Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: Ten oh three in h Town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Friday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety. Give me a break.
Speaker 3: Come on, be smarter in Houston. For the love of God,
don't be a dumbass sports down.
Speaker 2: Come on, y'all. Stop HEMI is like, can you give
me six minutes tonight? I'm like, for what we were running?
We were run. They were round about this. They usually
two to three. Well I could have gone six for him.
And by the way, don't look at what a fluffer is.
Just the greatest fluffer of all time, people say, Matt Thomas. No,
they don't. No, they don't associate me with fluffing at all.
It's super deep. We saw lots of frozen meat. Yeah, yes,
I am going deep into the bush.
Speaker 4: Good sports Uh, Sports Talk seven ninety on the dial
on the I heard radio app Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Perfect, Yeah, we need that. We did that Cliff immediately. Man,
I hate that You're like telling them when the Cliff Diggs.
Let the man find his own clips. Don't keep indicting
me every time I say something that should be clippable.
I'm here to help. I figured you are all right.
The reality is this one third of this radio program
is on Cloud nine. His beloved Canadian national team went
to the TD Water just the TD Garden that always
changed the name depending on what financial ferm it's called,
but TD Garden last night in Boston, Massachusetts, it was
not wicked awesome for Team USA as Team Canada won
the Four Nations event. The whole, the whole kitten kaboodle.
There's a lot of sadness in our community. Turn it up.
This is such a banger. Soon I'll be repeating a
hot take here after this song is concluded. Hogs Sweet
see the whole thing play. I think, so it's not
that long. You should be playing some of the highlight
of the last night's game, right. I was gonna say,
I could have made a separate open for it, but
you got plenty of times that he might ambush us.
Those Canadians are squirrely.
Speaker 5: I love Canada. It's it's too damn cold, but I
got no beef of Canada. I mean, it's gonna be
our fifty first state eventually. Yeah, it's a big ass state.
Bigger in California a lot of Texas.
Speaker 2: A lot of oil up there. You know what, I
don't mind if it becomes our fifty first date, because
one it's not happening. I don't though. You get my
passport out every time the customs pay. In the end,
it will convenience you somewhat. So you want to to
annex an entire nation that it's been sovereign for hundreds
of years. Yeah, they're fine, by the way. Another thing
about Canada's great beyond the the people are nice. Uh,
there's lots of beautiful I mean, it's got everything from
big metropolitan cities. It's got a little international flair with
Montreal and Toronto to a certain extent. But it's got
lots of national forest and parks and mountains. You can
go see Bamp. I heard Bamp is quite delightful. Not
right now, but I'm sure in the summertime it's quite
It's quite a great place to go. Another thing is
they have Tim Horton's on the regular. I know we've
got Tim Hortons here. They're bringing them, are they all?
But I think they've already be in here, Okay, But
Tim Hortons in Canada, is it just it just runs
differently for you. You can get two donuts and a
coffee US Canadian US dollar trans What are they not
the transition? What do you call it? A conversion change?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Like two donuts and a coffee is like a dollar
eady five US. That's great. I go to Tim Hortons
when I'm in Toronto four times a day. One of
my calls are all jacked up when I do the
rockets and raptors, well pipe, I'm all fired up on caffeine.
M I I can go for Tim Hortons right now. Okay.
They their pizza chain is called Pizza Pizza, real original
on that they ripped off Little Caesars. Yeah, it's just
called Pizza Pizza. Are you sure? Yeah? Okay, I mean
I'm taking they have poon tang. No, man, no, it's poutine. Okay,
sorry you took that on purpose. You're such a child.
I'm not a child. It's a great place. Now. Do
I want them to was every hockey game from here
on out? Yes? Because Connor is But we should explain
to the audience that Connor's folks are from Canada and
uh he is wearing a Canadian national team jacket today.
It could have been worse. I could have worn the jersey.
Yeah where were you from? Where were you born? I
was born here? Then you know what, for the love
of God, start wearing.
Speaker 7: Team USA stuff. No, what's wrong with you? I'm a
Canadian citizen as well.
Speaker 2: Your duo? Yeah, your bye, your Byzen Yeah buy sit
there here. So sometimes you're you go, you swing from
one side of the plate. Another time you sing from
the other side of the plate. That's fine, m sure.
Speaker 7: It's so different than people here cheering for like Team Mexico,
even though they were born here.
Speaker 2: For in the world's cuss let. Y'all know, we have
a we have a by citizen as our producer of
the show. What's wrong with that? Just go to one
side and stay with it. For hockey, I always always
beat in Canada. You know Ross is number one on
Saskatchewan radio. Right you were like, oh, where was it?
Regina love? They love they love your your sports takes
in Regina and I love Regina back. Maybe you should
get a job there. Well, if they're hiring, you know,
they should call you Ross Viill Doroale the voice of Regina.
I love it. I've never been I love speaking Regina.
I've been to Van. I've been to Vancouver beautiful. Yes,
I have been to Toronto amazing. I have been to
Windsor many many times when I was a kid. It's right,
the castle, No, the border of Canada from Detroit, that's fine.
I don't know where his peeps are from. That's right.
So they're really you know what, you know, your folks
are really not even that Canadians. It's like Fox Canada.
It's basically like it's basically North Detroit, South Detroit. Watch
I heard it's rainy. It could be a little sloppy
in Regina today. Yeah, there's no other radio show in
the marketplace is going to give you more Canadian talk
than this show has in the first five minutes. Bless us,
You're wellcome. A lot of Canadians in Florida too. That's
the Snowbirds. Why the Snowbirds.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of Canadians here in Houston where in
town oil and gas industry brings him down here?
Speaker 2: All right, if you're a Canadian, you listen to the show,
give us a shout and brag on the Canadian national team. Yeah,
overtime game yesterday. And I'll be honest with you, I
didn't see much of it because look, you and I
got home by he thirty last night. By the time
we got to the airport, I went straight, I unpacked
and went straight to bed, point being is this we
haven't seen our families and whatnot? So we just Canada.
We knew we had our hockey. We had the Barry
Milrose with us already here. A hockey correspondent was on
the on the case. So was there anything controversy about
the game last night? Was there anything that would be
Team USA should be mad about or anything? Uh?
Speaker 7: No, I know there was no. They've only called one penalty,
so that's good. Yeah, there wasn't. There wasn't many like
power plays or goals that we should have been taken back.
Speaker 2: Everything. It was pretty clean, okay. And did the girl
watch the game with you? She read her book while
I I was gonna say, there's no chance, even though
she she adores you and I've met her. She's lovely.
She there's no way she's into hockey.
Speaker 7: No, she'll She'll keep up with football, and then that's
pretty I said.
Speaker 2: No basketball, No, So you went. So I gave you
tickets to the Rockets game and you brought the girl,
and she did she bring a book to the game.
Speaker 7: Too, No, she watched the game. She cheered for the Rockets,
and then she cheered when Lebron James scored.
Speaker 2: That's right. You know why she's a Lebron fan?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: Is she a Lebron fan or is she a Laker fan?
I think she just likes Lebron like she knows the name. Gross.
That's too bad. But the Rockets famous, Yes, kind of famous.
Speaking of the Rockets tonight in action against the Wow
Minnesota Timber late night game, late night, I'm gonna give
me a nap. I come to your house, sticking nap. Yeah,
you like to appreciate you. You over your sickness? Are you
still sick? I'm coughing a little bit. I'm getting slowly better, slowly.
I think you had the sickness. And like Thanksgiving, I'm
sleeping through the night. Now. This is that's good. Most part,
that's really good. All right? Last night isn't anything goes
Friday on the program. If you're Canadian, you get cart
blots in the show. I'm looking from one Canadian to
call the show today wonderful. You think we have Canadians
in our audience? Yes, well, let's get want to call
the show. Sure, brag about your team Canada? Uh paying
off the officials to beat our team USA. Yeah, they
were cheaters. It is their sport. They should at least
have something. Canadian should be better in hockey and curling.
Like if Team USA had a better curling team, we'd
have some serious issues for Canada. Yeah, I'll take your
word for it. And I don't know how the curling
squads looking this year. Here's the big question. When Canada
becomes our fifty first state, which should be which should
be the capital of Canada? Would be Toronto? In I
think Montchreal have an issue with that. Why do you
think interesting Calgary would want to be a bup? Isn't
Toronto the capitol?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 7: No? Mad do you know what the capitol is?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wait, hold on, hold on call the capital today? Yes,
I was the capital of Canada. I really don't know
where the capital of capet Canada is. It starts with
an oh, Ontario. No, it's a province. No, No, that's
a province Ottawa. Oh see is that for?
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 2: It's Western Canada has no idea The things you learn
on this radio show today seven one three to it
capitol of Canada? Yeah, why duh? I had no idea.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Canadian
fans top of the list. Your team just beat ours. Wow,
I'm blown away right now. Why wouldn't it be Toronto
because that's the only city you can name?
Speaker 10: Is that?
Speaker 2: Because that should be the camp capitol? All right? Fine?
Speaker 7: No, I can't want to say Los Angeles just be
the capital exactly.
Speaker 2: New York was the capital for a while. Washington, DC's like, wait,
we're we're here. That's fine. What do you want? Do
you want Winnipeg to be the capital of Canada? I
don't care, all right? Seven one? How about that mean
dropping a Winnipeg on you? Well, we're proud of you.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven eights And anything
goes Friday. As you can clearly tell here on Sports
Talk seven NINTI, this is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ten twenty one. I have
Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross's and anything Goes Friday. And we'll explain to
you one of anything goes Friday is by giving me
giving you a little non sports take to open up
the show today. Beyond the hockey side that was sports,
here's the non sports conversation piece. A guy in front
of me on the plane yesterday took his shoes off. Oh,
in front of you? Is he in first class? Yes? Oh.
Back in the day, they would always shield off the
first class from the coach people. They don't do it anymore,
no curtain or anything. No, not a damn thing. How
do first class people feel about this? I don't know.
I don't get I don't get first class anymore, at
least on those planes. I actually got one first class
from Washington.
Speaker 11: D C.
Speaker 2: To Palm Beach. But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. If you take your shoes off and
you don't get up at all, are you really doing
anything bad? I don't know. I just think it's bad,
bad for him. It's two and a half hour flight especially, Yeah, uh,
I just I don't I don't ever take my shoes
off on the plane me either. I didn't do it
on the fifteen hour flight to Korea. And you're you're
tootsies were probably hurting. No, they're fine. I mean do
you are you people wearing like shoes that don't fit?
Why is everybody telling me that their their feet are
hurting when they're just sitting You're just sitting on a plane.
All right, how about this? Did you see the socks
that the guy was wearing? No, I put the photo
I took a photo of Yes, No I didn't. Yeah,
you put it on twitters. Oh yeah, that's fine. I
don't mute you. You're just kind of filtered out of
my algorithm. Probably, Okay, I was like, I was more
offended by the sock choice than I was the uh
t I hmm. Okay, taking your shoes off is one thing.
Then crossing your legs to get the foot up into
people's breathing space, that's big no. No, big no no.
If you want to take your shoes off and you
want to keep them under the seat, first of all,
that's bad form. You shouldn't do it. But no, then no,
this is unacceptable. Then you're crossing your legs and putting
them near my nose. No no, actually you're actually putting
the nose really of the person next to you. Yeah,
that's what. No, this is this is a big no. No.
I agree, I say this. This man should be arrested
for his firing squad right now for a choice of
socks or or the the leg. He should be in jail. Okay,
so you're more offended by the cross the crossover, Yes,
all right, I just don't. I don't think it's a
really safe and non safe sterile clean. It just feels
like you're taking you're taking dust mites with you play
from place to flight. Just be considerate to others. This
is ridiculous. Certainly again, this guy, how many strikes does this?
First of all, he took his shoes off. Second, well,
it's only two and a half hour flight. Third of all,
he's crossing his legs, poking put and putting them up
in the air. You're out, No, you know what, he's
probably Canadian, that's part of this, might be. Yeah, as
those Canadians do they you know, once they they have
they're on think they're on top, top of the hockey world.
They they run the US airlines. The game hadn't been
played yet, No, but they were so pumped. Probably film
pretty good of a situation, all right, anything goes Friday
seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety Let
me ask you this in all seriousness about the hockey stuff,
and again I didn't pay much tention took us. Look,
we just got back from a long trip, but we
put the hours. Big shout out to the astros PR
department for helping us get some of those great guests.
But we did. We put a lot of hours and
got to this ballpark really early, had a chance to
get a couple of interviews. You were doing a lot
of videos of showing people there, so we hope that
you appreciated our coverage down from West Palm. It felt
like to me, and I'm not saying people that I follow,
I'm not saying Facebook, I'm not saying IG I'm just
going to go strictly by the for you tab woh,
the for you tabu of people that I do not follow.
Felt like there was a lot of energy for this
Four Nations tournament that we did not have for the
NBA All Star Game. I think the nh the NBA
would be was going to be slightly jealous. Now with
that being said, now I'm going to go with a
far reaching analogy on this and Ross you just know
what I'm doing. Analogies. Here we go. If you're a
little Division one basketball school. Okay, and you're playing another
a little Division one basketball school, and you guys are
playing this forty minute back and forth, hard fought, well
played game, and you go, man, we are awesome. We
have played our asses off. People are gonna love this game.
Anybody watched our game enjoyed it. Meanwhile, you got the
blue Bloods Kentucky playing North Carolina, and Kentucky North calnd
only make thirty five percent of their shots. They foul
bunch of people out. There's a lot of traveling violations.
Kentucky North North Carolina don't care how Mount Saint Mary's
versus Eastern Vermont played. And in this case, that's the hockey.
That's the that's man. And the NBA is probably like,
you know, NHL, good for you, Glad that you are
to put together a four Nations event. Glad of the people.
The small smidge of people in America that cared about
hockey loved your game. We're a freaking NBA. It's different.
This is two professional leagues, but one league is significantly
more popular than the other. It is, but the ratings
are way higher. I though the ratings for the game,
I don't have them for last night yet, but over
the weekend it was ten million viewers. The All Star
Game was four point seven. It was more than double
So I can't So let's make this in a round about. Then,
if you're in the NBA front office today, in the
ivory towers of their league offices, do you shake your
head at the four nations, going, we got to do
something to match that, or do you go it's nice,
it's a one off or the freaking I don't think
they're that concerned. They're not direct competitors with the with
the NHL. That's my point was is that you can
bet the little have nots. I can feel good about
their situation because they got a chance to get a
little shine. But it's all about the thoroughbreds. It's all
about the people that are absolutely that more people watch
us worldwide nationally. Blah blah blah blah blah. That NHL
foreig nations. Good for you. We're gonna see who's who's
gonna who's gonna be the Kings at the end. Yeah,
the leagues are on in the same time of years,
so I guess there is somewhat of a competition, But
I don't think the NBA season like this, I don't
think Adam Silver particularly cares. So yeah, I'm just telling
you as a non hockey fan, not anti hockey, just
non like I'm anti soccer, but I'm not. But I'm
I'm non and I'm not anti hockey. The buzz that
those events got quadrupled the buzz that the NBA All
Star Game got, and I would like to I'd like
to see the NBA get that kind of positive publicity
because for the sport of hockey, you got a lot
of people that were very much fringe people watching those
are games the last couple of months. But you also
had something that you're not going to get. The players cared.
The hockey players cared. They wanted to win, so out there,
so humbling each other's faces. So Adam Silver, for back
to back years, Ross goes to the All Star Game
and pleads with these players to care. Why should they?
That's why we need to separate the gap. The NBA
players will care when what they get. They've been called
out and back to back years, I hadn't made a difference.
I got three words, cut the check. Those players weren't
playing for money and NHL or yeah, no, they weren't.
It's just different. It's but it's also for nation's pride,
So yeah, maybe you can you incorporate some sort of
Olympic style. Did they do USA versus the World in
the NBA All Star Game before? They've done it all
everything they've tried Team World versus Team USA, They VERSUSUSA,
versus Europe versus I don't know, Africa or Asia or
something I don't know. For instance, the NBA should take
a page out of the World Baseball Classic. People love
the way or I don't like it, but people love
the World Baseball Classic, and that's Nation v Nation. You
know what, NBA, just do me a favor, Just scrap
the whole thing. Everybody a week off, call it a
call it an NBA winner break, and call it a day.
