Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Ten o'clock at h Town. Good morning, and welcome to
a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas Show and Ross.
We're live at Willie's Ice House, two ninety Barker Cypress.
This is sports talk. Sebout doesn't away, key step back,
gonna launch of three straight on the way and it's up.
It's good and that might seal it. Time out in
the rockets. Look at dudgets now well the three porter
to give him thirty eight of the ninth. Oh, the
Hotel California was inside Tota Center last night, said we
didn't even play. It was there Chimura side pocket three
that rattled around championship since nineteen ninety five. By the way,
I want to make sure you know I do like
this song. It is not my favorite. It's a great
turn it up a little it really it's a good jam. Parden,
Oh my goods, such a lovely place. Yes, Gray, people
in the crowds is eight thirty starts aren't doing so
bad a little granted me about five thousand Lucas lebron jerseys.
Did you just hit yourself with your water bottom?
Speaker 3: I closed the top of my coff and I guess
you got copies.
Speaker 2: Rated to my eye. And I'm sad. This is just
a great stop winking at me. Fantastic start. But thank go.
Look we are said, we are basically outside. We are
inside Willy's ice house at Tuna.
Speaker 3: But they've lifted up.
Speaker 2: The gates of the garage skates whatever these things are called. Okay,
you just lifted my spirits.
Speaker 3: Yes it is. We are at Willie's grill and ice house.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's turned the mid day. Yeah, Longhorn is
going to be an action later tonight.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, they are Cougar's on lately tonight.
Speaker 2: Smack.
Speaker 3: Those Mormons send it back on their mission. I don't
think the bounces Mormon.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: I don't think he is.
Speaker 2: Do they let you in? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: You don't be more goan to go to b Yu.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't. I thought it was a requirement. No,
only the coaches must be Mormon. Really, yes, what about
the trainers? Nope?
Speaker 3: Okay, well the only.
Speaker 2: The only requirement at by us you must if you're
going to be a head coach. Yeah, a head coach,
you must be Mormon? Really, yes, it must be of
the LDS faith. I didn't know that. That's what you.
Speaker 4: Know.
Speaker 3: They run you down with papers. They're a little intense.
I mean, what what if you're a what if you're
a just convert? You could sure?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, ironically enough, there are you know, quite a
few LDS coaches in You know, Andy Rie could go
coach at b Y if you wanted to. Okay, uh, yeah,
I think he did. Jim McMahon, I don't know if
he Jim's ld S or not, but he obviously played
college football there, so okay.
Speaker 3: What about Vince McMahon.
Speaker 2: I think Vince doesn't know where he is right now. Okay,
I think he's still in some legal issues, but that's
not here nor there. Willie's Ice House two nighting in Parker.
Cypress will be here until two o'clock this afternoon. Come
hang out with us.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is why we love Houston.
Speaker 2: This is why mister Texas branches outside of the gallery
to come to beautiful Cypress.
Speaker 3: You're not mister Texas. What an absolutely gorgeous day.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: What an outstanding place. Uh TV's all over the place
if you want to come check the check out. The
multiple NCAA tournament games have some lunch if you are
of a Cajun flair. I'm getting gumboat today, which I'm
very much looking forward to.
Speaker 3: That's great, can't wait.
Speaker 2: Can you just like for like an hour, don't call
yourself mister Texas because I'm under the rest of the show.
I'm tired. Now the listeners call me it's seven. Once
it's coffee hits, I'll be fine, but I'm tired.
Speaker 3: You're throwing coffee in your eye. I was on a
past midnight taking calls of people upset about the.
Speaker 2: Houston Rocket d one almost four minutes. They're not they're
not even trying. Apparently has checked out. Yeah, the Rockets lose,
and I'm happy to be out here on location, but
I'm just not in a great mood for the moment.
It makes me upset when the worst possible candidate for
mister Texas calls himself that. So just you know, as
a friend. As a friend, I'm asking you for one hour, yes, so, no, no, no,
I will not even refer to myself as at any
point during the show today. Now, if you want to
call the show, we can't silence the audience. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety seven one, three, two, one
two five, seven ninety.
Speaker 3: First, what do you mean nothing? Okay, so talk Rockets.
Brian mcaggert eleven o'clock today will join us.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: He will be right smack in the middle of that
futures game they're playing this morning, which is coming up
at the top of the hour.
Speaker 3: Oh well, if you want to hear that game will
be tonight at seven o'clock here.
Speaker 2: On seven ninety. Uh. And then what else we got,
Oh we got I just don't get it. At eleven
thirty today, wonderful. Uh. We have the news at noon
and then uh, we're also checking the prize vault to
see what we can give away today frame by that
comes out here, So okay, stand by for that. Don't
want to give you anything away until we know what
we have for sure. Rockets last night fall to the
Lakers one twenty four to one sixteen. They are in
a mathematical tie for the fifth spot in the West,
but the Rockets have to play two more games and
the Nuggets have played so far, and the Nuggets to
own the tiebreaker. The Rockets also, with the loss last night,
lose the Laker tiebreaker as well. And what I thought
would be a top three team. Unless the Lakers start
to play like they did maybe say a month or
two ago, the Rockets may not find themselves in the
three seed. There's still the fourth spot to be had,
but the hottest team in the NBA is coming to
town on Tomorrow night to play in the Atlanta Hawks.
I think have won what eleven straight games? I think
I've lost track. Then you've got Miami, and then you've
got a four game road trip. Now the four game
road trip has three of the four opponents are putrid.
One is really good. But you're running out of time,
running out of games, and you're running out of.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say juice, but super positive vibes
it is.
Speaker 2: It's a four and five month, four wins, five losses
for the Rockets in the month of March. Losing the
two games at home to the Lakers does not help,
as they further supplant themselves. They've won what ten of eleven,
They've won seven straight games.
Speaker 3: Let me or you, I think it was you. Let's
find out this.
Speaker 2: Let's find out it was it was me. All right,
let me tell you what we're gonna do today. What
are we gonna do today?
Speaker 3: If you come out here anytime between now and two o'clock.
Speaker 2: Okay. We don't even have like a prize vault or anything,
but you come out here, give us your name in
your email address, okay, and we'll say it around one
fifty today. Okay, I've got two pairs of Rockets Bucks
tickets for April, the first Wow that we will get away.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: We'll send them to you digitally, because that's what we're
doing now in twenty six and that's great, but I
mean it actually works out very well tickets in our hand.
So if you come out now, or you come out
at twelve thirty Tific back to work, whatever the case
may be, we will give away two pairs of tickets
to people that literally come out and say hello to us.
Love it. You come in here now, Grant. We want
you to have lunch. I want you to sit now.
Watching Watching us is not the most entertaining thing in
the world. It's not bad, it's not You can kind
of see the behind the scenes of how we do
a show.
Speaker 3: Get some Crawl, datis, get some Numbo?
Speaker 2: Why is Rodney nro coming.
Speaker 3: Watching a McNeese Cowboys? Then what time they play? I
don't know.
Speaker 2: I would say, Louisiana people hate us, but they don't
because I don't know people Alwaisian to hate anybody. That's
because they're drunk, that's true. So two pairs of tickets
for any fifteen PM McNeice and Vanderbilt. O. Look, I
think in my bracket I've got Vanderbilt wedding. Okay, uh
but yeah, point being is that any two pairents will
give away two pairs, will do it at the very
end of the show.
Speaker 3: So come on buy and you know what we'll do.
Speaker 2: No, you know how important these little note pads like
it when I say and hotels, I'm gonna I'm gonna
surrender a pad for people to write their name and
emails dressed down. Okay, this will only be with seventy
five packs. We'll do a drawing at one and we'll
give away two pairs for those April first tickets. Again,
if you want to see rifting, enough pads, you can
know you can afford it. I don't think drifting. I
think they're I think they're a gift. Ye, please at
our hotel take our pads, okay, all right? Uh So
I listened to the rockets where I'm coming back from
home from the arena.
Speaker 3: You did fine, you always do fine.
Speaker 2: But the reality is I think I do a pretty
damn good job. Look, the Lakers are better, Uh, Luca
and Reeves and Lebron finally figured it out. That's why
the NBA was scared of them. Now, I don't think
they are any They're not better than Oklahoma City, They're
not better than San Antonio. But they're right now playing
like the third best team in the Western Conference. They
are who their record says they are, and they played
incredibly well last night. Luca pushes off more than any
other being. I mean, it is tiresome. And then damn
and look, you and I have had for sixteen years,
sixteen good years of really I think decent debate about Lebron.
Speaker 3: James, in my mind the second greatest player, but my god, his.
Speaker 2: Acting skills are going from bad to worse. I lost
my mind yesterday when he was writhing, riding in pain.
He was in so much pain after that common foul
by Jabbari Smith that he had to get help from
multiple teammates, went to the sideline. I don't know if
he came back in the game, except he came right
back in the game to shoot the free throw.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he came right in.
Speaker 2: He is a horrific actor. I thought he's working in, Uh,
what's that movie? Space Jam two was bad. His acting
last night was worse. It was. It was bad. And
he's riding on the floor like you said it was
a he throws his head back like he got shot,
and Jabari Smith Junior went like he's having an anerism
live on the floor at the Total Center. Yeah, he
grabs his elbow like he dislocated it and it and
he's just on the ground kicking and screaming, and it's like,
this is the thing that I almost want to pull
this out for. I just don't get it. They have
video reviewed. Dude, this is not sucker. You can't hide this.
They're going to look at it. They're going to see
that Jabari Smith Junior barely put his arm on You
didn't hit you on the head, right, and then you're
just acting like you got shot out of a cannon. Yeah,
it's ridiculous because you know what it's doing. In my mind,
it's staining part of his career, not a lot of it,
but there's a little.
Speaker 3: Bit of distain.
Speaker 2: I think if you've decided you're not gonna like Lebron,
it's gonna add it anything but Lebron.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my god, last night he went thirteen to fourteen.
Speaker 2: He's forty whatever he is, he's been the league for
twenty three years. He's incredibly efficient. Last year, what I mean, thirteen,
that's that's that's suppose he's not supposed to do that,
but yet he did.
Speaker 3: Thirteen or fourteen is the best shooting night of his
career ever.
Speaker 2: And you know this, he leaves the league in fast
break points.
Speaker 3: And by the way, oh, the leakouts last night, they
were a problem.
Speaker 2: That's what It led to a big part of the
Lakers shooting sixty percent. If you look at the box
score and you didn't watch the game, you're like, he
shot sixty percent. The Rockets played no defense, well kind of,
they played no defense on those leakouts. Turnovers that led
to points. You didn't turn over the ball as much,
but you gave up more points off of them. You
only turned the ball over twelve. You cut your turnovers
in half. Yeah, just twelve turnofs. They scored almost every one.
They scored twenty three points off of those twelve that's
the problem. And then you couldn't stop Luca late. Credit
to the Rockets for coming back in the third quarter.
Great third course. I mean Kevin got evolved was getting
you know, giving up on them and receiving texts that
they have no balls and all this stuff, like they
showed some fight in the third quarter. They just weren't
good enough and and and that's what hurts. And Luka
donch they had Luka Doncic and you didn't. That's what
happened at the end of the game there you're trying
to trap him. Yeah, I love Alprin Shingoon, but when
he's on the floor, they're running pick and rolls at
him the entire game and they they're the Rockets are trying.
Speaker 3: To trap.
Speaker 2: Go under Luca. He's gonna shoot the threes, you gotta
if he's gonna show and go, which Shingun was doing
some too. I mean that there's just no solution for
a for a Luka Doncic pick and roll and the
behind the back dribble alleyouped up to Ruy Hachimura.
Speaker 3: I mean, you just there's just nothing you can do.
Speaker 2: And then he found Lebron James on the alley oop
and then he knocks down a killer step back three.
It's funny to say, I think they played pretty good
defense on a guy who almost had a forty point
triple double. But they actually, for the most part, it
took him twenty five shots to get there. That was,
and he was only seven to seventeen, and he didn't
do himself in the favorites.
Speaker 3: Of the free throw line.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven, ninty seven
one three two one two five seven Nintie matten Ross
with you from Willy's. We're at two ounting in Parker Cypressy.
Come by today, take one of my hotel notepads, put
your name and your email.
Speaker 3: Address, and then we'll draw two at one fifty.
Speaker 2: And we have got two pairs of tickets to get
away for the Rockets and the Milwaukee Bucks Brian McTaggart
at eleven o'clock and I just don't get eleven thirty.
You guys may join us all throughout the show. We
will get to the tournament tonight. We've got a couple
of teams locally that we care about. We've got a
major injury in the NBA to discuss very quickly. Astros
talk certainly on the on the agenda, and Ross and
I are gonna craft our master's dinner tonight. Oh, because
it came out yesterday.
Speaker 3: All right, wonderful.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you what Rory McElroy is going to eat
to Rory McElroy. Oh is it cordon beef hash? All right,
I'm sorry, write it down for Friday eleventh thirty. Sorry
down seven one three two A couple of days ago.
Speaker 3: Give me a break.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety ten,
twenty one Sports Talk seven AUTI matten Ross with you.
I know it's not lunchtime yet, but if you want
to come over and have some lunch with us, were
two nighting at Barker Cyprus or Willie's ice House and grill.
Two pairs of Rockets tickets for the April first game
against the Milwaukee Bucks are up for grabs, but you
must come out here now say the whole time. We'll
get your email address and we'll hopefully take care of
you from there. Uh. You have a picture of us.
It look good, don't we. I got my cougar pause up.
You have your hook them horns up, your beloved longhorns.
Play later tonight against the BYU Cougars. Yes, I think
you're losing. Well, they're dogs, they might Cougars tonight are
what what's the lightest line on our beloved Houston Cougars
against the Idaho of Andals.
Speaker 3: Twenty three and a half? I saw all right?
Speaker 2: Which Why why are the teams from Houston and Idaho
playing at nine to ten? Why is it the very
last tip off of the evening? I think you put
your most attractive game the game before. I'm I'm just
gonna well, if that's okho in the city, what's what's on?
What's what's an okay? See before that game? I have
no idea by the cities. I just know, buy my
brain it all right. By the way, the two early games,
if you're gonna come and have lunch with us today
TCU Ohio State is eleven fifteen and Troy versus Nebraska
at eleven forty. I'm taking Ohio State in Nebraska, give
me the favorites locks of a week and then they
have the games staggered all throughout the day. Okay, it
is really a fun day just to kind of sit
in vedge in front of a television. Yeah, drink of course, Yeah,
this is the These are the best two days of
the year sports wise. Spot teams we don't care about, no,
and players we don't know, can't name a single player, not,
cannot name.
Speaker 3: A single player. No, but we just want Well.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, when Western Illinois is within four,
we're like, oh my god, upset city baby. Well, the
Jake Myers fan club is supporting Nebraska for him. How
is that?
Speaker 3: Jake Myers fank.
Speaker 2: It's been quite quiet for Jake Machine. We're doing great.
We're getting exposure.
Speaker 3: He's on Chandler Rum's Crush City podcast. It's great.
Speaker 2: Slug us up. I guess he's he's a little he's
at more ripped than he was a year ago. Dad's strength.
He's got two kids. Now, I didn't think about that way.
It's ready to go. That strength is important. So you
get to your forty years, it becomes dad flab Well,
that happens you get out of your prime. But he's
in his prime. Yeah he is. And he's still on
the team. He's still here. He's been in trade rumors
for like two straight years. Yeah, he was. He was
in trade rumors when he won't even an astro. He's
been talking about trade Rummers seven one three, two one
two five seven nine zero rockets again fall in the
Lakers last night and to find themselves right now in
the five spot percentage points ahead of Denver for the
six glad. We don't have gut feelings today. It's it's
it's not good. I mean they've lost three of the
last four. They've just been in this pattern of five
hundred to below for a couple of weeks post All
Star Break. The defense hasn't been as good, the offense
hasn't been as good. Uh, and you know, we keep,
unfortunately having to go back to the well. If you
don't have Fred van Vliet, you don't have Steven Adams.
And the reason we had the first month is nowhere
to be found. I mean, Tarry Easton hasn't. I don't
know if there's been a worst month of a player
I've ever seen in my life than tar Easan. He's
had one three pointer in the month. What did it?
What is today? Today is the nineteen He's got one
three pointer in all the games he's over his last
twenty one from three. And you know, I'm getting people,
you know, talking to me and tweeting me like, hey,
tell Tared to stop shooting, till Tar to stop shooting.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not how basketball works.
Speaker 2: You can't put a player out there and say, don't
worry about putting the ball up, don't ever.
Speaker 3: Shoot the ball.
Speaker 2: That's just if he's out there, he's got to shoot.
He's got to work out of this because if somehow,
some way the Rockets are gonna turn this season around
and make some noise in the playoffs, Tar Easton's got
to be a part of it. He just has to be.
So I understand that the same thing when Dorrian Phinney
Smith was struggling and people are saying that, like, just
don't put him out there, just Dorrian Finney Smith, that
the Rocket's gonna be out of their best.
Speaker 3: He's got to play better. Tarr's got to play better.
Speaker 2: They have an amount of talent on this roster to
where they can play better than they are. You just
got guys in a funk and then you're missing some
of your key parts. Yeah, you know, especially the thing
we're talking about, like the double teams with Kevin Durant.
Oh they can't handle a double team. Yeah, they needed
Fred van Vliet and in those instances. And then last
night Albert Shinggun was back and they did a lot
better against the double team than they did on Monday.
Speaker 3: And Durant saw a handful of double teams.
Speaker 2: I think he only went what was his turnover count
last night, let's see he Yeah, still not great.
Speaker 3: That's not great, but that's better than seven.
Speaker 2: But remember that's Bikati. That's if there's anything that's been
attached to his career, elite shooter, fifty forty ninety guy
in the cusp every single year.
Speaker 3: But he does run the ball over.
Speaker 2: He's always been a turnover prone guy because again, at
his height, he's going to be asked to do a
lot of things that are going to put the ball
in his hand more than anybody else on the floor.
