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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

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Speaker 2: Ten oh three in h Town. Good morning, and welcome

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to a Friday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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This is Sports Talk seven ninety. Give me a break.

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Speaker 3: Come on, be smarter in Houston. For the love of God,

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don't be a dumbass sports down.

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Speaker 2: Come on, y'all. Stop HEMI is like, can you give

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me six minutes tonight? I'm like, for what we were running?

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We were run. They were round about this. They usually

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two to three. Well I could have gone six for him.

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And by the way, don't look at what a fluffer is.

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Just the greatest fluffer of all time, people say, Matt Thomas. No,

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they don't. No, they don't associate me with fluffing at all.

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It's super deep. We saw lots of frozen meat. Yeah, yes,

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I am going deep into the bush.

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Speaker 4: Good sports Uh, Sports Talk seven ninety on the dial

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on the I heard radio app Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Perfect, Yeah, we need that. We did that Cliff immediately. Man,

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I hate that You're like telling them when the Cliff Diggs.

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Let the man find his own clips. Don't keep indicting

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me every time I say something that should be clippable.

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I'm here to help. I figured you are all right.

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The reality is this one third of this radio program

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is on Cloud nine. His beloved Canadian national team went

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to the TD Water just the TD Garden that always

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changed the name depending on what financial ferm it's called,

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but TD Garden last night in Boston, Massachusetts, it was

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not wicked awesome for Team USA as Team Canada won

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the Four Nations event. The whole, the whole kitten kaboodle.

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There's a lot of sadness in our community. Turn it up.

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This is such a banger. Soon I'll be repeating a

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hot take here after this song is concluded. Hogs Sweet

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see the whole thing play. I think, so it's not

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that long. You should be playing some of the highlight

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of the last night's game, right. I was gonna say,

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I could have made a separate open for it, but

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you got plenty of times that he might ambush us.

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Those Canadians are squirrely.

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Speaker 5: I love Canada. It's it's too damn cold, but I

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got no beef of Canada. I mean, it's gonna be

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our fifty first state eventually. Yeah, it's a big ass state.

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Bigger in California a lot of Texas.

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Speaker 2: A lot of oil up there. You know what, I

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don't mind if it becomes our fifty first date, because

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one it's not happening. I don't though. You get my

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passport out every time the customs pay. In the end,

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it will convenience you somewhat. So you want to to

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annex an entire nation that it's been sovereign for hundreds

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of years. Yeah, they're fine, by the way. Another thing

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about Canada's great beyond the the people are nice. Uh,

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there's lots of beautiful I mean, it's got everything from

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big metropolitan cities. It's got a little international flair with

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Montreal and Toronto to a certain extent. But it's got

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lots of national forest and parks and mountains. You can

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go see Bamp. I heard Bamp is quite delightful. Not

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right now, but I'm sure in the summertime it's quite

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It's quite a great place to go. Another thing is

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they have Tim Horton's on the regular. I know we've

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got Tim Hortons here. They're bringing them, are they all?

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But I think they've already be in here, Okay, But

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Tim Hortons in Canada, is it just it just runs

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differently for you. You can get two donuts and a

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coffee US Canadian US dollar trans What are they not

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the transition? What do you call it? A conversion change?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like two donuts and a coffee is like a dollar

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eady five US. That's great. I go to Tim Hortons

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when I'm in Toronto four times a day. One of

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my calls are all jacked up when I do the

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rockets and raptors, well pipe, I'm all fired up on caffeine.

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M I I can go for Tim Hortons right now. Okay.

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They their pizza chain is called Pizza Pizza, real original

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on that they ripped off Little Caesars. Yeah, it's just

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called Pizza Pizza. Are you sure? Yeah? Okay, I mean

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I'm taking they have poon tang. No, man, no, it's poutine. Okay,

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sorry you took that on purpose. You're such a child.

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I'm not a child. It's a great place. Now. Do

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I want them to was every hockey game from here

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on out? Yes? Because Connor is But we should explain

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to the audience that Connor's folks are from Canada and

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uh he is wearing a Canadian national team jacket today.

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It could have been worse. I could have worn the jersey.

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Yeah where were you from? Where were you born? I

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was born here? Then you know what, for the love

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of God, start wearing.

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Speaker 7: Team USA stuff. No, what's wrong with you? I'm a

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Canadian citizen as well.

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Speaker 2: Your duo? Yeah, your bye, your Byzen Yeah buy sit

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there here. So sometimes you're you go, you swing from

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one side of the plate. Another time you sing from

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the other side of the plate. That's fine, m sure.

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Speaker 7: It's so different than people here cheering for like Team Mexico,

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even though they were born here.

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Speaker 2: For in the world's cuss let. Y'all know, we have

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a we have a by citizen as our producer of

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the show. What's wrong with that? Just go to one

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side and stay with it. For hockey, I always always

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beat in Canada. You know Ross is number one on

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Saskatchewan radio. Right you were like, oh, where was it?

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Regina love? They love they love your your sports takes

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in Regina and I love Regina back. Maybe you should

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get a job there. Well, if they're hiring, you know,

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they should call you Ross Viill Doroale the voice of Regina.

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I love it. I've never been I love speaking Regina.

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I've been to Van. I've been to Vancouver beautiful. Yes,

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I have been to Toronto amazing. I have been to

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Windsor many many times when I was a kid. It's right,

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the castle, No, the border of Canada from Detroit, that's fine.

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I don't know where his peeps are from. That's right.

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So they're really you know what, you know, your folks

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are really not even that Canadians. It's like Fox Canada.

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It's basically like it's basically North Detroit, South Detroit. Watch

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I heard it's rainy. It could be a little sloppy

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in Regina today. Yeah, there's no other radio show in

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the marketplace is going to give you more Canadian talk

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than this show has in the first five minutes. Bless us,

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You're wellcome. A lot of Canadians in Florida too. That's

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the Snowbirds. Why the Snowbirds.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot of Canadians here in Houston where in

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town oil and gas industry brings him down here?

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Speaker 2: All right, if you're a Canadian, you listen to the show,

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give us a shout and brag on the Canadian national team. Yeah,

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overtime game yesterday. And I'll be honest with you, I

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didn't see much of it because look, you and I

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got home by he thirty last night. By the time

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we got to the airport, I went straight, I unpacked

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and went straight to bed, point being is this we

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haven't seen our families and whatnot? So we just Canada.

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We knew we had our hockey. We had the Barry

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Milrose with us already here. A hockey correspondent was on

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the on the case. So was there anything controversy about

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the game last night? Was there anything that would be

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Team USA should be mad about or anything? Uh?

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Speaker 7: No, I know there was no. They've only called one penalty,

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so that's good. Yeah, there wasn't. There wasn't many like

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power plays or goals that we should have been taken back.

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Speaker 2: Everything. It was pretty clean, okay. And did the girl

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watch the game with you? She read her book while

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I I was gonna say, there's no chance, even though

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she she adores you and I've met her. She's lovely.

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She there's no way she's into hockey.

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Speaker 7: No, she'll She'll keep up with football, and then that's

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pretty I said.

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Speaker 2: No basketball, No, So you went. So I gave you

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tickets to the Rockets game and you brought the girl,

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and she did she bring a book to the game.

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Speaker 7: Too, No, she watched the game. She cheered for the Rockets,

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and then she cheered when Lebron James scored.

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Speaker 2: That's right. You know why she's a Lebron fan?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Is she a Lebron fan or is she a Laker fan?

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I think she just likes Lebron like she knows the name. Gross.

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That's too bad. But the Rockets famous, Yes, kind of famous.

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Speaking of the Rockets tonight in action against the Wow

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Minnesota Timber late night game, late night, I'm gonna give

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me a nap. I come to your house, sticking nap. Yeah,

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you like to appreciate you. You over your sickness? Are you

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still sick? I'm coughing a little bit. I'm getting slowly better, slowly.

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I think you had the sickness. And like Thanksgiving, I'm

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sleeping through the night. Now. This is that's good. Most part,

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that's really good. All right? Last night isn't anything goes

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Friday on the program. If you're Canadian, you get cart

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blots in the show. I'm looking from one Canadian to

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call the show today wonderful. You think we have Canadians

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in our audience? Yes, well, let's get want to call

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the show. Sure, brag about your team Canada? Uh paying

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off the officials to beat our team USA. Yeah, they

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were cheaters. It is their sport. They should at least

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have something. Canadian should be better in hockey and curling.

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Like if Team USA had a better curling team, we'd

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have some serious issues for Canada. Yeah, I'll take your

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word for it. And I don't know how the curling

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squads looking this year. Here's the big question. When Canada

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becomes our fifty first state, which should be which should

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be the capital of Canada? Would be Toronto? In I

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think Montchreal have an issue with that. Why do you

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think interesting Calgary would want to be a bup? Isn't

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Toronto the capitol?

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Speaker 9: Now?

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Speaker 7: No? Mad do you know what the capitol is?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Wait, hold on, hold on call the capital today? Yes,

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I was the capital of Canada. I really don't know

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where the capital of capet Canada is. It starts with

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an oh, Ontario. No, it's a province. No, No, that's

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a province Ottawa. Oh see is that for?

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Speaker 8: Really?

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Speaker 2: It's Western Canada has no idea The things you learn

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on this radio show today seven one three to it

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capitol of Canada? Yeah, why duh? I had no idea.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Canadian

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fans top of the list. Your team just beat ours. Wow,

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I'm blown away right now. Why wouldn't it be Toronto

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because that's the only city you can name?

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Speaker 10: Is that?

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Speaker 2: Because that should be the camp capitol? All right? Fine?

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Speaker 7: No, I can't want to say Los Angeles just be

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Speaker 2: New York was the capital for a while. Washington, DC's like, wait,

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we're we're here. That's fine. What do you want? Do

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you want Winnipeg to be the capital of Canada? I

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don't care, all right? Seven one? How about that mean

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dropping a Winnipeg on you? Well, we're proud of you.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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one three two one two five seven eights And anything

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goes Friday. As you can clearly tell here on Sports

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Talk seven NINTI, this is the Matt Thomas Show with

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Ross on Sports Talk seven ten twenty one. I have

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Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas Show

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with Ross's and anything Goes Friday. And we'll explain to

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you one of anything goes Friday is by giving me

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giving you a little non sports take to open up

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the show today. Beyond the hockey side that was sports,

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here's the non sports conversation piece. A guy in front

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of me on the plane yesterday took his shoes off. Oh,

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in front of you? Is he in first class? Yes? Oh.

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Back in the day, they would always shield off the

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first class from the coach people. They don't do it anymore,

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no curtain or anything. No, not a damn thing. How

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do first class people feel about this? I don't know.

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I don't get I don't get first class anymore, at

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least on those planes. I actually got one first class

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Speaker 11: D C.

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Speaker 2: To Palm Beach. But that's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 11: Here.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. If you take your shoes off and

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you don't get up at all, are you really doing

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anything bad? I don't know. I just think it's bad,

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bad for him. It's two and a half hour flight especially, Yeah, uh,

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I just I don't I don't ever take my shoes

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off on the plane me either. I didn't do it

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on the fifteen hour flight to Korea. And you're you're

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tootsies were probably hurting. No, they're fine. I mean do

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you are you people wearing like shoes that don't fit?

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Why is everybody telling me that their their feet are

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hurting when they're just sitting You're just sitting on a plane.

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All right, how about this? Did you see the socks

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that the guy was wearing? No, I put the photo

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I took a photo of Yes, No I didn't. Yeah,

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you put it on twitters. Oh yeah, that's fine. I

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don't mute you. You're just kind of filtered out of

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my algorithm. Probably, Okay, I was like, I was more

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offended by the sock choice than I was the uh

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t I hmm. Okay, taking your shoes off is one thing.

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Then crossing your legs to get the foot up into

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people's breathing space, that's big no. No, big no no.

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If you want to take your shoes off and you

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want to keep them under the seat, first of all,

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that's bad form. You shouldn't do it. But no, then no,

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this is unacceptable. Then you're crossing your legs and putting

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them near my nose. No no, actually you're actually putting

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the nose really of the person next to you. Yeah,

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that's what. No, this is this is a big no. No.

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I agree, I say this. This man should be arrested

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for his firing squad right now for a choice of

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socks or or the the leg. He should be in jail. Okay,

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so you're more offended by the cross the crossover, Yes,

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all right, I just don't. I don't think it's a

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really safe and non safe sterile clean. It just feels

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like you're taking you're taking dust mites with you play

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from place to flight. Just be considerate to others. This

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is ridiculous. Certainly again, this guy, how many strikes does this?

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it's only two and a half hour flight. Third of all,

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he's crossing his legs, poking put and putting them up

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in the air. You're out, No, you know what, he's

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probably Canadian, that's part of this, might be. Yeah, as

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those Canadians do they you know, once they they have

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they're on think they're on top, top of the hockey world.

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They they run the US airlines. The game hadn't been

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played yet, No, but they were so pumped. Probably film

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pretty good of a situation, all right, anything goes Friday

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seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety Let

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me ask you this in all seriousness about the hockey stuff,

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and again I didn't pay much tention took us. Look,

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we just got back from a long trip, but we

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put the hours. Big shout out to the astros PR

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department for helping us get some of those great guests.

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But we did. We put a lot of hours and

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got to this ballpark really early, had a chance to

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get a couple of interviews. You were doing a lot

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of videos of showing people there, so we hope that

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you appreciated our coverage down from West Palm. It felt

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like to me, and I'm not saying people that I follow,

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going to go strictly by the for you tab woh,

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the for you tabu of people that I do not follow.

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Felt like there was a lot of energy for this

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Four Nations tournament that we did not have for the

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NBA All Star Game. I think the nh the NBA

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would be was going to be slightly jealous. Now with

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that being said, now I'm going to go with a

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far reaching analogy on this and Ross you just know

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what I'm doing. Analogies. Here we go. If you're a

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little Division one basketball school. Okay, and you're playing another

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a little Division one basketball school, and you guys are

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playing this forty minute back and forth, hard fought, well

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played game, and you go, man, we are awesome. We

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have played our asses off. People are gonna love this game.

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Anybody watched our game enjoyed it. Meanwhile, you got the

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blue Bloods Kentucky playing North Carolina, and Kentucky North calnd

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only make thirty five percent of their shots. They foul

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bunch of people out. There's a lot of traveling violations.

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Kentucky North North Carolina don't care how Mount Saint Mary's

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versus Eastern Vermont played. And in this case, that's the hockey.

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That's the that's man. And the NBA is probably like,

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you know, NHL, good for you, Glad that you are

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to put together a four Nations event. Glad of the people.

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The small smidge of people in America that cared about

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hockey loved your game. We're a freaking NBA. It's different.

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This is two professional leagues, but one league is significantly

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more popular than the other. It is, but the ratings

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are way higher. I though the ratings for the game,

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I don't have them for last night yet, but over

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the weekend it was ten million viewers. The All Star

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Game was four point seven. It was more than double

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So I can't So let's make this in a round about. Then,

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if you're in the NBA front office today, in the

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ivory towers of their league offices, do you shake your

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head at the four nations, going, we got to do

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something to match that, or do you go it's nice,

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it's a one off or the freaking I don't think

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they're that concerned. They're not direct competitors with the with

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the NHL. That's my point was is that you can

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bet the little have nots. I can feel good about

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their situation because they got a chance to get a

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little shine. But it's all about the thoroughbreds. It's all

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about the people that are absolutely that more people watch

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us worldwide nationally. Blah blah blah blah blah. That NHL

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foreig nations. Good for you. We're gonna see who's who's

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gonna who's gonna be the Kings at the end. Yeah,

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the leagues are on in the same time of years,

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so I guess there is somewhat of a competition, But

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I don't think the NBA season like this, I don't

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think Adam Silver particularly cares. So yeah, I'm just telling

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you as a non hockey fan, not anti hockey, just

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non like I'm anti soccer, but I'm not. But I'm

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I'm non and I'm not anti hockey. The buzz that

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those events got quadrupled the buzz that the NBA All

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Star Game got, and I would like to I'd like

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to see the NBA get that kind of positive publicity

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because for the sport of hockey, you got a lot

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of people that were very much fringe people watching those

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are games the last couple of months. But you also

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had something that you're not going to get. The players cared.

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The hockey players cared. They wanted to win, so out there,

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so humbling each other's faces. So Adam Silver, for back

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to back years, Ross goes to the All Star Game

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and pleads with these players to care. Why should they?

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That's why we need to separate the gap. The NBA

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players will care when what they get. They've been called

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out and back to back years, I hadn't made a difference.

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I got three words, cut the check. Those players weren't

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playing for money and NHL or yeah, no, they weren't.

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It's just different. It's but it's also for nation's pride,

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So yeah, maybe you can you incorporate some sort of

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Olympic style. Did they do USA versus the World in

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the NBA All Star Game before? They've done it all

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everything they've tried Team World versus Team USA, They VERSUSUSA,

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versus Europe versus I don't know, Africa or Asia or

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something I don't know. For instance, the NBA should take

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a page out of the World Baseball Classic. People love

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the way or I don't like it, but people love

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the World Baseball Classic, and that's Nation v Nation. You

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know what, NBA, just do me a favor, Just scrap

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the whole thing. Everybody a week off, call it a

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call it an NBA winner break, and call it a day.

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Because all you're all you're doing by having an All

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Star Game right now is just getting the haters of

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the sport to just pile on even more. No, they

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they I'm sure they made money still, Oh, I'm sure

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they did and got a lot of sponsors. You got

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to sponsored every little thing at All Star weekend. Five

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million viewers is better than zero million viewers. They're not

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going to get rid of it. You're probably right. Ten thirty. Uh,

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Sean in Ontario, the iHeart Radio app is killing it wonderful.

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Do we have a iHeart Radio Canada? What do you mean?

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I guess it works though, don't. Yeah, I mean we don't.

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I don't think we have no stations in Canada. I

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don't think. Oh okay, so I imagine the app works

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there though we'll find out next. Let's lets Sean lives

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in Houston, but it's calling himself on Ontario? Is that

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a right? And Tario? Or maybe it's called from Ontario California.

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Ten thirty five. It's the Matt Thomas Show with ROS

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Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two

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our Canadian correspondents, Shane or make it Shawn in Ontario. Sean,

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are you really in Ontario right now?

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Speaker 12: Yes, I am in the Atlanta ice and snow.

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Speaker 2: Wow. What's the current temperature? And please don't fahrenheit if

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you don't mid because none of us know the calcius

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celsius the conversion.

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Speaker 12: Fifteen degrees right now, that's that's the high for the day.

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Speaker 2: M First of all, are you do you have any

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Texas ties?

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Speaker 11: Are you.

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Speaker 2: Are you from Houston? What's going on? How do you

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know about this?

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Speaker 12: I live in Humble, So I lit, I've listened to

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the show. I'm in the oil and gas business.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice, Yeah, shout out to you. So do you

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are you up there on work?

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Speaker 8: Are you?

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Speaker 2: Are you living up there now?

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Speaker 12: No, I'm just back here visiting some family.

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Speaker 2: Okay, excellent, excellent. So you watched the game and you

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loved every minute of it, and you're going to tell

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me about how great the four Nations tournament is because

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from a PR standpoint, I think your PR standpoint, I

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think you're right.

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Speaker 12: Well, this country is shut down for about five hours

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last night to watch that game. There was cars on

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the road. But I do have a couple of comments

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about it about it, and they directed mar Ross since

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he was on made some comments on the Monday show

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when you were out about hockey in this tournament. So

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the first comment is he and his co host, who

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was on temporarily early on the show, kind of went

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after Cannon said, you know, they should be somewhat embarrassed

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losing their sports that they created in their hometown. And

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that's true. But Rob also is said in the past.

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Speaker 8: That Ron Robins.

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Speaker 12: Parts don't matter as long as you get up points

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to get to the championship game. And that's what Canada did.

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That is they got enough points to go in and

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when it came time for the big game, Canada won.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead yep.

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Speaker 12: And ironically they won on us soil an arena which

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is named PD which is, by the way, Toronto Dominion Banks,

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the second large the bank system in Canada. So that's

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the first comment, Oh damn, get him.

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Speaker 2: The second one, no, no, you're you're just a media

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or you're anti Canada, and Sean figured that out. It

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makes sense, continue on showing you the floor is yours.

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Speaker 12: So the second comment goes, they alluded to you know,

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it's hockey really tough. After all those fights, there wasn't

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really a lot of things going on with those fights. Well,

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tell me another sport where somebody can get hurt early

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in the game. Take ten to twelve stitches in the

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face and neck, get stitched up in the back and

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come out finish the game, or get their teeth knocked out,

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Pick them off the ice, skate over the bench, give

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him the assistant coaches. They we'll fix it after the

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game and keep playing. I mean, come on, NBA, they

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get a hangnail and they're off for two days, and then.

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Speaker 2: That's right because they got to make fifty million dollars

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in a year. Yeah, that's the guy's got to play.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: And the last one is you know again kind of

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some joking comments, but I kind of took a little

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offense to it. Is hockey really that much of a sport?

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 2: I never said, hold on, hold on, I'm calling BS

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on this part. Sean. When did I ever say hockey's

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not really a sport?

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Speaker 12: You guys alluded to know you're you and your co

476
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host that morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to check a take on this. I'm

478
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calling BS on you. But go ahead, Sean.

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Speaker 12: All right. So, can you take a wide receiver or

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running back or a tight ender in football, put him

481
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on skates for the first time, expect to hit people?

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Speaker 11: No.

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Speaker 12: Can you take a basketball player, put skates on him

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and think he's gonna be able to cut left and

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right and do things?

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Speaker 14: No?

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Speaker 12: And you put a baseball player on the on the

488
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ice first time, you think he's gonna able to handle

489
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that stick and shoot a hundred miles hours. No, But

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you can't take a hockey player. Put him on the

491
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football field, he'll be able to run, cut and pass.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but hold on, one of those hockey players play

493
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like eight minutes a game. Then you have to play

494
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like ten plays. They get tired too fast. Lebron's running

495
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up and on the forty or forty minutes a game.

496
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These hockey players are skating for like eight minutes and

497
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they get tired off this time for a line change.

498
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You've had three line changes during this.

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Speaker 12: Call, Sean, Lebron runs down once and then jogs back quietly.

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These guys are sprint for thirty to forty five seconds,

501
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and the actual top players will play twelve.

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Speaker 15: To eighteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: Now they're hanging out, they're fighting, taking breaks, there's there's

504
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an icing every five seconds, and they're not sprinting the

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whole time.

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Speaker 12: Sean, come on, Oh, and the NBA doesn't call fouls

507
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every two minutes and then everybody's looking at each other

508
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or football. You got at least two minutes. It seems

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like between every play with it without.

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Speaker 2: The title, I feel like we're doing stereotype radio here.

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Can we can wear back away from this boy? Seriously? Man,

512
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are tough? Are tough? That's funny.

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Speaker 12: Hey, I'm just trying to fend my national sport.

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Speaker 2: And congratulations to Canada. Thank you. Hey, Sean, don't be

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a stranger of the show. We appreciate that. And the humble,

516
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THEO entarior connection is strong. I love that, Thanks very much.

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Is this your dad, Connor? How did you wait? How

518
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did you know that? He said oil and gas? He

519
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said Ontario? I said humble. He wanted to call this

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the way we were looking. Hold on, hold on right, quick,

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hold on, Sewan, are you still there?

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Speaker 11: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: What's your last name?

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Speaker 16: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Huh, Sean.

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Speaker 15: You've done it.

527
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Speaker 2: You've done an excellent job raising a great son. I

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want to thank you for for being a great father.

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Speaker 1: Sean.

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Speaker 2: Love your son, Sean. Have you met Connor's girlfriend yet? Oh?

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Speaker 12: Yes, I have a very nice girl.

532
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Speaker 2: Okay, good. She hates hockey too, she despises hockey. No

533
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that's not true, that's not true. She just doesn't She

534
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,599
just reads books during it. All right, Thank you, Sean.

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Say about that, we got we got family members calling

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the show.

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Speaker 7: I was gonna say till after he was done sifted out.

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Speaker 2: The umble was the dead giveaway. If you just had

539
00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:38,279
Deer Park, you'd have been in Golden Yeah, you guys

540
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:42,039
are smarter than you look. Hey. No, in all honesty,

541
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I for a sport that doesn't get a lot of

542
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:50,359
run until really it's about the playoff time, it captivated

543
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,279
a lot of excuse me, North America, not just us.

544
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,920
That's great. Well, your dad's got the Canadian accent.

545
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Speaker 8: He does.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, that's great. He was.

547
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Speaker 7: This was like he called me yesterday's I'm gonna call

548
00:28:05,759 --> 00:28:07,559
him the show for the first time if they win.

549
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Speaker 2: And he referred to you on Monday as you and

550
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the other guy. So well, there was like three people

551
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,960
could have been Wexer. Now Wexler wasn't gonna trash Canada. No,

552
00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:21,400
he just hates. We were definitely joking about how come

553
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on and you invented the sport and you couldn't win. Yeah,

554
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you guys are joying. But I definitely didn't say that

555
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there was the cockey was in a real sport. I

556
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don't think hockey. That's all right, Look very passionate. He

557
00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:34,640
raised two hockey players, that's true. That's right. That's why

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he's in the hockey leagues all over the place. And

559
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here's here's what I was thinking about yesterday. I don't

560
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know why I was thinking of this. If you if

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you're like Sean and you raised a son like Connor,

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they'll say Connor wanted to be a really good hockey player,

563
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and because you just love the sport, you can only

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do so much here in Houston. You don't have very

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00:28:52,119 --> 00:28:54,240
many athletes, You got limited rings. I mean, you'd have

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to basically move your family to go place. So so

567
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we're saying, as Connor is a NHL level talent, but

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he just didn't have the the means. That's what I'm

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gonna say. Yeah, I'm gonna say that if Connor would

570
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have if if if Sean really would have loved his son, okay,

571
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he'd have moved to Buffalo or something where there's or minute.

572
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When I was in Minnesota, camera my oldest you know camp. Uh.

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He played junior hockey for a couple of years now.

574
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Of course, part of it was learning how to skate.

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That was the first issue. But when he got out

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there was fun. He didn't play very well, but I

577
00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:25,720
guess he was. We were Obviously he was in the

578
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fifth grade going against kids, you know, there were two

579
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years old with skates on their on their feet. So

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it's still fun. And I'll still say this, I don't

581
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know long term if hockey can work in Houston Ross,

582
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,319
but it's coming. So somebody's bringing the NHL the huge

583
00:29:42,319 --> 00:29:45,160
it's We were talking the other day about football markets

584
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that are that need uh uh, cities that need NFL teams,

585
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and it's way down the list. There is one big,

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top ten, huge metropolitan city, big money, big TV market

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that doesn't have NHL and it's the one with live

588
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in right now. So in theory, it's a no brainer,

589
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but it has been a it hasn't been a no

590
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brainer because Phoenix moved to Utah, a really small metropolitan market,

591
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and Atlanta, Atlanta went to Winnipeg, right ringing themselves the Jets.

592
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They were the Atlanta they were the Jets, and they

593
00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:22,559
went back and then they came back right the Jets were,

594
00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:28,920
but they know the Atlanta Thrashers became the Winnipeg Jets. Correct, correct, Okay,

595
00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:30,960
but there was a Jets before that. There was a

596
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Jets before. It's very confusing. I don't have time to

597
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learn another sport. I just don't. Well, as I've told

598
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you before, I'm spending all my time with baseball, basketball, football.

599
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I watched in primary league. I can't do it, get

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rid of, get rid of the Premier league. Why because

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you can watch those games in about five minutes. Zero

602
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zero is fine. Again, you're you don't know what you're

603
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talking about. It's actually we should tell the audience that

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a couple of days ago, you wanted to watch a

605
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game and it wasn't on our TV and hotel, and

606
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I watched on my phone and you were getting mad

607
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and it was at zero zero. It was three zero.

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I was trying to sleep and just you yelling yeah

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they game ended three to one, So all right, ten

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forty four. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross

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seven one three two one two five seven nine zero

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seven one three two one two five seven ninety uh

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more on this it's anything Goes Friday. Plus we'll get

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to a major the most popular sports network and the

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see other people. We'll discuss that next seven one three

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Speaker 1: Matten Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: That as well, the best in the league.

