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Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Speaker 2: One ain't down. Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday

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edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Today, I'm

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coming to you from Charlotte, North Carolina. Ross is back

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in our Houston studios. Ross, I miss you. So we've

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spent a lot of time with each other in the

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last four I think that's a lie. I think you're fine.

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But that's okay, Matt. I will say I did not

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sleep on the pull up couch bed. Thank you. You

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know I'm I'm taller and wider man. I needed the bed.

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That's true. That's true, that's true. I will say this.

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It was an interesting day for me yesterday because we

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finished the show and then we drove down to Fort

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Laardo to catch our respective flight. You flew back to Houston.

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I flew here to Charlotte, and uh leavele us to

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say the airfares between Fort Auderdelle and Charlotte are very expensive.

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Exactly one airline that actually did okay. I will give

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props and I will actually not rhyme them. Spirit you

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did well yesterday. We left on time, the seat was nice,

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the people were nice. I got huge I did buy

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the first class version of Spirit, so they gave us

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free snacks. It was kind of nice. Wow, first class Spirit. Huh.

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There is such a thing that's like the VIP booth

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at Golden Corral. It's kind of that way. I got

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free and I can get it free you. But internet

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was included. King size bags of M and M's were

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part of the package as well. For free. Well, I

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mean not for free year. I mean I was paying

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a higher fare, but point, you know what I mean. Included. Yeah, okay,

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I included for sure. The thing I forgot and I

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didn't realize was that you left at one time and

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I left five and a half hours after. I didn't

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leave the Fort Attadella Airport until our flight was at

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nine fifty six. Yeah, what did you do? Did you

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go and collect those cards for quarters? I walked the

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entire terminal four. I got ten thousand steps in. I

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was pretty happy with that. Oh that's great because we've

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been eating kind of poorly. Oh there, I mean, when

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you're on vacation, these things happen, not vacation. It was

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a work work trip. We don't work trips. These things happen,

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but you're not running home and opening up a TV dinner.

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You're you're eating dinner and you know, people take you

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out and what that kind of thing. So Neil say,

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I know the Fort Autodelle Airport intimately okay, and everything

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was good. Terminal four for life. That's very terminal four

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for life, but yeah, a good trip. We hope that

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you appreciate it, and we certainly enjoyed our bringing up

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our spring training coverage to you. And when now we

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are back in the regular mode of a radio show. Now,

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we will have some spring training games coming up next week,

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which will shorten up our shows a couple of days

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next week. We're doing that for the next handful of weeks,

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but we kind of need it, and we're gonna get

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to something today on the radio show Ross.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know what rhetoric is, right, I mean, anybody, I think,

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generally speaking, knows what it is. Yes about rhetoric for

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four hours a day on this show. Yeah, I mean,

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we could be the Mad Tom Show, a Ross talk show,

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but it's really the Matt Thomas Show with Ross rhetoric.

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We're already starting to see it. You know, the Players

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Association hire their new union chief yesterday. The interim guy

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was or the number two, guy behind Tony Clark, who

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apparently does not have salacious relationships with his sister in law,

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got the bump up that we know of so far

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that we know of these union chiefs. We've got football

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and basket and baseball not behaving themselves. So it's not

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in the ordinary. But the reality is we're going to

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start to see a lot of rhetoric coming in, especially

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with this union chief going to start visiting all the

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thirty different major Baseball teams. Rossie, I I was teasing you,

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and you're actually teasing some people down in West Palm Beach.

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I said, we'll see all in two years, and they

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did a double take. It sounds every bit as ugly

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as I think it's going to be. They have a

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baseball union, Rossie, that is not at this point. Granted

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we're February nineteenth, twenty twenty eighth to six. Certainly things

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could change a year from now. But when you bring

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up the word salary cap, they're like, not only no,

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but a hell no, it's it's going to be interesting.

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And you've had comments from yeah, the players and are

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you are you referencing I saw Chris Bassett had some

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basket Yeah, Okay, yeah, it's it's gonna get ugly, But

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is it good that it's getting ugly? Now you can

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kind of get it all out of the way, because look,

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and I was talking about this with you. I mean

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I can't remember off air. On air, It's like like,

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spell this out for me. Everybody says lockouts coming, lockouts coming,

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lockouts coming. If everybody knows that, and we are months

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and months and months out, and we also know that

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baseball isn't going away, major League Baseball isn't going to

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fold up shop. So there's going to be an agreement somewhere.

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When do we start inching towards that agreement? Oh, when

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games are missed, games are missed, and that they're gonna

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just kind of dig in their heels and cost the

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owner's revenues. When people lose their jobs, that's stadium employees,

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that's players not getting checks, that's not money coming in

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from ticket sales and endorsement deals. And you know the

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network's aren't going to pay for you can't. You know

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they have burn new TV deals for the next couple

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of years. They're not going to pay for non games.

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I mean it has to hurt the wallet and until

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the wallet gets hurt, We're not going to see anybody

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make any sort of substantial movement. What we're going to

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see is we're going to see, as I said about

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two minutes ago, ROSSI, rhetoric. Rhetoric. Now here's winning in

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the court of public opinion. Yes, now here's the hardest

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part about us as fans, and I'll put us as

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fans forget about media on this. I mean, I've dealt

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with this all of my broadcast life about labor strife.

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I mean we've I've talked about it way too much

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that I never thought I would. But it is what it is.

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So we're all labor. Right, You are labor, I'm labor.

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We do not own the radio station. We are not

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senior management, We have no ownership stake in it. We

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are simply employees. So in theory, you would think, generally speaking,

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the average person is going to be like, you know what,

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get ticket for the man. You know, if not for us,

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there is no sports talk seven hounty, if there is

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no your on an hour is playing, there is no

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stadiums being full, there are no television deals, there are

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no competitives. So it's easy to go on the labor side.

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But the reality is in this is you just said

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a minute ago, this will get resolved. It may be

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way too longer than we want it to be, but

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it's going to get resolved. How painful it gets, we

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won't know. We saw ninety four season go away. That's

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how painful it got. And that was tough, Ross because

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you were a kid when it's happened. But man, it

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took a long time. Didn't didn't mean we went away forever,

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but it took a long time to get people back.

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But as I'm saying all this, even though we are

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labor and ninety nine percent of the people that are

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listening to our show are labor, you have to think

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of it from the owner's side of things, because they

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do ultimately control the business. And if they don't get

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what they want now it does take some push and

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a give and take on both sides. But if they

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don't get what they want, and I feel like they absolutely,

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without any doubt in my mind, they want a salary cap.

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If we don't get some sort of salary cap and

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or floor, we're never playing baseball again, I should say

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never playing it, but is what we played again? Until

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there is a reworking of the labor negotiations between They're

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not gonna go stand still. They're not gonna not have

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a salary cap. They're not gonna have a salary floor

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because the owners want to protect themselves and they want

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to say, we're going to cap how much we are

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giving the athletes. You and I are going of talking

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the drive from or from West Palm to Fort Laradell.

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Your gut says salary cap, but not a hard cap. Yeah,

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my gut feeling would be salary cap, but with luxury

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text where teams can you are still going to have

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has and have not and of course a salary salary floor.

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The interesting thing to me is, though, is that haven't

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the players come to the owners saying to open up

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their books and doesn't the NBA and the NFL, this

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is maybe above our heads, Matt. The NFL and the NBA,

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they their salary cap is percentage of revenues. That is correct,

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a certain amount of money that is generated by the NFL.

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I know this for sure, and I'm surely like fifty

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nine and it's definitely it's definitely a percentage of revenue

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with the NBA as well. So there there has to

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be opening up books to say, how so money is

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coming in now. I don't believe Major League Baseball does

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that because every individual team has different money. The number

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one thing, and I was looking at this because I

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like and I had five and a half hours at

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Fort Lauderdella Airport yesterday. Oh nice. The number one thing that, frankly,

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the two things I should say that separates the NFL

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from the other two leagues. One, it's insanely more popular,

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so you are dealing from a strength of we are

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making more money than anybody else. But number two, and

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it's the one thing that was talked about. I think

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I'm multiple different things I was reading yesterday. They all

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share the same television dollars. That in itself allows Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Carolina,

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where I am the smaller market teams to be able

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to get to a situation where they are sharing the

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biggest chunk of money, and that's the television deals. Now,

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I don't know if the television money I know for

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a fact it's not as big as it is in baseball,

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as it isn't football because football is creating new packages

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every single year. But that to me has been the storyline.

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The more you can share, the better off the owners

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will be because the Dodgers don't. The Marlins and the

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if you can't get on the same page when it

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comes to how you split up the proceeds, I don't

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know how you're going to be able to collectively come

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together and convince the union the players that they're working

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together as one when they don't have equal footing on

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the most important thing, at least from the NFL perspective,

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and that is they make a crap ton of money

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and it's equally distributed on the television deal among the

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thirty two NFL teams. Yeah, this is going to be

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interesting because there are so many angles to this with

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the way I mean, it's it's just unfeasible the way

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the economics are in baseball right now, especially the Dodgers

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and what they're able to do, and then everyone else.

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The players sound like they're going to fight this salary

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cap tooth and nail. And historically, we know, Matt, it's

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been the strongest major players union in sports. Yeah, creative

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for agency to be in with back in the seventies.

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It has withstood a salary cap. There are the luxury

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tax tax thresholds, but moment ross And again, I don't

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want to spend four hours on this, but it's certainly

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very important to me because we are in the Baseball

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is enjoying fantastic growth. It has a new television deal,

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it has full stadiums, The marketing of the sport has

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gotten better. The games, I mean, you you had Toronto

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in the Los Angeles Dodgers playing a Game seven of

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the World Series, and you had two countries losing their

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mind over it. That was tremendous buzz and tremendous postseason.

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You've got expanded games, You've got international games you're playing.

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I mean, their Major League Baseball is going to be

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never going to be the NFL. But it's getting damn close.

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Well a game, it's getting closer, and a workstop w

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just can stop that in a millisecond. And I'm afraid

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it's going to happen and it's going to be ugly.

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And the thing of it is, Rossie, We've been talking

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about this for two years now, and and also we

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talk about how long it took people to get come

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back in nineteen ninety four, when I mean people had

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cable but for the most part, I mean there were

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four what four broadcast networks yep. Now, I mean you

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get one bad season of some show you love and

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you move on and you and I'm not saying us

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we're dying. We're diehards. Diehards aren't going anywhere, and that's great.

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But we know that they want that they want the

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casuals and they want to pick up new fans. So

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an extent, almost irreparable damage was done with the ninety

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four stoppage, What if you do it in twenty twenty

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six and there's a thousand streaming options and there's a

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thousand other things to focus your time on. It took basically, again,

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there's no definitive word on this. It took. It took

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baseball four years to get over it, and it also

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took the fact that Samuy's a couple of juicing guys

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going from all time records saving saving the sport. I

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think you're right. I mean, I think I'll be finding

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I think people will find things on Netflix and Apple

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TV and other things and and they will spend other

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time watching different stuff. Aaron Judge was with chasing Roger

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Merris a couple of years ago. That wasn't what would

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you even call it? A tenth of the story that

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Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire were not even because every

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single night, every sports cast, every newscast, every time you

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put ESPN on the Sports center, they were going live

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to they were Rossie, they were doing batting practice, live

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reports from every stadium. Those two guys were going to

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They're not gonna I guarantee, these TV networks and these

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stations are not going to use time to do that. Yeah,

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Aaron Judge got a lot of coverage for sure, Like

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they were doing the live look ins and like coming

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up as Aaron Judge and was on MLB Network, but

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not ABC and not you know, it's yeah, it's interesting.

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Got you guys in a good mood today. I'm happy

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about that. Very interesting. Rockets hornets tonight here in Charlotte.

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Your favorite referee will be the crew chief in that game.

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I don't know if that makes anything difference to you,

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do you know, Zach Sarba, No, it's gonna be Scott

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throw to your buddy. It's not my buddy, but for

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the sake of the show, Uh, ROSSI do who Darren

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Peterson is? Yes, we're gonna talk about him today, Okay,

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because I'm confused about this whole thing. But yeah, okay,

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I want to get to that because I'm gonna give

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you the name Darren Peterson. He plays for Kansas. He'd

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be the reason why I would never want to be

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a general manager in the NBA, and I'll explain that

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coming up on the show today. Plus, speaking more business sense, ROSSI,

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we are getting one step closer from the Chicago Bears

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to the Northwest Indiana Bears. Oh, they're gonna change names. No,

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but they're gonna be changing states because Indiana's like one.

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We'll give you to you whatever you want. That's why

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we gotta be thinking about the Bridgeland Texans or the

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Waller County Texans. You never know. Ten fifteen of The

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Anything is fair game today. As we did not take

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a lot of phone calls the last ample days because

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we did have a lot of Astros chatter. But if

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you want to get in on the astros, certainly the

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Rockets against the Hornets, I don't know was h I

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saw the reports on Twitter about Kevin Durant's denials last

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non denial of the whole burner thing. It feels like

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to me it's more social media driven. I have not

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seen any players yet here. I don't I don't think

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they were throwing hands when I got when they got

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to the hotel last night, so I think that they're

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moving on from that. But certainly it's something that has

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been at least talked about on the young kids social

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media streets. We'll get to that. We mentioned Chris Barrett

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from the player perspective of what's going to happen with baseball,

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and uh, when are we going to stop talking about

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c J. Straub being traded? Ross? That's what I want

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to know from you. I don't think we started well,

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but whoever started that she should apologize And is it

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Makeshaye that those as an apology? I think? So we'll

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get to all that. Seven one, three, two five seven

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ninety Matten Ross with you here. This is Sports Talk

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seven ninety Matten Ross with you. Sports Talk seven ninety.

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We are with you today until two o'clock. Rossie, we

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have not done shut your bum mass up this week.

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We'll do that at eleven thirty today. All right, can't wait.

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I told somebody yesterday in Fort Lauderdale politely to shut

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his bomb ass up. I forgot about that. Now I

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had a pleasant interaction with this person. Now we can tell.

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We're gonna talk about this at eleven thirty. No question, Okay,

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I will just say I wasn't there and I had

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a pleasant interaction with the person who was very polite.

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You asked him one question, yes, No, I asked him

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two questions. You didn't have a dialogue? No, we kind

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of did. I asked him two questions. What was your

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second question? I asked him where the bathroom was and

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he's like, oh, it's outside. And I said, hey, do

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I need a key or anything? He's like not, should

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be fine. Thanks. He was very polite. Yeah. I will

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just say this person swore at me and I did

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not swear at him. Eh. Okay, you know what, Yeah,

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we'll get more into this in an hour. We'll break

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this down now was I sarcastic? Yes, yeah, you're acting

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like you know, you're acting like you had a little

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halo on your head and you you went in there

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hat in hand and then walked out and got cussed at. Yeah.

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But the best part was he couldn't win because he

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started calling me names and I just didn't say anything

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back to him. That's the worst part. Like, if you

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start cussing at somebody, you expect them to cush you back.

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I just nod in my head him. I said, you know, now, okay,

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I we'll say more a bit. But if you want

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to hear Matt's gas gas station story at eleven thirty,

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you need to listen to that's here on Sports Talk seven.

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We need to listen to the entire four hours. I mean,

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we'd like to walk the ten o'clock is still around.

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Just wanted to double check. Yeah, we're good. I mean,

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we're back. Maybe we're in spring training mode and people

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are expecting us to have a bunch of interviews and

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play some audio, but we're here for you folks. Yeah,

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I think there were phone issues in the last couple

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of days. Oh really, shock you. I know you mean,

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our parent company still continues to use internet if only

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phones and we it's not gonna stop. Yeah yeah, all right. So,

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uh if you'd like to call in against seven one

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three two one two uh five test lines, Yeah we did.

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We did a line toen you do it at ten o'clock.

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Line tester, are do our does our multi billion down

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our company have phone lines at work in Houston, Texas?

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Seventy one three two one two five seven All right,

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So let me give you this little knunder about this

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basketball player. Now again. I look, if it ain't Houston sports,

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and even sometimes in Houston sports, we don't particularly care.

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But I want to give you this. This a kid

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by the name of Darren Patterson. He is uh expected

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by some to be the number one overall picking this

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NBA draft coming up. He's number one in the latest

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ESPN Uh yes, I saw uh. He is insanely talented,

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but he just there's one problem with his life. He

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doesn't necessarily play a lot. He's missed a bunch of

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games with a variety of ailments, some physical, well I

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mean all physical, but you know, some like bones, legs,

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and some of it was I'm not feeling well. So

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here is a guy that has been playing for this

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national championship contending team in the Kansas Jayhawks. Last night

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they played a game at Oklahoma State. He scored twenty

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three points in eighteen minutes. That's pretty good, right ra awesome,

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that's pretty good ratio, right points. It's amazing. He took

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himself out of the game because he said he had cramps.

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He misses a lot of time. He doesn't play thirty

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minutes almost ever. And if you just did a little

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bit of a wiki search on him, or just Google

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search Darren Peterson, you're going to find that he is

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the anti cal Ripkin. He is the anti I will go, well,

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we'll use the local angle this. He's the anti Kevin Durant.

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Kevin Durant, thirty seven years yars old play is the

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third highest minutes guy in the NBA. Number two is

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the Men Thompson. So I mean, you could use aim

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Men Thompson or Kevin Durant as your standard, and you're

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gonna tell me for a guy who has barely played

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this year for a variety of ailments including cramps and

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not feeling good, that I'm going to invest millions and

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millions and millions of dollars into this guy. To be

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the number one pick in my draft when the draft

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apparently this year in the NBA is supposed to be awesome.

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Ross if this guy, and again I don't know much

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of him, mix up what I see in the highlights

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and Sports Center and obviously his delf. The coach at

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Kansas yesterday said, yeah, we would have liked to have

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gotten more out of him. He would fly out, just

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said it. We were kind of surprised when he called

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his name and said I gotta go to the bench.

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He was cramping up. How are you supposed to build

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a franchise around a guy that just doesn't have any

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sort of endurance. Maybe because he's nineteen years old and

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he can improve, But if he's pulling this at nineteen

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making whatever he's making a Kansas, how the hell is

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he gonna be a twenty three when all that money

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is guaranteed. I don't know the makeup of the young man.

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So I feel like if if I made a judgment

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on that, I'm gonna make a judge. Okay, good, he

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does no chance know how He's never going to make

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an All Star team. He's not going to the Hall

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of Fame. He's going to be a bust of a

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big He's the worst. You know, No, he's the worst

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player I've ever seen. Any franchise who invests in Darren

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Peterson is making a massive mistake. I'm put my name

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on it. This would be a terrible pick. Why would

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you pick Darren Peterson cramping in his legs? How weak

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is that? He's the worst? Spicy? Yeah, let's go with that.

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I'm sure I wasn't expecting that. But it's a concern.

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Self tells reporters. I thought we were past it, but

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obviously we're not. It's certainly a concern. Yeah, look, it's

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doesn't sound great. Obviously. I don't recall any any other

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recent high level college player continuing to pull themselves out

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of games with cramps or having some kind of flu issue.

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I believe. I believe he called out of a game.

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We could say he had a running nose. Oh really, yeah,

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or quote unquote fool wants to be at one hundred

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percent and also maybe he wants to preserve himself for

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that draft cash. You know what. He kind of reminds

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me of And I saw this first hand many years ago,

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and I think you were making fun of me at

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the time, But I think I'm right now, Well, tekas

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Ben Simmons, I told you when I called a Ben

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Simmons LSU game he didn't love basketball. I didn't make

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funny you about that, so somebody else did. Schmish morty, Oh,

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smish boy, that's right, smish morning. You can never take

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any shots to LSU players because you're just wrong. I

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don't think Darren Patterson loves basketball. Peterson, excuse me, okay.

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And if you're doing load management when you're a freshman

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at nineteen, it's not gonna get any better because guess

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what they're going to do. They're going to give you

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better nutrition, They're going to give you better hydration. You're

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gonna have no more excuses and no, by the way,

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be paid five six million dollars a year and more

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than as your NBA career moves along. The reason why

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I brought this up is like, if you're a general manager,

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it's ten plus million for a first pick. Yeah, and

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your job is incumbent and successful. I'm building players due

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to draft. How do you take this cat when he

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doesn't love to play? You investigate more. I mean, he

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could have legitimately had a flu in the cramps. I

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don't know, And I said, it's rare. This is the

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first time we've been doing the show. How long that

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sixteen years? Have we ever talked about a college foot

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about basketball player for the lottery pick pulling himself out

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of games with cramps? No, So I'm definitely cognizant of

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the fact that this seems like a rare case. Or

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maybe maybe he doesn't like best Getball, but I don't know.

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He also, to your point, he also could be saving himself.

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He's like, man, why am I wasting my energy at Kansas?

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I'm gonna be out of here anyway. I don't know.

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I just I don't think it's good for college athletics.

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I don't think it's good for this guy, and I

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don't think it's a great way to promote. You're Hey,

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we're taking Darren Patrick Peterson with everyone picking the draft. Oh,

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tell us about his college career. Well, you know, he

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played four games and then he played and then he

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got a high water mark for twenty two minutes. Let's

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get Let's get him some pickle juice. Let's go. Is

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that what we're gonna do? Yeah, let's get him some

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better hydration. That's what I'm saying drink more water. It's

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just it feels like this is a disaster into making it.