And you're gonna actually have more turnovers because of that case,
because he's not a true prototypical point guard. Yeah, four
from Durant, three from Reid to a piece from shinguon
Atari and that was it.
Speaker 3: Just twelve. You can live with twelve, you really can.
Speaker 2: Problem is, you just saw the Lakers score almost baskets
every single time turned it over. They had a bunch
of outs, and then then and then at the end
when the Rockets rallied, it was the Luka Doncic Show
at Toyota Center, and it was incredible. He's an incredible player.
I'll go homeer on you. Why does he get away
with so many push offs? He could push offs, and
Michael Jordan did in his hey day, I wouldn't say that. Uh,
come on, oh, come on, He's been in the league
seven right years?
Speaker 3: Now, you know I'm on now, Okay.
Speaker 2: Maybe Michael Jordan got away with push offs. Shake Guild
just Alley, they do shake Gil just Alexander gets away
with push off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, James Harden was pushing.
Speaker 2: Off every time he was out there. Devinsky was pushing
off people in the chest. Alprin shing Gun always hooks
people in the post and and pushes off on people.
Speaker 3: It's basketball, they want.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant is always pushing off people and then getting
to his spots in the elbow. It's basketball. How about
Katie getting a flavorant one last night?
Speaker 3: Huh that was absurd by the way.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a little shove, but that No,
that was bad. Calling the a flagrant one. I'm not
normally get off my lawn. This is soft basketball. Just
would it never played when John habilat Check was on
the floor.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's weird, I don't know, But the point is, I'm
not that guy. But that was a soft flagrant foul.
And a lot of these flagrant reviews are just ridiculous,
Like the flagrant like they're reviewing the flagrant for on
Lebron James and and and jabbari'smith Junior barely touched him.
Speaker 3: At least they kept out a common foul.
Speaker 2: But you know what the funny thing is, in the
back of my mind, I'm like, oh, they might be
upgrading this even though you see nothing happened. You never know,
because that's what happens. It feels like I don't have
a the fraction of this, but it feels like to
me that every about every ten times you go to
the monitor, seven or eight of those wind not being
upgraded again. The Rockets got frankly lucky because yeah, no,
maybe it's because Lebron's reputation is well, he tends to
embellish on his fouls. I thought the way that he
like turned his head back into Jabari's hand, and I
thought they might call that a flagrant that's how bad
it is. Yeah, talk about that Texans offensive line auditions. Look,
I'm gonna be I'm gonna be brutally honest with you.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 2: I love football. I can't get into a deep dive
in football. In April and May, I wanted I wanted Houston.
I wanted y'all to come to our shows and talk
lots of rockets and get a good playoff push and
get going here or you're gonna come to us for
the Astros and we are beyond.
Speaker 3: Excited about this.
Speaker 2: But if I'm losing my rockets and they're not gonna
be in a deep playoff runt, You're all gonna be
calling about whether or not Cad Stover is gonna be
a huge backup tight ended you know for the text,
I that crap is.
Speaker 3: Boring to me. It just is.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to be boring. I wanna I
want to have fun stuff. I want to have relevant
Houston things to get to, and my rockets are there's
just a mean our four and five in March, Tarry Easton,
who was fantastic for the first two months of the year,
especially from three and then you know, was able to
fight through leg injuries, is playing on back to backs
and playing multiple games and had to step up. He
this this this drought he is in is rough. Kevin
Durant in it in four quarters, the last two against
the Lakers and then the first to last night in
the second Laker game, had four points just because they're
double teaming them. Yeah, and they're taking the ball out
of his hand. He's not gonna score. He's not gonnao
thirty feet out of the back. But I'm saying, thank god,
in the third quarter. He woke up that third quarter.
That's the thing that got me last night when you
had calls, was oh the rugg is the any passion?
Speaker 3: They have a hell of a lot of passion.
Speaker 2: That he scored thirty seven points and I'll score the
Lakers by fifteen of the third has.
Speaker 3: A lot of passion. Yeah, that's another thing. We have
to have some perspective.
Speaker 2: I know it's been a bad run of things, but
I mean, unless we forget man, it wasn't that long
ago you were calling sixty losses a year.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, I mean I was there. This is
bad basketball. Rock at your trash. This is the worst.
I don't want to watch this. This is phone anymore
like shut Joe bum ass up.
Speaker 2: Okay, watch what happened in the Rockets the last twenty
years where we had to watch Kevin Porter Junior and
we all like watching the Christian Woods show in his
Ola defense and the Steven Silas Rockets. That was bad basketball. Okay,
come on, just got never have any perspective. Everything's the
worst of all time, in the best of all time.
Speaker 3: And that isn't that something to do with social media?
That's just like, that's just what I understand.
Speaker 2: But seven one three two one two five seven. By
the way, I want to give a shout out to
uh Tyrese Halliburton and the Indiana Pacers. No I'm playing
this year.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, and I like him.
Speaker 2: I mean what a huge difference he has would have
made for the Pacers this year. But Tyre's Halliburton. Yes,
But I put a tweet out and I actually retweeted.
What he said is I don't follow him. He doesn't
follow me, but he may want to.
Speaker 3: You look that up.
Speaker 2: While I tell the people where we are, yeah, please
do Willie's Grill and Ice House. We're at the Barker
Cypress to ninety location again. Barker Cypress two ninety. We
are hanging out for all the tournament action here. You've
got a lot of great stuff going on. They have
all the look if you're if it's now, it's not Friday,
but you can come tomorrow for lent too. You got
fried crawfish, fried shrimp. They have crawfish everywhere. Happy hour.
Are you gonna stay for a happy hour?
Speaker 3: Off the show?
Speaker 2: Mat Uh? No?
Speaker 3: Oh, well thanks three dollars.
Speaker 2: I congratulate my mom. Sure she is in remission. She
had all of our cancer tracks. So we're having a
little celebratory early dinner after the show today. Awesome. Yeah,
and my mom a triple amounts of cancer. I mean
it just when it got her, it got her good.
And she has been going through radiation and keemo happy
and she has been an absolute warrior. She's she's born
in forty eight. That puts her at seventies forty eight,
seventy six eight, and she's doing great. I'm so proud
of So I'm gonna go have dinner with her tonight.
That's awesome and so a little a celebratory congratulation thanks
to Mama Thomas. Yeah, for sure, I got some issues
with her. But I'm glad, I'm happy. You're probably really
not really pleased the way she raised me. That's funny.
Speaker 3: That's a different, a different discussion for right now.
Speaker 2: It's all celebration, that's right, but celebrated willies watching basketball.
You could happy hours coming up at two o'clock after
the show. Three dollars, Margarita's five dollars, appetizer's three dollar wines.
Speaker 3: Hold up five dollar frozen jack and coke.
Speaker 2: That sounds dangerous and fun. I'm gonna be brutally honest
with you. I've had a frozen jack and cocaine. You
you want someone else to drive you home? Yeah, go
ahead and plan for a safe right home. Correct, Go
ahead and always plan all right, real fast? We go
to Stirling Tyrese Haliburton tweeted out yesterday. God love him.
He's maybe my favorite Eastern Conference player. Now with a
torn achilles one o seven pm yesterday, make one bracket
and stand on it.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: That's one of the greats of the NBA saying it.
Thank you, Tyres for spreading the gosp I made four
brackets last night to him. Normally, I do I feel
like there's an overwhelming favorite, and I do two winner
that that overwhelming favorite winning twice. Like previously, I had
you of h winning in two of my four brackets.
I did four different winners. Do you have your cougar's
in any other four? Okay, don't even answer that question.
Speaker 3: You saw my face. I saw your face, just such
a bad liar. If we were on TV, you just
saw the face too. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I like the coopl look I have to make in
the final four, and a few of them. Okay, I'll
I guess I'll accept that. I mean the Florida Gate
is a good Illinois sneaky that two to three matchup
could be tough. Yeah, yeah, and Arizona's really good too.
I'm really scared of Arizona and Ken Palm's blog which
I always read every year before the tournament. He he
made a case for a wild card produce. So I
put one in, winning one because of the home court advantage,
because they had a lot of three point luck that
went against them that they could turn in the tournament.
All right, let's go to sterling A seven sterling good
morning to you or something, how y'all poor excellent, thank
you for calling us.
Speaker 10: Okay, listen. I'm just really frustrated with the Rockets because
it's not that they lose it, it's that they lose
the same way every time they lose. It's like I
thought Junk was supposed to be this great coach. He's
he keeps doing the same stupid thing over and over again.
Speaker 3: Kevin drag can.
Speaker 10: Life dribble the ball out front. That's stupid.
Speaker 6: Isn't mean?
Speaker 10: Am I just only one?
Speaker 6: Seeing that he get the ball.
Speaker 10: Taken from him five times last night on the first
Monday night. Nobody been six times, seven times?
Speaker 6: And how the Holy One is seeing this?
Speaker 10: Is he is he ignoring the coach? I can see
how two Thienix coaches got fired if they were going
with Kevin Durant. He was just doing what he wanted
to do. I mean, he's a great player, don't get
me wrong, but he's got holes in his game. It's
donning out foot dripping the ball like James Harden. That's
a problem. It's a turnover machine when he does.
Speaker 6: It, is it me?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this the number again. I've always said
this about Kevin, even before he was a Rocket. He's
always gonna have a higher number of turnovers. He just
is because the balls in his hand as much as
he is, and is very rare that a six ten
guy dribbles as much as he does.
Speaker 3: That's how he gets himself in the offense. Secondly, it
was a lot better last night. The double teams came and.
Speaker 2: The rocket.
Speaker 10: Boy, I'll cut you.
Speaker 6: Up for you.
Speaker 2: No, no, I mean I look, I thank you starting
for the phone CA. I'm glad you called. I understand
I I I just don't get it.
Speaker 3: I get it. I get the frustration. He's just been
the go to guy.
Speaker 2: And normally not that I have a percent engine in
front of me, but usually when the balls and Kevin
Durant's hands for a lengthy period of time, especially this year,
good things are happening. When you've had out. He missed
a couple of games here and there. He's had to
carry the heavy lifting. When a man has not been
able to hit the outside shot, you get to go
to Kevin Durant hit the outside shot. Jabari's had his
ups and downs. Reads at his ups and downs. Tari
has had his ups and the now as an away downs,
I still trust him.
Speaker 3: I just do.
Speaker 2: And with that trust does not come perfection. They are
going to be mistakes. Yeah it, And he turned the
ball over four times yesterday. For his career, his illustrious
eighteen year career, he averages three point one turnovers per game.
This is who he is. This year for the Rockets,
he's averaging three point two, not a lot without a
literally point one higher without a point guard. Yeah. In
Golden State per thirty six minutes, he's three point two
this year for the Rockets. He was three point two
and three point oh his last.
Speaker 3: Two years there. This is just who he is.
Speaker 2: He turns the ball over some, as you mentioned, he's
six ten, six eleven whatever, and you're just not gonna
have a tight handle. And then there are some bad
passes that are gonna be made. And that's just kind
of who he is. It would look a lot better
if you had a real point guard. He didn't have
to give him the ball as much. But Kevin Durant
turns the ball over. He's done it his entire career
and he's doing it right now as a Houston Rocket.
Speaker 3: And he made a dook. Isn't having him bring the
ball up every single time?
Speaker 2: And they did. They didn't necessarily make adjustments. They were
just they fine tune, and they were sharper against double teams.
And oh, by the way, it helps having Alprin Shan
Gun being the guy coming to help when you have
a double team rather than Dorian Finney Smith. All right,
I'm gonna put you on tape duty because I know
all you have to do. Let's go last thirty possessions.
I saw Jabari Smith come up in court. I saw
Man Thompson do it. I saw Alprin Shangoon do it.
I saw Jabari Smith do it. I saw Kevin Durant
do it.
Speaker 3: So they were doing that a lot. They would have
This is what they were doing.
Speaker 2: They were putting Durant at the at the left elbow,
and then they were putting Alprin Shangoon at the right elbow.
Then they'd have the ballhandler come up in the middle,
whether it be you mentioned a Men Thompson, Jabari Smith Junior,
whoever it is. Then they would pass it to Kevin
Durant and Goon would come on a screen. They were
baiting the double teams. So they baited the double teams.
And then once they did that, Kevin Durant was ready
for it, and then he would find out brinshing gun
who would get rolling downhill. They broke that double team
a number of times with that exact set, knowing that
double teams were going. So there were adjustments and there
were improvements in that game last night. Unfortunately, it came
a little too little, too late in terms of the
run they were able to make.
Speaker 3: And then Luka Donci went nuclear in the last three minutes.
Speaker 2: He went nuclear, And to JJ Reddick's credit, I think
he had a handful of players on the Rockets roster
in his mind that he told his guys, anytime this
person shoots, somebody leak out, let's catch them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in transition, and that happened way too much time.
Speaker 2: I don't know, yeah exactly, cause you know, I'm just
watching the games, and it's a different perspective than TV
where you can go back and rewind and see what
the heck with the deal was. But you're absolutely right.
They had twenty one fast break points. It felt like
even more than that they were leaking out. And again
we brought up earlier the twenty to twelve turnovers led
to twenty three points for the UH For the Los
Angeles Lakers in that game, there was one out of
eighty two. We could just say, oh you know what, hey,
Lakers had your number. Luca went crazy. No, it was
a big game. It was a big game, huge game.
It was a tiebreaker type game. Yeah, there was a
lot of things on the lines. It hurts, it does,
especially after Monday. You wanted to bounce back with the
victory after Monday was an absolute disaster in the fourth quarter.
But it was they were two different games. They just
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Speaker 2: Matt and Ross with you. Where at Willi's Ice House?
And where at two Donning and Parker ceperates up here
in Northwesterner Yes, sir, Northwest Houston goal.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're not too far from Toro Town. I actually
wore Evanston. Yeah, okay, we're a little far from Evanston. Oh,
where's Toro District?
Speaker 2: Toro Town's got to be maybe fifteen minutes from here.
Whenever it comes to I won't be going. I told
you I'm gonna buy you some fried cheese there. You
told me I'm not invited, So no, I'm saying they
can live without you. But yeah, as my guest, no,
I'm good. You and I will have a meal in
total town. That's too fancy me. You callan hannih will
be and I can't hand it into McNair's. They're a
little too high class for me. All right, Well, you're
talking about stuff I never heard of, vacationing in places
I never even knew existed. That's right. They're probably in
Bora bor right now as we speak. I'm just trying
to save up from my trip to Freeport. I was
gonna say something about Freeport, but I told you I
wasn't gonna say. But it's nice. I wasn't gonna do anything,
all right, So I got a new meth Land by
her God, what it's nice. That's why they don't call
you mister. You know what.
Speaker 3: They got some new plastic chairs. All right, all right,
I'm all right.
Speaker 2: So the term it starts at eleven fifteen, yes, sir fifty, yes,
stagger games all throughout the course today Ohio State and
TCU first game on CBS coming our way, Matt by
the way, Miami, Ohio was an underdog yesterday, Yes and
one yes over SMU. Yes, so the RedHawks are in,
They're in in. I did not see the game because
obviously I was working rockets. Apparently the Miami RedHawks what the.
Speaker 3: Other bombing threes? Go ahead?
Speaker 2: The swim team.
Speaker 3: Was at the game.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and I see nothing wrong with this. I
know you do, don't. So whatever it takes, right, that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3: How far is Miami from Dayton.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be an hour maybe, Okay, you know Ohio's
that not that big? Mean you're the small town Ohio expert.
That's why I asked. I've never done a game in
Miami my entire life. I don't even know where it is,
all right. I couldn't even say what city is it in.
I don't think it's Miami. I don't think it's it's
not Miami. I don't think it is.
Speaker 3: I assumed it.
Speaker 2: Hold on, now, I feel stupid. No, I feel stupid.
Speaker 3: Hold on, Miami, it's a it's an Oxford.
Speaker 2: Why is they called Miami?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: See I'm the stupid. Apparently it's a public university known
for its quote public ivy, for providing a hand quality
education and a public school costs. Some about that assumed
it was like in Miami. It's called Miami. Ohiow you
know what. It's their fault, not ours. It's a Miami.
Miami is a tribe or something, right. I know you're
asking me. I just gave you the city it was.
That's all I can provide. Yes, my the Miami tribe
or down the stream people Algonquin speaking nation originally from
the Wabash River in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Is that Tomorrow's believe it or not?
Right there, locked and.
Speaker 2: Loaders they win. Uh, you know they don't. They don't
play untill tomorrow. So that's a good a good spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: So, Uh, your longhorns are in Portland. Yes, that's a
long win to go from dan't know how to Portland
to play a game two days later. They'll be fine.
Our cougars are taking point Idaho vandals. Yes, I couldn't
name one vandal to save your life. That's fine. I'm
not a matter of fact, we're not talking to Joseph
Dwart today. We're gonna talk to him tomorrow because really
I've already assumed the victory today.
Speaker 3: Yeah you should.
Speaker 2: Kelvin Sampson's boys are gonna take care of business. And
guess what, I'm taking a Couga's minus at twenty three
and a half. That's my Loctober pick.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: We don't actually have October's. I'm giving you guys free picks. Now,
let's see how they guys. Let's just really quick, let's
let's pick an upset today.
Speaker 3: Really fast.
Speaker 2: We get to drant briming. That's all right about the seating.
We'll go off certainly off the Vegas line. On oh
Vegas upset. I'll go VCU over UNC. Now you're not
talking aboutints. We're gonn talk about a straight up one.
Let's go to the straight up winner. No, they're they're dogs,
and they're they're underseated VCU two and a half point
dogs in the eleven six. I'm gonna go with A
and M to beat Saint Mary's ten beat over a seven.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a solid one. Also a two and a
half point spread, it's a point I think.
Speaker 2: Let me give you one more because I feel like
I'm I'm gonna I'm in the gift giving mood here. Okay,
upset alert from Matt Thomas. All right, I'll give you
one more. I'm gonna write these down, write these down.
I'll bring them up. If you get them wrong, I
forget them right. You'll never mention them right, of course.
