Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Ten O one in h Town.
Speaker 3: Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show. Today from cold, cloudy, dreary Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 4: Set everyone that lives in Cleveland for like nine months
a year, Rossville Real Hall.
Speaker 5: The hell are you man?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Matthew. Sounds like it's dreary over there,
but I imagine you're inside in some five diamond accommodations.
You're doing okay, and thats accurate. I have an important
question to start the show. Yes, sir, how did the
casino go?
Speaker 5: Very well, you're gonna be mad.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be massy.
Speaker 3: It was unless you held it a poor old lady
for playing her hand the way she wanted to.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: Uh it was a very slow night. Uh not every
table is open. It's a Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 3: It is what it is, okay, and only the true
degenerates are there.
Speaker 4: So this casino I thought had an affiliation with the
big club casinos. The Jack does not. Jack Casino does not.
So you know they're not worried. You know, they were
probably a little more worried about their margins than perhaps
the rezers or the memg memes. I could only find
six y five on the black jack.
Speaker 3: There's not a literally not a single three to two table.
Speaker 5: I looked at about eight tables.
Speaker 4: There could be maybe at the fifty dollars high lemon
hundred dollars once you get three to two.
Speaker 5: I was betting fifteen dollars.
Speaker 4: A hand, and I was look, I was only gonna
go for like an hour, so I need to get
some work done and get ready for the show today.
So I said, you know what, I'm gonna just take
the l because I know my great friend and my
partner would be so disappointed in me.
Speaker 3: But I had to play disappointed you. Oh no, A
for lighting money on fire, and B for being giving
the casinos reasons to keep only giving six five because
people sit at it.
Speaker 4: Well again, you know, I'm done with crabs. I told
you that I'd been very sure. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3: That's what I thought you were gonna say. When you
said I was gonna be disappointed in you, I thought
you were gonna no, no, rolled some nice no.
Speaker 5: I will say, I'm plus one seventy for the trip.
So I'm very very good job. Yeah, I forget you'd
be pleased with me, all right.
Speaker 4: Uh So, yesterday our flight up here was fine for
a while, and then it got kind of bumping the
last half last hour. And normally I'll have a maybe
an alcoholic beverage or something to kind of ease the bumpiness.
But that wasn't gonna be possible in another flight.
Speaker 5: Uh So I decided to go to my Twitter campt.
Speaker 4: This plane we're on right now has fantastic Internet, and so,
I mean it is it's like with the like what
Schmida using now where you like that starlink or whatever
it is where you get it like it's stantaneously.
Speaker 5: It's really good.
Speaker 3: That's bad. Actually probably should be off phones. I went
to the for you tab. Oh no, what's your name?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: You always think the worst of me on the for
you tab. I mean that's fairly accurate. I mean I
do see Taylor stuff on there in her.
Speaker 3: Huh she did, how's her baby?
Speaker 5: She's bouncing baby?
Speaker 3: Or her oh my god, by the way her she
put Taylor put a photo up of her husband.
Speaker 5: He looks like a normal dude. I mean, nothing on
of the or product rich My thought was he was
like a seventy year old sugar daddy.
Speaker 3: That's probably a finance bro. He is millions of dollars.
She got in the ground floor on bitcoin or something.
Speaker 4: So I was looking up text and stuff because uh
CJ officially was ruled out for the game tomorrow and
was Jalen Petrie. So the four you tab is I
put in Davis Mills just to kind of see whether
the vibe was.
Speaker 3: There is too many.
Speaker 4: There are too many people fans, which I get because
fans are fans, but like media and uh and what
do they call when you're when you're looking for people
to acknowledge your tweets and interact, I'm not fishing for
impression farming, farming, farming for for for interaction, clickbaiting, clickbaiting.
Speaker 3: Yes, all that.
Speaker 5: There is a vibe out there, and I believe it's by.
Speaker 4: A very small group of people, But it is a
vibe that are excited about Davis Mills trying to beat
the Buffalo Bills tomorrow night, not necessarily to say that, hey,
we wanted the Technans to win, we want Davis Mills
to do well. There is a small narrative that says
that Davis Mills might have been maybe better equipped to
beat the Buffalo Bills, and that Davis Mills may be
better equipped to run the Texans. In my history of
my life sports RV, that may be one of the
ten worst takes I've ever seen on Twitter in my
entire life.
Speaker 3: And I'm just.
Speaker 5: Look, I don't think CJ is perfect.
Speaker 4: In fact, CJ probably would you say ross to be
Let's be brutally honest, a slight regression from his amazing
freshman years an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 3: He is underwhelmed, but he bounced back with a a
couple of big game I mean once he started to
find a rhythm is when he got his concussion, unfortunately.
Speaker 4: But by no means has he embarrassed himself. By no means,
is he a guy that should be worried about his
playing time, By no means should be worried about people.
Speaker 5: Behind him, especially because I've.
Speaker 4: Got a tremendous ample size of Davis Mills. Davis Mills
is a really nice backup quarterback that can help you
out in a pinch for a couple of games. Any
team that uses Davis Mills for seventeen games, and I
don't want to be rude to Davis, because I'm sure
he's a swall fella, But seventeen games of Davis Mills
probably gets you in the six to seven win range.
And that's what not people in this town won.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 3: Correct, He's made a couple of big throws. Most importantly,
he has been at the helm of winning both games,
and he's been a nice backup option. But he is
not c J. Stroud. He's not close.
Speaker 4: There was nothing in the game against Tennessee on Sunday
that made me at any point for three hours ago, God,
what could this team do if Davis was the real.
Speaker 5: Number one quarterback?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: There was never that was never discussed in my mind.
Speaker 3: Did did we not watch the first half the game
against the Tennessee Titans? Yes, the Tennessee Titans, Yes, where
they scored sixteen points in the whole game and it
was zero and a half? Right? Or three? Three? Yeah? Three? Nothing?
Speaker 4: There is nothing that I see in CJ. Stroud that
makes me think Plan B may be better than Plan A.
Like back in the day, Ross, this is old This
is OG Rockets, old school Og. Kenny Smith would start
games for the Rockets, but there was this young chap
named Scott Brooks whould come into the fourth quarter and play,
and he played well. I remember a young Matt Thomas sportscaster.
Speaker 5: This is young.
Speaker 4: That's while I was doing the PA two just look
cutting my chops as a sport hosts. So people were
calling like, man, we need to start Scottie.
Speaker 3: Brooks, the pocket rocket, the pocket rocket.
Speaker 5: And I think we've run into this in sports a lot.
Speaker 3: Yes, we saw love with a backup. The backup is
a backup for a reason.
Speaker 4: I trust the football acumen of Nick Cassario and of
Demico Ryans more than I do.
Speaker 5: Texan Tom Okay.
Speaker 3: Steven Silas is holding back Gary Clark. Uh, let's see
Josh Christopher needs to be unleashed. Well the Isaya Harden sign.
People ended up being right, that's not as munch a
unis like, yeah, we love the backups. Mauricio Dubon for
the Astros.
Speaker 5: Oh, what are gonna Should we trade?
Speaker 3: Yes, you took a call and that Matt Tom We're
not making this up. We're not hot taking Matt Thomas
took a call. Dubon is hitting hot? Should we trade?
Al Tuve, I'm bothered by this ross.
Speaker 4: I have to consistently defend the sports acumen of people
in our community in particular.
Speaker 5: I'm troubled by this.
Speaker 4: I'm troubled that someone and maybe it's just a bit
because look, we do bits on the show too, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: With that, Oh yeah, but not when it goes to
our takes. I don't. I don't make it, do you?
Folks with the take? It's real, it's I believe it. Yeah,
if you go to the show with it. And again,
I don't know who it was.
Speaker 4: I'm just looking at this is fan This could be
people doing their YouTube pages. This could be people just
looking to get some views because their media careers are complete.
Nothing's but you can't reasonably decide at the end of
the day. Even even if Davis Mills beats the Bills
tomorrow night, and my guess it won't because of Davis Mills.
It may he may help, But my guess is the
reason why the Texans beat the Bills tomorrow night is
because that is because Josh Allen has a terrible game, okay,
and that the worst run defense in the NFL gets
to see what he marks go for one.
Speaker 5: Hundred and fifteen yards.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's the reason why anyway, Because Davis Mills is
twenty six of thirty four for three forty three and
three touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Okay, and if that happens, then that's really great for
the Texans.
Speaker 3: It's funny you were close. He was twenty six of
forty one. His completion percentage hasn't even been great. His
yards for a temp haven't been great. He's had a
couple of good throws. We had a lot of bad
ones too. I mean, are these people watching these games?
Speaker 4: I just, under no circumstance, can see a spot in
my mind that says, if Davis does something special tomorrow,
that there should be a serious conversation about it. So
that's all I wanted to say was that the for
you tab is dangerous, and I caught myself up to it.
So I apologize to myself, and I apologize to you,
the great people of Houston, for even bringing up because
my guess is many of you are decent sports fans.
You may not have perfect takes, none of us do,
but you're not going to the can Davis Mills take
the starting spot away from CJ if they beat the
Bills tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: That's patently absurd. That's all I had to.
Speaker 3: Say, thank you, Matt. Sometimes we gotta sometimes you gotta correct,
come correct.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 4: Know, so a couple weeks ago I was gone for
a day and you guys had like a little fantasy
football court. Yes, we're gonna play. We're gonna do something
a little off that. I've got two things I need
rulings up. Oh okay, so I've decided saying, hey, Ross,
I need a ruling. We're gonna call it Sports RV Corps.
Oh great, And you're the judge, wonderful. Jonathan is the bailiff, okay,
and I am the Doug Luwellen. For those of you
that are og people sports fans, I'll just present the
case to you, and you are the judge, and you will.
Speaker 3: Be deciding this thing. Now we're excited.
Speaker 4: Well now, whether you decide in favor of one person
or the other, that's up to you. But the judge
makes the final decision. So folks, if you don't like
Judge r V's decision, you can certainly debate them. But
I but I got a couple of good cases for
you today on the show, and we'll get that coming
out all right. Also today at the eleven thirty, we
have shut your bumb ass up. And if you heard
Jeremy White, excuse me, if you heard Jeremy White earlier
today from wgr are, he was out with Dan Matthews
thirty minutes ago. So Jeremy White was a guest that
I booked for us today. We're gonna push you back
to one o'clock this afternoon. And I already texted Jeremy,
We're gonna be way more entertaining than Dan was.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I mean, I love you Dan, but we're
gonna we're gonna we're gonna get into some things.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get into Bill's mafia a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: Don't you want to know the inner inner workings of
Bill's mafia?
Speaker 3: Not really, I'll give you the inner workings of Bill's
mafia bush like like how big the girl? Oh my gosh,
like do the girls jump a little? Fine? Young ladies
in Buffalo, New York?
Speaker 5: Do you really believe what you just said?
Speaker 3: I've never been there, so how could I say?
Speaker 5: Okay, what do you think they look like?
Speaker 3: I think they look like nice young ladies. What do
you mean?
Speaker 4: Why did you google Buffalo Bill's fan female fancye how
that turns out.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a lot of hot ones.
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll get the We'll get Jeremy White's take on
this in a much more politically correct way. I'll just
gotta find out if Josh Allen's gonna be any good.
You know Josh Allen doesn't play well against Texans.
Speaker 3: Well that well, it's not about him not playing well. Man,
Why don't you Why don't you give some credit to
the Texans swarm?
Speaker 5: I do give credit to Texans.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen having a bad game. It's a Texans defense
playing well and Ryans it was a rookie Patterson.
Speaker 4: Yes, Texans defense owns Josh Allen, believe it or not.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninty. Now,
if any of you are there, you went to your
Twitter account and said, I can't wait for Davis Mills
to beat the Bills so we can have a quarterback debate.
If you're that person and would like to potentially justify
your argument, I'll listen to it. I'm probably gonna make
fun of you, but I'll listen to it. Now, if
you can't do it and you think it's the most
ridiculous thing ever heard in your life. Then let me
know that as well, because I just want to make
sure that our awesome listening audiences, the Matt Thomas Shola
Ross doesn't really believe that, can't possibly believe that. Also
today the astros infield, Rossie got a little less congested.
We'll get to that too, coming back. Our time is
ten thirteen. It's Matt and Ross with you until two
o'clock this afternoon. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one.
Speaker 5: Two five seven.
Speaker 4: Nuntie, you can't possibly believe that Davis Mills is a
better answer than CJ.
Speaker 5: Stroup. You just can't. I don't think I'm gonna let
you do it.
Speaker 4: So even if you do believe it, I'm gonna spend
the next two hours, three hours and forty eight minutes
of this show convincing you otherwise. And oh, by the way, Ross,
we got a big game tonight in the old NBA,
your beloved Houston Rockets taken on the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3: Let's go Houston. Pay attention to these Rockets of it.
Speaker 5: They deserve your attention. They just do, yes, they do.
Seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.
Speaker 4: We got Sports RB Court coming out later on this
hour of the Mount Thomas Show.
Speaker 5: Ross, I'm here in Cleveland.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two five seven niney if
you want to join our radio program today seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero Ramon Eureus
not tendered by the Astros or Ross. There's one less
spot in the infielder worry about now for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Well, we had speculated all off season that either of
Dubon or Eureus would be gone, and we got our answer.
Speaker 4: Dubon wins it because of attendance. Right in terms of
I guess loyalty, I.
Speaker 3: Will say a couple things. He's more versative, Eureus is
more of an infield guy, and Dubon can play both.
But also you have a lot I thought it could
be Dubon because you do have a lot of outfield options,
which we can talk about the rumors now that Jake
Myers could be traded to kind of help out with
that glut of that. So you have a glut of
outfielders with you know, you guy Zach Cole emerging and
Zach Dezenzo. I mean, if if he's gonna be healthy
and play Jake Jake Myers, Jake Melton, like you've got outfielders,
So I thought maybe Ureus could be the guy who
would survive. But yes, Dubon is a great clubhouse guy.
Everyone loves him. He's got gold gloves to his name.
They love his versatility. If you do have outfielders who
go down and you can, you can stick him anywhere.
So yeah, we will send you, by the way Astro's legend.
Speaker 5: Yeah we will.
Speaker 4: By the way, we will save the Jake Myers Fan
Club get together meeting for eleven o'clock hour because I
feel like we're stressing out. You may you maybe you
to open up a secondary branch outside of the Greater
seven one three area code.
Speaker 3: Well we might just have to close up shop. I
don't know.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, there's just too much smoke to this.
Speaker 4: I mean, his name just can't stop being brought up
in trade conversations.
Speaker 3: It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: Let's go to uh Roger at ten twenty two on
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Roger.
Speaker 3: Good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Good morning gentlemen. Help you base go on fine. I
have a kind of like a critique CJ. Stroud. Uh,
and this is something that has to be done in
the off seasons. This season is what it is. I'm
not sure why no coaches come to this kid even
before we turn pro about how he goes about it.
His funding football, the way his slides are just as
awkward as anything I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: It's like a.
Speaker 7: Baby fond trying to, you know, find his way toward
towards walking or something. It's just it's it's begs for injury.
And if this kid's gonna go anywhere, we all know
Starck's got to be a big part of that. And
so many three games in counting, Uh, this guy's already
got multiple injuries due to the percussions. And this is
something that has to be fixed going forward because you know,
everybody loves David Thrills and Mills. He got three games
that you know you are you're you're going to be
the favorite to leave every one of them. So you know,
I guess what I'm saying is, you know, somebody's got
to coach this kid up and uh and get him
and get him to mean the football without wrecking himself.
And also on the Astros front, Uh, yeah, man didn't
chopping season open. Uh, we need to we need to
do something about uh, you know, getting some getting some
guys with some pop on this team. And I think
you have too many players. They don't have natural positions,
like Jordan doesn't have enough not achiev misplay and us
someone else. But I just it's you know, if you
could find positions for your maybe put him at first.
I don't know he got he got creatives. It's gonna be.
It's a log jam. Hope they hope they do something
with all these miss miss miss place part So I
got guys.
Speaker 4: Thanks Roger. I feel like Rogers cooking something in the background.
Speaker 3: You ever notice that, hmmm, well he's like boiling up
some port chilli or what. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think he's working in the new Red Lobster kitchen.
You know what things are doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, he's whipping up some cheddar Bay biscuits. Yeah,
baby biscuits. He's got the crab boil going. He's making
chot in the back and there's a lot of steam
back there, which, by the way, I saw Costco. You
can buy that mix if you're interested.
Speaker 5: Can we can we.
Speaker 3: Go to Bad Robster. You and me just check this
out because the commercials look really good. I have not
been inside of a bed Bobster. Yeah, probably since two
thousand and three.
Speaker 4: I think there is one. I drive by every day
at fifty nine. It's an humble right across from Deerbrook Mall.
And the Cheddar Bay biscuits are crack. I mean, that's
just it is what it is. Everything else there is mid,
but I mean the bat the boil bags look really good.
Speaker 3: Uh are you buying?
Speaker 5: Can we do this instead of aibachi?
Speaker 3: Mah, that's funny. Don't forget. By the way, you don't forget.
You've added you multiple times. You upgraded from fast casual
to Amachi, and then you upgraded to an addendum and
added on on fast food lunch.
Speaker 5: All right, we're gonna hear what we're gonna do. This
is my Christmas meal to you.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to bed Bobster for the for the
for the crab boil, for the shrimp boil. Okay, they
put in the bag and all this stuff comes out
and man, like, damn looks good. Plus the guys in there,
the CEO's doing this thing like, hey, we're new, we're better,
We're doing this and I'll buy it. I'll buy into it.
I love crab meat, but I mean you got to
get out like when you have to get out a
set of tools to eat something.
Speaker 4: Okay, I wanna go back to Roger's initial Okay, if
you're gonna go try to find me a quarterback or
teach your quarterback not to be a quarterback like scramble
and run occasionally and throw and face pressure, then you're
never gonna find a quarterback. What what Roger try to
describe is not possible in two thousand and First of
it's not possible in the NFL.