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I would monitor the situation. I'm just me personally. I'm

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not gonna jump jump to conclusions too much because I mean,

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I've heard of the guy, but I don't know. It

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doesn't sound good, and Bill self doesn't sound happy. Bill

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00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:51,799
Self's dealt with a lot of top lottery pick he

471
00:25:51,839 --> 00:25:54,920
certainly has. Yeah, I just thought it was just a

472
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,720
really odd way for this guy was crushing it and

473
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,440
all of a sudden he's cramping up. He's like twenty

474
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,440
three point did he hit his over? Oh no, wait

475
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,279
a minute, wait just a minute, asking now, you're they

476
00:26:08,319 --> 00:26:10,839
got bad? You just gave him a gambling aspect to it.

477
00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:13,119
I just asked if he hitded over. I just asked

478
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,920
a question. All right, Thanks for that. Ross. Now we're

479
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,359
now we're getting him sponsored by a betting service. UH

480
00:26:20,519 --> 00:26:22,559
ten thirty one on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

481
00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:24,240
If you'd like to say hello, we are here for

482
00:26:24,279 --> 00:26:26,720
you today at seven one three two one two five

483
00:26:26,839 --> 00:26:30,759
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven.

484
00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:34,319
Nintie Ross and I have been separated for what how

485
00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:37,359
many hours? Have been separated. Now, uh, seventeen hours and

486
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,519
something like that. We should discuss our takeaways from Astro

487
00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:46,880
spring training camp. Came back matt in Ross with you

488
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,279
onto this Thursday. I'm here in Charlotte for Rockets against

489
00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:54,359
the Hornets. You see, Lam mellow axe Ball got an

490
00:26:54,359 --> 00:27:00,960
accident yesterday hearing downtown Charlotte. Somebody hit him. I did

491
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,799
see that. I saw the video too. He's okay, that's good.

492
00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:07,880
I think he get he got in from he got

493
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,119
into an accident in a high end sports car and

494
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:15,599
then somebody picked him up in another high end sports car. Uh,

495
00:27:15,799 --> 00:27:18,599
it looks like a it's like a hummer or something.

496
00:27:19,519 --> 00:27:21,599
Wasn't like an eighty wasn't like an eighty nine ship

497
00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:24,960
ad or anything like that. Yeah, he yeah, apparently he accidentally,

498
00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:31,000
Yeah he went. Yeah, he went in the middle of

499
00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:37,000
the lane or he swerved. He's okay, though he'll be

500
00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:41,880
playing tonight. Meanwhile, Miles Bridges and Mussa dia Bata will

501
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,039
not be playing. They were busy throwing hands against the

502
00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:47,200
Detroit Pistons that are serving a suspension. Okay, that's good.

503
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,880
Good for the Rockets. I don't think it's terrible. Put

504
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,599
it that way. Rockets at thirty three and twenty. The

505
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,839
Hornets are at twenty six and twenty nine. The Hornets

506
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,799
have won nine of ten before the All Star break.

507
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,000
All right, seven one three two one two seven ninety

508
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seven one three two one two five seven nine zero

509
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,000
The launch pad the night starts at five o'clock. Yes,

510
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,480
tip time at six, and you'll be hosting the Rockets

511
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,359
trap calling show after the game, after the Rockets get

512
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,119
the victory and cover the four and a half versus

513
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,559
the Hornet. You heard it here first. Oh yeah, by

514
00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:20,599
the way, did you see that. I got a couple

515
00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:22,799
of my picks right like yesterday, not every one of them.

516
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,839
I saw people giving you credit for the Yukon one,

517
00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:27,920
and I thought I brought that one up. No, I'm

518
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,599
giving you credit for that. Okay, I'm definitely called the

519
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,559
Creighton upset. I was like, wait a second, our voices

520
00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:39,559
sound similar. No, they don't. They were like twin brothers exactly.

521
00:28:40,559 --> 00:28:44,519
I did have Kansas at Oklahoma State, which did cowering,

522
00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:47,319
and this is my favorite one, the one I did

523
00:28:47,319 --> 00:28:51,559
not get right, You're so close, so close. I did

524
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:56,240
have USC at home getting points against Illinois and Ross.

525
00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:57,599
You have a final score in front of you. I

526
00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:01,160
don't have it. What one do? Sixty five? Yeah, it

527
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,240
didn't work out. Well, that's okay. Collectively we went two

528
00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:06,960
and one, two win one on the locks of the week.

529
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,960
That's a winning week match you. I got inside the information.

530
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,759
I didn't sell the information that Kansas head about Kansas

531
00:29:13,799 --> 00:29:18,519
and Kansas even know about it. What a scam? Okay?

532
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,799
All right, so you and I have not spoken since

533
00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:22,880
we set our fond farewells. You got on our flight

534
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,440
a flat at a normal time. I had to wait

535
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:25,960
five hours. But it's on her here nor there. I

536
00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:28,319
mean mine was delayed a little bit. I was fly

537
00:29:28,359 --> 00:29:30,680
by way nice and smooth. Well, there was an old

538
00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,359
lady with a hacking cough sitting next to me. First

539
00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:36,880
of all, she was in the middle. Okay, now, she

540
00:29:37,039 --> 00:29:41,759
just she was confused. I think she she got a

541
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:43,440
middle seat. And then I was like, hey, can I

542
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,119
get by you into the my window? And then she

543
00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:47,880
moved to the window seat to try to give me

544
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,480
the middle seat. Oh how nice was that? How courteous

545
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,359
of you to do that? No, no, no, no, I was like, no,

546
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:58,839
that's my seat. That's funny. I was like, no, I

547
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,640
like the window. I'm a bigger guy. I like to

548
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,559
be you know, I don't like to be in the

549
00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:05,160
aisle and I don't like to be in the middle.

550
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,680
I like to be in the in the window. And

551
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,400
then she want a place to rest your head. And

552
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,680
then she was hacking coughing, which was fun. But eventually

553
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,759
she did put her mask on so and went to sleep.

554
00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:19,279
So that was good. Okay. Other than that, flight was pleasant. Okay.

555
00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:23,799
So any takeaways that you and I you and I

556
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,680
not organically organic conversation coming up, Any takeaways you would

557
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,680
like to let the audience know about our three days

558
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,480
down there in West Palm Beach. It just feels like,

559
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,119
and I know a lot of Astros fans still can't

560
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,440
wrap their head around the biggest takeaway is that this

561
00:30:39,519 --> 00:30:43,319
infield logjam is not going to be a problem deep

562
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,200
into the season. It just feels like something's going to

563
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,559
get happened. Is going to happen. As far as a

564
00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:53,599
possible trade, I'm feeling pretty Maybe it's just because he

565
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,920
was so nice and pleasant, Like I'm buying stock on

566
00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:59,880
Zach Cole, I'm buying stock on Christian Walker. Oh I

567
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:01,720
being biased? These are all guys we interviewed, and I'm

568
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:09,200
buying stock on Spencer Aragheddi. What's up. I'm not saying

569
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,160
I'm gonna hit on all of them. Yeah. The thing

570
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,279
that kind of threw me off a little bit was

571
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:21,640
Dana yesterday on the show discussing that the corner outfield

572
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,960
guys are not guaranteed to make the roster coming out

573
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,960
of a spring turn. He said, well, we hope they

574
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,119
make the team. Was something he said something basically to

575
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,599
that effect, Yeah, which I'm with you. It was an

576
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,920
eyebrow raiser for me as well. It wasn't like I

577
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,200
was startled by a bet. It was, Oh, we're looking

578
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,359
forward to giving these guys every opportunity to be major

579
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,200
league stars, but we've given them faith and we're ready

580
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,720
to do this. It's something to me that, Yeah, I'm

581
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,680
still waiting for the phone call to come in that's

582
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,720
gonna give me the best deal for Eastside that's going

583
00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:51,119
to include an everyday corner outfielder. And one more thing,

584
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,200
I'm feeling better about my chips and Queso bet about

585
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,799
lower Feedo taking an A B with the the All

586
00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:02,480
Star Space Cowboys. Yeah, I think you're right about that,

587
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,599
because I mean, he when he went to Toronto a

588
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,880
year and a half ago that he didn't wasn't given

589
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,440
a whole lot of length to me. He'd have many

590
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,240
how money at bats he did have last year, not

591
00:32:14,319 --> 00:32:16,599
very many. I think it was around one hundred plate

592
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,039
appearances or something like that taking but I wasn't. Kurt.

593
00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:22,160
We had him on and he talked about how he'd

594
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,039
kind of he had been changing some things in his

595
00:32:24,079 --> 00:32:26,359
setup that were really working for him to Toronto and

596
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,920
he's trying to replicate that here in Houston. So he's

597
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,839
he's not a spring chicken. He'll be twenty seven and

598
00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:37,240
on May eleventh. But that that's what the Astros looking

599
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:38,759
for because they don't have a lot of If you

600
00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:42,039
don't have top hundred prospects, Matt, you're looking for late bloomers.

601
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:45,279
So that's what you gotta do. Yeah, I will just

602
00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:48,960
say that Lopermania will get under way fairly soon. The

603
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,039
first time that Cam Smith goes oh for four oh,

604
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,519
Zach Cole strikes out with the bases loaded. Yeah, you

605
00:32:55,559 --> 00:32:57,599
know what, we should try to do that at some point,

606
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,559
predict the storylines because you in years past we've had

607
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,400
Dubond needs to play every day. Right, we've had low

608
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,680
Prafeto needs to play every day, Chas McCormick is being

609
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,359
held back by Dusty Baker. But we we should do

610
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,160
a predict the storylines. Okay, we can think about this

611
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,759
for a minute. So let's do this coming back. What

612
00:33:16,799 --> 00:33:18,240
are we gonna be? Why don't we trying to come

613
00:33:18,319 --> 00:33:24,119
up with three preposterous storylines? Okay that astro fans and

614
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,319
maybe even even will expand it to astros Twitter is

615
00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:29,880
losing their mind. You're gonna glom onto. Yeah, okay, yeah,

616
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,359
three preposterous storyline, not preposteros three. That's a better phrasing

617
00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:39,799
of that. Why isn't this happening? Gotta happen? Kind of storyline?

618
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Ten forty four The Matt Thomas Shold Ross seven to

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one three two one two five seven ninety seven ninety

620
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Matt and Ross with you here. I'm here in Charlotte

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Brockets and Hornets. Tonight we'll have it for you beginning

622
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,680
at five o'clock with the launch pad at six o'clock

623
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tip time here on Sports Talk seven ninety All right,

624
00:33:58,359 --> 00:34:02,799
so let's do this. If Lop low Berffedo is the

625
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:07,519
number one, how we want to describe this not the

626
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,119
astros hot early hot takes. You want to go with

627
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:15,920
something like that, Yes, uh, Astros Twitter Twitter hot takes,

628
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:21,599
Twitter takes, Astro Twitter takes, what future Astro twitter takes?

629
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:26,400
How Like, Okay, I'm having a hard time with three,

630
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,280
but I have one right off the top. Well, there's

631
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,599
one that's a staple of every single year and is

632
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:36,679
low hanging fruit. Go ahead, Joe a spotted screwing up

633
00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:42,679
this game. Oh yeah, that but that's not is that

634
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,519
like on the the full time menu and we're going

635
00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:47,239
we're looking for the rotating menu. Yeah, we're looking for

636
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,280
like the Mahi mahi of the Astros Twitter hot takes. Yeah,

637
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,559
because that's a staple. Well, you know what it could be.

638
00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:55,840
It could be the MiG rib of hot takes. It's

639
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,719
not the full time menu, but it's always around three.

640
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,079
It's like the tour of Italy at Olive Garden. It

641
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,039
just it's gonna be around. It's not going anywhere. So

642
00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:06,400
here's the first thing I thought of, Time to bench

643
00:35:06,519 --> 00:35:12,679
Christian Walker. Oh yeah, why is an estad paradeus playing

644
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,239
over Christian Walker? Yep, that's that's one. That's that's any Honestly,

645
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,760
it hurts. It hurts me to hear that Christian was

646
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,679
so nice. Let me tell you something. If we could

647
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,000
root for players which we differently, which I do se

648
00:35:26,079 --> 00:35:28,280
we root for anybody weren't an Aster uniform. But yeah,

649
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,639
I'm not especially root harder for him. I'm gonna I'm

650
00:35:30,679 --> 00:35:33,199
not gonna get pomp poms out, but I'm wishing you

651
00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:37,400
can wish them the best for sure. For sure, if

652
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,000
some guys in a hole and doesn't want to speak

653
00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:41,000
to us, I don't always wish him the best. Yeah,

654
00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:44,079
you know if he breaks in armaments and a bass.

655
00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:49,119
I mean, we're not biased that way or anything. We

656
00:35:49,159 --> 00:35:51,280
would never hold grudges on this show. Oh are you

657
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,039
kidding me? Chance? Okay, so I gave you one. You

658
00:35:55,079 --> 00:35:59,360
have one that you thought of. Uh, well, that's a

659
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,239
good one that you and we're gonna go with low

660
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,400
Berfdo you said as a staple, that's kind of a

661
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,320
staple that's on the full time menu. Okay, I'm gonna

662
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,960
go with Esak Pratis needs to be playing over Carlos

663
00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:15,400
Coorea if he struggles at the plate. Oh, that's the

664
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:21,440
natural spot. I'm gonna give you one. But it's this

665
00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:23,480
is also more the tour of Italy. This is on

666
00:36:23,519 --> 00:36:26,960
the one that's always there. Why doesn't Jim Crane spend

667
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,440
more money? Oh yeah, that's definitely. I mean, that's think

668
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,679
that's that's special for twenty twenty six. Sadly, how about

669
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,000
this is too much of a staple. Lance mcculors needs

670
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:46,559
to go to the bullpen? Uh wow? Oh how about

671
00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:48,679
this one. I'm I'm gonna take I'm gonna pivot off

672
00:36:48,679 --> 00:36:51,320
that a little bit. How about it's time to this

673
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,920
is fresh for twenty six. Just pivot, take your loss

674
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,320
and release him. There's no reason why he's taking up

675
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,559
a major league roster spot when there are other guys

676
00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:05,079
at Sugar Lane who are more willing or more deserving

677
00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:06,239
of a shot to get up here on the big

678
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:11,480
league team. That's a good one. I'm trying to think

679
00:37:11,519 --> 00:37:15,480
of who's going to be because normally there's Can there

680
00:37:15,599 --> 00:37:18,360
something something come out of the backup catcher situation, because

681
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,760
that's kind of an underrated topic it is, and it

682
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,599
really wasn't talked a whole lot about it while we

683
00:37:22,639 --> 00:37:25,679
were down there. But there isn't anybody that's asking for

684
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,079
more Sajr Salazar time. You know what I mean if

685
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:30,599
you had. I mean, I don't think even think the

686
00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:33,280
general public he has any idea who Walter Yannick is

687
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,920
nowanic cover they're pronouncing it, you know it, because he

688
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,480
he's he's a little older, and he has not made

689
00:37:40,519 --> 00:37:43,000
a serious I mean, we're not hearing daily updates from him,

690
00:37:43,039 --> 00:37:44,960
either a double A or Triple A. So he hasn't

691
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,519
made double A yet. I don't think there's really nobody

692
00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:49,920
pushing for playing time there. Remember, because way back in

693
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,880
the day, when George Springer was club and home runs

694
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,360
left and right, a certain radio host on the station

695
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,960
would play old timey music and give us updates about

696
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,920
how George Bringer was doing for the Triple A team

697
00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:02,280
and why is he not here and all that kind

698
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,159
of stuff. So I don't know why. Maybe Bryce Matthews.

699
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:09,559
Bryce Matthews could be the guy. Uh, there could be.

700
00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:13,159
I mean, he needs more. Last year it was Doobi's

701
00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:15,719
got to play every year? Every day? Oh gosh, cam

702
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,760
Smith absolutely, without a doubt, must make the twenty twenty

703
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,039
six twenty five roster coming out of spring training. Oh

704
00:38:24,119 --> 00:38:29,360
how about how about Calvin Bigio never got a fair shot? Uh,

705
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,519
there'll be some maybe some fans. Doing that, you're disrespecting

706
00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:36,239
the the legacy of Craig Bichio. Yeah could could could

707
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,480
Cavin not making the twenty six man roster and uh

708
00:38:39,599 --> 00:38:41,679
hurt their relationship between Craig Bigio and the team he

709
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:47,320
only played for. Yeah, that doesn't feel like hsizzle to

710
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,599
it on there. We don't you know what we really don't.

711
00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:53,039
We have low Berfido and we have the infield mess

712
00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:55,559
until it gets resolved. Because anybody that doesn't perform in

713
00:38:55,559 --> 00:38:58,400
an infield is I mean now again, I you could

714
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,360
actually you could out go with you know, maybe he

715
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,199
does yournin want to play more left field, but no

716
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,519
one's asking for that. It's not like you're you're he

717
00:39:05,559 --> 00:39:08,039
has this. He is a defensive gem and that the

718
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,559
Astros are precluding him from doing what he does best

719
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:12,320
because the thing he does best is hit the baseball.

720
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,440
He's an he's a decent enough fielder, but he's not

721
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,119
gonna ever threaten for a Gold Globe award. Hmmm. Maybe

722
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,440
maybe ross Woop turned the corner. Maybe we're gonna live.

723
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,280
We're gonna live on little Berffito time the entire season. Uh,

724
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,519
how about if if Brian a braid he blows the

725
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:37,519
save early on. Oh, he just can't do it. He

726
00:39:37,679 --> 00:39:41,079
doesn't have the mental Uh yeah, he just doesn't have

727
00:39:41,079 --> 00:39:42,119
the mental fortitude.

728
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

729
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 2: Yeah. Or like let's say he gets he pictures thirty

730
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:50,079
one pitches. He was great and high leverage last year.

731
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,639
I think he started great ross and he dropped a

732
00:39:56,679 --> 00:40:00,480
good Oh you mean when he was out there for

733
00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:03,880
like eighty games. Well, that's what he's been doing. He's

734
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,679
the work course exactly, don't Let's see. I felt like

735
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,840
to me that September was a labor some month for

736
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:16,079
him in terms of a number of pitches and get

737
00:40:16,079 --> 00:40:17,639
you know, there was a lot of congestion on the

738
00:40:17,639 --> 00:40:19,320
base paths way, but too much for a guy that

739
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,119
you're expecting to be a one, two, three ninth thinning guy.

740
00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:22,599
Because that's what Josh was be where he got hurt

741
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:27,119
save situations two six e er a last year in

742
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:30,559
thirty seven games. Give his log in front of him, yep.

743
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,360
How many pitches was he throwing in September games per rounding?

744
00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 4: Uh?

745
00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:38,039
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I'm sorry you I have his page. I

746
00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:40,400
can pull the game lugs one second. Yeah, that's what

747
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,880
it felt like to me that when Josh was out

748
00:40:44,039 --> 00:40:47,920
that it wasn't the one, two, three eleven pitch inning.

749
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,159
There was guys at first and second. Again, I could

750
00:40:50,159 --> 00:40:53,559
be just mixing my games up here. Uh, going in

751
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:58,599
order from last outings eight twelve eleven. Then there's a

752
00:40:58,639 --> 00:41:02,280
thirty two in there where he got four outs. Yeah,

753
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,960
then twelve eleven that's all good to me. Then a

754
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:08,119
thirty and this is the start of the month, so

755
00:41:08,119 --> 00:41:09,719
maybe you're thinking of the start of the month. Yeah,

756
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,239
maybe thirty and nineteen and a thirty and those were

757
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,840
all one innings. So he did labor for three outings

758
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,800
in the beginning of September, but then he settled eleven

759
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,639
twelve thirty two with four outs, and then eleven twelve

760
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,519
eight last outing he got. Yeah, he got a couple

761
00:41:22,639 --> 00:41:25,440
outs on eight pitches. Okay, you know what I'll take that.

762
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:26,840
I'll be more than happy with that. So, I mean,

763
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:28,719
do I think the Brian brew you can do is

764
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,840
absolutely But it just there were times in September that

765
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,000
I think we were doing post games going, Okay, any

766
00:41:34,039 --> 00:41:37,599
worry is that I'm going to fall off. Let's get

767
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:40,000
the second hour of the Matt Thomas Show with roll started.

768
00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:43,079
We are a half hour away from shut your babass

769
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:45,360
up and ain't nobody got time for that. And I'll

770
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,159
have a story that I'll is funny when I when

771
00:41:49,159 --> 00:41:50,800
I give you my stories, I feel like I'll lose

772
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,519
these stories more times than I wined him. I'm just

773
00:41:53,519 --> 00:41:56,360
going to throw that out there, but I really thinking,

774
00:41:56,559 --> 00:41:59,440
I think yesterday I did nothing wrong. I wasn't there,

775
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,679
so you'll be hearing it. As I gave you my

776
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,480
version of the mouse, I want to hear his version

777
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,480
of the story. No, you don't, cause he's gonna use

778
00:42:06,519 --> 00:42:11,840
swear words and I didn't swear at him. Seven three

779
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,239
two two five seven.