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Speaker 17: McDavid undred fifty percent for the regular season, but anyone

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twelve out of four day to their opener.

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Speaker 2: And he won that one and got a shut off.

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Speaker 16: Saturdascars, mcdormon, what is Martada? And Shordan Benningsens till.

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Speaker 1: It again inside the Tady Garden.

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Speaker 2: This a good theme song, by the way, too, it's great.

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I love it. Then it's in the top ten. Oh yeah,

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for sure. It was drafted in the Fantasy five to

649
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breakfast at and locked. That's fine, that's okay, by the way,

650
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real quick on this, and we're gonna get some other

651
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things to get to Major League Baseball. I understand you

652
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need some love and attention, and I don't disagree with

653
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you that ESPN has treated you like a bastard chep child,

654
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But I want you to go ask hockey fifteen years

655
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ago what it was like not having the NHL and

656
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ESPN and how well you got zero run on that network.

657
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If you have not heard, ESPN and MLB are going

658
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to mutually break up from their current contract after the

659
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end of this season, so MLB can go search out

660
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perhaps another avenue to put their games on and get

661
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their programming. So we're not going to get fourteen Red

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Sox Yankees games on a Sunday. Oh no, they'll still

663
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be on. It'll just be, it'll be. It won't be

664
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it now. Could they could go to back to ESPN.

665
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They they could say, oh, let's buy Ganzi Bigen ESPN,

666
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and we got to get four nations to question in

667
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here a second. ESPN got the rights to MLB in

668
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nineteen ninety. They've been with them for thirty five years. Wow.

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And when ESPN got major League Baseball, they did a

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huge Baseball Tonight was on at least what they did

671
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a daytime version and a nighttime versius. It was two

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hours a day. I used to always watch it. They

673
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had a Sunday night game of the week, they had

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a Monday game, they had a Tuesday double header, a

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Wednesday single game, a Friday doubleheader. So it was on

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four nights a week, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, five nights a week.

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That's pretty it's pretty crazy, yes, And then they started

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to drop it back to you know, then they did

679
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like opening day holiday triple header. They got rid of

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all that, and now they do sporadic games here and there,

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and then they do their main Sunday night game. So

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from going from about doing I don't know, two hundred

683
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and fifty games a year thirty five years ago doing

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about forty. It's pretty and they got rid of baseball

685
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tonight last year. So you couple that with the fact

686
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that if you turn on ESPN from say, I don't know,

687
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six am to four pm, you're not getting any baseball

688
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,480
talk at all. The Get Up Guys. That first show

689
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,320
they do with Mike Greenberg, all that is is three

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hours of Jets talk, Greenberg getting talking the Yankees more.

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When the Mad Dog Russo comes on.

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Speaker 18: I watched Jo Dianmaggio and Whitey Ford and dag Jeeta.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Then uh, the steven A Smith Show comes on.

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Steven A couldn't name five Major League Baseball players, so

695
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that's not gonna be talked about. Then you have the

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NBA Show, then the NFL Show, and then you have

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those other opinion shows on what is it part of

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the interruption and uh around the Horn. I never I

699
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understand why Rob Manford's pissed. I generally, I mean, baseball

700
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is the second most popular sport in this country. My

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guess in terms of nover I no, no, I don't

702
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:53,840
know how we're how are we measuring this? I don't

703
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:56,440
I don't know. But World Series ratings, I believe do

704
00:36:56,599 --> 00:36:59,039
beat the NBA finals races, and there's simply more people

705
00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:02,719
going to baseball well volume, yeah, will be Also, the

706
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,000
stadiums are forty thousands compared to fifteen. I mean, I

707
00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:08,119
don't know. It feels like to me that basketball you

708
00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:10,280
could flip them either way. There could be two. Aighten,

709
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,480
probably baseball. Okay, somewhere we'll go co Probably baseball for

710
00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:18,440
the second most popular sport in this country, it gets

711
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,239
zero run on the number one network that broadcasts they're now.

712
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,840
Fox carries all the World Series games and playoff games.

713
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,920
But Fox doesn't have daily programming like ESPN does, so

714
00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:31,280
I kind of you know, I just don't get it. Category,

715
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,719
I get it. The problem is you don't have any alternatives.

716
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,639
If you all of a sudden told FS one will

717
00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:41,280
give you a bunch of money or you'll give us

718
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,440
a bunch of money to are people gonna go look

719
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,199
for FS one baseball coverage at seven o'clock in the afternoon,

720
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,960
in the morning nine o'clock. I highly doubt that, because

721
00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:52,599
they know that football is king and football chatter is king.

722
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,559
You can stream all you want, but all you're doing

723
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,599
is giving more people an opportunity not to find you.

724
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,639
I'm sorry. I have a better chance of watching Ross

725
00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:07,360
the Angels play the Mariners if it's on ESPN. Then

726
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,679
if I had the Angels playing the Mariners on Apple TV.

727
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,280
If I'm flipping in my hotel room or I'm at

728
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:15,960
the house with buddies and I'm putting I'm putting the

729
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,440
game on, just say something on TV. It's going to

730
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,320
be very easy for me to do that. Do you

731
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,639
have to go to a subscription service to go find

732
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:25,920
two teams that I don't particularly care about. Yeah, I

733
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:33,440
think it's a They're in a very very difficult spot here. Yeah,

734
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,199
because ESPN is king, and there's really I mean, FS

735
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,239
one had been trying for years, it didn't work out.

736
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,159
Has it worked out? ESPN told the NHL bye bye.

737
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,840
NHL said fine, we'll go find something else. And they

738
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,639
were on Versus. Oh, I forgot about that. They were

739
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,000
Sports Network ABC Sports Network. They were on this channel

740
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,440
called Sports Channel America, which disintegrated. I mean, I know

741
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,440
what that is. It's about thirty years ago. But point

742
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:03,039
being is that the NHL is gonna take what ESPN

743
00:39:03,039 --> 00:39:05,119
gives them and say thank you very much, I appreciate it.

744
00:39:06,119 --> 00:39:08,280
And they do a great job their Their game coverage

745
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,920
is great. They do talk about hockey acade, not on

746
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,280
their talk shows, but on the and they get Sports

747
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:18,679
Center highlights. They get decent playoff coverage. I don't know,

748
00:39:18,679 --> 00:39:22,400
if your baseball, what do you do? Because baseball deserves

749
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,559
more respect than ESPN's giving it. They just doin disagrees.

750
00:39:26,639 --> 00:39:29,599
But ESPN's like Brock Gohot something else. I mean, look,

751
00:39:29,599 --> 00:39:31,400
if it was getting Gangbusters numbers and they were having

752
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,039
all this interest, I don't think they would have weaned

753
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:37,440
off all this content. Yeah, that's why Manfred's in a

754
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,280
real tough spot here, because let's say that you said,

755
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,159
let's say you went all in on everything. If you

756
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:49,199
told the Fox Networks that Fox FS one was gonna

757
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,840
give you a two hour baseball show per day, or

758
00:39:52,119 --> 00:39:54,480
and they were gonna give you three times as many

759
00:39:54,519 --> 00:39:57,639
games on FS one, is that gonna move? If that

760
00:39:57,679 --> 00:40:00,679
gonna move, have MLB's needle, I don't know. Well, then

761
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,719
it's not gonna be necessari about. That's gonna be about money.

762
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,159
It's gonna be about the amount of money. I think

763
00:40:06,159 --> 00:40:08,400
that maybe part of this could be just ESPN resetting

764
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,960
the market, saying Major League Baseball wants it's extra money,

765
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,480
and we're good, Yeah, we're not gonna give them this money.

766
00:40:13,519 --> 00:40:15,480
So this could be just you guys end up posturing,

767
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:17,320
and they could end up back marriage together because MLB

768
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,760
is watching all these other networks get these hohlationious deals.

769
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,559
College football getting the big deals, uh, the NBA getting

770
00:40:22,559 --> 00:40:25,559
their brand new TV deals. Mmb's like, I want part

771
00:40:25,559 --> 00:40:31,159
of that, and ESPN's like, no, here's your check. We're good.

772
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,280
But I will say I'm just supported that ESPN does

773
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,519
not give baseball more run, more games, less Yankees, Red

774
00:40:37,559 --> 00:40:40,320
Sox and baseball tonight was a f and now again.

775
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,639
MLB networks a great channel, but the average person doesn't

776
00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:47,119
necessarily just know where MLB network is on their satellite

777
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:48,800
or their cable. And if you're in a hotel, you

778
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,480
don't get MLB network. It's a niche channel. You'll get

779
00:40:51,519 --> 00:40:54,199
FS one. Yeah, well you probably you don't get more

780
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,559
and more more, but not that much. At our hotel

781
00:40:57,599 --> 00:40:59,719
in West Palm, we had FS one. We did not

782
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,840
if we did not have MMIBI network, we didn't have univisions,

783
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,239
so I couldn't watch the Champions League. It was very upset.

784
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,039
Bought some prayers. Second Hour starts with Mike and Ben

785
00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:10,159
Hank tight will get to you. It is that anything

786
00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:12,159
goes Friday and The Matt Thomas Show at Ross seven

787
00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:14,800
to one three two one two five seven ninety seven

788
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789
00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:19,639
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Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show.

793
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 2: Eleven oh two on Sports Talk seven ninety. I mean, well,

794
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,719
Colin Cowerd's on a repeat today. I was gonna say

795
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,079
best of Football. I was saying Colin Coward's on Talking

796
00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:47,400
Baseball either he's there, he's the FS one's national TV show. Now.

797
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,039
I don't watch any shows on any network of the

798
00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:53,079
talking heads that have any baseball chatter. They it's just

799
00:41:53,199 --> 00:41:56,880
it's non existent because the programming bosses say, don't do

800
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,960
it the only time you're here. So let's say about

801
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,039
five topics in baseball we've talked about in the last

802
00:42:04,079 --> 00:42:07,639
five years. Okay, show hay o Tony, how much money

803
00:42:07,679 --> 00:42:12,119
is gonna get? Okay, show Hay's gambling? Uh A B

804
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:18,840
S A B S almost said automatic breaks, automatic balls

805
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:27,320
and strikes? Yes, what else? Anything Yankee related? Probably and

806
00:42:27,559 --> 00:42:30,599
uh yeah in the astros cheating. That's that's that's in

807
00:42:30,639 --> 00:42:32,960
a nutshell what it is. That was about five years

808
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,039
ago now at this point. Actually, yeah, the seven coming

809
00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:37,760
up on like a five year anniversary of that. So

810
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:42,039
that's that's exactly what it is. But you know who

811
00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:44,440
could be the surprise? Like if you said, Steven A. Smith,

812
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,360
who's the surprise team in the nash League this year?

813
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,079
Could he give you an idea of who could be? Oh,

814
00:42:49,119 --> 00:42:52,000
he can make it up or he have somebody producer,

815
00:42:52,119 --> 00:42:54,199
you know, telling in his ear. I'm saying, you ask

816
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:55,760
him on the spot. Yeah he'll make it up. Yeah,

817
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,679
he'll be fine. Yeah. You're not gonna name any players

818
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,320
speaking generalities, Yeah, I mean there's a lot of people

819
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,159
a speaking generalities, and that's what we don't go with.

820
00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:04,280
The Milwaukee Brewer is I think they got a lot

821
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,159
of young players and people are sleeping on Cincinnati could

822
00:43:08,199 --> 00:43:12,039
be a huge surprise. I've been following the Reds for

823
00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:16,519
a long time. Johnny Bench. We've been following the likes

824
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:20,760
of a of a Joe Morgan. Let me tell you

825
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,960
about Joe Mulgan. Let me tell you about a Nick

826
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,800
KOSEASKI David, kids happen, Yo, this is why we call

827
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:29,800
you the impression master.

828
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:30,039
Speaker 9: Man.

829
00:43:30,519 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: I'm terrible at it. I wish I was better. Somethings

830
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,199
I'm pretty good at. But that's maybe. Maybe stephen A

831
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,000
is in the Cactus League right now, keep it an

832
00:43:38,039 --> 00:43:40,480
eye on everybody. That'd be really if you really wanted

833
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,320
to learn the sporting go to go to the Cactus

834
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,199
League for a week, go to Florista for the group

835
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,199
before we could be fine? Yeah, yeah, How much smart

836
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:48,000
are we about the astros now that we are them?

837
00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:49,719
Before we left three days ago, I know a lot.

838
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:54,000
Now we learned some stuff. We are your astro experts,

839
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:54,840
not a.

840
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: Bunch of screaming, talking people that do shows at twelve

841
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,000
o'clartter three in the morning.

842
00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: This happens every year, but I'm so much more optimistic

843
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,320
about the Astros this year. After going to Spring Trading.

844
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,840
Let's start calling you, Gordy. I know, I just start

845
00:44:09,039 --> 00:44:11,199
I just start getting there. I'm like, yeah, you know

846
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,199
what Spencer rig Getty. He's so smart, he's so good.

847
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,280
He's he's about to like be like a cy young

848
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:20,239
candidate create thirteen games a five star is Nesky's like,

849
00:44:21,199 --> 00:44:23,280
I'm feeling good. Hey, I got one for you here.

850
00:44:24,599 --> 00:44:28,760
If everything the stars aligned properly, you could have a

851
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:35,760
gold glove and two different outfield spots center, center and left. No,

852
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,360
you're not, Matt. That's optimistic. Matt. No, I told we

853
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,239
told you he's not gonna get enough reps out there.

854
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,400
You don't know that he's gonna be out there for

855
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,280
one hundred and forty games. He's gonna love it so much.

856
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,880
Oh stop, You saw the bouncing a step. He loves it.

857
00:44:48,159 --> 00:44:51,440
He's having fun with it. But Josel two Vans, he's not.

858
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,599
He's not gonna be out there one hundred and fifty three,

859
00:44:53,679 --> 00:44:56,920
all right, seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.

860
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,519
Mic is in San Antonio. Mike, Good morning. Do you

861
00:44:59,519 --> 00:45:01,840
walk up to anything goes Friday?

862
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,039
Speaker 15: Good morning, Good discussion, guys. H And by the way,

863
00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:07,679
I enjoyed your coverage from Florida. I appreciate you doing that.

864
00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:11,079
For what I could listen to that was I called

865
00:45:11,119 --> 00:45:14,159
mainly about the hockey. But I heard your pull segment

866
00:45:14,199 --> 00:45:15,119
about ESPN.

867
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:15,559
Speaker 2: I don't know.

868
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 15: I don't watch ESPN for the talking heads. And Steven

869
00:45:18,599 --> 00:45:20,599
Smiths ranning about running for president.

870
00:45:21,559 --> 00:45:23,679
Speaker 2: That may be the dumbest thing I've ever heard in

871
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,159
my entire life. And I'm not adverse to celebrities going

872
00:45:26,159 --> 00:45:28,119
for this, because lord knows, we've been plenty of people

873
00:45:28,159 --> 00:45:30,599
trying for it. Steven A. Smith would be, well, I

874
00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:31,199
get his point.

875
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 15: I mean, I won't get political opinion about it, but

876
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,280
you know, he was making a point that there's not

877
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,440
anybody else. But you know, one of the things and

878
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,199
I don't know what MLB should do, but you know

879
00:45:41,199 --> 00:45:43,079
one of the things they do, like on their app,

880
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,280
they chart like I live in San Antonio, but I'm

881
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,039
considered in network for the Astros, so I'm not subscribing

882
00:45:49,039 --> 00:45:51,119
to that. I mean, I can pull up games, so

883
00:45:51,159 --> 00:45:55,760
I can't watch I prefer the local station Stacey Home Network,

884
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,159
but I can't watch the Astros on MMB app when

885
00:45:58,159 --> 00:45:59,519
I'm at home, so I'm like, I don't I'm not

886
00:45:59,559 --> 00:46:01,880
paying for it. And I don't know if they could

887
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,480
do something with their app, but they branched off into

888
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:04,920
all these other.

889
00:46:05,079 --> 00:46:07,639
Speaker 2: Oh no, there's something they can do with their app.

890
00:46:07,679 --> 00:46:09,559
They're going to say, please insert your credit card and

891
00:46:09,599 --> 00:46:11,079
you can get all the coverage you want. They want

892
00:46:11,079 --> 00:46:13,280
you to pay for They they if you are outside

893
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,360
of the territory, They're like, we'd love for you to

894
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,119
watch the game's mike, but you're gonna pay for it.

895
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:18,079
Speaker 14: Oh.

896
00:46:18,119 --> 00:46:20,599
Speaker 15: I might do it if they would let me, you know,

897
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,280
I mean, depending if it was reasonable. I just want

898
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,559
the astros and I can get you know, like I

899
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:28,000
use Fubo, so I get the astros in the Rockets

900
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,880
and other channels by paying for that, so I don't

901
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:34,199
not getting MP But anyway, but I called about the hockey.

902
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,000
I heard the whole discussion. That was a great call

903
00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:38,599
from Connor's father, But I think it was a one off.

904
00:46:38,639 --> 00:46:41,599
I don't follow hockey, but this was this was way different.

905
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,360
You're compared to the NBA, and this was you know,

906
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,320
Nation against Nation is like you mentioned that the World

907
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,119
Baseball tournament that they have. But also I think it

908
00:46:50,159 --> 00:46:52,239
was amped up because of all that it was political,

909
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:56,159
all the comments that our president was making, and then

910
00:46:56,519 --> 00:46:59,880
in the first game that was in Canada, the fans

911
00:47:00,119 --> 00:47:01,800
booing the USA national anthem.

912
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 2: So I think it just.

913
00:47:02,639 --> 00:47:06,119
Speaker 15: Got a lot more amptet because that's my opinion anyway,

914
00:47:06,199 --> 00:47:09,320
and because I did watch it, and I don't know,

915
00:47:09,519 --> 00:47:12,280
I don't I don't follow hockey as a sport generally,

916
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,559
but you know, it was just there was a lot

917
00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:17,519
more to it this time because of all that going on.

918
00:47:17,559 --> 00:47:21,639
Speaker 2: I feel like I believe that, Yeah, that's a certain

919
00:47:21,679 --> 00:47:24,440
segment when you do country versus country, and obviously the

920
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,000
Canadians have been brought up in the news and our

921
00:47:27,039 --> 00:47:31,320
president bringing up the the extreme unlikelihood it's named a

922
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,239
fifty first day. I mean, but there is material to it,

923
00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:38,159
and I think being booed beforehand got struck a nervous

924
00:47:38,199 --> 00:47:40,880
some people. So yeah, it was it was not just

925
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,760
about the game and stuff. There were some other some

926
00:47:44,119 --> 00:47:46,719
extra things that that added little sizzen to the event.

927
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:49,400
Do you know when you knew we need to go,

928
00:47:50,079 --> 00:47:58,000
you know, we go for Nikola Jokic, uh number one? Uh,

929
00:47:58,159 --> 00:48:02,679
Eastern Europe bea number one? Okay? Us yeah, yo, pa

930
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:08,320
usci Okay. Then we start booming Nicolajokic. Oh you need

931
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,079
a geopolitical they did with this. Yes, I thought we

932
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:14,840
were trying to keep politics out of sports, because that's

933
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,679
what added to the sizzle of this event, Little USA

934
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:23,400
via Canada, little North American cold war, I mean cold

935
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,800
ass war. Yeah, I mean it was fun and the

936
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,960
events were you know, charged up, and they mattered and

937
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,320
they were good games. But is it gonna Is it

938
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:37,000
gonna add the NHL's And here's your bottom line is, well,

939
00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:40,239
what percentage of people that turned it on to watch

940
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,639
these events are gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna

941
00:48:42,679 --> 00:48:45,960
check out this next game betweens and the Avalanche or whatever.

942
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,400
The chances are very minimal, very because there's just you're

943
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,719
not gonna have the same passion for an Islander's avalanche

944
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,719
game then you would have for US a v. Canada.

945
00:48:57,159 --> 00:48:58,679
But I'll tell you what, if you're gonna, if you're gonna,

946
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,760
if you're gonna break up your your your regular season

947
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,000
for something, you might as well mean have something to it.

948
00:49:04,039 --> 00:49:06,559
And I think the NBA probably should be jealous of that. Yeah,

949
00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:10,639
they did great. The ratings are great. So yeah, okay,

950
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,559
so you're saying, do USA versus the world? And then

951
00:49:13,679 --> 00:49:15,880
like get Donny T involved in the All Star Game?

952
00:49:16,559 --> 00:49:19,000
Have done a bunch of comments? Yeah, have done it?

953
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:21,280
T one of the officials. I don't know if he

954
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,119
can get up down four. Matt, he's the Uh he

955
00:49:24,159 --> 00:49:26,039
would have a scooter. He put him in a golf cart.

956
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,280
You would you would be like small train tracks up

957
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,159
and down on the base of the sidelines of the court,

958
00:49:31,639 --> 00:49:33,800
run up and down. You know, he would call all

959
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,920
the calls for USA, Matt because he loves his country

960
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,719
so much, and that would get people upset. Yeah, okay,

961
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,559
this is not a good well this is like I

962
00:49:40,599 --> 00:49:42,679
love this side. Is one of your worst ideas. This

963
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,639
is something that bad. You've got three to four bad

964
00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:46,519
ones a week. This is what bad joke Ben would

965
00:49:46,519 --> 00:49:48,639
come up with. Yes, Oh, speaking of that, Hi, Ben,

966
00:49:48,679 --> 00:49:49,159
how are you?

967
00:49:51,159 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 8: I was stomaching all that hockey talk because you know,

968
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,960
I'm not a huge hockey fan, but uh, I do

969
00:49:58,039 --> 00:50:00,960
got some ideas for MLB.

970
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 11: They need a.

971
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 8: Monday through Friday day game every day, starting at whatever time.

972
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,320
Put it on MLB Network, put it on ESPN two

973
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:17,360
or whatever, and start grassroots.

974
00:50:17,599 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 11: You know.

975
00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 2: That's when you know, I.

976
00:50:19,679 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 8: Think, if I'm not in the car listening to you guys,

977
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:27,119
you know, I might be watching some baseball, So I

978
00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:31,039
don't know. That's one thing they could do, and the

979
00:50:31,119 --> 00:50:34,440
other thing on the All Star Game if they had

980
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,440
these East and West teams play for a thirty second

981
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,400
draft pick or thirty third draft pick after the first round.

982
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,800
Same thing for NFL. I think you can add a

983
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,239
little bit of sizzle and then you lottery off that

984
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,920
pick to either East, the West, AFC, NFC, whoever it is.

985
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,760
So that's my two cents and go estros.

986
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call. I heard somebody during the

987
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:04,840
All Star break say home court advantage and I almost

988
00:51:05,159 --> 00:51:09,679
threw up. And no, that's a bad idea. I completely

989
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:15,199
agree with you. Terrible, terrible, terrible idea. But somebody it was,

990
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,920
and I wish I knew who it was, but somebody

991
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,000
that was more than just a flippant. It was like

992
00:51:20,039 --> 00:51:21,760
a player center or something and maybe ave been a

993
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,800
form player. They're like, you gotta get something more meaningful

994
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,199
into the game. So let me ask you this. And

995
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,599
I think I've asked this probably ten times and ten years.

996
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,920
In nineteen eighty seven, when Larry Bird and Michael Jordan

997
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,840
and Akim elaijah On and Ralph Samson and James Worthy

998
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,320
and Patrick Ewing and all those guys were playing these

999
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,679
All Star Games. They gave a damn about those All

1000
00:51:43,679 --> 00:51:46,199
Star games. They were higher scoring, they weren't playing forty

1001
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:51,400
eight minutes of defense. But I never came away, and

1002
00:51:51,519 --> 00:51:53,559
that was a young I was a teenager, so I

1003
00:51:53,599 --> 00:51:55,960
have some memories of this. I'm not trying to say

1004
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,320
blind I becaus I was a kid, but it looked

1005
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,519
like they gave a damn about the games. At what

1006
00:52:00,639 --> 00:52:02,440
point did we stop giving a damn about the games?

1007
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,480
And like I said the same thing about the Pro Bowl,

1008
00:52:04,559 --> 00:52:06,480
that's why the Pro Bowl went away, because the NFL

1009
00:52:06,519 --> 00:52:08,400
players are the exact sense I think if it's probably,

1010
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,280
I mean, when the leagues were young and these games

1011
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,599
were put together, everybody who was participating knew that this

1012
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,039
was a showcase for this league. You were trying to

1013
00:52:18,079 --> 00:52:20,280
build popularity, you were trying to fight for a slice

1014
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:25,320
of pie of tension of the American public to put

1015
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,159
a spotlight onto your sport. And then you add that

1016
00:52:28,199 --> 00:52:31,800
into where these leagues are now established, and probably even

1017
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:33,840
much more important is the fact that they make all

1018
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,280
this money. You don't want to risk injury, certainly not

1019
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,519
in football. Football to me makes the most sense that

1020
00:52:39,519 --> 00:52:41,559
nobody cared about the Pro Bowl and nobody trying to

1021
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,360
go to Hawaii to tear their acl and be out

1022
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,239
for the season. This doesn't make any sense basketball. While

1023
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,440
there still is injury risks, there's not nearly as much,

1024
00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:58,639
but it's also a it's an exhibition, exhibition by its

1025
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:06,639
definition meaningless, so we should stop attaching any sort of

1026
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:10,039
importance to it, and we kind of have. Here's what

1027
00:53:10,079 --> 00:53:13,840
we've done, six time All Star, making his the leader

1028
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,280
vote getterer. They've made story. It's it's a story, who's

1029
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,000
leading vote getter, who made the team, who's a reserve?

1030
00:53:20,119 --> 00:53:22,360
Who didn't go in? Lebron didn't play in the game

1031
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,719
because he called it off late. Should somebody else gone

1032
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,760
in the spot? I mean, these were all storylines. Whether

1033
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:28,599
you wanted to believe them or not cared about them

1034
00:53:28,639 --> 00:53:32,280
or not, they were storylines. Yeah, the first draft that

1035
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,199
they had, it kind of worked because players got their

1036
00:53:34,199 --> 00:53:36,440
feelings hurt over not getting drafted first and they had

1037
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,320
something to prove. But then it kind of wore It

1038
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,559
wore off. And that's the thing. Any kind of thing

1039
00:53:41,599 --> 00:53:45,000
you come up with, even USA versus the World or whatever,

1040
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,960
it's gonna kind of wear off. Unless you really like

1041
00:53:50,039 --> 00:53:53,760
I said, you gotta make the players care somehow. It's

1042
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,400
gonna have to be money. So if I gave the

1043
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,079
winning team two million dollars a pop a person that

1044
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:05,519
probably helped too, Millie, I think so. And then how

1045
00:54:05,519 --> 00:54:07,360
about the fact, then what would you do with Lebron.

1046
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,360
Let's say he played for two million dollars this year

1047
00:54:10,159 --> 00:54:13,199
and Lebron all of a sudden the very last second,

1048
00:54:13,199 --> 00:54:15,039
like he did this All Star, I said, I'm not playing.

1049
00:54:16,559 --> 00:54:18,199
First of all, you're knocking a player off who could

1050
00:54:18,199 --> 00:54:20,159
have who could have gone for the two million. Second

1051
00:54:20,199 --> 00:54:22,519
of all, your team isn't as good because you're down

1052
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:25,880
a player that could cause him really good. Well, then

1053
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,719
then it probably would be less likely to happen, you

1054
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,760
would hope. But if Lebron all of a sudden says

1055
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,639
I'm on this team ready to go, oh, I woke

1056
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:38,239
up and felt bad. I still deserve And Davis, I mean,

1057
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,199
nobody's talking about Anthony Davis about out too late. Yeah,

1058
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:47,400
but he was also hurt beforehand though, No, he didn't

1059
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,199
bow to the end. He said he had a cold.

1060
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,480
Oh talking about when was that? No this year, not

1061
00:54:52,679 --> 00:54:55,920
Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards. I said, I'm sorry, Anthony Edwards.

1062
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,079
I'm one of the Anthony's. It was one of them.

1063
00:54:58,119 --> 00:55:03,280
Sorry Aunt Edwards. Okay, I wish money could just solve it.