Speaker 5: You just can't.
Speaker 3: You can't teach now if they're running with their head
on fire, uh, and they're jumping into a big fray
to get the extra yard, or trying to do the
old Pat Mahomes deck where he steps in out of
bounds when he's you know, it fakes like he's going
back in bounds.
Speaker 5: That's one thing c J.
Speaker 3: Strab For all of his potential deficiencies, and a lot,
he's got a few, he doesn't run himself into injuries.
Speaker 5: He just doesn't.
Speaker 4: He prefers to stay in the quarter and in the
in the pocket as long as humanly possible. He does scramble,
but he's not scrambling himself into being hit by a
massive defensive lineman.
Speaker 5: So this this whole thought of I.
Speaker 4: Need to try to figure out a way to keep
my quarterback from avoiding injury. Good luck, good luck with that,
because you ain't gonna able to do it.
Speaker 3: I don't think I mean Roger's saying he's the worst slider.
I don't think of him as some kind of like
bad slider. I guess I haven't noticed or anything. He slid.
Speaker 4: He's on the play he got hurt by he slid
the right way. The guy already left to go make
the tackle at the shoulder blades. There's nothing you can't stop.
You can't freeze frame linebackers going after running backs that
are running.
Speaker 3: You just can't Well, yeah, remember to a tongue of alow.
Wasn't he learning like Judo moves or something like that,
or jiu jitsus so he can learn how to fall.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'll give you that.
Speaker 3: I mean, but I would not characterize when he was
getting a lot of his concussions.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think CJ's reckless, And if he was reckless,
we'd say as much.
Speaker 3: No, people said that about Jackson Dart and then would
look what happened to him. Yeah, he's uh. I mean
I feel like Baker Mayfield sometimes can can be a
guy who kind of sticks his nose in there more
than he should.
Speaker 4: Now, I will say this, there are some quarterbacks that
take hits better than others.
Speaker 5: The guy we're gonna see tomorrow night, Ross Josh Allen,
takes hits.
Speaker 3: Well. Yeah, he's also like six foot five and two
hundred and fifty pounds, so I mean, yeah, he's basic.
Speaker 4: He's really I mean so short of six four two
point fifty. Like Andrew Luck was, you're gonna run into
some guys. They're gonna trup.
Speaker 3: Andrew Luck was a big guy, and guess what he
quickcause he kept getting concussed.
Speaker 4: And he wasn't a scrambler, he insisted on saying in
the pocket, perhaps much to his detriment.
Speaker 5: I think it's easier so than done. I just.
Speaker 4: Now again, if you have a scrambling quarter back that
ain't gonna fly, that uses his legs as much as
he does his feet. But Baker Mayfield, I was watching that,
but that Buccaneers Bills.
Speaker 3: Game, he has to use his feet every quarterback. If
you have, there are no more Tom Brady's being grown
in the NFL. Even guys that don't run get hurt.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow, by no means would you consider him an
exemporary Scramblorg.
Speaker 5: He gets here all the time.
Speaker 4: It's a byproduct of the position, which then goes back
to my central port of a couple of days ago.
Speaker 5: That's why you gotta just.
Speaker 4: Hope and pray that your guy doesn't get hurt, and
that concussions can certainly were you know, shorten up a
man's career and also puts you in a difficult spot
when it comes to putting as much money. Ce j
stra On on a rookie contract with concussions. I mean
it hurts because he's your guy. When he's making sixty
million dollars a year and you're devoid to other positions
because of that, it hurts a little bit more.
Speaker 3: It's just it's just the honest truth. But you gotta
do it. I guess you gotta do it. They're gonna
do it. He's gonna get signed. He's gonna get signed.
Any hometown discount. David Mullgun is like, shut your bum
mess up.
Speaker 5: Robert and Ray will get to you in a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 3: By the way from Bert, Valdez said, thanks, but no,
thanks to the Astros are.
Speaker 4: Qualifying off for Ross. You and I were stupid enough
to think he might take it for a year, I
think earlier I said that, but then we were Yeah.
Once I saw the projections of his contracts, I was like, okay, No,
then the the pain of the the Aspen War off
we are painting back.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think we here in Houston see him a
little bit differently than the rest of the country. So
let me ask you this, would you be rooting against
him then? No?
Speaker 5: Why if he's playing for an America League West team,
I will be well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna move when I'm not gonna be like
actively checking his box scores hoping he gets shelled. I
don't care.
Speaker 4: But let's put it this way. We won't be rooting
for him like we rooted for George Springer. That's a
god's honest truth.
Speaker 3: Huh. I don't huh. That's that's an absolute one. I'm
gonna well, this is uh. You brought something my attention
about how spiteful I am when it comes to rooting interests.
When some when people say somebody is terrible and the worst.
For example, I'll give you uh and I'll give you
this Lebron James. I root for him harder because all
the hate that he gets and got when he moved
to Miami where he was just trying to find his
best situation to win, I thought it wasn't morranted. I
do think fromberfoud does is crushed a little more in
Houston than he should be. So you know what, when
I factor in the fact that I can be spiteful
and root against narratives that I think are bad, maybe
I will root for Fromber pretty hard.
Speaker 5: I will take the complete opposite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. I think Frommer's not nearly as bad
as many Houston. Houston fans like want to kick him
off the team. He's the worst, blah blah blah blah blah.
I mean, if you look at the numbers, he's been
one of the best pitch in baseball over the last years.
Speaker 5: The other teams that are courding him back what you're saying.
Speaker 3: But and a lot of the fan base acts like
he's horrible, and he's got an earring horrible. Yeah, he's
not horrible.
Speaker 5: He's he is.
Speaker 4: When he is really good, it is a joy to watch.
When he implodes, it's like you can't get him to
a therapist fast enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he hits his catcher in the chest, I
mean that's pretty bad.
Speaker 4: And when he gets mad because his outfield is not
playing properly according to him.
Speaker 3: Yes, and then he's not backing up home plate literally
his next start.
Speaker 4: Say, that's that's to me, Ross, And I get really
honest with you. That's the what I remember from him.
Speaker 3: I'm saying I get it. I'm not saying I don't
get the hate. I'm thinking there's just a little too much.
I think people act like he's a really bad pitcher
or something.
Speaker 4: And he's not back on the phones. Plus Sports RB
Court coming up in the next time. I got a
funny message from a listener.
Speaker 5: I will I will keep his name out.
Speaker 4: Of this Ross It says, I always laugh when people
say things are like crack, because I've smoked crack and
I mean nothing and I mean nothing.
Speaker 3: Is like crack.
Speaker 5: I guess he's got a point.
Speaker 3: There's Bobby Brown's listening on the show.
Speaker 5: I didn't even really I would have been not one
hundred percent sure he was alive.
Speaker 6: Is he?
Speaker 5: I believe he's alive? Sure?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: All right, those of you on hold standby. We have
Sports RV Corp. This is kind of a little offshoot
of what you did Commissioner's Court, but I feel like
I always ask you for ruling, so it just makes
a better sense of a little production value behind it.
Speaker 5: Ross, I've got two things for you today. By the way, bailiff,
introduce yourself. You're to Jonathan to bailiff, Welcome to court.
Speaker 4: Do you remember when Judge Watner had his trusty bailiff
it was his name was Rusty.
Speaker 3: No, I don't remember it. Okay, it's loner, all right.
Speaker 5: Uh, two things here we go, commissioner or a judge.
Speaker 3: Ross.
Speaker 4: Now, your ruling is the final one, but people can
certainly argue your debate if you'd like to.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, I'm the boss.
Speaker 4: As the NBA find the Cleveland Cavaliers one hundred thousand
dollars yesterday for violating the league's part player participation policy
when they held out Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley out
of the team's game against the Heat on November the twelfth.
Speaker 5: They said the reason for that rest.
Speaker 4: Should the NBA Judge Ross be finding teams one hundred
thousand dollars when a they will gladly pay that. And
number two, if they're playing four games and five nights
and the teams want to rest because they feel like
at end of the day it'd be better for later
in the season, can you blame Judge sports Avery. How
do you feel about the NBA fining teams for wows?
Speaker 3: This is uh, this is a difficult one.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's why I brought it to you.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're catching me off guard. I gotta do. I
gotta a lot of deep research. I gotta go into
recess al. Right, let's talk this out loud so I
understand both sides. The Cavaliers want their team to be
successful long term. They want their players fresher for the
playoffs rather than having them play some what was it
a Monday night game against whoever? Who is it against?
Speaker 5: You said the Heat?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Monday night game against the Heat is not as
important as being fresh and ready to go in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: But the NBA, the way the Cavaliers won by fourteen,
just want to give you the.
Speaker 3: He Oh, that actually is an interesting point. And I mean,
but you have Amazon wanting star players Peacock ESPN, NBC. Yes,
I got a side with the league on this. You're
trying to grow the game. Your product is all about
putting the star players out there. So I understand where
the Cavaliers are going to do this. And if you
do want to do this, it's gonna come at a cost.
And if you're willing to pay that cost, that's okay.
But we have to put down our fines. We have
to grow our product. We need our star players on
the floor, not only for the fans who are in
the building, but to showcase what this league is capable
of talent wise, I side with the NBA. Right, Since
you side with the NBA, let me ask you this.
Should they add to the penalty because one hundred thousand
dollars the Cavaliers is in my mind nothing correct. How
about escalating the first one is this amount? Then it
escalates from there?
Speaker 5: All right? So go two fifty for round two five hundred,
going up and.
Speaker 6: Up and up up.
Speaker 3: Wow, then you're just gonna have injuries get made up.
So I don't this is why Why couldn't they just
tell it Mobiley that he had a his he had
Why didn't they say ankle, ankle soreness. I mean, doesn't
every NBA player have some ankle soreness.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm the voice of the team, and I've got ankledness.
Speaker 3: I know you do. All right, So you said with
the NBA on this, Yes, normally for the people, but
I'm with the evil corporation this time.
Speaker 5: One hundred thousand dollars is just jump James though, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, you can escalate it from there,
all right? You ready for case number two? By the way, Yes,
I'm very happy so far with this. Uh do you
know who Cam Scataboo is? Of course I do. We
we created a verb.
Speaker 4: Called scataboo in he has had a ridiculously successful season
with the New York Giants, and it got durrailed ROSSI
or excuse me, judge RV sports RV because he has
suffered a gruesome ankle injury and he's.
Speaker 5: Done for the season.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, guess where he was on Monday night? He
was at a wwethan correct that he was.
Speaker 5: He was at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4: And you know when there are various sports athletes or celebrities,
they at WWE ten to put the camera on.
Speaker 5: Say, hey, look who's here?
Speaker 4: This is all these cool people are here. Well, a
wrestler Dominic Mysterio got into a shoving match with Scataboo
and some buddies that were with him too, And Giants
fans are pissed off that Cam Skataboo is standing up
pushing with Mysterio and his other wrestlers, saying, wait a minute,
you're supposed to be done for the season. You should
not be trying to get involved in a WWE bit
by pushing and shoving with professional wrestlers.
Speaker 5: My question to you, Judge sports RV, is it playful?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Theatrics? And even if it is, Judge Sports RV, should
somebody who is in a season ending injury potentially hurt
himself more if said theatrics got perhaps a rye where
somebody pushed somebody down on the ground and further this
hurt on already season ending injury to an ankle.
Speaker 3: Judge RV, your thoughts please, this is a very very
simple one for me. This one is there. There is
no gray area. Giants fans, shut jobomass up. Cam Skataboo
is his own person. You are not his doctor. You
have not looked at his charts. You don't know what
kind of surgery he had or where he is and
his recovery, and maybe this was ill advised, and maybe
it wasn't. I don't know. But he is a grown
ass man. He is an adult. He can make his
own choices. If it is a mistake, that is also
his right to make those mistakes. His body, his choice.
You are not the owner of cam Scataboo. He does
not owe you Jack squat if he wants to go
out there and have a little fun. I imagine he's
a big WWE fan. It's probably been a dream of
his to be involved in something like this. Let him
live his life, and if he gets hurt whatever, you
can criticize him and you can say he should have
done it, but let him do what he wants. He's
an adult. I mean, it's ridiculous. I honestly, I want
to say, I can't believe this is a story, but
I can. I can believe it's a story because for
whatever reason, fans of leagues and teams feel like they
should be able to exercise some sort of control over
the players. But it's ridiculous. Let him do what he wants.
I imagine he got some sort of medical clearance before
he was gonna get involved in this, right.
Speaker 4: And that's the reason why I I'm the Doug Lewell
and I'm not the host of the joke, just the guy.
I'm just saying, as a listener of the Sports RV
Court here, I agree with you. I don't think Cam
Scattawy would put himself in a situation if the ww said, hey,
come do this, they would put you in a further
harm's way.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they rehearse this.
Speaker 3: It looks like he's in a walking boot, which probably
is holding everything together. I mean whatever. Yeah, and I
watched it a couple of times to see how severe
it was.
Speaker 4: Just come up growing up as men pleasing each other.
But you know it's a bit too Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was watching the video as you were explaining, because
I kind of saw the story. But I didn't want
this is nothing. This is a big nothing burner. Okay, Well,
that's why you threw it out a court really quick
game you thank you, Matt.
Speaker 5: Yes, and that is Sports Arvy Court.
Speaker 4: Excellent work by you. This is outstanding and the best
part of this. I didn't give you a chance. I
think about this I didn't give you. I didn't even
tell you.
Speaker 3: What these were ahead of time. It's real and raw.
Speaker 5: It is real and raw.
Speaker 4: All right, Uh, that's it for the comment for our
sports arvy court. We're gonna go back on the phones
as we come back, and then we've got to shut
your bull mass up. Today at eleven thirty, we'll go
to Buffalo at till one o'cck this say afternoon.
Speaker 5: Get the thoughts on the bills. Ross.
Speaker 3: What is today's edition?
Speaker 5: I believe or not? At one fifty?
Speaker 3: Any Hell if I know where are you Cleveland?
Speaker 5: I mean Cleveland, Ohio?
Speaker 3: We'll figure something. So you're at the Action Jack Casino.
What is it called?
Speaker 5: Just Jack Jack casino?
Speaker 3: Jack like Queen and King. That's a casino name.
Speaker 5: It's very sketchy too. It's probably the sketch It's the
second sketchiest casino.
Speaker 3: I can it can't be that sketchy. Okay, oh it is, No,
it's not because you win. I know five Diamond Manning
going too? Is that sketchy? Let me tell you, I'll
go to the sketchiest casinos, the two sketches.
Speaker 5: Casinos in a league in Philadelphia, in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so not. It ain't that sketchy.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't be there, man, I didn't have to go outside.
That was nice, you know me. Indoors Thomas seven one
three two one two five seven ninty seven one three
two one two five seven ninety It is a ten
at forty six The Matt Thomas Show with Ross here
on Sports Talk seven ninety ten fifty one Matt Thomas
Show and Ross. If you are a member of the
Jake Myers fan Club, we are calling an emergency meeting
at eleven o'clock where the president will be speaking. Oh
really not often.
Speaker 4: We ask you to speak very during the offseason because
you know you need some downtime.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Graci.
Speaker 4: By the way, if you are CBS, are you regretting
not taking the SEC games and just giving SEC a
blank check?
Speaker 3: Probably? What's the game this weekend?
Speaker 4: The top three games last weekend on television for college football?
Oh Ubama ten and a half million people watched it. Texas,
Georgia ten point four million people watch it. Those are
both ABC. The number three game was South Carolina A
and M, which is at eleven o'clock. You know, I
mean like usually eleven o'clock games are like the dog games.
Four point three million people watched that.
Speaker 3: That wasn't I mean, it was supposed to be a
dog game and then it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the number one CBS game. It was Penn State
Michigan State. Both teams entered the game with two wins
or three. Two point four eight million people watched that.
You know how we always talk about it's the SEC
and the Big Ten everybody else, ROSSI, it's the SEC
and everybody else. Now, I mean, I know that the
number one team in the College Football Poll is Ohio
State and they've been down defeated, and they're the depending
national champions.
Speaker 3: But they are top heavy, but pound for pound through
and through the SEC and it's not close. And Greg
Sankie knows that too. With all these talks about these
new I know, these new deals and these new playoffs
and all that type of stuff, right, seemed like the
Big Ten's like, yeah, hey, we we are really dominating SEC.
And Greg Sanki's like, wa was this week business? Look
at these ratings? Pal, yeah, and.
Speaker 4: Like hey, let's go to a let's go to a
sixteen team format. SEC's like no, we didn't think of this.
Goodbye and then number two. We'll get back with you
when we have our ar list ready to go. Actually,
they were one they were thinking about. Weren't they think
of twenty four teams? Is that what they were thinking? Yeah,
it was twenty four were talking about earlier this week.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Who.
Speaker 4: By the way, Nicole Arbach, who writes for NBC Sports
the colleg Football Runner, she's been in ESPN. She believes
now that the University of Texas cannot get into the
College Football Playoff because the committee has them at number
seventeen this week, and that even if they were to
beat Arkansas and b to A and M, they could
not get to the number ten spot, which is usually
going to be the last at large spot in the
college football tournament. Okay, just her opinion doesn't mean it's gospel,
but that she thinks that the loss to Georgia, which
to me, it wasn't about playing Georgia. It was the
fact that Rossick, that your squad lost so bad is
the reason why they took such a tumble, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, think Scott. I mean the defense didn't make enough
stops at the end, and they the on side kick
and they it goes fourteen to ten and then Georgia
scored and then scored again off the onside kick, and
then it was just basically over.
Speaker 5: By the way.