780
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:21,119
Speaker 1: I is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

781
00:42:21,119 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 4: Oh.

782
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,519
Speaker 2: Ross. I just saw the video of La Metal Ball.

783
00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:30,559
He swerved into oncoming traffic. Yikes. Rah, Yeah, it looked

784
00:42:30,559 --> 00:42:35,360
like he was a little distracted and across the median line.

785
00:42:35,519 --> 00:42:38,000
I'm gonna tell you all something, and it's because I

786
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,599
have been guilty of it for I mean, ever since

787
00:42:40,639 --> 00:42:43,280
you and I have worked together. I spent too much

788
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,719
time texting and driving. And it was a terrible, terrible

789
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,280
problem I had for a long period of time, and

790
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,559
I got a lot of close calls over it, and

791
00:42:50,599 --> 00:42:52,960
it was ridiculous and I should have never done it,

792
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,400
So now I voice the text. Yes, that's a game changer. Now.

793
00:42:56,599 --> 00:42:58,440
The only frustrating thing is when they get the wrong

794
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,159
you gotta slow down and make sure you're slow, going

795
00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:02,320
down and enunciating. So what do you have to do?

796
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,760
You have to slow down and then the Siri text

797
00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:10,000
tells me back what she says, and I have to

798
00:43:10,039 --> 00:43:12,400
sometimes do it two or three times, but that's still

799
00:43:12,679 --> 00:43:14,440
better than trying to text and try it at the

800
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,800
same time. Shout out to anybody that does that. And

801
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,800
if you want to send me weird text with illogical

802
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,159
thoughts in it, I'll know that you're driving. Yes, let's

803
00:43:24,159 --> 00:43:26,239
put it that way, all right. Seven to one three

804
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,440
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

805
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,559
one two five seven ninety Kyle sent us a couple

806
00:43:31,599 --> 00:43:34,840
of good ones ROSSI on Astro Twitter storylines, and Justin's

807
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,280
got some on the phones as well. This one, I

808
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,119
don't know if it's going to be one. Why won't

809
00:43:39,159 --> 00:43:43,639
the Astros updates on Renault Blanco and Hayden west Nesky recovery? Yeah,

810
00:43:43,679 --> 00:43:47,159
I don't know if it's top of mind, but they

811
00:43:47,159 --> 00:43:51,719
will probably be. Eh, Yeah, probably fine, the next two.

812
00:43:52,119 --> 00:43:54,320
Why did we get Nick Allen? We love Dubon. He

813
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,280
will go to the Hall of Fame. That Kyle that

814
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,480
that's a banger right there, my friend, you replace Kyle

815
00:44:00,559 --> 00:44:04,280
Allen with with Maurice Jo Duboni. Nick Allen, what are

816
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:09,039
you doing? Masa Dubon was the greatest utility player in

817
00:44:09,079 --> 00:44:11,880
the history of the Astros. Bill Spiers, sorry, but you're out.

818
00:44:12,199 --> 00:44:16,119
It's now Nick Allen's turn or to be the there

819
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,280
Maurica Debon's to be the turn to be the hero.

820
00:44:19,519 --> 00:44:21,480
And then we'll probably get some whis and Zach Cole

821
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:26,559
playing more well. I think you know. My guess is Ross.

822
00:44:26,559 --> 00:44:29,119
If Zach Cole makes a major league roster, he's going

823
00:44:29,159 --> 00:44:31,280
to be the starting left field on opening Day. He's

824
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:36,440
gonna get he's gonna get looks. And again it's it's

825
00:44:36,559 --> 00:44:40,559
just I'll be curious to see the leash for everyone.

826
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:46,760
That's what's important, because I mean, baseball is a game

827
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,880
of it's the it's the long game. You played the

828
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,800
long game in baseball more than any other. Christian Walker

829
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:53,920
was terrible for a couple months and then he was

830
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,559
great for a couple months. We've seen this from you know,

831
00:44:56,679 --> 00:44:59,320
Kyle Tuck, somebody as good as Alex bregmant. If we

832
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,920
only looked at his April and May's a lot of

833
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,239
years here in Houston, we'd be like, why is this

834
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,320
guy out there? We gotta look at the June, July, August, September.

835
00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:09,920
So what if? You know what if Zach cole is

836
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,480
is it gets off to a slow start and he's

837
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:12,840
got to figure some things out, and then all of

838
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,320
a sudden he's he's busted down a triple A. I

839
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,199
don't know, man, it's it's it's tough decisions to be made.

840
00:45:18,599 --> 00:45:23,159
Or how about this any triple A Astro picture crushing

841
00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:30,079
while other guys are failing. Miguelola or a A J

842
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,000
blue Ball if you will. Oh, JP France seems to

843
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:39,280
be a fan favorite. I think it's the stash and

844
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:45,679
the respecs like, okay, here it is. Why are the

845
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:50,480
Astros carrying Lance mc colors when AJ blue Ball? Oh yeah,

846
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,599
Migueliola would be better for this dude. AJ blue Ball

847
00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:55,400
is a good one. He's a good fan favorite too.

848
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:59,480
I love AJ blue Ball. I'm a big blue Ball fan. Yeah,

849
00:45:59,519 --> 00:46:04,719
that's it. Insert Triple A picture killing it Yes, replacing

850
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:11,719
one or two astro pictures who are having an off run. Yeah,

851
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,280
we're gett We're working on this list. This is a

852
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,119
good job by y'all. Let's talk to Justin in eleven

853
00:46:17,159 --> 00:46:19,360
oh seven of the Matt Thomas old Ross. Justin, good

854
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:20,000
morning to you.

855
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 5: Good morning. Okay, we're gonna have a repeat of the

856
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:30,760
Kyle Tucker saga his injury. It's gonna be with Josh Hater,

857
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,440
and it's gonna be. Why won't the astros tell us what's.

858
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 6: Wrong with Josh Hater?

859
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 2: Oh? Come on, I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong,

860
00:46:40,039 --> 00:46:44,880
but you spoke that into his existence. What are you doing?

861
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:47,519
Speaker 5: It's gonna happen.

862
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,159
Speaker 2: Again. I'm not gonna say you're wrong, but I don't

863
00:46:52,199 --> 00:46:55,639
I want you to be wrong. Well, I've already I

864
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,119
told you this when it when the injury was first announced,

865
00:46:58,119 --> 00:47:00,559
that I'm not anticipating him anytime soon, and I'm when

866
00:47:00,559 --> 00:47:03,239
he plays, he plays, I'm not going sooner rather than

867
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,079
later or Man, he threw ninety feet today in spring training.

868
00:47:07,079 --> 00:47:09,719
That must be awesome. He's on the on the precipice

869
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:13,000
of coming back. Damn it, you, Justin, You're right, this

870
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:23,280
is terrible seven. Thanks, Justin's it? That's it? When are

871
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:27,239
the astro is going to be more forthcoming about Josh Hater?

872
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,639
I don't know. There were videos yesterday him throwing yesterday

873
00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:34,519
while we were on the air. He's having a catch,

874
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:41,719
having a catch. Okay, fine, he was playing catch, you

875
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,000
were we were listening to ages. That was that what

876
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:51,880
we got that from. Yeah, okay, Oh he's doing kind

877
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:57,199
of hard. Yeah, that's it. Why aren't the astros being

878
00:47:57,199 --> 00:47:59,599
more forthcoming on Josh hat Why haven't we seen your

879
00:47:59,639 --> 00:48:04,480
frame by frame breakdown of this? No? You know what,

880
00:48:04,559 --> 00:48:08,519
I think the astros will have learned a little bit now. Again,

881
00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:10,360
they're not going to be like, oh, here's our medical

882
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,239
report when we're on a PDF. You all can enjoy this.

883
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,320
They're showing the video on Channel three here in Charlotte

884
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:21,320
of the Lameloan. He's totally his fault. Yeah, sorry to

885
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,159
interrupt you on that, Pat, That's okay, Yeah, it was

886
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:28,000
kind of startling there, Okay, So yeah, but I think

887
00:48:28,039 --> 00:48:30,440
the astros are going to be better about it. They're

888
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,480
not going to give you updates every twenty four hours

889
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,199
like maybe some people want. But I think they could

890
00:48:34,199 --> 00:48:38,280
be better about it. I think the national perspective, perspective

891
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,639
perspective on this and the way the Astros were being

892
00:48:40,639 --> 00:48:44,480
so naive about the Kyle Tucker situation did hurt them.

893
00:48:44,679 --> 00:48:45,880
And I don't know if it ever hurt them with

894
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,719
free agency because I think ultimately in the day it's

895
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,079
about money. But I wonder if there are people like man,

896
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:54,920
are they protecting guys or are they misdiagnosing? And that's

897
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,239
why I think part of the reason why they want

898
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,480
to get a new set of eyes on the Astros

899
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,920
Medicals team. And I think they made a lot of sense.

900
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,519
How was Jeremiah Randall doing these days? He has got

901
00:49:06,559 --> 00:49:10,800
a job. I can't remember where was it the Braves

902
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,960
or something I wanted? I was gonna say, first blush

903
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:13,760
answer was the Braves?

904
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 3: On that?

905
00:49:14,039 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 2: Okay? If we both did that, then it's probably right.

906
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,719
We heard of he checked his LinkedIn. Yeah, I don't know.

907
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:29,119
Apparently his wife's speech real peach, h okay, just going

908
00:49:29,159 --> 00:49:32,480
on that out there. Eleven ten on The Matt Thomas

909
00:49:32,519 --> 00:49:34,360
Show with Ross if you would like to chime in,

910
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,199
we will have phone lines available before you had seven

911
00:49:36,199 --> 00:49:39,559
one three, two one two five seven ninety seven Pirates.

912
00:49:40,639 --> 00:49:43,840
Now you're second guessing ourselves. I don't know there is

913
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,440
a Jeremiah Randall with the Pirates. So oh, I mean,

914
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,760
how many Jeremiah Randall's are in Major League Baseball? It's

915
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,199
like Joe Smith in baseball. I don't think so, I

916
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,360
know one, you give me another one? Hey, Jeremiah Randall

917
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,719
the backup catcher for the Reds okay, very good seven

918
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,679
one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven one

919
00:50:02,679 --> 00:50:05,880
three two one two five seven nine zero. It is

920
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,840
the Matt Thomas Hill, rossim here and Charlotte what'snight the

921
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:09,119
Rock to take on the hornet you rad for the

922
00:50:09,119 --> 00:50:12,440
second half of the air Ross can't wait. I'm feeling good,

923
00:50:12,519 --> 00:50:14,360
I think, yeah, hopefully.

924
00:50:15,199 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 5: Uh.

925
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 2: I've been putting a lot of stock into this team

926
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,480
needs a rest and refresh of the All Star break.

927
00:50:19,599 --> 00:50:21,519
So if they come out and go like, I don't know,

928
00:50:21,559 --> 00:50:24,800
two and six in their first game, I'm gonna be

929
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,880
feeling real sad. But they looked fluggish. They were travel weary.

930
00:50:29,079 --> 00:50:31,480
They had the weird yoya They had all those like

931
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,440
eleven out of fourteen games on the road, and then

932
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,559
they were yoyoing a bunch of town like a little

933
00:50:35,599 --> 00:50:38,559
but all Star break. We're all good, Maddie. Yeah, it's

934
00:50:38,599 --> 00:50:41,840
all good, baby. Whin win Thursday, win, Saturday, and I'm

935
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,599
feeling good. What do you think about Kevin Durant's response yesterday.

936
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,000
I think it's he sounds guilty. I think if he

937
00:50:48,039 --> 00:50:49,679
had nothing to do with any of the burner accounts,

938
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,679
it would have been no. Man, that wasn't me. That's

939
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:53,679
funny how the internet ran with that. But I have

940
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,639
nothing to do with any of those accounts. He didn't

941
00:50:55,639 --> 00:50:59,000
say that, so I will say this, and again I'm

942
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:02,960
not privy to ask him that he ascid answer. I

943
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,360
think I think it's a dead story, but you never know.

944
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,599
I mean, it's it's social media. But somebody did tell

945
00:51:08,599 --> 00:51:14,400
me yesterday not affiliated with the team, that Kevin Durant.

946
00:51:14,639 --> 00:51:16,440
And you would know this because you've followed his life

947
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:21,599
way closer than I have. Loves intrigue. There's a little

948
00:51:21,639 --> 00:51:25,920
devil inside little NXS if you will, okay about Hey,

949
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:30,800
would I be capable of doing that or would I not? Yeah,

950
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,960
he wants, he wants to play the game in mess

951
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:38,159
with the media. That's possible. But I think when it

952
00:51:38,199 --> 00:51:40,840
comes to like yeah, I mean smirching the names of

953
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:46,599
his teammates, calling them trash and calling former teammates really

954
00:51:46,679 --> 00:51:54,800
really horrible name. I don't know. It could be a combination. Again,

955
00:51:55,199 --> 00:51:57,559
the easy thing it would be is if see, let

956
00:51:57,639 --> 00:51:59,960
me give you this interpretation, if he has he probably

957
00:52:00,199 --> 00:52:04,159
smirched the teammate before in the past, Yes, right, yes,

958
00:52:04,599 --> 00:52:07,280
we've done that here at the station. Oh and how

959
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,360
I mean every single one he is? Oh yeah, the

960
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,360
things I've said about Ross Oh lord lord lord, Yeah,

961
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,119
somebody get back because some of that gets back to me,

962
00:52:15,119 --> 00:52:18,199
by the way, I know, I know, sadly. Uh but

963
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,400
uh so if he says I never have done that before,

964
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,880
then someone would say, well, I've got absolute proof. Again,

965
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,239
I think largely it's it had to be asked, it

966
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,599
was certainly answered, and again to me, it gave more

967
00:52:35,039 --> 00:52:38,320
more intrigued than anything else. But if the Rockets win

968
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,559
five of the next seven games, no one's going to care. Now,

969
00:52:41,559 --> 00:52:43,239
if they lose six in a row, then it's well,

970
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:48,480
Kevin Durant's device, you know, Kevin Durant is he's about

971
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,480
to become the fifth high most explosive score in the

972
00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:53,880
history of the NBA. Oh how close is he to

973
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,639
catch an MJ. I'm glad you asked I did. He

974
00:52:57,199 --> 00:52:59,800
is four hundred and thirty one points away. Okay, so

975
00:53:00,079 --> 00:53:05,960
four games, four games of one hundred points. It would

976
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:07,079
be quite the run, wouldn't it.

977
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 7: No.

978
00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if he scores twenty on average, it's gonna

979
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,000
take him twenty more. He may not even get it

980
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,519
done before the end of the year. You don't know. Oh,

981
00:53:14,559 --> 00:53:18,039
he's gonna get it. I mean, barring injury, barring injury. Yeah,

982
00:53:18,079 --> 00:53:21,480
four thirty one behind Michael Jordan for fifth all time.

983
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,320
He's always gotta have down Michael freaking Jordan. Michael Freak

984
00:53:25,639 --> 00:53:27,599
He's he's got to get his turnovers down. He's averaging

985
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:31,719
almost six turnovers in the last four games. He's going

986
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,679
to he's a little tired. You promise he's right? No,

987
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,800
but yes, yes, you know what I will promise. You

988
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,599
gotta make that one of your locks of the week,

989
00:53:39,679 --> 00:53:41,840
my lock of a week, and put my name on it. Away.

990
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,679
Would you say six a game for how many games? Uh?

991
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,360
It's six a game for the love of the last

992
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,559
four Okay, In the next four games, he will be

993
00:53:49,679 --> 00:53:53,280
under six turnovers per game. Oh, we have my personal

994
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,400
guarantee wait to go on a limb on that one.

995
00:53:55,599 --> 00:53:59,199
Thank you job. That's that's what we call it, the

996
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:03,280
NBA analyst. Yes, sir, all right, shut your ball mass

997
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,920
up eight. Nobody got time for that. Coming up in

998
00:54:06,119 --> 00:54:07,360
fifteen minutes.

999
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,280
Speaker 8: A right sit down, let it tway.

1000
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety coming up in about ten minutes.

1001
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:17,880
My interaction with a fine young man at a Fort

1002
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:25,039
Lauderdale gas station yesterday. I thought he was a lovely fella.

1003
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:32,840
You weren't living my life, so you don't know the

1004
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,719
car relaxing and closing your eyes getting some red. No,

1005
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:40,079
was it relaxing? I know, all right. Chris Bassett is

1006
00:54:40,119 --> 00:54:45,199
a Baltimore Orioles pitcher. He has pitched with Toronto in

1007
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,400
the past, but he's best in Oakland. He's feels like

1008
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,039
he would sometimes he would either go six innings of

1009
00:54:51,119 --> 00:54:54,159
shut out ball against the Astros or then get crushed. Yeah,

1010
00:54:54,199 --> 00:54:57,679
one or the other. He is on the subcommittee for

1011
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:01,679
the Players Association, and apparently if you're on the subcommittee,

1012
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,119
one of the things you are a sub of is

1013
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:09,599
you are in the labor negotiations. When asked yesterday about

1014
00:55:09,639 --> 00:55:13,239
the salary camp in baseball or a potential salary cap.

1015
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:18,760
Here's the quote. The salary cap doesn't fix anything. If

1016
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,920
you look at every major sport that has a salary cap,

1017
00:55:22,199 --> 00:55:26,719
we have the best parody. The salary cap is not

1018
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:31,440
the issue. Having suppressed salaries across the league so owners

1019
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:35,239
can make more money is not the answer. Now stay

1020
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,960
with me now on this, quoting Bassett, Like, if I

1021
00:55:39,039 --> 00:55:42,360
tell you in twenty five years the Dodgers will be

1022
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,159
playing and going to the ten World Series and winning

1023
00:55:45,159 --> 00:55:49,079
seven of them, is that an issue? Because that's the Patriots.

1024
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,199
Then Chiefs have been to six or seven, the Philadelphia

1025
00:55:53,199 --> 00:55:55,960
Eagles have been to four or five. The parody in

1026
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:59,199
our sport is better than any other sport. So we

1027
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,320
will make changes to try to help the so called

1028
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:05,119
bottom teams out. But a salary cap and suppressing salaries

1029
00:56:05,159 --> 00:56:07,320
and taking from players to try to help the so

1030
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,440
called bottom feeders spend more that is not the answer.

1031
00:56:10,519 --> 00:56:13,440
Because again, if you're trying to make a competitive league

1032
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,760
across the board, we have proof that every single league

1033
00:56:17,199 --> 00:56:20,599
has less parody than ours. So how can you sit

1034
00:56:20,639 --> 00:56:22,719
there and say a salary cap is going to fix

1035
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,760
this when every single salary cap sport has less parody

1036
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:35,840
than ours. It makes no sense. Whant to chew on

1037
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,960
that for a minute. I will say, now, when he

1038
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,119
says there's the better parody than any other, he's talking

1039
00:56:43,119 --> 00:56:46,519
about teams that have appeared in the World Series. You're

1040
00:56:46,519 --> 00:56:48,800
talking about leagues. When he says teague, Yeah, I know.

1041
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,599
But what is the definition of we have better parody?

1042
00:56:51,599 --> 00:56:55,079
How is he defining parody? Is the champions or that

1043
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,559
there have been numerous different World Series champions in the

1044
00:56:58,599 --> 00:57:00,880
last ten years. We have seen the win, we have

1045
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,519
seen the Braves, when we've seen the Nationals win, we

1046
00:57:03,599 --> 00:57:06,400
have seen the Rangers, when we have seen the Dodgers win.

1047
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:13,360
He's saying, if you go look at the NFL, who's

1048
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:19,320
typically there. It's been New England, It's been Kansas City.

1049
00:57:20,119 --> 00:57:23,480
If you look at the NBA, you think of what

1050
00:57:23,679 --> 00:57:27,639
largely what the NBA, Well, there's been parody there. Denver's

1051
00:57:27,679 --> 00:57:31,840
won a championship, Golden States won a bunch. It seems

1052
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,159
like there's been a fair amount of parody in everyone.

1053
00:57:34,199 --> 00:57:36,000
So I'm wondering what the measure is and what exact

1054
00:57:36,079 --> 00:57:40,159
numbers he's using. And I will also say baseball is

1055
00:57:40,639 --> 00:57:44,840
susceptible more to randomness than the other two sports if

1056
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:50,679
you do us, especially certainly NBA. NBA is the least random.

1057
00:57:50,719 --> 00:57:53,400
In a seven game basketball series, which each game is

1058
00:57:53,599 --> 00:57:58,239
like two hundred possessions, generally, the better team is gonna

1059
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:05,119
win in a seven game series, generally speaking, barring injury. Baseball,

1060
00:58:05,159 --> 00:58:09,440
I mean, you get like you get Joe West calling

1061
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,760
a home run that wasn't you get I don't know,

1062
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,639
a ball rolling off of at the top of the

1063
00:58:14,679 --> 00:58:19,760
wall at Fenway like stuff can bloops and weird stuff.