1064
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:04,760
I don't know if that would even be the case

1065
00:55:05,559 --> 00:55:07,840
of all the other potential problems you could have because

1066
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,320
of it. But I don't want home court advantage to

1067
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:14,679
sermon over it. No, not not letting a Charlotte Hornet

1068
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,280
All Star helped me determine whether or not the Celtics

1069
00:55:18,679 --> 00:55:20,840
or hopefully the Rockets, will have home court advantage in

1070
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:25,480
the NBA Finals. How about this finals MVP gets five

1071
00:55:25,519 --> 00:55:32,320
million rather than giving how many All Stars are there

1072
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,559
twenty or whatever. That's forty million dollars, two million or

1073
00:55:34,599 --> 00:55:37,000
ten the winning team would get in theory twenty million

1074
00:55:37,079 --> 00:55:38,639
or whatever. How about just five million for the m

1075
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,960
VP of the All Star Game? Yep, But then who's

1076
00:55:44,039 --> 00:55:47,800
going to be judging it? They're going to think a minute,

1077
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,039
if you you can do whatever regular whatever regular judging

1078
00:55:51,079 --> 00:55:53,559
that they do, because you know that what's his face

1079
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,280
the big one for ESPN, steven A Smith or no,

1080
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:03,280
the big one, Kendrick Perkins, the guy uh Brian Windhorse.

1081
00:56:04,199 --> 00:56:09,199
He's gonna vote for Lebron Okay, what if he doesn't deserve,

1082
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:11,719
it doesn't matter. Brian Winhrse, I don't think he would

1083
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,280
sniff in Lebron's jock for twenty five years. I don't would.

1084
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,000
I don't think he would vote for a non deserving

1085
00:56:17,079 --> 00:56:21,880
Lebron James and make the votes public. Ooh, okay, so

1086
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,079
it was whind Horse gets being called a Lebron lover.

1087
00:56:25,119 --> 00:56:27,519
That wouldn't make any difference. He's getting you help me

1088
00:56:27,519 --> 00:56:29,519
get Lebron at five million dollars and I don't think

1089
00:56:29,559 --> 00:56:33,440
that's a major concern. I damn, it's gonna come down

1090
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,159
to money. Eleven sixteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

1091
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: The Matt Tata Show with Ross continue so on Sports

1092
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:53,280
Talk seven ninety.

1093
00:56:50,599 --> 00:56:53,639
Speaker 2: Eleven twenty two and is Matt Ross on a Friday

1094
00:56:53,679 --> 00:56:56,480
and anything goes Friday? Ross explained the essence, But anything

1095
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,519
goes Friday to the great audience that we call Sports

1096
00:56:58,519 --> 00:57:00,440
Talk seven ninety. Wow, man, I'm glad you asked it

1097
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,039
would be. I mean, anything Goes Friday pertains to well,

1098
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:06,880
the content on the show, for sure, but also, and

1099
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,719
more importantly, the phone lines. It's seven one three two

1100
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:14,679
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one, two, five, seven,

1101
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,480
ninety anything that you would like to get to if

1102
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:21,559
you want to talk about how Canada dominates the United

1103
00:57:21,599 --> 00:57:24,199
States in hockey and they are the greatest hockey nation

1104
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,440
of all time. Oh yeah, we can get to that.

1105
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:31,199
You also have the Rockets back in action with I

1106
00:57:31,239 --> 00:57:34,840
believe Javari Smith Jr. Are available and Fred van Vliet

1107
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,079
a game time decision. Fred is out? Oh Fred is out.

1108
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,840
I thought we heard a game time decision yesterday. Would

1109
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,360
you trust me? No, I'm saying I'm not. No. They were.

1110
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,159
They later changed it, so they lied, they didn't live.

1111
00:57:47,199 --> 00:57:51,920
They just it's fine. A bunch of liars. Cheaters, the

1112
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,639
Rocketer cheaters and Cody Zell are also out. Unfortunately, I

1113
00:57:56,679 --> 00:58:00,159
got very very safe indications that codies that are will

1114
00:58:00,199 --> 00:58:02,280
never wear a Rocket uniform. Okay, I'm just gonna put

1115
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,079
that out there. Oh man, So you're saying I should

1116
00:58:05,079 --> 00:58:07,320
cancel my order on my custom, Well you went. You

1117
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,639
have gone to a certain UH picks group and gone

1118
00:58:10,639 --> 00:58:12,519
in the over under rebounds on that. I would take

1119
00:58:12,559 --> 00:58:14,920
me under zero point four of the unders DraftKings pick

1120
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,159
six used code nine eighty seven and sign up. There's

1121
00:58:17,239 --> 00:58:19,760
such an advertising whore you really are? I learned from

1122
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:24,760
the best. What times Adam Clanton get here, No, sir,

1123
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:29,119
he's sitting to my left. All right, Oh, we haven't

1124
00:58:29,119 --> 00:58:30,920
heard from this guy in quite some time. But going on,

1125
00:58:31,039 --> 00:58:42,280
let's talk to our buddy, James sixty seven one three

1126
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,320
two one two five seven ninety James, you're on the family.

1127
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:46,719
What's going on? James?

1128
00:58:47,719 --> 00:58:50,519
Speaker 9: Hey, thank you, Governor. Governor Tomas will take my call

1129
00:58:50,599 --> 00:58:53,840
and shouts out to r V and uh and the guy,

1130
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:55,360
the nice guy that I always talked to you that

1131
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,639
you guys have over there the screen up. Listen.

1132
00:58:58,559 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 2: He's the producer and his name is Connor. Oh, okay, okay,

1133
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,800
put some respects man, James. He's our best friend. But

1134
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:08,559
you guys are best friends. Now go ahead, what you

1135
00:59:08,559 --> 00:59:09,000
got today?

1136
00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 9: Okay, okay? Look, I want to I want to get

1137
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,480
to the nitty gritty about predictions about about baseball and everything.

1138
00:59:14,519 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 2: I haven't heard anybody talk about it.

1139
00:59:17,159 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 9: I was right about that Breagmant thing, along with a

1140
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,880
few of you guys. So that's trouble for the Yankees

1141
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:25,679
on and but you know, we'll deal with that eventually.

1142
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 2: It'll play yourself out.

1143
00:59:27,199 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 9: Look, I got some predictions about all the smack talk

1144
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:32,960
about you know, awards and everything.

1145
00:59:33,199 --> 00:59:35,039
Speaker 2: Look, no matter, no matter.

1146
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 9: How anybody wants to talk about it, it's gonna be

1147
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,079
the same top guys, the top guns that they're referring to.

1148
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:42,960
Old Tany's gonna get that award, even though he'll have

1149
00:59:43,039 --> 00:59:47,599
some stiff, more stiff competition with if Ronald Kune can

1150
00:59:47,679 --> 00:59:51,320
keep himself in shape and stay off the injury issue

1151
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,000
because he's a dang damn good player too.

1152
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:55,119
Speaker 2: I like that guy.

1153
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,519
Speaker 9: And uh in the American League, that kid that's in

1154
00:59:57,599 --> 01:00:00,800
Kansas City, he already has a ride. He's a superstar.

1155
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,639
I wish he was a Yankee. So that guy, Bobby

1156
01:00:03,639 --> 01:00:05,599
Wood Jr. Is gonna give a run for the money

1157
01:00:05,639 --> 01:00:07,880
for Iron Judge this year. And the Royals are a

1158
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,840
good team and for pitching wise, Look, it could be anybody.

1159
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,920
It could be that kid in Cleveland, that Beaver kid.

1160
01:00:15,519 --> 01:00:18,320
He's if he can stay healthy, he's a strong candidate.

1161
01:00:18,599 --> 01:00:21,039
But put up some numbers and that that Cleveland team

1162
01:00:21,079 --> 01:00:24,360
knows how to play pitch field, win and they do everything.

1163
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,199
That doesn't matter if they got marginal players or good players.

1164
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,599
And uh one other things I wanted to talk about

1165
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,480
this kid that you got on the radio that he

1166
01:00:33,519 --> 01:00:34,440
talks to basketball.

1167
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 6: Uh.

1168
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:39,519
Speaker 9: I think, Gerard, he should be with you guys at

1169
01:00:39,599 --> 01:00:41,760
some level as an analyst or something, because he knows,

1170
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,079
he knows basketball and he knows how to wrap it

1171
01:00:44,159 --> 01:00:44,679
up real good.

1172
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,039
Speaker 2: All these other call tepees you.

1173
01:00:46,079 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 9: Got on Rockets drafts, they watch the game, but they

1174
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,880
don't even know what they're seeing because they talk a

1175
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,119
a bunch of gibberish. But that guy Gerald, he's he's

1176
01:00:56,119 --> 01:00:59,039
a smart basketball analyst and he knows what he's talking about.

1177
01:00:59,320 --> 01:00:59,639
Speaker 6: All right?

1178
01:00:59,639 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 9: In that Governor Thomas for taking my call?

1179
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:10,039
Speaker 2: Is this a coincidence? Hold on? We got a second

1180
01:01:10,079 --> 01:01:23,320
bye to James the appropriate way. Okay, all right, uh

1181
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,199
I can get my phone ready here, hang on. Yeah,

1182
01:01:26,199 --> 01:01:32,039
but he James just literally mentioned Gerd longtime front of

1183
01:01:32,039 --> 01:01:34,719
the show, and he literally just called down. Did are

1184
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:38,800
James and Girod Broskis? I don't know quite the coincidence, Gerard?

1185
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:39,679
Do you know James?

1186
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,199
Speaker 11: Oh No, I don't know him.

1187
01:01:43,159 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 2: He loves you.

1188
01:01:45,519 --> 01:01:47,239
Speaker 11: Oh you know, I got the fans, I think, and

1189
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:50,039
I've been calling in on the On You Guys show

1190
01:01:50,159 --> 01:01:52,599
and on the Rockets post game show, so I probably

1191
01:01:52,599 --> 01:01:54,079
got a lot of fans to think. I don't know

1192
01:01:54,119 --> 01:01:55,719
what happened to Myra though. You know, she used to

1193
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:56,719
call a lot of times with me.

1194
01:01:56,639 --> 01:01:59,719
Speaker 2: But I can't hear from the I see her maya

1195
01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:01,840
a rocky games all the time. She just doesn't like

1196
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:03,880
calling the shows and work because you're so emotional about it.

1197
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:09,360
So well, that being said, Gerard, the floor is yours.

1198
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:12,159
Speaker 11: Okay, before the floors, I won't to ask you guys

1199
01:02:12,159 --> 01:02:14,760
a question about Jabari Smith. Will he be coming off

1200
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,360
the bench or will he start? Because I mean Thomson

1201
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,360
he's so that he can thrive, and either way he

1202
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,920
could thrive coming off the bench, he could thrive starting.

1203
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,320
So if I'm a doka, I would probably start Jabaris

1204
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,159
Smith and bring a mean tossing off the bench. But

1205
01:02:27,599 --> 01:02:29,800
as a Douka revealed which way he gonna go with.

1206
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:32,239
Speaker 2: Jabar Smith, Well, I know a man Thompson's gonna start

1207
01:02:32,239 --> 01:02:34,079
tonight because he's gonna be the starting point guard because

1208
01:02:34,079 --> 01:02:35,199
Fred van Vliet is still out.

1209
01:02:36,639 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would imagine Van van Free will probably play tomorrow,

1210
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:42,079
you know, so back to back, so he coming off

1211
01:02:42,119 --> 01:02:45,840
of ankle injury, maybe comes back against Utah that'll be

1212
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,679
a tough game to come back, you know, first game

1213
01:02:47,719 --> 01:02:50,199
back playing at high haltitude. But maybe we see him

1214
01:02:50,239 --> 01:02:53,880
tomorrow night. As far as the Rockets go, uh they

1215
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:55,960
right right nowt there in the fourth seed. You know,

1216
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,760
I think that goal is to get in the second

1217
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,639
or third seed. You know, either catch Myth or Denver

1218
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,719
to get to their second and third seed, so you

1219
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,159
avoid the side of the bracket with Oklahoma City team

1220
01:03:06,239 --> 01:03:09,239
that you, in my opinion on match up that great against.

1221
01:03:09,679 --> 01:03:11,320
They If they can do that, then you know they

1222
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,199
can maybe make a run to the Western Conference finals.

1223
01:03:13,239 --> 01:03:14,599
So I think that'll be the goal for the man

1224
01:03:14,639 --> 01:03:17,719
to try to get their mojo back, because you know,

1225
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:20,639
they kind of finished kind of bad the last what

1226
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:22,960
ten games going into the All Star Break. I think

1227
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:24,519
they were like three and seven or something like that

1228
01:03:24,559 --> 01:03:27,159
with a seven game losing street. So they've got the

1229
01:03:27,519 --> 01:03:31,320
try to founce back from that. Hopefully, Reeve Shepherd he's

1230
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,519
got to be a key guy. Hopefully. I saw a

1231
01:03:33,519 --> 01:03:36,480
lot of flashes of him the last few games going

1232
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,440
to the All Star Break. Hopefully he can improve on

1233
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:41,079
that because he brings a dimension that the Rockets don't have,

1234
01:03:41,119 --> 01:03:44,239
and that is a dad on three point shooter, so

1235
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:46,239
they can get that production out of him. Man, that'll

1236
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,360
be the missing piece. And I hopefully he's not a

1237
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,039
green man to have a great March. Man. I know

1238
01:03:50,039 --> 01:03:51,960
he had a great March last year, so hopefully he'll

1239
01:03:52,039 --> 01:03:54,519
go into March playing like he played last year. He

1240
01:03:54,519 --> 01:03:57,000
played well, we get the goon going. I think the

1241
01:03:57,079 --> 01:03:58,960
Goon's got to be the guy that gets a little

1242
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:00,960
bit more field goal of ten. You know, he's kind

1243
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,039
of guy that maybe he's probably third or fourth on

1244
01:04:03,239 --> 01:04:04,960
four as a field goal to tests per game, and

1245
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,039
he's their best player, so they need to get the

1246
01:04:07,039 --> 01:04:09,159
ball to him a little bit more because he can

1247
01:04:09,199 --> 01:04:12,719
score in the post, he can make plays for his teammates,

1248
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,519
create opportunities for them. I think he's got to be

1249
01:04:15,559 --> 01:04:17,559
their go to guy, especially when you get down in

1250
01:04:17,599 --> 01:04:21,320
the fourth quarter. So hopefully Rockets get a win against

1251
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:25,079
Minnesota tonight. The last time I think Minnesota came here,

1252
01:04:25,119 --> 01:04:27,000
they kind of broke the Rockets heart man when they

1253
01:04:27,039 --> 01:04:29,239
came back from like twelve down late in the fourth

1254
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:31,320
quarter and they was able to steal that game. So

1255
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:33,159
this has got to be a revenge game for the Rockets.

1256
01:04:33,199 --> 01:04:34,800
Man to go out there and get a dub tonight.

1257
01:04:38,039 --> 01:04:41,119
Speaker 2: Thank you driving for the phone call, appreciate it. Ross.

1258
01:04:41,119 --> 01:04:43,960
Any thoughts about what he had to say, Uh No,

1259
01:04:45,199 --> 01:04:47,159
it's a great STU. I mean, I think he pretty

1260
01:04:47,159 --> 01:04:50,960
well covered it. Matty Vengee is on the minds of

1261
01:04:51,039 --> 01:04:54,280
the Houston Rockets tonight. I respect the hell out of

1262
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:57,519
aunt Edwards game. I just don't like him. Why don't

1263
01:04:57,559 --> 01:05:01,039
you like him because he hurts us? Well? Yeah, okay,

1264
01:05:01,039 --> 01:05:03,280
Now on a personal level, just about basketball, he was

1265
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,159
one for nine in every game out of zero. Problem

1266
01:05:05,159 --> 01:05:09,639
with Anthony Edwards. Yeah, he's incredible and fun to watch. Andy.

1267
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:14,440
Last time he was in this building, he crushed the Rockets,

1268
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:18,159
got a forty burger one time, and a game winning

1269
01:05:18,159 --> 01:05:22,920
shot another time. Tough game winning shot fall away three

1270
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:28,079
in the corner, right in front of his own bench. Unfortunate.

1271
01:05:28,559 --> 01:05:30,480
That was heart breaking. All right. I need a ruling

1272
01:05:30,639 --> 01:05:33,840
on the length of the time to twenty seven. But

1273
01:05:34,599 --> 01:05:37,440
I did answer in question in the middle of the conversation. Okay,

1274
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:40,039
so that still count as a full two twenty seven.

1275
01:05:40,119 --> 01:05:43,360
So it's his call. Okay, very good. Eleven thirty on

1276
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,400
Sports Talk seven nine, We're gonna wake the stripers up

1277
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:48,239
in one half hour from Okay, what else are got

1278
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,599
going on? Astro starts spring training tomorrow? Excited about that? No,

1279
01:05:51,639 --> 01:05:53,639
they started spring training like a week ago, Matt. No,

1280
01:05:53,719 --> 01:05:56,719
I'm talking about the games. Oh okay, I'm I can't wait.

1281
01:05:57,880 --> 01:06:00,440
You're bumping around town tomorrow. He yes, I'm bumping around

1282
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,920
town shopping, doing the honey news because it's can be cold.

1283
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,400
Get your radios with us. Listen to the old seven nine

1284
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,519
Okay for Astro spring training coverage seven one, three, two,

1285
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:13,159
two five seven, continuing the Anything Goes Friday format of

1286
01:06:13,199 --> 01:06:15,320
the program. If you've not listened to this before, if

1287
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:16,760
you listen to us the last hour and a half,

1288
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,039
you've got Anything Goes and it's here on Sports Talk

1289
01:06:19,079 --> 01:06:31,079
seven ninety. Time is eleven thirty five. It is the

1290
01:06:31,119 --> 01:06:33,559
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We look forward to visiting

1291
01:06:33,559 --> 01:06:37,119
with you between now and two o'clock this afternoon. We

1292
01:06:37,199 --> 01:06:39,920
have Anything Goes Friday in the program. We've talked a

1293
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:46,159
little bit about the uh NHL. Well it's not it's

1294
01:06:46,159 --> 01:06:49,639
not NHL endors, it's who is the who's the governing

1295
01:06:49,679 --> 01:06:52,760
body of this the NHL? Is it NHL? Okay, So

1296
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:54,800
It's not like there's not a FEBA of hockey. I mean,

1297
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,159
I'm sure it is. But the NHL ran this four

1298
01:06:57,239 --> 01:07:03,119
Nations event, and so I think it's received positive claim.

1299
01:07:03,199 --> 01:07:06,519
That's good. NBA's All Star Game has received negative claim,

1300
01:07:06,559 --> 01:07:09,159
but Madam Silver doesn't particularly care. There's no such thing

1301
01:07:09,199 --> 01:07:12,199
as bad press, as they say, Matt right, there is

1302
01:07:14,039 --> 01:07:17,440
pressing rockets, by the way, and action against Minnesota looking

1303
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:17,920
forward to that.

1304
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:18,519
Speaker 8: Uh.

1305
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,679
Speaker 2: I do believe when everybody gets healthy. And I'm not

1306
01:07:21,719 --> 01:07:23,519
being told this, but just this gut feeling I have.

1307
01:07:23,559 --> 01:07:26,440
I think Jabari Smith's coming off the bench, I think

1308
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,079
he will be like the first day off the bench.

1309
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:32,400
I agree, I don't. I think Dylan Brooks has played

1310
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,880
well enough, and it has been this way for about

1311
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:37,840
two months now, the best three point shooter in this

1312
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,119
basketball team. Has there been any public comment on Jabari

1313
01:07:41,199 --> 01:07:44,679
Smith Junr except for just him playing tonight? No, okay,

1314
01:07:45,519 --> 01:07:48,320
I think. I think. I think Adoka yesterday practice kept

1315
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:52,000
things close close to the prediction in six hours when

1316
01:07:52,039 --> 01:07:56,119
he may talks. Will he answered the question directly if

1317
01:07:56,159 --> 01:08:05,599
asked if Jabari Smith Junior will start? Um, okay, the

1318
01:08:05,639 --> 01:08:09,920
guards are going to be a men in Jalen, the

1319
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:16,720
Fords are Dylan and yeah, could be Jabbari. If with

1320
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:18,960
Fred van Vlid out, Yeah, I forgot. I keep forgetting these.

1321
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,920
If yeah, Fred is out an out Brin starts at center. Okay,

1322
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,039
so he'll be starting tonight. I think he'll start. I

1323
01:08:25,039 --> 01:08:27,079
won't have to answer that question. Yeah, I think. I

1324
01:08:27,079 --> 01:08:28,680
think the answer will be is he starting tonight and

1325
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:30,720
the answer will be yes, And then some people are

1326
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:32,800
gonna say, well, no, that's a decision. So I guess

1327
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:35,039
you know you don't lose your starting spot injury. I

1328
01:08:35,079 --> 01:08:36,600
think the part of it is because of the fact

1329
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:38,279
that Fred Fred is out and I don't know how

1330
01:08:38,359 --> 01:08:40,680
long Fred's going to be out. I know he's getting closer.

1331
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,159
I know that. I may said before the All Star

1332
01:08:43,159 --> 01:08:45,319
break it would be sometime shortly after the All Star break.

1333
01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:47,720
It could be tomorrow on Utah, who knows. I mean, look,

1334
01:08:48,159 --> 01:08:51,439
the reality is you've got Jabbari who's probably not gonna

1335
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:52,960
play a lot of back to backs until he gets

1336
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:58,279
fully back into game shape. I do believe that Fred

1337
01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:00,920
will be a part time back, not a back to

1338
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,319
back guy for a while. Not probably not gonna be

1339
01:09:04,359 --> 01:09:07,119
the rest this year. Uh, Steven Adams, same situation. So

1340
01:09:07,119 --> 01:09:08,880
you're gonna have a kind of a hoshpodge of your

1341
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,640
rotation and until you get to the most important part

1342
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:13,520
of the season, which hopefully will be a nice playoff run.

1343
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:17,680
Jack Landelle and Aaron Holiday get ready. But Nate Williams

1344
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:21,960
in that game against Golden State, how that game sucked?

1345
01:09:22,079 --> 01:09:22,119
Speaker 17: It?

1346
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 2: Great?

1347
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:23,239
Speaker 11: God?

1348
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 2: So Lakers have already played two games since the All

1349
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,119
Star Break. They had in a makeup game on Wednesday.

1350
01:09:28,359 --> 01:09:30,600
My god, so they're one in ones. They've made up

1351
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:33,279
a half game on the Rockets for that four spot

1352
01:09:33,279 --> 01:09:35,439
in the West. Well, if they're one and one, they

1353
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,439
shouldn't have made up anything. They were as where they

1354
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:40,359
were down a game, then they gave half back the

1355
01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:43,119
night before the night last night, so they gained. You're

1356
01:09:43,159 --> 01:09:47,479
right back to where they were before the All Star break. Mmmm.

1357
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,920
Let me give you the good news. Go ahead, three

1358
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:56,039
Utah games still he left. Yes, this good, it's great news.

1359
01:09:56,319 --> 01:10:00,840
One more San Antonio game left. Deep vein thumb thrombosis.

1360
01:10:02,199 --> 01:10:05,479
That just sounds like that needs to be recare renamed

1361
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:09,600
something else. One if it's if it's thrombosis and the

1362
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:11,239
deep veins man what else are you gonna call it?

1363
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:17,479
You're right, it's it's as described, But I believe there's

1364
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:20,039
a connotation there that just doesn't sound like you're gonna

1365
01:10:20,039 --> 01:10:21,760
go the You know what, I haven't even been doing

1366
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:25,199
this all year. You wanna go to the remaining schedule strength? Okay,

1367
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:28,239
let me give you this. Three with Utah, one with

1368
01:10:28,359 --> 01:10:33,640
San Antonio, one with Phoenix, No. Two more with Phoenix,

1369
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:36,439
one home, one road. Now Phoenix is probably going to

1370
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:39,800
go away in the night as a tenth to eleventh seed.

1371
01:10:40,079 --> 01:10:44,720
I've got some good news for us. Roll it remaining

1372
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:50,439
schedule strength by opponent winning percentage. Rockets twenty first, Lakers

1373
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:56,640
first five, six remaining opponent percentage. That's good.

1374
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 8: Oh.

1375
01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:58,600
Speaker 2: By the way, the Rockets do have two more with

1376
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:02,880
the Lakers, and one more with Golden State, and one

1377
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:08,079
more with the Los Angeles Clippers. Denver third. Okay, Rockets

1378
01:11:08,119 --> 01:11:11,319
top four, let's go gut feeling lock it in. Rockets

1379
01:11:11,359 --> 01:11:12,920
have two more with Denver. See, that's the thing is

1380
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:15,359
strange that part of that schedule strength. You're speaking of

1381
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:21,920
the Rockets. That's true. So they I mean, they're destiny

1382
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:25,520
can be in their hands from those games. But I

1383
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:28,159
like this a lot because it felt like, man, that

1384
01:11:28,239 --> 01:11:30,800
schedule got really tough. And cause the problem is ross

1385
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,079
the best wins this team has had this year has

1386
01:11:33,119 --> 01:11:35,920
been against the very best teams. That's not a problem.

1387
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,119
What I'm saying is that if we if all of

1388
01:11:39,119 --> 01:11:41,840
a sudden, we're considering Utah layup drills. Well, we thought

1389
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:43,960
Brooklyn would be a couple of layup drills, and but

1390
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:46,039
they've also been having a bunch of injuries. They're healthier

1391
01:11:46,119 --> 01:11:48,239
right now than they were even before the all start.

1392
01:11:48,359 --> 01:11:50,439
That is correct. That is correct. And yeah, you said

1393
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:53,640
three against Utah, a couple against the Pelice, two more

1394
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:59,680
pell games. Yes, it's a win win two of them. Look,

1395
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,119
Indiana won't be easy. Oh, we all want more with

1396
01:12:03,159 --> 01:12:05,760
Oklahoma City. That won't be very much fun in Okay.

1397
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,399
See two more with Oklahoma City. This says, oh, one

1398
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:10,760
in home and huston one in Oklahoma City. M hm.

1399
01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:13,920
Your toughest games are mating are two with Oka, see

1400
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:22,079
two with Denver and two with the Lakers. Then uh, Pacers, Clippers, Bucks.

1401
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:25,279
So you only have nine games left against teams that

1402
01:12:25,319 --> 01:12:28,800
are currently well those are their toughest games. I'll put

1403
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,199
it that way. Okay, so you're saying there's a chance

1404
01:12:32,119 --> 01:12:36,239
feeling good. Top four, let's go. Please, Top three, please,

1405
01:12:36,239 --> 01:12:39,119
top three, please top three. To avoid the thunder for

1406
01:12:39,119 --> 01:12:41,159
as long as possible. Let's get a second round at

1407
01:12:41,199 --> 01:12:44,359
least because Dady needs some elextrah My god, I got

1408
01:12:44,359 --> 01:12:50,199
camps coming up here. Okay, get fundraiser. Why don't you

1409
01:12:50,199 --> 01:12:52,720
get Carl out selling some cookies or candy bars or something.

1410
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,079
You know, got a fundraiser? Is she raising any money?

1411
01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:00,279
Let's go. You want Carl to sell girls got cookies?

1412
01:13:00,319 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 16: Are not?

1413
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,279
Speaker 2: Remember the girl Scouts? Yeah, she can rough up some

1414
01:13:03,319 --> 01:13:06,039
girl scouts, steal her cookies and sell them. She wants

1415
01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:09,359
you want her to have violence to steal cookies, chocolate bars,

1416
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:13,520
mowing lawns. Let's go. Let's raise some money. Carly, I'm

1417
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:15,640
putting that athlete out there in thirty one degree temperature.

1418
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:22,199
Let's go, free loader, let's go. Her mother is going

1419
01:13:22,199 --> 01:13:24,880
to find you and bitch slap you well, telling her

1420
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:28,119
to sell some popcorn or something. I buy some. Why

1421
01:13:28,159 --> 01:13:29,680
don't you just send her some Venmo money? Right now?

1422
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,680
Is called it? Girls? Proud of your heart work?