Speaker 4: Congratulations to my Houston Cougars are at number twenty three
in the committee's Top twelve.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Not bad for a team that have prited to finish
thirteenth in a big twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're doing great. Let's it go u HTCU baby
three o'clock t DCU Stadium, be there. Even you losercoupfan
dot com can be there too. Get a wait for
computers for a couple hours. Come outside and play. Cougar fans,
don't bite.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Should be a big crowd. I'm sure it needs to
be a big crowd. Top number twenty three in the country.
Speaker 5: Let's go gonna be taking on Texas and the Texas
Bowler this year. I'm thinking, Okay, if you way, if
you want that ass whooping, come get it.
Speaker 3: I want it for smack talk purposes. Hello, Ray, Hey.
Speaker 8: What's going on, guys? Hill? In all seriousness about the
game tomorrow night. You know, when I opened my hard
rock bed, the first thing I went to is over
zero point five interceptions for Josh. I think he's gonna
try to force things. You know, I'm going to try
to get that pick. At least I think they're gonna
beat us do for a Texas Rock and Atlanta just
announced that Pennick is out for the year, and they
have a pretty decent backup. You know, if if we
had that guy as a backup, I wouldn't be worried
about them. But we have a horrible backup quarterback. He's
won out of twenty what he's six and twenty. He's
a horrible backup quarterback, and they wish we had someone
better to step in if CJ is hurt. And I
don't want CJ to start missing three or four games
a year due to injury. He lost games last year
and this year, and he's gonna want a lot of money.
I thought the kid was gonna get sixty five or
seventy a year, but the play went down and he's
missing games. So the Texans can hype us all they want.
I think these next games we may go one to
three if the playoff picture is over. Trying to hype
us up that you know, I played football, I'm not dumb.
The Texans aren't beating the Chiefs. They're not beating the Bills.
You know, they're not beating the Coats. They're not gonna
beat these football teams. And I bet the Coats are
going gonna stomp the Chiefs this week just to show
the Texans they're not ready for the Coats. And when
CJ does come back, it's gonna be garbage time. You know,
any tuzdign is just garbage. It's over the play. I'm
looking for them and to come back in August, hopefully
with a healthy team. Mixing is leaving. You know, Cardi
b had our good wide receiver.
Speaker 3: Get out of here.
Speaker 8: You know, it's horrible. It is very first what's going on,
and the hype around this team needs to stop because
this is bad. I don't care about the number one defense.
This is gonna be you want to talk about a
number one defense. This is gonna be the first team
in NFL history to have the number one defense and
don't even make the playoffs. So stop all the number
one detalk because you can at least make the playoffs
as a number one defense, and they're gonna make NFL
history this year. Watch what I tell you. And Demiko,
you know he's not on the hot seat, but I
really feel like some things need to change. Did mute
to change? No playoffs this year for the Texans, It's done.
Jonathan Taylor in the two games, making five tds in
two games against the Texans.
Speaker 3: Those guys, all right, Indian who is hyping up the
Texans card and.
Speaker 8: I'm talking about how the city, you know, how the team.
He's posting things on YouTube.
Speaker 3: Come on, everybody, that last four all the team is
hyping them up on YouTube? What do you want them
to say? We suck? They're five and five with their
their star quarterback has been hurt the last two games.
They won both of them.
Speaker 8: I like that Mike Singletary interview when he called that
guy out. I like regular Tom.
Speaker 3: I don't like Singletary. Mike what ten years ago? Fifteen?
I like, Okay, he got fired. He was terrible. He
was a terrible coach, terrible coaching.
Speaker 8: I just like the interview.
Speaker 3: I don't care about you don't care.
Speaker 4: Is Cardi be the responsibility? Why didn't realize Cardi be
it such a negative impact on that I.
Speaker 3: Didn't know she was Stefan Diggs's agent. And by the way,
Houston Texans dot Com at Houston Texans and YouTube and
TikTok do not put positive things about it your team out.
They have the number one defense. The defense is really good.
They're five and five. All things considered, this could have
been turned into a disaster season and it did not
stop putting out positive things.
Speaker 5: Just because your team doesn't mean people want to see
the positive things. They want to see the negative.
Speaker 3: What the hell was that. They want to see missed
extra points, they want to see off sides, they want
to see holding penalties. That's what TikTok wants to see.
Speaker 5: And Toro shoving up your ass, Toro. We don't want
to say anything about you, Toro.
Speaker 3: We're done with you, Toro.
Speaker 5: I want no more. I want no more.
Speaker 3: Photo of uh Hannah putting her hes up. Oh, that's
just that's just the boot looking media. Sorry, I that
it's not the Houston Texans. Come on to Houston Texans
dot com. Be better put the stuff out there that
people really want to see. Incomplete passes. Uh. You know
what they ought to do, Rossie. They had to put
up all the first and goals in the nine yard
line running plays keep it reels with the Houston Texans
first and goal to three half yard gain, second to goal,
the two half yard gain, third and goal and then
Dimico goes for it or does that same runoff left guard?
Once you show Nick Kayley more.
Speaker 4: Nick Kayley on your Houston Texans website. That's the way
people want to see. They don't want to see nice things.
Speaker 3: Goodness gracious, that's crazy. You know what, Houston Texans.
Speaker 4: You keep doing your thing. Don't still at old Ray,
old grumpy Ray getting your way. That's hysterical. Seven one three,
two one two five. I have some of an honey
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross before we get
to our meeting of the Jake Myers Fan Club.
Speaker 3: Ross. I just sent a text to the Houston Rockets
social team.
Speaker 6: We need more.
Speaker 4: Best of Golden State Highlights playoff series. And I've been
asking for a nice compilation of Christian Wood moments as
a rocket.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Christian Wood had some moments now, Maddie,
I be hating on Christian Wood. I think he's in
China now or something.
Speaker 4: I just sent the astros a media thing. I said,
can we get some more Christian Walker swings? Can we
get some Lance mccullors, uh walks and anything? I mean,
we got this down pad if our buddy Raymimi wants
the reels, We'll.
Speaker 3: Give it reels to you. Oh my gosh. Listed on
Christian Wood's accomplishment in career highlights NBA Cup champion. He
did that for whom he was on that Lakers team.
Oh okay, that won the first one.
Speaker 9: Gang.
Speaker 5: You all know this.
Speaker 4: Teams are gonna put the good stuff out there, and
they're supposed to. That's that's their marketing.
Speaker 3: That was ridiculous. I wish we had more time, but
we kind of had to get to the top of
the hour.
Speaker 4: I know, but I mean, like, what is the most
what's the least? Oh, it'd be like burking bragging about
their fries. Their fries suck.
Speaker 5: They're terrible.
Speaker 3: Hold on, that's terrible. Come on, now, their fries blow.
They've changed them like three times. I haven't had the
latest version. I don't think.
Speaker 4: Every single one of them go from bad doors, Hey,
come to Murricane eat our fries. No, they're gonna talk
about the damn whopper and uh those chicken fries which
aren't half bad, and uh, the French.
Speaker 3: Toes sticks are good.
Speaker 4: They're gonna promote those things and look, Kris chandwiches. I
mean Donalds puts out the mcreb, the big mac crowdard.
Speaker 3: Life is good. Mcgrib is nasty. Let me check the
latest on your pole. No, don't look, don't look. We're
down with that. Yeah, you've lost.
Speaker 5: You don't put things on your social media that don't work.
Speaker 3: It'd be like team is hyping up the social media
is hyping up the team for some reason. I mean,
come on, like, hey, you go to Waterburger. They don't.
But look at our drive through times. They don't do that.
I put that out there. That'd be actually funny if
you took if you took all your companies. You hate
to put the negative things about it. Hmm. How about
this sports talk seven, honey, look at Adam Klinton's rational
thoughts about referees.
Speaker 5: We don't put that out there.
Speaker 3: See, I knew you were going to go here, and
I'm just staying away. I'm stepping away from the microphone.
Speaker 5: No you can't.
Speaker 3: I'm here.
Speaker 4: You're you're stuck by maybe a thousand miles away from you.
But no, you're not going away from anywhere. By the way,
you see Victor women Yam has hurt again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got a calf injury, right, Yeah, cathrew.
Speaker 5: Attendance is part of the grade it is.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 4: He's great, but it's got to be healthy, so I
don't care he's I mean, they won last time.
Speaker 3: They beat the They beat the Grizzlies, which, by the way,
when did NBC think the Grizzliest Spurs would be worthy
of putting on National TV on a Tuesday night?
Speaker 5: Wasn't there like some Division three game that had been
better off.
Speaker 3: Grizzly Spurs is actually not the jah Moran Wimby and
Theory neither.
Speaker 5: Want I'm played.
Speaker 3: So when it was this in theory, you get starts
finding some people.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, sports r V Court says, yes, you must find.
Speaker 5: That's funny.
Speaker 3: Nobody wanted to see Luke Cornett versus Zach.
Speaker 4: Edie by boy Zach Edy who has a tough watch.
Nice guy, but oh god, he just around the basket.
Speaker 3: He's Oh my god. ESPN has changed around their box
scores and I still haven't adjusted. They put they they
used to put minute. They've switched around where they put
minutes and points and field goals and now they switched
it back. Oh what the heck? People wants have been complaining. Yeah,
not me. It's thrown me off. All right.
Speaker 4: It is the Matt Thomas Old ross I'm here in
Cleveland Rockets taking on the hated Cavaliers tonight. We'll have
the broadcast for you beginning six o'clock pregame at five
of the launch pad, Rossie.
Speaker 3: Before we get going on other things, I gotta shut
your boy mass up. At the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 4: We have assembled the Jake Myers Fan Club. Okay, it
feels like to me that number IF is a very
fluctuating group.
Speaker 5: People like, once you join a country clip, you're kind
of pot committed.
Speaker 4: If you join a civic club, if you join a
student council, if you're a part of an alumni association,
you don't get to dip in and dip out. Except
for the old Jake Myers Fan Club. We let you
go in and out as much as you want.
Speaker 3: No, we didn't know that's not true. We take monthly duce.
You're in for the month.
Speaker 4: Okay, So please talk to your audience, the congregation, if
you will, because the rumors of Jake Myers going elsewhere
are running rampant around these Twitter streets.
Speaker 3: Loo, folks, it's been a long, arduous, hard battle being
in the Jake Myers fan club. There's been some lean
times and there's been some good times, and right now
we're in the good times. And I understand. We love
Jake Myers and we want him patrolling center field at
dyke In Park for the Houston Astros for as long
as possible. But at the end of the day, when
you hear these trade rumors, take it as a compliment
because that means all the great things that Jake Myers
has accomplished, and all his great hitting and sometimes striking
out against position players, all of that doesn't matter. It's
been about how great he's been playing and how good
of a player he is at this point, and the
quality of he's shown that he's drawing interests from other clubs.
So the fact that he is being dangled as a
trade chip means that he has many suitors. There could
be a market for him that the Astros simply cannot
refuse because they do have a glut in the outfield.
So we take this as a compliment. We love Jake,
we support Jake, and we'll see what happens and let
the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 5: Can I give you some advice president.
Speaker 4: Sure, start writing that farewell speech, that farewell toast he gone.
Maybe my thing, my thinking about this is that you're
not gonna and I look, we are team Jake Myers.
Speaker 3: We like him. My thing, I love him.
Speaker 4: They're thinking that they're that the best of Jake Myers
was last year even and now that you're talking about
a guy that's got a couple of injury uh stints
to us, I mean that maybe the value of his
stock is.
Speaker 5: As high as is right now.
Speaker 3: The mission statement of the Jake Myers Fan Club. When
we started, there were people that doubted he was even
a major league player. I know, they were people that
doubted he should even play ahead of Chas McCormick. The
fan club wanted to show that he was an everyday player.
He was good in the field, he was good enough
at the plate, and he could do everything it took
to be an everyday center fielder in the major leagues.
And he has proven that. So all the doubters you
could suck it, Jake Myers. Wherever you end up, we
love you, and we were right. The years often proved
me right. Matt, I get in this case.
Speaker 4: For your own mental health, I think we need him
to go to a national league team. I can't imagine
seeing him six games a year, or if he stays
in America League now they wouldn't trade him America League.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not gonna watch. I don't watch Natural league baseball.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It'd be better off for you if he's a National
leagu guys, then once you you can kind of celebrate
him and bring.
Speaker 5: Him to town. Have his video tribute, you know what
I mean, the.
Speaker 3: Video tribute of his swinging out of his shoes and
his helmet falling off.
Speaker 4: By the way, you missed the Cam Whitmore video tribute
last week while you were gone.
Speaker 3: Are you serious? No, I'm not okay. I was gonna
say I got you. I was like, no way, how's
he doing? By the way, everybody said he's gonna be
a future All Star? Not everybody, but you know, there
was a contingent off. How can you try it away
a future All starling Cam Whitmore, what it's doing. See
if it sounds familiar, it doesn't work well with TV,
shoots a bunch and doesn't pay. Oh really, I locked
that down on gut feelings or I might even put
my name on that. I think you did put your
name on that cam. Whitmore, No cam is offended the
years proving me right again. Listen to old sports r
V every now and then.
Speaker 5: Yeah we should.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven Nani cougar Chris says,
disagrees with Ross about something. I'm curious about these things, Okay,
Gary and Spring is going to evaluate race call. This
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It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 5: We got shut your bumb ass up, and anybody got
dam for that.
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at noon, believe it or not. Today at one point
fifty we'll go to Buffalo at one o'clock and talk
all things Buffalo Bill's Football Cougar Chris with US at
eleven twenty double C.
Speaker 5: What's the good word today, Fran, Good.
Speaker 10: Afternoon, my friend. I have some disagreements with Ross, but
I want to ask you a couple of questions. First, Uh,
I think you're gonna be in Oakland next week? Or
are you gonna be able to pop by Vegas for
one of the Cougar games next week?
Speaker 3: I am not.
Speaker 4: Monday we play UH Phoenix and then Wednesday we play
Golden State and then we're coming home for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 10: Cool? Are you Are you gonna be able to broadcast
one of the games this year with Reid or anything?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, the Rocket schedule, plus the fact that all the
new TV networks that are doing the University of Houston
games will not allow me to do any game. There's
only five ESPN regionals allowed not allowed, but only five available,
and I've got Rockets games for all five of those games.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, that's a shame.
Speaker 10: We all love seeing you over there.
Speaker 5: I love doing those games. I love doing the Coreper games.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, the Rockets just my schedule just doesn't dictate it.
But thank you for asking.
Speaker 10: I understand, so Ross on your court judgments, the first
one about the NBA situation. In that one particular situation,
I have to side with the Cavaliers because the NBA
should not be scheduling somebody four games in five days.
That's just too hard on the bodies, especially when they're
traveling in between those games. So in that one situation,
I don't think the Cavaliers should have and fine, and
it goes along with my next thing. On the other one,
Camp Scautingby, goes along with your reasoning for the NBA
wanting to see the big.
Speaker 3: Guys out there.
Speaker 10: I agree with both of y'all on the Camp Scatterby thing. However,
you know, from the fans standpoint, you know, they've got
to pay hundreds of dollars to go to a game.
They're paying hundreds of dollars for wearing these guys' jerseys
and stuff. And if there's any sign that maybe he's
not doing what he should be here, maybe he could
have been playing or something like that kind of back
like to like Carlos Kerrey and his massaging. I can
see where the fans get upset, But in the end,
I agree with both of y'all. What what what should
have happened, but what lett him live? But I understand
why the fans would get upset in that situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that doesn't sound like we're discrowing too much.
The Cavaliers certainly are within their right to do that.
I'd say that the NBA is within their right to
find them so they can do it. I'm not saying
they're crazy. I'm saying it's smart. And even I said,
but again, like it's it's kind of a fifty to
fifty or fifty one to forty nine type of deal
for me, I understand where the Cavaliers are coming from.
They're worried about this long season and they're worried about
winning a championship. They're not worried about Tuesday Night against
whatever team it was that they were playing, that they
actually won that game anyways. So I think the NBA
does have to They owe it to all this money
and revenue that they're getting from all these teams for
all the excuse me, these networks to try and figure
out a way to give them the best players on
the floor to maximize their ratings and continue to foster
those relationships and make them good relationships. So I understand
both sides of that, and then it sounds like we're
on the same side on camps cataboy.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll just to clarify on the NBA thing. I
agree with you, except in that one situation. They should
not be scheduling in four games in five days. That's
just too tough and to show consistency. I don't like
the conference uh tournaments in college because these kids have
been playing once or twice a week, and all of
a sudden, you're asking them to play three or four
days on the rown. I guess irresponsible. So, but that's
my feeling.
Speaker 3: So appreciate that. Thank you, Thanks Chris, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Well, those conference sermons don't mean as much as they
used to, except for like the schools that are going
there to try to get.
Speaker 3: The one at b Yeah.
Speaker 4: Ross again, going back to our content, we were talking
about the fact earlier for those who are just joining us,
the Cleveland Cavaliers yesterday were fined by the NBA one
hundred thousand dollars for sitting Evan Mobley and Doavan Mitchell,
I mean, two of their bigger stars for a game
against Miami in which the Cavaliers went to Miami and
won that game, and they're saying that because the Cavaliers
were honest, honesty doesn't always make them not the best policy.
Speaker 3: Truth doesn't always set you free. Truth what I say
ross why you know what I always say, the truth
will cost you one hundred K. The truth doesn't matter
to the Cleveland Cavaliers because they'll pay the hunter k
and they got the win and they got to let
rest two of their star players.
Speaker 5: Just the truth.
Speaker 3: They just I don't I if I pulled a Cavalier
ownership front offs coach aside, they probably like, yeah, it.
Speaker 5: Was worth it.
Speaker 3: And the season is so long as it is, I mean,
can can they extend it a couple of weeks? Nope,
they've already extended it before.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, here's the thing they're giving. You have about
a ten day break coming up in a couple of weeks. Now,
you don't necessarily get ten days off, but they have
the n Season Tournament and then you play. If you
don't go to the Ncason Tournament, like in Las Vegas,
you have two games you have to play in those
ten days, but you still get an extended You're gonna
get some time off during this.