1064
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:23,039
I feel like baseball is more of that than any

1065
00:58:23,079 --> 00:58:27,039
other to what we talk about, like the worst, the

1066
00:58:27,159 --> 00:58:30,000
worst of the absolute worst teams can still win like

1067
00:58:30,119 --> 00:58:33,480
they win generally sixty plus games. Let me put it

1068
00:58:33,519 --> 00:58:36,679
this way. And I don't know if this is a

1069
00:58:36,679 --> 00:58:42,400
comp or not. I can't tell you that a small,

1070
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:46,800
a small market team may win a bunch of NFL

1071
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,960
games next year. There might be a chance that what

1072
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,519
was the smallest of the market teams would be your

1073
00:58:52,719 --> 00:58:57,639
Jacksonville Jacksonville's. It could be your Carolina's. It could be

1074
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,239
to a lesser extent than the Packers up in Green

1075
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:06,559
Bay with Milwaukee. I have a pretty good feeling, not

1076
00:59:06,719 --> 00:59:10,000
guaranteed feeling, but a pretty good, feeling rossy that we're

1077
00:59:10,119 --> 00:59:13,840
never going to see a Marlins Versus Guardians World series. Yeah,

1078
00:59:14,159 --> 00:59:17,119
the Diamondbacks caught lightning in a bottle and made a

1079
00:59:17,119 --> 00:59:20,000
World series. Like, oh, it's great parody the Diamondbacks were.

1080
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,159
The Diamondbacks made a World Series. Ye, but the Diamacks

1081
00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:24,000
weren't even good that year. I mean they won what

1082
00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:26,239
like eighty four eighty five games and they got hot

1083
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,800
in the playoffs. I don't know. I guess we can.

1084
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:30,800
There's a number of examples we can think of, Like

1085
00:59:31,079 --> 00:59:33,519
the Patriots, for example, you could argue didn't deserve to

1086
00:59:33,519 --> 00:59:34,880
be in the Super Bowl. So maybe we can do

1087
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,159
this to every league. Can you have a league that

1088
00:59:38,239 --> 00:59:42,639
has a floor without a ceiling, without a cap? I

1089
00:59:42,639 --> 00:59:46,880
mean theory. I guess you could only a salary floor

1090
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,880
and no salary cap, correct, right, I guess is there

1091
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,960
a way you can do that? You could do it,

1092
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:54,400
but I don't think you can get the owners to

1093
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:59,239
agree to that. That's what I think Chris Bassett wants.

1094
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,280
He even said as much as quote He's like, we

1095
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:03,039
want to helpbout bottom feeders. We want to make sure

1096
01:00:03,039 --> 01:00:07,320
they're more competitive because generally it's what is Let me

1097
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:09,159
look it up. What is the floor in the cap

1098
01:00:10,039 --> 01:00:13,920
in the NBA, Yeah, salary four is one hundred and

1099
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:17,079
forty million, which is so yeah, they're their floor is

1100
01:00:17,159 --> 01:00:19,639
ninety percent of the salary cap. That's not going to happen.

1101
01:00:19,639 --> 01:00:27,639
In baseball, cap is one hundred and fifty four million.

1102
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,159
Floor is one hundred and thirty nine. So baby, let's

1103
01:00:31,199 --> 01:00:35,159
just call it one fifty five. Yeah, that's only fifteen

1104
01:00:35,199 --> 01:00:38,400
million a wig room. There's no way baseball owners agree

1105
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:44,079
to that. No way. So the owners are going to say,

1106
01:00:44,079 --> 01:00:47,000
all right, you want a floor, We get that, but

1107
01:00:47,039 --> 01:00:50,039
we want to cap too. Yeah. I'm generally in these

1108
01:00:50,079 --> 01:00:53,639
types of situations, generally on the player's side, but I

1109
01:00:53,679 --> 01:00:56,559
can't buy the oh, we have more parody than anybody else.

1110
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:01,519
You can't use parody as an explanations as a logical

1111
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:05,440
reasoning for no need for a cap. The Havelves have

1112
01:01:05,519 --> 01:01:10,280
a much greater long term advantage in baseball than any

1113
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:12,360
other of the major sports, and it is because of

1114
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:16,559
the lack of a salary cap, and the Dodgers, while

1115
01:01:16,679 --> 01:01:20,519
enjoying it now, have basically said, hey, we want our

1116
01:01:20,599 --> 01:01:24,079
contracts are already crazy right now because of us are

1117
01:01:24,199 --> 01:01:28,159
large part because of us. You're we need a governor

1118
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:30,760
and the players ball players like, well, that's your fault.

1119
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,400
You can't control your spending and that's on you. You're

1120
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,440
the ones that want all these players. So look, you

1121
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,079
can see if I'm both sides of this, for sure,

1122
01:01:38,159 --> 01:01:42,599
you absolutely can't. There when when when you go to

1123
01:01:42,639 --> 01:01:44,199
a player and you say we're putting a cap on

1124
01:01:44,199 --> 01:01:46,079
something that means they're going to cap the amount of

1125
01:01:46,079 --> 01:01:48,840
money the players are going to get, there will not

1126
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:51,079
be a Los Angeles. There will not be in New York.

1127
01:01:51,119 --> 01:01:53,440
There will not be a Chicago that will say budget

1128
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,800
be damned, because you if you have a cap, you

1129
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,920
have a budget, and that's what the players do not want.

1130
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:02,960
Let's talk to our buddy Aggie doug here. Maybe he's

1131
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:05,159
an economist. Chair on the Matt Thomas l Ross eighty.

1132
01:02:05,159 --> 01:02:05,920
What do you got today?

1133
01:02:07,079 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 8: I am definitely not an economist, but I do know

1134
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,920
that this is basically playing from a different rule book.

1135
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,559
I mean that's all it is. I mean you basically say, okay,

1136
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,280
well our field is you know, one hundred by you know,

1137
01:02:18,559 --> 01:02:22,519
seventy five, but the Dodgers field is only eighty by

1138
01:02:22,639 --> 01:02:26,159
sixty It makes absolutely no sense. You can't play with

1139
01:02:26,199 --> 01:02:29,039
a different set of rules. Just because the Dodgers have

1140
01:02:29,119 --> 01:02:32,400
more money, that doesn't make them basically they can go

1141
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:34,079
out in money with it. I mean the Yankees used

1142
01:02:34,119 --> 01:02:37,559
to do it in the eighties and the nineties. So yes, absolutely,

1143
01:02:37,639 --> 01:02:40,920
I agree with Bassett that that's not a recipe for success.

1144
01:02:41,199 --> 01:02:44,920
It's not a guaranteed recipe for success because obviously we

1145
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:48,000
know the Yankees they sucked even when they had, you know,

1146
01:02:48,039 --> 01:02:51,000
paid all those players. You got to pay the right players.

1147
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,519
The point of having this whole parody conversation, it's a

1148
01:02:54,559 --> 01:02:57,880
different sport. In the NFL, if you have a franchise quarterback,

1149
01:02:58,239 --> 01:03:01,280
you're probably gonna make the playoffs. In the NBA, if

1150
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,599
you have one or two superstars, you're probably gonna make

1151
01:03:04,639 --> 01:03:08,239
the playoffs. So for them to sit there and say, oh, well,

1152
01:03:08,519 --> 01:03:12,519
you know, if we pay you know, our top fifteen guys,

1153
01:03:12,639 --> 01:03:16,519
let's just say top fifteen out of twenty six significantly more,

1154
01:03:16,599 --> 01:03:19,639
let's even say twenty five to thirty percent more than

1155
01:03:19,719 --> 01:03:23,719
any other team can even afford, not even like they can,

1156
01:03:24,159 --> 01:03:27,920
but they can afford. So that's a completely different set

1157
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,559
of rules.

1158
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I'm not smart enough to do this ad

1159
01:03:34,079 --> 01:03:36,119
any of us are. It's hard for me to cross

1160
01:03:36,119 --> 01:03:38,039
over sports and say, well, if one sport does it

1161
01:03:38,079 --> 01:03:41,760
one way, we should do it another way. I I can't.

1162
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:44,320
I can't figure that out. And I'm more going to.

1163
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,719
Speaker 8: Think about it like if you have a stud pitcher, right,

1164
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,400
Like if you have a stud pitcher, or like like

1165
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:52,440
we had or done and we had you know, you know,

1166
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,280
our two or three pitchers that were great with Framburg

1167
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,280
and dressin Verlander. I mean, but we had to have

1168
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,639
a lot of other guys do a lot of things,

1169
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,920
and we paid them a lot less money than the

1170
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:07,360
Dodgers would ever even think about paying. So I guess

1171
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,639
that's just my point is that when you have the

1172
01:04:09,679 --> 01:04:13,039
ability to pay thirty percent more for even a guy

1173
01:04:13,159 --> 01:04:17,639
that's just the guy on on some other teams and

1174
01:04:17,679 --> 01:04:20,159
that's just your plugin guy or your bench guy, that

1175
01:04:20,199 --> 01:04:21,360
makes absolutely no sense.

1176
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:29,039
Speaker 2: Thanks Zachie Doug for the phone call. Appreciate it. There

1177
01:04:29,079 --> 01:04:31,639
the players are definitely afraid ross if there's a cap,

1178
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:34,880
there's not enough money to go around. Yeah, it's interesting.

1179
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,920
If there's a cap, then the Dodgers just bank all

1180
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:42,159
these profits that the players have no access to that

1181
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:44,880
is correct because the television deal for the Dodgers doesn't

1182
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:47,920
change unless the Major League Baseball owners collectively say we'll

1183
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:49,880
take all of our TV money and put it together.

1184
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:51,840
And the Dodgers have no interest in doing that. Ook cap,

1185
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:53,360
We're gonna take this straight to the bank. And then

1186
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,039
if you make a cap for you know, the same

1187
01:04:56,159 --> 01:04:59,119
cap for the Rays is the same cap for the Dodgers.

1188
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,519
That's that's just letting the Dodgers keep all their cash

1189
01:05:03,599 --> 01:05:06,119
and the players. You're not allowing the players to get

1190
01:05:06,119 --> 01:05:09,800
into that. Yeah, I don't know, this is interesting. Yeah, again,

1191
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:11,880
we got a lot more minutia to go to over

1192
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,800
the next calendar year. I would just say the overriding

1193
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:19,079
sentiment was I wouldn't be booking West Palm Beach for

1194
01:05:19,119 --> 01:05:22,280
twenty twenty seven. Put it that way. Seven one three

1195
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,840
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1196
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:28,440
one two five seven, Nintie, I will be telling you

1197
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:33,639
about my pleasant interchange exchange with the West Palm Beach

1198
01:05:34,559 --> 01:05:37,320
uh gas station of attendant seven one three two one

1199
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:39,880
two five seven Auntie shuts you obamass up. Ain't nobody

1200
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:43,840
got time for that next year? On seven ninety all right, Jonathan,

1201
01:05:44,119 --> 01:05:49,159
you've not heard this story. Ross, you've heard the story.

1202
01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:51,800
Faith the music down a little bit, keep it going

1203
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:53,400
a little bit. But here's what we gotta do it. Anybody

1204
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:54,960
got time for that? Shut you Obama? Ass up seven

1205
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:56,960
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one

1206
01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:59,360
three two one two five seven honty. So Ross and

1207
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,760
I will left West Palm Beach and I said, let's

1208
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,840
stop and get some gas close to the Fort Ladodella Airport.

1209
01:06:05,519 --> 01:06:09,840
So he pulled off to a gas station. I went

1210
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:15,239
to put my credit card into the machine and the

1211
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:20,639
machine wasn't working. It said, please go see attendant. So

1212
01:06:20,679 --> 01:06:23,320
I went to the attendant. I said, Attendant, I'm filling

1213
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,320
up my gas to take it to the car rental place.

1214
01:06:27,199 --> 01:06:31,280
I'll come back and pay for it when it's all done.

1215
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,400
He goes, how much do you want? I said, I

1216
01:06:35,519 --> 01:06:39,559
don't know. I'm filling it up. He goes, it's a

1217
01:06:39,559 --> 01:06:42,480
simple question. How much do you want? I said? I said,

1218
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:44,719
I don't know how much it's going to cost. He goes, well,

1219
01:06:44,719 --> 01:06:48,559
what do you need? I said, don't you understand I'm

1220
01:06:48,559 --> 01:06:50,239
filling the car up. If I fill it up to

1221
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,400
fifteen dollars and it's take twenty five. I didn't. My

1222
01:06:53,599 --> 01:06:56,719
job was not done. So then I was starting to

1223
01:06:56,719 --> 01:06:58,480
get it. Man, I said, put two hundred and forty

1224
01:06:58,519 --> 01:07:02,000
nine dollars in there. You said that. That kind of

1225
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:09,320
got a mad. He goes, bro it's not difficult, I said,

1226
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:13,360
I'm trying to fill my car up. I'm taking it

1227
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,079
to the car rental place. I don't I can't guess

1228
01:07:16,079 --> 01:07:20,000
how much it's going to cost. I was wondering why

1229
01:07:20,039 --> 01:07:23,519
you're in there so long. He said, give me an amount.

1230
01:07:23,599 --> 01:07:26,400
I said I don't know the amount. And I said fine,

1231
01:07:26,519 --> 01:07:29,400
I'm out of here. I said, you don't know what

1232
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,280
you're doing, and he goes, you have a nice day, sir.

1233
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:35,960
My response was I don't want you to have a

1234
01:07:36,039 --> 01:07:42,000
nice day. That set him off. He comes out of

1235
01:07:42,039 --> 01:07:44,000
the little gate here, you know it, a little little

1236
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:48,280
window area. Yes, bulletproof glass, bulletproof grass, and start bullet

1237
01:07:48,599 --> 01:07:55,199
bulletproof glass and start swearing at me. If you mfor,

1238
01:07:56,159 --> 01:07:58,039
you don't know the f you're talking about. Just all

1239
01:07:58,079 --> 01:08:01,480
the good ones. Oh nice. He then gets out of

1240
01:08:01,519 --> 01:08:05,639
his little room and comes outside. I didn't see him,

1241
01:08:06,239 --> 01:08:10,280
Oh I did, I said, Ross, let's get out of here.

1242
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:13,559
This guy's losing his mind because I told him I

1243
01:08:13,639 --> 01:08:16,239
did not swear in him. I said, I don't want

1244
01:08:16,279 --> 01:08:19,560
you to have a nice day. Now. I think he

1245
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,479
can put a certain amount and then refund you. I

1246
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,560
think that's what they all He kept saying was, bro,

1247
01:08:27,159 --> 01:08:30,359
how much do you want? I was like, dude, I

1248
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:34,640
don't know. I'm trying to fill the car up. So

1249
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,079
he comes out, He's throwing his hands up, yelling at

1250
01:08:37,079 --> 01:08:42,039
me again, and I simply just not at him as

1251
01:08:42,039 --> 01:08:44,760
we drive off. I didn't call him a name. I

1252
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,840
didn't put the mental fingers up. I didn't want to

1253
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:50,000
call I didn't want to call him at that at

1254
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:51,560
the gas station. But you told me not to do that,

1255
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,079
So I didn't do that. What were you gonna do?

1256
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:57,039
Call him and do what? Just tell me it was gonna.

1257
01:08:57,319 --> 01:08:58,479
I didn't want to, just want to make sure he

1258
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,359
knew he I didn't want to have a nice Why

1259
01:09:00,359 --> 01:09:02,479
don't you say it to his face, Maddie, I did.

1260
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,039
I said, do not have a nice day? Well, you

1261
01:09:05,039 --> 01:09:08,199
don't gonna call him in and then talk mess No.

1262
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:10,439
I didn't feel like I needed to. But he came out,

1263
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:13,560
he came out of his little glass area. Then he

1264
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:18,119
comes outside. That is the if you if you found

1265
01:09:18,119 --> 01:09:20,560
me a stack of bibles right now, That's exactly how

1266
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,880
it went down. Okay, I did say, give me two

1267
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,239
hundred and forty nine dollars, and that didn't make it

1268
01:09:25,359 --> 01:09:32,319
very happy at all. Wow. So for that guy who,

1269
01:09:32,359 --> 01:09:35,000
by the way, the machines don't work outside, and the

1270
01:09:35,079 --> 01:09:37,600
fact that I cannot fill up to the appropriate level

1271
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:39,399
because it's a full gas of tank, I say, ain't

1272
01:09:39,399 --> 01:09:44,279
nobody got time for that? Ain't nobody got time for dead? Now,

1273
01:09:44,359 --> 01:09:47,159
I will say, I just needed to uh use the

1274
01:09:47,199 --> 01:09:50,079
bathroom number one, and I just asked him where the

1275
01:09:50,079 --> 01:09:51,760
bathroom was. I'll say, is there a bathroom in here?

1276
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:53,520
Because I tried to find there was none inside. He said, oh,

1277
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,399
it's just outside right right around there. I'll say, okay,

1278
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:57,079
do I need a key or a key code or anything.

1279
01:09:57,159 --> 01:09:59,279
He's like, no, it's coping. Everything was pleasant with that

1280
01:09:59,319 --> 01:10:02,960
guy seemed very nice to me. It's cordials, two different

1281
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:06,359
conprocess have a smile on his face. I didn't get

1282
01:10:06,359 --> 01:10:08,880
I didn't get any any you know, any bad vibes

1283
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:11,520
from the guy that I don't know you were asking

1284
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,640
to take a piss. I was looking to get gas. Yeah,

1285
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,560
So I don't know. I'm feeling like you incited this

1286
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:25,119
young man. False. Why first of all, I think you

1287
01:10:25,119 --> 01:10:26,840
can tell him to put like fifty bucks on there,

1288
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:28,880
and then if it's less then you just you should

1289
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,960
go back or you just why didn't he offer that?

1290
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:33,720
It's an option to me? I don't know. Maybe maybe

1291
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:35,840
you're yelling him too hard. Matt. He did give you

1292
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:39,720
the option. He just needed amount. Oh, Jonathan, what was

1293
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:41,600
I supposed to say? Man? This is what I do

1294
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:42,239
when I go okay?

1295
01:10:42,279 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 9: Because so you just say my car gives around like

1296
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:47,560
twenty five thirty ft up.

1297
01:10:48,039 --> 01:10:49,680
Speaker 2: But I don't know if this is a record car.

1298
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:50,920
I don't know what this thing costs.

1299
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 9: So that's what you So all right, you just give

1300
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:54,560
a ball parking mount and be like all right, put

1301
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:56,520
thirty five in there and you go and you pump it,

1302
01:10:57,079 --> 01:10:59,319
say it's only put thirty two and you go in

1303
01:10:59,399 --> 01:11:02,039
back in like I was saying, only two?

1304
01:11:02,079 --> 01:11:04,600
Speaker 2: Can I have three dollars back? Okay? But what if

1305
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:06,359
I short it? What if I asked for twenty five

1306
01:11:06,399 --> 01:11:07,800
and I needed thirty five? Then I can go back

1307
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:11,760
and do this again. Yeah, I mean, yeah, not my fault.

1308
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:18,560
Your equipment sucks. He would brow to me, bro, how

1309
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,760
much do you want? So I said two hundred and

1310
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:27,560
forty nine dollars. He was more upset when I said,

1311
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:31,359
do not have a nice day. Yeah, that that was rude. No,

1312
01:11:31,399 --> 01:11:34,840
it wasn't. I could have said something way worse. Life

1313
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:38,319
had said something way worse. You could have said something worse.

1314
01:11:38,359 --> 01:11:39,840
But that doesn't make it not rude. I could have

1315
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,479
made fun of his hair. What was wrong with his hair?

1316
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:48,279
Looked like I hadn't wash it in weeks. It seemed

1317
01:11:48,279 --> 01:11:50,920
fine to me. I don't know. Well, you didn't have

1318
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:52,920
a chance to intimately talk to him. You you want

1319
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,399
to know where they didn't have any issues with his hair.

1320
01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:01,439
He just had some long locks were kept very well.

1321
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:04,760
I mean, you know what, he was in the right.

1322
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:06,920
I was in the wrong. The customer is always wrong.

1323
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:11,039
That's what I heard all the time. So I guess

1324
01:12:11,039 --> 01:12:12,520
what I did. We went across the street the seven

1325
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:15,680
eleven I used my credit card, had zero issues, had

1326
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,079
a very pleasant go Oh, you didn't have to go

1327
01:12:17,079 --> 01:12:20,079
ahead and get and get the receipt. I did, But

1328
01:12:20,159 --> 01:12:21,399
I didn't make a big deal of that because you

1329
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,279
know what stuff happens. Maybe the paper machine machine was

1330
01:12:24,359 --> 01:12:29,000
jammed up. Bro, it ain't hard have a nice day.

1331
01:12:29,279 --> 01:12:30,760
I don't want you to have a nice day. And

1332
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,319
that's what got him really mad. I don't need to

1333
01:12:33,319 --> 01:12:35,319
give everybody to have a nice day. It wasn't the truth.

1334
01:12:35,399 --> 01:12:36,600
He didn't want me to have a nice day. He

1335
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:40,840
want me to have a terrible day. Any but I

1336
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:43,840
got time for gas station attendant to extended in all

1337
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:47,119
the branches, and you slapped it out of his hand. No,

1338
01:12:47,199 --> 01:12:48,920
he didn't. If he sent an olive branch, you just said,

1339
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:50,920
all right, I'll turn the pump on for you, and

1340
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:52,119
then you can come back and pay for this when

1341
01:12:52,159 --> 01:12:56,479
you're done. You didn't trust me. I wouldn't trust you either.