Speaker 3: That's that's okay.
Speaker 2: So I've already got I've got for you.
Speaker 3: VC. You beating?
Speaker 2: I know what did I say? I said v A
and m over Saint Mary's This one I don't feel
great about.
Speaker 3: Are you going Howard over Michigan? That's a that's a
bold pick.
Speaker 11: Math.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that one. I'm gonna go Tower Boys, caball.
South Florida beats Louisville.
Speaker 3: There, I said it. I feel great saying South Florida
over long. Oh that's not crazy, is it?
Speaker 2: Louisville. Don't they have an injury or something? I think
they got somebody hurt. And that's four and a half.
I believe his name is Joe. Yeah, four and a half.
Speaker 3: Okay, South Float on a recorded line. Okay, that's at
twelve thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting excited. I like this too, because Longhorns
at six is great, like you winners.
Speaker 3: At nine to ten.
Speaker 2: They've better have the thing done because I want to
go to bed by ten. You don't want your team
playing at eleven fifteen. You don't want your team no
disrespect to the Cougars. You don't want your team playing
at nine. I'm not thrilled about it.
Speaker 3: I mean six o'clock, six twenty five. So that's a
wheelhouse spot exactly.
Speaker 2: You get a good six hours of action to whet
your appetite, then your team plays at six, you're ready
to run, and then you can fall asleep at nine o'clock.
Absolutely hopefully you'll sleep in your own bomb. You're fall
asleep watching the quad box with the Idaho Vandals and
the University of Houston Cougars. That's the only ready to
make those blowouts interesting, means anybody, if you're not betting
the points spread or you're not a fan of the team,
is there any chance you're really invested in when the
children's left thirty? Unlett, Well, the only reason why you're
watching any of those games is if something was in
two points with the teams you.
Speaker 3: Never heard of before.
Speaker 2: McTaggart Brian McTaggart, a fine Cougar fan himself, Yes he is.
Joe Kooks joins his next from Florida. This is Sports
Talk sivin.
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Oh, You're gonna love Thursdays at eleven o'clock on The
Mat Thomas Show with Ross for the next twenty six weeks.
You loved it last week with Brian mctagger made his
season debut with US, and now he's with us.
Speaker 3: Every Thursday again.
Speaker 2: Right now, joining us from the West Palm Beach metropolitan Area.
Brian McTaggart, Uh, First of all, first, good morning to you. Secondly,
how bad was those for those field conditions yesterday and Jupiter?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't I don't think they were super terrible.
Speaker 12: I mean it was just sort of it's right here
for a couple of days pretty much NonStop, and so
there was a drizzle during the game. So I just
don't think they wanted to take any chances.
Speaker 8: I mean, look at the lineup they had out there.
Speaker 12: I mean they had pretty much their opening day lineup
out there except for Jeremy Panya, So they just wanted
to take zero chances and when I saw Perettis come
off the field in the middle of the third, I
was like, Okay, I think I see what's.
Speaker 8: Going on here.
Speaker 12: And then Alvarez left and then al Tuvey and yeah,
they just he wanted those guys, I think, to get
four to five at three fourth bats. They ended up
getting just two, but they just didn't want to take
any chances.
Speaker 2: So, ironically enough, all the Twitter nervousness has meant was
nothing correct. Andy's doing Okay, no injuries to report of
as it this morning.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no injuries. Uh yeah, everybody.
Speaker 12: I mean, the Astros play a night game, so no,
none of the players are here yet. They do have
the spring breakout prospect games about the start, but yeah,
the major league club hasn't even reported yet.
Speaker 2: All right, before we get to the big picture on
the current twenty six, tell me about Walter Yannick and
tell me where he is, where he's going to be,
and is he slow to move up the Astros organizational chart.
Speaker 12: Well, he probably opened more eyes here in this camp
than anybody else, especially when it came to prospects. I mean,
he really came in here and did a really good job.
I think everybody knew what he could do. Defensively, the
elite pop time, the arm strength, he showed all that
throwing behind runners at first base, showing off the arm.
I mean, it's all there. I think he's got major
league ready defensive skills. Handled the pitchers pretty well, so
they were really really.
Speaker 8: Pleased with what he did.
Speaker 12: And then he swung the bat too, hit a home run,
made more contact, just looked very comfortable up here against
the pitching. So you know, he's a guy that has
spent pretty much the last two years ever since he
got drafted at High A, and so yeah, he's going
to start the season I would say at Triple A
Corporus Christi. He's from Corporus Christie his hometown, so some
home cooking. But I could see him in Triple A
by the end of the year.
Speaker 8: And you know, who knows. I mean, we all know the.
Speaker 12: Astros have a little bit of a drop off and
catching depth after a yainer, but we could I wouldn't
rule out seeing him in the big leagues by the
end of the year.
Speaker 8: But I think, sir Mixture, he's in the big leagues
all right.
Speaker 2: Staying with the catcher's spot is Vasquez. The leader in
the clubhouse in your mind to be the number two
catcher behind you on.
Speaker 12: You, I wouldn't necessarily say that, Matt. I mean, I
think the fact that Salazar has been here all camp
and he's so he's so widely respected in the clubhouse.
You know, he's worked with these pictures all spring. You
know he does swing a left handed bat, although you
know he hasn't swung much of a bat. I'm not
ready to say this is Basquez's job to lose. So
you know, Christian's first game, I think was it over
and breaking from the other day. He did pretty well,
So I think right now it's a coin toss. It's
fifty to fifty depending what they're looking for. But I'm
not ready to rule out Salazar and making the opening
day rosters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but either way, Brian, it just doesn't seem like
a great option. I mean, you know, Diez came into
camp with that foot sprain. Your your one aggravation or
any kind of injury away from having to put Salazar
or even a Vasquez who hasn't put up good numbers
in a couple of years out there every single day.
I mean, how much of a should alarm bells be
going off. I mean, it feels like it's not necessarily
something we're talking about every day.
Speaker 3: But you could be in a bad situation here with
just one.
Speaker 12: Injury, Yeah you could. I mean, they do have some
death at the position. You know, they got Carlos Perez
who's been in the big leagues.
Speaker 8: But I get it.
Speaker 12: I mean, it's not the drop off after Daz Is.
There's nobody you'd feel comfortable with getting the everyday starts.
But you know, I'll keep an eye over the next week.
Some guys are going to be getting cut from camps
right at the end of camp.
Speaker 8: You know, maybe if.
Speaker 12: There's a catcher that they like who they feel maybe
is a better option for their backup catcher, they can
go and try to nab somebody off the off waivers
or make a trade or whatever. But yeah, it is
a concern, but you're right, they have to hope you
on or DS stays healthy at a position that's very
demanding and your one foul hit away from going on
the IL. So it's I think it's something they're going
to be keeping an eye on other team's rosters here
for the next few days.
Speaker 2: Brian McTaggart with us here on a Sports Talk seven
ninety cover in the Astros for MLB dot Com. Tell
me what you're seeing hearing everything about Bryce Matthews in
terms of his work in the field, at the plate
and what type of role he could possibly carve out.
I know you had him making the roster in your projection.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I had him making the roster if if Penya
starts to starts the season on the il, which I
think right now again is probably a.
Speaker 8: Fifty to fifty proposition.
Speaker 12: He's supposed to grab a bat and starts swinging this weekend,
which leads me to believe that he might be ready
for the start of the season. But you know, Bryce
has had a pretty good spring. You know, he's got
a homer, driven in some runs, he's stolen some bases
and drawn some watch.
Speaker 8: Which they really like.
Speaker 12: If he makes this club, it will be obviously as
kind of the last guy off the bench. He can
play some second if they have to, you know, maybe
put out two vy in DH or he can certainly
play center field as well. So I don't think he
would get a ton of a bats. You know, he's
probably better served to go to Triple A and then
and then be ready for a call up. They don't
seem really motivated to play him at shortstop going forward, the.
Speaker 8: Position he was drafted at. So but he's looked pretty
good in the outfield. He's I mean, he's very athletic.
Speaker 12: We know he was a you know, a star quarterback
at a task of SEAA, so he can certainly, he
certainly has the athleticism to handle center field.
Speaker 2: Ryan mctagger with us from West Palm Beach are MLB
Astros insigner with us every Thursday at eleven o'clock here
on Sports Talk seven ninety is ten or Tremmeell fighting
for a spot or am I just looking at March
numbers and going, man, that nice camp, But we know
who he is.
Speaker 12: Ultimately, I think he I think he's got a really
good shot to make the team.
Speaker 8: Maybe he's not on the forty man, so they would
have to create a spot for him.
Speaker 12: But if you look at the guys that are battling
for those four outfield spots, I mean Jake Myers of
course has made the team. I think I think Cam
Smith has made the team at this point. He's had
a pretty good spring. Eight seventy one ops. Joey Low
Berfeedos had a great spring, so I think he's a
lot So I think it'll come down to Tremmel or
Zach Cole.
Speaker 8: They both hit left.
Speaker 12: Handed, both have a little bit of pop, can both
play all three outfield positions. But but Cole just has
not swung the back very well this spring. He's six
for thirty two with sixteen strikeouts, which I think is
a big concern. So he hasn't even played at Triple
A yet very much. So I think I think Cole
right now begins the season in Triple A. And I
think Tremell makes this team because he has had a
solid camp yet you do know what you're getting, but
you also know what you're getting and you know you
can put him in any of those outfield spots. He's
going to give you some good defense and he will
give you a good at bat off the bench from
from the left side.
Speaker 2: When you said sixteen strikeouts, might jaw drop Brian, That's
that's a terrible ad.
Speaker 3: That's a terrible number.
Speaker 12: It's fifty, I mean, and that that was the thing
on him coming up is he's very aggressive at the play.
You know, he's a swing card and he makes contact.
He hits the ball hard, and he has hit the
ball hard, but he sent the ball hard on the ground.
But there's just too much swing in this yet. So
I know it's something that that they're working on with him,
but that's that's just a lot of swinging this. So yeah,
I think he'll be in Triple A and they'll try
to get that ironed out before we see him back
up here.
Speaker 2: Staying with the outfield, Jordan has been pulled twice because
of weather to play the outfield. How anxious when you
walk around the clubhouse is He's like, man, I got
this glove. I want to use it. Is he getting
enough working left field for his satisfaction? My guess is
probably the answer is not to that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean he's done a lot of work on the
backfield too. So Jordan likes to play the outfield. I
mean he he would like to be out there a
couple of times a week. And when they signed him
to that big contract, they didn't sign him as a dace.
They signed him as an outfielder, and you know, he
really likes to do it. Is he a great outfielder?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 8: Is he a butcher?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 8: But I think the Astros know that they.
Speaker 12: Would like to get a little more athletic out there,
which is, you know, kind of their goal with the
way their outfield is configured right now. So we can
still see him out here next few games. I mean,
they only have what four games left here, a couple
of couple of Dike in park.
Speaker 8: So he is going to play outfield this year. Not
a ton, but.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we will see him out there, and he wants
to do it, and I think Joe's going to keep
him out there enough to keep him fresh and left field.
Speaker 2: You mentioned or we were talking about Jake Myers, they were
talking about the outfield earlier.
Speaker 3: It's funny to me, it was all off.
Speaker 2: Season it just seemed like an eventuality that he was
going to be traded away. And then of course on
the East sick Paradus thing I mean is that are
we just assuming that neither or either of those trades
are just not going to be made.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I thought all off season that Myers
would get traded and I wrote that several times. I
mean I wasn't guessing. I'm telling you know this, these
are things I was being told. I mean, they obviously
were shipping him around. It didn't happen. You know, obviously
they've tried to trade Perettis this spring as well. You know,
the chances I keep getting told are slim.
Speaker 8: Is just there's just.
Speaker 12: A fine margin with with what the Astros want in return.
So yeah, I mean, it looks like unless something happen,
we're a week from opening day. But this next week,
like I said, is going to be a rosters are
going to be changing here left and right.
Speaker 8: Some guys are going to get cut from teams.
Speaker 12: Some teams are going to get desperate, you know, maybe
somebody needs a center fielder and wants to make a
deal with the Astros, or or maybe the Red Sox say, hey,
we would like Peretis after all, so maybe they can
make a deal.
Speaker 8: So I would say more.
Speaker 12: Likely than not, just because where we're at in the
calendar that both Myers and Peretis are on the opening
day roster. But some things could happen here in the
next few days. They could with other teams that could
force the Astros maybe to make a deal and change
their roster up a little bit as well.
Speaker 2: Brian, final question, any clarity to the back end of
the Astros rotation. I think I've got a pretty good
feel of one through three. How's my four to five
and potentially six?
Speaker 8: Look at this point, well, what are your one through three?
Speaker 2: I'd probably Hunter Brown, Hobbyer, Emi Burrows makes four, so
maybe I could go five six. Help me out with
five to six.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean Lance mccullochs Junior is in this rotation.
Speaker 12: I mean he's he's throwing the ball pretty well this spring.
Speaker 8: Uh, So I think he's in there. That's five.
Speaker 12: And then it comes down to Arraghetty in that sixth spot,
and I guess it comes it's a question of whether
do they open the season in a five man rotation
or a six man rotation. And even if it's a
six man a five man rotation, maybe Arraghetty makes it
in the bullpen and he throws a couple of.
Speaker 8: Times in long relief and then and then uh gets
put in the rotation.
Speaker 12: But I think it's pretty clear who their five rotation
guys are going to be, with Aarraghetty Uh being that
six guy if they choose to go to a six
man rotation right now, so that gives him some pretty
good options down in Triple A after the season starts.
I mean they have Alexander down there, Colton Gordon's down there.
JP Franz will probably be in that triple A rotation.
So they've built this pitching depth and so far it
looks like it's done pretty well because the guys like
Burrows and Emi, the additions to the rotation have been
terrific and great Fruit League play.
Speaker 2: Could you see a scenario, and I only said one question,
I'll give you one more, could you see a piggyback
between mccullors and Arrogaty is maybe your first two guys
on a night where those two guys are ready to
throw and go in the same game.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I could definitely see that. Yeah, I think that's
a real distinct possibility. And they're going to have a
couple of guys in the bullpen. I think they're going
to be capable of doing those multiple innings. There's a
guy starting tomorrow, Peter Lambert. He's going to start the
game tomorrow against the Marlins, who was a non roster guy,
has big league time with the Rockies. But he's throwing
the ball really, really well. Nine innings. I think he
might have given up one run and throwing the ball hard.
So he's the guy that could get multiple innings out
of the bullpen. If kay Wayne Tay next to the team,
you know he started a game down here, he could
also pitch behind another starter throw three or you know,
two or three innings. So uh, their goal is to
have two or three of those multi inning got Ryan Wiss.
Speaker 8: Is another one.
Speaker 12: Another guy who's throwing the ball really well. Another newcomer
or newcomer, a guy who wants to be a starter,
but it looks like he'll be long relief from the pen.
So yeah, I don't think they'll call it a piggyback,
but they have They have lots of options where they can. Uh,
if the starter comes out after five innings, they feel
pretty comfortable about the guys coming behind them to get
the ball to the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: Where is the West Palm Beach University, Houston watch party tonight.
Speaker 8: That's a good question.
Speaker 12: I saw the games on True TV, which has me
a little worried, and so, uh, I don't know who
have to find a Duffi's or a nail house in
the the immediate area and scattered out, But uh, I
think it might be a watch party of one.
Speaker 8: But but I'll be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but a lot of your parties are a party
of one, aren't They tell the truth pretty much?
Speaker 8: I'm used to it. It's kind of fast.
Speaker 2: All right. I'm gonna be on the road next week
with the Rockets, So you're gonna hang out with Ross
and Adam and Adam next Thursday for a segment next week,
so get ready for that, my friend. You're welcome.
Speaker 8: That will be opening day. So that's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 2: All right, save travels back, friend, Thank you for the
time as always.
Speaker 8: All right, guys, thank you all right.
Speaker 3: Brian mcteger with US Party one West Palm Beach.
Speaker 2: We're on True TV.
Speaker 3: We we get we get no respect.
Speaker 2: True TV nine to ten people. By the way, so
last night, these the first four games were in Yeah,
when I turned the television off when I got home
last night because my wife was asleep and the TV
was still on. Guess when I.
Speaker 3: Turned the TV on and True TV was on?
Speaker 2: What show was on?
Speaker 3: It had to be Impractical Jokers? Rats does that work?
Speaker 2: Show? Nothing but in practicle Jokers? In first round basketball?
That got me no money? That was a minus two thousand.
Now if you had put on T and T would
have been on Charmed of course, Charmed, shawshak Redemp Shit, Yes, Bones,
one of those shows. Those shows. How does charm still
show on TNT? I don't that show's I've been on
for twenty five years. I don't know. Back when Melissa
Milana was like half sane. She insane, She's completely insane
in the membrane. In the membrane. Okay, eleven sixteen, Matt
and Ross Will these people are eating already. I love.
Speaker 3: What do you mean it's eleven o'clock, it's lunchtime.
Speaker 2: I mean they got people. Guy, let's go.
Speaker 3: We need some gumbo. Okay, go ahead, let's get some gumbo.
Go some Let's get some mushbubpet Yes, two ninety Barker, Cypress,
Willie's Girl and ice House.
Speaker 2: By the way, we need to let the people know
we are giving away the rockets tickets. All right, anybody
that comes by and fills out one of my hotel pads.
These pads are very very important to That includes the
people who are already here. That's right, name an email address, yes,
and two pairs of rocket tickets. We're getting away between
now and one fifty this afternoon. So I'm gonna I'm
gonna go around right, now and walk around and hand
off these spring Hill sweet notepads.
Speaker 3: Yes, very very important to me.
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, you so you're giving them the
spring Hill Why don't they get the Ritz Carlton ones?
Speaker 3: The four scenes? I'm gonna keep. Wow, I mean I
do have my living okay scenes one if I have to,
I don't want you in half.
Speaker 2: All right, if you come on by between now and
one fifty today, we will drop.