Speaker 3: And they've extended the All Star breaks longer than it
used to be.
Speaker 4: Right, Uh, it's been this way for about a decade now,
I think I'll leave it a little bit longer. See,
my thought is, shorten this n season tournament break, Shorten
this All Star break, and give guys an extra day
or two here and there. The Rockets frankly, have played
some of the fewest games in the NBA this season,
and it's helped them because think about this ross We're
down to about an eight man rotation because of Tari
Easan being hurt.
Speaker 5: Friend Van Vliet is out.
Speaker 4: It helps Steven Adams hasn't had to well, he's missed
one game, but he doesn't play a lot of three
games and four nights.
Speaker 5: He doesn't play.
Speaker 4: Typically back to back. Now maybe things will change, but
I don't know. Kevin Durant doesn't play a lot of
back to band. We have not had a back to
back yet this season. In fact, we haven't played since Sunday,
and then you've The first back to back for the
Rockets this season will not take place until after Thanksgiving
when the Rockets play the Jazz and Utah back to
back game. But that's in the same cities. That's and
that's kind of a nice little way to do so.
So I don't know what the right answer is. I
never had the right answer on this because the schedule
is squeezed. TVs have a lot to do with it.
But to your point, the TVs want the stars. If
that Cleveland was that Cleveland, I want that Cleveland Miami
game as national TV.
Speaker 5: I don't think it was.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was. There was, Uh when was it?
Speaker 5: It was on the twelfth?
Speaker 3: I want to say, no, I don't think so, which
would have been a Wednesday night, that would have been
an ESPN night. I don't know who did the game,
if there was a if there was a Rockets, I mean,
who is playing there was?
Speaker 5: But I'll put it this way, do you can you
really say that? Can you go to David?
Speaker 3: Can you go to can Adamsilver Goat and say, hey,
I'll let you miss these games, but I'll be damn
if you're going to miss a Peacock game or Amazon
primeging is you're resting guys? Yeah, I don't know, can you?
I mean, does that have to be collectively bargain or
does that have to That's a great question.
Speaker 4: But again, when in doubt, what do you do ROSSI
you lie? Lying is lying will set you free When
it comes to this, people don't take Matt's advice. My god,
that's horrible. I apologize when in doubt you lie. I'm
gonna read your your self help book. I look forward
to talking to Gary Spring next about Thomas Ross.
Speaker 3: Oh, here we go, I do actually.
Speaker 4: Actually, Gary's call wasn't bad yesterday. It wasn't bad at all.
All right, let's get some shut your ball masses up
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Speaker 3: It is about Thomas Showing Ross seven one three two
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to shut the bomass up.
Speaker 9: Mane shit o bum ass up man.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, if somebody at your office corners you and gives
you a rundown of their baked ham recipe and what
they kind of their favorite cookie is, or they wanted
to talk to you about their playing days back in
the nineteen fifties, tell them anybody got time for that?
Hey' nobody got time for.
Speaker 4: Dead ROSSI We save our travel stories sometimes for this
segment of the week. Did you have a free and
clear week going to a variety of southern California airports?
Speaker 3: I mean I mentioned how I was trying to carry
on a tent, yes, and they got.
Speaker 5: You pitching it.
Speaker 3: Were you pitching that ten or no?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I was not pitching of the tent, Matthew, all right,
But I had gotten a good deal on the ari
at the ari I re supply store, so it was
a tent. I shouldn't pass up the deal, So I
bought the ten. They wouldn't let me carry it on
because I had quote tent spikes in the tent bag.
First of all, they were wrapped up in the tent.
It would take me like fifteen minutes to get them
out in the middle of an airplane or in the
middle of a flight. Second, of all, they're tent steaks.
I am not gonna go get out my bag of
steaks and go take over the whole cockpit with tent steaks.
It was impossible, literally impossible. I mean TSA rules are
TSA rules. But ain't nobody got time for that.
Speaker 5: Ain't nobody got.
Speaker 3: Note to self, put your tent, put your your tent
steaks in your check on bag, check in bag, yeah,
said no one else except you. That's not true. People
travel with tents all the time.
Speaker 4: I've traveled for fifty years of my life. I've never
come with a pist because you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't, you don't camp well, I would pack it up, though,
I wouldn't be trying to get the extra You know
what you want your flight delay guy, You want to
you want to jam ballan stuff in the the compartment.
We're gonna it fit. I try to fit in the
little box. You know they have that little thing. Let's
see if it'll fit on the carry on. It fit
in there, yeah, so shut your mom ass up. But
you wanted to hurt people. We want to hurt people.
Speaker 9: Shit, Jo, bum ass up.
Speaker 3: I'm hijacking the plane with tense steaks. Let's be real here, folks,
staying with the airlines Dark Breast. You put in a
commercial during the morning news today here in Cleveland. Now
we're doing the signed seats and you can get extra
late room. No, no, no, you're doing this because you're
looking to make a couple extra bucks. Shut your bum
ass up, Dark Breast Airlines, Shit your bum ass up? Man,
What you're bragging about? Ay Worth bragging about people that
are Dark Breast consumers want two things. They want their
free bags and they want to pay for extra lag room. Period.
Terrible and just terrible. Just I mean, false, braggadocious stuff
just drives me up the wall.
Speaker 5: You're bragging for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I don't get it with you.
Speaker 12: Uh, I just I was scrolling through for you or
just about break and I guess it's on first take
and Paul Finebaud was on there.
Speaker 3: I think he say his name.
Speaker 12: They asked him, and we're telling him because he's complaining
about if Notre Dame should be above Alabama, you know, etcetera, etcetera.
S SEC talk and Shane Cornette said there's also a
bias with the Southeastern Conference.
Speaker 3: Let's be clear.
Speaker 12: Can you agree with that, he goes, I'm not sure
about that. Ain't nobody got time for SEC people, Gordy.
I know you can hear me too. Why do y'all
are so snobby about you guys are the favorite? You
guys get every team in you guys want, and it's
never enough, never enough, You guys any to nine and nine,
and you complain, complain, complain.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know, I don't get that. I
just I don't know.
Speaker 5: You're telling me that media are snobs.
Speaker 12: It's just like you want to give them a good rep,
all the suspect and how good their programs are, and
then they come out and act like they're they're not
the favor then that the kings of the instable a.
I just don't get that time for that.
Speaker 5: So so know that you run the world.
Speaker 3: I just told the last half hour the ratings for
the top three games in college football were dominated by
SEC schools. I don't know, It's just it's they should
be bragging, they should be a holes.
Speaker 5: They are the most powerful conference in sports.
Speaker 12: Period, but acting like they're not the favorite is crazy
to me. I don't know, that's guess Paul Fine.
Speaker 4: Bombs trying to be he's trying to be impartial.
Speaker 5: Seriously, I mean, you.
Speaker 4: Ever listened to that Paul Fine Bomb show there, Rossie,
not for one second in my life. It's about a
bunch of people that's strange, with a bunch of bad
calls in a row, one after the other.
Speaker 5: I mean, who would even do the.
Speaker 3: Show like that? That's an I just don't get it.
I'm not saying it's good or bad. I just I
don't get it. I've never gotten into it. I don't
even know where to watch it. It's on, Uh, I
think the SEC network, which would be your home for
Texas football for the foreseeable future. Uh did you say
what was the one of the highest rated games? So
Texas and Georgia they got They got blown out thirty
five to ten, and it was still one of the
highest rated games. Yeah, eyeballs Mattings the Friday night on
FS two or whatever you guys be Hey, we're FS
one in regular Fox. Hey we're on regular Fox this week.
No really, before you a baby, No in the afternoon?
Oh really?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Help those losers at kook fans dot com get
off the computers to go to the stadium and gain
time for the three o'clock game.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's twenty five thousand at the game.
I feel like more people than that were taking shots
at me last few weeks. It's funny how that works. Sorry,
fan base.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you if you're a if you're an
awesome Cougar, I love you cougar.
Speaker 3: Yes, they are good.
Speaker 5: He is the best.
Speaker 3: They are real good, actual good Cougar fans.
Speaker 5: Yes, there are just the nimrods at kok fans dot com.
Are not those?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 3: That was Matt Thomas. Matt Thomas said, I didn't I
didn't start it. That's Matt Thomas. Class of ninety eight
should have been class of ninety five.
Speaker 5: But I took my time because I loved you.
Speaker 3: H three victory laps. Let's go, baby, love it? Yeah,
because you know what, I ain't afraid of our own
because you know, I try to be nice at cook
fans dot com. But screw those losers. Ross made a mistake.
He tried to atone for it. Y'all didn't accept it.
Speaker 4: Screw you, double screw you. Shut your bum mass up
cook fans dot com.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. I'm not I'm muted. I muted hundreds of
people I'm over let it go, mad Ago. All right,
I'll let it go. It's the last time I bring
up those losers. Don't don't. Don't breathe life into the
past that way, Matt, move about the future.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's all the time. We could wring a w
a T shirt.
Speaker 3: All right, Yes, all right, I got more go please?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: So I made the move to HM. You know what
I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna call these people out
because I'm not happy with any of them. Foubo TV
there was a discount and I wanted to do it,
but the app is too slow. It's just too much.
I don't care for it. It's way behind in the lag.
I want to go back to Xfinity Cable. So I
try to call them because I have Internet. I want
to bundle. I want to see what kind of deals
they have. And this has to be an AI person.
They're saying that that's not AI, but it has to
be the inflections and all that. I'm on the phone
for over twenty minutes of this person. I'm saying, can
I get NFL Network? And they're like, yes, you can
get NHL network and I'm like no, kay, NFL National
Football League. I'm screaming into the phone for twenty minutes
and then they put me on hold and they come back,
and they put me on home and come back. It's
a whole Can I talk to a real person who understands,
you know, American things like what the NFL network is
an NBA TV because other the things I need because
of my job. This is so ridiculous with this lack
of support Exfinity, I'm calling you out by name. Your
support sucks. I don't know if it was an AI
person or what, but it was ridiculous. Ain't nobody got
time for that? Hey, nobody got it was a massive
headache for like a half hour, just trying to get
I'm trying to give you my money. I'm trying to
give you my money and you don't want it.
Speaker 5: That's strong right there.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous, Steve Kerr. He says he's very concerned that
the NBA has increased pace combined with the condensed schedules,
leading to increase in soft tissue injuries.
Speaker 5: All right, then.
Speaker 4: Reduce the schedule to seventy games, go deep into your bench,
shut you up.
Speaker 5: You got one of the three options.
Speaker 9: Shit, sobam ass up man.
Speaker 5: I say, go deeper to your bench.
Speaker 4: Hmm, I say, don't play Draymond Green forty one minutes
a game.
Speaker 3: This is interesting because this is happening in all major sports.
You know what.
Speaker 5: That's the thing to all major sports.
Speaker 4: Stop telling me that you play too many games, go
too many injuries, then stop taking the checks.
Speaker 5: Yes, it fell about to go to eighteen game schedule.
Speaker 9: Shut your bum, mess up shit, obam ass up man.
Speaker 3: Now selfishly, I'd like you to stay eighty two games,
just saying that's just me.
Speaker 5: But I'm not complaining, am I?
Speaker 3: No? A little bit?
Speaker 5: Not really.
Speaker 3: Oh I had to take my private jet to clean
my jet night and then I had to go to
five Diamond Hotel an episode times this morning. They walk
inat it a little bit, A little bit.
Speaker 5: I'm not complaining.
Speaker 4: I'm in Cleveland, Ohio, playing about being in Cleveland. I
read to be in like a Phoenix next week. Rolby,
I think the ambation only playing Coolson.
Speaker 3: You've done some complaining about the travel, Matty, Come on now, no,
I'm good.
Speaker 5: I'm very happy.
Speaker 4: All right, we got another late addition to the antybody
got time for this coming up in a minute. But
I want to get to Gary in spring first, if
you want to join in with your shut your bum
mass up.
Speaker 5: Anybody got time for that?
Speaker 4: Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Gary,
You're on seven ninety and good morning to you.
Speaker 2: Hey, gentlemen, good morning. Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Their okay, my phone is not working too good. Anyway,
I was wanting to comment on that douchebag that called
in earlier, what was his name, that was dragging the
Texans through the dirt.
Speaker 4: He was on a douchebag. We loved Ray, but Ray
a little bit of a take that we didn't agree with.
Speaker 5: But I want I can characterize a he.
Speaker 2: Was really putting it to my belove at Texans. Anyway,
I first follow you an apology, Matt, because after listening
to him, have you ever seen you? I'm sure you've
seen the.
Speaker 13: Movie The Wizard of Oz I have, yes, yeah, So
compared to him, Matt, I owe you an apology for
telling you how negative you were the other day.
Speaker 2: You were like the what's the good witch called the
good Witch of the West.
Speaker 10: You are like the good Witch of the West.
Speaker 2: Positility prepared to him? That guy he showed how ignorant
he is. Does the guy not know that the Texans
have won five out of the last seven games, that
they had the best defense in all of football, and
he said that they were going to lose for sure
of their next three games in a row. So he's
just showing his own ignorance by just just opening his
pile hoole and talking anyway. So all I have to
say on that is to that, and I do call
him a douchebag that he just needs to shut his
bumb ass up, mane because he don't know nothing.
Speaker 3: And man, thank you very much. All Right, man, you
drop somebody, to drop a d bang on somebody, you
better know them pretty well. Right. He's a sweet kid.
We love Ray. Yes, you can make assumptions in this world.
You're assuming I'm going to assume that RAI is on
a d bag. I'm assuming I'm not saying that. I'm
not talking about race specifically.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, real quick, before we get to the
news at noon, did.
Speaker 3: You see the story out of Michigan yesterday, the University
of Michigan yesterday? What happened?
Speaker 4: So you know, these conferences raw, these college conferences are
always looking to add money, figuring out ways to make money.
So what they're doing is they're trying to sell equity
in their conference. What and then, look, I know this
just sounds and I'm trying to dumb this down as
best I can.
Speaker 3: Okay, what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, taking a lump sum of money from a private
equity firm in saying we'll give you certain ownership and
certain future revenues for a conference.
Speaker 5: Okay, that is happening now, it has an officially happened,
but it's going.
Speaker 4: That's the new thing is having these private equities on
these conferences. Well, the University of Michigan is and not
a fan of this at this time. Either the money
is not good or they're like, why are we taking
this money in advance when we're going to make this
money on our own? Why do we need private equity
to run our operation? So essentially, they have said.
Speaker 5: In the last twenty.
Speaker 4: Four hours that unless they get all eighteen teams in
a big ten to agree to this private equity thing
and not force it down, the conferences throw like the
commissioner wants is very badly. That Michigan said when their
current media deal is over with in twenty thirty six,
which will be ten years from now they're going to
go independent. Hm, I understand you're the apprehension about letting
private equity run anything. Okay, we trust me. We kind
of know how private equity goes in this world. Okay,
I'm sorry. Though, the University of Michigan does not carry
as big of a national brand. It's I think the
University of Michigan thinks it's carries.
Speaker 3: Uh it's Tier one, it's a Tier one big brand.
I would say, Okay, they recent have a national championship.
And also I might be biased in this because in
fourth grade I was a Michigan fan because they were
really good and they're on national TV a lot. I
had Michigan gear from like I don't know, like fourth
grade to like I don't know, like seventh grade or
something like that, just because they were really good in
that era. That's when like drewe Hnson and Tom Brady
was there and uh, Brian Greasy. They had some good
teams and I became a Michigan fan.
Speaker 4: Let's even say that Michigan football had enormous national casha.
Speaker 5: It has some I'm I'm not blind to it.
Speaker 4: But if basketball doesn't, baseball doesn't it's Olympic sports. Do not,
it's women's sports, do not, baba, oh please. First of all,
nobody has nationally when they're good. I mean Duke, North Carolina, Kansas,
and yeah.
Speaker 3: They're not there. I mean, but I mean you go
with the with They can kind of resurrect the Fab five.
They were big brands, so I'm saying they could if
they woke up and they were really good, I think
they would have some cachet. It's not there now.
Speaker 4: I think it's very cute that schools think they can
go independent and think if there's a better world out there.
This is to me, as the University of Michigan president
just pissed off about the thought.
Speaker 5: Of being private equity. There is no way, no how,
no chance Michigan will have a chance to succeed compete.
Speaker 4: Sure it's Michigan, but overall make better money, better exposure
than going on its own. I just it's like, basically,
I'm gonna take my ball and go somewhere else. Now,
some teams do that to go to different conferences, but
to go independent, I don't think that's very smart at all.
Speaker 3: I wonder, hm it be obviously would be about whatever
offers they could entertain and who would be willing to
offer them money for all their games? I'll on Notre
Dame and NBC of course is NBC with Notre Dame
over the.
Speaker 4: Years, you wouldn't be able to cash in on the
league TV contracts. You wouldn't be able to cash in
on the league television contracts with NCAA.
Speaker 5: With all the NAA sport.
Speaker 4: You'd be essentially negotiating your own television deals everywhere. You
wouldn't have the Big ten network.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't have CBS, you wouldn't have Fox, you wouldn't
have UH. Now, granted, the SEC is on is dominant
on Disney and and that's but you're not gonna be
able to convince ABC and ESPN to bump their triple
header of SEC football for your game against Ball State.
Speaker 5: It ain't happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But if what is their recourse, if you are easy,
is to bend over to the Big ten and do
whatever they say.
Speaker 4: The question is going to be, is it bending over
or is it Hey, this is a negotiation we need
we need to think about do we really need.
Speaker 5: To sell off part of our conference?
Speaker 3: The board?
Speaker 4: We need to order you to ask for more money
before we ACTUI ask and say, Okay, maybe private equity
isn't the.