1342
01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:06,319
Shut your bump ass up. I'll just go with people

1343
01:13:06,359 --> 01:13:08,920
getting on planes with hacking coughs. Ain't nobody got time

1344
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:13,479
for that. Nobody put your mask on, cover yourself up,

1345
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:19,560
do whatever you can. Come on, man, there's two people

1346
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:24,119
on the plane yesterday, the entire plane. Oh no, that

1347
01:13:24,199 --> 01:13:26,479
I could hear. And then within a few two people

1348
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:28,279
within a few rows. Oh and you know what on

1349
01:13:28,359 --> 01:13:31,760
the flight in the lady that was talking the whole

1350
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:36,640
flight super loud. Ain't nobody got time for that either, Jonathan,

1351
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:38,720
what's the matter with you? Uh?

1352
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 9: Me and my girl had like a little restaurant sitting

1353
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:45,439
at the bar and this older white couple comes in.

1354
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:50,399
It's a it's a it's a Mexican joint, and they

1355
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:54,560
just start what's the best way to put this? Start

1356
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:57,680
questioning every single thing that's in the food and the

1357
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:02,840
items over and over again, like, oh, is how the

1358
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:05,159
beans cooked? Asking the barton like she knows, over and

1359
01:14:05,159 --> 01:14:07,359
over again, kind of like be raiding her because they

1360
01:14:07,359 --> 01:14:09,600
don't know, like, oh, my husband doesn't like this, Like

1361
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:11,279
you gotta make sure it's this way or he's not

1362
01:14:11,279 --> 01:14:12,039
gonna give you a tip.

1363
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,079
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody got for that. Man, If you don't just

1364
01:14:15,199 --> 01:14:16,159
order your food, you.

1365
01:14:16,159 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 9: Came here like, I don't doesn't make sense to me,

1366
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,560
Like why are you doing that? Why are you be

1367
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:26,960
raiding this poor lady? Just old and cranky.

1368
01:14:29,159 --> 01:14:32,119
Speaker 2: That it used to happen as a as a former waiter,

1369
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,760
people say, I remember one person came in It's like, hey,

1370
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:38,640
do you use pepper on this? Yes, we use pepper

1371
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:41,239
on everything. Okay, this needs to be cooked without pepper

1372
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:43,479
and it needs to be on a grill that no

1373
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,600
one is gonna get pep. I'm extremely allergic to pepper.

1374
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:49,600
So this needs to be cooked separately on a different grill,

1375
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:52,119
not near anything else that gets cooked with pepper. And

1376
01:14:52,119 --> 01:14:55,319
we're like, yeah, sure, man, I'm sure whatever. And I

1377
01:14:55,319 --> 01:14:57,520
mean it was grilled without pepper, but it wasn't on

1378
01:14:57,560 --> 01:14:59,640
a different, a different cooking certain they could go back

1379
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:02,159
in the back, can be like, looks go spitting their food.

1380
01:15:02,239 --> 01:15:05,640
I don't know. I just that's gonna you know, saying

1381
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:07,439
I just never would do that. I just I think

1382
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,119
that's so. That's yeah, I think that might have happened

1383
01:15:10,159 --> 01:15:12,359
to us when when Matt asked the lady if the

1384
01:15:12,359 --> 01:15:15,359
tea had been brewed yet at the other restaurant we

1385
01:15:15,359 --> 01:15:21,399
were at, Ring no oh oh yeah, because it took off.

1386
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:24,239
We asked her to Man, I'm like, man, they're gonna

1387
01:15:24,239 --> 01:15:26,479
spin my tea. Now. Matt goes, hey, has the tea

1388
01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:28,640
been brewed yet?

1389
01:15:29,359 --> 01:15:29,600
Speaker 8: What?

1390
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:35,039
Speaker 4: No?

1391
01:15:35,079 --> 01:15:35,279
Speaker 8: More?

1392
01:15:35,279 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 2: Man stuck over there, Man, wait a minute, I got

1393
01:15:39,479 --> 01:15:40,960
something for you. When I was at McDonald When I

1394
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,600
worked a McDonald's in high school, women would come in

1395
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:45,960
and ask for no salt on their fries, which means

1396
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,760
we had to clean off the fry bat because there

1397
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:50,119
was salt to bran in the bottom. Anybody got time

1398
01:15:50,159 --> 01:15:52,319
for that? If you're not putting? Oh yeah, if you

1399
01:15:52,359 --> 01:15:54,680
can't eat fries a little salt, shut your ball mass up.

1400
01:15:55,319 --> 01:15:57,960
That's a tip people used to uh to try to

1401
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:02,680
get fresh fries. Yeah, yeah, really onto your scams? Oh slave,

1402
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:08,479
all right? Uh seven one three two one two five

1403
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:11,119
seven ninety seven one three two one two. I just

1404
01:16:11,159 --> 01:16:13,439
got a on my Instagram account. It was a photo

1405
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:17,000
of me of our stuff in West Palm Beach. Some douchebag.

1406
01:16:17,079 --> 01:16:19,399
It just said, Matt, why don't you just die from

1407
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:20,279
terminal cancer?

1408
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:21,039
Speaker 3: What?

1409
01:16:25,239 --> 01:16:29,079
Speaker 2: On Instagram? On Instagram people are usually pretty pleasant there.

1410
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:33,319
He doesn't, he doesn't follow me. I don't even get

1411
01:16:33,359 --> 01:16:35,600
where this comes from. I just block him. That's a

1412
01:16:36,079 --> 01:16:39,560
where'd you post on my uh? On my Instagram at

1413
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:47,000
sports mt Matt, why don't you just die from terminal cancer? Okay? Thanks?

1414
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:53,359
Give him a free give him frober veldas. Thanks. Steve

1415
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:55,960
is a USAF veteran. He's a fan of the forty

1416
01:16:56,039 --> 01:16:59,359
nine Ers, the Spurs, the Giants, the University of Houston, athletics,

1417
01:16:59,359 --> 01:17:02,039
proud husband, father of nine boys. You know what your

1418
01:17:02,119 --> 01:17:04,920
nine your nine sons hate you, Steve. You're a douchebag.

1419
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:08,279
You're setting a great example for your nine sons. Shit,

1420
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:13,000
obam ass up man, All right, nut job. It looks

1421
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,640
like to me this must be a bot account of

1422
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:20,039
some sort. It's gotta be right. I don't know what it's.

1423
01:17:20,119 --> 01:17:22,279
I don't see the the is it on the last

1424
01:17:22,279 --> 01:17:25,359
picture you posted? It's the one with the three photos

1425
01:17:25,359 --> 01:17:27,079
I did, one of me talking about Joe wanted me

1426
01:17:27,119 --> 01:17:29,399
talking to Yeah, yeah, where I didn't get any photo credit.

1427
01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:32,439
It's fine. I'll give it. That's okay right now. No,

1428
01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:34,920
I don't worry about it. No, it must be it

1429
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:36,960
must be a hidden Did you hide the comment? I

1430
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:38,800
don't see it. No, it must be a hit. It

1431
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:41,079
says there's two comments and then there's only one shows up,

1432
01:17:41,119 --> 01:17:43,119
so the Instagram probably hit it. So that's good. People

1433
01:17:43,119 --> 01:17:46,039
can't see it. Not good. Seven one three, two one

1434
01:17:46,079 --> 01:17:48,279
two five seven ninety. Let's talk to Robert and Cyprus.

1435
01:17:48,319 --> 01:17:50,920
He's got somebody, he says, anybody got time for we'll

1436
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:54,800
do that next year on seven ninety. Back how the

1437
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,399
phones will go. It's seven one three, two one two

1438
01:17:57,399 --> 01:18:01,000
five seven ninety. Let's go to Robert Cypress, Robert, what's

1439
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:01,640
the matter with you?

1440
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:07,199
Speaker 10: Hey, I'm just calling about the mate possibly, uh, the

1441
01:18:07,239 --> 01:18:09,960
free agent we can pick up on the offensive line

1442
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,680
or whatever on the offense, and uh, what what do

1443
01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:20,600
you think on the top five lineman's draft possibility for

1444
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:23,199
the twentieth position we're in And I'll hang up and

1445
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:23,840
I'll listen to you.

1446
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:29,760
Speaker 2: Hey, nobody got time forda exactly, So that's exactly what

1447
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:33,600
I would have said, perfectly done. Jonathan says that's not

1448
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:38,920
what he was told when he screened the call. Yeah,

1449
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:41,439
you go look it up. I'm not gonna go tell

1450
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:44,640
you I don't know how five offensive linemen are. I

1451
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:47,359
believe in doing an entertainment show, not a not a

1452
01:18:47,399 --> 01:18:52,560
not a, not a lecture series. No, you go look

1453
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:58,279
it up. Now. Ross has done more time, He's done

1454
01:18:58,279 --> 01:19:00,920
a more deeper dive on the offensive line. Sure, why not?

1455
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,880
I think the Utah tackles are good. I think somebody

1456
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,880
saw I think I had saw somebody mocked Caden Proctor

1457
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:13,159
that tied the Alabama tackle to the Texans. Good because

1458
01:19:13,199 --> 01:19:14,680
I've seen a lot of him playing. I want to

1459
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:16,199
make sure that he does. This is maybe more a

1460
01:19:16,279 --> 01:19:21,399
question for I don't know, Chris Gordy. Yeah, go to Gordia,

1461
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,199
give you the breakdown of Alabama lineman. By the way,

1462
01:19:23,239 --> 01:19:25,880
anybody that plays in the SEC is an amazing NFL

1463
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:27,800
prospect and if you play any outside of the conference,

1464
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:30,439
you probably suck. You go by the draft numbers and

1465
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,880
the Pro Bowl numbers and the All Pro numbers. SEC

1466
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:36,319
is doing pretty well now. In fairness to the caller,

1467
01:19:37,039 --> 01:19:41,560
we will have experts on down the stretch, but that's

1468
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:45,760
you just can't come across for anybody got time and

1469
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:47,359
then shut your bomb ass up to asking about the

1470
01:19:47,399 --> 01:19:49,239
five best alignment that you think it could be available

1471
01:19:49,239 --> 01:19:56,079
at twenty eight. That's not what this show is. Well,

1472
01:19:56,079 --> 01:19:58,359
this show is is people making fun of me for

1473
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,960
being just trying to I just wanted I wanted some gas.

1474
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:05,920
All I wanted. It's all I wanted him. When the

1475
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:07,960
guy told me not he had to have a nice day,

1476
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:08,840
and I said, I don't want you to have a

1477
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,119
nice day. He was he was a little charged up there. Yeah,

1478
01:20:11,119 --> 01:20:12,560
we did have a half. I'm trying to just think

1479
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:14,680
of him, trying to put myself in your shoes, Matt,

1480
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:16,520
because we had a half tank. But I don't know

1481
01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:18,520
how much gas that that thing holds either. We had

1482
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:23,640
a we had a re rim rearrain mm hmm. And

1483
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:26,399
I mean, I'm gonna guess it holds like twenty something gallons?

1484
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:28,840
What was the gas? I even look And I will

1485
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:30,880
be honest with you on this. The next time this happens,

1486
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:34,159
if it does, I will ask for fifty dollars and

1487
01:20:34,159 --> 01:20:38,000
then I will get the change back. Yeah, you know,

1488
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:39,479
that's all we can do in life. Matt is learned.

1489
01:20:40,199 --> 01:20:43,439
But I mean, I mean, are we trusting? Am I

1490
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:45,680
gonna trust a gas station that can't use the credit

1491
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,159
card machine properly in the in the Yeah, I've done

1492
01:20:48,159 --> 01:20:50,520
it before. It's I've been places where that. Yeah, they'll

1493
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:55,279
just refund the money on the card. Okay. So again,

1494
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:58,199
because I mean, it's it's not their fault. They have

1495
01:20:58,279 --> 01:21:00,359
people who go and say that and then I'll just

1496
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:04,680
run off and maybe that's and that's a that's the

1497
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:07,640
problem of that area. I don't know. Yeah, but I

1498
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:10,640
just was like he he was like, bro, what do

1499
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:16,800
you want? I'm like, bro, two hundred and forty nine dollars.

1500
01:21:17,039 --> 01:21:20,640
He didn't seem very happy with that. Remember, he should

1501
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:22,239
have just charge you for two forty nine and let

1502
01:21:22,319 --> 01:21:24,399
you get the gas he didn't get in my card.

1503
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:28,319
He'd have done that for sure. Uh Yankees Keith on

1504
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:30,960
seven out of eight? Keith, what's going what's going on?

1505
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:33,439
What's the matter with you? Well?

1506
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:36,359
Speaker 3: I'm hoping when I heard these rumans I heard, is

1507
01:21:36,399 --> 01:21:41,920
not true that the general manager saying, uh, just ain't

1508
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:45,720
our year. And they ain't made it even clearer by

1509
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:49,279
not getting anybody in the in the uh in the uh.

1510
01:21:50,399 --> 01:21:53,319
You know, we didn't get anybody doing a chance we

1511
01:21:53,359 --> 01:21:56,479
could get somebody. And I'm hoping that at the horror

1512
01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:00,680
monger didn't say what he said about his own team.

1513
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:03,319
If he did, ain't nobody got time for that.

1514
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:06,800
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody got time for all? Right, he's talking about

1515
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:13,239
the Rockets, the horrormonger, Kadi, everybody's got new term. Doesn't

1516
01:22:13,239 --> 01:22:17,439
that mean like a like a John? Oh no, no,

1517
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:21,640
that would be a pimp. Who's the uh jigglow? Is

1518
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:25,239
the horrormonger, the chip the pimp or the John? I

1519
01:22:25,279 --> 01:22:28,880
don't want to look this up. Are already looked at snoop.

1520
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:31,680
I already looked up Snoop Dogg's Doggie Style album and

1521
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:35,399
it's the person that deals with them. Okay, so the pimps,

1522
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:41,319
so like a pimp's assistant. Uh no, that's the junior pimp,

1523
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:44,039
the vice president pimp, the vice pimp.

1524
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:46,560
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's just say that, you know what, Let's just

1525
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:48,960
do that. No, no, no, how about this, John, the pimps,

1526
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:57,439
people that gets the pimp system. Do you even need

1527
01:22:57,439 --> 01:22:58,720
pimps in twenty twenty six?

1528
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:03,399
Speaker 2: I think so? I don't know. I mean, can't Venmo

1529
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,439
just take care of this? Usually? Well, as you know, Matt,

1530
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:14,640
pimping ain't easy. Apparently not, it's And I never saw Oh,

1531
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:16,800
by the way, Yankees Keith since he called in, I

1532
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:19,079
wanted to and he always talks about his great predictions

1533
01:23:19,079 --> 01:23:20,880
and that I wanted to read something that I wrote down.

1534
01:23:21,319 --> 01:23:25,640
Go ahead. He did have Rabel as Coach of the Year. Okay,

1535
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:30,760
he had Jabari and Tari traded okay, and Matt Stafford

1536
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:32,680
as MVP, which was correct. But he als said the

1537
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:35,319
Rams beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Well,

1538
01:23:35,319 --> 01:23:37,159
I mean he picked a couple of chalks, right, I mean,

1539
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:39,319
he didn't go on on elimonade that stuff. He had

1540
01:23:39,319 --> 01:23:43,399
a mentomp says an all Star wrong, and Katie and

1541
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:46,840
I r and the Rocket's not making the playoffs. Yeah,

1542
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:51,600
and she never said this wasn't our year. He said it.

1543
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:54,680
Maybe he said we we. His words were basically like, uh,

1544
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:57,439
you know, with all these injuries, has us thinking maybe

1545
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:01,399
it's not our year something like that. Yeah, or phrasing different. Yeah,

1546
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:03,880
Dustin on seven and Dustin, what's the matter with you?

1547
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 3: The guys that eat lunch at the gas pump and

1548
01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:11,479
I gotta wait till they get done?

1549
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 2: Oh man, nobody's got time for that. I'll take two

1550
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:18,039
bites of my taco and then I go, Dustin, I

1551
01:24:18,079 --> 01:24:19,880
need a ruling. Are you still there with us? Dustin?

1552
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 3: Yes?

1553
01:24:21,359 --> 01:24:24,039
Speaker 2: What if you get one of those roller like tacos

1554
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:28,439
or hot dogs and you can finish it if you're

1555
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:33,239
getting fine? Yeah, if you see somebody behind you, you

1556
01:24:33,279 --> 01:24:37,399
gotta go. Yep. I'm with Duston. I'm very fair. I

1557
01:24:37,399 --> 01:24:39,920
get you very much because you don't want to drive

1558
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:44,039
and get yeah, mustard relish all over your shirt. I

1559
01:24:44,079 --> 01:24:49,439
can I can crush a fried bean burrito while I'm

1560
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:51,520
getting my gas at the Kingwood gas station.

1561
01:24:53,039 --> 01:24:57,600
Speaker 9: A fried bean burrito at absolutely, but we don't eat tomas.

1562
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:02,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, because mister Texas has a wider palate than that,

1563
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:06,560
a wider palate. Yeah. How many of you? How many

1564
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:08,119
of you? Let me tell you something, how many of

1565
01:25:08,199 --> 01:25:10,640
you eat fried bean burritos out of a gas station?

1566
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:14,520
This guy that makes you mister Texas. Are your qualification?

1567
01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:15,680
Your qualifications?

1568
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:15,840
Speaker 4: Are?

1569
01:25:16,159 --> 01:25:18,279
Speaker 2: You drove to love at that one time and you

1570
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:20,680
fried bean burritos. We went to that gas station yesterday.

1571
01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:25,359
They weren't fried burritos there. I didn't have anything zilch

1572
01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:31,399
in Florida. Nope. Kso on seven outy case So, what's

1573
01:25:31,439 --> 01:25:34,079
the matter with you? Quick question?

1574
01:25:34,199 --> 01:25:35,840
Speaker 3: What do you guys think about people?

1575
01:25:36,079 --> 01:25:38,840
Speaker 8: People who check their food and the drive through after

1576
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:39,880
getting their food.

1577
01:25:40,079 --> 01:25:43,359
Speaker 2: One hundred percent for it, one hundred percent for Okay,

1578
01:25:43,399 --> 01:25:45,439
I'm gonna say the same thing. Sorry, I gotta check

1579
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:46,079
what I paid for?

1580
01:25:49,239 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 5: Man, what the hell was all that crap?

1581
01:25:54,119 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 3: Tell you all you are mister.

1582
01:25:55,239 --> 01:25:59,319
Speaker 2: Texas, Thank you, Thank you. A man called what, a

1583
01:25:59,319 --> 01:26:01,600
man named Casey So calls me mister Texas. That's all

1584
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:05,039
the validity I need. Oh look we got we got

1585
01:26:05,039 --> 01:26:08,800
a full offensive line breakdown from Chris Gordy. Oh no,

1586
01:26:10,119 --> 01:26:12,199
let's go. We need people listening to the show. We

1587
01:26:12,239 --> 01:26:15,760
don't be able tuning it off like this. People like

1588
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:21,159
Texans Talk and Draft Talk. Matt not in February. M

1589
01:26:22,399 --> 01:26:23,920
all right, what's he gonna do it? Twelve and a

1590
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:26,239
half an hour he sent us an email. Oh, he

1591
01:26:26,279 --> 01:26:27,600
gave us the line. You guys are we got a

1592
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:30,239
full breakdown. All right, the news at noon coming up

1593
01:26:30,279 --> 01:26:34,039
with se C flavored offensive lineman. You're gonna break down

1594
01:26:34,319 --> 01:26:39,800
all I e vega e from Penn State. That's what

1595
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:42,720
separates us from the rest of stations in town Scott

1596
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:44,520
and river Oaks. Scott, what's the matter with you?

1597
01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:51,039
Speaker 12: How was Palm Beach? I was so busy last three

1598
01:26:51,079 --> 01:26:53,239
days I barely got to I didn't get to hear

1599
01:26:53,279 --> 01:26:55,800
as much of the show I would have liked.

1600
01:26:56,319 --> 01:26:59,119
Speaker 2: How was Scott? Scott? Scott, shut your bumb mess up. Scott.

1601
01:26:59,119 --> 01:27:01,359
Speaker 13: We let you go up man.

1602
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,600
Speaker 12: I went to UH spring training last year. I have

1603
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:08,079
a buddy that lives in West Palm Beach, so I

1604
01:27:08,159 --> 01:27:11,119
stayed with him. That's beautiful spot. If you guys, I

1605
01:27:11,199 --> 01:27:14,000
want to pitch in on pitch purchasing some real estate

1606
01:27:14,039 --> 01:27:16,079
down there in like their downtown area by one of

1607
01:27:16,079 --> 01:27:18,680
those mansions, so we can go to spring training and play.

1608
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,640
Speaker 3: Golf with with Jim every year.

1609
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:21,279
Speaker 12: Just let me know.

1610
01:27:21,359 --> 01:27:22,600
Speaker 14: We can see if we can make it work.