Speaker 3: That'll affect the drawing.
Speaker 2: You can't do this in half. Now, all right, let's
find Look, I got these.
Speaker 3: We're good. I gotta go to the.
Speaker 2: Four seasons out.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the same size. Okay, how good that is.
That's gonna be all gone too.
Speaker 2: That's all right. Come on by, take my notepads from me,
to take my notepad. Thursday where you never heard such
a bad promotion in your life?
Speaker 3: I shoot a photol I've got you about one hundred
of those of my office. I'm at the house. I
I'm beginning to think you've got an issue. Yes, I
don't know. Morning is often an indicator of mental disease.
Speaker 2: But the best example was we were in a city
for two or three days. I remember where it was,
but they would clean my room in the morning, okay,
and I would take the pad. Then I would ask
for turndown service at night and they would give me
fresh pads.
Speaker 3: What is wrong with you? We all have a little
things like that. You mean, there's nothing in your house
that you don't have like a big group of.
Speaker 2: A big like pile of stuff like it.
Speaker 3: I regret.
Speaker 2: One of my best friends collects hot wheels. That doesn't
mean that doesn't intrigue me. But he loves it, and
I don't blame him for it. It's it's his own deal.
I like no pads, okay, I you know, I told
you where do I like to just spend more time
besides my family, hanging out with you at an office
Max or a Staples.
Speaker 3: Or a home or office max for like an hour
there for an hour.
Speaker 2: I don't want to leave.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got me a nice I'm using and
trying to use it every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah you are. I'm so happy for you. All right,
So we decided we had an executive decision with this
will be the second time we've done this. We're gonna
do a fantasy vive tomorrow. Jonathan, jump in on this,
because you're gonna be one of the voters. Oh, how
about we have to do it?
Speaker 3: Ooh, John, Jonathan, it's who you don't know.
Speaker 2: Nobody ever works on Friday at the office. I want
to accuse myself. I don't know I could do it,
you know what, but I think we've done it recently.
Why don't you want to ask one of the Adams
at once tomorrow? Plan it'll be because I think we'll
make fun of his bad palate.
Speaker 3: It's got to be Clanning.
Speaker 2: No, let's go Wexler. Let's invite Wexler, Jonathan. We're gonna
do a Master's meal. Okay, Master's meal? Okay? You know
because when you win the Masters the next year, you
get to choose the.
Speaker 3: Pre dinner right right, right, right right.
Speaker 2: So we'll do one app two entrees aside in a dessert.
Speaker 3: Does that seem fair?
Speaker 2: Okay? One app two entrees aside in a dessert, and
we'll and we'll get one of the We'll check see
if wex can do it first, and then if Wexer
says no, then we'll go to uh, we'll go to Clayton.
Speaker 3: And I think you and I did it about it
five or six years ago, and I beat you.
Speaker 2: I think it was more recently than that. Yeah, you
did win, and I was I was salty about it.
Speaker 3: That shocks you.
Speaker 2: The only thing I remember about that was I think
my dessert was banana cream pie.
Speaker 3: You had some horrible dessert. I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 2: Banana cream pie is delicious.
Speaker 3: I think it was Nila wafers. It was not.
Speaker 2: No vanilla banana cream pie is on the mount. Rushmore pies.
Banana cream pie, absolutely okay, Banana cream cherry, No coconut cream, pumpkin.
Speaker 3: Apple, pecan, No, it's pecan apple pumpkin.
Speaker 2: I like pecan, I like I like the pecan pie.
Speaker 3: And then a lemon meringue. Oh no, I don't like
Marie gross key.
Speaker 2: Lime is good to Oh see, we can do a
Fantasy five with pies. We could.
Speaker 3: We never done that before. At least that's a slightly
better than soups.
Speaker 2: Soup was amazing.
Speaker 3: The eighth round, I'm gonna take a bean and bacon.
Speaking of her, my gumbo is derived.
Speaker 2: Look at this.
Speaker 3: Hold on, we got a dog rule over the winner's eyes.
How I got a dog ruin that gumbo?
Speaker 2: Now? Baby, excuse me to go caju.
Speaker 3: Hey, you got a gumbo. Now, that's not my fault,
all right.
Speaker 2: Sorry, wait, if I just don't get it coming up
at the bottom of the air, I don't get you
and your gun. Why aren't you doing the show in Lafayette.
You could be a star Louisiana, Ryan, I'll be a
start anywhere. Seven one three two one two five seven
Do he seven one three two one two five anything
out of Brian's conversation real quick? It makes him sound
like the rotation is already set. I'm worried about the
catcher situation. Shiner wasn't good last year. I mean, were
you forgetting that? Let's see, wasn't throwing guys out and
wasn't it well? It aggravated him. I think people were
more accavated by the fact that every base runner was
able to run on him.
Speaker 3: He was swinging out of his shoes at everything. Yeah,
couldn't hit yes.
Speaker 2: And doesn't throw guys out. And he's your by far,
not even close best option. That's why I asked about
Walter Yannick. To be brutally honest with you, I mean,
when is there gonna be some pressure to supply because
I you know, my long term gut feeling was that
Janna was gonna move to first big.
Speaker 3: Yes, not happening so far. Not this one can happen.
I mean not for a little while. Christian Walker's your guy,
at least for this year. We'll see, all right.
Speaker 2: One of our favorite segments of the week. Well, we
have a lot of favorite segments. Yes, I always say
this is I just don't get it. There are things
in your life, as you listen to our show throughout
the city of Houston, that you just don't get. And uh,
we do this on Thursdays when when applicable, and that
today is an opportunity for you to call seven one
three two five seven, and you have three different viewpoints
ross myself and Jonathan.
Speaker 3: Anything you want to tell us in.
Speaker 2: Your life that you just don't get, We're either going
to back you up or give you the proper explanation
as to why we get what you don't get. I
just don't get it. If that's what you say to
your wife, your sister, your best friend, your kids, what
is it? Seven one three two one two five seven
nintie seven one three two one two fives of a Nuntie,
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Speaker 3: Do you have something in your life that just don't get.
Speaker 2: No need to worry, no need to We will did
to the topics, just see if we comprehend the things
that may confuse our friends.
Speaker 6: It's not to say I.
Speaker 2: Just don't get it. Ross with you from Willie's Ice
House two Nannie and Barker's Cypress, and we simply ask you,
what don't you get in your life? Seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seven nine zero Ross.
Speaker 3: I'm in downtown Houston yesterday.
Speaker 2: And you know when you get downtown the far right
lane is for high occupancy vehicles and buses only. Yes,
Why we're all trying to get out of downtown open
up as many lanes as possible.
Speaker 3: It is to encourage carpooling and public transportation.
Speaker 2: Use in downtown and uston carpooling. I just don't get it.
Yeah people, Yeah, you and your buddies live out in
the northwest side. Your carpool into downtown. What do you
mean that lane is empty? If it's if I see
it's available, I'm going single.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm breaking the law. You break the law.
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, no one's ever been caught. That's not shocking
me at all. You're definitely uh yeah, I'm solo in
the HOV line.
Speaker 3: Guy, I could see that now. When I go in
the HOV lanes, I pay the toll. That's good, give
me your money. Some people in my life don't do that.
I avoided at all costs unless I'm in a uh
in a rush.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just just like this lane is over here
on the far right side, just sitting there doing nothing,
nobody on it. Like, there's no buses, there's no carpools.
I'm gonna help decongest the downtown traffic. I'm on the
far ralliance. So I was actually doing the service of people.
That's probably how you see it, but I do. That's
that's how I see it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I for your benefit in saying you're helping everyone else,
I just don't get it, Okay.
Speaker 8: Sure.
Speaker 2: Tournament action underway, by the way, and my lock of
a week, Ohio State's trailing by one in the middle
of the first half. Texas Christian'll call them TC you can't,
and it should be Troy and Nebraska tipping off very soon.
Here we got all the action here, all the actions
perfect Willie's grill and ice house to night eying Barker Cyprus, Jonathan,
what don't you get this week? My man?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 3: I just had a weird thought.
Speaker 2: I don't understand.
Speaker 14: When you're going to any place and they ask if
you want the receipt? Why wouldn't I want the receipt?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 2: You say yes every time?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 14: What if they messed me up? What if I got
wrong wrong? Close sides? Well, you missed my fries in
the bag. Now I can't come back and return it.
Speaker 2: Uh, you want it?
Speaker 3: You want the receipt automatically.
Speaker 2: Why why would they not do?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: Check the food while you're there. But like, what's the
scenario we're talking about here?
Speaker 14: It's any scenario, Like when they they're sitting there, Okay,
let's do waterworker, right, You're sitting there and they're like,
do you want your receipt?
Speaker 3: Check the bag when you get it? How much stuff
are you ordering?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: If you're ordering for a family.
Speaker 2: Of six, I always feel guilty when I checked the back,
but I feel like I gotta check it. Yeah, check
the bag check the bag and then and then you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna be fine.
Speaker 14: I just don't I don't understand why we don't get
a receipt. I feel like you person did get the receipt.
I mean, what are you gonna put it in your
tax return? I mean when you do self checkout anywhere,
you take your receipt right, you don't just leave in
the machine.
Speaker 3: I mean because I have to. I don't like having
the receipts.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: I understand some people nave when you expend, for example,
we're in West Palm Beach.
Speaker 3: Gotta keep the receipts, Gotta ask for the receipts. You
need the receipts.
Speaker 2: I keep received some of the things you guys say.
I got some receipts too. I got a whole file.
It's called the no stra wrongest file. That's not true
at all. That's literally what it's called. We can bring
up the cheese you said last season too. I got
some receipts. You got to bring up some receipts. Wow, wow, Wow,
that's time for an audit.
Speaker 3: I got five months of oh SA one third dog version.
Did they even hit the red zone? It's not it's
not fair it's truth. The only red zone they got
was Scott Hanson on Sundays.
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh my goodness, Oh I got one for it. Okay,
it ties into sports.
Speaker 8: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: So Rob Manford is loving all this attention to the WBC.
You see what they're talking about. Now, Oh here we go?
What mid season tournaments? What like NBA Cup type of deal? Correct?
B Gosh, Come on, man, I just don't get it.
I'm not a fan of WBC. You know this. You
want to do it once every three years. I can
live with it, but don't interrupt. You cannot interrupt the
baseball season for two weeks. You get it, No, you
get it.
Speaker 3: I'm making what's the what's the sign I'm making?
Speaker 2: Nope? What sign of a man? Can't do it?
Speaker 3: You know why telling the people what I'm doing with
my hands?
Speaker 2: Do you know why you can't do it? The Weather Channel,
Man's money, Manzel sign money. That's why they're why why
why else would you can see this? Oh cause it's
really fun and we're gonna take a bath on this
and lose money.
Speaker 3: Of course not.
Speaker 2: You sell the games, you sell tickets, you sell sponsorships.
You would want to make so when the so when
the Astros are playing the Phillies in the World Series
in November twenty third, and there's a blizzard in Philadelphia.
That's gonna be worth it. You don't have you can't
do it.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, you're gonna sell snowplow advertisements.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, figure a way to turn money on it.
Did you see the WBC The guys all had advertisements,
like on their helmets and everything. I'm telling you once
every three years is great. This time of year is
not preferred, but it's the best option you have. This
mint stop mid seasoning things. See, I'm not trying to
tell you I love the tournament. That's the greatest idea
ever heard. I'm telling you why this is. I just
don't get it. I didn't say I agree. This isn't
I agree with it. Okay, this is I get it.
I get it. It's money. Stop reinventing the wheels sports commissioners.
But you know'll look every Board of Governor's meeting. How
are you gonna get this more money? Here's revenues. How
do we get this up? That's everywhere? That's not just baseball,
isn't it crazy? Entireheart media that's said anybody else. Everybody
works into this whole Willie's Grill and ice house. They
know exactly what I'm talking about. That that's how the
world works. But it but the calendar. You fight the
calendar OFSS. You can't beat the calendar.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a two week tournament.
Speaker 2: I had the idea, what do you think about the
pool plays preseason and then the tournament and then then
the bracketing, so you have a nice force he's in
weight between it between a round a few months. Yeah, no,
you could have practical I mean it's like you have
World Cup qualifiers, you have World Cup qualifiers, and then
you have the World Cup like a year later. It'd
they'd be similar to that. So we're gonna take a
vibe off of soccer. Okay, that makes a whole lot
of sense. The most popular sport in the world. Yeah,
wouldn't be the worst thing.
Speaker 3: What's the most popular food in the world.
Speaker 2: I'd see that's another Again, that is a stupid analogy.
Rice is the most popular food in the world is
because it is cheap and accessible and filling with carbohydrates
and it can feel a human being on a very
low budget. That has nothing to do with the popularity
of a sport you elect to watch is a horrible analogy.
I just like using the word rice to off. Okay,
and it works. I mean that's every single time. Honestly,
it works with your analogies that are horrible. You know
what that was rude, I'm saying, I'm writing it down. Analogy.
Speaker 3: He's one of those bad analogy. Yeah, way, my notepad.
That guy stole my notepad. Bring that pad back over here.
Trever's got He's got to come on, man, that's.
Speaker 2: That's my fourth seasons. No pad, there you go. He
said he was gonna steal it. I know he had
it for like ten minutes. All right, I'll tell you
what I just don't get. Do you see what the
Browns are proposing? No, So, in the NFL they have
a rule you can't trade first round picks or any
picks more than three years out. The Browns are trying
to make it five years. Why for what for a
general manager? If Nick Cassario, Nick Cassio could just trade
five first round draft picks for whatever he wants, because
if it doesn't work out, he's not gonna be here anyways.
That makes it worse. That's a horrible idea. I don't know.
I just don't get why the Browns would be pushing
for that. Why are we taking any vibe and anything
from the Browns for anything? Are the worst organizations, past tense,
current tents, future tens. They do nothing right.
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: They have nine quarterbacks in there on their team right now.
I think the three year limit is good. You keep
owners and general matters from being out of control.
Speaker 3: And and especially if.
Speaker 2: You have a general manager on the hot seat and
he needs to make a trade, then he's gonna trade
away all the first round draft picks.
Speaker 3: He doesn't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Needel and Bryant will get to you. If you
got don't get something, let us know. So we're here
for seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven Ainty, amazing
gumbo being consumed right now Willie's grill an ice house.
Speaker 3: We're here on Sports Talk seven ninety Thank you very
much for this awesome all right, we got a lot
of phone calls to get to people.
Speaker 2: Want our advice. Ross they actually want my advice. I'm
the one that gives them the stage advice here on
the program. You know, what the hell you're talking about
in general? And by the way, Girod is on the line.
We're gonna get Girodi because Garrod's always gonna give us
some great basketball takes. But first, what don't you get
in your life? Needs you on seven ninety, needs you,
what can we help you with?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I still don't get the reed Shepherd truthers that
want him to be a starter when you know, for
the last three games he's shown like his offense has
been great, but he has literally proved the liability that
he is on defense, like his his man has scored
an incredible amount of points, and he's never going to
be able to be James Harden, where he can score
thirty and give up twenty. He's gonna score eighteen and
give up thirty. So I just don't get why other
stations announcers are talking about like he should be starting,
he should be starting.
Speaker 8: I just don't know what game they're watching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say this Needell, thank you for the uncle
that's cooled off a little bit. First of all, Red
is playing major minutes. Red played thirty twenty seven minutes
last night. I think you played thirty one the internight
against the Lakers in the first matchup. I don't I
think that has cooled off a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think it's natural.
Speaker 2: Did the I don't get I mean, I get it,
because I don't agree with it. I get it because
we always like the backup. Everybody likes the backup, the
six man to start. He needs to play more. He's
shown a little bit he plays well. Also, basketball is
a sport where people pay ten times more attention to
to offense and defense. How much more do people look
at shots made rather than shots defended in the NBA?
As far as just casual NBA watchers, HiT's every sport right,
Like a shortstop with a flashy glove who can't hit.
People are like, why he's why is he out there?
Or why is Jake Myers out there? Watch the catches
that he makes in center field? So nobody normally pays
offense is the flashy points. We want hits, we want
all that stuff runs touchdowns. So I get it, but
I don't agree with he's playing major minutes. He comes
in on, you know, the key important times of the game.
I don't think the fortunes of the Rockets would change
with read having being announced in the opening lineup. I
just it's about fourth quarter finishing. Yeah, and it's also
a situation where, yeah, he's playing against backups normally as well,
and he's thriving in those And a lot of times
when somebody's thriving in that role, for whatever reason, people
want that role expanded, even if they're not uh, if
they're not suited for it. Just because somebody here at
Willy's Grill and Ice House is a great server doesn't
mean they'll be a great manager. Oh, interesting analogy there, Yeah,
thank you, Matt. Let's go to uh, Brian and Paarland. Brian,
what don't you get my man, We're here to help you.
Speaker 16: Well, I may get it, but I don't like it
or I don't understand it. Why the first four? Why
are you force teams who you who have done everything
you've asked them to do, pray.
Speaker 17: New A and m oh.
Speaker 16: Granted they won last night, you say you in your
conference tournament, you are in.
Speaker 17: The big dance. Give them the shot to.
Speaker 16: Go sling their arrow and take out goliaths. Give them
that's just me, UNBC, and take down who is it
Purdue or whoever they whoever Arizona, whoever was lest Virginia
a couple.
Speaker 17: Of years ago. Give them that chance.
Speaker 16: Don't make them play in another.
Speaker 17: Game then to go get that.
Speaker 16: So make those bubble teams who were bitching about they
didn't get in because they got left.
Speaker 17: Up by Miami of Ohio.
Speaker 16: Make those be the first four games, the first four out.
In the next four out should be those eight bubble
teams that are trying to get in.
Speaker 17: That should be your way to.
Speaker 16: Work yourself into the dance because your regular season didn't
do it.
Speaker 17: Don't force your Prairie New A and M's and your
Lee Highs they should.
Speaker 16: They get everything the NCAA told them to do to.
Speaker 17: Get an automatic bid. Let's then get in and play.