1423
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1424
01:13:33,159 --> 01:13:36,279
Speaker 2: I know what you make. You're doing all right, it's

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01:13:36,359 --> 01:13:39,920
terrible seven one three two one two five seven doty

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01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:43,640
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

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If you want to follow us on Twitter, you may

1428
01:13:45,039 --> 01:13:47,439
do that as well at sports MT and at sports

1429
01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:49,159
are We. Now here's a question for you. This is

1430
01:13:49,399 --> 01:13:51,880
a small baseball thing, befre we get to break. Uh.

1431
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:56,279
Your your beard is unkempt, right me? Yeah, it's scraggly.

1432
01:13:56,479 --> 01:13:59,039
What it's It's not fair you're talking about it's not

1433
01:13:59,199 --> 01:14:02,319
very it's it's it's a hot mess. No, it's not.

1434
01:14:03,199 --> 01:14:05,000
I just trimmed it. Do you think your beard would

1435
01:14:05,039 --> 01:14:09,239
be allowed by the Yankees? Absolutely? All right. The Yankees

1436
01:14:09,239 --> 01:14:12,119
have changed their rules. They are allowing facial hair and

1437
01:14:12,159 --> 01:14:16,880
grooming as long as as hal Starburnder, the owner, says,

1438
01:14:17,399 --> 01:14:21,399
quote it's well groomed beard effective, immediately changing a rule

1439
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:25,479
that his father had set back in nineteen seventy six. Wow,

1440
01:14:27,239 --> 01:14:31,359
that's great, he says. Ultimately, the final decision rests with me,

1441
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:35,359
and after great consideration, we will amending our expectations to

1442
01:14:35,399 --> 01:14:38,039
allow our players and uniform personnel to have well groomed

1443
01:14:38,039 --> 01:14:41,239
beards moving forward. It is the appropriate time to move

1444
01:14:41,319 --> 01:14:45,479
beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy. It is

1445
01:14:46,159 --> 01:14:50,279
ridiculous they even had the policy to begin with. Did

1446
01:14:50,319 --> 01:14:52,680
people think down on the ass on the Yankees because

1447
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:59,880
of their facial hair. It had been a weird policy,

1448
01:15:00,079 --> 01:15:03,000
it was I kind of in a way. It's one

1449
01:15:03,039 --> 01:15:06,119
of those old, weird, quirky things that I actually I

1450
01:15:06,319 --> 01:15:10,000
liked it just because it was explaint. We come back now.

1451
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:11,840
I want to I don't know how you could possibly

1452
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:13,680
like this, knowing you that in the way I know you,

1453
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:16,680
I don't know how you could possibly like this eleven

1454
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:19,079
forty four on Sports Talk seven eighty seven one three

1455
01:15:19,159 --> 01:15:21,359
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1456
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:24,319
one two five seven ninety Well like the strippers up

1457
01:15:24,319 --> 01:15:26,880
in about fifteen minutes, plus the news at noon coming up. Oh,

1458
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:30,159
by the way, also today, since Ross and I were

1459
01:15:30,159 --> 01:15:35,039
in the state of Florida this week, at one thirty today,

1460
01:15:35,359 --> 01:15:39,199
it's Florida Stories. This should take us about two seconds

1461
01:15:39,239 --> 01:15:41,039
to find something. It's Sports Talk seven.

1462
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:46,399
Speaker 1: Ninty more Matt Thomas Show with Ross now on Sports

1463
01:15:46,439 --> 01:16:07,880
Talk seven ninety.

1464
01:16:01,279 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 2: All right, I'm perplexed by the fact that you think

1465
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:08,600
the old school way of keeping beard hair off of

1466
01:16:09,199 --> 01:16:13,520
New York Yankee players is Okay, I'm not ford or

1467
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:16,840
against it. It seems a little antiquated, but I'm curious

1468
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:18,880
as to why you kind of liked it. Yeah, it's

1469
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:22,680
just like, if the Astros had it, I would probably

1470
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,319
be like, it's dumb, since it's something that the Astros

1471
01:16:25,359 --> 01:16:27,600
players don't ever have to deal with. It was just

1472
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:32,760
always a funny, quirky, nonsensical storyline that would come out

1473
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:36,079
of nowhere. And in that sense, I just thought it

1474
01:16:36,119 --> 01:16:40,560
was It was just odd and different and against the

1475
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:44,079
grain and pretty much stupid. But the fact that it

1476
01:16:44,079 --> 01:16:46,239
would always become a storyline out of nowhere is like,

1477
01:16:46,359 --> 01:16:48,439
oh no, I don't know if the yank I don't

1478
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:50,479
know if this guy wants to sign with the Yankees

1479
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:53,439
because he's got a beard, Like how stupid is that?

1480
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,880
It's just funny that way. So I'm kind of and

1481
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,239
a part of me is sad that that nonsense is gone.

1482
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:02,680
Does that make you were looking for that storyline is

1483
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:05,520
no longer part in play? Yeah, and you thought it

1484
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:08,680
was interesting, okay, but the theory itself, you were like,

1485
01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:11,720
this is really no, no, it makes no practical sense. It's ridiculous.

1486
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:14,880
It's it's twenty twenty five or it's any people have

1487
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,560
had beards since people have been around, So I don't

1488
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:21,000
know why they think it's this crazy, like sets them

1489
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,640
apart from every other organization. Why you would even make

1490
01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:26,640
a rule or try to enforce it, but just as

1491
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:32,880
a as a something to talk about or something just quirk.

1492
01:17:33,279 --> 01:17:35,560
A quirk of Major League Baseball was that the Yankees

1493
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:38,640
wouldn't allow their players to wear beards, but they could

1494
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:43,159
have mustaches. Who cares. We had a chance to catch

1495
01:17:43,239 --> 01:17:46,079
up with a Garrett Cole and hearing about this. He did,

1496
01:17:46,199 --> 01:17:48,680
And what did Garrett have to say about this? He said, Ah,

1497
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:51,239
for pete sake, I can't believe they made me shave

1498
01:17:51,359 --> 01:17:53,680
I'd like to grow a beard. I like to go

1499
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:57,079
out into the woods and chop wood and build tents

1500
01:17:57,279 --> 01:17:59,479
and have a great time, and it really keeps you

1501
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,800
warm and winter months. But then they make you shave

1502
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:04,079
it off. For the Yankees, it doesn't make any sense.

1503
01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:07,319
You're paying me thirty five million dollars to throw a baseball?

1504
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:10,359
Who cares if I'm wearing a little facial hair. I

1505
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:12,720
like it. My wife likes it. I'm trying to keep

1506
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:19,239
her attracted to me. What the heck Connor is very

1507
01:18:19,279 --> 01:18:21,560
busy laughing at that. But I always feel like if

1508
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:26,079
we ever go to Garrett Cole, we have to have

1509
01:18:26,239 --> 01:18:30,319
the Rainbow Connection song behind it, and almost it's almost,

1510
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:33,039
it's almost like it's a it's a it's a huge

1511
01:18:33,079 --> 01:18:35,600
part of the bit that just adds to the overall

1512
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:37,840
And every time the Verstle words out of my mouth

1513
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:40,760
are off, for Pete's sake, matter what the category is,

1514
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:44,319
if Garrett Cole really found out about what how you

1515
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,720
disparage him like that, he'd really get mad at you.

1516
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:50,199
That's fine, what's he gonna do? I'm not scared. Oh yeah,

1517
01:18:50,199 --> 01:18:52,439
I heard that little punk Ross in Houston likes to

1518
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:55,279
make fun of my voice. I don't think I sound

1519
01:18:55,359 --> 01:18:59,399
like a green puppet. I'm gonna kick that guy's ass.

1520
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:07,119
Song this in the car. I don't know the words

1521
01:19:07,119 --> 01:19:09,600
to this song. It's quite it's quite offensive. As a

1522
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:13,039
matter of fact, this has been following with my whole life.

1523
01:19:14,039 --> 01:19:16,479
Even my own father said you finally found your miss

1524
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:20,119
Piggy at my wedding. I thought that was unfair. I'm

1525
01:19:20,239 --> 01:19:23,680
very angry. This is this is this is not funny. Guys.

1526
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:27,239
I don't even feel like I talk like him. You know,

1527
01:19:27,279 --> 01:19:30,520
there's another thing going on in sports that a lot

1528
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,359
of teams will will tell their players to when they

1529
01:19:33,359 --> 01:19:35,840
get on planes, to dress at a certain level. Yes,

1530
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:40,439
I think that is absolutely ridiculous. Remember when David Stern

1531
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:44,199
made a dress code because okay, we don't need Garrett

1532
01:19:44,199 --> 01:19:46,520
Cole telling us this. Just this is. Nobody breaks down

1533
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:54,119
the NBA like me, Garrett Cole. That's funny. I have

1534
01:19:54,199 --> 01:19:58,399
been with the Rockets under one, two, three coaches. Okay,

1535
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:00,880
so I think it's more of the league than it

1536
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,439
is the particular coach. Just don't even wear suits anymorefter

1537
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,000
since the pandemic. No, we have never had a dress

1538
01:20:06,039 --> 01:20:07,760
code on the plane. Oh, we know you have it.

1539
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 6: What do you mean?

1540
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,680
Speaker 2: I always dress nicely, Like what I'm wearing today, I

1541
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:14,800
will wear on the plane. Okay, because we first of all,

1542
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:18,520
we travel at insanely weird times, Like we're not leaving

1543
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:22,800
Houston tonight until the game starts at eight forty give

1544
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:26,760
or take two and a half hours. It's eleven ten

1545
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,359
by the time they shower and do whatever says to

1546
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:32,760
midnight twelve, we're not leaving here. It'll probably twelve forty

1547
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:35,239
five in the morning. On a private jet with a

1548
01:20:35,239 --> 01:20:39,800
full food spread. That's good, You're fine. What is the

1549
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:41,079
food I to do with? Think I'm just talking about

1550
01:20:41,119 --> 01:20:43,239
you mean that The reason why people do this because

1551
01:20:43,239 --> 01:20:45,800
they don't want their players to be out landing at

1552
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:48,399
at airport's going into hotels looking like they're wearing T

1553
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:52,600
shirt and thong where nobody really cares. Nobody cares, but

1554
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:54,720
like baseball team still the lot of guys have to

1555
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:58,359
wear jackets. Yeah, I think so, they put the jackets on,

1556
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:01,159
they get on the plane, they take them off immediately,

1557
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:03,760
then they land, they put the jacket back on. They

1558
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:06,239
go to the hotel, grab their key, grab their bag

1559
01:21:06,319 --> 01:21:07,920
or their bagage have sent to their room, and they

1560
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,439
took the coat off. It seems kind of stupid. The

1561
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:12,760
times have changed. Yeah, you know, they used to get

1562
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:17,600
mad when your lady was shown ankle. I think he

1563
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:22,079
could show anything. You'd be bouncing and become a content creator. Yeah.

1564
01:21:22,119 --> 01:21:27,039
By the way, who's seven months pregnant. That was a

1565
01:21:27,079 --> 01:21:29,560
good job by her to keep that secret as long

1566
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:32,880
as possible. Yeah. Absolutely. By the way, it's going to

1567
01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:37,920
ruin her brand. Yeah, there's nothing that's going to ruin

1568
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:45,039
the Thirsty Girls brand. Than that thirsty girl getting hurt

1569
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:48,159
thirst wenched.

1570
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 17: You?

1571
01:21:53,920 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 2: Okay, over there, no four ross sick wrong with you?

1572
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:06,840
I swear, And you donate your brain to science and

1573
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:10,760
new path? What would you do with it at that point?

1574
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:16,560
I don't know. It's like kids, whatever got into this

1575
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:20,560
skull of his, you don't want any infiltrating your brain's

1576
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,640
got an enlarged hippo campus. Oh I never heard that

1577
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:25,840
word in a long time. No, that is definitely like

1578
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:30,600
a ninth grade science word. Thank you. All right, Okay,

1579
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:32,319
so we're gonna have the news at noon coming up.

1580
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:38,640
Okay with hockey, sure, basketball, wonderful. Any football news going

1581
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:40,920
on right now, anything coming out of Astro spring training

1582
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:44,600
that's been Gamble looking, don't worry. Let's Ben Gamble recuperate

1583
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:46,960
from whatever injury he's got. Yeah, he's on the sixty

1584
01:22:47,039 --> 01:22:50,600
ail right, Hell no, he wasn't he a free agent again,

1585
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:52,159
so he can't go back on the sixty day. I

1586
01:22:52,359 --> 01:22:54,680
l By the way, one thing we got to talk

1587
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,520
about here, we mentioned it very briefly. It was yesterday,

1588
01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:59,840
the day before Forest Woodla's gott to make this team

1589
01:23:00,159 --> 01:23:02,520
a free agent. Yes, that feels like a lot of

1590
01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:04,680
time the astros are spent and making sure Forrest Whitley

1591
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:06,880
stad a professional baseball player. Don't you want to get

1592
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:09,279
something back from that? He's like twenty seven or twenty

1593
01:23:09,319 --> 01:23:11,399
eight at this point. Let the man live, Let him

1594
01:23:11,399 --> 01:23:14,800
find another organization, My god. Seven one three two one

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want to talk about, we are a fair game and

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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

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Speaker 18: Twelve all three Age Town, Good Mota, B.

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Speaker 3: And Welcome down a number three and about Thomas showing ross.

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Speaker 2: This is Sports Talk seven ninety. Give me a break.

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Speaker 3: Come on, be smarter in Houston, for the love of God,

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don't be.

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Speaker 2: In tomass Sportstown. Come on, Y'll stop. Email is like,

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01:25:44,079 --> 01:25:46,239
can you give me six minutes tonight? I'm like, for

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what we were running, we were running, were round about this.

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01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:51,640
It makes you're usually two to three. Well I could

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01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:53,560
have gone six for him. Jimbowie, don't look up what

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01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,199
a fluffer raise just the greatest fluffer of all time.

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01:25:56,359 --> 01:25:59,239
People say, Matt Thomas. No, they don't. No, they don't

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01:25:59,239 --> 01:26:01,279
associate it with being fluffing at all. Well, we saw

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01:26:01,359 --> 01:26:04,720
lots of frozen meat. Yeah, it's super deep. Yes, I

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01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:06,640
am going deep into the bush.

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01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:13,760
Speaker 4: Good sports Sports Talk seven on the dial on the

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01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:18,359
eye heard radio app Oh yeah, perfect.

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01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:25,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need that. We did that, Cliff immediately. Hope

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01:26:25,399 --> 01:26:27,239
you guys are in a good mood. We have two

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01:26:27,279 --> 01:26:30,800
hours left of this radio program. We need your contributions,

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01:26:32,359 --> 01:26:35,880
whether it be about Astro spring training opening up tomorrow,

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01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:41,359
Rockets against the Minnesota Tarborwolves Tonight Rockets against the Utah

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01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:46,359
Jazz Tomorrow College game Day coming to Houston. Tomorrow University

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01:26:46,399 --> 01:26:49,840
of Houston for a big tailt with Iowa State, the

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01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:53,880
Big twelve Showdown, and then we had the Four Nations

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01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:59,199
event yesterday in Boston where Connor dy McGovern's team Canada.

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He's got can A gear on. He's been screaming over Canada.

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01:27:03,159 --> 01:27:05,239
He's screaming for Tim Horton. So we've only got a

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located I think there's locations in Katie. We need it.

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01:27:08,359 --> 01:27:10,479
We need more locations when he wanted like the King

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One humbold Tasca sit area. When you believe all those

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01:27:14,239 --> 01:27:16,359
things are happening. So that's what anything goes Friday is

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01:27:16,359 --> 01:27:18,439
all about any of those topics of conversations you want

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to get to seven one three two, one two five

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seven ninety seven one three two one two fives of

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01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:25,359
an eye. But right now at twelve oh seven, we

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01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:30,520
present to you the news at noon and with that

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to the news center. Yes, Matthew, happy to be with

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you here. Oh, I got a us actually my Canadian

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accent there, Matt We've had a big game yesterday Betwronto

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01:27:41,319 --> 01:27:44,640
Sports Leaders. He casually Lori and rejin Us has catch

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01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:46,640
you on. Now I'm at a big game for our

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Canadian Brethren as they defeated the Evil United States.

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01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:54,520
Speaker 17: Matthew is one of the best of the league. McDavid

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one hundred and fifty percent for the regular season, but

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he won twelve out of four.

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Speaker 2: Caya, They're old and he won that one and got

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a shot off.

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Speaker 16: Sarry petrickscars Conner mcdarmon, what's that for Canada? And Sheardan

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Bennigs and has done it.

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Speaker 2: Again inside the Tad Garden Nations Cup overtime win for

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01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:28,960
Canada as Connor McGovern and his family celebrate Sean McDonough

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as an announcer, What are your spectacular on hockey? Really good?

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01:28:32,159 --> 01:28:34,000
Really good? He does? Why does he feel like I'm

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01:28:34,039 --> 01:28:36,359
snoozing when he does baseball? But when he or football?

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I mean, but when he does hockey, he's like he's

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01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:41,960
into it. Maybe's because he's fast action. Do you think

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he's snoozing during football? Okay, you can say yes later

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to him. I mean, I like Sean. It's got a

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01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:54,520
great voice. Yeah, I did a World Series at twenty

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five or twenty six years really yeah, good for him. Yeah,

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Sean mcdonnaugh, he's got a fine name. His dad was

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a very famous sports columnist for the Boston Globe. His

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brother know that his brother used to be the general

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manager of the Phoenix Suns, Ryan McDonough. Really, yeah, I'll

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take your word for it, Okay, And that's all got.

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They get nothing more on the hockey matter. Are you

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all interested in hockey? Now you're all no. I thought

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it was great for the sport because we have a

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lot of people that I shouldn't say a lot. We've

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got quite a few passionate people that send us messages

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01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:26,720
all the time about love the hockey, talk love this,

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love that. And I didn't think five years ago that

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the hockey was ever going to come to Houston. It's

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going to come to Houston. And I hate this term.

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So I'm not going to say sooner rather than later.

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I despise that I love it. I hate it. I

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just can't give you a timeline on it. But I

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believe there's a one hundred percent chance that hockey will

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be in Houston. Say here are we on twenty twenty five? Yes,

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I would say by twenty thirty two. Can you wait

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seven more years? No? Yes, I can. I can wait

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seventy more years. You know what you're you're gonna enjoy

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it when it comes here. I mean, I'm not gonna

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hate it saying like it's small plate. There's just no

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years ago. There's no way that's gonna be a conversation

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piece on radio. Okay, but the guys when I when

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I was in Minnesota for the three years I was there,

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that my best interviews were with hockey guys. Canadians are

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very nice in plight. Well, Minnesota's part of the United States. No,

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but I imagine there are a lot of Canadians are

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warlots Yeah, see yes, And when we get when Canada

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becomes a fifty first state, it'll be a lot easier

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to get back and forth between Canada. All right, man,

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that's not happening. By the way, Matt, Olympic Men's ice

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hockey odds are out Canada the favorite at a plus

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one seventy five USA two to one, So basically those

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are the co favorites. And I wanted your thoughts on

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Latvia being one hundred to one in the odds. They

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might not score a goal in the tournament. They got it, Well,

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then why are they just one hundred and one? Sounds

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like a deal on lot, you a, Matt, They don't

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have to put put some shekels down on that then

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for some rubles. I don't know what they used in Latvia.

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All right, let's move along that with the newest Astro.

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The deal has become official. We talked about it. Brendan Rodgers,

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the infield or the gold glover now into the fold

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with the Houston Astros. Uh. He shares Scott Boris his

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agent too. This this is the quote that I have

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says he shares his agent with al two A. And

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here's what he has to talk about his opportunity and

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01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:34,199
playing left in Jose al Tuve playing left field, it

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01:31:34,279 --> 01:31:36,439
was just kind of a long offseason for me.

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Speaker 19: Uh, that's some non roster offers and really just trying

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to find the best fit. And uh uh Altov and

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I shared the same agent, and you know him coming

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out and saying he wouldn't want to play left field.

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I kind of just felt like it was a good

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opportunity for me to, you know, possibly make the team

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and help the team out.

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Speaker 2: So Scott Boris has won SOTO. Well it hmm, what

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are you confused about? Brendan Rodgers' baseball reference page sayes

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he's with Excel Sports Manager, which I believe has Kyle Tucker,

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Josel Tube, Scott Borrows is his agent. Yes, so maybe

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01:32:18,399 --> 01:32:20,479
Brendan Rodgers is wrong on it or I don't know,

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maybe maybe Brendan Rodgers change the reference could be wrong.

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Yeah no, but it should wouldn't have said Scott Boris,

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wouldn't even name him. I don't know. Maybe Scott's maybe

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makes you call him Scotty b Okay, sure, why not Scobo?

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But anyways, Brendan Rodgers, how much does he factor? And

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spot track has Excel Sports management as well. I don't know. Okay,

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what's going on here? Well my guess is when you

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were a go glove winner in twenty twenty two and

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you don't work anymore, that maybe you need an agent change. Yeah.

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Career ops plus of ninety one hundred is average those

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of you keeping score at home. Okay, so that great?

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01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:06,760
Uh yeah, I'm not thrilled if he makes the team,

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it'll be in as a reserve. I mean, have some

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sort of reserve kind of a utility guy. When that

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was a guy that was with the team last year

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that only got like two at bats, you know I'm

1771
01:33:18,359 --> 01:33:21,960
talking about It was the base runner, not Wincombe. It

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01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:25,680
was there was a guy on the Astros roster last

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01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:30,479
year that hardly ever played. Oh, you're talking about Great Kessinger,

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Grey Kessinger, g r Ae Kessinger, Yes, Gray Great, Well,

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01:33:35,319 --> 01:33:39,560
it's short for Greble Graba Crowley Cassinger is his full

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given name, Matthew all right. Fair enough. By the way,

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Brennan Rodgers at coors Field eight twenty six ops away

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from Corsfield six twenty eight. So you're saying there's a difference,

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it's like a scramble. It's all the same three numbers. True.

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What else you got? Uh, let's see what else do

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I have? Well, how about your good friend. I'm at

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01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:05,680
Steve Sarkisian talking about Texas not going with a spring

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01:34:05,800 --> 01:34:08,720
game this year on The Up and Adams Show with

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01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:09,399
Kay Adams.

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Speaker 20: Over the last two years, we've played thirty games. That's

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a lot for college football. Fourteen two years ago, sixteen

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this year. And I just mentioned we've had twenty five

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guys get invited to the NFL Combine in the last

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two years. So we've got a lot of young players

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01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:26,600
on our roster. We have twenty one mid year high

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01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:29,439
school kids that just showed up, and so the development

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that's needed for these guys to get ready for the

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01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:34,119
fall is a little bit different than it used to be,

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and so our approach is going to be a little

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01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:40,359
bit more NFL driven, kind of more of an OTA

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01:34:40,479 --> 01:34:42,720
style early on, and as we grow into more of

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01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:45,159
the scrimmage formats in the second half of spring ball

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01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:48,479
that I just don't know. Rolling the ball out, playing

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01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:51,520
the game and when we only get fifteen practices is

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the best for us.

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Speaker 2: Tell the truth, Ross, Tell what Steve Sarcassian failed. What

1802
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:57,359
do you mean he's trying to take it easy on

1803
01:34:57,399 --> 01:35:01,520
the guys. Tell it's true. It's for his player's long

1804
01:35:01,600 --> 01:35:06,039
term health and safety. And thank god that Steve's aar

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01:35:06,159 --> 01:35:09,159
keysy and is standing up and being the voice of

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01:35:09,199 --> 01:35:13,840
the voiceless and projecting these young student athletes. He won't

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01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:16,560
do it. I will. If players don't get to play

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01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:19,359
in the Orange White game, they worry about their depth

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01:35:19,439 --> 01:35:22,039
chart and they think about the transfer portal a lot sooner,

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01:35:22,079 --> 01:35:24,640
and Steve Circassian wants none of that. Just like every

1811
01:35:24,680 --> 01:35:26,880
other coach will say all the things that Steve said,

1812
01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:31,079
we'll be concerned about the exact same thing. Matt is

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01:35:31,119 --> 01:35:35,560
the news at noon. Thank you Matt Florida Stories at

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01:35:35,560 --> 01:35:39,720
one thirty. Hell yeering out today, one fifty all things

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01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:47,760
about Canada to kind of write this absolutely, He's like,

1816
01:35:47,800 --> 01:35:50,199
don't do this like you mother. I know, I know

1817
01:35:50,279 --> 01:35:52,720
that's so unfair. I can write a question. I can help, Yeah,

1818
01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:55,359
I help some good wrong, No, I'm good. Oh wow.

1819
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Twelve fifteen on Sports Talk seven, give me two believable notts.

1820
01:35:59,239 --> 01:36:01,880
That's the hardest part of the game. Seven one you

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01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:04,359
folks at home seven one three two one two five,

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01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:05,079
seven ninety.

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01:36:06,279 --> 01:36:10,680
Speaker 1: Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via Real on Sports

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01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:12,319
Talk seven ninety.

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01:36:16,640 --> 01:36:19,640
Speaker 2: Anything goes Friday continues seven one three two one two

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01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:24,239
five seven NINTI of the media. NFL Combine next week

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01:36:24,319 --> 01:36:27,960
is in Indianapolis. Dimiko is gonna speak on Tuesday. Nick

1828
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:31,439
Cassia will speak on Wednesday, and we'll put it. We'll

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01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:33,399
try to play guests with the two coaches and the

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01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:37,760
GMS will say on Monday show. Monday, uh Astros will

1831
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:40,359
be at night on seven NINTI, and then Tuesday Wednesday

1832
01:36:40,399 --> 01:36:44,319
will have shorter shows leading into Astro spring training coverage.

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01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:49,520
How about that? Yes, spring training opener tomorrow on Sports

1834
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:51,960
Talk Wait and then our friend of the show Spencer

1835
01:36:52,039 --> 01:36:54,479
Raghetti with the program on Sunday. Where are they playing?

1836
01:36:54,479 --> 01:37:00,239
I'm guessing the Nationals, Uh, the Nationals Cardinals of the Mets.

1837
01:37:00,840 --> 01:37:02,560
If you pick one of those three of the field,

1838
01:37:02,560 --> 01:37:06,000
you're probably gonna win seven times out of ten. By

1839
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:07,880
the way, and I'm kind of having with draws. They

1840
01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:10,520
were manicuring that field for two days. If you think

1841
01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:13,039
they were manicuring it, they're gonna If they think they

1842
01:37:13,079 --> 01:37:16,479
were manicuring it early, imagine what they're going through today.

1843
01:37:16,479 --> 01:37:19,920
They're in full panic mode. Every blade of grass has

1844
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:22,760
to be perfect for that game. Mm hmmm, Oh yeah,

1845
01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:24,640
it is the what Nationals in math? I forgot? It's

1846
01:37:24,640 --> 01:37:26,960
a split squad. Yeah. And by the way, I remember,

1847
01:37:27,039 --> 01:37:30,039
if you are going to a game in Florida at

1848
01:37:30,039 --> 01:37:32,520
West Palm Beach, you will not see the automatic bite

1849
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:35,520
of ball strike because that is not a Florida State

1850
01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:39,079
League team facility. So they're not putting it there because

1851
01:37:39,119 --> 01:37:40,880
they use it in the in the Florida State League,

1852
01:37:40,880 --> 01:37:43,880
which is stupid. You're gonna spend multi You're going to

1853
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,319
try to change your sport up a little bit. Put

1854
01:37:46,359 --> 01:37:50,720
it in every park. Let everybody experience it. It's really

1855
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:54,039
absurd that that that Cacti Park of the Palm Beaches

1856
01:37:54,079 --> 01:37:55,560
is not getting it. I look at you at the

1857
01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:58,640
full plug. I don't even know what cacti is. I

1858
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:02,199
thought it was something Travis Scott does, right, Scott? What

1859
01:38:02,239 --> 01:38:05,760
does Travis Scott do? Travis Scott cacties. That's Gordy's voice.