1611
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:27,600
Speaker 15: But what I don't got time for. Uh, I'm tired

1612
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:30,359
of this idea of floating Eastauk was there? Did you

1613
01:27:30,359 --> 01:27:33,840
guys hear any any possibility of trying him out in

1614
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:35,840
left field for eighty games a year while all were

1615
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:38,600
down there? I mean not Dana not being able to

1616
01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:40,720
trade this guy and then now making him feel isolated

1617
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:42,239
about part of the team.

1618
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 12: I don't know if that was the vibe y'all got.

1619
01:27:43,840 --> 01:27:47,319
Speaker 2: We all were there, but Scott was, and thank you

1620
01:27:47,359 --> 01:27:49,359
for the phone calling, give the news and news that

1621
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:55,840
was he's going to be traded that you got the

1622
01:27:55,840 --> 01:27:58,560
same thing. Yeah. By the way, someone on Instagram not me, man,

1623
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:07,119
this is not me. Somebody's asking did you say wider palette? No? Wider? Okay,

1624
01:28:07,319 --> 01:28:09,600
we just want a clarification. Let me tell you, y'all,

1625
01:28:10,279 --> 01:28:13,720
if you ain't eating fried bean burritos when you go

1626
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:16,359
get your lottery tickets in your gas, you ain't part

1627
01:28:16,399 --> 01:28:21,279
of Texas shit. Obam mass up man exactly. Oh that's

1628
01:28:21,319 --> 01:28:29,359
to you, oh man, I'm gonna tell you all something.

1629
01:28:29,399 --> 01:28:32,159
When I get back to town on Sunday, I'm gonna

1630
01:28:32,159 --> 01:28:33,640
go to that gas station than when I go to

1631
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:36,560
on North Park and Kingwood. Yes, and I'm gonna pump

1632
01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:39,439
get some gas. I'm gonna go in and get the

1633
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:41,479
bean breed. I'm gonna eat it live on Instagram. No,

1634
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:44,880
We're good and it's gonna show you again what I

1635
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,399
represent the Lone Star state better than anybody else in

1636
01:28:47,439 --> 01:28:51,079
the marketplace. Ridiculous. Twelve oh two The News at noon.

1637
01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:54,520
Speaker 1: His Neck's the mac Thomas Show with.

1638
01:28:54,720 --> 01:29:02,359
Speaker 2: Ross inn h Town. Our number three of the Mack

1639
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:06,800
Tamba Show with Ross begins with the News at noon.

1640
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:16,359
Ylse Matthew. We start the News at noon talking about

1641
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:21,720
the Winter Olympics as now Canada and United States are

1642
01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:25,159
facing off in the women's hockey gold medal game. You'll

1643
01:29:25,199 --> 01:29:28,760
be getting a live updates matt from I don't know somebody.

1644
01:29:29,319 --> 01:29:35,239
It starts in about ten minutes. Who you got, Tmusa.

1645
01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:38,920
That seems about right all right. Elsewhere the News at noon,

1646
01:29:39,039 --> 01:29:42,000
Rockets are back in action from the All Star break,

1647
01:29:42,159 --> 01:29:45,960
as are you, Matthew taking on the Charlotte Hornets. LaMelo

1648
01:29:46,079 --> 01:29:50,560
Ball expected to play despite his accident that he caused

1649
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:54,439
in the streets of North Carolina. Rockets holding as four

1650
01:29:54,479 --> 01:30:00,600
and a half point favorites in this game, you have

1651
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:06,159
who suspended, Mussa Diabat and who else Miles Bridges, Miles Bridges.

1652
01:30:07,439 --> 01:30:11,479
Miles Bridges is suspended, as is Mussa Diabate. I feel

1653
01:30:11,479 --> 01:30:16,119
like they should be a rested and refreshed Houston Rockets

1654
01:30:16,119 --> 01:30:19,680
team as they take on the Charlotte Hornets tonight and

1655
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:21,920
then they will take on the New York and Knicks

1656
01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:25,359
on Saturday. Yeah, back to every other day schedule for

1657
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:28,479
the forseable figure. Still, I think there's six sets of

1658
01:30:28,520 --> 01:30:30,079
backs to backs between down the end of the year.

1659
01:30:30,119 --> 01:30:34,760
By the way, Yeah, that seems ridiculous because there's only

1660
01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:37,920
like thirty something games I know, so over a third

1661
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:46,760
of those are going to be back to backs. Fine,

1662
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:50,439
it was fun hanging out with you, that's all right. Well,

1663
01:30:51,079 --> 01:30:55,000
it'd be a long playoff run too, hopefully I hope

1664
01:30:55,039 --> 01:30:58,359
so too. I'm all for that, all right. What else

1665
01:30:58,439 --> 01:31:01,079
is going on in the Major leagues? Baseball Players Association

1666
01:31:01,199 --> 01:31:05,600
have quickly moved to name Tony Clark's successor as they

1667
01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:11,039
announced a unanimously elected Bruce Meyer as their new interim

1668
01:31:11,159 --> 01:31:16,199
executive director. Their voting board is made up of seventy

1669
01:31:16,199 --> 01:31:19,600
two major and minor league players elected by their teammates

1670
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:24,600
on two year terms of service. For those who are

1671
01:31:24,640 --> 01:31:27,960
unaware of the representative for the Houston Astros is Hunter Brown.

1672
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:32,600
I was very surprised what we found out about that. Yes,

1673
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:34,600
I mean he's kind of young, but he's an ace

1674
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:38,319
and it seems very intelligent. So in years past had

1675
01:31:38,319 --> 01:31:40,319
been less colors junior. I can't remember who else, but

1676
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:45,960
it is Hunter Brown. As the NFLPA board appoints Bruce

1677
01:31:46,039 --> 01:31:49,239
Myers at Meyer as interim executive director, expected at some

1678
01:31:49,279 --> 01:31:52,399
point he will be full time executive director as the

1679
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:58,960
successor to Tony Clark. As it looks like both sides

1680
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:02,439
playing to the public talking about the owners and the players.

1681
01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:05,680
Chris Bassett, we mentioned this early in the show, one

1682
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:07,840
of the latest to fire back at the idea of

1683
01:32:07,880 --> 01:32:11,560
a salary cap in Major League Baseball. He says, the

1684
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:16,720
salary cap is not the issue, having suppressed salaries across

1685
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:23,319
the league, So sorry, my patriot, fresh by itself, having

1686
01:32:23,520 --> 01:32:26,000
suppressed salaries across the league so owners can make more

1687
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:30,760
money is not the answer. You brought up the Patriots

1688
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:33,159
in the NFL, and also said the Chiefs have been

1689
01:32:33,159 --> 01:32:35,560
to six or seven Super Bowls, Eagles going to super

1690
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:38,199
Bowls over and over again. He said the parody in

1691
01:32:38,319 --> 01:32:42,720
Major League Baseball is better than any other sport. First

1692
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:46,279
blush poll question for you ready for this? Okay? And

1693
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:48,439
not holding you too. That's not even a gut feeling.

1694
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:53,720
Please don't the over under of number of games being

1695
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:57,079
played in twenty twenty seven. I put the number at

1696
01:32:57,239 --> 01:33:02,920
sixty one games. Okay? Good? Now, the number that popped

1697
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:05,000
in my head when you asked was one hundred, so

1698
01:33:05,039 --> 01:33:10,119
I will say over okay. Did I think once you

1699
01:33:10,159 --> 01:33:14,479
start yeah, covid. I think once you start getting under

1700
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:20,560
one hundred though, okay, So I said sixteen, Yeah, you're

1701
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:24,039
taking the over up. I will take the over Okay.

1702
01:33:24,359 --> 01:33:26,920
I would lean over too. I think if you missed

1703
01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:31,119
an entire season, you could have long Now again, the

1704
01:33:31,119 --> 01:33:33,560
owners are obviously much more prepared for this than the

1705
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:36,920
players are. Although if you're making crazy money, you look

1706
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:39,239
twenty five million dollars or till twenty fillion dollars, you're losing.

1707
01:33:39,279 --> 01:33:43,680
But if you're making that ridiculous money. You're doing it,

1708
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:45,199
you've done it for a long period of time, But

1709
01:33:45,199 --> 01:33:48,680
that's money you'll also never get back too. Yeah, And

1710
01:33:48,760 --> 01:33:50,399
I think the more I think about this, I mean,

1711
01:33:50,880 --> 01:33:53,640
why should the Dodgers spend as much as Tampas as

1712
01:33:53,680 --> 01:33:57,119
Tampa Bay Rays. I kind of get the player's side

1713
01:33:57,159 --> 01:34:01,760
on this. Well, they're also the owners are saying that

1714
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:06,239
as long we want to put a cap on ourselves

1715
01:34:06,319 --> 01:34:10,000
because we don't want everybody coming to us and saying, hey,

1716
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:11,840
we'll just went in doubt, We'll go to the Dodgers

1717
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:17,600
and play. Yeah, they want to use the cap as

1718
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:22,000
an excuse to say we can only spend so much. Yeah.

1719
01:34:22,039 --> 01:34:24,439
But but you know, to the player's perspective on this,

1720
01:34:24,560 --> 01:34:26,840
nobody's forcing the Dodgers to pay all this money. Nobody's

1721
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:30,079
demanding that the Dodgers overspend to get Kyle Tucker and

1722
01:34:30,119 --> 01:34:32,760
show Hey Otani and Freddie Freeman and all those kind of guys.

1723
01:34:33,079 --> 01:34:36,880
They're doing this on their own. Yeah. And one more

1724
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:43,039
quick news item, Matt with the Olympics Australian reporter Danica Mason.

1725
01:34:43,079 --> 01:34:45,439
Are you familiar with her work, Matt, Nope, let me

1726
01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:48,840
ask you this is it worthy? Of a Google search. Well,

1727
01:34:49,039 --> 01:34:51,800
she's from Australian, she's on TV. What do you think

1728
01:34:52,359 --> 01:34:55,720
I would? She's attractive? Okay, well she has to have.

1729
01:34:56,039 --> 01:35:00,399
She has issued an apology after getting all on air

1730
01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:04,000
while being a little drunk during the Olympics and randomly

1731
01:35:04,039 --> 01:35:10,039
talking about iguanas she was slurring her words on the

1732
01:35:10,079 --> 01:35:14,520
live Winter Olympic broadcasts. Having totally misjudged, she said drinking

1733
01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:22,520
alcohol before appearing on camera. Well, when was she judging

1734
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:29,359
it was gonna be okay to do that? I don't know, Matt. Now,

1735
01:35:29,359 --> 01:35:30,760
I might have had a cold win or two. That

1736
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:33,640
was you know, what's the statue of limitations on this?

1737
01:35:34,159 --> 01:35:36,600
It was the twenty twenty two World Series celebration show

1738
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:39,439
when we were on to three am after ten o'clock.

1739
01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:41,239
You can drink as much as you want. Okay, good,

1740
01:35:41,399 --> 01:35:43,239
because let me tell you something. When the Astros sucked,

1741
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:47,520
you know, I got that marketing machine out. Good. I

1742
01:35:47,760 --> 01:35:49,279
didn't even hide it at that point. I was like,

1743
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:51,720
you're making me do one hundred postgame shows of a

1744
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:55,000
team that's losing one hundred games. Yeah, I'm having a cocktail. Okay,

1745
01:35:55,039 --> 01:35:56,680
Well I found her Instagram and you have lost me

1746
01:35:56,720 --> 01:35:58,920
for the segment. So all right, that's the news to do.

1747
01:35:59,039 --> 01:36:01,840
Thank you very much for that. Twelve fourteen is a

1748
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:06,600
time we are going to hopefully between the two of

1749
01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:08,560
us and the great listeners of the Matt Thomas Old

1750
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:13,800
Ross try to end this ridiculous is CJ Strout on

1751
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:18,560
the trademarket. Let's cuss and discuss next twelve fourteen on

1752
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:22,479
Sports Talk seven nighty. All right, we're gott to end

1753
01:36:22,479 --> 01:36:25,640
this nonsense of CJ. Strout's trade talk. But Ross was

1754
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:29,319
able to dig deep into the audio vault that is

1755
01:36:29,439 --> 01:36:32,319
the ever growing iHeart sports networking. We found the young

1756
01:36:32,399 --> 01:36:35,279
lady that works for the Australian TV network correct Channel

1757
01:36:35,359 --> 01:36:38,600
nine Sports in Australia or her name is Danica Mason,

1758
01:36:38,680 --> 01:36:39,800
Matt Judge.

1759
01:36:39,920 --> 01:36:45,800
Speaker 7: The drunkenness literally the like the price of coffee under

1760
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:49,479
here is actually fine. It's more of the priceive coffee

1761
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:51,399
in the US that we are going to have to

1762
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:55,560
get used to. I'm not sure that the Iguanas, where

1763
01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:58,600
are we going with that one? But anyway, let's get

1764
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:01,359
into today's quote because there is splendy happening back home.

1765
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,600
We're going to start off with some actual Brisbane Rocos

1766
01:37:05,279 --> 01:37:09,680
gearing from the actually their trip to the US at

1767
01:37:09,720 --> 01:37:13,239
the UK rather because Rice Walsh has stolen the show.

1768
01:37:14,119 --> 01:37:16,840
He of course did that in the last few ASH series,

1769
01:37:17,319 --> 01:37:22,560
crowning for four tries and claiming England's fans but rich

1770
01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:26,119
out of the UK just three months following that UK

1771
01:37:27,039 --> 01:37:29,359
Club Challenge.

1772
01:37:33,239 --> 01:37:37,479
Speaker 2: I've heard worse. No, I can't know. It was not

1773
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:41,680
formulating sentences. She started talking about sometimes tended to work

1774
01:37:42,119 --> 01:37:49,800
that as well. We're sober. You started talking about iguanas

1775
01:37:51,079 --> 01:37:54,239
and coffy coffee prices, which, yeah, I guess they're high

1776
01:37:54,279 --> 01:37:56,479
in America. I don't you know what that you can

1777
01:37:56,479 --> 01:37:58,520
get the best coffee for the value is? That is

1778
01:37:58,520 --> 01:38:02,159
the old rim rtins in camp. That's what I heard. Yeah,

1779
01:38:02,159 --> 01:38:05,039
that's what you and you and Lopie were talking about. Yes,

1780
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:08,920
Joe cook two cake, donuts and a coffee for three dollars?

1781
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:15,520
Are you kidding me? Delicious? All right? So did she

1782
01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:18,479
lose her job? Suspended or just admonish? What was her

1783
01:38:18,520 --> 01:38:21,800
penalty does she have? She has just issued an apology.

1784
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:24,479
I have not seen anything about her losing her job.

1785
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:30,079
I mean, I'll be honest with y'all, and I don't

1786
01:38:30,079 --> 01:38:33,359
want to besmirched names, so I'm gonna keep it name

1787
01:38:33,479 --> 01:38:37,119
free in this. Some of your favorite TV anchors when

1788
01:38:37,119 --> 01:38:39,840
you were growing up as a kid would go to

1789
01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:44,920
many a lounge in between the six and ten newscast.

1790
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:48,520
I don't have a couple of pops. M Yeah, she

1791
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:50,880
said she should not have a head of drink and

1792
01:38:50,920 --> 01:38:59,439
she was cold and an altitude altitude and had skipped dinner. Okay,

1793
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:05,840
well that makes a lot of sense. Now, that makes

1794
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:09,880
a lot of sense. All right, Ross, can we are

1795
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:12,319
we gonna have to and I know the boys in

1796
01:39:12,359 --> 01:39:15,479
the morning we're talking about this today. Do we need

1797
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:18,439
to crucify Top mcshafe for bringing up this whole c J.

1798
01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:21,800
Stroud trade conversation? We played the audio people, we crucify

1799
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:25,319
the people who ran with it. Because he's doing a podcast.

1800
01:39:25,439 --> 01:39:27,119
He's like, yeah, you know you think of these trade

1801
01:39:27,159 --> 01:39:29,560
candidates like, I don't know, maybe c J. Stroud. It's

1802
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:31,800
basically the way it came off to me. It wasn't

1803
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:35,680
like sources close to me say CDJ Stroud is on

1804
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:38,159
the trade block. You float out a name of a

1805
01:39:38,239 --> 01:39:42,039
quarterback who struggled and could possibly thrive every elsewhere, and

1806
01:39:42,079 --> 01:39:45,399
then all the aggregators and content creators. They jump on

1807
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:49,680
it and make entire shows and videos and all that stuff.

1808
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:52,720
And this is just the nature of sports media in

1809
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:54,920
twenty twenty six. There's so much of it. Yeah, you

1810
01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:56,760
have to think of new ways. I mean, because let's

1811
01:39:56,800 --> 01:40:00,800
be honest, it's not a really robust time, uh for

1812
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:03,600
sports we don't have I mean, the NBA doesn't necessarily

1813
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:05,880
move the needle. The Olympics are cool, but it doesn't

1814
01:40:05,880 --> 01:40:07,920
move the needle you're I mean, if you if you're

1815
01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:10,079
watching the TV shows, they're getting into a lot of

1816
01:40:10,239 --> 01:40:13,239
hypotheticals on the NFL front. Like I turned I literally

1817
01:40:13,279 --> 01:40:15,279
turned down ESPN this morning. I want to woke up

1818
01:40:15,760 --> 01:40:18,800
and it was Is it a bad sign if Lamar

1819
01:40:18,920 --> 01:40:24,600
Jackson does not attend OTAs with the Baltimore Ravens. That's

1820
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:30,960
why doing national sports is depressing. We can always find

1821
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:32,560
some nibble of the thing to get to on the

1822
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:35,359
Houston side of things, but could you imagine having to

1823
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:38,000
go in now, Graham. We're probably probably making six times

1824
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:40,800
that we're making ross. Yeah, putting on some makeup and saying, hey,

1825
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:43,880
can you go two segments about whether or not Lamar

1826
01:40:43,960 --> 01:40:47,880
Jackson should show up at OTAs. Yeah, I would like

1827
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:51,279
to get whatever salary Jason McIntyre is getting from Fox

1828
01:40:51,279 --> 01:40:53,800
to go on and say, Mike Evans hasn't sniffed a

1829
01:40:53,800 --> 01:41:04,159
Super Bowl. M Yeah, that's not great. That would be

1830
01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:09,760
Super Bowl champion, correct with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers

1831
01:41:10,079 --> 01:41:19,000
within the last six years, yes, twenty twenty one. Mm. Yeah,

1832
01:41:19,039 --> 01:41:23,039
I mean we get stuff wrong, oh my god. Yeah,

1833
01:41:23,640 --> 01:41:25,439
and we don't want to get things wrong. But you know,

1834
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:29,800
when you're it's just but when you hire so authoritative,

1835
01:41:30,079 --> 01:41:33,039
like the national folks are always so much more authoritatives.

1836
01:41:33,319 --> 01:41:37,680
Local guy, I think I know everything nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1837
01:41:37,680 --> 01:41:42,239
that's exactly right. Okay, so get Bayless. Well he's doing

1838
01:41:42,239 --> 01:41:45,800
a pot Steve eh and he's making thirty million dollars

1839
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:48,840
and he's doing great. He's Oh, by the way, did

1840
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:50,800
you see this? I forgot to mention this to you.

1841
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:54,720
Do you see what Pat McAfee's doing now?

1842
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:55,680
Speaker 1: No?

1843
01:41:55,760 --> 01:42:01,600
Speaker 2: I did not. He hired an entertainment agent. Okay. He

1844
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:05,199
wants to get into television and movies. Oh, like he

1845
01:42:05,239 --> 01:42:09,800
wants to be an actor. Correct, huh, you know, good

1846
01:42:09,800 --> 01:42:13,640
for him. He wants to become I don't know his

1847
01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:16,960
words or somebody that was involved with him the next

1848
01:42:17,279 --> 01:42:25,880
Sylvester Stallone. Stop Stop, what does that even mean? It

1849
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:28,079
wants to be like a Rambo remake. I mean he's

1850
01:42:28,079 --> 01:42:32,600
always got his guns out. Yeah, action figure kind of guy. Yeah,

1851
01:42:32,640 --> 01:42:34,640
for sure. You know what, you only get one life,

1852
01:42:35,079 --> 01:42:37,680
and Pat McAfee's trying to live his best life. I'm

1853
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:39,279
wishing him the best on his journey to be the

1854
01:42:39,319 --> 01:42:44,600
next movie superstar. It's not gonna happen. What all you

1855
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:46,319
can do in life is try, So I'm wishing him

1856
01:42:46,319 --> 01:42:49,560
the best. I mean he's doing very Look he's he's

1857
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:53,560
transformed sports television. Yeah, how though, is what does he

1858
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:57,279
do that's so different? I guess I just well, it's swearing. Okay,

1859
01:42:58,319 --> 01:43:01,319
it's brosky swearing, and and there's a segment of population

1860
01:43:01,399 --> 01:43:05,520
that likes that kind of stuff. I can tell you

1861
01:43:05,560 --> 01:43:09,399
that years ago, all my son's friends, which are you know,

1862
01:43:09,479 --> 01:43:12,760
twenty two twenty three years old, thought Pat McAfee was

1863
01:43:12,800 --> 01:43:18,359
the greatest thing since sliced bread. But then it wears

1864
01:43:18,399 --> 01:43:21,960
on you. And it's when you don't reinvent yourself, when

1865
01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:24,079
you're the same, it's the same stick every day. I mean,

1866
01:43:24,079 --> 01:43:28,279
putting on Gronkowski or Brady or JJ Wattie. It kind

1867
01:43:28,319 --> 01:43:32,239
of just kind of runs it out of gas. And

1868
01:43:32,319 --> 01:43:34,920
so though that twenty two to twenty three year old

1869
01:43:35,319 --> 01:43:38,960
doesn't find Pat McAfee nearly isn't endearing or is entertaining

1870
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:40,800
and is funny as it does, it's a twenty six

1871
01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:43,359
or twenty seven. That can be said for a lot

1872
01:43:43,359 --> 01:43:45,479
of things. I mean, people grow up and grow out

1873
01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:48,399
of certain things, but that you know, look, uh, the

1874
01:43:48,439 --> 01:43:50,920
best thing that Pat does, to his credit, he has

1875
01:43:51,479 --> 01:43:55,479
kickstarted Game Day. I mean, when Lee Corso was down

1876
01:43:55,520 --> 01:44:00,680
the home stretch of his career, Pat McAfee an energy.

