
Speaker 3: Hour delay and we don't get anything.
Speaker 5: You getta you eat a bleep you we're gonna spit
at your feet and we're gonna tell you take your
money and you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you can't post schmidered Airlines
always sends you emails when your flight is on time.
They want you to tell you how great there, But
if your flight's an hour and a half two hours late,
that email never seems to hit the inbox.
Speaker 5: Nope, we notice that.
Speaker 1: This guy does.
Speaker 5: I like how they lie to you about the delays too.
I had a three hour delay. First, they try to
soft sell it. Oh so thirty minute delayed, guys are
gonna be as soon as we can. We're gonna be
out of here.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 5: We apologize for the inconvenience. Then it goes to an hour,
and it goes like two hour. Yeah, they always soft
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seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Ain't nobody
got time for that. And by the way Sports Touch.
You're a douche. You just always send stupid tweets at me,
and you're about to be muted. I wanted a fish
sandwich Waterberger Jutttererger does not have fish. Well, don't you
get ross? A man can cray fish once in? All right?
Speaker 3: Nope, okay, no, I just luck.
Speaker 5: You know, mat sves the little joys in life when
people get crushy for your food takes and you get
all upset because what is it?
Speaker 1: Great? Seriously, let me tell you. I don't know who
Sports touches, but my guess he is about four nine
and two seventy five who probably does not worry about
his palette or his diet.
Speaker 5: Sports Hutch listens all the time. Don't disagree with I
don't agree with everything he says.
Speaker 1: But appreciate you. I don't want you to listening create
grief for me. I'm gonna I'm long meeting you. You're done,
I'm finished.
Speaker 3: Have a great day, Hutch.
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So don't call Scott seven one three two one two
five seven outis if a man wants fish ross at
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Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I'm trying so hard to be nice and
so I'm just gonna not say anything to say.
Speaker 1: Say what you look, we've been to the other for
fifteen years. Say what you need to say and get
off your chest.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 1: I heard he did a man wants fish. I mean,
I'm not going to river ring. The file of fish
is four dollars and twenty cents. The water was two bucks.
I was out of there less than seven dollars. I
was happy until the damn sauce went all over my
chest seven month three two one two five, seven ninety.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, did you say I was happy until this
sauce went all.
Speaker 1: Over the tire sauce.
Speaker 5: Jimmy on seven ninety see all of that on Friday, Jimmy,
I was I was.
Speaker 14: Gonna come to mass defense until he dropped a heath
smit two dollars on a water bottle. When you can
get a couple, you can get a large cup of
water for twenty five cents, you're a small cup for free.
So fancy mat, I'm not defending your fish till they
take today.
Speaker 1: No I wanted, I wanted. We're running water. What's the
problem with that two bucks?
Speaker 3: Big Dealanty, Matt.
Speaker 15: I mean, when they're paying you the fancy mat Bucks,
I guess, I guess that's your prerogative.
Speaker 1: Fair enough.
Speaker 3: So the other day, fish, this is not possible.
Speaker 15: Okay, fair points, fair point. So if they're not being
fancy anyway, then you're just wasting two bucks on water.
So I met Moe Riley's. Actually, I think maybe O'Reilly
spends money with y'all, so i'll shout them out.
Speaker 14: So I'm at O'Reilly's.
Speaker 15: I do a return. It's one of those returns where
they have to do it in cash for some reason.
So it's a ten dollars bill in a stack of change. Anyway,
nothing wrong with O'Reilly's love. Those people head on down
the road to roam Repo and buy something and dollars
and two cents, and I think to myself self, I
got change in my pocket that I'm just gonna lose
this cash. I pull out the ten dollars bill and
set two cents on top of the ten dollar bill
totals eight oh two hundred, ten oh two. She looked
at me and said the ten was already too much
and pushes the two cents back to me and then
proceeds to give me one paper dollar and ninety eight
cents of change. Ain't nobody got time for that? And
just I mean, that's just disturbing to think that girl
probably drove herself to work today.
Speaker 5: Hey, nobody get to.
Speaker 1: Change is an issue. Ross. I'm not anti change, but
when I asked for a penny at the raw rucks
at one time, she said I can't give it to you,
that pissed me off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. You'd used that for fuel of this segment.
Speaker 1: I believe. Yes, my coffee was three dollars in one cent.
I said, here's three can I I don't have an
extra penny? Can you spare me penny?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: I can't. What do you mean you can't? Twelve billion
dollar company serving mid coffee? You can give me the
damn penny.
Speaker 5: They got.
Speaker 3: They gotta fun Jordan Schultz's career.
Speaker 1: He's blocking, by the way, He's fine, and he.
Speaker 3: Blocked me too.
Speaker 5: I never tweeted at him. You must have been listening
to the show or somebody act.
Speaker 1: John on seven on eight, John what's the matter with you? Hey, Matt.
Speaker 16: I'm driving home from the airport in a bad mood
right now because I had a five thirty am flight
from Sacramento and the captain and flight attendants were way
too chatty over the PA system and nobody could sleep.
They kept turning on and off the fastened seatbelt sign
and then telling everybody they turned on and off the
fastened seatbelt sign. So please, if you have access to
the plane PA system outside of normal business hours, shut
your bomb ass up.