Because all you're all you're doing by having an All
Star Game right now is just getting the haters of
the sport to just pile on even more. No, they
they I'm sure they made money still, Oh, I'm sure
they did and got a lot of sponsors. You got
to sponsored every little thing at All Star weekend. Five
million viewers is better than zero million viewers. They're not
going to get rid of it. You're probably right. Ten thirty. Uh,
Sean in Ontario, the iHeart Radio app is killing it wonderful.
Do we have a iHeart Radio Canada? What do you mean?
I guess it works though, don't. Yeah, I mean we don't.
I don't think we have no stations in Canada. I
don't think. Oh okay, so I imagine the app works
there though we'll find out next. Let's lets Sean lives
in Houston, but it's calling himself on Ontario? Is that
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
Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two
five is seven ninety Let's talk to our one of
our Canadian correspondents, Shane or make it Shawn in Ontario. Sean,
are you really in Ontario right now?
Speaker 12: Yes, I am in the Atlanta ice and snow.
Speaker 2: Wow. What's the current temperature? And please don't fahrenheit if
you don't mid because none of us know the calcius
celsius the conversion.
Speaker 12: Fifteen degrees right now, that's that's the high for the day.
Speaker 2: M First of all, are you do you have any
Texas ties?
Speaker 11: Are you.
Speaker 2: Are you from Houston? What's going on? How do you
know about this?
Speaker 12: I live in Humble, So I lit, I've listened to
the show. I'm in the oil and gas business.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, Yeah, shout out to you. So do you
are you up there on work?
Speaker 8: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you living up there now?
Speaker 12: No, I'm just back here visiting some family.
Speaker 2: Okay, excellent, excellent. So you watched the game and you
loved every minute of it, and you're going to tell
me about how great the four Nations tournament is because
from a PR standpoint, I think your PR standpoint, I
think you're right.
Speaker 12: Well, this country is shut down for about five hours
last night to watch that game. There was cars on
the road. But I do have a couple of comments
about it about it, and they directed mar Ross since
he was on made some comments on the Monday show
when you were out about hockey in this tournament. So
the first comment is he and his co host, who
was on temporarily early on the show, kind of went
after Cannon said, you know, they should be somewhat embarrassed
losing their sports that they created in their hometown. And
that's true. But Rob also is said in the past.
Speaker 8: That Ron Robins.
Speaker 12: Parts don't matter as long as you get up points
to get to the championship game. And that's what Canada did.
That is they got enough points to go in and
when it came time for the big game, Canada won.
Speaker 2: Go ahead yep.
Speaker 12: And ironically they won on us soil an arena which
is named PD which is, by the way, Toronto Dominion Banks,
the second large the bank system in Canada. So that's
the first comment, Oh damn, get him.
Speaker 2: The second one, no, no, you're you're just a media
or you're anti Canada, and Sean figured that out. It
makes sense, continue on showing you the floor is yours.
Speaker 12: So the second comment goes, they alluded to you know,
it's hockey really tough. After all those fights, there wasn't
really a lot of things going on with those fights. Well,
tell me another sport where somebody can get hurt early
in the game. Take ten to twelve stitches in the
face and neck, get stitched up in the back and
come out finish the game, or get their teeth knocked out,
Pick them off the ice, skate over the bench, give
him the assistant coaches. They we'll fix it after the
game and keep playing. I mean, come on, NBA, they
get a hangnail and they're off for two days, and then.
Speaker 2: That's right because they got to make fifty million dollars
in a year. Yeah, that's the guy's got to play.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 12: And the last one is you know again kind of
some joking comments, but I kind of took a little
offense to it. Is hockey really that much of a sport?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 2: I never said, hold on, hold on, I'm calling BS
on this part. Sean. When did I ever say hockey's
not really a sport?
Speaker 12: You guys alluded to know you're you and your co
host that morning.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to check a take on this. I'm
calling BS on you. But go ahead, Sean.
Speaker 12: All right. So, can you take a wide receiver or
running back or a tight ender in football, put him
on skates for the first time, expect to hit people?
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 12: Can you take a basketball player, put skates on him
and think he's gonna be able to cut left and
right and do things?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 12: And you put a baseball player on the on the
ice first time, you think he's gonna able to handle
that stick and shoot a hundred miles hours. No, But
you can't take a hockey player. Put him on the
football field, he'll be able to run, cut and pass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but hold on, one of those hockey players play
like eight minutes a game. Then you have to play
like ten plays. They get tired too fast. Lebron's running
up and on the forty or forty minutes a game.
These hockey players are skating for like eight minutes and
they get tired off this time for a line change.
You've had three line changes during this.
Speaker 12: Call, Sean, Lebron runs down once and then jogs back quietly.
These guys are sprint for thirty to forty five seconds,
and the actual top players will play twelve.
Speaker 15: To eighteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Now they're hanging out, they're fighting, taking breaks, there's there's
an icing every five seconds, and they're not sprinting the
whole time.
Speaker 12: Sean, come on, Oh, and the NBA doesn't call fouls
every two minutes and then everybody's looking at each other
or football. You got at least two minutes. It seems
like between every play with it without.
Speaker 2: The title, I feel like we're doing stereotype radio here.
Can we can wear back away from this boy? Seriously? Man,
are tough? Are tough? That's funny.
Speaker 12: Hey, I'm just trying to fend my national sport.
Speaker 2: And congratulations to Canada. Thank you. Hey, Sean, don't be
a stranger of the show. We appreciate that. And the humble,
THEO entarior connection is strong. I love that, Thanks very much.
Is this your dad, Connor? How did you wait? How
did you know that? He said oil and gas? He
said Ontario? I said humble. He wanted to call this
the way we were looking. Hold on, hold on right, quick,
hold on, Sewan, are you still there?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's your last name?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 2: Huh, Sean.
Speaker 15: You've done it.
Speaker 2: You've done an excellent job raising a great son. I
want to thank you for for being a great father.
Speaker 1: Sean.
Speaker 2: Love your son, Sean. Have you met Connor's girlfriend yet? Oh?
Speaker 12: Yes, I have a very nice girl.
Speaker 2: Okay, good. She hates hockey too, she despises hockey. No
that's not true, that's not true. She just doesn't She
just reads books during it. All right, Thank you, Sean.
Say about that, we got we got family members calling
the show.
Speaker 7: I was gonna say till after he was done sifted out.
Speaker 2: The umble was the dead giveaway. If you just had
Deer Park, you'd have been in Golden Yeah, you guys
are smarter than you look. Hey. No, in all honesty,
I for a sport that doesn't get a lot of
run until really it's about the playoff time, it captivated
a lot of excuse me, North America, not just us.
That's great. Well, your dad's got the Canadian accent.
Speaker 8: He does.
Speaker 2: Definitely, that's great. He was.
Speaker 7: This was like he called me yesterday's I'm gonna call
him the show for the first time if they win.
Speaker 2: And he referred to you on Monday as you and
the other guy. So well, there was like three people
could have been Wexer. Now Wexler wasn't gonna trash Canada. No,
he just hates. We were definitely joking about how come
on and you invented the sport and you couldn't win. Yeah,
you guys are joying. But I definitely didn't say that
there was the cockey was in a real sport. I
don't think hockey. That's all right, Look very passionate. He
raised two hockey players, that's true. That's right. That's why
he's in the hockey leagues all over the place. And
here's here's what I was thinking about yesterday. I don't
know why I was thinking of this. If you if
you're like Sean and you raised a son like Connor,
they'll say Connor wanted to be a really good hockey player,
and because you just love the sport, you can only
do so much here in Houston. You don't have very
many athletes, You got limited rings. I mean, you'd have
to basically move your family to go place. So so
we're saying, as Connor is a NHL level talent, but
he just didn't have the the means. That's what I'm
gonna say. Yeah, I'm gonna say that if Connor would
have if if if Sean really would have loved his son, okay,
he'd have moved to Buffalo or something where there's or minute.
When I was in Minnesota, camera my oldest you know camp. Uh.
He played junior hockey for a couple of years now.
Of course, part of it was learning how to skate.
That was the first issue. But when he got out
there was fun. He didn't play very well, but I
guess he was. We were Obviously he was in the
fifth grade going against kids, you know, there were two
years old with skates on their on their feet. So
it's still fun. And I'll still say this, I don't
know long term if hockey can work in Houston Ross,
but it's coming. So somebody's bringing the NHL the huge
it's We were talking the other day about football markets
that are that need uh uh, cities that need NFL teams,
and it's way down the list. There is one big,
top ten, huge metropolitan city, big money, big TV market
that doesn't have NHL and it's the one with live
in right now. So in theory, it's a no brainer,
but it has been a it hasn't been a no
brainer because Phoenix moved to Utah, a really small metropolitan market,
and Atlanta, Atlanta went to Winnipeg, right ringing themselves the Jets.
They were the Atlanta they were the Jets, and they
went back and then they came back right the Jets were,
but they know the Atlanta Thrashers became the Winnipeg Jets. Correct, correct, Okay,
but there was a Jets before that. There was a
Jets before. It's very confusing. I don't have time to
learn another sport. I just don't. Well, as I've told
you before, I'm spending all my time with baseball, basketball, football.
I watched in primary league. I can't do it, get
rid of, get rid of the Premier league. Why because
you can watch those games in about five minutes. Zero
zero is fine. Again, you're you don't know what you're
talking about. It's actually we should tell the audience that
a couple of days ago, you wanted to watch a
game and it wasn't on our TV and hotel, and
I watched on my phone and you were getting mad
and it was at zero zero. It was three zero.
I was trying to sleep and just you yelling yeah
they game ended three to one, So all right, ten
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I love it. Then it's in the top ten. Oh yeah,
for sure. It was drafted in the Fantasy five to
breakfast at and locked. That's fine, that's okay, by the way,
real quick on this, and we're gonna get some other
things to get to Major League Baseball. I understand you
need some love and attention, and I don't disagree with
you that ESPN has treated you like a bastard chep child,
But I want you to go ask hockey fifteen years
ago what it was like not having the NHL and
ESPN and how well you got zero run on that network.
If you have not heard, ESPN and MLB are going
to mutually break up from their current contract after the
end of this season, so MLB can go search out
perhaps another avenue to put their games on and get
their programming. So we're not going to get fourteen Red
Sox Yankees games on a Sunday. Oh no, they'll still
be on. It'll just be, it'll be. It won't be
it now. Could they could go to back to ESPN.
They they could say, oh, let's buy Ganzi Bigen ESPN,
and we got to get four nations to question in
here a second. ESPN got the rights to MLB in
nineteen ninety. They've been with them for thirty five years. Wow.
And when ESPN got major League Baseball, they did a
huge Baseball Tonight was on at least what they did
a daytime version and a nighttime versius. It was two
hours a day. I used to always watch it. They
had a Sunday night game of the week, they had
a Monday game, they had a Tuesday double header, a
Wednesday single game, a Friday doubleheader. So it was on
four nights a week, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, five nights a week.
That's pretty it's pretty crazy, yes, And then they started
to drop it back to you know, then they did
like opening day holiday triple header. They got rid of
all that, and now they do sporadic games here and there,
and then they do their main Sunday night game. So
from going from about doing I don't know, two hundred
and fifty games a year thirty five years ago doing
about forty. It's pretty and they got rid of baseball
tonight last year. So you couple that with the fact
that if you turn on ESPN from say, I don't know,
six am to four pm, you're not getting any baseball
talk at all. The Get Up Guys. That first show
they do with Mike Greenberg, all that is is three
hours of Jets talk, Greenberg getting talking the Yankees more.
When the Mad Dog Russo comes on.
Speaker 18: I watched Jo Dianmaggio and Whitey Ford and dag Jeeta.
Speaker 2: Okay, Then uh, the steven A Smith Show comes on.
Steven A couldn't name five Major League Baseball players, so
that's not gonna be talked about. Then you have the
NBA Show, then the NFL Show, and then you have
those other opinion shows on what is it part of
the interruption and uh around the Horn. I never I
understand why Rob Manford's pissed. I generally, I mean, baseball
is the second most popular sport in this country. My
guess in terms of nover I no, no, I don't
know how we're how are we measuring this? I don't
I don't know. But World Series ratings, I believe do
beat the NBA finals races, and there's simply more people
going to baseball well volume, yeah, will be Also, the
stadiums are forty thousands compared to fifteen. I mean, I
don't know. It feels like to me that basketball you
could flip them either way. There could be two. Aighten,
probably baseball. Okay, somewhere we'll go co Probably baseball for
the second most popular sport in this country, it gets
zero run on the number one network that broadcasts they're now.
Fox carries all the World Series games and playoff games.
But Fox doesn't have daily programming like ESPN does, so
I kind of you know, I just don't get it. Category,
I get it. The problem is you don't have any alternatives.
If you all of a sudden told FS one will
give you a bunch of money or you'll give us
a bunch of money to are people gonna go look
for FS one baseball coverage at seven o'clock in the afternoon,
in the morning nine o'clock. I highly doubt that, because
they know that football is king and football chatter is king.
You can stream all you want, but all you're doing
is giving more people an opportunity not to find you.
I'm sorry. I have a better chance of watching Ross
the Angels play the Mariners if it's on ESPN. Then
if I had the Angels playing the Mariners on Apple TV.
If I'm flipping in my hotel room or I'm at
the house with buddies and I'm putting I'm putting the
game on, just say something on TV. It's going to
be very easy for me to do that. Do you
have to go to a subscription service to go find
two teams that I don't particularly care about. Yeah, I
think it's a They're in a very very difficult spot here. Yeah,
because ESPN is king, and there's really I mean, FS
one had been trying for years, it didn't work out.
Has it worked out? ESPN told the NHL bye bye.
NHL said fine, we'll go find something else. And they
were on Versus. Oh, I forgot about that. They were
Sports Network ABC Sports Network. They were on this channel
called Sports Channel America, which disintegrated. I mean, I know
what that is. It's about thirty years ago. But point
being is that the NHL is gonna take what ESPN
gives them and say thank you very much, I appreciate it.
And they do a great job their Their game coverage
is great. They do talk about hockey acade, not on
their talk shows, but on the and they get Sports
Center highlights. They get decent playoff coverage. I don't know,
if your baseball, what do you do? Because baseball deserves
more respect than ESPN's giving it. They just doin disagrees.
But ESPN's like Brock Gohot something else. I mean, look,
if it was getting Gangbusters numbers and they were having
all this interest, I don't think they would have weaned
off all this content. Yeah, that's why Manfred's in a
real tough spot here, because let's say that you said,
let's say you went all in on everything. If you
told the Fox Networks that Fox FS one was gonna
give you a two hour baseball show per day, or
and they were gonna give you three times as many
games on FS one, is that gonna move? If that
gonna move, have MLB's needle, I don't know. Well, then
it's not gonna be necessari about. That's gonna be about money.
It's gonna be about the amount of money. I think
that maybe part of this could be just ESPN resetting
the market, saying Major League Baseball wants it's extra money,
and we're good, Yeah, we're not gonna give them this money.
So this could be just you guys end up posturing,
and they could end up back marriage together because MLB
is watching all these other networks get these hohlationious deals.
College football getting the big deals, uh, the NBA getting
their brand new TV deals. Mmb's like, I want part
of that, and ESPN's like, no, here's your check. We're good.
But I will say I'm just supported that ESPN does
not give baseball more run, more games, less Yankees, Red
Sox and baseball tonight was a f and now again.
MLB networks a great channel, but the average person doesn't
necessarily just know where MLB network is on their satellite
or their cable. And if you're in a hotel, you
don't get MLB network. It's a niche channel. You'll get
FS one. Yeah, well you probably you don't get more
and more more, but not that much. At our hotel
in West Palm, we had FS one. We did not
if we did not have MMIBI network, we didn't have univisions,
so I couldn't watch the Champions League. It was very upset.
Bought some prayers. Second Hour starts with Mike and Ben
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Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: Eleven oh two on Sports Talk seven ninety. I mean, well,
Colin Cowerd's on a repeat today. I was gonna say
best of Football. I was saying Colin Coward's on Talking
Baseball either he's there, he's the FS one's national TV show. Now.