1877
01:44:00,920 --> 01:44:04,239
The kicking contest that he does on Saturdays. It's a

1878
01:44:04,319 --> 01:44:08,760
huge part of their show. He does have he does

1879
01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:11,000
have a niche and he does and there is some

1880
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:16,479
talent to that. But yeah, just going on your TV

1881
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:18,439
show and swearing and having a bunch of your guys

1882
01:44:18,439 --> 01:44:20,239
on who by the way, you're paying to have his guess,

1883
01:44:20,279 --> 01:44:22,880
I mean Aaron Rodgers wasn't doing it for the kindness

1884
01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:24,199
of his heart. He was being paid a lot of

1885
01:44:24,239 --> 01:44:27,520
money and you know there was a good return on that.

1886
01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:33,640
But yeah, Pat McAfee doing movies, I mean he's he

1887
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:36,159
seems like he could at least try it, right, I mean,

1888
01:44:36,199 --> 01:44:38,359
I don't I don't blame him trying to do this.

1889
01:44:38,560 --> 01:44:41,479
Can you think of one successful person that's gone from

1890
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:46,520
sports media into acting and been successful or sports athletes? Yeah,

1891
01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:48,680
I guess sports athletes. I guess we can think of

1892
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:50,439
a bunch, but I think of him. I guess more

1893
01:44:50,439 --> 01:44:52,239
of a media person at this point.

1894
01:44:52,279 --> 01:44:54,039
Speaker 9: Would you count Stephen that Smith to be on that

1895
01:44:54,079 --> 01:44:56,840
show he's on that he's on the was it Guiding

1896
01:44:56,880 --> 01:44:57,479
Light or whatever?

1897
01:44:57,680 --> 01:45:00,880
Speaker 2: General Hospital? Come on now? Around for a long time?

1898
01:45:00,960 --> 01:45:03,159
I'm sorry, I know we have. I tuned to our

1899
01:45:03,279 --> 01:45:06,119
resident expert on sober much better.

1900
01:45:07,039 --> 01:45:07,279
Speaker 4: I know.

1901
01:45:07,439 --> 01:45:09,600
Speaker 2: Mister steven A is gonna go run for president? Apparently

1902
01:45:09,600 --> 01:45:12,199
it sounds like, no, he's not. I mean, he is

1903
01:45:12,239 --> 01:45:14,960
doing a lot of political stuff. He is, he knows.

1904
01:45:18,239 --> 01:45:22,760
Oh god, well he doesn't have my vote because I'm

1905
01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:24,680
not voting for no. I will literally vote for it

1906
01:45:24,840 --> 01:45:30,159
literally anybody opposite. Literally am not voting. So okay, all right,

1907
01:45:30,199 --> 01:45:34,800
so really quick to wrap this up? Uh? Do you?

1908
01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:37,079
Cassara's got to be laughing his ass off right when

1909
01:45:37,079 --> 01:45:38,880
he's seeing these things, because you know, you know, he's

1910
01:45:38,880 --> 01:45:40,760
seeing He he may be saying he's not seeing it,

1911
01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:45,520
but he's really seeing it. Yeah, he's got He's gotta

1912
01:45:45,520 --> 01:45:54,239
be because even if you are the biggest CJ non defender,

1913
01:45:55,319 --> 01:45:59,560
you're not going to just trade a guy for two

1914
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:06,279
lives playoff games. If CJ was terrible the entire season

1915
01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:10,479
and underperformed and basically didn't get you to the promise

1916
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:13,560
line like going to the playoffs, then I could see

1917
01:46:13,560 --> 01:46:16,079
this being a more of a of a decent conversation.

1918
01:46:18,079 --> 01:46:20,960
He just never matched what he did in the first year,

1919
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:24,680
and that's what people are looking for. And here's the

1920
01:46:24,760 --> 01:46:26,600
thing to be a CJ defender if you want to

1921
01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:29,119
be for a second, there's no reason why he can't

1922
01:46:29,119 --> 01:46:30,439
go back and be that what he was a couple

1923
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:33,520
of years ago. But he's done it once unless you're

1924
01:46:33,560 --> 01:46:37,319
of the belief that the injuries have cost him some

1925
01:46:37,479 --> 01:46:41,520
of that twitch that made him so special, or that

1926
01:46:41,640 --> 01:46:44,279
other teams have been able to figure him out. And

1927
01:46:44,319 --> 01:46:47,520
that's why I think this upcoming year for the Texans

1928
01:46:47,520 --> 01:46:49,199
will be the important year because you'll be able to

1929
01:46:49,199 --> 01:46:52,399
answer both of those questions. Twelve thirty It's a Matt

1930
01:46:52,399 --> 01:46:55,079
Thomas showld Ross Sports Talk seven. I me, Ross, what

1931
01:46:55,159 --> 01:46:59,439
is today's edition to believe or not? What? Yeah, we're

1932
01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:01,119
doing that. We have we have a we have a

1933
01:47:01,159 --> 01:47:02,640
lot of prize and giveaway today.

1934
01:47:03,119 --> 01:47:03,359
Speaker 11: Nothing.

1935
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:08,760
Speaker 2: What did we say? Didn't some people die recently? I

1936
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:13,239
would presume a lot of people have died recently. Easy e.

1937
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:16,720
He's been dead a long time. Robert Duvall passed Robert Duvall,

1938
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:22,800
and then somebody else famous, I thought, I can't remember.

1939
01:47:23,319 --> 01:47:25,159
I also wanted we could do Astros players, so I

1940
01:47:25,159 --> 01:47:28,039
gotta got good information on that. You wander that too,

1941
01:47:28,079 --> 01:47:29,960
what's up to you? We got at spring training. Yeah.

1942
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:31,439
And by the way, tomorrow on the show, we are

1943
01:47:31,479 --> 01:47:33,640
allowed to talk about Florida stories because we were in

1944
01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:36,199
the state of Florida this week. Oh that's right, So

1945
01:47:36,239 --> 01:47:39,239
I'm very excited about that. That'll be Jonathan. That'll be

1946
01:47:39,279 --> 01:47:41,159
the easiest search for you all ever been doing your entire

1947
01:47:41,159 --> 01:47:43,039
life looking for a crazy crap that happened in the

1948
01:47:43,039 --> 01:47:46,239
state of Florida. That's Roger seven one three two one

1949
01:47:46,279 --> 01:47:48,720
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

1950
01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:51,560
five seven ninety It is Matt Ross Jonathan with us here.

1951
01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:54,640
We're here at two o'clock. It is the Matten Ross

1952
01:47:54,640 --> 01:47:59,159
Show here from Charlotte on Sports Talk seven ninety Matt

1953
01:47:59,199 --> 01:48:02,279
and Ross with your Well thirty five. It is Sports

1954
01:48:02,319 --> 01:48:05,960
Talk Sevenati. It was fun talk. It's a Masters Baseball

1955
01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:11,000
with you folks the last to three days. So storylines

1956
01:48:11,039 --> 01:48:14,119
that Ross and I came up with that were not

1957
01:48:14,159 --> 01:48:17,479
necessarily organic to just us, but everybody was the infield

1958
01:48:17,479 --> 01:48:22,680
looks like it's playing nice, but there is a It's

1959
01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:24,960
not Ross, it's not a dark cloud. It's not They're

1960
01:48:25,039 --> 01:48:30,119
they're professionals, they get it. There is value, an extra depth,

1961
01:48:30,199 --> 01:48:36,560
for sure, but when you are void in one particular

1962
01:48:36,560 --> 01:48:38,880
part of the game and strong in the other, you

1963
01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:41,640
don't normally go into the season going well. Our outfield

1964
01:48:41,640 --> 01:48:43,960
offense may be horrible. At least we have an extra infielder.

1965
01:48:44,479 --> 01:48:46,680
That's the reason why I think there will be phone

1966
01:48:46,680 --> 01:48:49,119
calls made. It may not be during spring training, it

1967
01:48:49,159 --> 01:48:50,880
may not be during the start of the regular season,

1968
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:57,720
but I would be completely and utterly shocked if Esak

1969
01:48:57,760 --> 01:49:04,479
Pretts come August first as wearing Houston Astros uniform. Yeah,

1970
01:49:04,720 --> 01:49:07,399
it would be the all time I'm saying all time

1971
01:49:07,439 --> 01:49:09,039
shocking moment, but it would be one of the all

1972
01:49:09,199 --> 01:49:14,760
time shocking. Of course, think of the always caveat barring

1973
01:49:14,800 --> 01:49:19,760
out of injuries, right right, that's right. Other takeaways, at

1974
01:49:19,840 --> 01:49:21,119
least for me, and I'll let you jump in on

1975
01:49:21,159 --> 01:49:23,520
a couple of these as well, that the corner outfield

1976
01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:27,960
spots are still very much up for grabs. There is

1977
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:31,600
a lot of pitching for his team, and there's a

1978
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:34,600
lot of guys probably bumping around in that clubhouse. Ross.

1979
01:49:34,600 --> 01:49:36,319
I think they're the number four or five starters, that

1980
01:49:36,359 --> 01:49:38,119
they're going to be probably the one or two starters

1981
01:49:38,119 --> 01:49:41,319
at Sugar Lane, if it makes sense to you. I

1982
01:49:41,359 --> 01:49:43,439
think they're still looking for a left handed bet. Dana

1983
01:49:43,479 --> 01:49:46,000
Brown is not hidden that notion as part of what

1984
01:49:46,039 --> 01:49:49,159
he's looking for. I think that they're going to probably

1985
01:49:49,239 --> 01:49:51,159
still try to kick the tires. Maybe I'm getting a

1986
01:49:51,159 --> 01:49:55,399
little additional depth of the catcher spot. Caesar salas Are

1987
01:49:55,840 --> 01:49:57,960
has never shown an ability to be a long term

1988
01:49:58,039 --> 01:50:01,600
number two for in his career, so as he gets

1989
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:03,439
longer in the tooth and his more experienced, I can't

1990
01:50:03,439 --> 01:50:06,239
imagine that being a plan. Uh. And we got to

1991
01:50:06,319 --> 01:50:07,479
keep an eye on a couple of the things in

1992
01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:09,920
the injury front. One is when you know, Ole jan

1993
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:13,720
Air Diez Bill start running soon, he can hit, he

1994
01:50:13,800 --> 01:50:17,760
can catch, but that's just sixty six percent of the game.

1995
01:50:18,239 --> 01:50:21,119
And then ultimately, you know, when does Josh Hader start

1996
01:50:21,159 --> 01:50:22,880
to test things a little bit more than just throwing

1997
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:26,079
on flat ground from ninety feet. But for me, all

1998
01:50:26,119 --> 01:50:30,359
things considered, now, the first storyline is the biggest one.

1999
01:50:30,560 --> 01:50:32,319
It's and it's been a storyline the Astros have had

2000
01:50:32,359 --> 01:50:34,399
for several months. This is nothing out of the ordinary.

2001
01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:39,720
But for me, this first storyline, as big as it is,

2002
01:50:39,760 --> 01:50:41,399
the rest of the stuff is kind of stuff that

2003
01:50:41,399 --> 01:50:45,159
every team's kind of going through right now. Yeah, there

2004
01:50:45,359 --> 01:50:47,640
certainly are a number of different stories, a lot of

2005
01:50:47,680 --> 01:50:55,399
it's not massive impacts to the season. And the good

2006
01:50:55,399 --> 01:50:58,640
thing to me is that you have answers to questions

2007
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:00,720
when you say, okay, well, who's gonna end up at

2008
01:51:00,720 --> 01:51:02,640
the back of the rotation, when you got like six answers,

2009
01:51:02,880 --> 01:51:05,279
who's gonna be in the outfield? You have answers. You

2010
01:51:05,279 --> 01:51:06,680
don't know who it's gonna be, you don't know who's

2011
01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:09,479
gonna take over the reins, you don't know how good

2012
01:51:09,520 --> 01:51:12,520
everyone's gonna be. But at least if you go to

2013
01:51:12,600 --> 01:51:14,399
Dana Brown and say, what's your plan here? There's a

2014
01:51:14,439 --> 01:51:16,479
plan A, plan B and a plan and C. It

2015
01:51:16,520 --> 01:51:19,479
feels like with all these types of things that were

2016
01:51:19,479 --> 01:51:21,720
talking about, and then when you bring it to the infield,

2017
01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:24,479
there's a great plan A, and then a great plan

2018
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:27,159
B and C or whatever how you're gonna configure the infield.

2019
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:31,399
So most of the problems are are good problems to

2020
01:51:31,399 --> 01:51:33,800
where you don't think there's massive holes in the roster

2021
01:51:33,880 --> 01:51:36,199
where they're gonna take some kind of long shot for

2022
01:51:36,279 --> 01:51:39,560
something to happen for them to be good. Yeah, I'll

2023
01:51:39,560 --> 01:51:45,560
say this, I don't I love what could be a

2024
01:51:45,600 --> 01:51:48,680
fun season. I mean, I'm trying to think what we

2025
01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:52,000
how do we fill A year ago at this point,

2026
01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:54,600
we will You know what it was. We were just

2027
01:51:54,720 --> 01:52:00,159
talking about Kyle Tucker being traded. Yeah, and who is

2028
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:04,039
this Cam Smith? And who is this Hayden west Nesky?

2029
01:52:04,720 --> 01:52:06,159
And oh, by the way, you're getting rid of a

2030
01:52:06,199 --> 01:52:09,840
five to a player. We were all kind of shell shocked.

2031
01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:13,600
But then Cam had that great march and it became

2032
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:15,560
a huge Well, this guy's got to be on the

2033
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:18,159
baseball team. He's got to be in the opening day roster. Yeah,

2034
01:52:18,279 --> 01:52:21,119
I remember his story number one from from around this

2035
01:52:21,199 --> 01:52:22,760
time last year. It was out two. They move in

2036
01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:25,279
a left field, that's absolutely right, and the fact that

2037
01:52:25,319 --> 01:52:27,000
they had been working at it for several months. It

2038
01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:28,600
wasn't just something that he just showed up at Florida

2039
01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:33,119
and said, let's try this thing out right. It's interesting

2040
01:52:33,239 --> 01:52:37,680
that we're now on a spot where that has no

2041
01:52:37,760 --> 01:52:39,800
longer come in a conversation because you know, look, as

2042
01:52:39,840 --> 01:52:43,960
you know, great infield position players tend to move around.

2043
01:52:44,399 --> 01:52:47,680
Great catchers become ultimately first baseman towards end of their career.

2044
01:52:48,079 --> 01:52:50,800
Guys that go from shortstop that have an amazing range

2045
01:52:50,800 --> 01:52:54,880
wound up ending at third base. Carlos Carlos Korea being

2046
01:52:54,880 --> 01:52:57,439
your example that cal Rip can be maybe the ultimate

2047
01:52:57,640 --> 01:53:03,960
example of that. But to have Jose who's the metrics

2048
01:53:03,960 --> 01:53:06,600
were not great the last handful of years, wasn't just

2049
01:53:06,680 --> 01:53:09,479
last year, it was years before that going to try

2050
01:53:09,520 --> 01:53:12,720
something in the left field, because you're thinking, well, if

2051
01:53:12,720 --> 01:53:14,199
you're going to go put him in a if you're

2052
01:53:14,239 --> 01:53:16,359
going to take a minus defender working, he hurts you

2053
01:53:16,439 --> 01:53:20,359
the least. He goes out to the left field, tries it,

2054
01:53:20,960 --> 01:53:23,439
and probably nothing public has ever been said, but this

2055
01:53:23,479 --> 01:53:25,920
has got to be a situation that Jose said, like

2056
01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:28,000
I tried this and this is I don't want to

2057
01:53:28,039 --> 01:53:32,920
do it, and I'm hose Altuve. Hm. Right, I think so,

2058
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:38,600
because when he got back to second base last year,

2059
01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:41,640
it wasn't like he all of a sudden had his

2060
01:53:41,720 --> 01:53:45,680
additional range that he didn't have before. Right, he didn't

2061
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:48,920
catch the fountain of youth over there playing second base. No,

2062
01:53:49,239 --> 01:53:53,000
the numbers weren't weren't good there in a very short stint.

2063
01:53:53,159 --> 01:53:55,760
So the question, so the Astros have decided for a

2064
01:53:55,800 --> 01:53:57,359
guy that has met as much as he has for

2065
01:53:57,399 --> 01:54:01,560
this organization in you know, whether you want to call

2066
01:54:01,640 --> 01:54:03,399
him the greatest or the second greatest of all time,

2067
01:54:04,079 --> 01:54:06,600
he deserves the opportunity to play where he wants to play.

2068
01:54:07,239 --> 01:54:12,800
And he'll be thirty six on May sixth, thirty six

2069
01:54:12,880 --> 01:54:16,319
years old. Wow. I remember when he got called up

2070
01:54:17,279 --> 01:54:21,920
me too, like crazy in the minors. Oh yeah, and

2071
01:54:22,079 --> 01:54:25,039
moved up very fast too, right, I mean little stops

2072
01:54:25,039 --> 01:54:28,720
at each one of the three different spots. All right,

2073
01:54:28,800 --> 01:54:33,119
So but yeah, I don't I don't come away going,

2074
01:54:33,199 --> 01:54:36,479
oh my gosh, this is this crowded infield thing is

2075
01:54:36,520 --> 01:54:38,319
gonna be the worst thing in the world. I'm not

2076
01:54:38,359 --> 01:54:40,319
proposing that it stays this way. I want to make

2077
01:54:40,319 --> 01:54:44,000
sure I'm very clear on that, because I'm telling you

2078
01:54:44,199 --> 01:54:48,239
the moment that outfield slugs one home run per series,

2079
01:54:48,760 --> 01:54:51,079
you're gonna be screaming for some outfield help. You just

2080
01:54:51,159 --> 01:54:54,279
are now. The easiest thing can happen is if Zach

2081
01:54:54,359 --> 01:54:56,520
Cole can do what we thought he did in the

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01:54:56,560 --> 01:54:59,199
month of September, and obviously Cam Smith has a bounce

2083
01:54:59,279 --> 01:55:05,119
back second year, then you're really dealing with strings. That's

2084
01:55:05,159 --> 01:55:07,800
a huge if. At this point twelve forty three, it

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01:55:07,840 --> 01:55:09,760
is Mat and Ross. We are taking this program today

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01:55:09,840 --> 01:55:12,560
until two o'clock seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

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nine zero Rockets start the second half of their season.

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01:55:21,039 --> 01:55:25,439
Although today this is game number fifty four, so down

2090
01:55:25,479 --> 01:55:28,640
the twenty eight games left to go. What are your

2091
01:55:28,800 --> 01:55:30,840
expectations If you want to chime in on the Rockets,

2092
01:55:30,880 --> 01:55:32,760
I'd love to talk about the Rockets with you, guys.

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01:55:33,119 --> 01:55:39,960
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety twelve

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01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:42,199
four to nine of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross

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01:55:42,199 --> 01:55:44,880
seven one three two one two five seven ninety My

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01:55:44,960 --> 01:55:48,000
timeline for My friends of Chicago are all flipping out

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01:55:48,039 --> 01:55:50,880
ROSSI about the Bears taking one step closer to going

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01:55:50,920 --> 01:55:57,079
to Northwest Indiana. I can't. It's harder for us to fathom,

2099
01:55:57,079 --> 01:55:59,439
but could you. I mean, look, we the Giants and

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01:55:59,479 --> 01:56:01,399
Jets playing New Jersey, so that they've been doing that

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01:56:01,439 --> 01:56:03,640
for forty years. That's nothing out of the ordinary, and

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01:56:03,960 --> 01:56:06,279
not that like going to northwins Indiana. It's two hours

2103
01:56:06,279 --> 01:56:08,520
away from downtown Chicago, but it is still weird for

2104
01:56:08,520 --> 01:56:11,800
a team that has had so much history with Chicago

2105
01:56:11,920 --> 01:56:13,439
and Soldier Field that they're going to go out of

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01:56:13,720 --> 01:56:17,840
the verbs yeah and beloved and embraced. I mean, I

2107
01:56:17,880 --> 01:56:20,720
think they're the more recent one too. Is Kansas City.