Speaker 1: Could not get man now by rule, John, thank you
for the phone call. By rule, when you put the phone,
when you put the fasten seatbelt sign on, the good
pilot's ross say fasten seatbelts please, and that's it. Flight
tendants can say you heard what the captain said please,
but I mean it can be done in ten words
or less. You don't need a full explanation as to
why you need to put your seatbelt on. Turbulence usually
is the great indicator ross that you have to put
your seatbelt on. Mm hm, I am with this guy.
Five point thirty flight. You're tired, af You got up
at four o'clock or three thirty to catch up five
thirty am flight. You don't need a long dialogue between
the flight of tenants and the captain. That's all you need. Boom,
that's international sound for put the damn belt on and
sit down for a couple of minutes. And if you
can't figure it out the fact that the plane is
turning left and right large increments with a lot of
unsettling air, then you're really a dumb ass. HM last
call for shut your bomb ass up and anybody got
time for that? If you want to get in, you
got about a minute and a half. Come on in
right now at seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. Do you think we should have a currency
system we round down and up on the change bit,
Like if you're gonna charge me three dollars and sixteen cents,
then it should be rounded down to three and if
it's like over three one, you go up to four dollars.
Just we can just eliminate change period.
Speaker 3: I like when they do the round up to donate
to charity.
Speaker 1: I know all that's easy. That's an easy absolute you
know what, ross I forgot to say this when I
was getting my malayal miss yesterday, I round it.
Speaker 3: Up battle charity.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah see, And then you know what Robert reward was, napkin.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to hear that, man, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think it was. When I walked in the house,
my wife's like, what is that stuff.
Speaker 5: On your shirt?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: You're covered in sauce, dribbling down your chin and chest.
Speaker 1: It is a good sandwich, though, and I thought about
getting no tartar sauce on it. But but tartar sauce
is part of the charm of the bile of a
filet of fish.
Speaker 7: It just is.
Speaker 5: I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 1: How about you and migo? It's in filet fish one day.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll eat one, but I haven't had one.
Speaker 5: I don't think since I was in my teens.
Speaker 1: They're not terrible. It's just a fried piece of cod.
I mean, you've had fish and chips before.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's cod. There's no way there eat
no way.
Speaker 1: It ain't sea bass. Put that way, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Not Chilean sea bass.
Speaker 5: It's not my he my he is a kids would say, uh,
Google says it's Alaskan pollock.
Speaker 1: Well there there you go, what does want a goottle
piece of Alaskan pollock once in a while. Felipe on
seven nine Eleve forty two high Felipe, Hello cougar, Matt,
cougar hater ross. I got two for two for today.
I'm gonna save the best one for last. Uh. Well,
my boss put me with some guy at my job
and he really don't.
Speaker 17: Know what he's doing it, so it's like I'm babysitting
the guy. So I ain't nobody got time for that
and another one? Thanks to you, Matt. I tried to
I was talking to a friend of mine. Hey was
telling to me about the McRib.
Speaker 1: He loves the McRib.
Speaker 17: I'm gonna tell my I'm gonna tell myself to shut
my ball mess up because I think I might try
it next time it comes out.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Man, you're you know what, Felipe,
You are more than welcome to join McRib nation. I
think I might try.
Speaker 17: He makes it sound really good, so I think next
time it comes back, I'm getting one.
Speaker 3: At least one.
Speaker 1: At least at least one. You're gonna be You're gonna
be so hungry and enjoying the first one, you're gonna
want to get a second one. You may get a double.
Speaker 17: Man, I'm gonna I'm gonna try one, and if it's
if it hits, it hits, I'm gonna give me another one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he convinced me.
Speaker 3: He said it was he said all the perks why
he likes it. So I was like, you know what,
I gotta try it.
Speaker 1: I can't doubt it.
Speaker 3: Bless you, thank you, thanks, tell us, all.
Speaker 1: Right, see you later. All right? That does uh shut
your bum mass up in I'll make a time that
Rockets being the Spurs. I we're not very good on
back to backs, Robson, Can you can you give us
some positive mojo here in the last minute and forty
of the seconds of this show?
Speaker 5: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: All right? Who's that that the launch pad tonight? Oh
you again? Yeah? You don't sound too excited about it.
Speaker 5: I can't wait. It should be great, wonderful edition.
Speaker 1: And that means the Rockets wrap will be at around
eleven thirty ish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I will not be at three and tonight.
Speaker 1: Should I call the show tonight? First? I almost called
last night. I got one call until Jerrod called, and
then it was like four minutes of just complete. It
was like he was recapping parts of the game I
had forgotten about already.
Speaker 5: Is there some issue with Ramazon? Anybody got time for
them having checkout issues?
Speaker 1: What are you trying to buy?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: I do you want to really tell you?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 3: It's batteries for my my remote for my car, my
you know, clicker.
Speaker 1: That's nothing bad. I don't have any resentment towards that.
Speaker 5: No, there's no resentment. This is so random, but you
wanted to know by the way, I did a pole
on the malayo mish Oh it's not going well for you.
Three comments. What kind of psycho eats fish from fast food?
Fast food? Fish should be? I Leegal and somebody else
also said also a big fan of gas station sushi.
I believe that sarcasm.
Speaker 1: All right, you know what, I'm gonna give me a
flay of fish right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can dribble it on your chin.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the rest of your day. Astros Baseball and next
I'll talk to you tonight for Rockets and the Spurs.
Here I'm Sports Talk seven nights