I don't watch any shows on any network of the
talking heads that have any baseball chatter. They it's just
it's non existent because the programming bosses say, don't do
it the only time you're here. So let's say about
five topics in baseball we've talked about in the last
five years. Okay, show hay o Tony, how much money
is gonna get? Okay, show Hay's gambling? Uh A B
S A B S almost said automatic breaks, automatic balls
and strikes? Yes, what else? Anything Yankee related? Probably and
uh yeah in the astros cheating. That's that's that's in
a nutshell what it is. That was about five years
ago now at this point. Actually, yeah, the seven coming
up on like a five year anniversary of that. So
that's that's exactly what it is. But you know who
could be the surprise? Like if you said, Steven A. Smith,
who's the surprise team in the nash League this year?
Could he give you an idea of who could be? Oh,
he can make it up or he have somebody producer,
you know, telling in his ear. I'm saying, you ask
him on the spot. Yeah he'll make it up. Yeah,
he'll be fine. Yeah. You're not gonna name any players
speaking generalities, Yeah, I mean there's a lot of people
a speaking generalities, and that's what we don't go with.
The Milwaukee Brewer is I think they got a lot
of young players and people are sleeping on Cincinnati could
be a huge surprise. I've been following the Reds for
a long time. Johnny Bench. We've been following the likes
of a of a Joe Morgan. Let me tell you
about Joe Mulgan. Let me tell you about a Nick
KOSEASKI David, kids happen, Yo, this is why we call
you the impression master.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm terrible at it. I wish I was better. Somethings
I'm pretty good at. But that's maybe. Maybe stephen A
is in the Cactus League right now, keep it an
eye on everybody. That'd be really if you really wanted
to learn the sporting go to go to the Cactus
League for a week, go to Florista for the group
before we could be fine? Yeah, yeah, How much smart
are we about the astros now that we are them?
Before we left three days ago, I know a lot.
Now we learned some stuff. We are your astro experts,
not a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of screaming, talking people that do shows at twelve
o'clartter three in the morning.
Speaker 2: This happens every year, but I'm so much more optimistic
about the Astros this year. After going to Spring Trading.
Let's start calling you, Gordy. I know, I just start
I just start getting there. I'm like, yeah, you know
what Spencer rig Getty. He's so smart, he's so good.
He's he's about to like be like a cy young
candidate create thirteen games a five star is Nesky's like,
I'm feeling good. Hey, I got one for you here.
If everything the stars aligned properly, you could have a
gold glove and two different outfield spots center, center and left. No,
you're not, Matt. That's optimistic. Matt. No, I told we
told you he's not gonna get enough reps out there.
You don't know that he's gonna be out there for
one hundred and forty games. He's gonna love it so much.
Oh stop, You saw the bouncing a step. He loves it.
He's having fun with it. But Josel two Vans, he's not.
He's not gonna be out there one hundred and fifty three,
all right, seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.
Mic is in San Antonio. Mike, Good morning. Do you
walk up to anything goes Friday?
Speaker 15: Good morning, Good discussion, guys. H And by the way,
I enjoyed your coverage from Florida. I appreciate you doing that.
For what I could listen to that was I called
mainly about the hockey. But I heard your pull segment
about ESPN.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 15: I don't watch ESPN for the talking heads. And Steven
Smiths ranning about running for president.
Speaker 2: That may be the dumbest thing I've ever heard in
my entire life. And I'm not adverse to celebrities going
for this, because lord knows, we've been plenty of people
trying for it. Steven A. Smith would be, well, I
get his point.
Speaker 15: I mean, I won't get political opinion about it, but
you know, he was making a point that there's not
anybody else. But you know, one of the things and
I don't know what MLB should do, but you know
one of the things they do, like on their app,
they chart like I live in San Antonio, but I'm
considered in network for the Astros, so I'm not subscribing
to that. I mean, I can pull up games, so
I can't watch I prefer the local station Stacey Home Network,
but I can't watch the Astros on MMB app when
I'm at home, so I'm like, I don't I'm not
paying for it. And I don't know if they could
do something with their app, but they branched off into
all these other.
Speaker 2: Oh no, there's something they can do with their app.
They're going to say, please insert your credit card and
you can get all the coverage you want. They want
you to pay for They they if you are outside
of the territory, They're like, we'd love for you to
watch the game's mike, but you're gonna pay for it.
Speaker 14: Oh.
Speaker 15: I might do it if they would let me, you know,
I mean, depending if it was reasonable. I just want
the astros and I can get you know, like I
use Fubo, so I get the astros in the Rockets
and other channels by paying for that, so I don't
not getting MP But anyway, but I called about the hockey.
I heard the whole discussion. That was a great call
from Connor's father, But I think it was a one off.
I don't follow hockey, but this was this was way different.
You're compared to the NBA, and this was you know,
Nation against Nation is like you mentioned that the World
Baseball tournament that they have. But also I think it
was amped up because of all that it was political,
all the comments that our president was making, and then
in the first game that was in Canada, the fans
booing the USA national anthem.
Speaker 2: So I think it just.
Speaker 15: Got a lot more amptet because that's my opinion anyway,
and because I did watch it, and I don't know,
I don't I don't follow hockey as a sport generally,
but you know, it was just there was a lot
more to it this time because of all that going on.
Speaker 2: I feel like I believe that, Yeah, that's a certain
segment when you do country versus country, and obviously the
Canadians have been brought up in the news and our
president bringing up the the extreme unlikelihood it's named a
fifty first day. I mean, but there is material to it,
and I think being booed beforehand got struck a nervous
some people. So yeah, it was it was not just
about the game and stuff. There were some other some
extra things that that added little sizzen to the event.
Do you know when you knew we need to go,
you know, we go for Nikola Jokic, uh number one? Uh,
Eastern Europe bea number one? Okay? Us yeah, yo, pa
usci Okay. Then we start booming Nicolajokic. Oh you need
a geopolitical they did with this. Yes, I thought we
were trying to keep politics out of sports, because that's
what added to the sizzle of this event, Little USA
via Canada, little North American cold war, I mean cold
ass war. Yeah, I mean it was fun and the
events were you know, charged up, and they mattered and
they were good games. But is it gonna Is it
gonna add the NHL's And here's your bottom line is, well,
what percentage of people that turned it on to watch
these events are gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna
check out this next game betweens and the Avalanche or whatever.
The chances are very minimal, very because there's just you're
not gonna have the same passion for an Islander's avalanche
game then you would have for US a v. Canada.
But I'll tell you what, if you're gonna, if you're gonna,
if you're gonna break up your your your regular season
for something, you might as well mean have something to it.
And I think the NBA probably should be jealous of that. Yeah,
they did great. The ratings are great. So yeah, okay,
so you're saying, do USA versus the world? And then
like get Donny T involved in the All Star Game?
Have done a bunch of comments? Yeah, have done it?
T one of the officials. I don't know if he
can get up down four. Matt, he's the Uh he
would have a scooter. He put him in a golf cart.
You would you would be like small train tracks up
and down on the base of the sidelines of the court,
run up and down. You know, he would call all
the calls for USA, Matt because he loves his country
so much, and that would get people upset. Yeah, okay,
this is not a good well this is like I
love this side. Is one of your worst ideas. This
is something that bad. You've got three to four bad
ones a week. This is what bad joke Ben would
come up with. Yes, Oh, speaking of that, Hi, Ben,
how are you?
Speaker 8: I was stomaching all that hockey talk because you know,
I'm not a huge hockey fan, but uh, I do
got some ideas for MLB.
Speaker 11: They need a.
Speaker 8: Monday through Friday day game every day, starting at whatever time.
Put it on MLB Network, put it on ESPN two
or whatever, and start grassroots.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: That's when you know, I.
Speaker 8: Think, if I'm not in the car listening to you guys,
you know, I might be watching some baseball, So I
don't know. That's one thing they could do, and the
other thing on the All Star Game if they had
these East and West teams play for a thirty second
draft pick or thirty third draft pick after the first round.
Same thing for NFL. I think you can add a
little bit of sizzle and then you lottery off that
pick to either East, the West, AFC, NFC, whoever it is.
So that's my two cents and go estros.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call. I heard somebody during the
All Star break say home court advantage and I almost
threw up. And no, that's a bad idea. I completely
agree with you. Terrible, terrible, terrible idea. But somebody it was,
and I wish I knew who it was, but somebody
that was more than just a flippant. It was like
a player center or something and maybe ave been a
form player. They're like, you gotta get something more meaningful
into the game. So let me ask you this. And
I think I've asked this probably ten times and ten years.
In nineteen eighty seven, when Larry Bird and Michael Jordan
and Akim elaijah On and Ralph Samson and James Worthy
and Patrick Ewing and all those guys were playing these
All Star Games. They gave a damn about those All
Star games. They were higher scoring, they weren't playing forty
eight minutes of defense. But I never came away, and
that was a young I was a teenager, so I
have some memories of this. I'm not trying to say
blind I becaus I was a kid, but it looked
like they gave a damn about the games. At what
point did we stop giving a damn about the games?
And like I said the same thing about the Pro Bowl,
that's why the Pro Bowl went away, because the NFL
players are the exact sense I think if it's probably,
I mean, when the leagues were young and these games
were put together, everybody who was participating knew that this
was a showcase for this league. You were trying to
build popularity, you were trying to fight for a slice
of pie of tension of the American public to put
a spotlight onto your sport. And then you add that
into where these leagues are now established, and probably even
much more important is the fact that they make all
this money. You don't want to risk injury, certainly not
in football. Football to me makes the most sense that
nobody cared about the Pro Bowl and nobody trying to
go to Hawaii to tear their acl and be out
for the season. This doesn't make any sense basketball. While
there still is injury risks, there's not nearly as much,
but it's also a it's an exhibition, exhibition by its
definition meaningless, so we should stop attaching any sort of
importance to it, and we kind of have. Here's what
we've done, six time All Star, making his the leader
vote getterer. They've made story. It's it's a story, who's
leading vote getter, who made the team, who's a reserve?
Who didn't go in? Lebron didn't play in the game
because he called it off late. Should somebody else gone
in the spot? I mean, these were all storylines. Whether
you wanted to believe them or not cared about them
or not, they were storylines. Yeah, the first draft that
they had, it kind of worked because players got their
feelings hurt over not getting drafted first and they had
something to prove. But then it kind of wore It
wore off. And that's the thing. Any kind of thing
you come up with, even USA versus the World or whatever,
it's gonna kind of wear off. Unless you really like
I said, you gotta make the players care somehow. It's
gonna have to be money. So if I gave the
winning team two million dollars a pop a person that
probably helped too, Millie, I think so. And then how
about the fact, then what would you do with Lebron.
Let's say he played for two million dollars this year
and Lebron all of a sudden the very last second,
like he did this All Star, I said, I'm not playing.
First of all, you're knocking a player off who could
have who could have gone for the two million. Second
of all, your team isn't as good because you're down
a player that could cause him really good. Well, then
then it probably would be less likely to happen, you
would hope. But if Lebron all of a sudden says
I'm on this team ready to go, oh, I woke
up and felt bad. I still deserve And Davis, I mean,
nobody's talking about Anthony Davis about out too late. Yeah,
but he was also hurt beforehand though, No, he didn't
bow to the end. He said he had a cold.
Oh talking about when was that? No this year, not
Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards. I said, I'm sorry, Anthony Edwards.
I'm one of the Anthony's. It was one of them.
Sorry Aunt Edwards. Okay, I wish money could just solve it.
I don't know if that would even be the case
of all the other potential problems you could have because
of it. But I don't want home court advantage to
sermon over it. No, not not letting a Charlotte Hornet
All Star helped me determine whether or not the Celtics
or hopefully the Rockets, will have home court advantage in
the NBA Finals. How about this finals MVP gets five
million rather than giving how many All Stars are there
twenty or whatever. That's forty million dollars, two million or
ten the winning team would get in theory twenty million
or whatever. How about just five million for the m
VP of the All Star Game? Yep, But then who's
going to be judging it? They're going to think a minute,
if you you can do whatever regular whatever regular judging
that they do, because you know that what's his face
the big one for ESPN, steven A Smith or no,
the big one, Kendrick Perkins, the guy uh Brian Windhorse.
He's gonna vote for Lebron Okay, what if he doesn't deserve,
it doesn't matter. Brian Winhrse, I don't think he would
sniff in Lebron's jock for twenty five years. I don't would.
I don't think he would vote for a non deserving
Lebron James and make the votes public. Ooh, okay, so
it was whind Horse gets being called a Lebron lover.
That wouldn't make any difference. He's getting you help me
get Lebron at five million dollars and I don't think
that's a major concern. I damn, it's gonna come down
to money. Eleven sixteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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You also have the Rockets back in action with I
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a game time decision. Fred is out? Oh Fred is out.
I thought we heard a game time decision yesterday. Would
you trust me? No, I'm saying I'm not. No. They were.
They later changed it, so they lied, they didn't live.
They just it's fine. A bunch of liars. Cheaters, the
Rocketer cheaters and Cody Zell are also out. Unfortunately, I
got very very safe indications that codies that are will
never wear a Rocket uniform. Okay, I'm just gonna put
that out there. Oh man, So you're saying I should
cancel my order on my custom, Well you went. You
have gone to a certain UH picks group and gone
in the over under rebounds on that. I would take
me under zero point four of the unders DraftKings pick
six used code nine eighty seven and sign up. There's
such an advertising whore you really are? I learned from
the best. What times Adam Clanton get here, No, sir,
he's sitting to my left. All right, Oh, we haven't
heard from this guy in quite some time. But going on,
let's talk to our buddy, James sixty seven one three
two one two five seven ninety James, you're on the family.
What's going on? James?
Speaker 9: Hey, thank you, Governor. Governor Tomas will take my call
and shouts out to r V and uh and the guy,
the nice guy that I always talked to you that
you guys have over there the screen up. Listen.
Speaker 2: He's the producer and his name is Connor. Oh, okay, okay,
put some respects man, James. He's our best friend. But
you guys are best friends. Now go ahead, what you
got today?
Speaker 9: Okay, okay? Look, I want to I want to get
to the nitty gritty about predictions about about baseball and everything.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard anybody talk about it.
Speaker 9: I was right about that Breagmant thing, along with a
few of you guys. So that's trouble for the Yankees
on and but you know, we'll deal with that eventually.
Speaker 2: It'll play yourself out.
Speaker 9: Look, I got some predictions about all the smack talk
about you know, awards and everything.
Speaker 2: Look, no matter, no matter.
Speaker 9: How anybody wants to talk about it, it's gonna be
the same top guys, the top guns that they're referring to.
Old Tany's gonna get that award, even though he'll have
some stiff, more stiff competition with if Ronald Kune can
keep himself in shape and stay off the injury issue
because he's a dang damn good player too.
Speaker 2: I like that guy.
Speaker 9: And uh in the American League, that kid that's in
Kansas City, he already has a ride. He's a superstar.
I wish he was a Yankee. So that guy, Bobby
Wood Jr. Is gonna give a run for the money
for Iron Judge this year. And the Royals are a
good team and for pitching wise, Look, it could be anybody.
It could be that kid in Cleveland, that Beaver kid.
He's if he can stay healthy, he's a strong candidate.
But put up some numbers and that that Cleveland team
knows how to play pitch field, win and they do everything.
That doesn't matter if they got marginal players or good players.
And uh one other things I wanted to talk about
this kid that you got on the radio that he
talks to basketball.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 9: I think, Gerard, he should be with you guys at
some level as an analyst or something, because he knows,
he knows basketball and he knows how to wrap it
up real good.
Speaker 2: All these other call tepees you.
Speaker 9: Got on Rockets drafts, they watch the game, but they
don't even know what they're seeing because they talk a
a bunch of gibberish. But that guy Gerald, he's he's
a smart basketball analyst and he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 9: In that Governor Thomas for taking my call?
Speaker 2: Is this a coincidence? Hold on? We got a second
bye to James the appropriate way. Okay, all right, uh
I can get my phone ready here, hang on. Yeah,
but he James just literally mentioned Gerd longtime front of
the show, and he literally just called down. Did are
James and Girod Broskis? I don't know quite the coincidence, Gerard?