1860
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:11,680
Why is Gordy here? Show? All right? I'm here to

1861
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:14,319
save the show for some reason. He's coming in to

1862
01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:18,199
uh get into some L s U spring game conversation

1863
01:38:18,279 --> 01:38:21,680
on the show. We probably can't get into the Texas

1864
01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:23,880
spring game Cacti Park.

1865
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 14: You didn't go to the Cactus Jack Travis Scott game

1866
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:29,000
the other night, Nope, you missed that one.

1867
01:38:29,880 --> 01:38:32,399
Speaker 2: What what does cacti do? Why are they spending money

1868
01:38:32,399 --> 01:38:35,399
on this park? That's his drink he made like a dream.

1869
01:38:36,399 --> 01:38:37,920
Oh is it a hard seltzer or is it a

1870
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:41,079
sports drink? So I don't know, Okay, I don't even know.

1871
01:38:41,319 --> 01:38:43,560
Speaker 14: I just saw Todd Callus. He was tweeting out Space

1872
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,439
City gonna be calling some games here the next couple

1873
01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:45,760
of days.

1874
01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:50,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was out there, and Julia, I think Brian Lima,

1875
01:38:50,640 --> 01:38:53,239
now he's got some deficiencies. Oh, it is a hard Seltzer.

1876
01:38:54,039 --> 01:38:57,399
All right, lo Lima does a better callous than callous

1877
01:38:57,399 --> 01:39:01,279
does callous? Hmm, seem fair a little. How does Clanton

1878
01:39:01,319 --> 01:39:03,159
have to feel about we should have a callous off

1879
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:09,800
excuse me, Adam Clinton and and Brian Lee McCall in,

1880
01:39:09,840 --> 01:39:11,800
and they they we should have them do like a

1881
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:14,920
Lincoln Douglas debate, as Todd kallis about a blumber. Can

1882
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:18,359
you do a blummer? Who can do blumber? I don't know, no,

1883
01:39:18,560 --> 01:39:23,680
not really. He does a solid one callous. Well, you

1884
01:39:23,680 --> 01:39:26,319
know what I know, let's do one. Let's do Monday

1885
01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:27,920
callous versus callous.

1886
01:39:28,239 --> 01:39:28,439
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1887
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:31,039
Speaker 2: I like that. I think it'd be hysterical. That'd be great.

1888
01:39:31,560 --> 01:39:33,479
How does Todd Callous feel about this? He probably doesn't think.

1889
01:39:34,680 --> 01:39:37,319
Speaker 14: Maybe you can drop in your uh Bill Cosby impression

1890
01:39:37,520 --> 01:39:39,279
you do, Okay.

1891
01:39:39,039 --> 01:39:41,800
Speaker 2: So let's go back to the reason why you're in here.

1892
01:39:43,800 --> 01:39:43,920
Speaker 14: Now.

1893
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:45,640
Speaker 2: I think it's I think Matt stephen A is the

1894
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:52,720
strongest stop. I tried stephen A today. Uh it was wretched.

1895
01:39:54,239 --> 01:39:57,600
You gotta start real low down here and then you

1896
01:39:57,720 --> 01:40:00,880
get going. And Ron James a bunch of where it

1897
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:06,000
says i'd fotuitous and unconscionable. I heard your argument, and

1898
01:40:06,039 --> 01:40:08,960
it's just doesn't happen in vlibibly. If you work in

1899
01:40:09,039 --> 01:40:13,640
a preposterous it's absolutely possibly preposterous. I'm in the league,

1900
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:16,399
I'm on the NBA streets, I'm in LA, I'm in Miami.

1901
01:40:16,439 --> 01:40:21,560
I make him stop. Okay, so sorry, anyways, why we

1902
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:23,520
have Gordyon here? Why are you in here? College football?

1903
01:40:23,920 --> 01:40:25,960
Are you guys talking about the UT spring game?

1904
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:26,159
Speaker 12: Yes?

1905
01:40:26,239 --> 01:40:29,640
Speaker 2: And I heard Sara going, we've played more games than

1906
01:40:29,680 --> 01:40:32,359
anyone else and they have almost What does that have

1907
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:35,279
anything to do with playing a spring game in April?

1908
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:37,880
Speaker 14: What is that because you're played an extra playoff game?

1909
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:39,479
Speaker 2: Well, how many of those games? How many of those

1910
01:40:39,479 --> 01:40:41,319
players that played in that game are even still with

1911
01:40:41,399 --> 01:40:42,800
the team.

1912
01:40:43,319 --> 01:40:46,119
Speaker 14: He's like, we got tons of people going off the draft.

1913
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:48,840
Speaker 2: Exactly, So then what is the answer. Why why is

1914
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:50,760
he doing this? Is it to keep things close to

1915
01:40:50,800 --> 01:40:55,000
the vest because they do vanilla stuff? Anyways, and spring game? Exactly,

1916
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:57,520
you're not giving anything? Why conspiracy theorists put on your

1917
01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:00,680
tin foil hat with me here? Okay, they got arch manning,

1918
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:04,000
we know how big arch Mania is huge. Yes, I

1919
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,760
think he wants to settle the excitement off of that

1920
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:07,399
a little bit.

1921
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:11,520
Speaker 14: Why it raises expectations. Arch goes out there, throws four touchdowns.

1922
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:14,520
Oh my god, Heisman winner Locke, Texas is a lock

1923
01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:17,119
to win it all this year. I think the other

1924
01:41:17,159 --> 01:41:17,680
part of it.

1925
01:41:17,560 --> 01:41:18,920
Speaker 2: Is, I think he cares about that. They let me

1926
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:20,720
tell you as a neutral before you go any further

1927
01:41:20,760 --> 01:41:22,800
as a neutral observer in this I don't buy that

1928
01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:26,640
argument at all. If you if you are trying to

1929
01:41:26,840 --> 01:41:28,960
be very careful with an athlete that plays at the

1930
01:41:29,000 --> 01:41:30,960
University of Texas, that athlete was never meant to play

1931
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:32,000
at the University of Texas.

1932
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:33,680
Speaker 14: What if it's the other way. What if Archie goes

1933
01:41:33,680 --> 01:41:34,720
out there and sucks.

1934
01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:37,039
Speaker 8: Nobody?

1935
01:41:38,279 --> 01:41:41,039
Speaker 2: This guy's trash? Why is he here? That's that only

1936
01:41:41,079 --> 01:41:43,279
happens in the s in l s U. When you

1937
01:41:43,319 --> 01:41:45,760
all get worried about your quarterbacks. Sauce, you're you're, You're

1938
01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:49,359
the king of the Chris quarterback is the best thing ever.

1939
01:41:50,039 --> 01:41:52,000
And he throws Meyer the best. Yes.

1940
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:55,359
Speaker 14: By the way, the Saints just hired Doug nas Myers,

1941
01:41:55,399 --> 01:41:58,920
their new oc set in the stage. Fort Myers are there,

1942
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:00,680
set in the stage for a sun to be The Saints.

1943
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:04,439
Speaker 2: Believing Heimi and harp Onesmyer. What Nesmeyer or Manning gets

1944
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:09,640
higher draft in the NFL. Oh, it's gonna be our Arch. Well,

1945
01:42:09,680 --> 01:42:11,880
they said, They already said, like Arch, if the draft

1946
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:13,800
was held right now and Arch was eligible, he'd be there.

1947
01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:17,640
He would he would go ahead of Shador and sit.

1948
01:42:17,720 --> 01:42:21,880
There's no way he's only throwing like fifty. They think

1949
01:42:21,960 --> 01:42:24,800
the development it's the Arch Manning name. If he was

1950
01:42:24,840 --> 01:42:27,000
that great, he would have been playing ahead of Quinn. Well,

1951
01:42:27,119 --> 01:42:29,520
some people think that some people thought he was better

1952
01:42:29,560 --> 01:42:33,279
than Quinn. Well, dude, you didn't see the sixty seven

1953
01:42:33,319 --> 01:42:35,840
yard run against Utsa. Come on, he was a huge.

1954
01:42:36,399 --> 01:42:39,560
Speaker 14: The other part of this Fellas, is who Texas opens

1955
01:42:39,560 --> 01:42:42,399
with next year. They open on the road at Ohio State,

1956
01:42:42,439 --> 01:42:45,359
the reigning national champion to open the scenes. So I

1957
01:42:45,399 --> 01:42:47,800
think that there, if they're opening with Lamar, I don't

1958
01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:49,359
think they give a damn about the spring game. I

1959
01:42:49,399 --> 01:42:52,560
think they're being overly protective of what everything They put out,

1960
01:42:52,560 --> 01:42:56,560
their schemes, what's on film, Then.

1961
01:42:56,520 --> 01:42:58,439
Speaker 2: Run a bunch of an La plays, then runs up

1962
01:42:58,439 --> 01:43:01,279
at Urani in seventh grade pop. That's what they do anyway.

1963
01:43:01,319 --> 01:43:03,319
But I say, then, why we were about it. I

1964
01:43:03,319 --> 01:43:08,119
think overly. I think, yeah, somebody's building building up excuses

1965
01:43:08,119 --> 01:43:10,039
for all the wrong reasons. Rossie, I will go with

1966
01:43:10,079 --> 01:43:13,439
Gordi on this. You play the spring game, you give

1967
01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:15,560
somebody am I saying you were against it. I think

1968
01:43:15,600 --> 01:43:20,159
you give a football crazy culture a little taste of

1969
01:43:20,199 --> 01:43:22,800
what's coming up, and not not giving out the full book,

1970
01:43:23,199 --> 01:43:26,680
not going through a deep playbook. You put thirty or

1971
01:43:26,680 --> 01:43:28,600
forty guys out that make it a handful of snaps,

1972
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:29,680
and you call it a day and you have a

1973
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:32,560
big barbecue. Yeah, I'm curious what exactly his reasoning is

1974
01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:35,039
this crap about that Matt Rule's putting out there of

1975
01:43:35,159 --> 01:43:38,119
me and we played a spring game on ESPN last

1976
01:43:38,159 --> 01:43:40,039
year and then all my players are getting hit up

1977
01:43:40,039 --> 01:43:42,640
by the coaches on dms BRO. Just because you played

1978
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:45,720
a spring game doesn't mean that suddenly coaches are going, oh,

1979
01:43:45,840 --> 01:43:47,720
that guy's there. Oh I've ever.

1980
01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:49,520
Speaker 14: Seen that kids film before, but I saw him in

1981
01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:52,239
Nebraska's spring game, like, get out of here.

1982
01:43:52,319 --> 01:43:54,119
Speaker 2: That's the worst Matt role impersonation you I've ever heard

1983
01:43:54,119 --> 01:43:56,680
in my life. Matt re former, I don't even know

1984
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:59,439
what is he. He was a big twelve eight Oh,

1985
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:04,600
that's right. Did have them on opening up three coaches

1986
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:06,800
ago at Baylor. I think it's weak sauce.

1987
01:44:06,960 --> 01:44:09,279
Speaker 14: I think fellows for spring games we do away with

1988
01:44:09,359 --> 01:44:12,239
team versus team. I think we take those cupcake games

1989
01:44:12,239 --> 01:44:13,079
from September and.

1990
01:44:13,119 --> 01:44:16,479
Speaker 2: We play those in April. Why not Texas bringing McNeese

1991
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:19,399
State for a showcase a preseason game if you will,

1992
01:44:20,920 --> 01:44:23,439
because that's ridiculous. Why you don't want to play? You

1993
01:44:23,479 --> 01:44:26,800
want to play? Is the game count? I mean no,

1994
01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:30,439
it's count. It's just a spring game. No, that's Sark said.

1995
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:32,479
He wants to run an NFL style like OTAs. You

1996
01:44:32,520 --> 01:44:35,279
know what they do in NFL, guys, they do practices.

1997
01:44:35,960 --> 01:44:38,880
The Saints come in and take on the Texans. Uh,

1998
01:44:39,039 --> 01:44:42,840
in practice, that's in camp. That's normally the CT is

1999
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:46,079
normally like stretching in light work with like a helmet

2000
01:44:46,119 --> 01:44:52,239
on and no pads. Well, uh, playing spring game, let's

2001
01:44:52,279 --> 01:44:55,319
go A and M also playing a spring game in

2002
01:44:55,359 --> 01:44:58,279
week one against Stephen F Austin, he said, full we

2003
01:44:58,359 --> 01:45:01,119
are full go on spring game. Yeah, they're playing spring

2004
01:45:01,159 --> 01:45:03,399
games because the don't anybody. They're starting with Steven six

2005
01:45:03,680 --> 01:45:05,479
Rice the Tips over in Austin.

2006
01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:06,439
Speaker 14: They don't want to take part.

2007
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:08,359
Speaker 2: I don't know why I start. Look, I would rather

2008
01:45:08,399 --> 01:45:10,720
them having an orange and white game if I would

2009
01:45:10,760 --> 01:45:12,680
listen to a logical reason why he's not doing it.

2010
01:45:13,640 --> 01:45:15,920
I imagine there's some sort of reason that a lot

2011
01:45:15,920 --> 01:45:19,560
of games. This sounds like I look sounds like to me,

2012
01:45:19,640 --> 01:45:22,119
there's something that is going to the NFL. It's really

2013
01:45:22,159 --> 01:45:24,720
bothering him. But he can't really tell the tell the

2014
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:27,199
audience of public what the real reason is. Can we

2015
01:45:27,199 --> 01:45:30,600
get some investigator? Come on, he is going to find

2016
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:35,000
out what the reason he's protecting. Check catch him, suck it.

2017
01:45:35,079 --> 01:45:39,960
What's a guy's name Brown? You know we got Gordy.

2018
01:45:40,079 --> 01:45:42,039
We know he's got contacts in Austin. He's running the

2019
01:45:42,079 --> 01:45:44,119
station up there, so let's go. Yeah, you are the

2020
01:45:44,119 --> 01:45:45,239
program director of that station.

2021
01:45:45,880 --> 01:45:48,840
Speaker 14: I think they're protecting arch This is all about protecting

2022
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:49,760
arch Interesting.

2023
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:52,319
Speaker 2: So, so when Archie graduates, the orange orange White game

2024
01:45:52,359 --> 01:45:55,319
comes back another hot take. Oh okay, not really.

2025
01:45:55,359 --> 01:45:57,520
Speaker 14: I think arch comes back another year after this.

2026
01:45:58,039 --> 01:46:00,439
Speaker 2: I would like that if he's good, if he really good,

2027
01:46:00,439 --> 01:46:01,560
if he's not really good, he can go.

2028
01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:02,079
Speaker 15: Well.

2029
01:46:02,119 --> 01:46:04,000
Speaker 2: My my gut feeling was he was going to finish

2030
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,279
his career somewhere else. How's that working out for you?

2031
01:46:06,399 --> 01:46:08,199
Not great? So that's fine. Actually I believe you put

2032
01:46:08,199 --> 01:46:11,039
your name on that. No, I couldn't have. I'll go

2033
01:46:11,119 --> 01:46:14,119
check the final I got. I missed the wrong school

2034
01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:17,119
quarterback was going to be a different It was just

2035
01:46:17,159 --> 01:46:18,800
a gut feeling. I won't crush you that hard. Thank

2036
01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:21,760
you very much. All right, Gordon can be found on

2037
01:46:21,840 --> 01:46:24,079
these radio stations coming up today. He'll be on the

2038
01:46:24,279 --> 01:46:27,119
w l A F and Lafayette Spolts, the ESPN A

2039
01:46:27,239 --> 01:46:30,359
TAN forody. See how do I know that?

2040
01:46:30,600 --> 01:46:30,960
Speaker 16: For real?

2041
01:46:31,079 --> 01:46:33,159
Speaker 14: And then I'm gonna go open a Crawford box from card.

2042
01:46:34,199 --> 01:46:38,399
Speaker 2: You're such a whore. You'll be on an Auburn Alabama too, right, Kob.

2043
01:46:38,079 --> 01:46:39,079
Speaker 14: We did that yesterday.

2044
01:46:39,159 --> 01:46:43,359
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you'll be in Auburn, Alabama today. Lafayette, Louisiana.

2045
01:46:43,359 --> 01:46:45,920
If you saw your wife, you're very busy. Do you

2046
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:47,640
turn your AX? You tune into the Louisiana AX and

2047
01:46:47,640 --> 01:46:49,960
I when you go on that Louisiana show? No? Does

2048
01:46:50,079 --> 01:46:52,359
Does the Louisiana Show have a app? We can listen

2049
01:46:52,439 --> 01:46:53,039
to your interview?

2050
01:46:53,119 --> 01:46:53,319
Speaker 8: Yeah?

2051
01:46:53,640 --> 01:46:56,720
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the name of the host? Boudreau Timbadeau. They

2052
01:46:56,720 --> 01:46:57,640
actually talked normal.

2053
01:46:57,720 --> 01:46:59,760
Speaker 14: They hired normal people that do the radio show.

2054
01:47:00,079 --> 01:47:01,399
Speaker 2: It's a tank Tippodeau.

2055
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:03,720
Speaker 14: Now you listen to Bobby A. Beart and Mike Detillier

2056
01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:06,000
and New Orleans. You get a little bit heay's still alive.

2057
01:47:06,079 --> 01:47:08,000
Oh yeah, which one? Which one was the guy that

2058
01:47:08,079 --> 01:47:10,159
died to let you few years back? Big thicket, New

2059
01:47:10,279 --> 01:47:13,920
Orleans accents Hoky guys No, no, no.

2060
01:47:13,600 --> 01:47:20,600
Speaker 2: No, that is real name. Hooky guy guy hold on

2061
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:22,680
he was. Here's the holder for the Saints for a

2062
01:47:22,680 --> 01:47:26,079
long time. Holding him kicks now, man, there was some guy,

2063
01:47:26,159 --> 01:47:28,079
old guy on No Orans that died a few years back.

2064
01:47:28,199 --> 01:47:32,039
Really super thick accent. Lace is out. That's a special segment.

2065
01:47:32,039 --> 01:47:33,800
Speaker 14: It was like tel Avia got fired.

2066
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:34,239
Speaker 16: He no.

2067
01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:38,159
Speaker 2: Got break. We're gonna hit her breaks on time. Oh

2068
01:47:38,199 --> 01:47:40,119
my god, we're late. Where's we don't have a produce? O?

2069
01:47:40,159 --> 01:47:42,920
There he is? You were blocked by I was like

2070
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:45,119
he might not have a producer. He's given up because

2071
01:47:45,159 --> 01:47:48,399
he's just so happy. Canada one. All right, Cougar basketball

2072
01:47:48,479 --> 01:47:51,880
opening ESPN's game to tomorrow. We'll talk about that a

2073
01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:56,159
little bit. Twelve thirty three, Capan Do No Tipodeau on

2074
01:47:56,239 --> 01:47:59,359
La Fienne's Posita Lunchtimers.

2075
01:47:59,439 --> 01:48:04,520
Speaker 1: Lunchtime. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports

2076
01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:11,920
Talk seven ninety.

2077
01:48:13,359 --> 01:48:18,680
Speaker 2: I just got sent a hilarious McRib reel on Instagram

2078
01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:23,119
that I'm gonna have Connor play the audio four but

2079
01:48:23,159 --> 01:48:24,960
there are swear words in this story. I'm gonna have

2080
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:27,600
to have you clean it up. So if Connor Connor

2081
01:48:27,680 --> 01:48:29,800
next Honors Hour or so, by the way, get your

2082
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Florida story ready to by way, it's at that's easy

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01:48:36,039 --> 01:48:40,359
Florida Man, Reddit, let's Florida story done in one seconds.

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Matter of fact, when we do Florida stories at one

2085
01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:45,359
thirty today, I want us We're gonna take an Insta

2086
01:48:45,439 --> 01:48:48,880
pole of who has the most disturbing Florida Man story.

2087
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:54,319
M Ok, yeah, we don't want anything like cruel or

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01:48:54,479 --> 01:48:56,960
you know, Devianto or anything, but hey, this is Florida

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Man eight hour Crimes Free in Palm Beach County. Matt,

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01:48:59,359 --> 01:49:02,479
we were just wait this picture. It's you stop get

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01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:04,720
out of here. By the way, if you're going to

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01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:08,239
the game day tomorrow at seven o'clock, they're opening up

2093
01:49:08,239 --> 01:49:10,880
for Twita Center. They're opening up letting everybody in earlier

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01:49:10,920 --> 01:49:14,079
because the weather just is gonna be bone chilling cold.

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We don't even people up to people out there freezing. Yeah, okay.

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01:49:18,399 --> 01:49:21,520
Do you ever know a game day or a either

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01:49:21,560 --> 01:49:27,960
college basketball or football? I have. I'm gonna tell you this.

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When I was in college at ut we always made

2099
01:49:30,760 --> 01:49:35,439
plans to make it to game day, but but then

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01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:38,680
the aager bombs started her hitting. I don't think I

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01:49:39,039 --> 01:49:42,000
this is I'm actually embarrassed to tell you this. I

2102
01:49:42,079 --> 01:49:45,359
don't think I ever made it. I think one time

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01:49:45,399 --> 01:49:46,960
we kind of we were, but we were late, and

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01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:48,880
it was we were so far away from the stage

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01:49:48,880 --> 01:49:50,760
we just left. That was when I was living nor

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near campus off thirtieth and Speedway. We uh in two

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thousand and four or five, one of the two four.

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I was my first year living in Utah, and we

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01:50:03,279 --> 01:50:06,039
decided to spend the night at rice Cycle sitting with

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01:50:06,079 --> 01:50:08,760
the out where the Utah Utes played, and they had

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game day from there. This is when it was hot

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and fresh and interesting. It's still very interesting. People still

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01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:16,479
like it a lot. But this is when Corso could

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01:50:16,479 --> 01:50:19,800
actually put together sentences and Kirk Herb Street and I

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01:50:19,840 --> 01:50:21,640
think it was Chris Fodder was hosting the show at

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01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:23,279
the time. This has been quite a few few years ago.

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We were so amped up for it. But if you

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don't get into the first ten rows, you don't see anything.

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So what you wind up doing is being in a

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01:50:34,439 --> 01:50:37,800
group of people of your fellow fans, but you don't

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01:50:37,800 --> 01:50:41,479
see anything. Now basketball is different because they have your

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01:50:41,479 --> 01:50:44,840
an arena setting where seats go from top to bottom,

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01:50:44,840 --> 01:50:46,399
so if you're in the very top you can still

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01:50:46,439 --> 01:50:49,600
see things. Where if you are just walking around on

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01:50:49,640 --> 01:50:52,960
the ground at a football edition of Game Day, again,

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01:50:53,000 --> 01:50:54,279
if you're not in the first two or three roads,

2127
01:50:54,399 --> 01:50:57,359
hard to see anything. So if you're never gone before

2128
01:50:57,399 --> 01:50:59,640
and you're a Cougar fan, you should absolutely go. It

2129
01:50:59,640 --> 01:51:01,600
should be a lot of fun. And my guess is

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01:51:02,039 --> 01:51:04,880
I mean they're gonna probably put seven thousand people in

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01:51:04,880 --> 01:51:07,079
the building if they wanted to, you could, you could

2132
01:51:07,079 --> 01:51:10,800
technically sell out the game day What times the tip

2133
01:51:11,399 --> 01:51:13,880
one o'clock, So they're gonna do the game day show

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01:51:13,920 --> 01:51:16,439
and then they're gonna have everybody leave because if you

2135
01:51:16,479 --> 01:51:19,399
don't have tickets, you can't stick around. So they're gonna

2136
01:51:19,439 --> 01:51:21,439
like basically say get out for a little while they're

2137
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:24,039
serving free coffee and donuts by the way. Oh, I

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01:51:24,119 --> 01:51:26,720
might go. There's no chance I get a couple donuts

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01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:29,279
and leave. You're gonna drive all the way huge age

2140
01:51:29,279 --> 01:51:31,119
for some donuts. How about I give you the two

2141
01:51:31,159 --> 01:51:36,039
dollars over the head kevlar ves. I'm good by the way.

2142
01:51:36,640 --> 01:51:39,560
You know what, I'll piggyback off that doctor the tour.

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01:51:39,720 --> 01:51:44,479
I'm sorry, Please fix our crime. It's ridiculous. I'm embarrassed. Yeah,

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01:51:44,520 --> 01:51:46,720
the students were protesting, right, they were like four or

2145
01:51:46,720 --> 01:51:49,560
five robberies. Yeah, and they want to protest tomorrow before

2146
01:51:49,720 --> 01:51:51,800
game down. Like not not the spot to do it,

2147
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:55,960
but you know what, Yeah, I'm I'm I am sick

2148
01:51:56,000 --> 01:51:59,439
and tired of our university administration doing nothing about our

2149
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:02,039
crime problem. Yeah. Maybe they think it should have like

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01:52:02,039 --> 01:52:06,640
a gun time off off. Everybody's strapped. They should do

2151
01:52:06,680 --> 01:52:11,000
free gun get a day at the game. No less guns,

2152
01:52:12,039 --> 01:52:15,000
more police, less guns. No, haven't you heard Matt, More guns,

2153
01:52:15,119 --> 01:52:18,560
less shootings. I want more. I want less of everything.

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01:52:19,119 --> 01:52:21,479
I want less crime. I want less guns. I want

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01:52:21,520 --> 01:52:27,319
it less everything. God, am I'm super mad, cockatory. Let's

2156
01:52:27,359 --> 01:52:32,119
go step up your game. Enough of this crime. Sick

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01:52:32,159 --> 01:52:35,199
of it. Every campus has crime. We just had more

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01:52:35,239 --> 01:52:38,800
than the average campus does. I'm embarrassed, but you know what,

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01:52:38,840 --> 01:52:40,560
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to trigger you like you

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01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:43,800
you did too late. I apologize a biscuit. What's going on?

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Speaker 6: Cougar Mat, Cougar Mat. Heymen, that's the world we live in, man.

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01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:51,800
Speaker 2: You know, well, I don't know. I don't want my

2163
01:52:51,880 --> 01:52:53,720
world to be around my campus where every other day

2164
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:56,640
I got numbskulls like Ross here telling me about daily

2165
01:52:56,680 --> 01:52:58,920
crime at the campus. I'm kind of tired of it.

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01:52:59,279 --> 01:53:02,119
And a minute our administration does nothing about it. Zilch.

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01:53:03,199 --> 01:53:05,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, now that that's a part where we can't agree on.

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They it's, you know, time to step it up.

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Speaker 2: Hey, listen, Matt.

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Speaker 6: I think it's a big game tomorrow for the Cougars. Man.

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Speaker 2: Right now, it look like they got.

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01:53:16,680 --> 01:53:20,880
Speaker 6: Us kind of like the the bottom of the two seeds,

2173
01:53:21,560 --> 01:53:23,800
and I think we can beat our state and finish

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strong in the big twelve.

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Speaker 11: I think it's possibility we can get to that last.

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01:53:28,199 --> 01:53:31,760
Speaker 6: Number one seed, if not at least, you know, one

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01:53:31,840 --> 01:53:34,760
of the higher two seeds where we can get better matchups.

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Speaker 2: I think at that level, I mean, think about this,

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01:53:39,479 --> 01:53:41,960
this tournament, this year, And I don't want to paint

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01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:43,159
with the broad brush on this, but I have to

2181
01:53:43,199 --> 01:53:46,039
because there's so many different schools from what I have read,

2182
01:53:46,079 --> 01:53:48,279
and I'm starting to read a lot more about this bracketology.

2183
01:53:49,039 --> 01:53:55,039
The eight nines going against the ones, could there could

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01:53:55,079 --> 01:53:57,920
be at least one or two one seeds go down

2185
01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:02,359
because this tournament is super super deep in that what

2186
01:54:02,359 --> 01:54:06,359
would be what twenty eight to thirty five club in

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01:54:06,399 --> 01:54:10,399
terms of college basketball teams. That's how deep this year's

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01:54:10,399 --> 01:54:14,319
college basketball tournament could potentially be. So I'm not gonna

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01:54:14,319 --> 01:54:16,640
sweat it. If they get to number one, that'd be great,

2190
01:54:17,159 --> 01:54:19,479
but number one does not guarantee success. If they want

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01:54:19,479 --> 01:54:22,079
to be a two seat, I'm fine as long as

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01:54:22,119 --> 01:54:25,880
they just don't whimpered towards the tournament. And I want

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them to show well in the Big Twelve. I'd like

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01:54:27,479 --> 01:54:29,479
them to win the conference cerment. They've not done that

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01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:31,359
since joining the Big Twelve. Is only in the second year.