Speaker 5: Worst thing in the world.
Speaker 3: So the Michigan Board of REA chairman of the Board
of Regions is saying that the Big Ten is trying
to strong arm them.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I don't think Michigan wants to be strong armed.
That's how I read the story. I don't know if
you're really you know, that's that's the one I look
at it.
Speaker 3: Last night.
Speaker 4: It came across to me as Michigan wants to dictate
how they operate their league. They don't want the Big
Ten Conference telling them how.
Speaker 3: What deals they shues and should says the Big Ten
Conference commissioners threatening the University of Michigan with penalties if
we do not approve this deal. The thing that makes
me think about is maybe they maybe the Big Ten
things in ten years, these mega TV deals are gonna
go away.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know. This is this is a big mess.
Speaker 5: It's a big mess.
Speaker 4: But I do not believe going independent is the right
answer for them.
Speaker 3: Well, I also don't. I think just taking money up
front from private investors is probably not. I mean, this
is we're talking about college sports.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds like to me, the Big Ten commissioners
worried about the long term.
Speaker 3: Future and receiving money from third party investors. I mean,
this is insane. Yeah, we're talking about college sports, Yeah,
amateur athletics.
Speaker 4: And guess what's gonna be by the way, By the way,
it's not gonna be the Big Ten Conference anymore. It's
gonna be the Big Ten Conference presented by Rate rhym Insurance.
You will not be able to say just the because
that's what private equity's gonna be. They're gonna want They're
gona want to monetize it EMEDI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're gonna want control. So I understand if
Michigan is pushing back on this. Are they pushing back
because they're worried about private dec with They are probably
pushing back because the private ec WEE dollars aren't good enough.
Speaker 5: That's the question with the you and I do not.
Speaker 3: I would say probably more of the former. If everybody
else thinks the money is good enough, why wouldn't it
be good enough for Michigan Because it sounds like a
lot of schools are like, my guess is Wisconsin's like, absolutely,
we'll take an ownership stake in there at four billion
up front and a tiered distribution system in exchange for
a ten percent cut of the Big tens media rights
and sponsorships. Isn't that nothing? The hell is going on
out here? The hell is going on with college athletics.
The hell is going on. I could have said it
better than myself. Let's get to the news at noon next.
We're gonna check it.
Speaker 5: In Buffalo in one hour. We've got to believe it
or not.
Speaker 4: At one point fifty, it's a Matt Thomas Show with
rossam here in Cleveland for Rockets and Cavaliers.
Speaker 5: Here on seven ninety is the mac Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 14: Maybe is twvel three on Sports Talk seven NINTI Matten
Ross with you here, getting you ready for Texans and
Bills tomorrow, Rockets and Cavaliers tonight and right now the
news at noon.
Speaker 4: Hey, with that, we go to the Michael Strahand of
Houston Sports News.
Speaker 5: It's Ros Fitterrial.
Speaker 3: Yes, Matthew, well, thank you, but Michael Strehan.
Speaker 5: Anyways, done, Good morning America? Sure?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: As you mentioned here locally, we have the Rockets and
action against the Cavaliers. We'll get to that momentarily. But
the big news from yesterday, both c J. Stroud and
Jalen Peatrie ruled out for the Houston Texans. They are
facing the Buffalo Bills tomorrow on Prime Video. They will
have Davis Mills starting the game. Some folks think that's
a better thing than CJ. Stroud for the Houston Texans offense.
Those people are idiots. But nonetheless, Davis Mills will be
taking the start. And we're gonna talk about those people again,
whoever they are. They need to come clean, They need
to come correct and explain what their situation is and
what their flawed logic was. Line has ticked up a
little bit from five and a half to now six
for the Buffalo Bills with the news that CJ. Stroud
will definitively not be making the starts. Did you say
double digits for the Bills? I forget.
Speaker 5: Touchdown?
Speaker 3: Touchdown? Okay, so at least seven. Well, we'll see what
happens the Buffalo Bills. According to you know, one of
your favorite NFL analysts, Matt ben Baldwin, deep in the
analytics game, has them rated as the number one according
to Composite Rankings pass protection. The number one pass protection
team in the NFL the Buffalo Bills. Okay, now the
Bills do not play well in Houston, Texas. You know why?
Speaker 4: Raucous crowd duh, huge energy, m loud on Beyonce if
you will?
Speaker 3: Sure? Why not? And well a really good defense and
that guy Daniel Hunter and that guy Will Anderson pretty
good too? Yeah? Pretty good? Pretty good? Uh So the Texans,
according to those composite rankings, twentieth in terms of past protection.
Do you want to know where the Texans are in
the Pro Football Focus? Oh, it's so good to have
you defensive line rankings.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: By the way, do you pay for that? Because I could.
I try to find it and it was on behind paywall?
Speaker 3: Oh is it behind the pay We both, Yeah, they're
behind the paywall. Yes, I do play pay for Pro
Football Focus. I use a lot of their fantasy stuff,
my fantasy drafts. You know, I'm back to back to
back champions. They got good fantasy stuff.
Speaker 5: Send me the password next time. So if you're going, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, you want to send me some cash. They
keep jacking up the price on this thing. This might
be the last year. I do it because I like
getting the player ratings I like all the fantasy content
and all that stuff, but man, I keep charging more
and more. It's pissing me off. Anyways, Texans twenty sixth
offensive line in the NFL. Last week they were twenty five,
so they slipped back. They hopped up to twenty four
a couple of weeks ago. Then they've gone progressively worse
a spot each week to twenty sixth now to twenty
sixth in the NFL. So your gut feeling there was
a rando, Hey, let's go from god awful to below average. Yes, hit, Well,
they're twenty six now. I guess I said they'd get
twenty five at some point in season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's a win for you, sadly.
Speaker 3: Uh all right else where I'm at. How about Lebron
James debuting against the Utah Jazz, a record twenty third
year in the NBA, also extending a record he was
able to score in the end of the game. I'm sorry,
drive lamp in the third quarter, extending his streak of
double digit scoring performances one thousand, two hundred and ninety
three games of double digit scoring, which is also every
game in which he has played since January sixth of
two thousand and seven.
Speaker 5: I wonder do you think.
Speaker 4: He intentionally chose Utah to do this or it was
just it was just the right time to come back.
Speaker 3: Uta sucks. I don't know. That's certainly a lot. That's
probably me wanted a soft landing spot. Yep.
Speaker 5: I would do the same thing too.
Speaker 3: He's about a month in change from being forty one
years old. He had eleven points, twelve assists in three
rebounds in thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: Does he play at least forty five? Yes or no?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: I would agree with you.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 5: I think he's going.
Speaker 3: To get an opportunity to own an NBA team, and
I think they're gonna say as part of this, you
gotta step aside from playing.
Speaker 5: Plus, the injuries are starting to accrue.
Speaker 3: They just are mentioning injuries, Matt, and you mentioned this
earlier when we were talking about injury issues. Steve Kerr
talking to the Warriors medical staff saying they believe that
the wear and tear, the speed, the pace, and the
mileage is factoring into an influx of soft tissue injuries
in the NBA giannists in the Koopo down with a
groin injury, Victor Wimbinyama with the left calf strains, Stephan
Castle with a hip flexer strain. Other notable NBA players
out with calf strains include Anthony Davis, John Morant, True Holiday,
and others.
Speaker 4: You are the official judge of the show and the
official position of the show.
Speaker 3: You do a lot of different things. How we're going
to fix the soft tissue stuff, that's the question for
medical people. We've been talking about this now for years.
These players are pushing their bodies three hundred and sixty
five days a year. They're taking supplements, they're taking the
science is refined to where you're maximizing your muscles and
and clearly there there's some people are pushing their bodies
a little bit too hard.
Speaker 12: And might I add as well, with all of this traveling,
all that stuff, sitting down for a long periods of time,
you don't you're by those soft tissues don't get enough
time to recover. And like everybody knows, that's a part
of the training as well. You need time, you need
time to sleep, your body needs toever you're just gonna
keep especially those soft tissues, especially you get sora and
everything is just gonna come down from there.
Speaker 3: Do you understand I can speak on the Rockets because
I'm with these guys.
Speaker 5: The Rockets spend hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 3: Of dollars a year on sports performance, probably million travel Oh,
I'm sure millions.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just I'm talking about just salur.
Speaker 3: We we have three soft tissue guys, we have two.
Speaker 4: Strength and conditions. We have a full train, I mean,
our sports performance. The Rocket sports performance is like seven
people deep on the traveling parts. They have a dietitian
that travels. I mean, they're ROSSI The Rockets, among like
many other teams, are doing everything.
Speaker 3: Really possible to keep this incredible, rigorous athletics schedule going.
Speaker 5: But yet the soft tissue injuries remain undefeated.
Speaker 3: They just do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just think it's a situation where the we've learned
so much about the perfect diet and the perfect training
and the perfect supplements and stuff that the bodies are getting,
they're just getting pushed too far. The science is too
good in a way to where you're maximizing muscles, size
and strength and all this other stuff, and the bodies,
the bodies are tapping out. Let me have it for
one night, we'll get some jump food, huh, and we'll
go bowlding. I just probably what Jonathan's saying. Rest, I
mean you can't.
Speaker 12: You can't rest. Well, you sit in the plane after
you do a game. They just finish the game with Sunday,
got on a plane in tuesdays. I mean, it's not
what time you can let your legs just come out
of rest. I know they have stretch out and like trainers,
but it's just natural.
Speaker 4: Rest is hard to do it. How do you rest
when you're playing three to four days a week. You
know you can cut your practices down for sure.
Speaker 12: But you know you can't do that because you're gonna
be resty, you know. So it's a hard Like Ross
I made a really good point, it's max you maximize
your whole you're pushing the limits. Yeah, and now as listen,
we see in baseball right now with Tommy John you
maximize the velocity everything which you can push, and then uh,
the body can only handle some mutch.
Speaker 3: So how we're gonna resolve it. Maybe they a moratorium.
Nobody's allowed to work out in August. They catch you
working out and you're an a violation of the CBA
that's everybody gets in August like gain like literally, it's gain.
It's gained ten pounds. Yes, flab, drink smoke, yes, eat
fried food, don't work out, put your hands between your pants,
inside your pants and just watch TV. Yeah. In the
old days, you have like guys who just play themselves
in the shape during the season. Now it's like you're
a If you're not working out and pushing and going
you know, two three a day workouts and going simulated
five on five and doing this and this and that,
you're a bad teammate. That's the culture of it.
Speaker 5: All Right, We're gonna asking may Ajoke about this tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't be a good question, Yeah, it's be a great question.
Speaker 5: Anything else from you?
Speaker 3: What else you want? How about Shidor Sanders making his
first NFL start getting robbed? Well, yeah, we mentioned that yesterday.
Speaker 4: And did you mentioned the college football rankings? Houston Cougar's
coming out at number twenty three?
Speaker 3: Congratulations to the Kooks. You're welcome. Yeah, are there still
twenty third? Even though they had that embarrassing loss to
the West Virginia Mountaineers.
Speaker 5: That's because half the officiating crew is from Morgantown.
Speaker 3: That's not terrible. You could tell they were wearing shoes.
Speaker 5: Well, they all had like four teeth, they.
Speaker 3: All had choppings, they all had spatoons, and that was
a dead giveaway. By the way.
Speaker 4: Bill bill Bender at Sporting News has the week thirteen
Bowl projections. He has the Cougars playing SMU in the
Texas Bowl. I can guarantee you that's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: Why it's not going to happen?
Speaker 5: Why because we play SMU too much as it is.
Speaker 3: I thought they were in the ACC there. I don't
get what you're getting at. We don't.
Speaker 5: We don't believe in Houston versus Dallas.
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean it. That'd be a good betcha.
Speaker 5: It'd be a great matcha. Not at the Texas Bowl.
Go somewhere us hoop touch bot.
Speaker 3: Why do you? Why do you care? What do you
what about this? Why? So then we can talk about
all the Houston fans not showing up to the Texas
Bowl in Houston. That'd be fun. Uh uh, That's why
I don't want to discuss it. Yes, I don't draw either,
sm You don't bring people either, So no, they don't.
There's their SMU.
Speaker 5: We can we can get fifteen thousand at the game
Bowl game.
Speaker 3: In Houston. That's embarrassing. Twenty that's yeah, come on, now,
let's get thirty least five thirty.
Speaker 5: Why you know what, I'll put my name on it.
Speaker 3: Houston plays in Texas Bowl, thirty thousand Cougar fans will
be there, I would hope. So it's literally in Houston,
and it's gonna be indoors. Seriously, there's a ton of
parking now, so I don't want to hear it now,
you know.
Speaker 5: All right, there's the news at noon. It is a
twelve fifteen.
Speaker 4: We have to have a heart to heart talk with
some of you on the for you tab if you're
like Texans Toro or battled Red Robbie or Deep Steal Dolores.
Speaker 5: Whatever the case will be.
Speaker 4: We've got to stop talking about a Texans narrative that
is on those Twitter streets. We'll discuss it next. Matt
and Ross with you on this Wednesday. If you want
to come in and say hello, you're always walking to
join the show.
Speaker 3: Ross.
Speaker 4: We do invite our callers to come in and most
time we enjoy your experience of joining us.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I gotta hear from somebody that's trying to
convince me that Davis Mills is the better.
Speaker 5: So THJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud, I mean, my gosh, I.
Speaker 5: Mean money Mill. I'm looking at these tweets. Money Mills
is our answer.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, CJ gets hurt too much.
Speaker 5: I mean, God, bless it. You guys watch a little football, right.
Speaker 3: We are swimming in an ocean of stupidity. Matthew, maybe
just people just trolling, right, that's a troll job. Well, yeah,
that's that's the problem. Especially on Twitter. You're incentivized to
get the most views by saying the most incendiary and
or stupid stuff so you can make your six dollars check.
Speaker 5: A Bachi says, not not the watch that I'm paying
for us.
Speaker 4: As a batch, many people are saying that Davis Mills
is the future of the Texans and they should move
c J. Stroud for assets. This off right, QB class.
Who are these people?
Speaker 3: Nobody? They are not real? I would hope not.
Speaker 5: God, this is it's painful in Mills.
Speaker 3: We trust money Mills getting his opportunity finally stays healthy
and CJ. I mean, this is crazy, you guys I'm
not talking about everybody, but in theory. Y'all all love CJ. Stroud.
Oh my god, this is ai video of Davis Mills
throwing the ball with money flying in the air.
Speaker 4: I think we got to get rid of some things.
We got to get rid of infielder. Utility guy is
better than the everyday guy we got to get rid of.
The backup quarterback is better than what we currently have now.
I think we have to what else were we gonna
to get rid of?
Speaker 3: Prospect guy? Joey is a future Hall of Famer, Yes,
Joey Loper, you can't continue to trade away the low
perfetos of the world. I don't know, ken It sports
has so many people that follow it ross that we
can't all collectively have.
Speaker 5: The same opinion. I'm not naive to that that's true,
but there, but there can't be a large group of
people that aren't like, seriously filled with all sorts of
high end meds that think that Davis Mills is a
better long term solution than Tip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, diversity of thought is important, very important. Yeah, we
can't always agree. This show doesn't always agree. We rarely actually, no,
we do. Would I would say most seventy thirty. Yeah, well,
and that's good.
Speaker 4: If we always disagreed, it would be hard for us
to student, if we always agree to each other, that
would just be like sickening.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But whenever you feel like you want to be wrong,
then we disagree. It's nice. Whenever you feel like a
jack you want to be an at jackass Roger Tribillions,
oh money mills. Well, we'll see. Maybe he's gonna have
a great game on Thursday. I got you're ready for
You're ready for this, bold ass hot ash take. You're
indy for this?
Speaker 5: How many games left in the season?
Speaker 3: Seven?
Speaker 4: Yes, if the Texans go two and one, they're gonna
squak in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're I think they that.
Speaker 5: Here Here, here is the demand.
Speaker 4: Here is the definitive statement that I'm not I'm gonna
say very slowly and I'll repeat it. The Texans must
win two of the next three games. They if they
can go eating less than two and one, they're going
to get caught up in a tiebreaker that they can't
get out of because their tiebreakers are gonna be with
the Colts, the Chiefs, and the Bills. You must the
Texans must win.
Speaker 3: Go to and one in their next three games in
order to make the playoffs. If they go one and two,
they're not getting in. I don't know that for sure.
They could finish ten and seven. You don't, Yeah, you don't.
You said they're a way out of the playoffs. And
then they won three out of four. So no, you said,
you said the Astros are winning the aos. So we
know we don't know, midicine mins, I know, I know
they don't. They could beat the Cardinals, Raiders, Chargers and
at the that last game of the season, the Colts
could be playing for nothing, and then that would put
them in ten and seven.
Speaker 5: Gimmes, you had already.
Speaker 3: I didn't say gimmes.
Speaker 5: I ran through it pretty quick though.
Speaker 3: What were they Cardinals, Raiders? Cardinals and Raiders at home?
Those should be wins, and then on the road to
the Chargers, who just got destroyed by the Jaguars.
Speaker 5: The Texans will not be favored at the La Charges.
Speaker 3: Not that means everything, because we know Vegas is always worse,
not sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say it again. You can mark all right.
Speaker 4: The Texans must go too and one or better in
the next three games, or there is no chance.
Speaker 3: No way, no name on it. I'm putting my name
on I'm in Cleveland, Ohio, baby name on it. Okay,
if you could be right, I mean you could.
Speaker 5: Be and guess what if I am, guess what I'm
gonna do. Let's tell you about it.
Speaker 3: Of course. That's why I write these things down, because
you're gonna bring it up when you're right and pat
yourself in the back and tell yourself you're gonna literally
give yourself a nickname. No strip, Thomas. Well, somebody's gonna
be there to names to let you know, we see
what's that. I got a couple, not many, five diamond
Matt high Horse, Matt Fancy, Matt Peach, basket.