Do you know James?
Speaker 11: Oh No, I don't know him.
Speaker 2: He loves you.
Speaker 11: Oh you know, I got the fans, I think, and
I've been calling in on the On You Guys show
and on the Rockets post game show, so I probably
got a lot of fans to think. I don't know
what happened to Myra though. You know, she used to
call a lot of times with me.
Speaker 2: But I can't hear from the I see her maya
a rocky games all the time. She just doesn't like
calling the shows and work because you're so emotional about it.
So well, that being said, Gerard, the floor is yours.
Speaker 11: Okay, before the floors, I won't to ask you guys
a question about Jabari Smith. Will he be coming off
the bench or will he start? Because I mean Thomson
he's so that he can thrive, and either way he
could thrive coming off the bench, he could thrive starting.
So if I'm a doka, I would probably start Jabaris
Smith and bring a mean tossing off the bench. But
as a Douka revealed which way he gonna go with.
Speaker 2: Jabar Smith, Well, I know a man Thompson's gonna start
tonight because he's gonna be the starting point guard because
Fred van Vliet is still out.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would imagine Van van Free will probably play tomorrow,
you know, so back to back, so he coming off
of ankle injury, maybe comes back against Utah that'll be
a tough game to come back, you know, first game
back playing at high haltitude. But maybe we see him
tomorrow night. As far as the Rockets go, uh they
right right nowt there in the fourth seed. You know,
I think that goal is to get in the second
or third seed. You know, either catch Myth or Denver
to get to their second and third seed, so you
avoid the side of the bracket with Oklahoma City team
that you, in my opinion on match up that great against.
They If they can do that, then you know they
can maybe make a run to the Western Conference finals.
So I think that'll be the goal for the man
to try to get their mojo back, because you know,
they kind of finished kind of bad the last what
ten games going into the All Star Break. I think
they were like three and seven or something like that
with a seven game losing street. So they've got the
try to founce back from that. Hopefully, Reeve Shepherd he's
got to be a key guy. Hopefully. I saw a
lot of flashes of him the last few games going
to the All Star Break. Hopefully he can improve on
that because he brings a dimension that the Rockets don't have,
and that is a dad on three point shooter, so
they can get that production out of him. Man, that'll
be the missing piece. And I hopefully he's not a
green man to have a great March. Man. I know
he had a great March last year, so hopefully he'll
go into March playing like he played last year. He
played well, we get the goon going. I think the
Goon's got to be the guy that gets a little
bit more field goal of ten. You know, he's kind
of guy that maybe he's probably third or fourth on
four as a field goal to tests per game, and
he's their best player, so they need to get the
ball to him a little bit more because he can
score in the post, he can make plays for his teammates,
create opportunities for them. I think he's got to be
their go to guy, especially when you get down in
the fourth quarter. So hopefully Rockets get a win against
Minnesota tonight. The last time I think Minnesota came here,
they kind of broke the Rockets heart man when they
came back from like twelve down late in the fourth
quarter and they was able to steal that game. So
this has got to be a revenge game for the Rockets.
Man to go out there and get a dub tonight.
Speaker 2: Thank you driving for the phone call, appreciate it. Ross.
Any thoughts about what he had to say, Uh No,
it's a great STU. I mean, I think he pretty
well covered it. Matty Vengee is on the minds of
the Houston Rockets tonight. I respect the hell out of
aunt Edwards game. I just don't like him. Why don't
you like him because he hurts us? Well? Yeah, okay,
Now on a personal level, just about basketball, he was
one for nine in every game out of zero. Problem
with Anthony Edwards. Yeah, he's incredible and fun to watch. Andy.
Last time he was in this building, he crushed the Rockets,
got a forty burger one time, and a game winning
shot another time. Tough game winning shot fall away three
in the corner, right in front of his own bench. Unfortunate.
That was heart breaking. All right. I need a ruling
on the length of the time to twenty seven. But
I did answer in question in the middle of the conversation. Okay,
so that still count as a full two twenty seven.
So it's his call. Okay, very good. Eleven thirty on
Sports Talk seven nine, We're gonna wake the stripers up
in one half hour from Okay, what else are got
going on? Astro starts spring training tomorrow? Excited about that? No,
they started spring training like a week ago, Matt. No,
I'm talking about the games. Oh okay, I'm I can't wait.
You're bumping around town tomorrow. He yes, I'm bumping around
town shopping, doing the honey news because it's can be cold.
Get your radios with us. Listen to the old seven nine
Okay for Astro spring training coverage seven one, three, two,
two five seven, continuing the Anything Goes Friday format of
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Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We look forward to visiting
with you between now and two o'clock this afternoon. We
have Anything Goes Friday in the program. We've talked a
little bit about the uh NHL. Well it's not it's
not NHL endors, it's who is the who's the governing
body of this the NHL? Is it NHL? Okay, So
It's not like there's not a FEBA of hockey. I mean,
I'm sure it is. But the NHL ran this four
Nations event, and so I think it's received positive claim.
That's good. NBA's All Star Game has received negative claim,
but Madam Silver doesn't particularly care. There's no such thing
as bad press, as they say, Matt right, there is
pressing rockets, by the way, and action against Minnesota looking
forward to that.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: I do believe when everybody gets healthy. And I'm not
being told this, but just this gut feeling I have.
I think Jabari Smith's coming off the bench, I think
he will be like the first day off the bench.
I agree, I don't. I think Dylan Brooks has played
well enough, and it has been this way for about
two months now, the best three point shooter in this
basketball team. Has there been any public comment on Jabari
Smith Junr except for just him playing tonight? No, okay,
I think. I think. I think Adoka yesterday practice kept
things close close to the prediction in six hours when
he may talks. Will he answered the question directly if
asked if Jabari Smith Junior will start? Um, okay, the
guards are going to be a men in Jalen, the
Fords are Dylan and yeah, could be Jabbari. If with
Fred van Vlid out, Yeah, I forgot. I keep forgetting these.
If yeah, Fred is out an out Brin starts at center. Okay,
so he'll be starting tonight. I think he'll start. I
won't have to answer that question. Yeah, I think. I
think the answer will be is he starting tonight and
the answer will be yes, And then some people are
gonna say, well, no, that's a decision. So I guess
you know you don't lose your starting spot injury. I
think the part of it is because of the fact
that Fred Fred is out and I don't know how
long Fred's going to be out. I know he's getting closer.
I know that. I may said before the All Star
break it would be sometime shortly after the All Star break.
It could be tomorrow on Utah, who knows. I mean, look,
the reality is you've got Jabbari who's probably not gonna
play a lot of back to backs until he gets
fully back into game shape. I do believe that Fred
will be a part time back, not a back to
back guy for a while. Not probably not gonna be
the rest this year. Uh, Steven Adams, same situation. So
you're gonna have a kind of a hoshpodge of your
rotation and until you get to the most important part
of the season, which hopefully will be a nice playoff run.
Jack Landelle and Aaron Holiday get ready. But Nate Williams
in that game against Golden State, how that game sucked?
Speaker 17: It?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 11: God?
Speaker 2: So Lakers have already played two games since the All
Star Break. They had in a makeup game on Wednesday.
My god, so they're one in ones. They've made up
a half game on the Rockets for that four spot
in the West. Well, if they're one and one, they
shouldn't have made up anything. They were as where they
were down a game, then they gave half back the
night before the night last night, so they gained. You're
right back to where they were before the All Star break. Mmmm.
Let me give you the good news. Go ahead, three
Utah games still he left. Yes, this good, it's great news.
One more San Antonio game left. Deep vein thumb thrombosis.
That just sounds like that needs to be recare renamed
something else. One if it's if it's thrombosis and the
deep veins man what else are you gonna call it?
You're right, it's it's as described, But I believe there's
a connotation there that just doesn't sound like you're gonna
go the You know what, I haven't even been doing
this all year. You wanna go to the remaining schedule strength? Okay,
let me give you this. Three with Utah, one with
San Antonio, one with Phoenix, No. Two more with Phoenix,
one home, one road. Now Phoenix is probably going to
go away in the night as a tenth to eleventh seed.
I've got some good news for us. Roll it remaining
schedule strength by opponent winning percentage. Rockets twenty first, Lakers
first five, six remaining opponent percentage. That's good.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Rockets do have two more with
the Lakers, and one more with Golden State, and one
more with the Los Angeles Clippers. Denver third. Okay, Rockets
top four, let's go gut feeling lock it in. Rockets
have two more with Denver. See, that's the thing is
strange that part of that schedule strength. You're speaking of
the Rockets. That's true. So they I mean, they're destiny
can be in their hands from those games. But I
like this a lot because it felt like, man, that
schedule got really tough. And cause the problem is ross
the best wins this team has had this year has
been against the very best teams. That's not a problem.
What I'm saying is that if we if all of
a sudden, we're considering Utah layup drills. Well, we thought
Brooklyn would be a couple of layup drills, and but
they've also been having a bunch of injuries. They're healthier
right now than they were even before the all start.
That is correct. That is correct. And yeah, you said
three against Utah, a couple against the Pelice, two more
pell games. Yes, it's a win win two of them. Look,
Indiana won't be easy. Oh, we all want more with
Oklahoma City. That won't be very much fun in Okay.
See two more with Oklahoma City. This says, oh, one
in home and huston one in Oklahoma City. M hm.
Your toughest games are mating are two with Oka, see
two with Denver and two with the Lakers. Then uh, Pacers, Clippers, Bucks.
So you only have nine games left against teams that
are currently well those are their toughest games. I'll put
it that way. Okay, so you're saying there's a chance
feeling good. Top four, let's go. Please, Top three, please,
top three, please top three. To avoid the thunder for
as long as possible. Let's get a second round at
least because Dady needs some elextrah My god, I got
camps coming up here. Okay, get fundraiser. Why don't you
get Carl out selling some cookies or candy bars or something.
You know, got a fundraiser? Is she raising any money?
Let's go. You want Carl to sell girls got cookies?
Speaker 16: Are not?
Speaker 2: Remember the girl Scouts? Yeah, she can rough up some
girl scouts, steal her cookies and sell them. She wants
you want her to have violence to steal cookies, chocolate bars,
mowing lawns. Let's go. Let's raise some money. Carly, I'm
putting that athlete out there in thirty one degree temperature.
Let's go, free loader, let's go. Her mother is going
to find you and bitch slap you well, telling her
to sell some popcorn or something. I buy some. Why
don't you just send her some Venmo money? Right now?
Is called it? Girls? Proud of your heart work?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I know what you make. You're doing all right, it's
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are We. Now here's a question for you. This is
a small baseball thing, befre we get to break. Uh.
Your your beard is unkempt, right me? Yeah, it's scraggly.
What it's It's not fair you're talking about it's not
very it's it's it's a hot mess. No, it's not.
I just trimmed it. Do you think your beard would
be allowed by the Yankees? Absolutely? All right. The Yankees
have changed their rules. They are allowing facial hair and
grooming as long as as hal Starburnder, the owner, says,
quote it's well groomed beard effective, immediately changing a rule
that his father had set back in nineteen seventy six. Wow,
that's great, he says. Ultimately, the final decision rests with me,
and after great consideration, we will amending our expectations to
allow our players and uniform personnel to have well groomed
beards moving forward. It is the appropriate time to move
beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy. It is
ridiculous they even had the policy to begin with. Did
people think down on the ass on the Yankees because
of their facial hair. It had been a weird policy,
it was I kind of in a way. It's one
of those old, weird, quirky things that I actually I
liked it just because it was explaint. We come back now.
I want to I don't know how you could possibly
like this, knowing you that in the way I know you,
I don't know how you could possibly like this eleven
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Speaker 1: Ninty more Matt Thomas Show with Ross now on Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm perplexed by the fact that you think
the old school way of keeping beard hair off of
New York Yankee players is Okay, I'm not ford or
against it. It seems a little antiquated, but I'm curious
as to why you kind of liked it. Yeah, it's
just like, if the Astros had it, I would probably
be like, it's dumb, since it's something that the Astros
players don't ever have to deal with. It was just
always a funny, quirky, nonsensical storyline that would come out
of nowhere. And in that sense, I just thought it
was It was just odd and different and against the
grain and pretty much stupid. But the fact that it
would always become a storyline out of nowhere is like,
oh no, I don't know if the yank I don't
know if this guy wants to sign with the Yankees
because he's got a beard, Like how stupid is that?
It's just funny that way. So I'm kind of and
a part of me is sad that that nonsense is gone.
Does that make you were looking for that storyline is
no longer part in play? Yeah, and you thought it
was interesting, okay, but the theory itself, you were like,
this is really no, no, it makes no practical sense. It's ridiculous.
It's it's twenty twenty five or it's any people have
had beards since people have been around, So I don't
know why they think it's this crazy, like sets them
apart from every other organization. Why you would even make
a rule or try to enforce it, but just as
a as a something to talk about or something just quirk.
A quirk of Major League Baseball was that the Yankees
wouldn't allow their players to wear beards, but they could
have mustaches. Who cares. We had a chance to catch
up with a Garrett Cole and hearing about this. He did,
And what did Garrett have to say about this? He said, Ah,
for pete sake, I can't believe they made me shave
I'd like to grow a beard. I like to go
out into the woods and chop wood and build tents
and have a great time, and it really keeps you
warm and winter months. But then they make you shave
it off. For the Yankees, it doesn't make any sense.
You're paying me thirty five million dollars to throw a baseball?
Who cares if I'm wearing a little facial hair. I
like it. My wife likes it. I'm trying to keep
her attracted to me. What the heck Connor is very
busy laughing at that. But I always feel like if
we ever go to Garrett Cole, we have to have
the Rainbow Connection song behind it, and almost it's almost,
it's almost like it's a it's a it's a huge
part of the bit that just adds to the overall
And every time the Verstle words out of my mouth
are off, for Pete's sake, matter what the category is,
if Garrett Cole really found out about what how you
disparage him like that, he'd really get mad at you.
That's fine, what's he gonna do? I'm not scared. Oh yeah,
I heard that little punk Ross in Houston likes to
make fun of my voice. I don't think I sound
like a green puppet. I'm gonna kick that guy's ass.
Song this in the car. I don't know the words
to this song. It's quite it's quite offensive. As a
matter of fact, this has been following with my whole life.
Even my own father said you finally found your miss
Piggy at my wedding. I thought that was unfair. I'm
very angry. This is this is this is not funny. Guys.
I don't even feel like I talk like him. You know,
there's another thing going on in sports that a lot
of teams will will tell their players to when they
get on planes, to dress at a certain level. Yes,
I think that is absolutely ridiculous. Remember when David Stern
made a dress code because okay, we don't need Garrett
Cole telling us this. Just this is. Nobody breaks down
the NBA like me, Garrett Cole. That's funny. I have
been with the Rockets under one, two, three coaches. Okay,
so I think it's more of the league than it
is the particular coach. Just don't even wear suits anymorefter
since the pandemic. No, we have never had a dress
code on the plane. Oh, we know you have it.
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: I always dress nicely, Like what I'm wearing today, I
will wear on the plane. Okay, because we first of all,
we travel at insanely weird times, Like we're not leaving
Houston tonight until the game starts at eight forty give
or take two and a half hours. It's eleven ten
by the time they shower and do whatever says to
midnight twelve, we're not leaving here. It'll probably twelve forty
five in the morning. On a private jet with a
full food spread. That's good, You're fine. What is the
food I to do with? Think I'm just talking about
you mean that The reason why people do this because
they don't want their players to be out landing at
at airport's going into hotels looking like they're wearing T
shirt and thong where nobody really cares. Nobody cares, but
like baseball team still the lot of guys have to
wear jackets. Yeah, I think so, they put the jackets on,
they get on the plane, they take them off immediately,
then they land, they put the jacket back on. They
go to the hotel, grab their key, grab their bag
or their bagage have sent to their room, and they
took the coat off. It seems kind of stupid. The
times have changed. Yeah, you know, they used to get
mad when your lady was shown ankle. I think he
could show anything. You'd be bouncing and become a content creator. Yeah.