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01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:33,800
I don't think they've even won a conference tournament except

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for maybe when Penders ran things. But I think you

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01:54:37,680 --> 01:54:39,439
want to build some momentum, but you also want to

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01:54:39,439 --> 01:54:42,439
make sure that nobody gets hurt because this team while

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01:54:42,479 --> 01:54:45,000
has a good rotation of interer nine players, it also

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01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:46,439
has a team that's got a lot of foul trouble

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01:54:46,439 --> 01:54:48,319
on occasions. And I don't want them to be strapped

2203
01:54:48,359 --> 01:54:50,000
in terms of having guys have to worry about their

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01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:51,960
playing time because of fouls and or injuries.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but one of the things about the scene is

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01:54:57,600 --> 01:54:59,800
the higher, the better your seed in the better location,

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01:55:00,319 --> 01:55:02,319
you know. So I mean, like you say, man, it's

2208
01:55:02,359 --> 01:55:05,279
it's gonna be a tough tournament. And and looking back

2209
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on the losses that the Cougars have barely losing to Arizona,

2210
01:55:09,279 --> 01:55:14,119
I mean, I mean Auburn barely losing Alabama and that

2211
01:55:14,479 --> 01:55:17,680
you know, I throw the game against whether that San

2212
01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:19,399
Diego State or San Diego out.

2213
01:55:19,439 --> 01:55:21,880
Speaker 11: But I think the Coogar's got a good chance.

2214
01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:23,399
Speaker 2: They have no you know what, they have no bad

2215
01:55:23,439 --> 01:55:26,920
losses upfront. If San Diego States your worst loss, you've

2216
01:55:26,920 --> 01:55:29,760
had a spectacular season. Actually Texas Tech would maybe maybe

2217
01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:31,800
be their worst off. But hell text text on the tournament,

2218
01:55:31,880 --> 01:55:34,159
I mean, there's no there's no bad losses in the.

2219
01:55:34,079 --> 01:55:38,199
Speaker 6: Group, right, And I think the key for the Cougars

2220
01:55:38,319 --> 01:55:41,600
is up front, the depth, and like you talked about,

2221
01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:43,319
the foul trouble, the tuggler.

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Speaker 10: And and uh another guy not the one that.

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01:55:46,239 --> 01:55:48,600
Speaker 6: Comes off the bench gets into that could be the

2224
01:55:48,640 --> 01:55:50,159
problem if we played the team with a bunch of

2225
01:55:50,199 --> 01:55:54,279
bigs like Auburn gave us a problem big inside. But

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01:55:55,199 --> 01:55:57,319
the backcourt, I think is it's gonna be okay. I

2227
01:55:57,399 --> 01:56:00,520
think Arsenal is the X factor. We can get him

2228
01:56:00,520 --> 01:56:01,560
going because he can.

2229
01:56:01,600 --> 01:56:02,399
Speaker 1: Do little both.

2230
01:56:03,079 --> 01:56:05,840
Speaker 11: But I like the coopar scene, man, I really.

2231
01:56:05,560 --> 01:56:08,439
Speaker 2: Do you should because it's a fun group of team,

2232
01:56:08,479 --> 01:56:10,239
It's deep, it can shoot the three ball. Thank you

2233
01:56:10,279 --> 01:56:13,319
Biscuit for the phone call that the low post presence

2234
01:56:13,359 --> 01:56:16,359
has always been good. Again, foul trouble will be the

2235
01:56:16,399 --> 01:56:19,720
biggest thing that will be hurting them potentially, But as

2236
01:56:19,760 --> 01:56:23,159
far as I'm concerned, honestly, to me, this might be

2237
01:56:23,199 --> 01:56:26,239
the better team of the group that he's had because

2238
01:56:26,239 --> 01:56:28,800
he's had Arsenal and has shitting the three point shot.

2239
01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:31,640
You've got malos Uzan has been hitting a lot more,

2240
01:56:31,960 --> 01:56:35,079
a lot more aggressiveness on the shots. L J. Cryer

2241
01:56:35,159 --> 01:56:38,119
is knocking down threes, team shooting about forty Among its

2242
01:56:38,159 --> 01:56:41,319
main go to rotation guys, they shooting about forty percent

2243
01:56:41,359 --> 01:56:43,920
from three and oh, by the way, the number one

2244
01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:47,920
scoring defense in the country and third in point differential.

2245
01:56:48,560 --> 01:56:50,319
That's kind of a skewed number because of the fact

2246
01:56:50,319 --> 01:56:53,079
that you've got three inndred schools playing and not all

2247
01:56:53,079 --> 01:56:55,359
schedules are created equal. Yeah, that's why you go to

2248
01:56:55,399 --> 01:56:58,760
adjusted numbers like Ken Poem, how's Kim polm Like Mom's

2249
01:56:58,760 --> 01:57:03,479
got them the third def Tennessee first, who second? Second?

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01:57:03,479 --> 01:57:06,920
They have Saint John's actually adjusted defense, and they have

2251
01:57:06,960 --> 01:57:11,680
the Cougars at the seventh offense. Yeah, so top ten

2252
01:57:11,760 --> 01:57:14,720
in both that's insane. Yeah, the only their team top

2253
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:19,640
ten in both Duke and Florida. By the way, Uh,

2254
01:57:19,920 --> 01:57:22,039
speaking of Duke, Cooper Flagg probably gonna be the number

2255
01:57:22,039 --> 01:57:24,319
one pick in the draft. Yes, apparently. People in San

2256
01:57:24,319 --> 01:57:31,159
Antonio already printing his jersey. Oh no really if they

2257
01:57:31,159 --> 01:57:34,560
get Wmbanyama and Flag in two out of the last

2258
01:57:34,640 --> 01:57:37,479
three years, Yeah, those are like the mega leg last

2259
01:57:37,520 --> 01:57:39,560
year there was no mega, no doubt about it. Number one.

2260
01:57:39,720 --> 01:57:42,520
Those guys are number one. That's crazy. That's gonna be

2261
01:57:42,560 --> 01:57:46,279
very upsetting. Actually, Cooper Flag needs to go to a

2262
01:57:46,359 --> 01:57:48,279
team the rockets of their draft pick on and maybe

2263
01:57:48,359 --> 01:57:50,319
he can go How about to the Rockets. Yeah much

2264
01:57:50,319 --> 01:57:53,920
better twelve forty six. We continue the Matt Thomas showld

2265
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:55,600
Ross in a moment, we take you to two o'clock

2266
01:57:55,760 --> 01:57:59,079
Florida Stories today, Florida stories at I'm thirty, but hell

2267
01:57:59,159 --> 01:58:02,079
y are not all things about Canada? And uh we

2268
01:58:02,199 --> 01:58:06,119
got Astros, Rockets in the brain college basketball in the brain. Oh,

2269
01:58:06,199 --> 01:58:09,159
Canada winning the Four Nations event. All here on seven ninety.

2270
01:58:10,079 --> 01:58:13,079
Speaker 21: This is Craig Ackerman and the Rockets get the job done.

2271
01:58:13,399 --> 01:58:15,920
Oh here's another new catchphrase I have for you.

2272
01:58:16,960 --> 01:58:19,479
Speaker 1: Good gracious, good gracious.

2273
01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:22,359
Speaker 21: You're listening to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk

2274
01:58:22,479 --> 01:58:27,880
seven ninety.

2275
01:58:29,359 --> 01:58:31,520
Speaker 2: So it takes us a little while sometimes to give

2276
01:58:31,560 --> 01:58:35,279
you the non Florida stories. But this took me a

2277
01:58:35,319 --> 01:58:37,079
minute a half to find a Florida story. Mine's not

2278
01:58:37,119 --> 01:58:41,039
even gross. It's just funny, wonderful, which is really out

2279
01:58:41,039 --> 01:58:42,239
of norm for me, because soon as I like to

2280
01:58:42,239 --> 01:58:46,840
find the gross ones. Speaking of that, any of you

2281
01:58:46,880 --> 01:58:48,840
that listened to this Matt Thomas Show with Ross know

2282
01:58:48,920 --> 01:58:50,880
that we talked sports what ninety eight percent of the time,

2283
01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:53,279
give or take maybe sometimes ninety nine percent at the

2284
01:58:53,279 --> 01:58:57,039
time somewhere around there. But there is something that bothers

2285
01:58:57,079 --> 01:59:00,920
me occasionally, and that is Ross's constant haraz of America

2286
01:59:01,039 --> 01:59:04,159
sandwich known as the mcgrib. Oh my god. Well, my

2287
01:59:04,239 --> 01:59:06,760
good friend Tracy Hughes, and she's not probably not listening.

2288
01:59:06,760 --> 01:59:10,359
She's the vice president of media relations for the Rockets.

2289
01:59:11,399 --> 01:59:17,439
She sent me an ig video that basically, and I

2290
01:59:17,479 --> 01:59:21,520
don't know who this person is. Let's see here her

2291
01:59:21,600 --> 01:59:27,520
name is. It's called Britt. In her books, she's got

2292
01:59:27,520 --> 01:59:30,159
a lot of whiteboard funny things she puts on a whiteboard.

2293
01:59:30,239 --> 01:59:32,600
She has five she follows five hundred and sixty five people.

2294
01:59:32,640 --> 01:59:35,439
She's got one hundred and twenty eight thousand followers. She's

2295
01:59:35,479 --> 01:59:39,279
from Florida, Okay, And she decided she wanted to give

2296
01:59:39,279 --> 01:59:41,479
you a little rundown on her whiteboard. Obviously we can't

2297
01:59:41,479 --> 01:59:43,640
show you the whitebord as we're radio, but this is

2298
01:59:43,680 --> 01:59:46,119
her whiteboard. Was describing something that is near and dear

2299
01:59:46,159 --> 01:59:49,359
to my heart. That is, of course, the McRib types

2300
01:59:49,399 --> 01:59:49,840
of people.

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01:59:50,039 --> 01:59:55,960
Speaker 22: I don't want book recks from Part forty number one,

2302
01:59:57,119 --> 02:00:01,359
people who eat mcribs from McDonald's. I see that the

2303
02:00:01,399 --> 02:00:04,920
megarib is back, and I don't know why they keep

2304
02:00:04,920 --> 02:00:09,359
bringing that back. Who was calling up to corporate.

2305
02:00:09,680 --> 02:00:11,920
Speaker 2: Asking for the magarib.

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02:00:13,399 --> 02:00:17,439
Speaker 22: Y'all are by far some of the most concerning individuals

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02:00:17,960 --> 02:00:21,640
in the world. Quite frankly, you might eat humans. If

2308
02:00:21,680 --> 02:00:25,000
you are going to McDonald's and you say, yes, can

2309
02:00:25,039 --> 02:00:30,560
I get a mcribok, you need help because in all honestly,

2310
02:00:31,359 --> 02:00:34,760
a McRib is dinosaur ankle meat.

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02:00:34,960 --> 02:00:36,199
Speaker 2: You are eating a dinosaur.

2312
02:00:36,920 --> 02:00:39,840
Speaker 22: I don't know where it getting a dinosaurs from, but

2313
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you are eating dinosaur ankle meat.

2314
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Speaker 2: That is what the McRib is.

2315
02:00:46,720 --> 02:00:49,239
Speaker 22: You don't make good decisions in life at all, so

2316
02:00:49,279 --> 02:00:50,399
I definitely don't want your book.

2317
02:00:50,439 --> 02:00:58,159
Speaker 2: REGs Hm kind of said it better myself. I'm supposed

2318
02:00:58,199 --> 02:00:59,079
to be the one coughing of.

2319
02:01:00,800 --> 02:01:00,920
Speaker 22: You.

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02:01:03,800 --> 02:01:07,359
Speaker 2: Sometimes I can outrage over the mcribs slant. Yeah, I know, Matt,

2321
02:01:07,399 --> 02:01:13,439
you're you're very broken up about it. Yeah, dinosaur ankle

2322
02:01:13,479 --> 02:01:17,000
meat dinosaurs. I've never heard the phrase dinosaur ankle meat

2323
02:01:17,079 --> 02:01:21,760
before in my life until just now. You've got You've

2324
02:01:21,760 --> 02:01:25,439
got serious problems. That's what this woman says. I think

2325
02:01:25,520 --> 02:01:29,039
she's right. I'm glad that Tracy sent you this. She's

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anti McRib. I imagine all my friends are anti McRib that

2327
02:01:33,359 --> 02:01:36,720
your life loves it. My wife, my son's love it.

2328
02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:41,319
My daughter does not. Good. Uh, there's a few of

2329
02:01:41,359 --> 02:01:43,319
you that do like it. So you you've infected the

2330
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brains of your wife and your children with this mcribs love.

2331
02:01:46,439 --> 02:01:49,319
I true story. I went and got a McDonald's drive

2332
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through on the way home yesterday, uh huh from the airport.

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02:01:51,680 --> 02:01:51,920
Speaker 9: Yes.

2334
02:01:52,199 --> 02:01:53,920
Speaker 2: And the first thing that Kim said to me was

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do they still start to make ribs? I said no,

2336
02:01:57,600 --> 02:02:01,000
and she goes, damn well good, you know what. McDonald's

2337
02:02:01,039 --> 02:02:04,600
did her a favor. But way we did some sneaky

2338
02:02:04,640 --> 02:02:08,479
yesterday wasn't sneaky? Was it was genius. We went got

2339
02:02:08,479 --> 02:02:12,119
the two double cheeseburger combo with fries, big basket of

2340
02:02:12,119 --> 02:02:16,119
fries nine bucks. Yeah, really, very very affordable. Yes, we

2341
02:02:16,239 --> 02:02:18,600
like Big Max, so we tied them to take the

2342
02:02:18,640 --> 02:02:20,840
ketchem and mustard off of the burger, and a had

2343
02:02:20,880 --> 02:02:24,520
Big Max sauce. So succession, it's a big Mac without

2344
02:02:24,600 --> 02:02:27,319
the extra the middle bunch about the extra bun and

2345
02:02:27,319 --> 02:02:30,520
no letus. What was that sauce costume? Zilch. They did

2346
02:02:30,760 --> 02:02:33,239
put Big Max sauce on it for free. Yeah really Yeah,

2347
02:02:33,359 --> 02:02:35,920
that's interesting. So my sandwiches were two all beef patties,

2348
02:02:36,720 --> 02:02:41,279
special sauce. Yeah, no lettuce, no cheese, no sesame seeds,

2349
02:02:41,359 --> 02:02:43,880
no sesame seeds on bun. But I still had a

2350
02:02:43,880 --> 02:02:49,560
bun and one less bun, so less carbs whin Yeah

2351
02:02:49,640 --> 02:02:52,680
you get that. Maybe a six piece nugs splitted with

2352
02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:56,119
the lady, no side one double. My wife had the other,

2353
02:02:56,159 --> 02:02:59,239
and we split the fries. It's a lot of fries.

2354
02:02:59,640 --> 02:03:04,439
It's the basket of fries is intense. Yes, m I've

2355
02:03:04,479 --> 02:03:07,119
never said to myself, I have to stop eating McDonald's fries.

2356
02:03:07,279 --> 02:03:11,039
It's my go to after a night of drinking. The

2357
02:03:11,079 --> 02:03:14,840
basket of fries. You can really maybe one double cheeseburger,

2358
02:03:14,920 --> 02:03:17,439
maybe two if I'm feeling really those entire basket of

2359
02:03:17,479 --> 02:03:19,800
fries yourself. Damn no, you know I'm saying, split it

2360
02:03:20,680 --> 02:03:23,079
with who your left side of your brain? With my

2361
02:03:23,159 --> 02:03:25,560
left hand and my right hand. You do things with

2362
02:03:25,600 --> 02:03:29,840
both your hands very well. Parents called ambidextrous, Matt, not ambidextrous.

2363
02:03:29,960 --> 02:03:35,199
Same difference. All right, Uh, what should Major League Baseball

2364
02:03:35,239 --> 02:03:39,399
in the ESPN do because of right now? What do

2365
02:03:39,439 --> 02:03:41,920
they call it? When you're not there, they're feuding, they're

2366
02:03:41,920 --> 02:03:44,039
not they're on a break. They're on a break like

2367
02:03:44,199 --> 02:03:50,000
Ross and Rachel wore on separation. MLB and ESPN are separated.

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02:03:50,000 --> 02:03:52,560
We'll talk about that. We'll get to the Rockets against

2369
02:03:52,600 --> 02:03:55,199
the Wolves. Oh Canada. I can't believe we haven't played

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any more hockey sound bites of Oh, we rule the world.

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Speaker 1: Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

2395
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Speaker 2: What oh three on Sports Talk Seminati is the final

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02:05:18,680 --> 02:05:21,359
line with the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on this Friday.

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02:05:21,439 --> 02:05:23,880
Anything Goes Friday at seven one three, two one two

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02:05:23,960 --> 02:05:26,359
five is seven NATI eight team coming up at two.

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02:05:26,439 --> 02:05:32,880
We got Rockets basketball tonight, late start time Network, our

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02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:36,520
local pregame, the launch pad at seven thirty. Network pregame

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02:05:36,520 --> 02:05:38,119
at eight, and we're gonna tip that bad boy off

2402
02:05:38,159 --> 02:05:42,399
probably I guess about eight forty five. Get you don't

2403
02:05:42,439 --> 02:05:44,560
get you nap for that game. Who's got the launch

2404
02:05:44,600 --> 02:05:49,560
pad tonight? That would be me? All right, So there's

2405
02:05:49,640 --> 02:05:51,279
really no need for you to listen to seven night

2406
02:05:51,359 --> 02:05:58,439
until tip time. Then. Oh I'm just kidding. Lit's send

2407
02:05:58,479 --> 02:06:01,640
seven thirty. Why would you say that, man, I'm sure

2408
02:06:01,640 --> 02:06:04,680
there's millions of people listening to the Rockets launch pads.

2409
02:06:04,720 --> 02:06:07,039
They love you, they love the launch pad. Normally we

2410
02:06:07,119 --> 02:06:10,560
do a game rewind on the pregame show. We will

2411
02:06:10,600 --> 02:06:14,439
do the first half wind was like the best of me. See,

2412
02:06:14,600 --> 02:06:16,439
I knew you were gonna make it about yourself. We

2413
02:06:16,520 --> 02:06:18,359
will be playing. Yes, a couple of your highlights from

2414
02:06:18,359 --> 02:06:20,159
the pile. There should be like seven or eight from

2415
02:06:20,199 --> 02:06:22,520
the No, I don't mail it in like some people

2416
02:06:22,720 --> 02:06:29,800
don't play that many. Uh, A few from the from

2417
02:06:29,800 --> 02:06:31,479
the biggest games of the of the first half of

2418
02:06:31,479 --> 02:06:33,520
the season. Let's big wins. Let's answer that question.

2419
02:06:33,560 --> 02:06:33,720
Speaker 8: Then.

2420
02:06:33,760 --> 02:06:36,640
Speaker 2: The biggest game of the season was the win over

2421
02:06:36,640 --> 02:06:39,439
the Oklahoma City Thunder. I would say I would win

2422
02:06:39,479 --> 02:06:42,079
over the Warriors to go to the semi finals of

2423
02:06:42,119 --> 02:06:45,880
the NBA Cup. I agree with that. What else would

2424
02:06:45,880 --> 02:06:49,760
the big Cleveland win victories or notable games? Nobody dropped

2425
02:06:49,800 --> 02:06:54,199
fifty two Cleveland wins. Has anybody even dropped forty this year? Yeah?

2426
02:06:54,279 --> 02:06:56,680
Did did Shingo and do it against the t Wolves?

2427
02:06:56,760 --> 02:06:59,039
Was he had forty four or something like that? And

2428
02:06:59,079 --> 02:07:01,520
then and then the Mackets went to Cleveland and one

2429
02:07:01,560 --> 02:07:03,560
and went to Boston and one back to back games.

2430
02:07:04,039 --> 02:07:06,520
Some of those games will be mentioned. Special game winner

2431
02:07:06,520 --> 02:07:08,600
from Aman Thompson will be in the pregame for sure.

2432
02:07:08,640 --> 02:07:11,760
Low watermark of the year, the opening night lost to Charlotte.

2433
02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:14,000
We're gonna try to show on those two games against

2434
02:07:14,039 --> 02:07:17,319
the hated Brooklyn Nets. It'll be mentioned, but I don't

2435
02:07:17,319 --> 02:07:19,840
know if we'll go to the Okay, good play, I love,

2436
02:07:20,239 --> 02:07:24,880
so you know what Hornet's final call. So y'all need

2437
02:07:24,920 --> 02:07:28,640
to listen to the Rockets launch pad today seven thirty. Okay, listen,

2438
02:07:28,760 --> 02:07:34,720
learn love? What do my research for the game tonight? Yes,

2439
02:07:35,079 --> 02:07:39,760
Terrence Shannon Junior is the former first first round pick

2440
02:07:39,960 --> 02:07:42,960
of the Minnesota timber Wolves first and matter of fact,

2441
02:07:43,000 --> 02:07:46,199
he's in his rookie year. Okay, he got his jersey

2442
02:07:46,239 --> 02:07:52,760
retired at Illinois over the All Star break. Yes, so

2443
02:07:52,800 --> 02:07:55,840
they go to pull the banner down, uh huh and

2444
02:07:55,920 --> 02:08:01,319
it was hung upside down? Was that a sign of distress?

2445
02:08:02,439 --> 02:08:04,439
That's a sign of someone's gonna should be looking for work.

2446
02:08:05,399 --> 02:08:09,319
You can't really mess that one up. Nobody checked this.

2447
02:08:09,920 --> 02:08:12,239
That's the that's the thing. You say. What you just said,

2448
02:08:12,439 --> 02:08:15,920
Nobody checked it. Don't you have a dress, rehearsal and

2449
02:08:16,119 --> 02:08:23,920
pulling the bag now probably, I mean, how embarrassing. I

2450
02:08:23,920 --> 02:08:26,800
mean there is embarrassing things. We've all done things. But

2451
02:08:26,840 --> 02:08:29,159
if you're in charge of game promotions, you got fifteen

2452
02:08:29,199 --> 02:08:31,880
thousand people in your arena, you bring him back, your

2453
02:08:31,880 --> 02:08:34,840
beloved Terrence Sharon Shannon Junior, who only played two years

2454
02:08:34,840 --> 02:08:36,680
in Illinois's kind of where you retire guy's number for

2455
02:08:36,720 --> 02:08:38,520
two years? It would do that. I don't see. It

2456
02:08:38,600 --> 02:08:40,239
was kind of silly. It feels like they'd have more

2457
02:08:40,279 --> 02:08:45,039
history there in Illinois. Greatest only player Kendall Gilt. I'm

2458
02:08:45,039 --> 02:08:48,159
gonna go Luther Head. That's not a bad one. Oh

2459
02:08:48,680 --> 02:08:56,960
who else? Uh? Devon No, not Devon Williams. The Williams

2460
02:08:57,199 --> 02:08:59,479
Utah Jazz moved down a bunch of places.

2461
02:08:59,720 --> 02:09:01,319
Speaker 9: Uh, I don't know.

2462
02:09:02,039 --> 02:09:05,039
Speaker 2: How about de Brown, Darren Williams, Darren Wims, Oh Darren Well, yeah,

2463
02:09:05,279 --> 02:09:07,520
Darren willms is probably yeah, Darren Williams. You know among

2464
02:09:07,560 --> 02:09:09,640
that group there too, there's a lot of it's got

2465
02:09:09,640 --> 02:09:13,600
a good basketball program. Better they're playing Duke Tomorrow. Ranker

2466
02:09:13,640 --> 02:09:16,000
dot com is Darren Williams one, Kindle gild two, Nick

2467
02:09:16,039 --> 02:09:21,520
Anderson three. Hey, that's rude. By the way, A little

2468
02:09:21,520 --> 02:09:23,880
shout out to Space City Network. They did a nice job.

2469
02:09:23,920 --> 02:09:27,079
They would talk to me about two weeks ago for

2470
02:09:27,239 --> 02:09:31,960
a little thirtieth anniversary feature they did on the Clyde

2471
02:09:32,000 --> 02:09:34,439
Drexler trade that brought Clyde from Portland to Houston. He

2472
02:09:34,520 --> 02:09:38,880
it's somebody whys a as you man talking about something

2473
02:09:38,960 --> 02:09:41,800
happened thirty years ago? Yeah, it was me. They interviewed me.

2474
02:09:41,880 --> 02:09:46,279
They interviewed Calvin Murphy and h Craig when I Clyde

2475
02:09:47,159 --> 02:09:51,199
apparently unavailable. I don't think Clyde lives in Houston anymore, Okay,

2476
02:09:51,840 --> 02:09:54,840
but yeah, behind the scenes of the thirty anniversary, Yeah,

2477
02:09:54,960 --> 02:09:56,760
I believe he said that making the trade was as

2478
02:09:56,800 --> 02:09:59,600
easy as clubbing baby seals. I believe I wouldn't reach

2479
02:09:59,640 --> 02:10:01,359
for common. I believe that was not a part of

2480
02:10:01,359 --> 02:10:04,920
the conversation. All right, Online. Two, we've got Ryan Montgomery,

2481
02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:08,560
it says mcgrib update on my Valentine. I love this.

2482
02:10:09,520 --> 02:10:11,720
I don't know what to expect on this, but let's

2483
02:10:11,760 --> 02:10:12,199
find out.

2484
02:10:12,720 --> 02:10:13,039
Speaker 9: Ryan.

2485
02:10:13,119 --> 02:10:15,920
Speaker 2: You're on seven ninety at one oh nine and anything

2486
02:10:15,920 --> 02:10:19,279
goes Friday. How are you, my friend? I'm doing great.

2487
02:10:19,359 --> 02:10:22,119
Matt Ross, how are you all doing excellent, fantastic.

2488
02:10:23,359 --> 02:10:26,119
Speaker 13: All right, First the mcgrib Matt you should just stop

2489
02:10:26,159 --> 02:10:29,760
eating it, thoes mcdoubles with the big Max sauce.

2490
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:30,479
Speaker 2: Stick with that.

2491
02:10:30,960 --> 02:10:34,640
Speaker 13: I agree with the SoundBite. I love you though, but

2492
02:10:36,079 --> 02:10:38,720
McK ribs are out. That being said, I called you

2493
02:10:38,760 --> 02:10:43,000
all Valentine's Day to Vince. I was like, I go

2494
02:10:43,119 --> 02:10:44,720
through all this effort to try to find something for

2495
02:10:44,840 --> 02:10:47,600
my wife, still great, and I never what I want.

2496
02:10:47,640 --> 02:10:49,279
You asked me what I want? I went steak, and

2497
02:10:49,279 --> 02:10:51,359
I'm not going to say the other part I said,

2498
02:10:52,880 --> 02:10:56,359
and you said, hey, that's March fourteenth, anybody. So we

2499
02:10:56,359 --> 02:10:58,680
we went back and forth. Ross wasn't feeling great. I

2500
02:10:58,760 --> 02:11:00,000
wish that he would feel better.

2501
02:11:00,079 --> 02:11:00,960
Speaker 2: Thank you. I am feel that.

2502
02:11:02,359 --> 02:11:03,720
Speaker 1: Then that was that.

2503
02:11:03,720 --> 02:11:06,920
Speaker 13: That night we went out to dinner and jokingly I

2504
02:11:07,079 --> 02:11:11,920
brought up our conversation to my wife and apparently she

2505
02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:18,359
had had enough social lubricant to find it incredibly hilarious.

2506
02:11:18,840 --> 02:11:21,279
Speaker 2: Nice And if.

2507
02:11:21,119 --> 02:11:23,199
Speaker 13: Everything worked out the way I think it might have,

2508
02:11:23,399 --> 02:11:26,760
I'm gonna name my kid Matthew Ross or Ross Matthew

2509
02:11:27,159 --> 02:11:28,000
Ross top billing.