Speaker 5: Mister Texas, those are the two.
Speaker 3: I'm going with you, the worst mister Texas in history?
Was he saying that all last week? Jonathan, these mister Texas.
Speaker 12: You know, no, because the tweet took away his uh,
you know, his attention. But this crazy what happened? Why
that's all he was talking about. I mean, look, it
got two point two?
Speaker 5: Is that where it's at?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: Where did you get up to like two point five?
Speaker 3: It was not even it. I mean it was a
great point a tweet there was incisive analysis, was spectacular,
good stuff from sports. Empty, that's all false. You are
the best tweeter in history.
Speaker 4: Nope, nope, nope, that's exactly My point is my tweet
was average at best, and I got two million views.
Speaker 5: It doesn't make any sense. The algorithm of the of
the X account is flawed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just ended up in the four U tab.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Gordy's got two point three million? Did I gravy
trainer and I get a separate group of two million
looking at that?
Speaker 3: No, it's it would be your views, not his. If
you if you quote tweeted it, or you're replied.
Speaker 5: I quote tweeted two point one minutes.
Speaker 3: I'm down two hundred thousand views on that one from Gordy.
Ugh wait, you got eleven thousand likes? See yeah, wow good.
For years I didn't get ratio. Let's be some kind
of record. Gordy was getting ratioed.
Speaker 5: Gordy was getting ratioed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's like, it's a joke, and I said, well,
there were no there were no mojis, there was no
ha haas, there were no quotes.
Speaker 5: He was serious as a heart attack.
Speaker 4: Went in doubt When you say I was just joking,
it means you're coming, but you're trying to circle back
on what you said and trying to get out of it.
Speaker 3: M M. Crawl fishing as they call it. That's thank goodness.
You had me to call him out and I got
you got called out.
Speaker 5: It's fine. We're great.
Speaker 3: We're still good friends. Good job, guys, good job Matt.
We're all proud of you.
Speaker 4: It's twelve thirty the Matt Thomas Old Ross. We've got
an hour and a half left to go, and this
show's flying by Rossie, right.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: I considered it flying by. I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 3: I'm agreeing with you. We're all green. Yeah, we're agreeing
with you.
Speaker 5: All right? So what I I was gonna know? A
response back in the home own?
Speaker 9: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: I thought y'all were not.
Speaker 3: Going to offer something going on. I'm sorry. I was
watching the Women's Champion League soccer, all right?
Speaker 4: Uh seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven and we
go to Buffalo, New York in one half hour.
Speaker 5: Here on the program, ross would is today's edition to
Believe or Not. At one point fifty.
Speaker 3: The hell if I know what do you what should
it be?
Speaker 4: Well, we've then Cleveland before, it's nothing new. Oh by
the wa, Well I got one something for you while
you were gone. Cole Thompson, who's I would say it's
a pretty decent hot take machine.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, I'll call him a hot take cannon. Yeah,
he ain't firing on all cylinders, but he fires off
on some cylinders. He had a super hot take about
the Dallas Mavericks that he's feeling pretty good about. And
I kind of understand why. Now, God, I gotta get
agree with him.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I don't agree with him, Okay, but there
was stuff that was out there today that made me go, oh, oh,
could be onto something. And if you're gonna give col
Thompson his flowers, oh, this is gonna be. This is
gonna be a low end segment for me. It's up
next seven to one three two, one two five Sevenati alright,
so Rossie, at least for now here in Houston, Texas,
it is the Matt Thamas Show with Rossome here in
Cleveland for tonight's Rockets a Cavaliers game.
Speaker 5: We've not really got much of the game. If you
want to.
Speaker 4: Discuss that we're here for you. We do like the Rockets.
We believe in them. Seven one three two one two
five Sevanini. They're by the way, they're very good. They've
won four consecutive games.
Speaker 3: All right. Uh, so the Astros are happy with dyke
In Park.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get some enhancements to Tota Center. So the
Rockets are working on that. And the Texans are gonna
ultimately either get reinforcements to and refurbishment of NRG Stadium
or they're going to go try to find a spot
to build a new stadium. That's to be determined, right,
But generally speaking, I think would you say it's the
harmony is decent in Houston, Texas? Right when of sports
teams and leases and all that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Right, nobody's in danger of leaving?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Well, the Dallas Mavericks are fighting with the Dallas Stars, Okay,
what's the beef. The beef is the least agreement at
American Airline Center, okay. M And apparently the Stars own
the least of the building and there is legal drama
and I don't want to get into too much of
the minutia on that between the Stars and Mavericks.
Speaker 3: But they don't.
Speaker 5: They're not getting along.
Speaker 4: Documents filed by the Dallas Stars yesterday allege that the
owners of the Mavericks have violated the Mavericks franchise agreement
with the City of Dallas. According to the court documents,
the franchise agreement requires the Mavericks to continuously designate the
city of Dallas as the location of the team's principal
corporate and executive officers offices. Excuse me, well, according to
the recent state files with the Texas Secretary of State,
the new owners of the Dallas Mavericks, the Dumont's, designated
the location of the team's principal corporate and executive offices
in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 3: And now do these are these people casino owners or
anything like that. Yes, they are, ah and.
Speaker 5: The Dumont family bought it from the Cubans or from
our Cuban.
Speaker 3: And they're not the country of Cuba.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 3: And they have.
Speaker 4: Never hidden the fact they want to see casino gambling
come into play, and they would like to build a
superplex with an arena and several high end casinos for
the Dumont family, and you and I would be on
would be an agreement that we need casino.
Speaker 3: Gambling and tech taking trips to Dallas quite frequently. And finally,
give me a reason and I have no reason to
go to Dallas unless it's the State Fair, and it's
owe you Texas.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: Put it this way, if they get casinos in Dallas
or geting casinos in Houston, I mean, we're either that
Galas or whatever the case, go check it out.
Speaker 5: I mean, every wants to build the first, but at
this point they cannot do that.
Speaker 4: So Clay Clay Cole, who filled in for you a
couple hours last week, was like, he thinks this is
a grand master plan that if the Mavericks, if the
Dumont family cannot get casino gambling in Texas, that they're
trying to wiggle the way out of the lease in
Dallas to move the Mavericks to Las Vegas.
Speaker 5: M And I said that is.
Speaker 4: Completely preposterous and ridiculous. And I said, the NBA is
not going to allow the city of Dallas not to
have an NBA team.
Speaker 5: It's too pick of a media market.
Speaker 4: And when you are looking to get eyeballs on these
brand new television deals. You need the Dallas market as
part of it. And his answer back to me was, well,
you're right about that. The Dallas will get an expansion team,
but this is a grand master plan by the Mavericks
ownership group to try to.
Speaker 5: Move the team to Dallas. And I thought that was
patently absurd.
Speaker 3: So okay, I didn't know they were there. The Las
Vegas Sands people, that's like Venetian Palazzo and some other stuff.
They do very well. And like I said, the Las
Vegas Sands doing all right, I guess the cash.
Speaker 5: They want to build that for Dallas.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of folks, I would presume that Tillman
would do the exact same thing in Texas, whether it
be San Antonio, Austin, Hugh.
Speaker 4: I mean again, if we get casino gambling in Texas,
they're gonna pop up everywhere. Santorni. You don't think San
Antonio wouldn't build a casino tomorrow. Austin would't build it
with a population growth there, Houston wouldn't do it, Galason wouldn't.
I mean, they would be sprotting up, especially with all
the money that we think about the money that is
spent in Shreeport and in Lake Charles alone by us.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 5: Oh chuck top with Oklahoma border. Same thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, they they sold the Venetian Palazzos.
Never mind, but they still own a bunch of casinos.
Speaker 5: But they're in there. They're in the casino business.
Speaker 3: And looks like all the ones they own are Macaw
and Singapore.
Speaker 4: The name of the group is owned by Mirian Adelson
and her son in law, Patrick Dumont. Dumont's the one
that runs the Mavericks. He's the one that got Nico Harrison.
He fired Nico Harrison.
Speaker 5: So what did Cole Thompson do?
Speaker 4: He had he added me At the CBS news report
of Dallas, it said that there is an office for
the Dallas Mavericks in Las Vegas, Nevada right now.
Speaker 5: So he has he's got a little scoreboard on me.
It hasn't happened yet. I'm gonna still stand by what
I say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if the owners in Vegas and that's just where
they listed their headquarters.
Speaker 4: Yes, I I still ROSSI can't imagine now. I do
believe the NBA will go to Las Vegas, but I
can't imagine them uplifting and moving the Dallas Mavericks as
a group to Las Vegas because they're getting sideways with
the Dallas Stars who control the lease at American Airlines Center.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. But like you said, it's a
huge market, there is some history there, they have a good,
pretty good fan base. I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, So I don't know when the least of
the Mavericks goes is done with. But the fact is
they're just arguing about it now, so obviously it's gotta
be within the next handful of years. I just thought
it was interesting that Cole Thompson wanted to make sure
he got something right. Imagine me Ross Ever going to
you on your Twitter and finding something that I was
right about and then tweeting at you.
Speaker 3: Is that terrible? I think you've done that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: You don't do that often because usually I'm right when
we argue, but you've done before.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, man, this the I never thought
in my life we would be talking about it much
about as much money as we have. And look, we're
not in.
Speaker 4: The hot sizzle of the playoffs. We still got regular
season games left the college basketball seasons early, b NBA
seasons early, so you're we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Have a little bit more time, and we're doing a
four hour show, so we're looking to.
Speaker 3: Expand we just can't continue to break down the bills
runs defense.
Speaker 5: That's boring as hell.
Speaker 3: It just feels like and I don't know if I'm
just misremembering or what, but don't you it feels like
we talk about money and monetary issues, you know, with
nil and college and contracts and uh a private It
feels like more and more and more when it's always
all these leagues have always been about money ever since
the inception of them and like the early nineteen hundreds
or whatever. But it just feels like more and more
and more. It's everything is more in our face about
money and revenues and pushing revenues and finding I mean
we were talking about with the NBA and finding the
Cavaliers and this Amazon Prime video and all everything is
all it all comes down to money.
Speaker 4: And while we could be disgusted by it, we still
watch it. We still love it.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 3: There were two SEC games on this past weekend and
had over ten ten viewers. Yeah, didn't seem to care
about nil then mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: And tonight when I'm in.
Speaker 4: The Bockett Arena calling the Rockets Cavaliers game, I'm gonna
be super excited.
Speaker 5: Who wins the game? It's the bucket aren you know?
Speaker 4: Sponsor pocket pocket bucket, bucket socket, it's a mortgage c
pop it.
Speaker 7: Mm.
Speaker 5: I think it's fine.
Speaker 3: Whatever, Okay, we do. We We're never gonna stop loving sports,
but we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Be a little bit more. I mean there, I think
there's a disenfranchisement. Is that a whord? I just made
it up?
Speaker 3: I'm I'll go with that.
Speaker 5: I think well, I think fans.
Speaker 4: Are little by little disillusioned, disillusioned because I'll tell you this.
I was at breakfast today with some great friends of
our uh and we were talking about how we left
the NBA. But it's painly asked to figure out what
the games are on what channel? And so what people
are gonna do is they're gonna say, okay, it's a randos,
it's eight o'clock, eight o'clock at night, and you're gonna
sit down with your wife, your kids are gonna relax
in bed or on the couch.
Speaker 3: You don't want to spend ten minutes looking for the game. Ye,
you can learn my day, learn it if you want to.
If you want to, I mean, right, my lady, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, last night was easy? Was that NBC? I mean
that took that took very little.
Speaker 3: Lifting Wednesday's ESPN's Friday's Prime Video.
Speaker 5: But here's the thing.
Speaker 4: If you're a channel changer like I am, and like
I would assume most people are, you can't channel change
between what's on your marec me me and your Amazon Prime.
Speaker 3: You just flip apps, You'll be fine. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's not that easy.
Speaker 3: I'm not channel change. Just get get more, Get another
TV man, Come on, I've been telling you do this
for years. Now is a big twenty twenty five TV's
are cheap hashtag about.
Speaker 5: Christmas present time.
Speaker 3: Oh you want, I can chat you a nice cheap TV.
You can do it. Go get out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go give me one of those Black Friday sales.
Speaker 3: I'm I know, I've been checking keeping tabs on deals
right now, so.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for uh twelve forty five. It is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. In fifteen minutes, we go
to Buffalo and check on the bills. Well, I actually
talk some serious football.
Speaker 5: For about ten minutes. Well, we can do it more
than that, but you might drift.
Speaker 4: We need we need ross, and we need a game
to get to We need this game because it's the
Texans are gonna go two and one, They're gonna make
the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Are not speaking in new existence. Thank you, Nick.
Speaker 4: Nick Asario yesterday not giving out a whole lot of
deats about the future of Joe Mixon.
Speaker 5: I got one for you.
Speaker 4: Have you do wearing another uniform next year? That's because
I'm the Texans insider.
Speaker 3: Seven is your tis, mister Texans inside it? Put your
name on it. Yeah, I'll put my name on it.
Speaker 4: I'm putting my name on it. What's that Joe Mix
is playing somewhere else at twenty twenty, So that fine?
Speaker 5: Agree?
Speaker 3: Maybe go ahead.
Speaker 5: Jemp on the train, let's go. You can do it.
We'll heart.
Speaker 3: He said he's gonna be a thirty year old running back.
He could be anywhere. Mm hmm yep, that's not that's
not some grandiose prediction.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Seeing the Mavericks are moving to Vegas, now that's stones.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3: How about this?
Speaker 4: You know what a sports touch says something, What if
the NBA forced the Mavericks to the Dow Moont family
to sell the Mavericks.
Speaker 3: You could do that, can you? Why why would they
force them out and.
Speaker 4: Then tell the DeMont you can have your arena in Vegas.
You can have your team in Vegas. I got news
for you too, Russia, You're nothing. I think that the
general public cares about this, But real quick, that team
Mobile arena where the NBA plays their games and you know,
other college games, it ain't. It ain't good enough for
the NBA.
Speaker 3: It's not Why not?
Speaker 5: It's just not fancy enough.
Speaker 3: I thought it was recently built.
Speaker 5: Yep, and things get recently built and get recently changed
or right.
Speaker 3: Away man opening in twenty sixteen. It's a dump, not
a dump.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't have the bells and whistles that you
would think in a Las Vegas arena. Winnow, okay, just
throwing it out there. Seven one three two one two
five seven nineties seven one three two one two five s.
You see what Davis Mills said yesterday about uh Titus Howard?
Speaker 3: What did he say about Titus Howard?
Speaker 5: I don't know we have the audio or not?
Speaker 3: Would we? I had no idylex. Get this, okay, I
don't know. He says it. Titus Howard played quarterback in
high school and that he could throw a ball sixty
to seventy yards in the air to this day. Really, yes,
that's awesome. Okay, I'm highly intrigued by this. I mean
highly intrigued by this. What do you think is he?
Is he the emergency quarterback? That would be amazing. Run
some wildcat with him too.
Speaker 5: What is his weight and height?
Speaker 3: Look at six foot five three two pounds? Who you
can't go?
Speaker 5: You can make him tackle eligible?
Speaker 3: Yo. He ran a five second forty. That's not bad.
Speaker 5: That's not bad for a guy.
Speaker 3: His sign was also six years ago. I don't know
if he's running that today. But okay, so.
Speaker 5: Let's put this.
Speaker 3: Let's make him an extra, make him tackle eligible. You
send him on an end around, end around all right?
Speaker 5: Listen, listen.
Speaker 3: You need to get him downhill. You gotta get him.
You gotta get his motor turned on. So he's running
and that's yeah. You don't need him east to west
for a little bit, you do. No, you don't you
need him downhill, Matthew formation, let's go.
Speaker 5: Okay, So let's put this in perspective.
Speaker 3: Then how do you do this?
Speaker 4: If I'm gonna use Titus Howard in a pass play
this week or any week, he's gotta line up as
a full.
Speaker 3: Back maybe, and you put him in the you put
c shotgun pistol formation. Yes, you hand the ball to
Titus and you go, oh, look, he's gonna get at
the third and one, he's gonna get that half one
yard for the first to wait a minute, he's rolling around. See,
you can't put him in a uh straight position. He's
gonna have to he's got the rare back. If he's
gonna throw the ball seventy yards, he's gonna need a
few steps. Yeah, he's gonna need a flee flicker situation.
You gotta get there. You go asking him to no
generation you want to I want him to roll You
wanted to go on.
Speaker 5: A flee flicker. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna roll out. Well, the the receiver's gonna
get downfield. You want him If you want him to
throw seventy yard bombs, you gotta let the play develop.
I thought you were just trying to get a little
jump past to the tight end. No, no, no, no, I
wanted to air it out.
Speaker 4: Biggest arm of the team. Well we know biggest neck.
Who's got the biggest arm?
Speaker 3: The biggest what neck? Okay? Oh? Can you epit that one? No?
I didn't hear it. What do you I didn't hear you,
so they is probably to hear you either.
Speaker 4: You don't think that Davis Mills is the biggest neck
on the team.
Speaker 5: N E c K.
Speaker 3: We'll see you on Friday. No, no seeing Friday. I
did nothing wrong. I said nothing wrong, nothing was I
don't want you. What's going through your warped mind? Speaking
of a warped mind?
Speaker 4: Uh, George is on seven honty George, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Okay, George?
Speaker 5: George?
Speaker 3: Did you try his phone? It's only a swimming in
the sink. That sounds like a horse eating an apple.
Speaker 10: He's okay?
Speaker 3: Is he searching for his phone right now? Is he okay? George?
Blink your eyes or honk your horn. Let's say I
know you're okay.
Speaker 5: Alright, Let's go to Buffalo. Next.
Speaker 4: Let's we need some serious football chatter. We'll do that next.