By the way, who's seven months pregnant. That was a
good job by her to keep that secret as long
as possible. Yeah. Absolutely. By the way, it's going to
ruin her brand. Yeah, there's nothing that's going to ruin
the Thirsty Girls brand. Than that thirsty girl getting hurt
thirst wenched.
Speaker 17: You?
Speaker 2: Okay, over there, no four ross sick wrong with you?
I swear, And you donate your brain to science and
new path? What would you do with it at that point?
I don't know. It's like kids, whatever got into this
skull of his, you don't want any infiltrating your brain's
got an enlarged hippo campus. Oh I never heard that
word in a long time. No, that is definitely like
a ninth grade science word. Thank you. All right, Okay,
so we're gonna have the news at noon coming up.
Okay with hockey, sure, basketball, wonderful. Any football news going
on right now, anything coming out of Astro spring training
that's been Gamble looking, don't worry. Let's Ben Gamble recuperate
from whatever injury he's got. Yeah, he's on the sixty
ail right, Hell no, he wasn't he a free agent again,
so he can't go back on the sixty day. I
l By the way, one thing we got to talk
about here, we mentioned it very briefly. It was yesterday,
the day before Forest Woodla's gott to make this team
a free agent. Yes, that feels like a lot of
time the astros are spent and making sure Forrest Whitley
stad a professional baseball player. Don't you want to get
something back from that? He's like twenty seven or twenty
eight at this point. Let the man live, Let him
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to the news center. Yes, Matthew, happy to be with
you here. Oh, I got a us actually my Canadian
accent there, Matt We've had a big game yesterday Betwronto
Sports Leaders. He casually Lori and rejin Us has catch
you on. Now I'm at a big game for our
Canadian Brethren as they defeated the Evil United States.
Speaker 17: Matthew is one of the best of the league. McDavid
one hundred and fifty percent for the regular season, but
he won twelve out of four.
Speaker 2: Caya, They're old and he won that one and got
a shot off.
Speaker 16: Sarry petrickscars Conner mcdarmon, what's that for Canada? And Sheardan
Bennigs and has done it.
Speaker 2: Again inside the Tad Garden Nations Cup overtime win for
Canada as Connor McGovern and his family celebrate Sean McDonough
as an announcer, What are your spectacular on hockey? Really good?
Really good? He does? Why does he feel like I'm
snoozing when he does baseball? But when he or football?
I mean, but when he does hockey, he's like he's
into it. Maybe's because he's fast action. Do you think
he's snoozing during football? Okay, you can say yes later
to him. I mean, I like Sean. It's got a
great voice. Yeah, I did a World Series at twenty
five or twenty six years really yeah, good for him. Yeah,
Sean mcdonnaugh, he's got a fine name. His dad was
a very famous sports columnist for the Boston Globe. His
brother know that his brother used to be the general
manager of the Phoenix Suns, Ryan McDonough. Really, yeah, I'll
take your word for it, Okay, And that's all got.
They get nothing more on the hockey matter. Are you
all interested in hockey? Now you're all no. I thought
it was great for the sport because we have a
lot of people that I shouldn't say a lot. We've
got quite a few passionate people that send us messages
all the time about love the hockey, talk love this,
love that. And I didn't think five years ago that
the hockey was ever going to come to Houston. It's
going to come to Houston. And I hate this term.
So I'm not going to say sooner rather than later.
I despise that I love it. I hate it. I
just can't give you a timeline on it. But I
believe there's a one hundred percent chance that hockey will
be in Houston. Say here are we on twenty twenty five? Yes,
I would say by twenty thirty two. Can you wait
seven more years? No? Yes, I can. I can wait
seventy more years. You know what you're you're gonna enjoy
it when it comes here. I mean, I'm not gonna
hate it saying like it's small plate. There's just no
years ago. There's no way that's gonna be a conversation
piece on radio. Okay, but the guys when I when
I was in Minnesota for the three years I was there,
that my best interviews were with hockey guys. Canadians are
very nice in plight. Well, Minnesota's part of the United States. No,
but I imagine there are a lot of Canadians are
warlots Yeah, see yes, And when we get when Canada
becomes a fifty first state, it'll be a lot easier
to get back and forth between Canada. All right, man,
that's not happening. By the way, Matt, Olympic Men's ice
hockey odds are out Canada the favorite at a plus
one seventy five USA two to one, So basically those
are the co favorites. And I wanted your thoughts on
Latvia being one hundred to one in the odds. They
might not score a goal in the tournament. They got it, Well,
then why are they just one hundred and one? Sounds
like a deal on lot, you a, Matt, They don't
have to put put some shekels down on that then
for some rubles. I don't know what they used in Latvia.
All right, let's move along that with the newest Astro.
The deal has become official. We talked about it. Brendan Rodgers,
the infield or the gold glover now into the fold
with the Houston Astros. Uh. He shares Scott Boris his
agent too. This this is the quote that I have
says he shares his agent with al two A. And
here's what he has to talk about his opportunity and
playing left in Jose al Tuve playing left field, it
was just kind of a long offseason for me.
Speaker 19: Uh, that's some non roster offers and really just trying
to find the best fit. And uh uh Altov and
I shared the same agent, and you know him coming
out and saying he wouldn't want to play left field.
I kind of just felt like it was a good
opportunity for me to, you know, possibly make the team
and help the team out.
Speaker 2: So Scott Boris has won SOTO. Well it hmm, what
are you confused about? Brendan Rodgers' baseball reference page sayes
he's with Excel Sports Manager, which I believe has Kyle Tucker,
Josel Tube, Scott Borrows is his agent. Yes, so maybe
Brendan Rodgers is wrong on it or I don't know,
maybe maybe Brendan Rodgers change the reference could be wrong.
Yeah no, but it should wouldn't have said Scott Boris,
wouldn't even name him. I don't know. Maybe Scott's maybe
makes you call him Scotty b Okay, sure, why not Scobo?
But anyways, Brendan Rodgers, how much does he factor? And
spot track has Excel Sports management as well. I don't know. Okay,
what's going on here? Well my guess is when you
were a go glove winner in twenty twenty two and
you don't work anymore, that maybe you need an agent change. Yeah.
Career ops plus of ninety one hundred is average those
of you keeping score at home. Okay, so that great?
Uh yeah, I'm not thrilled if he makes the team,
it'll be in as a reserve. I mean, have some
sort of reserve kind of a utility guy. When that
was a guy that was with the team last year
that only got like two at bats, you know I'm
talking about It was the base runner, not Wincombe. It
was there was a guy on the Astros roster last
year that hardly ever played. Oh, you're talking about Great Kessinger,
Grey Kessinger, g r Ae Kessinger, Yes, Gray Great, Well,
it's short for Greble Graba Crowley Cassinger is his full
given name, Matthew all right. Fair enough. By the way,
Brennan Rodgers at coors Field eight twenty six ops away
from Corsfield six twenty eight. So you're saying there's a difference,
it's like a scramble. It's all the same three numbers. True.
What else you got? Uh, let's see what else do
I have? Well, how about your good friend. I'm at
Steve Sarkisian talking about Texas not going with a spring
game this year on The Up and Adams Show with
Kay Adams.
Speaker 20: Over the last two years, we've played thirty games. That's
a lot for college football. Fourteen two years ago, sixteen
this year. And I just mentioned we've had twenty five
guys get invited to the NFL Combine in the last
two years. So we've got a lot of young players
on our roster. We have twenty one mid year high
school kids that just showed up, and so the development
that's needed for these guys to get ready for the
fall is a little bit different than it used to be,
and so our approach is going to be a little
bit more NFL driven, kind of more of an OTA
style early on, and as we grow into more of
the scrimmage formats in the second half of spring ball
that I just don't know. Rolling the ball out, playing
the game and when we only get fifteen practices is
the best for us.
Speaker 2: Tell the truth, Ross, Tell what Steve Sarcassian failed. What
do you mean he's trying to take it easy on
the guys. Tell it's true. It's for his player's long
term health and safety. And thank god that Steve's aar
keysy and is standing up and being the voice of
the voiceless and projecting these young student athletes. He won't
do it. I will. If players don't get to play
in the Orange White game, they worry about their depth
chart and they think about the transfer portal a lot sooner,
and Steve Circassian wants none of that. Just like every
other coach will say all the things that Steve said,
we'll be concerned about the exact same thing. Matt is
the news at noon. Thank you Matt Florida Stories at
one thirty. Hell yeering out today, one fifty all things
about Canada to kind of write this absolutely, He's like,
don't do this like you mother. I know, I know
that's so unfair. I can write a question. I can help, Yeah,
I help some good wrong, No, I'm good. Oh wow.
Twelve fifteen on Sports Talk seven, give me two believable notts.
That's the hardest part of the game. Seven one you
folks at home seven one three two one two five,
seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via Real on Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Anything goes Friday continues seven one three two one two
five seven NINTI of the media. NFL Combine next week
is in Indianapolis. Dimiko is gonna speak on Tuesday. Nick
Cassia will speak on Wednesday, and we'll put it. We'll
try to play guests with the two coaches and the
GMS will say on Monday show. Monday, uh Astros will
be at night on seven NINTI, and then Tuesday Wednesday
will have shorter shows leading into Astro spring training coverage.
How about that? Yes, spring training opener tomorrow on Sports
Talk Wait and then our friend of the show Spencer
Raghetti with the program on Sunday. Where are they playing?
I'm guessing the Nationals, Uh, the Nationals Cardinals of the Mets.
If you pick one of those three of the field,
you're probably gonna win seven times out of ten. By
the way, and I'm kind of having with draws. They
were manicuring that field for two days. If you think
they were manicuring it, they're gonna If they think they
were manicuring it early, imagine what they're going through today.
They're in full panic mode. Every blade of grass has
to be perfect for that game. Mm hmmm, Oh yeah,
it is the what Nationals in math? I forgot? It's
a split squad. Yeah. And by the way, I remember,
if you are going to a game in Florida at
West Palm Beach, you will not see the automatic bite
of ball strike because that is not a Florida State
League team facility. So they're not putting it there because
they use it in the in the Florida State League,
which is stupid. You're gonna spend multi You're going to
try to change your sport up a little bit. Put
it in every park. Let everybody experience it. It's really
absurd that that that Cacti Park of the Palm Beaches
is not getting it. I look at you at the
full plug. I don't even know what cacti is. I
thought it was something Travis Scott does, right, Scott? What
does Travis Scott do? Travis Scott cacties. That's Gordy's voice.
Why is Gordy here? Show? All right? I'm here to
save the show for some reason. He's coming in to
uh get into some L s U spring game conversation
on the show. We probably can't get into the Texas
spring game Cacti Park.
Speaker 14: You didn't go to the Cactus Jack Travis Scott game
the other night, Nope, you missed that one.
Speaker 2: What what does cacti do? Why are they spending money
on this park? That's his drink he made like a dream.
Oh is it a hard seltzer or is it a
sports drink? So I don't know, Okay, I don't even know.
Speaker 14: I just saw Todd Callus. He was tweeting out Space
City gonna be calling some games here the next couple
of days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was out there, and Julia, I think Brian Lima,
now he's got some deficiencies. Oh, it is a hard Seltzer.
All right, lo Lima does a better callous than callous
does callous? Hmm, seem fair a little. How does Clanton
have to feel about we should have a callous off
excuse me, Adam Clinton and and Brian Lee McCall in,
and they they we should have them do like a
Lincoln Douglas debate, as Todd kallis about a blumber. Can
you do a blummer? Who can do blumber? I don't know, no,
not really. He does a solid one callous. Well, you
know what I know, let's do one. Let's do Monday
callous versus callous.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like that. I think it'd be hysterical. That'd be great.
How does Todd Callous feel about this? He probably doesn't think.
Speaker 14: Maybe you can drop in your uh Bill Cosby impression
you do, Okay.
Speaker 2: So let's go back to the reason why you're in here.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think Matt stephen A is the
strongest stop. I tried stephen A today. Uh it was wretched.
You gotta start real low down here and then you
get going. And Ron James a bunch of where it
says i'd fotuitous and unconscionable. I heard your argument, and
it's just doesn't happen in vlibibly. If you work in
a preposterous it's absolutely possibly preposterous. I'm in the league,
I'm on the NBA streets, I'm in LA, I'm in Miami.
I make him stop. Okay, so sorry, anyways, why we
have Gordyon here? Why are you in here? College football?
Are you guys talking about the UT spring game?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 2: And I heard Sara going, we've played more games than
anyone else and they have almost What does that have
anything to do with playing a spring game in April?
Speaker 14: What is that because you're played an extra playoff game?
Speaker 2: Well, how many of those games? How many of those
players that played in that game are even still with
the team.
Speaker 14: He's like, we got tons of people going off the draft.
Speaker 2: Exactly, So then what is the answer. Why why is
he doing this? Is it to keep things close to
the vest because they do vanilla stuff? Anyways, and spring game? Exactly,
you're not giving anything? Why conspiracy theorists put on your
tin foil hat with me here? Okay, they got arch manning,
we know how big arch Mania is huge. Yes, I
think he wants to settle the excitement off of that
a little bit.
Speaker 14: Why it raises expectations. Arch goes out there, throws four touchdowns.
Oh my god, Heisman winner Locke, Texas is a lock
to win it all this year. I think the other
part of it.
Speaker 2: Is, I think he cares about that. They let me
tell you as a neutral before you go any further
as a neutral observer in this I don't buy that
argument at all. If you if you are trying to
be very careful with an athlete that plays at the
University of Texas, that athlete was never meant to play
at the University of Texas.
Speaker 14: What if it's the other way. What if Archie goes
out there and sucks.
Speaker 8: Nobody?
Speaker 2: This guy's trash? Why is he here? That's that only
happens in the s in l s U. When you
all get worried about your quarterbacks. Sauce, you're you're, You're
the king of the Chris quarterback is the best thing ever.
And he throws Meyer the best. Yes.
Speaker 14: By the way, the Saints just hired Doug nas Myers,
their new oc set in the stage. Fort Myers are there,
set in the stage for a sun to be The Saints.
Speaker 2: Believing Heimi and harp Onesmyer. What Nesmeyer or Manning gets
higher draft in the NFL. Oh, it's gonna be our Arch. Well,
they said, They already said, like Arch, if the draft
was held right now and Arch was eligible, he'd be there.
He would he would go ahead of Shador and sit.
There's no way he's only throwing like fifty. They think
the development it's the Arch Manning name. If he was
that great, he would have been playing ahead of Quinn. Well,
some people think that some people thought he was better
than Quinn. Well, dude, you didn't see the sixty seven
yard run against Utsa. Come on, he was a huge.
Speaker 14: The other part of this Fellas, is who Texas opens
with next year. They open on the road at Ohio State,
the reigning national champion to open the scenes. So I
think that there, if they're opening with Lamar, I don't
think they give a damn about the spring game. I
think they're being overly protective of what everything They put out,
their schemes, what's on film, Then.
Speaker 2: Run a bunch of an La plays, then runs up
at Urani in seventh grade pop. That's what they do anyway.
But I say, then, why we were about it. I
think overly. I think, yeah, somebody's building building up excuses
for all the wrong reasons. Rossie, I will go with
Gordi on this. You play the spring game, you give
somebody am I saying you were against it. I think
you give a football crazy culture a little taste of
what's coming up, and not not giving out the full book,
not going through a deep playbook. You put thirty or
forty guys out that make it a handful of snaps,
and you call it a day and you have a
big barbecue. Yeah, I'm curious what exactly his reasoning is
this crap about that Matt Rule's putting out there of
me and we played a spring game on ESPN last
year and then all my players are getting hit up
by the coaches on dms BRO. Just because you played
a spring game doesn't mean that suddenly coaches are going, oh,
that guy's there. Oh I've ever.
Speaker 14: Seen that kids film before, but I saw him in
Nebraska's spring game, like, get out of here.
Speaker 2: That's the worst Matt role impersonation you I've ever heard
in my life. Matt re former, I don't even know
what is he. He was a big twelve eight Oh,
that's right. Did have them on opening up three coaches
ago at Baylor. I think it's weak sauce.