2510
02:11:32,479 --> 02:11:35,520
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you have you all been trying or

2511
02:11:35,800 --> 02:11:36,840
was that just uh?

2512
02:11:39,720 --> 02:11:42,079
Speaker 13: I called a while back, a long time ago, on

2513
02:11:42,119 --> 02:11:45,439
a on Anything Goes Friday. So my my my first,

2514
02:11:45,439 --> 02:11:48,640
my only son, he's ten months old, and I wanted

2515
02:11:48,680 --> 02:11:50,640
to go back to back. My wife does not want

2516
02:11:50,680 --> 02:11:51,960
to go back to back. She wants to wait a

2517
02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:56,479
few years. But I I threw caution to the wind.

2518
02:11:56,520 --> 02:12:00,920
Speaker 2: Sir, m hm. Okay, So you were you were, So

2519
02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:03,560
you've got no confirmation yet you're just thinking that there's

2520
02:12:03,600 --> 02:12:07,359
this certainly within the realm of possibility. It was Valentine's Day,

2521
02:12:07,359 --> 02:12:11,560
it's two weeks ago. I have no idea, okay, and

2522
02:12:11,680 --> 02:12:12,119
she wasn't.

2523
02:12:12,199 --> 02:12:16,000
Speaker 13: But I will say this, I did nothing to prevent it.

2524
02:12:24,239 --> 02:12:27,560
Speaker 2: The old nothing to prevent a card. All right. So Ryan,

2525
02:12:27,840 --> 02:12:31,239
now you're bragging on February fourteen hockey, talking about hockey.

2526
02:12:31,319 --> 02:12:33,239
Speaker 13: There was no goalie Connor McGovern.

2527
02:12:33,680 --> 02:12:38,079
Speaker 2: Oh, there's there's the coffee, there's the gift. So you

2528
02:12:38,159 --> 02:12:41,000
shot and you scored, is what you're trying to tell us.

2529
02:12:42,079 --> 02:12:46,039
Speaker 13: There's no there's no, there's the there's still there's still

2530
02:12:46,039 --> 02:12:50,119
making a judgment call in. Uh, I guess where it

2531
02:12:50,159 --> 02:12:51,640
lies to TVD.

2532
02:12:51,960 --> 02:12:55,479
Speaker 2: Okay, God, if you're going to brag about February the fourteenth.

2533
02:12:55,560 --> 02:12:57,680
Are you going to be calling us on March fifteenth?

2534
02:12:57,720 --> 02:12:59,439
Is that going to be yes, sir, no on that one.

2535
02:13:00,399 --> 02:13:00,560
Speaker 16: No.

2536
02:13:00,640 --> 02:13:02,239
Speaker 13: I think I convinced my wife to call you on

2537
02:13:02,279 --> 02:13:03,640
March thirteenth, and you're gonna give.

2538
02:13:03,520 --> 02:13:06,439
Speaker 2: Her the run around on how that holiday works.

2539
02:13:07,640 --> 02:13:08,600
Speaker 15: She seemed into it.

2540
02:13:08,760 --> 02:13:12,720
Speaker 13: Her opinion might have changed because she said the express

2541
02:13:13,119 --> 02:13:17,239
the espresso Martini's. They were talking. Uh, but I don't

2542
02:13:17,239 --> 02:13:20,479
know what sober wife sounds like. On March thirteenth, she

2543
02:13:20,600 --> 02:13:22,800
might think this is a horrible, horrible joke.

2544
02:13:23,039 --> 02:13:27,439
Speaker 2: So okay, So March thirteenth, she's do we have a game?

2545
02:13:27,520 --> 02:13:28,960
I don't know if we have an Astros game, but

2546
02:13:29,159 --> 02:13:31,800
we will definitely be on at some point March thirteenth.

2547
02:13:31,880 --> 02:13:33,680
She's more than welcome to call the show. We will

2548
02:13:33,680 --> 02:13:38,159
give you give her the most delicate advice possible in

2549
02:13:38,159 --> 02:13:39,640
this because this is one of those things that's a

2550
02:13:39,680 --> 02:13:42,439
slippery slope for us. We don't want to have her

2551
02:13:42,479 --> 02:13:44,840
mad at you. We don't want her embarrass on the show.

2552
02:13:45,199 --> 02:13:47,640
We don't want things to be pressured. We want her

2553
02:13:47,680 --> 02:13:51,000
to organically just want to do what you want her.

2554
02:13:50,840 --> 02:13:54,880
Speaker 13: To do exactly. But there's the implication, right it's on.

2555
02:13:55,000 --> 02:13:57,840
It's on the number one rad Thos.

2556
02:13:57,920 --> 02:14:00,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's a major market radio, that's for sure,

2557
02:14:01,199 --> 02:14:04,479
all right, Ryan, Hey have missus, Ryan, give us a

2558
02:14:04,479 --> 02:14:06,720
call March thirteenth, and we'll help you the best we can,

2559
02:14:07,880 --> 02:14:08,279
of course.

2560
02:14:08,319 --> 02:14:10,000
Speaker 13: And also what I was getting is I want to

2561
02:14:10,039 --> 02:14:11,760
say thank you all. That was a wonderful banter that

2562
02:14:11,880 --> 02:14:14,159
ended up turning into a wonderful Valentine's Day.

2563
02:14:14,199 --> 02:14:15,319
Speaker 2: And thank you very much.

2564
02:14:15,319 --> 02:14:15,600
Speaker 9: Guys.

2565
02:14:15,760 --> 02:14:15,960
Speaker 11: Ross.

2566
02:14:16,000 --> 02:14:18,199
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're feeling better. Thank you Ryan. I appreciate

2567
02:14:18,199 --> 02:14:21,640
it anything for you. Ryan, I'm glad where you're where you're.

2568
02:14:21,680 --> 02:14:24,880
You know, we are were you're Afridisiac. We are literally

2569
02:14:25,359 --> 02:14:29,720
this show is repopulating the earth. We are viagra. We

2570
02:14:29,760 --> 02:14:32,239
are the Viagar for Houston sports listeners. I didn't know

2571
02:14:32,279 --> 02:14:33,880
you were going to go there, but you did. They

2572
02:14:33,920 --> 02:14:39,159
call me mister radio Afridisiac. True. We're like we're like that.

2573
02:14:39,359 --> 02:14:41,640
We're like that stuff that you buy at the convenience store,

2574
02:14:41,680 --> 02:14:47,399
those little pills, the the wacky weed things or whatever

2575
02:14:47,399 --> 02:14:53,239
those things are. That's that's what we are. You go

2576
02:14:53,279 --> 02:14:56,560
get your lottery ticket, maybe some smokes, maybe a Danish

2577
02:14:56,680 --> 02:14:58,199
or so, a hot cup of coffee and you get

2578
02:14:58,239 --> 02:15:00,399
those pills for like nine dollars at the front, at

2579
02:15:00,399 --> 02:15:03,000
the front desk. This is like radio sex. Is how

2580
02:15:03,239 --> 02:15:06,640
good it is? Geez, I feel like you get too

2581
02:15:06,640 --> 02:15:09,520
many of these references. This is all you ever talk about.

2582
02:15:09,680 --> 02:15:12,479
You literally just did it five seconds ago. Ryan brought

2583
02:15:12,479 --> 02:15:16,439
this up. Not me, not my fault that our audience

2584
02:15:16,479 --> 02:15:20,479
is getting lucky. It is is our audience having more

2585
02:15:20,640 --> 02:15:24,119
relations than the average show. I don't know, do you

2586
02:15:24,159 --> 02:15:26,479
think you field testing on? You think Adam and Adams

2587
02:15:26,520 --> 02:15:28,800
show has as many people having relations as we do. No,

2588
02:15:30,560 --> 02:15:37,960
Ryan's a satisfied customer. Thank you, Ryan. March thirteenth, missus

2589
02:15:38,000 --> 02:15:40,720
Ryan calling the show. All right, let's go. It's going

2590
02:15:40,760 --> 02:15:44,560
to be an awkward situation. It'd be pretty funny. One fourteen,

2591
02:15:44,600 --> 02:15:46,800
It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross, How are we

2592
02:15:46,880 --> 02:15:50,479
going to mend the fences between MLB and ESPN? We'll

2593
02:15:50,479 --> 02:15:51,720
do that next here on seven.

2594
02:15:51,560 --> 02:15:57,720
Speaker 1: Ninety Matt Thomas, Ross Viel It's the Matt Thomas Show

2595
02:15:58,000 --> 02:16:00,319
with Ross Hi sports talks.

2596
02:16:00,119 --> 02:16:26,439
Speaker 2: Up in nineties former Bowl Brown Lamar Cardinal Great joining

2597
02:16:26,520 --> 02:16:30,279
us in the offices, Yes, telling him much too much.

2598
02:16:30,319 --> 02:16:33,159
He loves the banter of the Matt Thomas shoel Ross.

2599
02:16:33,760 --> 02:16:35,319
We're just like, we're a couple of guys are sitting

2600
02:16:35,319 --> 02:16:39,600
around having a couple of pints mm hmm, eating mid

2601
02:16:40,079 --> 02:16:43,559
to Ryan. Yeah, eating a dinosaur ankle meat. That's just

2602
02:16:43,840 --> 02:16:46,000
got it. I'm gonna you know what we're gonna do

2603
02:16:46,079 --> 02:16:47,799
this next time it comes around what should be only

2604
02:16:47,799 --> 02:16:49,639
a matter of time, We're gonna go have it. We're

2605
02:16:49,639 --> 02:16:52,799
gonna go a little get together, sit around, just knock back,

2606
02:16:52,879 --> 02:16:55,879
talk sports, have a couple of cold beverages and eat mcribs.

2607
02:16:57,239 --> 02:16:59,360
Just I'll just go buy fifty and put them in

2608
02:16:59,479 --> 02:17:01,879
bags or bags that are bags that are bags.

2609
02:17:02,360 --> 02:17:02,760
Speaker 11: Enjoy it.

2610
02:17:03,200 --> 02:17:04,680
Speaker 2: Wh I was speaking of restaurants. You see what I

2611
02:17:04,879 --> 02:17:09,840
tweeted out yesterday. No, the first ever combo Applebee's slash

2612
02:17:10,799 --> 02:17:17,799
m ihop can be found in Sageine, Texas. Really now,

2613
02:17:17,920 --> 02:17:21,719
my guess is that the Rapplereaves and the Byebop are

2614
02:17:21,840 --> 02:17:23,639
usually not very far from each other because there are

2615
02:17:23,639 --> 02:17:26,479
similar types of clientele that would go to said places.

2616
02:17:27,360 --> 02:17:29,479
Oh you you were tweeting up like a mudda. I

2617
02:17:29,559 --> 02:17:32,360
did I have that account muted? I don't know why,

2618
02:17:32,959 --> 02:17:34,959
but yeah, you can be the first one in this

2619
02:17:35,200 --> 02:17:40,159
entire country was found in Sagein mm hm, which is interesting.

2620
02:17:40,200 --> 02:17:43,760
Why would you go to Sagein for all that? Is

2621
02:17:43,799 --> 02:17:47,040
that real? Though? Why would it be? I don't know.

2622
02:17:47,479 --> 02:17:51,719
Looks good to me, I mean, it makes sense. Again,

2623
02:17:51,719 --> 02:17:53,360
the client tells the same if you want to, if

2624
02:17:53,399 --> 02:17:56,479
you want to uh you know, uh rudy twoty fresher

2625
02:17:57,159 --> 02:17:58,079
and you want riblets.

2626
02:17:58,120 --> 02:17:58,159
Speaker 17: No.

2627
02:17:58,360 --> 02:17:59,920
Speaker 2: Usually if I have somebody muted, they put out some

2628
02:18:00,200 --> 02:18:02,280
news or something. Oh okay, but it looks like this

2629
02:18:02,399 --> 02:18:08,639
is real, okay, So I'm just saying. Sageine, Texas home

2630
02:18:08,639 --> 02:18:12,479
of the world's largest pecan, the large and a single one,

2631
02:18:12,719 --> 02:18:17,440
I guess, and Burnt Bean Company barbecue was it? It

2632
02:18:17,520 --> 02:18:20,920
was delicious. One time I went to a Sageine rarey

2633
02:18:21,000 --> 02:18:24,040
bean and asked for gravy with our chicken fingers, and

2634
02:18:24,040 --> 02:18:27,159
they said it'd be about fourteen minutes. Did you say,

2635
02:18:27,159 --> 02:18:28,440
give me the mix and hot water and I'll do

2636
02:18:28,479 --> 02:18:31,479
it myself. I said, we said fourteen minutes for hot

2637
02:18:31,520 --> 02:18:34,200
water in the mix. You don't, you're not you're not

2638
02:18:34,360 --> 02:18:37,719
creating fresh gravy in the back there. Maybe they're even

2639
02:18:37,719 --> 02:18:39,520
if you're hand whisking it. My mother in law, who

2640
02:18:39,559 --> 02:18:44,120
was pretty you know, makes she rest was very relaxing.

2641
02:18:44,239 --> 02:18:49,239
She goes fourteen minutes, maybe somebod who's running the store

2642
02:18:49,239 --> 02:18:51,479
to get some more gravy mix. What do you find

2643
02:18:51,520 --> 02:18:56,920
gravy mixing that kind of quantity? The gravy mix. It

2644
02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:59,000
was getting dropped off in ten minutes, so it's gonna

2645
02:18:59,000 --> 02:19:01,159
take up another two and it's the lovelad in two

2646
02:19:01,159 --> 02:19:01,959
more minutes to make it.

2647
02:19:01,959 --> 02:19:02,280
Speaker 6: I didn't.

2648
02:19:02,639 --> 02:19:05,680
Speaker 2: They said, I gotta get my break in. Yeah, gotta

2649
02:19:05,680 --> 02:19:09,879
finish my break. Let's go to Joe in the Heights

2650
02:19:09,959 --> 02:19:12,680
at one twenty three on seven. Unty Joe, good afternoon to.

2651
02:19:12,639 --> 02:19:15,799
Speaker 10: You, hey man, since you got Bull Brown there by

2652
02:19:15,799 --> 02:19:17,879
the way, just a couple of things on bow that's

2653
02:19:17,879 --> 02:19:20,200
not what I called. Uh, he can tell you about

2654
02:19:20,319 --> 02:19:24,159
the time he wrestled a bear. And then also I

2655
02:19:24,319 --> 02:19:28,159
dated a girl from Beau Mount one time, and I

2656
02:19:28,200 --> 02:19:29,920
said I knew Bull Brown and she goes, oh yeah,

2657
02:19:29,959 --> 02:19:30,840
he dated every twenty.

2658
02:19:30,799 --> 02:19:33,079
Speaker 2: Year old and all bow Mount. So just just en

2659
02:19:33,159 --> 02:19:36,239
f why I am I'm Bull Brown? Oh wait a minute,

2660
02:19:36,239 --> 02:19:37,959
I know who this Joe is. Why why are you

2661
02:19:38,000 --> 02:19:40,520
giving out tea like that? Joseph, what's wrong with you.

2662
02:19:41,040 --> 02:19:43,799
Come on, Joe, Come on, Joe. Bo's a friend of ours.

2663
02:19:43,799 --> 02:19:46,159
You know, we're all friends, we're all family. You're gonna

2664
02:19:46,680 --> 02:19:49,280
tell yeah, he did wrestle a bear and his head

2665
02:19:49,360 --> 02:19:52,399
dated many twenty year olds, and uh yeah, I won't

2666
02:19:52,479 --> 02:19:54,440
leave it at that, go to go to other things,

2667
02:19:54,520 --> 02:19:58,040
move on. It's terrible. Okay deal Tommy.

2668
02:19:58,200 --> 02:20:00,440
Speaker 10: By the way, I'm living in Portland, the home of

2669
02:20:00,440 --> 02:20:05,920
of nuts and whatever. Anyways, Uh, the Oltani contract, so

2670
02:20:06,200 --> 02:20:09,280
I'm wondering, at the end of ten years, six hundred

2671
02:20:09,280 --> 02:20:11,360
and eighty million dollars goes towards their.

2672
02:20:12,920 --> 02:20:13,799
Speaker 2: Their salary cap.

2673
02:20:14,399 --> 02:20:16,399
Speaker 10: Are they going to have to pay the luxury tax

2674
02:20:16,440 --> 02:20:19,079
on six hundred and eighty million, which I think it's

2675
02:20:19,079 --> 02:20:22,360
gonna be one point three billion dollars between the six

2676
02:20:22,440 --> 02:20:25,120
eighty and the luxury And then the other thing is

2677
02:20:25,239 --> 02:20:30,120
from Oultani's standpoint, he's uh, he's deferring that money. Does

2678
02:20:30,159 --> 02:20:32,639
he get interest on that? Is it doesn't go to

2679
02:20:32,719 --> 02:20:37,200
our like a Vanguard Index five hundred, because it's gonna

2680
02:20:37,239 --> 02:20:39,479
it's gonna be worth a lot more money at the

2681
02:20:39,559 --> 02:20:42,440
end of ten years than the six hundred and eighty million,

2682
02:20:42,520 --> 02:20:44,120
even if it's at five percent.

2683
02:20:44,000 --> 02:20:46,000
Speaker 2: I can tell you a question. Yeah, thanks, Joe, I

2684
02:20:46,040 --> 02:20:47,840
can tell you the back half. He is absolutely getting

2685
02:20:47,840 --> 02:20:53,520
interest on that, for sure. Yeah, you're for.

2686
02:20:53,479 --> 02:20:53,920
Speaker 6: Sure on that?

2687
02:20:54,000 --> 02:20:56,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm I'm for sure on that. And if

2688
02:20:56,079 --> 02:20:58,079
I'm wrong, I will apologize to Joe. I thought I

2689
02:20:58,079 --> 02:21:00,559
read that he wasn't. All right? You look the front half.

2690
02:21:00,600 --> 02:21:03,639
You explained that part. I'll see what was the front half? Yeah,

2691
02:21:03,639 --> 02:21:06,280
it doesn't count against the luxury tax. No, it's basically

2692
02:21:06,319 --> 02:21:09,840
off the books money, the deferments. It's my understanding. Or no, no,

2693
02:21:09,879 --> 02:21:11,760
I'm sorry. It's not off the books money.

2694
02:21:11,799 --> 02:21:12,040
Speaker 9: It's not.

2695
02:21:12,120 --> 02:21:14,360
Speaker 2: He's making seventy million a year and then sixty eight

2696
02:21:14,399 --> 02:21:17,479
of it is deferred. It's a percentage of it is

2697
02:21:17,520 --> 02:21:19,840
against the tax, and then the rest will be off

2698
02:21:20,000 --> 02:21:23,000
basically off the books. That's why they're doing the deferments.

2699
02:21:23,479 --> 02:21:25,920
So no, in the full amount. No, I don't know

2700
02:21:25,959 --> 02:21:28,440
what the exact percentage is. I think it's like fifty

2701
02:21:28,479 --> 02:21:31,120
sixty percent or something like that, but it will not

2702
02:21:31,280 --> 02:21:33,360
in the full amount count against the tax. Kim over

2703
02:21:33,360 --> 02:21:36,559
here right now, Okay, hit me. Why just co caught

2704
02:21:36,600 --> 02:21:38,399
me right now? Because you were wrong? I was wrong.

2705
02:21:38,680 --> 02:21:43,200
I was right Toddy's contract includes a large deferral no

2706
02:21:43,319 --> 02:21:45,879
interest payment provision on the six hundred and eighty million dollars,

2707
02:21:45,879 --> 02:21:48,520
effectively making and a very large interest free loan of

2708
02:21:48,520 --> 02:21:51,879
the team. I staying corrected. I really thought, and again

2709
02:21:51,879 --> 02:21:53,280
I wouldn't make that up because I'm just trying to

2710
02:21:53,280 --> 02:21:55,239
sound smart. He made it up. I didn't make it.

2711
02:21:55,239 --> 02:21:58,360
Have I really got wrong? But no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

2712
02:21:58,040 --> 02:22:01,079
no no no. People are sick and tire me not

2713
02:22:01,159 --> 02:22:03,840
being held accountable for my mistakes. Oh what do you mean?

2714
02:22:03,879 --> 02:22:05,680
I got a whole file on your mistakes. Yeah, but

2715
02:22:05,719 --> 02:22:08,440
I'm talking about just general people. Trust me. I gave you.

2716
02:22:08,799 --> 02:22:11,159
I gave you thirty seconds ago a bit of wrong information.

2717
02:22:11,360 --> 02:22:13,120
That's okay. I'm gonna get jokes back on the line here.

2718
02:22:13,120 --> 02:22:15,760
We corrected it in one minute, Joe, I apologize giving

2719
02:22:15,760 --> 02:22:17,680
you wrong information. I want to apologize to you in

2720
02:22:17,680 --> 02:22:20,520
the city of Houston and the city of Portland. Yeah, no,

2721
02:22:20,520 --> 02:22:20,959
no problem.

2722
02:22:21,040 --> 02:22:23,399
Speaker 10: But you know why don't other teams do that so

2723
02:22:23,440 --> 02:22:26,799
that they can, you know, so that they can avoid

2724
02:22:26,799 --> 02:22:27,600
the luxury tax?

2725
02:22:27,680 --> 02:22:29,760
Speaker 2: Well you need well, well yeah, Alex Bregman did it.

2726
02:22:29,760 --> 02:22:32,479
There are other deferred contracts you need to get the

2727
02:22:32,479 --> 02:22:34,799
the player has to agree to it. Oh, tony, because

2728
02:22:34,799 --> 02:22:37,680
of how lucrative he can his endorsement money is, he

2729
02:22:37,680 --> 02:22:41,479
can afford to give up that money interest free. And

2730
02:22:41,559 --> 02:22:43,959
so the player has to say, I'm giving you an

2731
02:22:43,959 --> 02:22:48,120
interest free loan basically, and I'm putting off all this money.

2732
02:22:48,440 --> 02:22:50,559
And most players don't want to agree to, certainly not

2733
02:22:50,600 --> 02:22:53,079
to the level that ultimately you don't also don't want

2734
02:22:53,120 --> 02:22:57,079
it to always carry a balance. It's like carrying credit

2735
02:22:57,120 --> 02:22:58,840
card balance, right, I mean, even though there's no interest

2736
02:22:58,879 --> 02:23:01,399
to it, you're still carrying money each and every year.

2737
02:23:01,479 --> 02:23:02,959
So if you happen to sell the team in a

2738
02:23:02,959 --> 02:23:05,000
few years and you want to see where you are financially,

2739
02:23:05,360 --> 02:23:07,600
if you're carrying fifteen to twenty million dollars a year

2740
02:23:07,600 --> 02:23:10,319
in dead salary because you're paying other people off that,

2741
02:23:10,399 --> 02:23:12,360
it makes it less attractive for you to potentially sell

2742
02:23:12,440 --> 02:23:14,799
the team. Correct, Now, that is a game changer, But

2743
02:23:15,159 --> 02:23:16,959
some people just want to pay it and be done

2744
02:23:16,959 --> 02:23:20,760
with it. This Google says that of the seventy million

2745
02:23:20,799 --> 02:23:23,879
he's making a year, forty six counts to the competitive

2746
02:23:23,920 --> 02:23:26,959
balance tax. Yeah, it's yeah, you don't. They're not circumventing

2747
02:23:26,959 --> 02:23:31,440
the system. Well, he should be saying he's getting seventy later,

2748
02:23:31,520 --> 02:23:34,760
but it does require the player to play along, right,

2749
02:23:35,040 --> 02:23:37,360
And honestly, if I was Hango, Yeah, if I was

2750
02:23:37,399 --> 02:23:39,840
in that situation, I would to take deferred money for sure,

2751
02:23:40,879 --> 02:23:42,959
if I know that that organization's going to mean. Look,

2752
02:23:43,280 --> 02:23:45,200
the Angels are and the Dodgers are not going to

2753
02:23:45,239 --> 02:23:50,000
go away in forty years in the theory, right, depending

2754
02:23:50,040 --> 02:23:52,760
on whether the apocalypse hits or something. Now, Steve Young said,

2755
02:23:52,799 --> 02:23:55,280
I'll take the deferred money from La Express the usfl

2756
02:23:55,760 --> 02:23:58,959
He's still chasing that money. Bobby Bonie is still getting paid. Man,

2757
02:23:58,959 --> 02:24:01,079
It's only been forty years he's been looking for that money.

2758
02:24:01,639 --> 02:24:04,120
So it depends on what you depends on the company

2759
02:24:04,159 --> 02:24:06,760
which you want to defer your said cash all right,

2760
02:24:06,760 --> 02:24:09,120
time now for us to give you Monday through Thursday

2761
02:24:10,280 --> 02:24:13,360
money through most Fridays. As you say, we play either

2762
02:24:13,520 --> 02:24:15,879
the Fantasy five or we have non Florida stories. But

2763
02:24:15,920 --> 02:24:17,600
the rule is on the show is if any of

2764
02:24:17,600 --> 02:24:19,600
the three of us are in Florida during the week

2765
02:24:19,719 --> 02:24:22,319
of non Florida stories, we flip it and make it

2766
02:24:22,479 --> 02:24:25,639
Florida stories. We'll have those Florida stories for you. Next

2767
02:24:25,840 --> 02:24:29,799
on Sports Talk seven ninety Lunchtimers.

2768
02:24:29,879 --> 02:24:35,159
Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, It's the Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk

2769
02:24:35,280 --> 02:24:35,959
seven ninety.

2770
02:24:37,840 --> 02:24:44,159
Speaker 4: We find interesting stories that cure outside the state.

2771
02:24:43,879 --> 02:24:46,760
Speaker 12: Of Florida and share.

2772
02:24:46,600 --> 02:24:50,040
Speaker 2: Them with the people of hust.

2773
02:24:51,719 --> 02:25:07,319
Speaker 12: It's time for No Florida for Florida.

2774
02:25:09,079 --> 02:25:15,239
Speaker 4: Storm from coast to coast, o bringing strange and wild.

2775
02:25:17,120 --> 02:25:22,079
No alligator tails, but something that will make you smile.

2776
02:25:25,120 --> 02:25:33,680
Speaker 2: It's time for last from far and wild in this crazy.

2777
02:25:33,520 --> 02:25:36,040
Speaker 1: World, there's nowhere.

2778
02:25:38,399 --> 02:25:38,799
Speaker 10: All right.

2779
02:25:39,079 --> 02:25:43,040
Speaker 2: I'm going to be in Florida next month for the Rockets.

2780
02:25:43,040 --> 02:25:45,559
They've got a trip to Miami and Orlando in the

2781
02:25:45,600 --> 02:25:48,079
same trip. So this will what our opportunity to do

2782
02:25:48,120 --> 02:25:52,639
Florida stories another month from now wonderful. But for now,

2783
02:25:53,280 --> 02:25:55,440
since we're fresh off of our West Palm Beach trip,

2784
02:25:55,879 --> 02:25:59,000
I'll present to you stories from the great Sunshine State

2785
02:25:59,120 --> 02:26:03,600
known as Florida. We're going to go to Orange County, Florida.

2786
02:26:03,600 --> 02:26:08,440
That is the county of which Orlando is in. There's

2787
02:26:08,440 --> 02:26:11,200
a young man by the name of Otis McCoy. He's

2788
02:26:11,239 --> 02:26:13,920
nineteen years old. And you know what, we've all taken

2789
02:26:14,120 --> 02:26:16,000
jobs at nineteen right that we didn't think we were

2790
02:26:16,159 --> 02:26:20,360
long term lasting career opportunities. Yes, whether it's at a

2791
02:26:20,440 --> 02:26:22,879
convenience store, whether it's a baristo, whether you're working at

2792
02:26:22,920 --> 02:26:27,600
a fast food restaurant. Right, well, otis McCoy was going

2793
02:26:27,760 --> 02:26:34,719
to enter the world of the US Postal Service. Okay, okay.