Speaker 16: This might be their only chance to get in and.
Speaker 17: Take down the big dog. So give them that chance.
Speaker 16: So I don't get why they still continue to do this.
I'd much rather watch Texas and NC State, or A
and M and NC State play to get in.
Speaker 2: Then Lee High and Prairie View.
Speaker 17: Let them.
Speaker 16: Let those teams in the first round and get that
chance to slay the big dog. Probably won't happen, but
let them settle it on the court, not in a
playing game.
Speaker 17: To get that chance it's.
Speaker 3: Because they're the these are these are.
Speaker 2: Sixteen seeds who normally they're not one of the best
sixty eight teams in basketball.
Speaker 3: Prayview A and M's Kim Palm is two eighty, leh
Has is two ninety two. That's why it's this is
not great.
Speaker 2: If you really really wanted to take it up a notch,
they shouldn't be in the tournament. Take they the best
sixty eighteen. Yeah, so they get an automatic bid. That's cool,
that's nice. They get to play in the NCAA tournament.
And if you want to make it against the big
dog in the one seed, win the game. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I do like automatic qualifiers. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 2: But if you want to take the four worst of them,
send them to dating for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: You know, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lehigh eight finished the season eighteen and seventeen. Prairie
View is now nineteen and seventeen.
Speaker 3: Definitely want to stay. That's how the turn.
Speaker 2: If it was sixty four times, they wouldn't be an
issuest they've had it.
Speaker 3: They're not tournament worthy teams. Yeah, that's the bottom. Yeah,
uh so I will say I get it.
Speaker 2: Let's go to uh Tom in downtown Tom.
Speaker 3: What don't you get my man?
Speaker 11: Okay, So recently I'm at the dentist and the little
hygienist is working on my thief, got all kinds of
tools and hands in my mouth, and then it's like
trying to ask me questions. I'm like, how am I
supposed to talk when you're like drilling on my teeth?
You know, I just don't get it.
Speaker 18: Is dear thing.
Speaker 8: And then we can talk later.
Speaker 2: I will say my hygienist is quite a talker as well,
ross minus chatty as well. Is it just part of
the profession. I feel the exact same way.
Speaker 3: She's like, I'm she's asking me, like about my entire life.
Speaker 2: She asked me about my kids, she asked them I travel.
She also, so my general answer is the following.
Speaker 3: Suction more suction.
Speaker 2: And you've got like, uh, like the spit dribbling down
your mouth because you're trying to talk. It's I'm I
don't get it either. I am due to see her
on the thirtieth. I will give you a full report
of the thirty first about how that goes. A little
chatting I'm okay with, But it's like it's the new
I had a different one and then that person left.
The new one is way chatting and she's super nice.
No have you ever mean a you been around a
mean high? Jenis?
Speaker 16: No.
Speaker 2: No, they're probably being the nicest people and just like, hey,
how's this going? And I think they just try to
make it easier for you because it's just awkward, like
their their hands.
Speaker 3: Are in your mouth.
Speaker 2: It's just weird what their hands are in your mouth? Yeah,
am I wrong?
Speaker 3: And you're asking for suction?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awkward. And she's asking for suction. No, you
know she doesn't. I don't know what kind of dental
office you're going to. You and Bob Kraft, Yeah, but
I think I think dental hygienis just like to talk
to you. They're just chattering and then the reality is this,
you can't give them the answers, so they're want more.
But I'm I'm still with Tom. It's like I don't
get like, like dial it back a notch. Why can't
we when we go to the dental hygenis have a
big screen TV above on the wall. I like that,
you know what I do? I like count the tiles
over and over. I'm just sitting there like trying to
pass the time. So another thing that happens in the
dental at the office is I will ask her the
song will be played in the background.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, and I'll say name that song and she can't.
Speaker 7: Do it long Well, Paul, I'll get wrong, Prince.
Speaker 2: Duh e easy, easy, What don't you get.
Speaker 13: I just don't get this rocket defense right now. They've
been playing well at the beginning of the season. I
just don't get it. And number two, I just don't
give while y'all have not set up a Jonathan and
mister pre uh race and I hang up and listen.
Speaker 2: Tell Jonathan versus mister Freeze, don't he gonna beat him?
Speaker 3: I got bad news for you. I got Freeze, Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow. Because you're such a hater. Let me tell you
the biggest hater on the planet. I've been looking at
your diet lately. Come on, you're not a track and
field guy right now? Oh yeah, you're eating way too
much pasta how them hamstrings?
Speaker 3: Feeling? John Jonathan practice? Tell the truth? Are you what
your speed lately? Tell the truth? At least eat a
lot of pasta carbs? Okay, yeah, he's carbar are you
burning it off though?
Speaker 2: You think you ain't see me get big? Have you? No?
But I just am a little worried in the studio
for you. See.
Speaker 3: No, oh, you're not hogg. That time's not happening. You're
not taking your shirt off in for anybody except your girl.
Speaker 2: What. Yeah, that's that's if you choose to do such
a thing, all right? Uh oh, we gotta play the
Hotel California song. Yea, yeah, we do, unfortunately with too
many Lakers highlights swear at Woolly's grill and ice ound. Yes,
and I just finished off some hush puppies. I had
some gun, I had some chicken and shrim gumbo.
Speaker 3: You gotta grown bull, baby. When the rules good?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 3: Nice people can people here? Good service?
Speaker 2: Love it And if you want to come by between
now and one fifty, we're gonna draw names for two
pairs of rocket tickets April. The first against the milliewalk
A Bucks was an gonkwin for the good Land. Right,
there's a yes, that's correct.
Speaker 3: All right? What are you working on over here? You
got some charts going out like what you're doing? I am,
I'm just breaking down some games like like that.
Speaker 2: I got my Joe Nardi over here to my to
my right, Girod wants to talk about anything he wants
and look.
Speaker 3: You mail order some lunch of draws off, just saying, oh,
that's just throwing that out there. Get something to eat.
Speaker 2: Seven one, three, two two five, seven ninety We go
to the Hotel California Tour. Next on seven ninety is.
Speaker 1: The Matt Thomas Show with rossway top of the key,
step back, gonna launch a three straight on the.
Speaker 2: Way and it's up. It's good and that might CeAl it.
Time out of the rockets. Look good, touch it now.
Well the three pointer gave him thirty eight of the night.
I was emotional last night. I must have been it.
I don't know if you count figure that off. The calls,
uh sounded light. There was a stresful time for all
of us. It was a big game and they lost
and stuff. Yeah, quite unfortunate. I just for as awesome
as Lebron is that flilling and oh my god, I'm
gonna die moment is per is one per night? I
think the.
Speaker 3: Somebody's using your pennancy. Okay, somebody stole my pen somebody
saw Ross's pin.
Speaker 2: Did you give it away?
Speaker 3: Man, Come on, man, that's my pilot G two.
Speaker 2: Now, how much like about that? Three dollars?
Speaker 3: What are you worried about that? Hey, let's go.
Speaker 2: I love these Oh you gave away my pen, give
away this spring Hill Sweets one.
Speaker 3: I'm giving them a no pad. You know what.
Speaker 2: I was not valuable to force the pad. These pilot
G twos on't free? All right, all right, Matt and Ross,
we are live.
Speaker 3: As you can tell.
Speaker 2: Hey, And to what is grill?
Speaker 11: And?
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, the crowd is going nuts. You had
a nice, crowdy hair, absolutely beautiful day, wonderful, beautiful people
here and you, yep, seven one, the most beautiful of
them all. You're right.
Speaker 3: Let's get to the news at noon. Why don't we?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, I have really you know what I'll start.
Speaker 2: Last night, the Rockets had lost to the Lakers won
twenty four to one sixteen. The Rockets came back from
being down by as much as thirteen to take a
lead in the third quarterby outscoring the Lakers thirty seven
to twenty two. But the Lakers got thirty five of
the fourth and it was Luka Doncic forty points. Lebron
James had thirty Lebron did it on fourteen shots. He
was thirteen of fourteen. DeAndre Ayton sixteen points. I cannot
have Deon Raying scoring sixteen points.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Lebron.
Speaker 2: James's best shooting night of his career happened on March eighteenth,
ten years ago, and then he did it again ten
years later. Thirteen to fourteen is the best percentage shooting
night of his career, and he did it at the
age of forty one.
Speaker 3: How I don't know.
Speaker 2: Look in the leads the league in fast break buckets
and Luka Doncic went nuclear at the end of the game.
Rockets actually didn't play that poorly, but it just didn't
go their way. They lose Matt and now they are
at the moment the number five seed in the Western Conference,
holding on for dear life. For that, by the way,
two and a half games behind the Lakers. That also
cost you the season tiebreaker, So now you're effectively three
and a half games behind them with sixty eight games played.
Speaker 3: You're not catching the Lakers. It's just not happening. You're out.
We are root for the Heat tonight.
Speaker 2: The Lakers play the Heat this evening in Miami, they're
not passing.
Speaker 3: They're just oh, come on, I'm sorry, well.
Speaker 2: Mark mark my words. I'm putting my name on it.
I mean, mark my words, put my name on it
and all that stuff. They're not they're not finishing top three.
You can try to finish four for home court advantage
in the first but that means the Oklahoma City Thunder
are waiting for you, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 3: There are a one game behind the Minnesota chimber Wolves.
Speaker 2: Two matchups remaining with the t Wolves correct, one here
and one in Minneapolis, right and then they are in
a virtual tie with the Denver Nuggets. That's where they
sit in the Western Conference right now. And c Tournament
is underway at halftime.
Speaker 3: In I think it's Greenville, South Carolina?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not? How was you get the Greensboro Greenville? It
is TCU, the nine seed correct in the East Region,
leading a Central Ohio State thirty nine to twenty four. Yikes,
all right, what which idiots at Ohio State? Was there
a lock of the week earlier in the first hour
of the show.
Speaker 3: I don't remember. I think it was Jonathan Yeah, be right.
Speaker 2: Eight forty three remaining in the first half in the
South Region, Nebraska leads Troy twenty one to fifteen. I
do have South Florida on a recorded line beating Louisville today. Baby,
we got our Houston start up that starts at to
twelve thirty. When you come out here and see us
at Willieat's go to watch that Sianna plays Duke at
one fifty, I will not be able to reach my
wife for a few hours on that and ice house
and ice house. We have the Houston Cougars playing tonight.
That will be a game that you will hear on
nine to fifty kPr C. That's a nine to ten start,
probably closer like the nine thirty you know what that's
And I just don't get it. Why do they always
schedule these games and they never start on time because
they tried two hour windows, It's ridiculous, but.
Speaker 3: There they know they never start on time, and they
act like it's only gonna be two hours.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: What are they doing?
Speaker 2: Why they lied? Why do they lie to.
Speaker 3: The American public? Over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: The Ida Idaho Houston winner will take on the winner
of the A and M. Saint Mary's game then is
also tonight in Oklahoma City at.
Speaker 3: Six thirty five by the Coup's got a nice straw.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City in Houston two very easy to be reachable places.
Speaker 3: I know who you have in your bracket winning at all?
Speaker 2: Who are they playing? You can make me look this
up now? No, you don't have I mean, if you're
just clicking buttons, it's fine. I really don't remember.
Speaker 3: Okay, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Okay. All I know is that I'm gonna be taking
an extra day off to go watch the national championship game.
I worked last year to watch it where I'm when
I was in San Antonio?
Speaker 3: Are you sure I was mom tome one this year?
Speaker 2: This year it's Indianapolis. And so I worked last year
and got sick, and I'm like, I'm not doing it
this year.
Speaker 3: So if I'm going, I'm going to watch a championship
game Indianapolis. I don't have a hotel room yet. You know,
I had a question for you. Go ahead, Do I
go old school college and not get a room?
Speaker 2: What do you mean they're not gonna sleep the entire time? Yeah,
you're gonna wait. You're waiting right, Yeah, well I man
wait for the cancelations. Yeah, I think I'll be I
think I'll be okay, but it wouldn't be part of
the fund, just getting up there and just trying to
find something the last second.
Speaker 8: Yeah, what do I mean?
Speaker 3: Just price lined or whatever?
Speaker 2: No price lines, no one, no longer in bizz. You
can't price on a room anymore. They went out of
business sitting on a business. But they don't their model
is gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't. They don't give you good deals anything.
Speaker 2: Bro Way. When I was, when I Kim and I
were young and married and didn't have much money.
Speaker 3: Okay, we would price line. The hotels would turn their.
Speaker 2: Nose down at you. They they were like, oh here
a price line. They put me next to like the
washer dryer on the first floor. Yeah, they did not
like the price liners at all. Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 2: You should be like you know what, you shouldn't like us.
You can't find deals anymore. You cannot like anything else.
You're going on news, Yes we have some news.
Speaker 3: Did you hear about Piston star Kade Cunningham. This is
a bad bad spot for Detroit fan.
Speaker 2: He has been.
Speaker 3: Sidelined with a collapsed lung.
Speaker 2: He is expected to miss an extended period of time.
He has left lung pneumothorax, and it will be reevaluated
in the two weeks, meaning he's gonna miss at least
eight games.
Speaker 3: The collapse lung is considered mild.
Speaker 2: So that's the good news, according to Sham Sharania, not
that anybody particularly cares, but that will put him out
of the MVP consideration because you gotta play sixty five games.
He will not have played sixty five. Uh well, I
Mike and these get sticked. That's a shame. Are you okay?
Speaker 3: Go on a little limp, it's a lymph.
Speaker 2: Fike fixmilow t dot com, Matt fixmilo t dot com.
Also a note, the w NBA has struck a collective
bargaining agreement deal. Last year, the league minimum was sixty
six thousand bucks. This year goes up to three hundred
k for the young ladies.
Speaker 3: It's doing better.
Speaker 2: Caitlyn Clark gonna hope in a prayer it should be
called the Caitlyn Clark Basketball Association. Yeah, they need to
name every trophy after her. She needs to be the logo.
That's not a lie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But good for the ladies.
Speaker 2: They're getting three hundred k a year now instead of
sixty six and they're chartering.
Speaker 3: They're staying in a nice hotel. A massive increase in
tax bracket as well.
Speaker 2: They're getting up, They' getting apartments and stuff after taxa
at taxes, it's a four thousand dollars increase annually. Yeah,
it's fair, all.
Speaker 3: Right, that's the news at noon.
Speaker 2: Up next, Girod's gonna come in with some NBA analysis.
If you know who Girard is. We love having them
on the show. Let's go looking forward to We want
you guys on it as well. We are at Willy's
Grill and ice house, okay where they're they're serving crawfish
right now to people smell it. Will you please peel
my crawfish. I'm not peeling your crawfish. I'm not gonna
be a crawfish bitch.
Speaker 16: Why are you?
Speaker 2: Why are you? What is wrong with you? I don't
like doing it your own damn crawfish or pay somebody,
no ray, will you come peel my crass? I log
all this equipment up, peeling it for him. So, okay,
he's got gloves on. Look, he's gonna come. He's gonna
come again. Come come feed him. Yeah, put it in
his mouth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on.
Speaker 2: You heard me? Oh, my brother's putting it in Math's
mouth the crawfish tail on good stuff. You're so weird,
but I don't want too much work. There's this, all right?
Speaker 3: Can we go to break?
Speaker 2: All right? Seven? This microphone is a problem to Can
we stiff in this thing up? Fixmlow tea dot com
seven seven one three two one two.
Speaker 3: You're swallowing it? I know seven one three two one
two five seven.
Speaker 2: Other clip? We got like three clips of the last
time that, Jonathan, make sure you get none of those.
All right.
Speaker 3: Two things?
Speaker 2: We are at Willie's ice House, Girling ice House, two
nighty and Barker Cypress. You can driving around telling going
matt where are you guys? To ninety and Barker Cypress?
Speaker 3: Is it even any degrees?
Speaker 2: Yet? It's simply spectacular right now? The garage doors are open.
It's a nice breathe. The bay windows it's gold. The
bay windows golgeous.
Speaker 3: Oh, the margaritas are flowing. I have decided to stop
drinking tequila. What happened getting older?
Speaker 2: You can still drink tequila.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Number two, Adam Wexer versus Jonathan Allen, Really you got
wex confirmed tomorrow at one okay, Jonathan, Master's dinner in
any order? One app, two entrees, one side, one dessert.
Speaker 3: Got it now, Jonathan m key.
Speaker 2: Will be do you make the menu because you want
to beat Wexer or do you make the menu because
you really.
Speaker 3: Want to have these five items at your master's dinner?
Went in doubt? Listen to your heart, Jonathan, i'ma listen.
Speaker 2: I'ma listen. Although sometimes you gotta cater, sometimes you do
to the audience. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
NINTI early second half TC who leads Ohio State thirty
nine twenty six? We need to come back, folks, There
goes your bracket. Come on now, wellhiwo's now. I didn't
have them winning in the second round, but hello, a
little Ohio is eight two and a half would be nice.
Come on, now, let's say how to our friend no
buck eyes hold a second? Seven one three two one
two are okay? Oh I'm fine, I'll just get my
phone ready here for what? Oh my gosh, girrod on
seven ninety Girard, how are you boy? We're good.
Speaker 3: We're at Willie is it two ninety and its Parker Cypress.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if I would. They had to work today now.
I try to be out there with you guys. When
I was out there a few years ago when you
had a march manness, man, I had to work today,
so I wasn't able to get out there.
Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
Speaker 8: Some games?
Speaker 18: Uh put down on a rockets.
Speaker 6: By talking about the tournament. I don't mean why a
Donker don't play more zone when you have Red Sheppard
out there. You know he did that earl a year.
I thought it was a SIXTI for for some reason.
You know, he has a reshipperd out there trying to
guard man the man he's got a little better, but
you know, burn little bit more zone. And then we
want to when Lucas cooking out there in the fourth
quarter trying to switch it up, you playing straight up't
nobody in day doing that? Got one on one man.
He is just too crafty, too still and know how
to create his own offense. So they should have tried
to switch it up in the bit with him. I'm
not saying trap him, get the body of the head.