Speaker 14: I think fellows for spring games we do away with
team versus team. I think we take those cupcake games
from September and.
Speaker 2: We play those in April. Why not Texas bringing McNeese
State for a showcase a preseason game if you will,
because that's ridiculous. Why you don't want to play? You
want to play? Is the game count? I mean no,
it's count. It's just a spring game. No, that's Sark said.
He wants to run an NFL style like OTAs. You
know what they do in NFL, guys, they do practices.
The Saints come in and take on the Texans. Uh,
in practice, that's in camp. That's normally the CT is
normally like stretching in light work with like a helmet
on and no pads. Well, uh, playing spring game, let's
go A and M also playing a spring game in
week one against Stephen F Austin, he said, full we
are full go on spring game. Yeah, they're playing spring
games because the don't anybody. They're starting with Steven six
Rice the Tips over in Austin.
Speaker 14: They don't want to take part.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I start. Look, I would rather
them having an orange and white game if I would
listen to a logical reason why he's not doing it.
I imagine there's some sort of reason that a lot
of games. This sounds like I look sounds like to me,
there's something that is going to the NFL. It's really
bothering him. But he can't really tell the tell the
audience of public what the real reason is. Can we
get some investigator? Come on, he is going to find
out what the reason he's protecting. Check catch him, suck it.
What's a guy's name Brown? You know we got Gordy.
We know he's got contacts in Austin. He's running the
station up there, so let's go. Yeah, you are the
program director of that station.
Speaker 14: I think they're protecting arch This is all about protecting
arch Interesting.
Speaker 2: So, so when Archie graduates, the orange orange White game
comes back another hot take. Oh okay, not really.
Speaker 14: I think arch comes back another year after this.
Speaker 2: I would like that if he's good, if he really good,
if he's not really good, he can go.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 2: My my gut feeling was he was going to finish
his career somewhere else. How's that working out for you?
Not great? So that's fine. Actually I believe you put
your name on that. No, I couldn't have. I'll go
check the final I got. I missed the wrong school
quarterback was going to be a different It was just
a gut feeling. I won't crush you that hard. Thank
you very much. All right, Gordon can be found on
these radio stations coming up today. He'll be on the
w l A F and Lafayette Spolts, the ESPN A
TAN forody. See how do I know that?
Speaker 16: For real?
Speaker 14: And then I'm gonna go open a Crawford box from card.
Speaker 2: You're such a whore. You'll be on an Auburn Alabama too, right, Kob.
Speaker 14: We did that yesterday.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you'll be in Auburn, Alabama today. Lafayette, Louisiana.
If you saw your wife, you're very busy. Do you
turn your AX? You tune into the Louisiana AX and
I when you go on that Louisiana show? No? Does
Does the Louisiana Show have a app? We can listen
to your interview?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the name of the host? Boudreau Timbadeau. They
actually talked normal.
Speaker 14: They hired normal people that do the radio show.
Speaker 2: It's a tank Tippodeau.
Speaker 14: Now you listen to Bobby A. Beart and Mike Detillier
and New Orleans. You get a little bit heay's still alive.
Oh yeah, which one? Which one was the guy that
died to let you few years back? Big thicket, New
Orleans accents Hoky guys No, no, no.
Speaker 2: No, that is real name. Hooky guy guy hold on
he was. Here's the holder for the Saints for a
long time. Holding him kicks now, man, there was some guy,
old guy on No Orans that died a few years back.
Really super thick accent. Lace is out. That's a special segment.
Speaker 14: It was like tel Avia got fired.
Speaker 16: He no.
Speaker 2: Got break. We're gonna hit her breaks on time. Oh
my god, we're late. Where's we don't have a produce? O?
There he is? You were blocked by I was like
he might not have a producer. He's given up because
he's just so happy. Canada one. All right, Cougar basketball
opening ESPN's game to tomorrow. We'll talk about that a
little bit. Twelve thirty three, Capan Do No Tipodeau on
La Fienne's Posita Lunchtimers.
Speaker 1: Lunchtime. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: I just got sent a hilarious McRib reel on Instagram
that I'm gonna have Connor play the audio four but
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next Honors Hour or so, by the way, get your
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Matter of fact, when we do Florida stories at one
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M Ok, yeah, we don't want anything like cruel or
you know, Devianto or anything, but hey, this is Florida
Man eight hour Crimes Free in Palm Beach County. Matt,
we were just wait this picture. It's you stop get
out of here. By the way, if you're going to
the game day tomorrow at seven o'clock, they're opening up
for Twita Center. They're opening up letting everybody in earlier
because the weather just is gonna be bone chilling cold.
We don't even people up to people out there freezing. Yeah, okay.
Do you ever know a game day or a either
college basketball or football? I have. I'm gonna tell you this.
When I was in college at ut we always made
plans to make it to game day, but but then
the aager bombs started her hitting. I don't think I
this is I'm actually embarrassed to tell you this. I
don't think I ever made it. I think one time
we kind of we were, but we were late, and
it was we were so far away from the stage
we just left. That was when I was living nor
near campus off thirtieth and Speedway. We uh in two
thousand and four or five, one of the two four.
I was my first year living in Utah, and we
decided to spend the night at rice Cycle sitting with
the out where the Utah Utes played, and they had
game day from there. This is when it was hot
and fresh and interesting. It's still very interesting. People still
like it a lot. But this is when Corso could
actually put together sentences and Kirk Herb Street and I
think it was Chris Fodder was hosting the show at
the time. This has been quite a few few years ago.
We were so amped up for it. But if you
don't get into the first ten rows, you don't see anything.
So what you wind up doing is being in a
group of people of your fellow fans, but you don't
see anything. Now basketball is different because they have your
an arena setting where seats go from top to bottom,
so if you're in the very top you can still
see things. Where if you are just walking around on
the ground at a football edition of Game Day, again,
if you're not in the first two or three roads,
hard to see anything. So if you're never gone before
and you're a Cougar fan, you should absolutely go. It
should be a lot of fun. And my guess is
I mean they're gonna probably put seven thousand people in
the building if they wanted to, you could, you could
technically sell out the game day What times the tip
one o'clock, So they're gonna do the game day show
and then they're gonna have everybody leave because if you
don't have tickets, you can't stick around. So they're gonna
like basically say get out for a little while they're
serving free coffee and donuts by the way. Oh, I
might go. There's no chance I get a couple donuts
and leave. You're gonna drive all the way huge age
for some donuts. How about I give you the two
dollars over the head kevlar ves. I'm good by the way.
You know what, I'll piggyback off that doctor the tour.
I'm sorry, Please fix our crime. It's ridiculous. I'm embarrassed. Yeah,
the students were protesting, right, they were like four or
five robberies. Yeah, and they want to protest tomorrow before
game down. Like not not the spot to do it,
but you know what, Yeah, I'm I'm I am sick
and tired of our university administration doing nothing about our
crime problem. Yeah. Maybe they think it should have like
a gun time off off. Everybody's strapped. They should do
free gun get a day at the game. No less guns,
more police, less guns. No, haven't you heard Matt, More guns,
less shootings. I want more. I want less of everything.
I want less crime. I want less guns. I want
it less everything. God, am I'm super mad, cockatory. Let's
go step up your game. Enough of this crime. Sick
of it. Every campus has crime. We just had more
than the average campus does. I'm embarrassed, but you know what,
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to trigger you like you
you did too late. I apologize a biscuit. What's going on?
Speaker 6: Cougar Mat, Cougar Mat. Heymen, that's the world we live in, man.
Speaker 2: You know, well, I don't know. I don't want my
world to be around my campus where every other day
I got numbskulls like Ross here telling me about daily
crime at the campus. I'm kind of tired of it.
And a minute our administration does nothing about it. Zilch.
Speaker 6: Yeah, now that that's a part where we can't agree on.
They it's, you know, time to step it up.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, Matt.
Speaker 6: I think it's a big game tomorrow for the Cougars. Man.
Speaker 2: Right now, it look like they got.
Speaker 6: Us kind of like the the bottom of the two seeds,
and I think we can beat our state and finish
strong in the big twelve.
Speaker 11: I think it's possibility we can get to that last.
Speaker 6: Number one seed, if not at least, you know, one
of the higher two seeds where we can get better matchups.
Speaker 2: I think at that level, I mean, think about this,
this tournament, this year, And I don't want to paint
with the broad brush on this, but I have to
because there's so many different schools from what I have read,
and I'm starting to read a lot more about this bracketology.
The eight nines going against the ones, could there could
be at least one or two one seeds go down
because this tournament is super super deep in that what
would be what twenty eight to thirty five club in
terms of college basketball teams. That's how deep this year's
college basketball tournament could potentially be. So I'm not gonna
sweat it. If they get to number one, that'd be great,
but number one does not guarantee success. If they want
to be a two seat, I'm fine as long as
they just don't whimpered towards the tournament. And I want
them to show well in the Big Twelve. I'd like
them to win the conference cerment. They've not done that
since joining the Big Twelve. Is only in the second year.
I don't think they've even won a conference tournament except
for maybe when Penders ran things. But I think you
want to build some momentum, but you also want to
make sure that nobody gets hurt because this team while
has a good rotation of interer nine players, it also
has a team that's got a lot of foul trouble
on occasions. And I don't want them to be strapped
in terms of having guys have to worry about their
playing time because of fouls and or injuries.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but one of the things about the scene is
the higher, the better your seed in the better location,
you know. So I mean, like you say, man, it's
it's gonna be a tough tournament. And and looking back
on the losses that the Cougars have barely losing to Arizona,
I mean, I mean Auburn barely losing Alabama and that
you know, I throw the game against whether that San
Diego State or San Diego out.
Speaker 11: But I think the Coogar's got a good chance.
Speaker 2: They have no you know what, they have no bad
losses upfront. If San Diego States your worst loss, you've
had a spectacular season. Actually Texas Tech would maybe maybe
be their worst off. But hell text text on the tournament,
I mean, there's no there's no bad losses in the.
Speaker 6: Group, right, And I think the key for the Cougars
is up front, the depth, and like you talked about,
the foul trouble, the tuggler.
Speaker 10: And and uh another guy not the one that.
Speaker 6: Comes off the bench gets into that could be the
problem if we played the team with a bunch of
bigs like Auburn gave us a problem big inside. But
the backcourt, I think is it's gonna be okay. I
think Arsenal is the X factor. We can get him
going because he can.
Speaker 1: Do little both.
Speaker 11: But I like the coopar scene, man, I really.
Speaker 2: Do you should because it's a fun group of team,
It's deep, it can shoot the three ball. Thank you
Biscuit for the phone call that the low post presence
has always been good. Again, foul trouble will be the
biggest thing that will be hurting them potentially, But as
far as I'm concerned, honestly, to me, this might be
the better team of the group that he's had because
he's had Arsenal and has shitting the three point shot.
You've got malos Uzan has been hitting a lot more,
a lot more aggressiveness on the shots. L J. Cryer
is knocking down threes, team shooting about forty Among its
main go to rotation guys, they shooting about forty percent
from three and oh, by the way, the number one
scoring defense in the country and third in point differential.
That's kind of a skewed number because of the fact
that you've got three inndred schools playing and not all
schedules are created equal. Yeah, that's why you go to
adjusted numbers like Ken Poem, how's Kim polm Like Mom's
got them the third def Tennessee first, who second? Second?
They have Saint John's actually adjusted defense, and they have
the Cougars at the seventh offense. Yeah, so top ten
in both that's insane. Yeah, the only their team top
ten in both Duke and Florida. By the way, Uh,
speaking of Duke, Cooper Flagg probably gonna be the number
one pick in the draft. Yes, apparently. People in San
Antonio already printing his jersey. Oh no really if they
get Wmbanyama and Flag in two out of the last
three years, Yeah, those are like the mega leg last
year there was no mega, no doubt about it. Number one.
Those guys are number one. That's crazy. That's gonna be
very upsetting. Actually, Cooper Flag needs to go to a
team the rockets of their draft pick on and maybe
he can go How about to the Rockets. Yeah much
better twelve forty six. We continue the Matt Thomas showld
Ross in a moment, we take you to two o'clock
Florida Stories today, Florida stories at I'm thirty, but hell
y are not all things about Canada? And uh we
got Astros, Rockets in the brain college basketball in the brain. Oh,
Canada winning the Four Nations event. All here on seven ninety.
Speaker 21: This is Craig Ackerman and the Rockets get the job done.
Oh here's another new catchphrase I have for you.
Speaker 1: Good gracious, good gracious.
Speaker 21: You're listening to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 2: So it takes us a little while sometimes to give
you the non Florida stories. But this took me a
minute a half to find a Florida story. Mine's not
even gross. It's just funny, wonderful, which is really out
of norm for me, because soon as I like to
find the gross ones. Speaking of that, any of you
that listened to this Matt Thomas Show with Ross know
that we talked sports what ninety eight percent of the time,
give or take maybe sometimes ninety nine percent at the
time somewhere around there. But there is something that bothers
me occasionally, and that is Ross's constant haraz of America
sandwich known as the mcgrib. Oh my god. Well, my
good friend Tracy Hughes, and she's not probably not listening.
She's the vice president of media relations for the Rockets.
She sent me an ig video that basically, and I
don't know who this person is. Let's see here her
name is. It's called Britt. In her books, she's got
a lot of whiteboard funny things she puts on a whiteboard.
She has five she follows five hundred and sixty five people.
She's got one hundred and twenty eight thousand followers. She's
from Florida, Okay, And she decided she wanted to give
you a little rundown on her whiteboard. Obviously we can't
show you the whitebord as we're radio, but this is
her whiteboard. Was describing something that is near and dear
to my heart. That is, of course, the McRib types
of people.
Speaker 22: I don't want book recks from Part forty number one,
people who eat mcribs from McDonald's. I see that the
megarib is back, and I don't know why they keep
bringing that back. Who was calling up to corporate.
Speaker 2: Asking for the magarib.
Speaker 22: Y'all are by far some of the most concerning individuals
in the world. Quite frankly, you might eat humans. If
you are going to McDonald's and you say, yes, can
I get a mcribok, you need help because in all honestly,
a McRib is dinosaur ankle meat.
Speaker 2: You are eating a dinosaur.
Speaker 22: I don't know where it getting a dinosaurs from, but
you are eating dinosaur ankle meat.
Speaker 2: That is what the McRib is.
Speaker 22: You don't make good decisions in life at all, so
I definitely don't want your book.
Speaker 2: REGs Hm kind of said it better myself. I'm supposed
to be the one coughing of.
Speaker 22: You.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I can outrage over the mcribs slant. Yeah, I know, Matt,
you're you're very broken up about it. Yeah, dinosaur ankle
meat dinosaurs. I've never heard the phrase dinosaur ankle meat
before in my life until just now. You've got You've
got serious problems. That's what this woman says. I think
she's right. I'm glad that Tracy sent you this. She's
anti McRib. I imagine all my friends are anti McRib that
your life loves it. My wife, my son's love it.
My daughter does not. Good. Uh, there's a few of
you that do like it. So you you've infected the
brains of your wife and your children with this mcribs love.
I true story. I went and got a McDonald's drive
through on the way home yesterday, uh huh from the airport.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 2: And the first thing that Kim said to me was
do they still start to make ribs? I said no,
and she goes, damn well good, you know what. McDonald's
did her a favor. But way we did some sneaky
yesterday wasn't sneaky? Was it was genius. We went got
the two double cheeseburger combo with fries, big basket of
fries nine bucks. Yeah, really, very very affordable. Yes, we
like Big Max, so we tied them to take the
ketchem and mustard off of the burger, and a had
Big Max sauce. So succession, it's a big Mac without
the extra the middle bunch about the extra bun and
no letus. What was that sauce costume? Zilch. They did
put Big Max sauce on it for free. Yeah really Yeah,
that's interesting. So my sandwiches were two all beef patties,
special sauce. Yeah, no lettuce, no cheese, no sesame seeds,
no sesame seeds on bun. But I still had a
bun and one less bun, so less carbs whin Yeah
you get that. Maybe a six piece nugs splitted with
the lady, no side one double. My wife had the other,
and we split the fries. It's a lot of fries.
It's the basket of fries is intense. Yes, m I've
never said to myself, I have to stop eating McDonald's fries.