2794
02:26:34,959 --> 02:26:38,200
He was delivering mail on his postal route in the

2795
02:26:38,239 --> 02:26:44,319
Alafa Faya Woods area in October, late in October, and

2796
02:26:44,319 --> 02:26:47,079
this just came down. This story came down last week,

2797
02:26:47,200 --> 02:26:49,879
matter two days ago in fact. So you're saying, well,

2798
02:26:49,920 --> 02:26:53,360
what's the big deal about a guy that is delivering

2799
02:26:53,360 --> 02:26:58,600
mail in an affluent part of Orlando. Well, his manager

2800
02:26:58,639 --> 02:27:01,120
had to fire him and police to be called because

2801
02:27:01,360 --> 02:27:06,159
this mailman agreed to plead guilty after investigators had said

2802
02:27:06,799 --> 02:27:12,840
he dumped over a thousand pieces of mail in the woods. Okay,

2803
02:27:15,879 --> 02:27:19,040
his manager alerted that was McCoy may had quote disposed

2804
02:27:19,040 --> 02:27:21,200
of the mail as McCoy quote had a very large

2805
02:27:21,319 --> 02:27:24,159
quantity of US mail to deliver, but managed to finish

2806
02:27:24,200 --> 02:27:29,399
his route much earlier than expected. They're like, man, this

2807
02:27:29,479 --> 02:27:32,799
is the fastest mailman we've ever had. The manager checked

2808
02:27:32,799 --> 02:27:36,600
his GPS device connected to McCoy's work vehicles, discovering that

2809
02:27:36,639 --> 02:27:39,959
he deviated from his route by turning down Faberge Drive

2810
02:27:40,120 --> 02:27:45,280
and Lalique Lane of course, Okay. After the incident was reported,

2811
02:27:45,280 --> 02:27:47,680
a postal inspector responded to the area where McCoy had

2812
02:27:47,719 --> 02:27:50,760
reportedly deviated from his route, finding a bunch of mail

2813
02:27:50,799 --> 02:27:53,600
that had been scattered in the wooded air nearby wooded

2814
02:27:53,639 --> 02:27:57,159
area nearby. He was just tossing mail in the in

2815
02:27:57,239 --> 02:28:00,319
the woods. Inspectors collected the US mail and the govern

2816
02:28:00,399 --> 02:28:03,559
more than one thousand pieces of US mail, including more

2817
02:28:03,600 --> 02:28:05,840
than four uner pieces of political mail and one election

2818
02:28:06,000 --> 02:28:10,520
ballot and wow. Investigators explained that a nearby home had

2819
02:28:10,559 --> 02:28:14,040
a surveillance camera which captured footage of what happened. I

2820
02:28:14,079 --> 02:28:16,600
have a stupid question. Go, if you mail in a ballot,

2821
02:28:16,760 --> 02:28:18,719
they give you some kind of confirmation they received it

2822
02:28:20,680 --> 02:28:24,239
that I don't know. If you're getting rid of a

2823
02:28:24,399 --> 02:28:28,200
thousand pieces of mail, that's good. That's a pretty arduous task, right,

2824
02:28:28,200 --> 02:28:33,360
That wouldn't take you just two minutes. M you probably

2825
02:28:33,399 --> 02:28:38,680
dump it pretty quick. How long would it take? Five minutes?

2826
02:28:38,760 --> 02:28:40,239
You can get a thousand pieces of mail and a

2827
02:28:40,239 --> 02:28:44,200
couple of boxes full? Yeah, does your family and I

2828
02:28:44,239 --> 02:28:46,479
know mine does because we get various things, whether it's

2829
02:28:47,639 --> 02:28:51,479
letters or if ponds, oupons, or it's uh like my

2830
02:28:51,719 --> 02:28:53,879
wife and my daughter are getting tsa pre check and

2831
02:28:53,920 --> 02:28:56,479
they wanted to get their certificates for that. They've been

2832
02:28:56,520 --> 02:28:57,799
going to the mail to get the updates on that.

2833
02:28:58,399 --> 02:29:00,840
We're we're big. Let's go running the mail and seet

2834
02:29:00,879 --> 02:29:03,680
we have people. Okay there where do you You don't

2835
02:29:03,680 --> 02:29:06,159
have a mailbox or is it like a shared mailbox?

2836
02:29:06,159 --> 02:29:06,840
A share mailbox?

2837
02:29:06,959 --> 02:29:07,079
Speaker 4: Oh?

2838
02:29:07,200 --> 02:29:11,399
Speaker 2: Okay. So people in Orlando are typically older, a lot

2839
02:29:11,399 --> 02:29:15,120
of retirees. Could you imagine their lives being ruined because

2840
02:29:15,159 --> 02:29:18,479
this nineteen year old said, screw you, Mildred and Bob.

2841
02:29:18,920 --> 02:29:20,719
You've been married forty two years. You go to the

2842
02:29:20,760 --> 02:29:23,159
mailbox every Day's part of your daily routine, and I'm

2843
02:29:23,159 --> 02:29:25,319
taking your mail. I'm throwing all over the wooded area

2844
02:29:25,360 --> 02:29:30,399
of a suburban Orlando neighborhood. Wow. By the way, it

2845
02:29:30,399 --> 02:29:32,799
found guilty of the charge. He was, Uh, this is

2846
02:29:32,799 --> 02:29:35,520
federal right, Yeah. Uh faces up to six months in

2847
02:29:35,559 --> 02:29:38,239
prison and a fine them up to five thousand dollars.

2848
02:29:38,639 --> 02:29:42,040
That's unfortunate. Apparently McCoy has agreed to plead guilty.

2849
02:29:42,760 --> 02:29:42,879
Speaker 17: Uh.

2850
02:29:43,040 --> 02:29:50,600
Speaker 2: Play guilty to mail obstruction. Good job, thousand pieces, there's

2851
02:29:50,600 --> 02:29:54,600
probably pictures, there's probably there could be some I don't know,

2852
02:29:55,360 --> 02:29:59,719
delivery of some you know, like shirts or all sorts

2853
02:29:59,719 --> 02:30:04,000
of th Damn we mail a ross. Yeah. How insincere

2854
02:30:04,079 --> 02:30:06,000
is this, mister McCay to take a thousand pieces of

2855
02:30:06,040 --> 02:30:08,399
mail and say, you know what, My people that I'm

2856
02:30:08,440 --> 02:30:11,120
delivered to don't deserve it, don't need it. I'm a

2857
02:30:11,200 --> 02:30:14,760
thort a way. That's unfortunately, it was the fastest mail

2858
02:30:14,840 --> 02:30:18,239
on ever was man. This new kid is blazing fast.

2859
02:30:18,360 --> 02:30:22,319
And that's my Florida story. Thank you, Matt. I will

2860
02:30:22,319 --> 02:30:25,319
go next and I will take you to Clearwater, Florida,

2861
02:30:26,680 --> 02:30:34,079
where a young lady named calte Villa Codvia Sure, why

2862
02:30:34,159 --> 02:30:42,360
not Caltavia Turner. She was a young worker twenty two

2863
02:30:42,440 --> 02:30:44,879
years of age at a place in clear Honor called

2864
02:30:44,879 --> 02:30:51,040
Baby Dolls. Baby Dolls is a strip joint in clear Water, Well. Apparently,

2865
02:30:52,079 --> 02:30:54,200
at one point, on her own volition, she went to

2866
02:30:54,239 --> 02:30:58,559
a seven to eleven convenience store where she got upset

2867
02:30:58,879 --> 02:31:04,319
with a convenience a worker named Taylor Naggy, and derogatory

2868
02:31:04,360 --> 02:31:07,760
comments were made towards each other. The incident boiled over

2869
02:31:07,840 --> 02:31:11,319
to At one point, Turner became irate and she picked

2870
02:31:11,399 --> 02:31:15,440
up a banana and chucked it at Taylor Naggy's face.

2871
02:31:17,000 --> 02:31:20,159
The fruit allegedly struck the woman in the cheekbone and

2872
02:31:20,239 --> 02:31:24,719
left the bruise. That sounds fake, right, yes? According to

2873
02:31:24,719 --> 02:31:30,079
the report, the banana was not seized as evidence. Caltavia

2874
02:31:30,120 --> 02:31:34,639
Turner also, it was found, had stolen eight hundred dollars

2875
02:31:34,639 --> 02:31:41,399
worth of merchandise from a Walmart recently. Turner also has

2876
02:31:41,479 --> 02:31:46,079
citations for failing a pre trial intervention program and also

2877
02:31:46,239 --> 02:31:49,159
did not show up for her seventy five hours of

2878
02:31:49,840 --> 02:31:55,280
community service. She is being held for resisting arrest, giving

2879
02:31:55,319 --> 02:31:58,920
officials a false name when they showed up to arrest

2880
02:31:58,959 --> 02:32:03,479
her at the strip club. You're telling me that fake

2881
02:32:03,840 --> 02:32:06,879
strip names at a fake names at a strip club.

2882
02:32:07,440 --> 02:32:08,879
Tell me if I've heard that he gave that to

2883
02:32:08,920 --> 02:32:11,399
the police after throwing a banana at somebody's face and

2884
02:32:11,399 --> 02:32:14,520
stealing eight hundred dollars worth a merchandise at a Walmart.

2885
02:32:17,000 --> 02:32:18,879
And that's my non Florida story. That should be your

2886
02:32:18,879 --> 02:32:21,399
Flora story. I mean, I'm sorry, my Florida story. Yeah,

2887
02:32:21,719 --> 02:32:27,840
that's fine, all right, Uh, Okay, I'm gonna give you

2888
02:32:27,920 --> 02:32:30,520
one more. One more. Yeah, I sure went up. Connor,

2889
02:32:30,559 --> 02:32:32,719
you got yours? Okay, I'll give you one more. I'll

2890
02:32:32,719 --> 02:32:35,559
give you the headline, Florida man smashed his plate over

2891
02:32:35,600 --> 02:32:38,040
diner's head after accusing him of cutting in a buffet

2892
02:32:38,079 --> 02:32:42,159
line at a wedding. Connor, where's your story? I'll go

2893
02:32:42,200 --> 02:32:42,840
with mine after that.

2894
02:32:43,719 --> 02:32:47,000
Speaker 7: A man in Collier County, Florida, narrowly escaped a potential

2895
02:32:47,120 --> 02:32:51,000
encounter potentially deadly encounter with an eleven foot alligator. The

2896
02:32:51,040 --> 02:32:53,239
man was named His name is Rick. He was walking

2897
02:32:53,319 --> 02:32:54,680
his two dogs and near were a pond when he

2898
02:32:54,719 --> 02:32:57,040
was attacked by the gator. Rick tried to fight it

2899
02:32:57,079 --> 02:32:59,360
off by kicking and poking in the eyes and nose

2900
02:32:59,799 --> 02:33:02,000
for Rtunally for Rick, his neighbor Walter happened to be

2901
02:33:02,079 --> 02:33:04,639
driving by and saw Rick trapped on the ground with

2902
02:33:04,680 --> 02:33:07,799
his legs inside the gator's mouth, but not much time

2903
02:33:07,799 --> 02:33:10,559
to think, Walter ran over the alligator with his truck,

2904
02:33:10,959 --> 02:33:13,040
and the gator released Rick from his mouth and returned

2905
02:33:13,040 --> 02:33:15,280
to the pond. Rick was then taken to the hospital

2906
02:33:15,319 --> 02:33:17,959
and made a full recovery. So a man just out

2907
02:33:18,000 --> 02:33:21,200
walking his dogs was attacked by an alligator and saved

2908
02:33:21,200 --> 02:33:23,639
by his neighbor who ran over the gator with his truck.

2909
02:33:23,879 --> 02:33:27,040
Speaker 2: That sounds like a That sounds like a hero man.

2910
02:33:27,079 --> 02:33:29,319
I appreciate you getting a gator story involved here. It's

2911
02:33:29,360 --> 02:33:33,600
always the beauty of Florida stories. Now, as our responsibility

2912
02:33:33,600 --> 02:33:35,799
of Florida store, we do have to involve a man

2913
02:33:35,840 --> 02:33:39,079
and a woman in a fast food restaurant. Go ahead,

2914
02:33:39,079 --> 02:33:41,799
this story will be much more of an R rated event.

2915
02:33:42,639 --> 02:33:49,440
Here we go. He's fornicating in a Windy's line. One

2916
02:33:49,559 --> 02:33:53,440
Florida couple who are now behind bars after they were

2917
02:33:53,479 --> 02:33:56,559
caught with a passionate moment by a police officer. It

2918
02:33:56,639 --> 02:33:59,159
was reported by the officer that the intimate moment occurred

2919
02:33:59,200 --> 02:34:00,959
in the middle of the day at a Wendy's parking lot.

2920
02:34:01,079 --> 02:34:04,440
Oh way, I swear to you, I did not see that.

2921
02:34:04,559 --> 02:34:13,000
I swear to you. Wendy's, Lindy's. Excuse me, oh, Lindy's, Bendy's, Bendy's.

2922
02:34:14,079 --> 02:34:16,440
I don't know what city was. This is a Florida couple.

2923
02:34:16,719 --> 02:34:20,280
I said that as an always sunny reference. Always Officer

2924
02:34:20,440 --> 02:34:23,239
Parker Moody sent a report that he noticed dimetro Wilson

2925
02:34:23,360 --> 02:34:28,239
fifty three. Okay, she's fifty three, okay, ty Mario morele

2926
02:34:28,399 --> 02:34:32,479
is twenty nine. They were lying on the ground behind

2927
02:34:32,479 --> 02:34:35,000
the bus stop and view of the busy highway. The

2928
02:34:35,040 --> 02:34:37,120
bus stop in question was also right in front of

2929
02:34:37,120 --> 02:34:41,120
the fast food chain. All right. Moody stated in the

2930
02:34:41,159 --> 02:34:43,719
report that Wilson, who was not wearing any pants at

2931
02:34:43,719 --> 02:34:46,239
the time of the discovery, was on her right side

2932
02:34:46,280 --> 02:34:51,600
with quote her buttocks facing her partner. Hmm, yeah, the

2933
02:34:51,639 --> 02:34:58,719
officer added. The officer added that Merrill's pants were portally

2934
02:34:58,760 --> 02:35:04,680
pulled down and that he was in a turgid state. Turgid, turgid.

2935
02:35:05,559 --> 02:35:08,760
Go look up at that. What that means? Uh? I

2936
02:35:08,799 --> 02:35:12,879
thought it meant like he was in a quote a

2937
02:35:13,239 --> 02:35:20,399
turgid state as he repetitively engaged with Wilson. Oh, never mind,

2938
02:35:20,399 --> 02:35:33,600
it's the opposite of flassen swollen. I want to read

2939
02:35:33,600 --> 02:35:37,159
this sentence again to you. The officer added that Merrill's

2940
02:35:37,200 --> 02:35:40,280
pants were portally pulled down and that he was in

2941
02:35:40,319 --> 02:35:48,000
a quote turgid state as he repetitively engaged with Wilson. Hmmm,

2942
02:35:48,639 --> 02:35:51,159
I felt like an unnecessary detail of plase. Yeah, that's

2943
02:35:51,760 --> 02:35:53,799
first of all, Why is he getting such details like

2944
02:35:53,879 --> 02:35:57,000
that too? Hey, it's like he's writing a romance novel.

2945
02:35:58,079 --> 02:36:02,399
As he slowly and zipped her pants and removed her underwear,

2946
02:36:02,760 --> 02:36:07,360
he was at a Bendies getting a baconator. He gently

2947
02:36:07,399 --> 02:36:09,520
stroked the side of her hair and said, are you ready?

2948
02:36:10,000 --> 02:36:12,000
He said, I'll tell this. Why is this in the

2949
02:36:12,000 --> 02:36:15,840
police report? I'll take some of your loaded fries? Would

2950
02:36:15,879 --> 02:36:22,360
you like some of my frosty? How we call this

2951
02:36:22,440 --> 02:36:28,360
Dave's double. I'll show you my biggie bundle. And then

2952
02:36:28,520 --> 02:36:30,959
he got in her biggie bowl. Right, Okay, we're done.

2953
02:36:30,959 --> 02:36:33,040
We're done. That's enough. All right, you're out of control,

2954
02:36:33,159 --> 02:36:36,000
You're out of control. That's this week's edition of a

2955
02:36:36,079 --> 02:36:39,799
rare edition of Florida Stories. Up next, Helly Air not

2956
02:36:39,959 --> 02:36:42,040
all things about Canada? Would you give us?

2957
02:36:42,120 --> 02:36:42,479
Speaker 15: Please?

2958
02:36:42,600 --> 02:36:46,440
Speaker 2: Connor coming back? The definitive Canadian song to play leading

2959
02:36:46,440 --> 02:36:53,360
into this game? Seven Rush, the most famous Canadian band band,

2960
02:36:53,520 --> 02:37:05,719
Rush Rush, Foreigner, I think Foreigners, foreign Turner, Nickelback. Oh,

2961
02:37:06,120 --> 02:37:08,719
that's not happening. Why not Selene?

2962
02:37:08,799 --> 02:37:08,959
Speaker 9: Oh?

2963
02:37:08,959 --> 02:37:11,479
Speaker 2: Do you want to play? Selen? Foreigners from New York?

2964
02:37:11,680 --> 02:37:15,360
Ryan Adams Summer sixty. Let's go Summer sixty nine. Oh,

2965
02:37:15,360 --> 02:37:17,719
come on, how about a Backman Turner Overdrive twelve a

2966
02:37:17,799 --> 02:37:20,799
time during the break? Yeah something, lover Boy one forty five,

2967
02:37:21,040 --> 02:37:24,040
the definitive Canadian song, and hell yeah not here on

2968
02:37:24,079 --> 02:37:25,000
seven ninety.

2969
02:37:25,239 --> 02:37:28,959
Speaker 21: Craig Ackerman here when I'm not calling Rockets basketball, I'm

2970
02:37:28,959 --> 02:37:32,680
following at sports RV on Twitter. You're listening to the

2971
02:37:32,760 --> 02:37:35,479
Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

2972
02:37:36,520 --> 02:37:39,120
Speaker 2: All right, are we sure they're from Canada? Did you check?

2973
02:37:39,399 --> 02:37:43,760
They're from Calgary? That's Canada. Have you ever been to Calgary?

2974
02:37:44,520 --> 02:37:46,319
I have not. I want to go to Calgary. I

2975
02:37:46,360 --> 02:37:47,719
want to go to BAM and I want to go

2976
02:37:47,760 --> 02:37:51,479
to Regina because Ross is going to be doing afternoon

2977
02:37:51,559 --> 02:37:56,000
driving Regina coming up today on the show. Regina put

2978
02:37:56,000 --> 02:37:58,079
you down as a reference. Is that all right? Yeah?

2979
02:37:58,120 --> 02:38:01,120
I can't wait. I can I will be like, yes,

2980
02:38:01,440 --> 02:38:04,879
take him he is. He loves curling and his knowledge

2981
02:38:04,879 --> 02:38:08,200
of hockey is superior to anybody else. Don Cherry taught

2982
02:38:08,280 --> 02:38:10,680
him everything about the world of hockey. Don Cherry alive

2983
02:38:10,760 --> 02:38:14,879
or dead, I'm gonna go dead even people. Oh he's

2984
02:38:14,879 --> 02:38:18,440
he really alive? Ooh sorry, that's wrong. We'll do that

2985
02:38:18,520 --> 02:38:20,520
next week. Man, people even know who Don Cherry is.

2986
02:38:23,639 --> 02:38:26,120
He's ninety one, not still doing TV?

2987
02:38:26,280 --> 02:38:26,399
Speaker 7: Is he?

2988
02:38:26,840 --> 02:38:28,920
Speaker 2: I'm good man? No, he was. He was forced off

2989
02:38:28,920 --> 02:38:30,360
to you. Oh I know why he was forced up

2990
02:38:30,399 --> 02:38:32,440
because he was a little insensitive. But you know what,

2991
02:38:32,479 --> 02:38:35,159
we all are a little insensitive. Sometimes five minutes left

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to go on the show? What should we do? Wait?

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Should play? E Mara Kiss fastest growing sports radio game show.

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Monday through Thursday, we called it be Leaving or Not,

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02:38:47,760 --> 02:38:49,719
but on Fridays we call it a Hell Yeah nod.

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Here's how it works. You call seven one three two

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one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

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two five seven ninetie today's edition of hell Here. Now

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it's all things about the wonderful old country soon to

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be our fifty first state, Canada. I'll read your statement

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02:39:03,879 --> 02:39:06,440
about Canada. Statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this

3002
02:39:07,639 --> 02:39:09,799
the same as your Ronius photobun commnip. You'll say this

3003
02:39:10,239 --> 02:39:13,559
shot two helly aronouts in a row. When you have prize,

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02:39:14,079 --> 02:39:15,680
not a trip to Canada, but you'll get something else

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02:39:15,719 --> 02:39:16,600
in return. What will that be?

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02:39:16,680 --> 02:39:19,559
Speaker 7: Connor McGovern pair of tickets to see Brad Paisley Live

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March tenth at Rodeo Houston at fort pack of tickets

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02:39:22,239 --> 02:39:25,399
to Marty gra Galveston happening February twenty first through March fourth,

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and Galveston some seven ninety t shirts.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so really got some nice prizes here. Who's the

3011
02:39:29,479 --> 02:39:32,200
concert for Brad Paisley? All right, I'm gonna ask this

3012
02:39:32,319 --> 02:39:35,079
to Bill. Hey, Bill, what's your favorite Brad Paisley song?

3013
02:39:36,639 --> 02:39:37,200
Speaker 15: Lean on Me?

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02:39:37,639 --> 02:39:41,000
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. The last Canadian NHL team

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02:39:41,079 --> 02:39:43,600
to win the Stanley Cup was a Toronto Maple Leafs

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02:39:43,639 --> 02:39:46,639
in nineteen ninety five. Hell yeah or nine?

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02:39:47,600 --> 02:39:48,719
Speaker 6: Hell you no?

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02:39:48,959 --> 02:39:55,239
Speaker 2: It was the Canadians in ninety three seven one three

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two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

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one two five. Let's talk to Mike on seven Onty, Mike,

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you're ready to play?

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02:40:03,000 --> 02:40:03,559
Speaker 8: Hell yeah or not?

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02:40:05,200 --> 02:40:08,319
Speaker 2: Hell yeah? Justin Trudeau has been the twenty first and

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02:40:08,479 --> 02:40:12,479
current Prime Minister of Canada since twenty thirteen. Hell yeah

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02:40:12,719 --> 02:40:12,879
or not?

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02:40:14,680 --> 02:40:15,159
Speaker 11: Hell yeah?

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Speaker 9: No?

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02:40:15,479 --> 02:40:17,680
Speaker 2: He was a twenty third and he's been there since

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twenty fifteen. Okay, Connor, these are great questions. Is that

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02:40:21,399 --> 02:40:24,840
Connor's question? Connor, that absolutely sucked. That was one hundred

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percent Minutia no, I think it was great. He should

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take over. Geez. I was like, I'm reading this question

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02:40:31,680 --> 02:40:33,399
on this question blows. I mean, Connor, we love you,

3034
02:40:33,479 --> 02:40:36,959
but this question sucked. Mike on seven ninety, Mike, you're

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02:40:36,959 --> 02:40:38,000
ready to play? Hell yeah or not?

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02:40:38,920 --> 02:40:39,559
Speaker 11: Hell yeah?

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02:40:39,719 --> 02:40:43,879
Speaker 2: Canadian Thanksgiving is older than American Thanksgiving by over forty years.

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Hell yeah or not?

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Speaker 12: Not?

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02:40:47,239 --> 02:40:51,319
Speaker 2: Its worry for three Connor. Let's put him on every day.

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02:40:51,360 --> 02:40:53,719
I read that question sucked, Matt. That question did not

3042
02:40:53,879 --> 02:40:56,680
suck the first you The first one didn't even suck either.

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This the Trudeau question sucked by the way English explore

3044
02:41:00,760 --> 02:41:04,559
Martin Frobisher Hell the ceremony in Newfoundland back in fifteen

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seventy eight. If those of you want to know that,

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02:41:07,159 --> 02:41:10,559
Let's go to Steven Cyperus Steve on seven ninety What

3047
02:41:10,639 --> 02:41:16,719
was your favorite mart part of today's radio show Steve.

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02:41:17,959 --> 02:41:19,239
Speaker 15: And talk about the asteroids.

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02:41:20,000 --> 02:41:22,479
Speaker 2: We barely mentioned him. While ice hockey is the most

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02:41:22,520 --> 02:41:25,319
popular sport in Canada, Number two is curling? Hell yeah

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02:41:25,559 --> 02:41:25,719
or not?

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02:41:27,120 --> 02:41:27,600
Speaker 11: Hell yeah?

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02:41:27,760 --> 02:41:30,479
Speaker 2: No, it's lacrosse. I would have gotten that one wrong too.

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Let's talk to Paul on seven ninety. Paul, you're ready

3055
02:41:35,959 --> 02:41:39,920
to play? Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. In terms

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02:41:39,959 --> 02:41:43,040
of square mileage, Canada is the second largest country in

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02:41:43,079 --> 02:41:49,239
the world, only behind Russia. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah,

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02:41:49,479 --> 02:41:53,120
that's right. Statement number two. Statement number two for the way,

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02:41:53,120 --> 02:41:55,879
and Canada has won nine Olympic gold medals in ice hockey,

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while the United States has only won two. Hell yeah

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02:41:59,280 --> 02:41:59,440
or not?

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Speaker 12: I think that the Hell yeah it is.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna go see Brad Paisley or go to Marti

3064
02:42:07,959 --> 02:42:12,000
Gras Bradley on seven Anty Bradley your favorite part of

3065
02:42:12,040 --> 02:42:16,120
today's radio show, all of it. Several people claim to

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02:42:16,120 --> 02:42:20,559
have invented poontin poutine. Excuse me, but the most widely

3067
02:42:20,639 --> 02:42:24,440
accepted origin is the south Dale Diner in Winnipeg. Hell

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yeah or not not? That's right? Of course, who goes?

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You don't go to the south Dale Diner in Winnipeg

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for that. Statement number two for the way, Canada did

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02:42:33,120 --> 02:42:38,200
not officially declare its independence until nineteen eighty two. Hell

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02:42:38,280 --> 02:42:38,959
yeah or not?

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02:42:41,159 --> 02:42:41,639
Speaker 15: Hell yeah?

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02:42:42,040 --> 02:42:47,040
Speaker 2: That is also correct. Independence from what? Ross? I don't

3075
02:42:47,079 --> 02:42:50,000
know did you use that? Your questioners at Commogy England?

3076
02:42:51,079 --> 02:42:53,920
See he's a historian. All right, we have a minute here.

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We gotta wish happy birthday to wed, But I do

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remember what it was. There were something else before. It's

3079
02:42:58,200 --> 02:43:01,200
Wester's birthday today, Okay, that's great. What did you get

3080
02:43:01,280 --> 02:43:04,639
him Nothing? Did you swish him a happy birthday on Twitter?

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02:43:05,399 --> 02:43:05,440
Speaker 17: No?

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02:43:05,600 --> 02:43:07,200
Speaker 2: But I did in person, which is more important. Did

3083
02:43:07,280 --> 02:43:09,600
you send him a Facebook message? No, but I did.

3084
02:43:09,959 --> 02:43:11,280
I talked to him in person, which was more important.

3085
02:43:11,319 --> 02:43:12,280
Did you do an IG video?

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02:43:12,479 --> 02:43:12,520
Speaker 9: No?

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02:43:13,520 --> 02:43:17,559
Speaker 2: Damn, very insensitive. What's what am I working with tonight?

3088
02:43:17,600 --> 02:43:20,000
You or him? You're with me tonight? Who's the working

3089
02:43:20,000 --> 02:43:20,440
me tomorrow?

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02:43:21,239 --> 02:43:21,360
Speaker 11: Oh?

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02:43:21,399 --> 02:43:22,280
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine?

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02:43:23,040 --> 02:43:23,159
Speaker 1: Uh?

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02:43:23,799 --> 02:43:28,920
Speaker 2: Rockets and Wolves WEX. For his birthday, Anthony Edwards is

3094
02:43:28,959 --> 02:43:30,760
going to go two for seventeen from the floor and

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02:43:30,799 --> 02:43:35,799
score six points, all part of Fight Next on Sports,

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02:43:35,840 --> 02:43:36,600
Talks of Addi