And they got an other guy that can handle the
ball like Lebron James and Austin Reeve, but go to
a zone when the guy's cooking like that in the
fourth quarter, trying to switch it up and if you
could get him outside of the river Mother office that
they got going on in that fourth quarter with all
that being saying, man cook thing on the tournament. I
don't think it's gonna be a lot of ushit in
this tournament. I think it's gonna be a chalk tournament.
I don't even see any double disition scenes making it
past the second round. I do have South Florida beating Louisville,
but I got the little dimission States in the next round.
I think it's gonna be a chalk chalk tournament. I
don't see it way. We're gonna see a lot of
center Radler where you're ben see in the in the
sweet sixteen or least or even the final four. I
don't see that this year. My final four, I have
U of h yukon almsonner at our State. I think
the Big twelve has been the best tournament this year.
I think it's gonna show up and show out in
this tournament. You see pc US beating the Ohio State
man I think the Big Twelve is gonna do well
well man, once they get outside of that comfort where
they kind of beat up on each other, I think
they're gonna have a lot of success in this tournament.
I think it's gonna be an all Big Twelve basically
final four in inni Apois outside of Yukon. I do
have Ukon representing the Big East. So I got three
Big twelve teams in the final four. So we'll see
how it all play out, man, But I don't see
a lot of upset. I think it's gonna be a
chalk tournament. And I think I think part of me
is because of the n I l a lot of
those Silver Runners teams, but they would have good players
in the past, but nowadays, you know, those good players
are getting paid big money to go to a bigger university.
So you don't see the simil Runners that you're gonna
see that you had in the past year. Are the
Silver Runner teams that were you know, senior later teams
that we had a lot of experience away to beat
a lot of Inning Spriends team from bigger conference. Don't
think you're gonna see that this year. I think it's
gonna be a chalk. I'm just gonna hang up and listen. Man,
you guys, let me know who you got in the
final for that's my final four again, Yukon you of
h Iowa State and uh ams On. I got an
Amish one that used in the final. I hope you
should pull it out. But I just think Alisona is
the best team in the country. I got them winning
the championship over your vase. It's kind of like what
we've seen back in age when of your base ladies
back to back finals with with Elaja on them. I
think they're gonna come up short again back to back
to the year. I just think Arizona had the best
overall team. I mean, you hang up and listen. What
you guys thinking?
Speaker 3: Thanks? Jar Right, what do you got there?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: What do you what'd you clock that at? Forty?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: That's pretty short? I had three thirty in.
Speaker 2: The over under well really okay, I would have normally
he was under. It went over last night and the
Lakers lost in the post. Appreciate he was mad.
Speaker 3: I don't We're all mad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'd talk for four minutes straight if I could Yeah, well,
I think I went like forty five minutes without break.
Speaker 3: It's good times.
Speaker 2: Anyways, go ahead, Matt, your thoughts on Girod's basketball takes
uh As I said, I'm not worried about where Reed
Shepherd starts and where Read Shepherd finishes. Yes, And Frankly,
he's going to get more time on the court in
the fourth quarter games if you can't rely on Tar,
he's gonna make shots. That's the guy he's taking the
spot for. Frankly, Yeah, a little bit of Josh Kokiet
on that as well, but it's mainly been read. This
is the thing that's that that's difficult and people we
were talking about this with Dorny and Finny Smith, with
Tarry eastern or whoever, Like, if this Rockets team is
gonna hit their full potential, it's not going to be
paying playing Jeff Green or Aaron Holliday more or Isaiah Crawford. Like,
no disrespect to those guys, but you I'm Dorian Phinney
Smith here to be at three and d wing and
knock down shots. And he had like eight points in
what was a second quarter on Monday or something like that, Right,
Tarry Easton is a key piece to your team, especially
as a three and D wing where you're running things
through Auburn Shangoon and Kevin Durant. You need floor spacers,
you need three point shooters. He's got to be out there.
So I understand he's gonna go for twenty one right now.
But you can't have somebody on the one of your
five guys on the floor and look him in the
face and say never take a shot, don't shoot anymore,
take better shots, yes, make the shots that you do take. Yes,
But it's it's not as a situation where you can
just tell Tarry just just completely bench Tari Easan, it's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Let's go with her.
Speaker 2: I've got the five realities in the rockets when we
come back. Oh, okay, five of them. You're giving me
five five realities that this current team is going through
right now. And then I want you. When I give
you these five realities, you're gonna then go I see
why they're struggling. Okay, makes sense to you, Yes, Willies
two ninety Barker, Woo, my gumbo's on the way, Bavi.
Speaker 3: I had me's in gumbo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how was it good?
Speaker 3: I need some do they get crystal sauce?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have all they got all the hot sauces
for I'm a crystal guy over Tabasco mostly, but I
love Tabasco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want people get Madam mey.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
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at Willie's Grill and Ice House. Enjoy the experience. Good
crowd out here today. It's come out and say hello.
A lot of people coming on and say hello to k.
Speaker 3: Yes, we appreciate all of you. We're big in the Northwest.
Speaker 2: We would like to do more shows out, Yes we
would so. Uh if you're a business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Matt's out of town all the time.
Speaker 2: And even my one of my favorite people the world,
Tracy Clayton's here. Come over and have lunch with us.
Tracy is on the stats crew. Oh yeah, he is
a USCF knight, so he's very excited about his nights.
I think had I had when one of my four
brackets I got to pull in the upset, I think,
and and I'm gonna brack about Tracy. Tracy was a
contestant on the Price is right? Really yes, Uh played
the Freeze frame game and lost and he did not.
We gotta bring that up because he'll show you the video.
Speaker 3: That's a bad game.
Speaker 2: By the way, it was surprising, didn't even one. I
think you. I think he's think you won like a
toaster oven or something like that. Oh, and then he
spun the wheel and then win that either. So that's
and he also agrees with me that I'd be a
much better host than Drew Carey with you while you're laughing, Oh,
I don't find nothing comical about that whatsoever.
Speaker 3: You're right, that was a very Yeah, it was good observation.
Speaker 2: So sorry. Oh the five guarant we got Mark and
Jay hangtib We'll get you guys.
Speaker 3: Here are the five one, two, three, four, five go ahead.
Speaker 2: Number one no, Fred van Belin, of course, Number two
the disintegration of disintegrator said a word.
Speaker 3: No, well, what disintegration is?
Speaker 2: A word?
Speaker 3: Like a sixth grade word of Steven Am Steve Adam's ankle.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, that's a big one, number one. No, no, no,
let's talk about these real quick. I'm gonnaive to the
five and then go from there.
Speaker 3: Oh you want to do a listen, then a list breakdown.
Speaker 2: Dorian Phinney Smith has not been the Dorian Finieh Smith
that we've seen as a Laker or a maverick. Okay,
you signed to be a multi year deal. We were
all excited about it. It was a sneaky good pickup. Uh.
Speaker 3: Number four.
Speaker 2: And this has been brought up a little bit here
in the last month or so. Maybe I'll be playing
all the international basketball overseas and the off season has
tired him out a little bit. He looked okay last
night he did and uh, number five.
Speaker 3: How many games in EuroBasket did he play?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was still like it.
Speaker 3: Was like a twenty five game grind, I know.
Speaker 2: But it's still a lot. It was competitive, it was
highly intense. And number five, Uh, what's my number five?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I should have had number five. You can't even top
five minutes out number five? Yeah, what's my number five?
How you want to help me with number five. Would
you say for number four? I was looking at uh
up and chat. Maybe Alpies wearing down a little bit,
Alpi wearing down. Tar Eisan's regression, Oh, Tar Eastan's regression.
Never it's going to be a forty seven percent three
point shooter all year long. But did anybody anticipate e
mail In making one field goal in the month of
March from three point range?
Speaker 3: It was nine games in the EuroBasket. That is a
lot plus practices.
Speaker 2: Now they're they're forty minute games. Okay, that's that's the
least of my concern. But I just do believe that
there is a little bit of sometimes a little bit
of fatigue with him. Not much, but but Tari's the
ankle injury as well, that he rushed back front, playing
through pain. He looked pretty good. I mean, ten to
fifteen to twenty seven points. Yeah, it was great last night.
Speaker 3: All right, So go ahead, you want to go you
want to chew on those five numbers there? What do
you think?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean, I think though those certainly all matter.
I think those are some good reasons why the Rockets
aren't where they are. I think the biggest reason of
the five you listed is Fred van Vliet not being
here And it's something we knew going in and it's
been baked in and it's been for.
Speaker 3: Eighty two games.
Speaker 2: But he was supposed to be a key part of
this Rockets team and he missed eighty two games.
Speaker 3: That just is what it is. I mean.
Speaker 2: I had a caller ask me last night, like if
would this team beat last year's team like as the
way they are right now, I don't know that they would.
But with Fred van Vliet and Steven Adams, which is
how rauffel Stone constructed this team, not even close.
Speaker 3: It's a better team.
Speaker 2: Are they better than the Thunder or the Spurs? Certainly
not the Thunder and the Spurs. It would be a
little closer, but I think probably the Spurs. It took
that big leap and passed you up, unfortunately. But this
is not the team raffel Stone envisioned. And it's the
fact of the matter is the major injuries. It's it's
not you know, he twisted an ankle, He's out for
a couple of weeks, missed the entire season with the
torn acl an entire season.
Speaker 3: It's bad luck.
Speaker 2: Fred point guard check yes, Fred floor lad check that
moxie that you're missing with Dylan Brooks would be less
of an absorbed if you had a guy like Fred
out there who was ready to throw hands when necessary
as well. And also Fred not a prolific three point shooter,
but there'd be times. I got back to Game six
of the Western first round series last year where he
basically won that basketball game with you by knocking down
three after three after three. Yeah, he's like a thirty
seven thirty eight percent shooter last year.
Speaker 3: That that's great.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what you need and that's what you're He
gets you into your offense and he can shoot and
space the floor and he helps you in those ways.
And he's got a great assistant turnover ratio. What is
one of the rockets biggest problems been all season? How
many times is emandok had been asked about turnovers this
year between US, pregame, post game everything, yep, A billion
times and ultimately two He also played thirty five thirty
six minutes a game.
Speaker 3: You had to absorb that by other people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. By the end of the season he
was at thirty four percent from three, but he thirty
eight point seven the year before so career thirty seven
percent shooter. That's about what he's shooting as a rocket.
You're missing that big time. Oh, by the way, championship pedigree.
Guy's got a ring and can say calm the f down. Now,
you can calm the f down when you're the when
the when you're in the huddle. But you gotta put
the uniform on.
Speaker 3: It doesn't do It doesn't carry the same weight when
you're when you're in new street clothes. When when when?
Speaker 2: When is the Rockets offense looks most out of sorts?
It's it can be in clutch time in late situations,
and that's when Fred van Vliet thrives when you need
to get into your offense, when you need somebody who's
gonna calm everything down to be that floor general. And
he's gone. Let's talk to uh Mark in humbol at
twelve forty one on seven, Unty Mark, thank you for
waiting in good afternoon.
Speaker 6: Well one on one of the Rockets.
Speaker 19: Just good and time the season. You know they ain't
got a chance a snowball's chance of winning anything in
the in the playoffs? Ininghow not with all the turnovers?
Are you they already go to work for app or something.
And uh, I think all these turnovers is a lack
of discipline which comes from the coach. You know, I've
been saying it all year long. Nobody wants to hear
me out, But all right, well.
Speaker 2: Mark, I'm gonna give you a shot. Here, Mark, Mark,
I'm gonna give you a shot. Tell me what lack
of discipline Emadoka has.
Speaker 3: I'm very curious on this.
Speaker 19: Let mean, make them make them responsible for their turnovers.
Speaker 2: Oh by doing what?
Speaker 19: By doing extra work and practice and stuff. I don't know,
It's just it's been the same old way every year.
I mean this whole year, they didn't have near the
turnovers last year.
Speaker 2: Well why is that, Mark, Because, for the love of God,
Fred Bambley was running point. They don't have a point
guard right now. They just don't tell me there's a change.
There's a difference in a year to year because the
number one point guard's hurt hadn't played a single minute.
Speaker 3: That's the reason why the turnovers are up.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not trying to dumb this down for
the audience, but Jesus.
Speaker 19: But why do they have to doing the bringing it
up court?
Speaker 2: Did you watch last night, there was a combination of
four different people doing it.
Speaker 19: Actually missed last night that I was.
Speaker 2: Well, then you can't call me and tell me that
you rant did it all if you didn't wantch the
game or listen to it here on Sports Talks of
minety Mark, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: I don't think I we're gonna agree on any of this.
Speaker 2: I just make him new extra practices, make him dig
and makes your show. What the hell? What are y'all
thinking this? People? Come on, not small time high school basketball.
You're talking about professionals that are making for dollars a
year run suicide. So what do you what do you
want here? I mean, come on, They're gonna make him
run gassers. Still he stops turning the ball over. This
this is in high school. This is not your eighth
grade co B team, Okay. Kevin Durant's averaging three point
two turnovers a game for the Rockets, and he always
wants to turn on a machine. He averaged three point
one for his career. He's around his career average. This
is just who he is. This is not going to change.
He averaged three and three point two two years in
Golden State. I mean that this is Kevin Durant. He's
going to turn the ball over some I know, it's frustrating,
and it's hard to watch. He's not a point guard,
and and and unfortunately you're just gonna run into these
issues and and that is really high comedy's saying. He
may a Dooka is not holding anybody accountable. You guys
don't know he made Doka. He makes you accountable. I
had somebody called.
Speaker 3: Me last night and say, he doesn't chew them out.
Are you watching these games?
Speaker 2: He may Doka doesn't chew them out. I talked to
him for four minutes and guy, and I'm scared to this.
Speaker 3: You choose me out?
Speaker 2: I got, of course, what was that? He called me
a soft ab be later night, Come on, coach your rodcaster,
no nonsense as it gets. And that's what the players
like from him. There's accountability. Just because you're not seeing
improvement doesn't mean I mean with the with the turnover stuff,
doesn't mean the coach just doesn't care or is checked
out or anything like that. Gang they're trying. If you
watched the game last night, they were competitive. The Lakers
are playing at a different level right now, and that hurts.
Speaker 3: They had Luka Doncic last night. You didn't.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately it was a Laker team that's super super hot
right now. But there was guys that were diving for basketball.
Who was the guy with a dope for the back?
You had luc up Dalo, you had Josha Kogie fighting
for the loose. I mean, they're look, I've called a thousand.
Speaker 3: NBA games in my life. I've seen games where the
team doesn't care.
Speaker 2: And if they didn't care, it'd be way easier to
figure this one out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Good where it's just it's frustrating. I know it's frustrating, But.
Speaker 2: Don't care undisciplined repeating history. You're only dealing with the
rosss you have in front. I mean, I don't believe,
I know this from the facts. I don't believe that
they think that Aaron Holliday can can run the point
for this team. If that was the case, you may
would not be just sitting there going, you know what,
dress out.
Speaker 3: We don't need you.
Speaker 2: He just feels like the best chance he has are
with the eight or nine guys that play right now.
We'll talk to Jay and Spring about the rockets. We'll
come back twelve forty six. It is Matt and Ross.
We are with you today until two o'clock where at
Willie's Grille and Ice House two ninety and Barker, Cyprus
where right now? TCU leads Ohio State forty six forty eleven,
forty three remaining In the second half.
Speaker 3: Ohio State went on a ten to nothing run. Make
flnd me a time, love baby.
Speaker 2: If you're a horn frog, get out out here.
Speaker 3: Oh so baby, don't shake your head.
Speaker 2: That was terrible. What don't do Victor backtal? I mean
his time has passed. I so live.
Speaker 3: I didn't say a rip. I just said the time.
Speaker 2: It's best as a broadcaster, all right. Seven one three
two one two five cividadi A couple of things that
passed along. God, I gotta pick my gum both all right?
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Houston Business Journal just announced the best family owned.
Speaker 3: Business in Houston.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if there's more than one. I
don't know if it was sports related, but the best
family owned business in Houston, according to Houston Business Journal
the Houston Texans.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's beautiful. What a small What is this dessert?
What dessert?
Speaker 2: Look at this thing? You can't eat all that trace,
there's a mountain. It's a mountain of cream over there?
Use me, Oh, don't you say?
Speaker 3: Friday, Sir?
Speaker 2: I know who you are.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding Friday? Let me hit him out, Joel Friday?
Matt is it admiring his mountain of cream? Is that
what you were saying?
Speaker 2: All right? Somebody helped me out with that. On the
Houston Business Journal, Jon said this to me and I
got sent by actually with several people. The best family
owned business Houston's Houston Texas. Oh you know, I love that.
Speaker 3: Small mom and pop operation.
Speaker 2: Are these people that came up out of the dirt
and really made something of themselves.
Speaker 3: Cal and Hannah McNair. That's beautiful?
Speaker 2: Are we absolutely?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Are we absolutely? Rags to riches story those folks are.
That's just so beautiful, man, really inspiring. All right, Look
we're on location. I would hope the file following Cal
McNair's footsteps of his rags to riches story sometime. Do
you you're seeing the exact same thing? I am, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: The best family owned business Houston, the Houston Texans. Look up.
Speaker 3: It's gotta be more other than just one.
Speaker 2: Business, right, I don't know maybe.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're gonna try. Am I gonna be behind a
paywall here?
Speaker 2: I mean you and you couldn't tell me a small
family run barbecue restaurant or a they're.
Speaker 3: Trying to make me subscribe. We're not buying Houston Business Journal.
Speaker 2: Sorry, eighty dollars a year for what I'm gonna pass.
I really wish all of you the best, the Houston
Business Journal, I really do.
Speaker 3: I'm supporting journalism. I subscribe to the Chronicle and the Athletic.
Speaker 2: Yes, you get my money journalism, Athletic and Chronicle got
my money. But I'm not big on the Houston Business Journal.
Speaker 3: I'm so somebody do some legwork for us.