It's my go to after a night of drinking. The
basket of fries. You can really maybe one double cheeseburger,
maybe two if I'm feeling really those entire basket of
fries yourself. Damn no, you know I'm saying, split it
with who your left side of your brain? With my
left hand and my right hand. You do things with
both your hands very well. Parents called ambidextrous, Matt, not ambidextrous.
Same difference. All right, Uh, what should Major League Baseball
in the ESPN do because of right now? What do
they call it? When you're not there, they're feuding, they're
not they're on a break. They're on a break like
Ross and Rachel wore on separation. MLB and ESPN are separated.
We'll talk about that. We'll get to the Rockets against
the Wolves. Oh Canada. I can't believe we haven't played
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.
Speaker 2: What oh three on Sports Talk Seminati is the final
line with the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on this Friday.
Anything Goes Friday at seven one three, two one two
five is seven NATI eight team coming up at two.
We got Rockets basketball tonight, late start time Network, our
local pregame, the launch pad at seven thirty. Network pregame
at eight, and we're gonna tip that bad boy off
probably I guess about eight forty five. Get you don't
get you nap for that game. Who's got the launch
pad tonight? That would be me? All right, So there's
really no need for you to listen to seven night
until tip time. Then. Oh I'm just kidding. Lit's send
seven thirty. Why would you say that, man, I'm sure
there's millions of people listening to the Rockets launch pads.
They love you, they love the launch pad. Normally we
do a game rewind on the pregame show. We will
do the first half wind was like the best of me. See,
I knew you were gonna make it about yourself. We
will be playing. Yes, a couple of your highlights from
the pile. There should be like seven or eight from
the No, I don't mail it in like some people
don't play that many. Uh, A few from the from
the biggest games of the of the first half of
the season. Let's big wins. Let's answer that question.
Speaker 8: Then.
Speaker 2: The biggest game of the season was the win over
the Oklahoma City Thunder. I would say I would win
over the Warriors to go to the semi finals of
the NBA Cup. I agree with that. What else would
the big Cleveland win victories or notable games? Nobody dropped
fifty two Cleveland wins. Has anybody even dropped forty this year? Yeah?
Did did Shingo and do it against the t Wolves?
Was he had forty four or something like that? And
then and then the Mackets went to Cleveland and one
and went to Boston and one back to back games.
Some of those games will be mentioned. Special game winner
from Aman Thompson will be in the pregame for sure.
Low watermark of the year, the opening night lost to Charlotte.
We're gonna try to show on those two games against
the hated Brooklyn Nets. It'll be mentioned, but I don't
know if we'll go to the Okay, good play, I love,
so you know what Hornet's final call. So y'all need
to listen to the Rockets launch pad today seven thirty. Okay, listen,
learn love? What do my research for the game tonight? Yes,
Terrence Shannon Junior is the former first first round pick
of the Minnesota timber Wolves first and matter of fact,
he's in his rookie year. Okay, he got his jersey
retired at Illinois over the All Star break. Yes, so
they go to pull the banner down, uh huh and
it was hung upside down? Was that a sign of distress?
That's a sign of someone's gonna should be looking for work.
You can't really mess that one up. Nobody checked this.
That's the that's the thing. You say. What you just said,
Nobody checked it. Don't you have a dress, rehearsal and
pulling the bag now probably, I mean, how embarrassing. I
mean there is embarrassing things. We've all done things. But
if you're in charge of game promotions, you got fifteen
thousand people in your arena, you bring him back, your
beloved Terrence Sharon Shannon Junior, who only played two years
in Illinois's kind of where you retire guy's number for
two years? It would do that. I don't see. It
was kind of silly. It feels like they'd have more
history there in Illinois. Greatest only player Kendall Gilt. I'm
gonna go Luther Head. That's not a bad one. Oh
who else? Uh? Devon No, not Devon Williams. The Williams
Utah Jazz moved down a bunch of places.
Speaker 9: Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: How about de Brown, Darren Williams, Darren Wims, Oh Darren Well, yeah,
Darren willms is probably yeah, Darren Williams. You know among
that group there too, there's a lot of it's got
a good basketball program. Better they're playing Duke Tomorrow. Ranker
dot com is Darren Williams one, Kindle gild two, Nick
Anderson three. Hey, that's rude. By the way, A little
shout out to Space City Network. They did a nice job.
They would talk to me about two weeks ago for
a little thirtieth anniversary feature they did on the Clyde
Drexler trade that brought Clyde from Portland to Houston. He
it's somebody whys a as you man talking about something
happened thirty years ago? Yeah, it was me. They interviewed me.
They interviewed Calvin Murphy and h Craig when I Clyde
apparently unavailable. I don't think Clyde lives in Houston anymore, Okay,
but yeah, behind the scenes of the thirty anniversary, Yeah,
I believe he said that making the trade was as
easy as clubbing baby seals. I believe I wouldn't reach
for common. I believe that was not a part of
the conversation. All right, Online. Two, we've got Ryan Montgomery,
it says mcgrib update on my Valentine. I love this.
I don't know what to expect on this, but let's
find out.
Speaker 9: Ryan.
Speaker 2: You're on seven ninety at one oh nine and anything
goes Friday. How are you, my friend? I'm doing great.
Matt Ross, how are you all doing excellent, fantastic.
Speaker 13: All right, First the mcgrib Matt you should just stop
eating it, thoes mcdoubles with the big Max sauce.
Speaker 2: Stick with that.
Speaker 13: I agree with the SoundBite. I love you though, but
McK ribs are out. That being said, I called you
all Valentine's Day to Vince. I was like, I go
through all this effort to try to find something for
my wife, still great, and I never what I want.
You asked me what I want? I went steak, and
I'm not going to say the other part I said,
and you said, hey, that's March fourteenth, anybody. So we
we went back and forth. Ross wasn't feeling great. I
wish that he would feel better.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I am feel that.
Speaker 1: Then that was that.
Speaker 13: That night we went out to dinner and jokingly I
brought up our conversation to my wife and apparently she
had had enough social lubricant to find it incredibly hilarious.
Speaker 2: Nice And if.
Speaker 13: Everything worked out the way I think it might have,
I'm gonna name my kid Matthew Ross or Ross Matthew
Ross top billing.
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you have you all been trying or
was that just uh?
Speaker 13: I called a while back, a long time ago, on
a on Anything Goes Friday. So my my my first,
my only son, he's ten months old, and I wanted
to go back to back. My wife does not want
to go back to back. She wants to wait a
few years. But I I threw caution to the wind.
Speaker 2: Sir, m hm. Okay, So you were you were, So
you've got no confirmation yet you're just thinking that there's
this certainly within the realm of possibility. It was Valentine's Day,
it's two weeks ago. I have no idea, okay, and
she wasn't.
Speaker 13: But I will say this, I did nothing to prevent it.
Speaker 2: The old nothing to prevent a card. All right. So Ryan,
now you're bragging on February fourteen hockey, talking about hockey.
Speaker 13: There was no goalie Connor McGovern.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's there's the coffee, there's the gift. So you
shot and you scored, is what you're trying to tell us.
Speaker 13: There's no there's no, there's the there's still there's still
making a judgment call in. Uh, I guess where it
lies to TVD.
Speaker 2: Okay, God, if you're going to brag about February the fourteenth.
Are you going to be calling us on March fifteenth?
Is that going to be yes, sir, no on that one.
Speaker 16: No.
Speaker 13: I think I convinced my wife to call you on
March thirteenth, and you're gonna give.
Speaker 2: Her the run around on how that holiday works.
Speaker 15: She seemed into it.
Speaker 13: Her opinion might have changed because she said the express
the espresso Martini's. They were talking. Uh, but I don't
know what sober wife sounds like. On March thirteenth, she
might think this is a horrible, horrible joke.
Speaker 2: So okay, So March thirteenth, she's do we have a game?
I don't know if we have an Astros game, but
we will definitely be on at some point March thirteenth.
She's more than welcome to call the show. We will
give you give her the most delicate advice possible in
this because this is one of those things that's a
slippery slope for us. We don't want to have her
mad at you. We don't want her embarrass on the show.
We don't want things to be pressured. We want her
to organically just want to do what you want her.
Speaker 13: To do exactly. But there's the implication, right it's on.
It's on the number one rad Thos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's a major market radio, that's for sure,
all right, Ryan, Hey have missus, Ryan, give us a
call March thirteenth, and we'll help you the best we can,
of course.
Speaker 13: And also what I was getting is I want to
say thank you all. That was a wonderful banter that
ended up turning into a wonderful Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: And thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Guys.
Speaker 11: Ross.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're feeling better. Thank you Ryan. I appreciate
it anything for you. Ryan, I'm glad where you're where you're.
You know, we are were you're Afridisiac. We are literally
this show is repopulating the earth. We are viagra. We
are the Viagar for Houston sports listeners. I didn't know
you were going to go there, but you did. They
call me mister radio Afridisiac. True. We're like we're like that.
We're like that stuff that you buy at the convenience store,
those little pills, the the wacky weed things or whatever
those things are. That's that's what we are. You go
get your lottery ticket, maybe some smokes, maybe a Danish
or so, a hot cup of coffee and you get
those pills for like nine dollars at the front, at
the front desk. This is like radio sex. Is how
good it is? Geez, I feel like you get too
many of these references. This is all you ever talk about.
You literally just did it five seconds ago. Ryan brought
this up. Not me, not my fault that our audience
is getting lucky. It is is our audience having more
relations than the average show. I don't know, do you
think you field testing on? You think Adam and Adams
show has as many people having relations as we do. No,
Ryan's a satisfied customer. Thank you, Ryan. March thirteenth, missus
Ryan calling the show. All right, let's go. It's going
to be an awkward situation. It'd be pretty funny. One fourteen,
It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross, How are we
going to mend the fences between MLB and ESPN? We'll
do that next here on seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety Matt Thomas, Ross Viel It's the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Hi sports talks.
Speaker 2: Up in nineties former Bowl Brown Lamar Cardinal Great joining
us in the offices, Yes, telling him much too much.
He loves the banter of the Matt Thomas shoel Ross.
We're just like, we're a couple of guys are sitting
around having a couple of pints mm hmm, eating mid
to Ryan. Yeah, eating a dinosaur ankle meat. That's just
got it. I'm gonna you know what we're gonna do
this next time it comes around what should be only
a matter of time, We're gonna go have it. We're
gonna go a little get together, sit around, just knock back,
talk sports, have a couple of cold beverages and eat mcribs.
Just I'll just go buy fifty and put them in
bags or bags that are bags that are bags.
Speaker 11: Enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Wh I was speaking of restaurants. You see what I
tweeted out yesterday. No, the first ever combo Applebee's slash
m ihop can be found in Sageine, Texas. Really now,
my guess is that the Rapplereaves and the Byebop are
usually not very far from each other because there are
similar types of clientele that would go to said places.
Oh you you were tweeting up like a mudda. I
did I have that account muted? I don't know why,
but yeah, you can be the first one in this
entire country was found in Sagein mm hm, which is interesting.
Why would you go to Sagein for all that? Is
that real? Though? Why would it be? I don't know.
Looks good to me, I mean, it makes sense. Again,
the client tells the same if you want to, if
you want to uh you know, uh rudy twoty fresher
and you want riblets.
Speaker 17: No.
Speaker 2: Usually if I have somebody muted, they put out some
news or something. Oh okay, but it looks like this
is real, okay, So I'm just saying. Sageine, Texas home
of the world's largest pecan, the large and a single one,
I guess, and Burnt Bean Company barbecue was it? It
was delicious. One time I went to a Sageine rarey
bean and asked for gravy with our chicken fingers, and
they said it'd be about fourteen minutes. Did you say,
give me the mix and hot water and I'll do
it myself. I said, we said fourteen minutes for hot
water in the mix. You don't, you're not you're not
creating fresh gravy in the back there. Maybe they're even
if you're hand whisking it. My mother in law, who
was pretty you know, makes she rest was very relaxing.
She goes fourteen minutes, maybe somebod who's running the store
to get some more gravy mix. What do you find
gravy mixing that kind of quantity? The gravy mix. It
was getting dropped off in ten minutes, so it's gonna
take up another two and it's the lovelad in two
more minutes to make it.
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 2: They said, I gotta get my break in. Yeah, gotta
finish my break. Let's go to Joe in the Heights
at one twenty three on seven. Unty Joe, good afternoon to.
Speaker 10: You, hey man, since you got Bull Brown there by
the way, just a couple of things on bow that's
not what I called. Uh, he can tell you about
the time he wrestled a bear. And then also I
dated a girl from Beau Mount one time, and I
said I knew Bull Brown and she goes, oh yeah,
he dated every twenty.
Speaker 2: Year old and all bow Mount. So just just en
f why I am I'm Bull Brown? Oh wait a minute,
I know who this Joe is. Why why are you
giving out tea like that? Joseph, what's wrong with you.
Come on, Joe, Come on, Joe. Bo's a friend of ours.
You know, we're all friends, we're all family. You're gonna
tell yeah, he did wrestle a bear and his head
dated many twenty year olds, and uh yeah, I won't
leave it at that, go to go to other things,
move on. It's terrible. Okay deal Tommy.
Speaker 10: By the way, I'm living in Portland, the home of
of nuts and whatever. Anyways, Uh, the Oltani contract, so
I'm wondering, at the end of ten years, six hundred
and eighty million dollars goes towards their.
Speaker 2: Their salary cap.
Speaker 10: Are they going to have to pay the luxury tax
on six hundred and eighty million, which I think it's
gonna be one point three billion dollars between the six
eighty and the luxury And then the other thing is
from Oultani's standpoint, he's uh, he's deferring that money. Does
he get interest on that? Is it doesn't go to
our like a Vanguard Index five hundred, because it's gonna
it's gonna be worth a lot more money at the
end of ten years than the six hundred and eighty million,
even if it's at five percent.
Speaker 2: I can tell you a question. Yeah, thanks, Joe, I
can tell you the back half. He is absolutely getting
interest on that, for sure. Yeah, you're for.
Speaker 6: Sure on that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm I'm for sure on that. And if
I'm wrong, I will apologize to Joe. I thought I
read that he wasn't. All right? You look the front half.
You explained that part. I'll see what was the front half? Yeah,
it doesn't count against the luxury tax. No, it's basically
off the books money, the deferments. It's my understanding. Or no, no,
I'm sorry. It's not off the books money.
Speaker 9: It's not.
Speaker 2: He's making seventy million a year and then sixty eight
of it is deferred. It's a percentage of it is
against the tax, and then the rest will be off
basically off the books. That's why they're doing the deferments.
So no, in the full amount. No, I don't know
what the exact percentage is. I think it's like fifty
sixty percent or something like that, but it will not
in the full amount count against the tax. Kim over
here right now, Okay, hit me. Why just co caught
me right now? Because you were wrong? I was wrong.
I was right Toddy's contract includes a large deferral no
interest payment provision on the six hundred and eighty million dollars,
effectively making and a very large interest free loan of
the team. I staying corrected. I really thought, and again
I wouldn't make that up because I'm just trying to
sound smart. He made it up. I didn't make it.
Have I really got wrong? But no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. People are sick and tire me not
being held accountable for my mistakes. Oh what do you mean?
I got a whole file on your mistakes. Yeah, but
I'm talking about just general people. Trust me. I gave you.
I gave you thirty seconds ago a bit of wrong information.
That's okay. I'm gonna get jokes back on the line here.
We corrected it in one minute, Joe, I apologize giving
you wrong information. I want to apologize to you in
the city of Houston and the city of Portland. Yeah, no,
no problem.
Speaker 10: But you know why don't other teams do that so
that they can, you know, so that they can avoid
the luxury tax?
Speaker 2: Well you need well, well yeah, Alex Bregman did it.
There are other deferred contracts you need to get the
the player has to agree to it. Oh, tony, because
of how lucrative he can his endorsement money is, he
can afford to give up that money interest free. And
so the player has to say, I'm giving you an
interest free loan basically, and I'm putting off all this money.
And most players don't want to agree to, certainly not
to the level that ultimately you don't also don't want
it to always carry a balance. It's like carrying credit
card balance, right, I mean, even though there's no interest
to it, you're still carrying money each and every year.