Jeremy White with w g R Radio.
Speaker 1: Next is the mac Thomas show with Ross.
Speaker 4: Our next guest was an earlier Gastom Sports Talk seven
ninety during the Damn Matthew's Morning get Together.
Speaker 5: In fact, Jeremy is invoiced.
Speaker 4: iHeart for Jeremy to make multiple appearances on our show
each of the next handful of days.
Speaker 5: Jeremy White w GR Radio.
Speaker 4: Jeremy, thanks for joining seven onety for the second time today.
Speaker 5: Good afternoon to you, sir.
Speaker 6: Great to be a part of the family.
Speaker 3: Well, you'll get nothing in like it, and we'll ask
you more or more hours.
Speaker 5: No, forget it. I'm not gonna give you that.
Speaker 3: Hey, let me ask you.
Speaker 5: Are you from Buffalo? Where are you originally from.
Speaker 6: Mask, Syracuse? Two hours outside of Buffalo.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you grew up a Bills fan, I'm assuming,
or at least like somebody that watched the Bills as
a young child.
Speaker 6: I grew up a New York Giants fan.
Speaker 15: Which is one of the awkward things about being a
Bills fan and covering the Bills now, is that the
most horrible moment in Bill's franchise history was losing to
the Giants that I was twelve, and because I love
the Giants, So the reason why I asked to complete
with Bills fans about that.
Speaker 4: I understand the reason why I'm asking, because I want
you to give We were talking about this yesterday on
the show before we get to the game itself. We
believe the three most rabbid fan bases in the NFL,
not that there are not twenty of them, but the
three most rabbit Green Bay, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo. So I
want you to explain to our audience in Houston. We've
got Cowboy fans here, We've got Texans fans here, we
have Saints fans.
Speaker 5: Here, We've got fans of everybody.
Speaker 3: What separates the Buffalo Bill Bill's mafia as compared to say,
the rest of the NFL fan base. And please don't
feel free to in Belloy.
Speaker 15: Sure, sure, there's a lot of factors. I think you've
got in the present day. What you have is a
team that is good and a fan base that waited
almost twenty years to be good. The seventeen year playoffs
route that was from nineteen ninety nine to twenty seventeen.
Like that was, we were an NFL team and we
were threatened by the idea that the team would move
because the owner was not you know, didn't have a
succession plan in place.
Speaker 6: So basically have a fan base that was built nervous
and bad.
Speaker 15: This is generation and now they're very solidly here and
we get a brand new stadium next year, and the
quarterback is the best in football or one of the
best in football, and they win the division all the time.
So you have a fan base that is basically into
every walk of life, every age, every kind of person.
Speaker 6: The town shuts down.
Speaker 15: Every player of the place here says it's like a
college atmosphere, and I think that's probably right. The tailgating
is amazing. It's just a stadium out in the middle
of a bunch of parking lots. Everybody has their traditions.
I like to say that basically every single game day
is like Thanksgiving for me because my entire family is there.
Everybody's at the game. Who's gonna watch the kids? I
don't know, because everybody's at the game. Wow, So the
town shuts down, Yeah, Like it's it's absolutely a way
of life. I don't know people that don't watch the Bills.
I don't know a single person that doesn't have at least,
you know, even if it's just three hours on Sunday,
never mind fully invested in draft picks and trades and
this and that.
Speaker 6: So it's a one hundred percent away of life. And yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 15: That's like this generation and before that, like you know,
it's it's it's the game in town.
Speaker 6: It's the Bills.
Speaker 15: We have a hockey team too, it's a very big
hockey town, but they're also terrible and stuck in their
own route. So everybody's just really looking at the Bill
to finally deliver a super Bowl. You finally have this
generation able to bond with their parents' generation which went
up four super Bowls and understand what that's like. So
now everybody wants it, and it's very close by. So yeah,
it's twenty four hours a day each sleep builds.
Speaker 4: All right, last question before we get to the game itself.
The new stadium has is open air. It sounds like
to me that the dome wasn't even considered. Is that
accurate or was there consideration of putting a roof on it?
Speaker 6: I think there was consideration. My biggest thing on that
I switched.
Speaker 15: I used to think that we should build a dome
out this way, and you know, let's center the twenty
first century.
Speaker 6: But then I changed my mind.
Speaker 15: When the Bills beat the Patriots forty seven to seventeen
in the playoffs a couple of years ago, and it
was negative eight. I slowly began to realize that half
the reason we.
Speaker 6: Remember those games and have an identity at all is
because they're outside. So, yeah, I slipped.
Speaker 15: Was it considered? Sure, they did studies and all that.
My biggest thing on the Dome was it was going
to cost twice as monch much. And I think the
state and the county and the owner wanted to get
something done.
Speaker 6: Get in. Let's let's get.
Speaker 15: Something that won't be the biggest problem. And they got
a closed stadium. It's fully enclosed, there's a hole in
the roof. There's a canopy over sixty five percent of
the seats, so lots of people will be covered. The
field won't be the concourses will be warmed and heated.
And they think it's gonna be a fully enclosed stadium
that is susceptible to the elements. But it's just gonna
be such a different experience than the current stadium, which
is wide open and the concourses are freezing. I feel
like people are gonna think they're in a dome, even
though it's not so. I'm quite happy that we will
remain open air. It's Buffalo. It's supposed to be played.
Football is supposed to be played outside. We've got our
share of people that wish it was closed, but I
don't have time for them.
Speaker 6: I'm not listening to that.
Speaker 15: White soft right Cleveland. Cleveland's going to a dome. Absolute mistake,
What a disaster. We've got these scenes in the Northeast
that live like this.
Speaker 6: We're supposed to live like that.
Speaker 3: I'm in Cleveland right now. I'm gonna be all for
the dome stadium. That's just me.
Speaker 4: We know what we're soft in Texas. I'm just gonna
be flat out honest with you. Jeremy White joining us
w g R Radio in Buffalo. All right, you went
on Dan's show this morning and said that you fully
expect a Texans running back to rush for one hundred yards.
Speaker 3: I know why you said it, but are you do
you really believe that?
Speaker 5: Is the Bills run defense that atrocious?
Speaker 3: It's really bad. Now, I don't know.
Speaker 15: I don't know if I said word for word, he'll
run for one hundred I said, what's his career high.
I wouldn't put it past him to get it. Now,
the game script's gonna have to be that way. But
if you get that, whoever you get twenty carries, I
mean you'll get your You'll you'll make money. Run on
the ball against this Bill's defense. If you don't, then
you really do have problems running the football. The Boks
are down to their third string back. Last week, he
runs for two hundred yards. Right, it doesn't matter who
goes in, it's Derek Henry. He's gonna rip off some yards.
It's gonna be the Saints ran, Devin a Han ran,
everybody Bjon Robinson ran on this team. Everybody runs on
the Bills. The problem is, I think when you're playing
the Bills is that this is my opinion here, they
do want you to run. They invite you to run.
Their entire defensive philosophy, the entire Sean McDermott era has
been we're going to stop the pass and we're going
to invite the run.
Speaker 6: Sometimes that means they get run on.
Speaker 15: This year, I think it means they get run on
even more because they just don't really have the bodies.
They're missing important pieces. They're young, draft picks. Some of
them are ready to play, some of them are not
quite ready to play. So it's a work in progress
kind of overhauling this defense from a veteran Leaden group
from a couple of years back to what they are now.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, most teams can run on them.
Speaker 15: And if you want to try and run the ball,
this is as good a team to try it against
as any.
Speaker 4: All Right, there have been storylines about this game, and
one of them is that Josh Allen is not like
playing the Texans. Has that been much of a storyline
up there as the Bills? It feels like to me
and correct me if I'm wrong, are they Jackal and
Hyde in Orchard Park? They're amazing and they're very mid
outside of upstate New York.
Speaker 15: I don't think that's the case this year. That's not
really been the case in the Josh Allen era. They
do have a couple of losses on the road this
year to Miami and Atlanta. They've had some offensive identity issues.
That's really really what it's come down to, that trying
to figure out what they want to be. They are
a very good run team, and sometimes they stick with
that too much or sometimes they're too predictable. They were
heading into last week, they were the number one team
running on first down. And you know, plenty of people
around here think your quarterbacks is amazing. Why on earth
would whoever be the run heaviest team on first down?
Why would you ever lean into the run instead of
the past. And the reason is they're good at it
and they want.
Speaker 6: To be you know, they want they want to keep Josh.
Speaker 15: From doing Josh things. Josh Allen is the roller coaster rived.
You and Houston have seen it. The playoff game from
twenty nineteen, that was the full young job Shallon experience
doing crazy stuff. He caught a touchdown pass, he threw
a bomb to a fullback who was double covered. He
lateraled the ball. I mean he at his best now
is a better version of that. He'll truck a linebacker,
he'll jump over a defensive back. He will throw on
the run, he will catch touchdowns. He is a one
man show. He's incredible, and I think the Bills feel
a little bit of a desire to rain him in
from time to time. The problem is up here. The
belief is that this season they got way too far
on raining him in, way too much this should not
be a run first team.
Speaker 6: It should not go as James Cook goes.
Speaker 15: So last week they kind of overhauled their receiving corps
after the deadline as best they could.
Speaker 6: They got Josh Palmer back healthy.
Speaker 15: They dressed Gabriel Davis, who had been on the practice
squad nursing an injury. They benched Kean Coleman for what
they said was a disciplinary issue, which is a separate thing,
but they could have done that for performance, and we
all would have said that makes sense. So they looked differ,
they played different, and they got their best offensive out
against the season. And now we're kind of waiting to
see with this big test with the Texans and how
good that defense is if in fact, that offense the
way they played against the Bucks can can sling it
against the Texans, can sling it against some of the
best defenses in football, because the Bucks came into the
pretty good defense and didn't have any answers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was it? Forty four points?
Speaker 4: Were you stunned by the amount of points that were
scored on both sides of the football last Sunday when
the Bills beat the Buccaneers.
Speaker 6: I was not that stunned.
Speaker 15: The biggest surprise to me was that it was a
very windy day, and during pregame the win is howling.
So you would have thought, all right, this is to be
the kind of game we've seen these in Buffalo where
nobody's going to be able to throw the ball. And
sure enough, they could both throw the ball, they could
throw the ball deep, they could throw it anywhere they
wanted to do.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 15: You know, Baker and Josh, I think also have a
bit of a friendly rivalry between the two of them.
They played golf together, they joked about each other in
the press conference.
Speaker 6: Leading up to it.
Speaker 15: I kind of think they might have brought out the
best in each other in that day and that game
as well, because they both played really well. And I
was only surprised in the points based on the weather.
Speaker 4: All right, So anybody that foddles the Buffalo Bills, or
at least from a fantasy perspective, knows that we're in
wrap things up here with just a second with Jeremy
White from WGR Radio in Buffalo. Look, Cook is no
surprise to anybody that owns fantasy, But for the average
NFL running back, he doesn't come top of mind.
Speaker 5: Can he buy himself?
Speaker 4: If Josh has an abnormal game, which he's not had
great games against Texans, can James Cook by himself beat
the Houston Texans.
Speaker 6: Baby?
Speaker 15: I mean Cook is they just signed him to a
contract extension and he's the first running back that the
Bills decided to really pony up the money for. And
the thing I was pointing to when they were thinking,
when we were talking about should they do it or
not is that for the last two seasons, James Cook
has been a top ten running back in yards over
expected if use like next gen stats, like breaking tackles,
like making more from what he gets than anybody else.
Top ten the last two seasons. This year's number two.
He's behind only Jonathan Taylor. Like you look at the
top running backs in the league and the yards over
expected per attempt, it is Taylor, James Cook, Rico Dowdle's
up there, Javonte Williams. He'd had a really good season
last year, and you could separate it out from how
good the Bills offensive line.
Speaker 6: Is, which is very good.
Speaker 15: And the other thing the Bills did last year they
dressed a lot of sixth offensive lineman names Alec Anderson
instead of dressing him all the time. Now, they drafted
a fifth round tight end whose name is Jackson Hawes,
who they billed as the best blocking tight end they
have ever seen. And they throw him out there and
he blocks everyone's face off. So the Bills do have
the ability to kind of play bully ball and go
with James Cook if you can shut it down. Of course,
the belief is Josh Allen can do enough. But if
the passing game's not there, they have a kind of
a pitch that they didn't have in Allen's first two
three four years, So Ken Cook win it himself. If
they just kind of grind it on the ground, I
want to say, yes, he's very good. Then they're line
is very good. And they got people that block their
receivers on the scene. The side ends on this scene,
like everybody buys into the run game when it has
to go that direction.
Speaker 4: If you ever make it to Houston, Jeremy, we owe
you a meal because you've been on two times in
one day. We thank you very much for joining us
here on Sports Talk seven ninety and uh stay warm,
Have you got any lake effects?
Speaker 15: No yet, not yet. We got a dusting a couple
of days ago. I'm told it just after Thanksgiving it'll
start to turn, so we'll be ready for it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeremy for the time as always, really really
appreciate it anytime, all right, Jeremy why w g R
Radio five point fifty in Buffalo, very nice and gracious
enough to join us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
believe it or not, today is how well do you
know the Cleveland Cavalier franchise?
Speaker 5: One fourteen, Ross rejoins the conversation.
Speaker 4: Next you may join us at seven one three two
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People reporting are insinuating that there is a possibility that
I could leave the University of Texas.
Speaker 4: That's absolutely false and untrue. I am not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: And then you talk about anyone making a bowel movement.
Speaker 5: I didn't make it more than one sounder.
Speaker 3: Okay hmm, unequivocally saying I'm not going anywhere. Coaches never
do that this week whatever, By the way, what I.
Speaker 5: You know what we don't?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 4: Usually don't look at the television when I'm doing show
with you because you're with me. But I'm staring at
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Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 5: It's insulting to me.
Speaker 4: That they're again, if you want to have a fun
goofy like a morning show is type.
Speaker 5: Thing putting them on his fine, But this is the
name of the show.
Speaker 4: Is called Sports Center, and sports Center usually talks about sports,
not not this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm watching a Women's Champions League olympically owned just
made a second goal. Now it's a three to two Juventus.
There's your update.
Speaker 4: Congratulations to you. Wentis hm Alexas Bliss joined sports This
is terror. I mean she's hot. I mean, I give
her that.
Speaker 3: I what's her name, Alexa Bliss l e x A
b L I.
Speaker 4: S s Alexa Bliss. She's going to be in the
War Games November the twenty ninth.
Speaker 5: She seems nice, She's very nice, seems affable. I believe
Adam Klan has interviewed her before.
Speaker 3: Oh, her real name is Alexi Cabrera Cabrera whatever.
Speaker 5: I just I mean, it.
Speaker 3: Just shows you that we we we we've we've what.
Speaker 5: We've jumped the shark?
Speaker 3: What w W E or sports? Yes? Both, don't say that.
Matt Sports are doing great. I love all our wonderful listeners,
Big Rocket Sports.
Speaker 5: It's just weird.
Speaker 3: Next week tomorrow, Yeah, well, ESPN is gonna try to
pimp their event they've got going on.
Speaker 4: That's that's already got the outcome written down somewhere. Yes,
remember I do remember I do like wrestling. It's a
it's a character flaw of mine.
Speaker 3: I get it. But I wouldn't put on a sports center.
Speaker 4: All right, Uh so we okay, Now that Sarka is
going to stay at the University of Texas, and.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he is. If he isn't, it's
out of my Contentsman Howard report the other day, was
you roneous?
Speaker 4: And by the way, I'm more offended by Desmond Howard's
uh hat that I was about his take?
Speaker 3: Why his bucket hat, his Michigan bucket hat. What's wrong
with that?
Speaker 4: Apparently he was going fishing before you want to drop
the little nugget on people, mutual and mutual party of
the ways, and what's wrong with that? Well, if he's right,
he's gonna be the college football insider that I am
to the Texans inside. He's wrong, it's gonna be well,
just another random national person saying something out there to
get clicks.
Speaker 5: And it worked because what.
Speaker 3: We talked about we played a couple of times the show.
I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just I think, and you and I have the
same philosophy about radio show, and maybe if we were
doing on a national stage it'd be different. But man,
oh man, if you think I would ever come to
y'all and say, hey, do you think Davis Mills really.
Speaker 5: Could be better than c J.
Speaker 4: Stroud, then take my man card away, Take my sports
radio card away, Take my take my ability to have
a microphone in front of me for four hours a day.
Speaker 3: It's absurd. It's yeah, don't you know. I'm gonna go
with rage bait. I'm gonna go with that.
Speaker 4: Because look, we do talk about some interesting, funny things
that are off the beaten track, and we will bring
up you know, man, are they seeing something or are
we something going to change or should you consider changing
or what I mean that comes with the territory of sports, mean,
because you're want to you want to jump on what's
hot and who's doing well, and you know, like, for instance,
if you hired like I mean, think about at Oseron,
did he not get the LSU job because he took
over mid season and things were going great?
Speaker 3: Right, yes, mm hmm, so that can happen, and I think,
I mean, does LSU regret doing it? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, they spent a lot of money in the
guy and fizzled pretty quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got they got a championship out of the deal.
Speaker 4: They got a championship out of it. So he's not,
you know, the worst thing in the world. But it's
just crazy how we just ran to the Plan B
and automatically, Plan B is always better than the tried
and true formula that is Plan A.
Speaker 3: We love backups.
Speaker 4: We but don't we need to define what backups are.
They're they're not starters.
Speaker 5: For a reason.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that, I think U of H is gonna
have themselves a little bit of conundrum here.
Speaker 3: What's wrong. It's kind of Wegman.
Speaker 4: Hurt, the number one quarterback in the country according to
twenty four to seven Sports, is a U of H commit.
He is literally the number one player in the country.
And that means we're gonna be paying two guys. That's
the thing we don't talk about when when we talk
about this money that these schools have to pay these athletes.