Speaker 2: Are is it literally? Are they the only business that
got run? Or are they are there? Are there among
a hundred? I hope that they're h It doesn't say
they were named the best or one of the best. Yeah,
that's the That's what I'm trying to figure out. What
is it? It's just that tweet says Houston's Best, meaning
that's there going to be a best family. Maybe it's
like among Houston's you think you call it Houston's Best
and you make a list. I'm gonna began to bet
that's what's happened. Okay, I'm gonna hope that's what's happening.
Another tweet that just came in from Irvin Magic Johnson.
Oh no, can I though I haven't seen it, let
me guess what a great win by the Los A
my Los Angeles Lakers over the Houston Rockets. Luka Doncic
is a special player and Lebron James is aging like
a fine wine.
Speaker 3: How far off am I?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Those were yesterday? Oh, but you're actually pretty close.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: The one I saw that came down an hour ago
is interesting. Hoot of states making a run?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Sorry, go ahead, Irvin Magic Johnson.
Speaker 2: At one pm Pacific time, four pm Eastern today, I'll
be cheering for my MSU Spartans. They take on North
count Dakota State in the INNTBLA Tournament. Go Green, Go white.
Speaker 3: Okay, innocent enough?
Speaker 2: Right? Yes? Why in the world would he put it
one one pm Pacific, four pm Eastern time? Who does that?
What do you mean? Do you ever put down what
you're doing at a certain time or a certain time
game is on? Why would he write that? I don't know.
Have you seen his tweets. That's what I'm saying. That's
very odd.
Speaker 3: He just always puts something weird in there.
Speaker 2: Stu says, I too, will be tuned in and cheering
at one pm Pacific four pm Eastern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's trying to help out his folks over at Turner.
Speaker 2: Another one says, I'm going to do the same thing,
and thank you very much for mentioning both the time zones. Magic,
he's mister coaster com Magic. Can you help me a
fellow cet? Oh Jesus fuck guy's lead baby eat Nebraska
big and usf Your upset pick is down eleven. That's
why he's eating all that ice cream. Movie who this
is going well for me now boy. People really love
the fact he's mentioning all these time zones. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Magic Johnson's tweets are always captain obvious. Here's one.
Speaker 2: In the last week, the Lakers have beaten three playoff
teams Denver, Minnesota, and Houston twice. We should do Magic
tweets every now and then, like a like a segment
like once a week or no magic tweet or not
believe it or not magic tweet yes next week.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's gonna take creative energy.
Speaker 2: So remind you do do it at home one night,
gues you. I really want you to sink your teeth
into it. I don't like to bring my work home
with me, Matt. I got this text from somebody I
cannot announce who I got it from. Okay, no, just
all you want Tom Clan proud to be a best
family owned business of course, Houston, Texas? Yes, was there
a special category for families that sue each other?
Speaker 8: Where?
Speaker 2: Is there a special category where you got lucky and
your dad passed the team onto you and now you're
a fan family owned business?
Speaker 3: I guess that's family.
Speaker 2: How can you be a family owned business when the
brothers hate each other? That's good, I mean it's how
are you the best family owned business? I mean that's
probably normal for family owned business, But how can.
Speaker 3: You be the best? We need some due diligence on this.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, why don't you pony up for this Houston
Business subscription?
Speaker 3: We canna read the article. I'm readyapped.
Speaker 2: I do do a seven day trial now, because every
day I do one of those trials, I always forget
the child seven day trial ninety nine cents here, be fine,
just cancel it. Make a reminder. Write it down on
your calendar. This big ass calendar you got.
Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: I'm loving this idea for this magic.
Speaker 2: Johnson tweet or not. Okay, that'd be great, but you
have to do.
Speaker 3: An advance well, and I'm gonna I can do it
during the show. I just want to listen to what
you say like normal.
Speaker 8: Let me be fine.
Speaker 2: It is about Thomas show at Ross. We're at his girl.
And how about these horn Frogs? Oh, how about these Buckeyes?
Maybe two and a half? All right? Update on the scores?
Those are you playing at home? Nebraska's crushing Troy fifty
to thirty two. That's early. Second half's good. I think
that's a fourteen and a half or ooh, I remember
I have USF beating Louisville. There's that going. Cardinals are
up ten late first, it's early. It's not okay, it's
not that early, but it's kind of early. Wisconsin lead's
high point twenty to fourteen with eleven thirty seven left
to go in the first of it.
Speaker 3: And that's it.
Speaker 2: And of course, uh now, Ohio State leads TCU fifty
seven and fifty five.
Speaker 3: That's sad one's getting close and late four twenty eight
to go.
Speaker 2: Are Cougars America's Cougar's playing nine ten to night against
the idea based America's Cougars.
Speaker 3: No, they're not.
Speaker 2: They're They have a bigger nationwide fan base than the INN.
That's because they're religious background.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry the facts of the facts. Nobody claims
by US America's team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they do. No, they don't. He playing
utn't even claim them. No, the religious faith the LDS does, Yeah,
they do. People in Utah claim them. Now some of
it does nationwide. They're bad and they're nationwide. The BYU
could and they're.
Speaker 3: Going down go along hornes, hook them horns.
Speaker 2: As a former voice the University of Utah, I wish
you the Texas ones.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a blood feud over there. They do not
like each other.
Speaker 2: That cuts through family lions. Because you got Utah people
that go to BYU. You got BYU people that go
to Utah. See what's like the history of football wise
they like a fifty fifty or is that BYU holds
the edge has been kicking ass. Utah has typically been
kicking their ass, but the last ten years, probably fifty
to fifty on that.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 2: Oh, now TCU leads fifty eight to fifty seven. It's
it gets till plenty of time.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's the Holy War. That's what they call their
rival Yes, okay.
Speaker 2: Uh quickly my top six rivalries. Oh, Utah's leads all
time sixty two to thirty seven. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: I think it's bigger a description. B Yu says, it's
only fifty nine to thirty four.
Speaker 2: That's how you of agent rights they have shed? Oh yeah,
they do, and they always fight about it. It's not fight,
but they're like, how do they how do they verify
the old scores? I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's like somebody wrote a letter to their dearest deathly
we defeated. Tell me where I go wrong.
Speaker 2: Best football rivalryes Ohio State, Michigan won, uh, oh U
Texas one, oh U Texas two, Army Navy three, usc
U c l A four, Auburn Badma Auburn five, Cal
Stanford six, Florida Florida State. No, no, no, no, I
put I put b Yu.
Speaker 3: You Utah over that?
Speaker 2: What? Yeah? No, stop, that's only because you lived in
Utah across the country Florida Florida State is bigger than you,
b Yu. No Colos football.
Speaker 3: He heard his piping hot takes.
Speaker 2: They're horrible, Yeah they are. They are hot taking. He
said all of this walking videos outside of his.
Speaker 3: His backyard too?
Speaker 2: Was that all about?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. Cole Thompson's over here. Cole's don't
want to video.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: I have to defer. Now, I don't mind arguing with you,
but I could defer he is a college football expert.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if Cole Thompson says it.
Speaker 3: I guess who's the rivalry again, Florida Florida State.
Speaker 2: I would say Florida Miami's bigger. Miami Florida State's actually
bigger than that. I said.
Speaker 3: We're talking about historically over the last ten years. Historically.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've been to a Florida Miami game. Yeah, but
b Yu, I mean the BYU is winning national championships
in like the eighties.
Speaker 3: That game just doesn't have the's. But but that's an
end state are we talking about?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: I got one for you? Who hates each other?
Speaker 2: I got one for you?
Speaker 6: One?
Speaker 2: I got one for you?
Speaker 3: Uh the uh egg bow? Missisippi State don't miss pretty
good too. Okay, let's go with the apple cup while
we're here.
Speaker 2: Hey, why not the old Okra, the old oaken bucket,
the miss she got to Minnesota? What about the what
about the little brown jug You gotta play for that too?
Speaker 3: By you bo? You see notre dame.
Speaker 2: They're not even do No, you don't see. This is
your call on now you know what I'm starting to
podcast to see filtered. Mine's gonna be called better than
Coles and Gordy's Yeah, seven one three two one two
five seven auty. Let's talk to Jay and Spring at
one ten.
Speaker 3: Hello, Jay, Hey, ho you don tellers good?
Speaker 2: Hello? Yeah, yes, sir, you're.
Speaker 8: On you all right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I consider myself one of your same callers and
listeners and we'll be the judge of that on.
Speaker 3: Jay's right, Jay's correct.
Speaker 5: I know the voice, yeah, because because when you when
you'll get after people that's making these random uh solutions
the problems, and then you ask well, well what's the
what's the solution? Then they get quiet and so I
stood it And the first word that come out to mab,
I don't know, baby tried something different stuff to be hilarious.
People don't know what they talking about, but uh, my
question is regarding the Rockets this season at this point,
you know, with all the injuries and everything, I think
just getting out of the first round would be a
positive for the direction of the team, considering all the
injuries deal. If we run it back, it'll be a
little bit better outcome and a little bit more support
for next year. But to me, they have to get
out this first round. And my question is, with the
turnovers and all that stuff, how do you foresee that happening?
Which opponent would be ideal for us to get out
the first round? And then my last thing, this is
just a joke towards y'all too. You know, I reap
PV and U of H. So I think TV is
gonna do what U of H didn't do and get
rid of Florida. And I hang up a listen.
Speaker 2: Oh he said it wasn't gonna say crazy things. The
chances of Perryview beating Florida zero percent. It's not point one,
not point zero zero zero zero one zero percent. There
is no chance, no way, no relax, he's just talking trash.
Speaker 3: God, you don't have to take it so serious.
Speaker 2: And he brought up Florida.
Speaker 3: Man, that's a sensitive ball, I feel. I see you're
being sensitive.
Speaker 2: I got you thirty five and a half point favorite.
It's like the biggest bread since nineteen ninety nine or
something like that. Prairie Review is I'm taking Florida on
the money line. Okay, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: It's my lock in a week. I need Ohio State
in this.
Speaker 2: Uh oh cool? How come everybody on TCU shoot sixty
five percent from the free throw line?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: This is this is college basketball? Actually episode The free
throw line sixty five seems to be about average? All right,
real quick?
Speaker 2: Uh. Most favorable opponent in the first round t Wolves,
t Wolves and Lakers. I don't know if the Lakers
are ever gonna then they're not gonna win nine out
of every ten. But they're playing their best basketball and
they've done it for about three and made the West
Finals to two games in a row. But Jokic and
the and the more hell healthy Nuggets scare me. Yeah,
I'm just kind of go. Bear doesn't scare me. Julius
Randall's good, Antonywards is hurting right. Edwards is, but he'll
be he should be fine. Yeah, there's no easy matchup
Teamles could could beat the Rockets in the first round.
Am I get me on the road the first two games?
Answer my question right now, and do not stutter.
Speaker 3: Do not sutter. Give me an answer.
Speaker 2: Where am I?
Speaker 3: Where am I?
Speaker 7: Am I?
Speaker 2: In Game one in Houston? Are in game one? And
somewhere else? I didn't hear you.
Speaker 3: Toyota Center, Houston, Toyota Center.
Speaker 2: I'm super confident, positive.
Speaker 3: I couldn't be more confident of anything in my entire life.
Speaker 2: Or I'm hoping for the best. They're the five seed
right now, Matt. They've lost three last four games.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 2: Why you wanted me to inspire some kind of confidence?
But he's got their ass kicked by the Lakers in
two different ways in two different games. But it's a
one game point guard. They can't figure out getting a
double team.
Speaker 3: But look at you say that, right, your right, You're right.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. That was in Monday. They did better on
on Wednesday. I'm sorry I was heated. I want to
give you a Friday sorry for that one right now.
Speaker 3: Write it down. That's on the lift we got.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you a new daytime are you writing
all these I'm Sorries down. You got like forty deep
on those bad boys. It's okay.
Speaker 3: I want to transition to an online calendar.
Speaker 2: I just know you don't.
Speaker 3: I can't do no, no, no, it's much better.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm just too old school, too old. I
don't know. Seven five seven ninty kJ Evince will get
to you next. Plus, if you missed our visit with
Brian McTaggart Moore on the Baseball on the Astros, he's
our Thursday guest with us and we'll have that conversation
for you as well about fifteen minutes here on Sports
Talk seven ninety where Willies and two ninety and Barkers
Cyprus rossill run through some of the specials here in
a couple of minutes, but I want to come by
half hour left to take.
Speaker 3: My notepads from me and maybe win rockets. I'm about
to get real happy. Come out at two o'clock. Why
is that my friend?
Speaker 2: Three dollar ritas, five dollars apps, three dollars wine, you
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a long time time in when I can real quick.
I got one comment a Man Durant. It seems like
every time I go in a Man Durant rash acts
like he needs a seat pop machine. So I'm a
do you guys realize that within ex session of the
third quarter of last night the last five quarters of
NBA basketball, Kevin Durant has scoring a looping seven points?
Speaker 2: Correct? Do you really eyes that he was getting double
teamed every time he touched the ball. And it's hard
to score points when they are planning game planning to
double and then take the ball out of your hands.
Speaker 15: I get that.
Speaker 2: Team.
Speaker 8: I also heavily last night.
Speaker 3: Is better than thirty seven year old Kevin Durant, I'm
with you.
Speaker 19: On that, Stott.
Speaker 8: Stott.
Speaker 3: He's got a better step back game better, he's better
and more athletic.
Speaker 8: Hello, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Put him on home for a second, Okay, because I'm
I again you keep saying these incorrect things, so it's like, yeah, yeah,
I'm with you.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant is not as good as Luka Doncic. He's not.
He can't handle the double team as better as Luca Doncics.
Speaker 2: Luca Doncs has a better handle, he's a better dribbler,
he's a better passer. So yes, absolutely, Luca donc Tansel
handles a double double team better than Kevin Durant.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, kJ kJ the floors.
Speaker 6: Me see what I mean. I can't make a time
without you have multiple hours.
Speaker 2: I have a.
Speaker 6: Limited time, bro go get He's not he's right man
in ron Star too.
Speaker 3: That wasn't row as men.
Speaker 2: I just say't go what's going on?
Speaker 3: Gone?
Speaker 6: He he he he Literally, he literally is last. He
first superstar and getting double team it happens to him
the superstar in the league. But again, the primary reasons
I called in I wasn't necessarily about in the RAC.
The primary reason I called I'm a big fan of knkinuity.
I'm a big fan of chemistry. And one of the
reasons I think we had the success we had last
year as a team was because we had chemistry. There
was a that was a continuity there that that that's
not existed this year. But in the district at Joland
Greens short comings and the go to States series in
the playoffs, the fan that stood out the most to
me in that series was no my it was able
to make shots. I would line up going into the
season with the fred Ran Heeding he was a Kogie,
a Men Thompson, the Sun lineup, Jamari Durant and h
nobody in that lineup to shoot threes. With the accession
of direct Javari's riding the heater now. But Jamariy's even
going to the mid rands game more lately because he
doesn't competents in his shot. He's been decent in the
past a couple of games, but for the most part
he's not shooting threes. At the same time, his signed
in consistent Our Bitch Fun Maryland was n Shepherd, Steven
Adams and Tarry Easton. Ren Shepherd dcent three point shooters.
There's nobody in the lineup consistently, with the exception of
Kevin Durant and re Shepherd that's knocking down three. So
I think our primary issue with this team is when
you do the driving kickouts, when you do get double
team to Kevin Durant, you don't have anybody on this
Lonster who can consistently lock and down the shot and
that committed. That's a reference on Stone team for him
to make the comment earlier this I haven't love to know.
That was when he says that this may does not
be our year.
Speaker 8: Dude, what are you doing?
Speaker 6: We have a thirty seven year old superstar who surrounded
my much and drickly is and in the current time
in the NBA, if you don't have.
Speaker 8: At least two or three good shooters on your.
Speaker 6: Team, consistent shooters, not guys who get hot and team
consistent shooters, you're not going to time. I can go
on about some London things, but I think that is
a major prom with the way this team is constructed,
and it kind of makes me wonder how much of
the same paints wrap me up Stone and a female
dunk your own A damn fellow love to show me
and you're gonna go at it one day rosse.
Speaker 10: I love it, man, y'all can.
Speaker 3: Throw hands later. I don't care. Here's here's a lover,
not a fighter. I can throw hands.
Speaker 2: Go ahead. If this team would have done nothing but
run it back, the complaint would have been you ran
it back with a team that doesn't have a fourth
quarter shooter, a clutch shooter.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant is a clutch shooter. I'm not gonna take
the sample size of the last couple of games.
Speaker 2: Intead.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durantz not been clutched for this basketball team.
Speaker 2: He has saved this team as Bacon Rossi on numerous occasions.
I'm not gonna You cannot dispute that with me.
Speaker 3: You just can't.
Speaker 2: You needed a fourth quarter score. Jalen Green couldn't do it.
Jalen Green's really not doing any Phoenix. Jalen Green's the
same player in Phoenix. He is. He just is. As
stuns fans how they're feeling about the Jalen Green experience
right now, it's up and it's down. It's what we've
seen from him the entire time. You needed something more consistent,
and you and folks, you all were again, let's not
revisit history here. Yeah, you were ready to run him
out of town after that Golden State series.
Speaker 3: It just worked.
Speaker 2: So they went all in with Kevin Durant, and unfortunately
two of your major rotation players got hurt. Alprin sching
Gun has been missing for a couple of games. It
hasn't been playing well if the par Tarry Easton is
regressing hard, and Dorian Finney Smith has been a bust
of a signing right as of this moment.
Speaker 3: So yeah, adds that all up. It's not going so hot,
and there's still fourth in the West. It's not a
disastrous season. They're just.
Speaker 2: We can save honestly, we can save some of this
conversation for when the season ends.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, we can talk about this all
off season.
Speaker 2: Final score TCU sixty six scot Ohio State sixty four.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, everybody's brackets are busting now.
Speaker 2: But what Jonathan, you can't get you can't chime in.
We are hurting you.
Speaker 3: For an hours I had with my bracket in the
side show.