So if you happen to sell the team in a
few years and you want to see where you are financially,
if you're carrying fifteen to twenty million dollars a year
in dead salary because you're paying other people off that,
it makes it less attractive for you to potentially sell
the team. Correct, Now, that is a game changer, But
some people just want to pay it and be done
with it. This Google says that of the seventy million
he's making a year, forty six counts to the competitive
balance tax. Yeah, it's yeah, you don't. They're not circumventing
the system. Well, he should be saying he's getting seventy later,
but it does require the player to play along, right,
And honestly, if I was Hango, Yeah, if I was
in that situation, I would to take deferred money for sure,
if I know that that organization's going to mean. Look,
the Angels are and the Dodgers are not going to
go away in forty years in the theory, right, depending
on whether the apocalypse hits or something. Now, Steve Young said,
I'll take the deferred money from La Express the usfl
He's still chasing that money. Bobby Bonie is still getting paid. Man,
It's only been forty years he's been looking for that money.
So it depends on what you depends on the company
which you want to defer your said cash all right,
time now for us to give you Monday through Thursday
money through most Fridays. As you say, we play either
the Fantasy five or we have non Florida stories. But
the rule is on the show is if any of
the three of us are in Florida during the week
of non Florida stories, we flip it and make it
Florida stories. We'll have those Florida stories for you. Next
on Sports Talk seven ninety Lunchtimers.
Speaker 1: Lunchtimers, It's the Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 4: We find interesting stories that cure outside the state.
Speaker 12: Of Florida and share.
Speaker 2: Them with the people of hust.
Speaker 12: It's time for No Florida for Florida.
Speaker 4: Storm from coast to coast, o bringing strange and wild.
No alligator tails, but something that will make you smile.
Speaker 2: It's time for last from far and wild in this crazy.
Speaker 1: World, there's nowhere.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be in Florida next month for the Rockets.
They've got a trip to Miami and Orlando in the
same trip. So this will what our opportunity to do
Florida stories another month from now wonderful. But for now,
since we're fresh off of our West Palm Beach trip,
I'll present to you stories from the great Sunshine State
known as Florida. We're going to go to Orange County, Florida.
That is the county of which Orlando is in. There's
a young man by the name of Otis McCoy. He's
nineteen years old. And you know what, we've all taken
jobs at nineteen right that we didn't think we were
long term lasting career opportunities. Yes, whether it's at a
convenience store, whether it's a baristo, whether you're working at
a fast food restaurant. Right, well, otis McCoy was going
to enter the world of the US Postal Service. Okay, okay.
He was delivering mail on his postal route in the
Alafa Faya Woods area in October, late in October, and
this just came down. This story came down last week,
matter two days ago in fact. So you're saying, well,
what's the big deal about a guy that is delivering
mail in an affluent part of Orlando. Well, his manager
had to fire him and police to be called because
this mailman agreed to plead guilty after investigators had said
he dumped over a thousand pieces of mail in the woods. Okay,
his manager alerted that was McCoy may had quote disposed
of the mail as McCoy quote had a very large
quantity of US mail to deliver, but managed to finish
his route much earlier than expected. They're like, man, this
is the fastest mailman we've ever had. The manager checked
his GPS device connected to McCoy's work vehicles, discovering that
he deviated from his route by turning down Faberge Drive
and Lalique Lane of course, Okay. After the incident was reported,
a postal inspector responded to the area where McCoy had
reportedly deviated from his route, finding a bunch of mail
that had been scattered in the wooded air nearby wooded
area nearby. He was just tossing mail in the in
the woods. Inspectors collected the US mail and the govern
more than one thousand pieces of US mail, including more
than four uner pieces of political mail and one election
ballot and wow. Investigators explained that a nearby home had
a surveillance camera which captured footage of what happened. I
have a stupid question. Go, if you mail in a ballot,
they give you some kind of confirmation they received it
that I don't know. If you're getting rid of a
thousand pieces of mail, that's good. That's a pretty arduous task, right,
That wouldn't take you just two minutes. M you probably
dump it pretty quick. How long would it take? Five minutes?
You can get a thousand pieces of mail and a
couple of boxes full? Yeah, does your family and I
know mine does because we get various things, whether it's
letters or if ponds, oupons, or it's uh like my
wife and my daughter are getting tsa pre check and
they wanted to get their certificates for that. They've been
going to the mail to get the updates on that.
We're we're big. Let's go running the mail and seet
we have people. Okay there where do you You don't
have a mailbox or is it like a shared mailbox?
A share mailbox?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay. So people in Orlando are typically older, a lot
of retirees. Could you imagine their lives being ruined because
this nineteen year old said, screw you, Mildred and Bob.
You've been married forty two years. You go to the
mailbox every Day's part of your daily routine, and I'm
taking your mail. I'm throwing all over the wooded area
of a suburban Orlando neighborhood. Wow. By the way, it
found guilty of the charge. He was, Uh, this is
federal right, Yeah. Uh faces up to six months in
prison and a fine them up to five thousand dollars.
That's unfortunate. Apparently McCoy has agreed to plead guilty.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 2: Play guilty to mail obstruction. Good job, thousand pieces, there's
probably pictures, there's probably there could be some I don't know,
delivery of some you know, like shirts or all sorts
of th Damn we mail a ross. Yeah. How insincere
is this, mister McCay to take a thousand pieces of
mail and say, you know what, My people that I'm
delivered to don't deserve it, don't need it. I'm a
thort a way. That's unfortunately, it was the fastest mail
on ever was man. This new kid is blazing fast.
And that's my Florida story. Thank you, Matt. I will
go next and I will take you to Clearwater, Florida,
where a young lady named calte Villa Codvia Sure, why
not Caltavia Turner. She was a young worker twenty two
years of age at a place in clear Honor called
Baby Dolls. Baby Dolls is a strip joint in clear Water, Well. Apparently,
at one point, on her own volition, she went to
a seven to eleven convenience store where she got upset
with a convenience a worker named Taylor Naggy, and derogatory
comments were made towards each other. The incident boiled over
to At one point, Turner became irate and she picked
up a banana and chucked it at Taylor Naggy's face.
The fruit allegedly struck the woman in the cheekbone and
left the bruise. That sounds fake, right, yes? According to
the report, the banana was not seized as evidence. Caltavia
Turner also, it was found, had stolen eight hundred dollars
worth of merchandise from a Walmart recently. Turner also has
citations for failing a pre trial intervention program and also
did not show up for her seventy five hours of
community service. She is being held for resisting arrest, giving
officials a false name when they showed up to arrest
her at the strip club. You're telling me that fake
strip names at a fake names at a strip club.
Tell me if I've heard that he gave that to
the police after throwing a banana at somebody's face and
stealing eight hundred dollars worth a merchandise at a Walmart.
And that's my non Florida story. That should be your
Flora story. I mean, I'm sorry, my Florida story. Yeah,
that's fine, all right, Uh, Okay, I'm gonna give you
one more. One more. Yeah, I sure went up. Connor,
you got yours? Okay, I'll give you one more. I'll
give you the headline, Florida man smashed his plate over
diner's head after accusing him of cutting in a buffet
line at a wedding. Connor, where's your story? I'll go
with mine after that.
Speaker 7: A man in Collier County, Florida, narrowly escaped a potential
encounter potentially deadly encounter with an eleven foot alligator. The
man was named His name is Rick. He was walking
his two dogs and near were a pond when he
was attacked by the gator. Rick tried to fight it
off by kicking and poking in the eyes and nose
for Rtunally for Rick, his neighbor Walter happened to be
driving by and saw Rick trapped on the ground with
his legs inside the gator's mouth, but not much time
to think, Walter ran over the alligator with his truck,
and the gator released Rick from his mouth and returned
to the pond. Rick was then taken to the hospital
and made a full recovery. So a man just out
walking his dogs was attacked by an alligator and saved
by his neighbor who ran over the gator with his truck.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a That sounds like a hero man.
I appreciate you getting a gator story involved here. It's
always the beauty of Florida stories. Now, as our responsibility
of Florida store, we do have to involve a man
and a woman in a fast food restaurant. Go ahead,
this story will be much more of an R rated event.
Here we go. He's fornicating in a Windy's line. One
Florida couple who are now behind bars after they were
caught with a passionate moment by a police officer. It
was reported by the officer that the intimate moment occurred
in the middle of the day at a Wendy's parking lot.
Oh way, I swear to you, I did not see that.
I swear to you. Wendy's, Lindy's. Excuse me, oh, Lindy's, Bendy's, Bendy's.
I don't know what city was. This is a Florida couple.
I said that as an always sunny reference. Always Officer
Parker Moody sent a report that he noticed dimetro Wilson
fifty three. Okay, she's fifty three, okay, ty Mario morele
is twenty nine. They were lying on the ground behind
the bus stop and view of the busy highway. The
bus stop in question was also right in front of
the fast food chain. All right. Moody stated in the
report that Wilson, who was not wearing any pants at
the time of the discovery, was on her right side
with quote her buttocks facing her partner. Hmm, yeah, the
officer added. The officer added that Merrill's pants were portally
pulled down and that he was in a turgid state. Turgid, turgid.
Go look up at that. What that means? Uh? I
thought it meant like he was in a quote a
turgid state as he repetitively engaged with Wilson. Oh, never mind,
it's the opposite of flassen swollen. I want to read
this sentence again to you. The officer added that Merrill's
pants were portally pulled down and that he was in
a quote turgid state as he repetitively engaged with Wilson. Hmmm,
I felt like an unnecessary detail of plase. Yeah, that's
first of all, Why is he getting such details like
that too? Hey, it's like he's writing a romance novel.
As he slowly and zipped her pants and removed her underwear,
he was at a Bendies getting a baconator. He gently
stroked the side of her hair and said, are you ready?
He said, I'll tell this. Why is this in the
police report? I'll take some of your loaded fries? Would
you like some of my frosty? How we call this
Dave's double. I'll show you my biggie bundle. And then
he got in her biggie bowl. Right, Okay, we're done.
We're done. That's enough. All right, you're out of control,
You're out of control. That's this week's edition of a
rare edition of Florida Stories. Up next, Helly Air not
all things about Canada? Would you give us?
Speaker 15: Please?
Speaker 2: Connor coming back? The definitive Canadian song to play leading
into this game? Seven Rush, the most famous Canadian band band,
Rush Rush, Foreigner, I think Foreigners, foreign Turner, Nickelback. Oh,
that's not happening. Why not Selene?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Do you want to play? Selen? Foreigners from New York?
Ryan Adams Summer sixty. Let's go Summer sixty nine. Oh,
come on, how about a Backman Turner Overdrive twelve a
time during the break? Yeah something, lover Boy one forty five,
the definitive Canadian song, and hell yeah not here on
seven ninety.
Speaker 21: Craig Ackerman here when I'm not calling Rockets basketball, I'm
following at sports RV on Twitter. You're listening to the
Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, are we sure they're from Canada? Did you check?
They're from Calgary? That's Canada. Have you ever been to Calgary?
I have not. I want to go to Calgary. I
want to go to BAM and I want to go
to Regina because Ross is going to be doing afternoon
driving Regina coming up today on the show. Regina put
you down as a reference. Is that all right? Yeah?
I can't wait. I can I will be like, yes,
take him he is. He loves curling and his knowledge
of hockey is superior to anybody else. Don Cherry taught
him everything about the world of hockey. Don Cherry alive
or dead, I'm gonna go dead even people. Oh he's
he really alive? Ooh sorry, that's wrong. We'll do that
next week. Man, people even know who Don Cherry is.
He's ninety one, not still doing TV?
Speaker 7: Is he?
Speaker 2: I'm good man? No, he was. He was forced off
to you. Oh I know why he was forced up
because he was a little insensitive. But you know what,
we all are a little insensitive. Sometimes five minutes left
to go on the show? What should we do? Wait?
Should play? E Mara Kiss fastest growing sports radio game show.
Monday through Thursday, we called it be Leaving or Not,
but on Fridays we call it a Hell Yeah nod.
Here's how it works. You call seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninetie today's edition of hell Here. Now
it's all things about the wonderful old country soon to
be our fifty first state, Canada. I'll read your statement
about Canada. Statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this
the same as your Ronius photobun commnip. You'll say this
shot two helly aronouts in a row. When you have prize,
not a trip to Canada, but you'll get something else
in return. What will that be?
Speaker 7: Connor McGovern pair of tickets to see Brad Paisley Live
March tenth at Rodeo Houston at fort pack of tickets
to Marty gra Galveston happening February twenty first through March fourth,
and Galveston some seven ninety t shirts.
Speaker 2: Okay, so really got some nice prizes here. Who's the
concert for Brad Paisley? All right, I'm gonna ask this
to Bill. Hey, Bill, what's your favorite Brad Paisley song?
Speaker 15: Lean on Me?
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. The last Canadian NHL team
to win the Stanley Cup was a Toronto Maple Leafs
in nineteen ninety five. Hell yeah or nine?
Speaker 6: Hell you no?
Speaker 2: It was the Canadians in ninety three seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five. Let's talk to Mike on seven Onty, Mike,
you're ready to play?
Speaker 8: Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah? Justin Trudeau has been the twenty first and
current Prime Minister of Canada since twenty thirteen. Hell yeah
or not?
Speaker 11: Hell yeah?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: He was a twenty third and he's been there since
twenty fifteen. Okay, Connor, these are great questions. Is that
Connor's question? Connor, that absolutely sucked. That was one hundred
percent Minutia no, I think it was great. He should
take over. Geez. I was like, I'm reading this question
on this question blows. I mean, Connor, we love you,
but this question sucked. Mike on seven ninety, Mike, you're
ready to play? Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 11: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: Canadian Thanksgiving is older than American Thanksgiving by over forty years.
Hell yeah or not?
Speaker 12: Not?
Speaker 2: Its worry for three Connor. Let's put him on every day.
I read that question sucked, Matt. That question did not
suck the first you The first one didn't even suck either.
This the Trudeau question sucked by the way English explore
Martin Frobisher Hell the ceremony in Newfoundland back in fifteen
seventy eight. If those of you want to know that,
Let's go to Steven Cyperus Steve on seven ninety What
was your favorite mart part of today's radio show Steve.
Speaker 15: And talk about the asteroids.
Speaker 2: We barely mentioned him. While ice hockey is the most
popular sport in Canada, Number two is curling? Hell yeah
or not?
Speaker 11: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: No, it's lacrosse. I would have gotten that one wrong too.
Let's talk to Paul on seven ninety. Paul, you're ready
to play? Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. In terms
of square mileage, Canada is the second largest country in
the world, only behind Russia. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah,
that's right. Statement number two. Statement number two for the way,
and Canada has won nine Olympic gold medals in ice hockey,
while the United States has only won two. Hell yeah
or not?
Speaker 12: I think that the Hell yeah it is.
Speaker 2: You're gonna go see Brad Paisley or go to Marti
Gras Bradley on seven Anty Bradley your favorite part of
today's radio show, all of it. Several people claim to
have invented poontin poutine. Excuse me, but the most widely
accepted origin is the south Dale Diner in Winnipeg. Hell
yeah or not not? That's right? Of course, who goes?
You don't go to the south Dale Diner in Winnipeg
for that. Statement number two for the way, Canada did
not officially declare its independence until nineteen eighty two. Hell
yeah or not?
Speaker 15: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: That is also correct. Independence from what? Ross? I don't
know did you use that? Your questioners at Commogy England?
See he's a historian. All right, we have a minute here.
We gotta wish happy birthday to wed, But I do
remember what it was. There were something else before. It's
Wester's birthday today, Okay, that's great. What did you get
him Nothing? Did you swish him a happy birthday on Twitter?
Speaker 17: No?
Speaker 2: But I did in person, which is more important. Did
you send him a Facebook message? No, but I did.
I talked to him in person, which was more important.
Did you do an IG video?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: Damn, very insensitive. What's what am I working with tonight?
You or him? You're with me tonight? Who's the working
me tomorrow?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Rockets and Wolves WEX. For his birthday, Anthony Edwards is
going to go two for seventeen from the floor and
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