You're not just paying the starting quarterback. You're paying the
backup quarterbacks. You can stay around in case let's starting
to go somewhere else. It's crazy the amount of money
that the you know, I'm presuming I think his name is.
I don't let me off forget his name, but it's
I think it's Henderson's his last name.
Speaker 5: You my u ah, people would know what his name is.
Speaker 4: But he's a number one. He's the number one player
in the country, and he's going to the University of Houston.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it must be a check. It's uh Keishawn Henderson.
Speaker 4: He twenty four to seven Sports Recruiting twenty four an
hour ago just literally named him the number one five
star quarterback commit in the country.
Speaker 3: And he's going really when they changed their rankings, I guess, Oh,
I guess they do it all the time. I see
the Georgia QB Jared Curtis is number one on there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is as of one hour ago, top ten
overall class of twenty twenty six, number one. Keishawn Henderson quarterback,
University Houston.
Speaker 3: Legacy of the Sport, the Legacy legacy, the School of Sports.
Speaker 5: Sciences is that where it goes to high school?
Speaker 3: What district is that in?
Speaker 5: He's a genius?
Speaker 9: Okay, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: He Okay, he wanted to get a higher education. Think
he sounds like a Bishop Sycamore situation. Legacy the School
of Sports Sciences.
Speaker 4: He learned a valuable lesson. Go play at a high
school where you can be a star and get paid.
So we canna be paying Connor Wegman big money and
this kid next year big man.
Speaker 5: Hey, everybody you want to go to.
Speaker 3: The game on Saturday. We need you badly pay off
these high school kids.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 4: On The Matt Thomas Show, with Ross believe it or not,
today is all things about the Cavaliers. Did you have
a good time in looking at the history of the
Cavaliers organization?
Speaker 3: Hmm, I'm trying to decide how much of it. You
know what, It's fine, there's if if Lebron James never
played for the Cavaliers, their greatest player of all time
would be the Junaslgauskas said, franchise. Okay, let me give you.
Speaker 5: The list, and I'm not look at your questions. Ron
Harper was.
Speaker 3: A Cavalier great for how long?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Brad Doherty was a Cavalier great for how long?
Speaker 5: Craig I don't know. Craig Elo was a caval If you.
Speaker 3: Look at points, rebounds, games, minutes, field goal, it's like
it's all as zul Junasgaski is also a two time
All Star. Really yes, Niziz, Are you okay?
Speaker 5: I just pulled a Harry Carey doing an NBA game?
Speaker 7: You know, so.
Speaker 3: It was Arnold Schwarzenegger doing a Cavaliers game. Get to
a little choppel goscose.
Speaker 5: Jonathan right that impersonation very quickly?
Speaker 3: Wait, wait on.
Speaker 12: Editing, what have him done?
Speaker 5: Do it again?
Speaker 3: Get to a little Choppo Juul Goalscuse, hey, fighting is
gonna be fun.
Speaker 5: He's already clipping the head.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have three weeks of clips after this week's show.
Is a load? All right?
Speaker 4: That'll conclude? Is adrenals is a drunis Algauskas talk on
the show?
Speaker 3: I guess all right.
Speaker 4: I mentioned the Astros. We'll get to that in a second.
But I just saw the funniest thing on the four
utab sports Rvy. This is from Pro Football Talk. The
NFL is quietly I I gotta read it Bribain because
I don't want to goof it up here.
Speaker 3: The NFL is quietly monitoring the return of supersonic flights
as a way to make expansion to Europe easier. What
what now?
Speaker 5: I have never been on a supersonic jet before, like the.
Speaker 4: Concord, but from what I understand, they do really really
remove quickly.
Speaker 5: But they're also very slick.
Speaker 4: Planes that don't see a whole lot of people and
are not known for their being overly luxurious. Tell me
how you're gonna put a three hundred and twenty five
pound offensive lineman or defensive lineman on a Concord even
for five hours to go from say, New York to Berlin.
Speaker 3: I guess they're gonna have to invent plays and planes
that can and they can fit these guys out.
Speaker 5: Didn't the Concord only have like like a hand number
of a cer number of seats to begin with?
Speaker 3: I have no idea what.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna what are you gonna take?
Speaker 3: Like, personic travel is not on my radar, It's just not.
Speaker 4: I gotta look up the Concord plane. How many people
sat on these things?
Speaker 5: Uh? They began in nineteen fifty four?
Speaker 3: What? Yeah, I wouldn't hop on no supersonic plane in
nineteen fifty four had problems with regular planes.
Speaker 5: The last commercial flight was in October of two thousand
and three. Damn what okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So the like so nobody was just wasn't profitable.
Speaker 5: I guess a seating for between ninety two and one
hundred and twenty eight passengers, that's like normal size human beings.
We can't we can't get to Europe fast enough, can't we.
Speaker 3: ROSSI seems like it seemed dangerous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna have a I'm
gonna pull rest injury management.
Speaker 3: What happens when you run into a flock of birds
at double the speed of of sound.
Speaker 4: I don't want I don't want European basketball. I don't
want European football. I don't want European baseball.
Speaker 3: It's a six hour time difference just to London, and
then it gets more you go further away. Yeah, just go.
Speaker 5: Put Jacksonville there for three weeks at a time and
let them play some games there.
Speaker 3: More and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and
pushing and pushing.
Speaker 4: Yep, does it stop. It's never gonna stop. Was new
new avenues of pushing. All right, let's get to pushing
Ramona Ureus. You want to be pushing for his playing
time was not ten.
Speaker 3: Deal by the Astros. Uh.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say I'm completely shocked.
Speaker 4: I think it would have taken Ureus to be really, really,
really good to unseat Mauricio Dubon as a guy that
the Astros would want to keep around because of his
ability to.
Speaker 5: Play in the infield and the outfield.
Speaker 4: Been there, done that, solid glue guy, doesn't worry about
his playing time, just does whatever is asked by the manager.
Speaker 3: And it costs you. Twine Palmer.
Speaker 5: How's he doing?
Speaker 3: By the way, I have no idea. I don't know
the latest on twine Palmer. See in the Arizona fall League.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know who twine Palmer was nuntil you
said his name again. I remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, from ber Valdez till the Astros.
Speaker 5: Thanks, but no thanks to the one you're qualifying offer.
Speaker 4: Money's gonna be good for him. Now, let me ask
you this, can we we should go we You and
I are on the record. I don't think the Astros
are going to miss him very much.
Speaker 3: Fromber.
Speaker 5: He's an arm he plays every fifth day, doesn't get hurt.
Speaker 3: There's value in that, absolutely. But as much as we
appreciate the good Fromber, the bad Fromber wasn't worth.
Speaker 5: Putting six years and one hundred and eighty million dollars
in this spiggy bank. I just don't think it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, we'll see what kind of deal he
gets and what they sign him to. But there is
a big hole in the rotation. What is your rotation?
Right after this minute? Hunter Brown? And then what.
Speaker 5: Christian Howier? Kay you asked, I'm giving you answers.
Speaker 4: I mean you to like it, Okay, I would think
Spencer arrag Getty's in the mix. I would think Lance
mccullors is in the mix. Now the other guys, I'm
not sure how their arms are, if they've been tejight
or not, or who's coming back for I'm so confused.
I think Justin Verlander is coming back.
Speaker 3: Oh geez, Okay, so you're you're speculating a deal that
hasn't happened yet. Yeah, a forty three year old YEP
number five starter who was whips numbers have been bad
for two straight years.
Speaker 5: He had an area of three in the second half
of last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but hashtag the whip was still bad and some
of the other numbers were still bad. So I'm worried
about that.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's it's no.
Speaker 3: That's why maybe you get a starting pitcher back if
you trade Jake Myers Jason Alexander Well forgot about him.
Speaker 5: Here's your what you got. You have a bona fide one.
Speaker 3: Yes, have a two who was a two before he
got hurt, so now he's not really a two. And
then he wasn't very good last year.
Speaker 5: And then you got a bunch of fours.
Speaker 3: And fives.
Speaker 5: That have to all of a sudden pitch that thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're better with Fromber on this team than off.
I'm not close, nobody's nobody's arguing that, but.
Speaker 5: I can't shake it.
Speaker 4: Ross And please, if he goes on and is good
Fromber for ninety percent of his remaining portion of his career,
please come at me and say, remember, Matt, you forgot
about how good Frommer was.
Speaker 5: I will apologize and say, yes, I forgot how good
he was.
Speaker 4: But I have too much in my crawl of the
bob from her to say I'm not putting long term
contract and long term money in front of his in
front of his contract.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, age decline can be a real thing for him.
I mean he had his worst season in like three
or four seasons last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go to uh Carol on seven, Carol, thank
you for holding in.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. Hey, how are you? Matt Spencer Arraghetti ended
the season with elbow inflammation and there's a possibility he
might be TJ surgery. What are you the nurse?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 9: What is this?
Speaker 3: What are you telling me?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 13: Hey?
Speaker 3: It was it was how he ended the season. Well,
I know he didn't start he wasn't he wasn't healthy.
I get that, but I mean, are we speaking it
was elbow inflammation.
Speaker 5: Well he's fine now, he's he puts some eyes on it.
He's just fine.
Speaker 4: You don't believe me. I'm just kidding, Carol, I don't know.
Thank you for the phone call. Yeah, he did not pitch.
Speaker 3: What uh he got hurt in like early September? Right, Yeah,
it was available inflammation and didn't he try to come
back and got hurt again or something like that. I
can't keep track with all these This is five thousand injuries.
Speaker 4: So you're telling me, folks, I cannot count on Spencer
Arraghetty to be ready for the start of the twenty
twenty six season.
Speaker 3: Is there no baseball god? MLB trade rumors? Astro's notes
from two days ago says that they're supposed to be ready.
Hater Alvarez Arraghatty expected to be ready for spring training.
Speaker 5: Well then, Carol, relax, relax e think's fine.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Stunna on seveninety Hello, Stunna.
Speaker 7: Stunna was going a mack tell you what's going today?
Speaker 3: We're amazing, man.
Speaker 6: He is up day for you guys? Is out day.
Speaker 2: That hey can we go out to Toddles to walk.
Speaker 7: Anyway we can get that guy.
Speaker 16: Hey man, look, if we don't go out from Berland,
first of all, we gotta we gotta check out Kate.
Speaker 6: See how see how she's doing.
Speaker 16: She's got the same king when Berland with it. We
don't need neither one of them.
Speaker 3: You're telling me you're worried about Kate Upton more than
you are justin Verlander.
Speaker 16: Hey, yeah, because that's she ain't got nothing left. You
gotta get somebody deal.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you're telling me only justin Verlander comes if
Kate Upton spends half the year in Houston, or at
least half the starts.
Speaker 16: Okay, that's the only take Burland.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I'm gonna presume that you'd be there. My
wife has a picture with.
Speaker 5: Kate Upton at an Astros game that a couple of
years back.
Speaker 4: So, by the way, Schwarber expected to sign a five
year deal for one hundred and thirty two million dollars
with who's thirty two?
Speaker 3: Huh oh with the team? Are you just talking about
expected contract or contract?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Expected contract?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: Phillies are the leaders in the clubhouse.
Speaker 3: But however, However, there.
Speaker 4: Is a team that might want to kick the tires
on him. Go ahead, Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Pirates. What, yeah,
does he have? Does he have Pennsylvania Tis or something?
Speaker 3: He is from Middletown, Ohio?
Speaker 5: And how far is that from Pittsburgh? And was he
was he a Pirate fan growing up?
Speaker 3: No idea. That seems like, you know, Ohio's close, right, Yeah,
it's in the general vicinity.
Speaker 5: He would be at the geography majors of the show.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh, looks like it's kind of far.
Speaker 5: Yeah, here are the teams.
Speaker 3: It's near Cincinnati. It's like a suburb of Cinci.
Speaker 4: Okay, in Schwarber's markets would include Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Uh, Angels,
and Marlins. I think the reason why I don't think
he's getting the megadies is because he's thirty two years old.
You're not putting those, you know, you're not putting the
cow tucker s money on.
Speaker 3: Those like that. But he hit over fifty home runs
this year, right, and I.
Speaker 5: Think he also played did he play a full one
sixty two.
Speaker 3: Last year too? I think or something like that. Pretty good,
really good. I would take him one sixty two. Yeah,
fifty six home runs nine twenty eight ops.
Speaker 5: Whoo oooh no, we don't need him cam Smith second year,
let's go.
Speaker 3: Oh jesus, you know he's not even guaranteed a roster
spot camp Smith. I like Cam Smith. Banking on Cam
Smith is a mistake.
Speaker 5: Was not Dana just trying to pump him up a
little bit?
Speaker 3: Say he was he pump him up? Actually say he
might not be on the roster.
Speaker 2: That was.
Speaker 4: It was not a pump It was the anti pump up,
like check your ego. But the camp Smith does a
couple across as an ego guy.
Speaker 3: No, no, Dana Brown loves his guys and he loves
his acquisition. So that should give you serious pause. If
he's not pumping him up.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you you brought that up. Not And now
I'm really worried because if he's a guy that he traded.
Speaker 3: For and he's not guaranteeing him spot Oh hell is
that Dana Brown always be like, oh this guy that
not acquired, Yeah, he's amazing. Not to anybody, right, any
decision you make, any draft pick, you make it your
fantasy team. Oh that's the best player ever. You like
me saying, you know Ross had a good year on
the show. But that microphone that's saint in the chair
is not guaranteed.
Speaker 4: But I've been saying there for fifteen years. You've been
you're doing just fine.
Speaker 3: Yeahs fifteen. Yeah, you're gonna break, gonna throw up.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not is up next.
Speaker 4: The category is all things about how old you know
the Cleveland Cavaliers?
Speaker 5: If you'd like.
Speaker 4: To play seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Rossie. If I ask people what their favorite part
of the show was and they say all of it?
Should we keep them on today? Should we we knock
those people off the air?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Do it all?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: So then we're gonna start doing it ato like ten
thirty to surprise people.
Speaker 5: That would require you doing it at seven forty five.
Speaker 3: Can't let me know? All right tomorrow morning ten thirty?
O crap, what's the cadis for? You got at Toyota?
All right?
Speaker 4: So if I ask you today I'm believing or not
what your favorite part of the show is. You have
to tell us if you say all of it or
I just tuned in, we are we knocking them off
the air?
Speaker 5: Jonathan? What we're gonna go with I'm gonna click them off.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, Jonathan's gonna click you off. I don't even get
to do it. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety five minutes left to go on the show.
Speaker 5: What should we do that?
Speaker 4: We should play America's fastest sports radio game show.
Speaker 3: We simply call it be Believe It or Not It.
Here's how it works.
Speaker 4: You call seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nintie
Today's edition of Believe or Not. It's all things about
the Cleveland Cavaliers organization. I'll read your statement about the
Cavaliers statement completely nealy accurate.
Speaker 9: You'll say this, believe.
Speaker 5: It if the same as erroneous full of ball commit up.
You'll say this God to believer.
Speaker 3: Nots in a row. When you a pair of tickets
to see the Cougars take on TCU Senior Day this Saturday,
November twenty second at TDCU Stadium.
Speaker 5: If you don't win them from me seven one three,
go kuks Uahcougars dot com.
Speaker 4: Or you can see a pair of tickets and seeing
Leonard Skinner and Forener on the Double Vision Double Trouble
Tour August twenty seventh. Those tickets are available on the
website ticketmaster dot com. Seven one three two one two
five seven Honnie Jeremiah, I'm seven ninety ready to play.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not?
Speaker 6: Believe it?
Speaker 5: Jeremiah, Good luck to you, my friend.
Speaker 4: The Cleveland Cavaliers were founded as a Syrah Hughes Nationals
back in nineteen forty six and moved to Cleveland in
nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not?
Speaker 1: Believe it?
Speaker 3: Nope, that's Ross making that up. Ron on seven ninety, Ron,
what was your favorite part of today's tend the two
radio show?
Speaker 7: I thought to you of your discussion was interesting.
Speaker 4: The name Cavaliers was chosen via a newspaper fan vote,
defeating the other options the Jays, the Foresters, and the Presidents.
Speaker 5: Believe it or not.
Speaker 3: Believe it?
Speaker 5: I believe it to day number two for the win.
Speaker 4: Current Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert inherited the team from
his father Sam after his passing in two thousand and two.
Speaker 5: Believe it or not.
Speaker 2: Believe it?
Speaker 5: No, he purchased it all by himself in two thousand
and five. Rubin on seven Anti Rubin, You're ready to play.
Speaker 6: Believe it or not believe it.
Speaker 4: Mike Brown's two undred and seventy two head coaching wins
the most by any Cavaliers head coach, two seventy two.
Speaker 5: Believe it or not?
Speaker 6: Believe it?
Speaker 3: No, Wilkins won three sixteen years. I gunn seven. Are
you ready to play? Believe it or not?
Speaker 6: Believe it?
Speaker 4: The official colors of the Cleveland Cavaliers are metallic, gold,
black and wine.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not?
Speaker 5: God, that's a believe it, leave it playing?
Speaker 6: Bill.
Speaker 5: What was your favorite part of today's ten to two
radio show?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 3: The traffic report, Lebron James, the Cavaliers' all time winning scorer.
Speaker 5: Second is the drunas Ilgaskis. Believe it or not?
Speaker 8: Shoot.
Speaker 6: That's a good one, man.
Speaker 3: I believe it, Believe it stayment number two for the win.
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty three, Cleveland Brown's pass rusher Miles Garrett
purchased a minority stake in the Cavaliers.
Speaker 5: Believe it or not?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 5: Believe it? Bye and on that We end the show today.
Speaker 3: Up next it is.
Speaker 5: Wexler, It's Clinton, It's the team.
Speaker 3: I'll talk to you for Rockets basketball here from Cleveland
at six, I'm Sports Talk seven