Speaker 2: All right, congratulations, are proud of you. It's great. Oh wait,
I just half court heat for Ohio State for the
win of the back and a half court.
Speaker 3: They had four seconds to get up court. What are
they doing as.
Speaker 2: TCU stifling defense? As a long toy? Hey, I've been
watching Ohio State basketball. I'm gonna tell you how long
for two hours? Your tim I just started Big twelve
greater than Big ten. I tell you this every single day.
Whatever I'm gonna cry, oh USFK, I know, never mind,
I misread the school.
Speaker 3: They're still down tent.
Speaker 2: I thought it hid thirty seven thirty seven, but it's
a twenty seven thirty seven event.
Speaker 3: You're on seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, So I have many thoughts on the Rockets,
but I'm not gonna inundate you with all that.
Speaker 8: But just one of the things that's really.
Speaker 4: Standing out to me is just the lack of fundamentals.
And I can't blame that on New Doka because those guys,
they're professional basketball players. I mean Kevin Durant, the two
backcourt deals that he's done, Albert Finney Smith and he
still is Albert Finty Smith in my in my opinion,
he threw they had.
Speaker 8: An easy fast break.
Speaker 18: He threw the ball way behind the guy they teach.
Speaker 14: You to throw the guy, the ball ahead.
Speaker 4: Of the guy, and it's just the fundamentals. The most
of the turnovers are unforced eighth grade type turnovers that
you see eighth graders do. And I don't know who
who's accountable, who holds them accountable for that.
Speaker 2: Fishing one man. Oh sorry, we're getting all people talking
to those on the show. That's all right, sorry, bitz,
thank you. Uh, it's not about fun. I mean, these
are NBA players. These are guys that are playing forty
minutes a game at the highest level possible fundamentals.
Speaker 3: That's not the chanel. Are there turnovers that will drive
you nuts?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the behind the back pass it goes to the
second row, or that one turnover that out he had
last night that he threw behind was it a man
on the baseline?
Speaker 3: I think as it was? Or those kill you.
Speaker 2: This has been a you know, look, this has been
a high turnover team this year. I'm not going to
guarantee anything, but I can feel very confident saying that
if Fred van Vliek comes back next year and they
maybe do get another additional point guard to back him
up a true prototypical point, the turnovers will go down.
This still may be a high turnover team. But Fred
not only was a good ball handler, he gave you
major minutes, but he's also his assistant turnoble ratio, one
of the that made him so good. As this turnover
number was so low, you lose that you're putting ball
in hands of guys that have higher turnover counts. It
was just just it's never gonna change. It's been that
way this entire season. And I'm sorry to say it,
but it is a component of this team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: You don't expect Kevin Durant to have to carry as
much of the load of ball handling and initiating offense
that he's had to. And it's been it's been my committee,
it's been some of the men, it's been outby, it's
been Kevin Durant, it's been a bunch of different guys.
And that's it's everybody trying to shore up for missing
your point guards. So yes, it leads to the bad
turnovers because you just have guys they're not going to
have the handle in the passing ability of like prime
Chris Paul. It's just not passes are going to be missed.
Guys are going to pass inaccurately.
Speaker 3: You don't.
Speaker 2: You have good playmakers and decent passers, but you just
don't have anybody doing that necessarily at an elite level consistently.
All right, let's take a quick time out. We're gonna
talk to Jim and the Heights and then we'll get
a little bit of the Brian McTaggart conversation in love
It that we had earlier today with him. He's our
Astros insider from MLB dot comonostros dot com. Here that
next one p thirty Sports Talk seven ninety from Willis
two Nunti and Parker Cypress Jim and the Heights on
seven ninety. Go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 18: Hey, you guys know me as a regular caller, Jim
from the Heights. I grew up in Tomball, currently live
in Cyprus, born in Heights Hospital. But I'm also a
member of the LDS Church. So I don't fill your guys
in a little bit on what goes on. He's got
to send people out all over the world to do
missionary work, and so they end up, you know, all
over the world. So almost everybody that I go to
church with over in Cyprus didn't grow up in Houston
or the fair amount of them didn't, and so I
love being that guy from Texas. There they could play
anybody from Texas. B Yu plays Utep and man, I'm
talking about the miners. They can play you know, the
Padre Island Pelicans for all I care. And I'm talking.
I'm talking smack to these guys because they do get
a little of knock, I will tell you. And that's
from inside the circle. So a little bit of information
there for you guys. I know you're talking about it earlier,
but I couldn't get in.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks for the phone. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Obnoxious BYU fans, They are obnoxious.
Speaker 2: What do they have to be obnoxious about?
Speaker 3: How do I put this delicately? Oh damn, Troy got
their asshood?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they may. How do I do this?
Speaker 3: You know I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll just say there's hypocrisy and everything, and I
think BYU fan can be a little hypocritical about how
they portray their lives.
Speaker 3: But when they become sportspersons there a.
Speaker 2: Little bit different. Oh okay, I'm gonna leave it at that.
Brian McTaggart MLB dot Com was a guest with US
earlier today is with us every Tuesday Live at eleven
o'clock and your chance right now to catch some of
the conversation. And I think Johnathan help me. I did
we start talking about the outfield conditions yesterday and Jupiter
that forced all of the players off. I think that's
where we got our visit with him about. And here
is some of our visit Ross and I had with
Brian mctagger earlier today.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't think they were super terrible.
Speaker 12: I mean it was just sort of it's right here
for a couple of days, pretty much NonStop, and so
there was a drizzle during the game. So I just
don't think they wanted to take any chances. I mean,
look at the lineup they had out there. I mean
they had pretty much their opening day line up out
there except for Jeremy Panya. So they just wanted to
take zero chances. And when I saw Perettas come off
the field in the middle of the third, I was like, Okay,
I think I see what's going on here, and then
Alvarez left and then al Tuvey and yeah, they just
he wanted those guys, I think, to get four to
five at three fourth bats. They ended up getting just two,
but they just didn't want to take any chances.
Speaker 2: So ironically enough, all the Twitter nervousness has meant was
nothing correct and mebody's doing okay.
Speaker 3: No injuries report of as it this morning.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no injuries. Yeah everybody.
Speaker 12: I mean, the Ashley's play a night game, so none
of the players are here yet. They do have the
spring breakout prospect games about the start, but yeah, the
major league club hasn't even reported yet.
Speaker 2: All right, before we get to the big picture on
the current twenty six, tell me about Walter Yannick and
tell me where he is, where he's going to be
and is he slow to move up the Astros organizational chart.
Speaker 8: Well, he probably opened more eyes here in this camp
than anybody else, especially when it came to prospects. I mean,
he really came in here and did a really good job.
Speaker 12: I think everybody knew what he could do defensively, the
elite pop time, the arm strength he showed all that
throwing behind runners at first base, showing off the arm,
I mean, it's all there. I think he's got major
league ready defensive skills, handled the pictures pretty well. So
they were really really pleased with what he.
Speaker 8: Did, and then he swung the.
Speaker 12: Bat too, hit a home run, made more contact, just
looked very comfortable up here against the pitching. So you know,
he's a guy that has spent pretty much the last
two years ever since he got drafted at High A,
and so, uh, yeah, he's going to start the season
I would say at Triple A Corporus Christi. He's from
Corporus Christie his hometown, so some home cooking. But I
could see him a Triple A by the end of
the year. And you know, whodos I mean, we all
know the Astros have a little bit of a drop
off and catching depth after a jainer, but we could
I wouldn't rule.
Speaker 8: Out seeing him in the big leagues by the end
of the year. But I think certainly next year he's
in the big leagues all right.
Speaker 2: Staying with the catcher's spot, is Vasquez the leader in
the clubhouse in your mind to be the number two
catcher behind you?
Speaker 4: On you.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't necessarily say that, Matt. I mean, I think
the fact that Salazar has been here all camp and
he's so he's so widely respected in the clubhouse by
you know, he's worked with these pitchers all spring. You
know he does swing a left handed bat, although you
know he hasn't swung much of a bat. I'm not
ready to say this is Basquez's job to lose. So
you know, Christian's first game, I think was it over
and breaks. The other day he did pretty well, So
I think right now it's a coin toss. It's fifty
to fifty depending what they're looking for. But I'm not
ready to rule out sales are making the open a
day roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but either way, Brian, it just doesn't seem like
a great option. I mean, then Diaz came into camp
with that foot sprain. Your one aggravation or any kind
of injury away from having to put Salazar or even
a Vasquez who hasn't put up good numbers in a
couple of years out there every single day. I mean,
how much.
Speaker 3: Of a should alarm bells be going off?
Speaker 2: I mean, it feels like it's not necessarily something we're
talking about every day, But you could be in a
bad situation here with just one.
Speaker 12: Injury, Yeah you could. I mean, they do have some
depth at the position. You know, they got Carlos Perez,
who's been in the big leagues, But I get it.
I mean, it's not the drop off after Diaz is
there's nobody you'd feel comfortable with getting the everyday starts.
But you know, I'll keep an eye over the next week.
Some guys are going to be getting cut.
Speaker 8: From camps right at the end of camp.
Speaker 12: You know, maybe if there's a catcher that they like
who they feel maybe is a better option for their
backup catcher, they can go and try to nab somebody.
Speaker 8: Off the off waivers or make a trade or whatever.
Speaker 12: But yeah, it is a concern, but you're right, they
have to hope you on your DS says healthy at
a position that's very demanding, and your one fouls hit
away from going on the IL. So it's I think
it's something they're going to be keeping an eye on
other team's rosters here for the next few days.
Speaker 2: Brian McTaggert with us here on a Sports Talk seven
ninety cover in the Astros for MLB dot Com. Tell
me what you're seeing hearing everything about Bryce Matthews in
terms of his work in the field, at the plate
and what type of role he could possibly carve out.
I know you had him making the roster in your projection.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I had to making the roster if if Penia
starts to starts the season on the I L which
I think right now again is probably.
Speaker 8: A fifty to fifty proposition.
Speaker 12: He's supposed to grab at start swinging this weekend, which
leads me to believe that he might be ready for
the start of the season. But you know, Bryce has
had a pretty good spring.
Speaker 8: You know, he's got a homer, driven.
Speaker 12: In some runs, he's stolen some bases and drawn some
watch which they really like. If he makes this club,
it'll be obviously is kind of the last guy off
the bench. He can play some second if they have to, uh,
you know, maybe put out two Vayu in DH or.
He can certainly play center field as well. So I
don't think he would get a ton of the bats.
You know, he's probably a better serve to go to
Triple A and then and then be ready for.
Speaker 8: A call up.
Speaker 12: They don't seem really motivated to play him at shortstop
going forward, the position he was drafted at. So but
he's looked pretty good in the outfield.
Speaker 8: He's I mean, he's very athletic. We know he was
a you know, a star quarterback.
Speaker 12: At a task of seta so he can certainly, he
certainly has the athleticism to handle center field.
Speaker 2: Ryan McTaggert with us from West Palm Beach, our MLB
Astros insider with us every Thursday at eleven o'clock here
on Sports Talk seven ninety Is ten Or Tremell fighting
for a spot or am I just looking at March
numbers and going man ten nice camp?
Speaker 3: But we know who he is.
Speaker 12: Ultimately, I think he I think he's got a really
good shot to make the team. Maybe he's not on
the forty man, so they would have to create a
spot for him. But if you look at the guys
that are battling for those four outfield spots, I mean
Jake Myers of course has made the team. I think
I think Cam Smith has made the team at this point.
He's had a pretty good spring eight seventy one ops.
Joey low Berfedo's had a great spring, so I think
he's a lot So I think.
Speaker 8: It'll come down to Trammel or Zach Cole.
Speaker 12: They both left handed, both have a little bit of pop,
can both play all three outfield positions, but but Cole
just has not swung the back very well this spring.
He's six for thirty two with sixteen strikeouts, which I
think is a big concern. So he hasn't even played
at Triple A yet very much. So I think I
think Cole right now begins the season in Triple A,
and I think Tremell makes this team.
Speaker 8: Because he has had a solid hand.
Speaker 12: You do know what you're getting, but you also know
what you're getting and you know you can put him
in any of those outfield spots. He's going to give
you some good defense and he will give you a
good at bat off the bench from from the left side.
Speaker 2: When you said sixteen strikeouts, might jaw drop, Brian. That's
that's a terrible that's a terrible number.
Speaker 12: It's fifty, I mean, and that that was the thing
on him coming up is he's very aggressive at the play.
You know, a swing hard and he makes contact. He
hits the ball hard, and he has hit the ball
hard this spring, but he's hit the ball hard on
the ground. But there's just too much swing and miss yet.
So I know it's something that that they're working on
with him. But that's that's just a lot of swing
and miss. So yeah, I think he'll be in Triple A,
and they'll try to get that ironed out before we
see him back up here.
Speaker 2: Staying with the outfield, Yourdon has been pulled twice because
of weather to play the outfield. How anxious when you
walk around the clubhouse. Is he's like, man, I got
this school up, I want to use it. Is he
getting enough working left field for his satisfaction? My guess
is probably the answer is not to that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean he's done a lot of work on the
backfields too, So your And likes to play outfield. I
mean he he he would like to be out there
a couple of times a week. And I mean they
when they sign him to that big contract, they didn't
sign him as a DH. They sign him as an outfielder,
and you know he really likes to do it. Is
he a great outfielder?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 8: Is he a butcher?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 12: But I think the Astros know that they would like
to get a little more athletic out there, which is
you know, kind of their goal with where their outfield
is configured right now, so we can still see him
out here next few games. We the only have what
four games left here, A couple of couple of DIYK
in park. So he is going to play outfield this year.
Not a ton, but yeah, we will see him out there,
and he wants to do it, and I think Joe's
going to keep him out there enough to keep him
fresh and left field.
Speaker 2: You mentioned or we were talking about Jake Myers, we're
talking about the outfield earlier. It's funny to me, it
was all off season it just seemed to the same
reality that he was going to be traded away. And
then of course on the estoc paratus. Thing I mean
is that are we just assuming that neither or either
of those trades are just not going to be made.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I thought all off season that Myers
would get traded and I wrote that several times.
Speaker 8: I mean, I wasn't guessing. I'm telling you know, these
are things I was being told. I mean, they obviously
were shipping him around. It didn't happen.
Speaker 12: You know, obviously they've tried to trade Perettis this spring
as well. You know, the chances I keep getting told
are slim. Is just there's just a fine margin with
what the Astros want in return. So yeah, I mean,
it looks like, unless something happen, we're a week from
opening Day. But this next week, like I said, it
is going to be rosters are going to be changing
here left and right.
Speaker 8: Some guys are going to get cut from teams.
Speaker 12: Some teams are going to get desperate, you know, maybe
somebody needs a center fielder and wants to make a
deal with the Astros, or or maybe the Red Sox say, hey,
we would like Cretis after all, so maybe they can
make a deal. So I was more likely than not,
just because where we're at in the calendar that both
Myers and Fretis are on the opening day roster. But
some things could happen here in the next few days.
They could with other teams that could force the Astros
maybe to make a deal and change their roster up
a little bit as well.
Speaker 2: That again, Brian McTaggart and real quick roster are gonna break.
If we just heard Tag say this, it sounded like
to me he thinks that there could be something happening
the next handful of days. I wonder if that is
something that's on the cusp and that they're waiting to
figure out. Jeremy Pene, you can open up the year
or do you hold back on something like that until
you know exactly.
Speaker 3: When Jeremy pen is coming back. Y very interesting, good
guy has to happen.
Speaker 2: I think Joe a Spotted goes into Dana's office every
day and says, you got to do something.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they've been trying to.
Speaker 2: But Dane also wants to get fair value, and he
knows teams around the other teams know that aren't going
ready to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Back to wrap things up here from Willie's, where Ross
is gonna go.
Speaker 3: Through the menu for you next here on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 2: Ninety Oh, Ross, you got a.
Speaker 3: Little Sunday cream meet a lot of cream gravy on there.
You love that cream, don't you?
Speaker 2: Ross for the real America's cream gravy expert, delicious com bite.
I'm wan with some russ if you better get off
my steak, get off my meat. Congratulations to our winners.
Joe and Trevor are gonna be going to the Rockets game,
unable to all right, you get on emailing them.
Speaker 3: I'll handle this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what you handled the rest show. My
food just got here, all right, So let's talk you
about tomorrow show. We got about two minutes left. We're
gonna hear from Joseph to our tepe because he's gonna
talk about the Cougar's big win against Idaho tonight.
Speaker 3: Yes, we'll join Hi from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: We're gonna I'm gonna schedule Ima Doka for a few
minutes tomorrow as well'd be fine. How many double team
questions had he taken that pregame of ail yesterday press conference?
You know what, I respect the hell of him because
he answer, he answers him.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk to him tomorrow on the show.
Speaker 2: And then uh wex is gonna ho is gonna go
against Jonathan?
Speaker 3: Yes on the Fantasy five.
Speaker 2: Yes, Master's Meal appetizer with the Master's theme, Oh for
sure on seven. Two entrees, a side and a dessert
and you can go and Jonathan just let you know
you can go in any order you want to.
Speaker 3: Oh that's smart.
Speaker 2: Well would you Mine would be banana cream for dessert,
French onion soup. What I got here? I got chicken,
fried steak man, French French onion soup, ribbi uh huh.
Speaker 3: Shrimp scamping. We'll sit down from Texas.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd probably get some brisket, maybe some enchiladas,
maybe some Tomali something like that.
Speaker 3: Show some some Texas Flare with.
Speaker 2: Some French onion soup, Ribbi Shrimp Scampion with some sweet tea.
Speaker 3: Side would be hash brown potatoes, the shredded.
Speaker 2: Ones uh huh, and dessert would be the uh banana
cream pie.
Speaker 3: And on that note, I go with pecan pie for dessert.
Speaker 2: You know I'm from Texas. I went four hours today
with Ross, mister Texas saying good dallies.
Speaker 3: Hey, I shut jump off messages up.
Speaker 2: He's getting boothed from the Gallery. Day team is next
out seventh Idy