2108
01:56:21,279 --> 01:56:25,359
I mean, the people in Kansas City love the Chiefs absolutely,

2109
01:56:25,760 --> 01:56:29,479
and they love them in Kansas too. It feels like,

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01:56:29,680 --> 01:56:32,279
I mean, it was shocking in itself that I mean,

2111
01:56:32,319 --> 01:56:34,600
did do they just keep asking for more and more money?

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01:56:34,680 --> 01:56:36,960
Is it? Is it Bud Adams style over there where

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01:56:37,000 --> 01:56:40,640
they keep losing all these votes where they're gonna have

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01:56:40,640 --> 01:56:45,479
to move from from Missouri to Kansas. Well, what it

2115
01:56:45,640 --> 01:56:51,520
is is they want what Jerry Jones has. They want

2116
01:56:51,560 --> 01:56:58,520
these monstrosity stadiums on cheaper land, and they want the

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01:56:59,119 --> 01:57:03,279
extra stuff around the restaurants, the club's, the hotels. Is

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01:57:03,319 --> 01:57:05,159
there a bunch of stuff around eighteen? I guess the

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01:57:05,199 --> 01:57:07,239
Texas Live stuff is not far from eighteen and T

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01:57:07,439 --> 01:57:11,840
It's pretty close. Yeah, you also have Jerry Jones on that. Yeah,

2121
01:57:11,880 --> 01:57:15,720
six Flags is over there. Yeah. Arlington is kind of

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01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:19,560
like the you know, the entertainment area of the Metroplex.

2123
01:57:22,680 --> 01:57:25,119
But I think the district in Atlanta where the Braves

2124
01:57:25,119 --> 01:57:28,399
play has made a huge difference for them as a franchise.

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01:57:29,720 --> 01:57:31,279
I thought I read recently that a lot of the

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01:57:31,319 --> 01:57:35,079
Texas Live restaurants were closing in Arlington. Well that's because

2127
01:57:35,159 --> 01:57:38,960
Arlington is just not great. Yeah, I mean, can you

2128
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:43,159
can build it and try? But I wonder I try. Yeah,

2129
01:57:43,159 --> 01:57:47,319
How's how's uh Pud Rodriguez's Taco Hut doing or whatever?

2130
01:57:48,079 --> 01:57:52,239
Why wouldn't it be like an Italian bistro? Mm there's

2131
01:57:52,520 --> 01:57:55,960
I think there's the uh Troy Aikman's eight, right, it's

2132
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:58,439
like a beer place or something. I was at DFW

2133
01:57:58,600 --> 01:58:01,359
last week and uh Drew person as an eighty eight restaurant,

2134
01:58:01,359 --> 01:58:03,000
and maybe they may have just paid for his name,

2135
01:58:03,039 --> 01:58:06,520
But you know, I'm something that true, true Drew Pearson,

2136
01:58:06,600 --> 01:58:09,920
not just going through the menu at the DFW Airport restaurant.

2137
01:58:10,159 --> 01:58:13,800
I think the Adulas Garcia Testosterone Clinic is doing very well.

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01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:21,079
Like god, oh wow, wow wow wow. But and I

2139
01:58:21,119 --> 01:58:25,279
feel like overcoming full circle on this because everybody thirty

2140
01:58:25,359 --> 01:58:27,520
years ago, ROSSI, when you were growing up and when

2141
01:58:27,560 --> 01:58:31,199
I was younger in this you were trying to refurbish

2142
01:58:31,239 --> 01:58:34,520
downtown and they're like, hey, we're good. Yeah, it was

2143
01:58:34,520 --> 01:58:36,479
a big deal when the Toyota Is the house that

2144
01:58:36,600 --> 01:58:40,319
Stevie built, was getting built downtown. Well, the first stadium

2145
01:58:40,359 --> 01:58:43,760
that was built like downtown downtown for baseball was the

2146
01:58:43,760 --> 01:58:47,039
Baltimore How they took the Camden Yards area and turned

2147
01:58:47,079 --> 01:58:49,479
into a big shopping and restaurant district, and they did

2148
01:58:49,520 --> 01:58:50,840
a good job with that. They were supposed to be

2149
01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:53,279
all these restaurants and bars popping up around this, I

2150
01:58:53,319 --> 01:58:57,960
mean minute made no nope, Toyota Center, no nope. I

2151
01:58:58,000 --> 01:58:59,520
mean I like rt RAR, but it's a couple of

2152
01:58:59,520 --> 01:59:06,359
blocks away your house Blues yep. Yeah. And and the

2153
01:59:06,479 --> 01:59:10,319
number one thing is they want Torreltown is going to

2154
01:59:10,359 --> 01:59:14,199
be largely you know, run by the bye by Howard

2155
01:59:14,239 --> 01:59:16,720
Hughes Corporation and the Texans who are in cahoots with

2156
01:59:16,760 --> 01:59:18,840
each other. Yeah, I feel like it can definitely work

2157
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:21,399
because a the land is cheaper in B Texas. I mean,

2158
01:59:21,520 --> 01:59:24,880
Houston is just such a spread out city anyway, right right,

2159
01:59:25,640 --> 01:59:29,680
Torreltown is one thing it's gonna be. Do they poke

2160
01:59:29,800 --> 01:59:32,359
the bear at trying to go for a stadium out there?

2161
01:59:32,760 --> 01:59:35,159
I think you try. Oh, I think they do too.

2162
01:59:38,479 --> 01:59:40,520
Now there is presidents that say you can, you don't

2163
01:59:40,520 --> 01:59:42,399
have to have your practice facility where next to where

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01:59:42,439 --> 01:59:44,920
you play. The great greatest, greatest case of that is

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01:59:45,319 --> 01:59:47,960
Los Angeles, the Raiders and the Rams, the Raiders, the

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01:59:48,000 --> 01:59:53,119
Rams and the Chargers. And in Dallas, I mean the

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01:59:53,159 --> 01:59:55,520
star up there is I mean it's got to be

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01:59:55,560 --> 02:00:01,239
forty miles from from Arlington, easy from Farnw Dallas to like,

2169
02:00:01,439 --> 02:00:03,680
uh what about the play, Like where do the players live?

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02:00:04,640 --> 02:00:06,560
I mean, I guess it doesn't matter. They got to drive.

2171
02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:09,479
Usually they live close to where the facility is. Yeah,

2172
02:00:09,479 --> 02:00:11,880
because that they would my players driving as a little

2173
02:00:12,039 --> 02:00:15,319
a little as possible. LaMelo Ball says, hello, yeah exactly.

2174
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:18,520
Tyreek Hill says hello. And you think about it, You're

2175
02:00:18,560 --> 02:00:25,279
only there ten times a year, minimum max twelve when

2176
02:00:25,279 --> 02:00:33,319
you think about it. Yeah, but yeah, if you oh man,

2177
02:00:33,359 --> 02:00:36,439
this is gonna be very intriguing to me. And how

2178
02:00:36,520 --> 02:00:39,520
much of this can you get if a team, if

2179
02:00:39,520 --> 02:00:42,399
you're at how much how much public tax assistance are

2180
02:00:42,399 --> 02:00:45,119
you going to get when you can't win the big game?

2181
02:00:49,560 --> 02:00:52,479
I don't know. I mean, even as we said Kansas City,

2182
02:00:52,359 --> 02:00:55,239
they they're like going to every other super Bowl, they

2183
02:00:55,359 --> 02:00:57,880
won three recently, and they first try to get a

2184
02:00:57,960 --> 02:01:00,760
roof on earrawhead and they're like, no, shut you by. Yeah,

2185
02:01:00,800 --> 02:01:02,840
and then they're like, let's refurbish this a facility that

2186
02:01:02,880 --> 02:01:06,319
looks awesome. It's a perfect football Now we're good. We

2187
02:01:06,359 --> 02:01:08,479
want our own place once you a tear down Ara

2188
02:01:08,600 --> 02:01:10,720
hund and build it's a new facility. No, we won't

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02:01:10,720 --> 02:01:16,199
do that. Oh, cam is well done, because honestly, from

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02:01:16,239 --> 02:01:19,319
where Bridgeland is to where like Waller County would be,

2191
02:01:19,479 --> 02:01:25,439
that's probably fifteen more minutes. It's far though. Yeah, but

2192
02:01:25,479 --> 02:01:29,920
you're only going ten times a year, Rodeo wouldn't be there.

2193
02:01:30,880 --> 02:01:32,960
You're building your own place. How much does that matter?

2194
02:01:33,960 --> 02:01:36,000
I think I'm being honest. I'm not trying to say

2195
02:01:36,039 --> 02:01:37,800
one way or the other had no, no, no, you and I

2196
02:01:37,800 --> 02:01:40,279
don't know the experts. I don't know's on this. I

2197
02:01:40,359 --> 02:01:44,720
do believe there's going to be a dissolving of the

2198
02:01:44,720 --> 02:01:47,039
relationship between the two. Not that that's bad, but it's

2199
02:01:47,159 --> 02:01:51,520
just sometimes you just want your own stuff. Oh it's

2200
02:01:51,560 --> 02:01:55,119
only thirty three minutes from around here. That sounds terrible.

2201
02:01:55,439 --> 02:01:58,920
It's not great. I mean I used to drive in

2202
02:01:58,960 --> 02:02:01,439
when I had to drop camera painting off at to preview.

2203
02:02:01,479 --> 02:02:03,159
I drive in from preview to come to the show,

2204
02:02:03,159 --> 02:02:04,479
and it was an easy drive.

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02:02:05,560 --> 02:02:05,840
Speaker 6: Long.

2206
02:02:05,920 --> 02:02:08,880
Speaker 2: There's a lot of miles on there. Don't remind me

2207
02:02:09,279 --> 02:02:11,439
vehicles many You get the oil change every two weeks.

2208
02:02:11,520 --> 02:02:15,279
I got to oil filter change now. I did it

2209
02:02:15,359 --> 02:02:17,079
last week. I said change it now.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Bridge, I can tell you I've got some great friends

2212
02:02:24,000 --> 02:02:26,640
that live in bridge On. They're all for this. Everything's

2213
02:02:26,640 --> 02:02:29,279
gonna go up in value. Oh yeah, I'm sure they're

2214
02:02:29,319 --> 02:02:33,640
happy now. And again there there's so much money over

2215
02:02:33,680 --> 02:02:35,880
there that it's not gonna be You're not gonna see

2216
02:02:35,960 --> 02:02:38,560
no disrespect to Timmy Changs, but they're not gonna there's

2217
02:02:38,560 --> 02:02:43,039
gonna be some hiring places to go. Hey, hey, now,

2218
02:02:44,039 --> 02:02:49,119
let me hating non Macho's like that is it? Mancho's

2219
02:02:49,119 --> 02:02:51,520
even still there at six ten. I don't know how

2220
02:02:51,960 --> 02:02:54,520
they have been there in like ten years. Hey, I

2221
02:02:54,640 --> 02:02:56,680
like the one on West Time or still kicking? Is

2222
02:02:56,680 --> 02:03:00,159
it really good for them? You can't go inside. We're

2223
02:03:00,159 --> 02:03:02,760
tired of being on you ever since the pandemic. They're like, nah,

2224
02:03:02,800 --> 02:03:05,960
we're sick of every every weekend. We're for you. We're

2225
02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:10,600
on YouTube every weekend with people getting these brawls. By

2226
02:03:10,640 --> 02:03:13,000
the way, when I flew MIRRT yesterday, I was I

2227
02:03:13,039 --> 02:03:16,439
was ready to throw hands. Nobody wanted to throw hands. Yeah,

2228
02:03:16,800 --> 02:03:20,920
everybody was polite. The plane was clean. Now granted I

2229
02:03:20,960 --> 02:03:26,119
looked behind me. Everybody was stuffed in like sardines. Like

2230
02:03:26,159 --> 02:03:29,119
I'm assuming that a normal airplane's got thirty five roads.

2231
02:03:29,159 --> 02:03:31,199
This one had sixty six. So you were a little

2232
02:03:31,319 --> 02:03:33,479
on top of each other. Wow, I'm just kidding. It

2233
02:03:33,520 --> 02:03:37,720
wasn't that bad. It was like a triple decker on

2234
02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:42,159
a plane. They were like, what do they use to

2235
02:03:42,279 --> 02:03:44,399
when you uh, the stick thems on top to put

2236
02:03:44,399 --> 02:03:48,199
people upside down on the flight. Charlotte, you can live

2237
02:03:48,239 --> 02:03:50,880
with that head rush. I just saw some broadcasting news

2238
02:03:50,880 --> 02:03:53,479
Matt that I think it's gonna make you upset. Can

2239
02:03:53,520 --> 02:03:55,159
you talk about the top of the next hour, Yes,

2240
02:03:55,199 --> 02:03:59,399
I can. Twelve fifty six. Finally, before I read it,

2241
02:03:59,760 --> 02:04:02,720
what is it that said, take some deep breaths before

2242
02:04:02,720 --> 02:04:05,840
I read this? Coming up? How do you know I'm

2243
02:04:05,840 --> 02:04:11,239
gonna be mad about this? I have an inkling? All right,

2244
02:04:11,239 --> 02:04:13,600
that's a radio. That's a radio teas ladies and gentlemen,

2245
02:04:14,199 --> 02:04:16,039
believe it or not. Coming up in fifty minutes. It's

2246
02:04:16,039 --> 02:04:19,159
a Matt Thomas show'd Ross here on seven nati's The

2247
02:04:19,359 --> 02:04:26,119
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Want to shout out a

2248
02:04:26,159 --> 02:04:29,119
new IG follower of mine sports are but his name

2249
02:04:29,199 --> 02:04:30,760
is Matthew, and he says he sends me.

2250
02:04:30,840 --> 02:04:30,880
Speaker 4: No.

2251
02:04:31,000 --> 02:04:33,119
Speaker 2: He says, matt that guy that wished you dead just

2252
02:04:33,119 --> 02:04:35,600
got you a new IG follower. Don't die of terminal

2253
02:04:35,640 --> 02:04:38,079
cancer at least until your career ends on your terms.

2254
02:04:38,520 --> 02:04:43,239
Maybe he's an oncologist. Thank you very much, Matthew. So

2255
02:04:43,479 --> 02:04:45,800
that's the thing is, folks, if you feel sorry for

2256
02:04:45,840 --> 02:04:47,600
me at all that somebody wants me to die of

2257
02:04:47,680 --> 02:04:52,960
terminal cancer, follow me on at sports mt on Instagram.

2258
02:04:53,079 --> 02:04:58,680
You're you're asking for pity follows now, Yeah, I mean yeah, Okay,

2259
02:05:00,039 --> 02:05:01,840
I got a lot of activity on my Instagram at

2260
02:05:01,840 --> 02:05:05,960
sports RV Matt. This young lady Naomi nine seven four

2261
02:05:06,079 --> 02:05:08,359
six two three just liked a bunch of my tweets.

2262
02:05:08,359 --> 02:05:11,239
I think, yes, she's into me. Yes, as a matter

2263
02:05:11,239 --> 02:05:13,439
of fact, she's asking for my number and I want

2264
02:05:13,439 --> 02:05:16,880
to meet up later. Yeah. Things are going well. So

2265
02:05:17,199 --> 02:05:19,800
if you would like me to not have terminal cancer,

2266
02:05:20,439 --> 02:05:24,159
follow me on Instagram at sports mt All right, so

2267
02:05:24,279 --> 02:05:28,079
I'm very curious what this broadcasting news is. Well, did

2268
02:05:28,119 --> 02:05:33,039
you see who is being added to March Madness coverage, Matthew?

2269
02:05:33,560 --> 02:05:40,399
I did, Okay, Nay Burlson. It's going to be in

2270
02:05:40,479 --> 02:05:45,520
the studio in New York City for min March Madness. Yes,

2271
02:05:46,800 --> 02:05:50,239
this is the man on CBS NFL coverage. Also he

2272
02:05:50,359 --> 02:05:55,279
hosts many game What game show is he on Hollywood Squares?

2273
02:05:56,479 --> 02:05:59,600
I thought it was another one too, Nope, that's it okay,

2274
02:06:00,239 --> 02:06:07,399
And now he's on March Madness, Matt your thoughts good

2275
02:06:07,399 --> 02:06:18,760
for him. Now he does host something, so it's not

2276
02:06:18,800 --> 02:06:21,600
like it's going to be outside his comfort. He's on

2277
02:06:21,640 --> 02:06:24,920
the NFL today, not the host, but he is the analyst. Yes,

2278
02:06:24,960 --> 02:06:28,199
and he also is one third of the CBS Morning

2279
02:06:28,239 --> 02:06:31,239
show that I mean really nobody watches, but that's on

2280
02:06:31,279 --> 02:06:35,880
the Hero there. He does host that too. He does

2281
02:06:35,960 --> 02:06:41,359
host the Hollywood Squares. I have a serious problem with that, serious, serious,

2282
02:06:41,399 --> 02:06:47,079
serious problem with that. So honestly, with that, I wish

2283
02:06:47,159 --> 02:06:50,800
him but the very very best as he learned. As

2284
02:06:50,800 --> 02:06:54,720
he does the studio hosting of the NCAA tournament, which

2285
02:06:54,720 --> 02:06:56,800
I have not seen him do anything in performed basketball,

2286
02:06:56,800 --> 02:06:58,840
I'm sure he's going to be great at it. He's

2287
02:06:58,880 --> 02:07:01,600
a professional. He's able to take his career as a

2288
02:07:01,600 --> 02:07:05,079
football player and with his media exposure and carve out

2289
02:07:05,119 --> 02:07:07,600
a nice career for him. Again, no problem with him

2290
02:07:07,600 --> 02:07:11,159
hosting CBS Mornings, No problem with him hosting the March Madness.

2291
02:07:11,800 --> 02:07:18,920
Serious problem with him hosting the Hollywood Squares. M oh.

2292
02:07:18,920 --> 02:07:23,479
He was also on the Minnesota Love Boat, remember that

2293
02:07:23,520 --> 02:07:26,520
whole thing. Were you were you in Minneapolis when I

2294
02:07:26,520 --> 02:07:31,239
went just moved there, just moved to Minneapolis October of five. Yep,

2295
02:07:31,680 --> 02:07:34,000
because it happened. I got my first year, my first

2296
02:07:34,079 --> 02:07:36,039
day on the air there was January of six, so

2297
02:07:36,039 --> 02:07:39,159
they were still talking about it for sure. Wow three

2298
02:07:39,239 --> 02:07:43,880
months later, Well people don't know it was a escapade. Yeah,

2299
02:07:43,880 --> 02:07:45,560
it was. They were talking about it. It was a sex

2300
02:07:45,640 --> 02:07:50,560
party on Lake Minnetonka, Yes, with seventeen Minnesota Vikings players.

2301
02:07:51,000 --> 02:07:55,159
And was it consensual or was there some issues on that?

2302
02:07:55,239 --> 02:07:57,920
I believe it. Well, it was consensual, but also paid

2303
02:07:57,960 --> 02:08:02,479
I believe. Oh so paik in sensuality. I mean, isn't

2304
02:08:02,479 --> 02:08:07,399
in my boat paid contentuality? If ironically enough? Oh, I thought,

2305
02:08:07,399 --> 02:08:08,439
you know, I thought you're gonna do it. I thought

2306
02:08:08,439 --> 02:08:10,560
you're gonna tell me, do you know? Also, the ESPN

2307
02:08:10,600 --> 02:08:13,000
announced today, you know they're they're not doing ESPN Sunday

2308
02:08:13,039 --> 02:08:17,279
Night Baseball anymore. We knew that they're doing Sunday Night

2309
02:08:17,279 --> 02:08:22,199
women's sports. Oh I think, I mean I did see

2310
02:08:22,199 --> 02:08:25,640
that from Chris Gordy alerted me to that news. Yes,

2311
02:08:25,720 --> 02:08:28,479
they're gonna mix up. They're gonna have a w n

2312
02:08:28,560 --> 02:08:33,319
B A and NWSL games on sounds great. You know what,

2313
02:08:34,000 --> 02:08:39,800
there's an audience for it. Enjoy yourself. Much as we

2314
02:08:39,920 --> 02:08:45,159
love sports, we don't watch everything. I mean no I can't.

2315
02:08:45,199 --> 02:08:47,319
I mean you clue into out or whatever you want to.

2316
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:51,399
By the way, Speaking of which, Canada leading USA won

2317
02:08:51,720 --> 02:08:54,520
nothing in the gold medal game. In the second period

2318
02:08:55,560 --> 02:08:57,840
this is the gold medal game here. Yeah, are we

2319
02:08:57,920 --> 02:09:00,880
the favorites? I think it's a out of fifty to fifty,

2320
02:09:00,880 --> 02:09:03,039
but slight favorites. You us say this is total guest

2321
02:09:03,079 --> 02:09:05,119
on my part. I don't know. Are you a lot

2322
02:09:05,119 --> 02:09:08,079
of bead Olympics? Yeah? Why not? A lot of his

2323
02:09:08,119 --> 02:09:10,039
security have been based do bet on though temper? What

2324
02:09:10,079 --> 02:09:12,680
the temperature is going to be today in Houston? That's true?

2325
02:09:15,239 --> 02:09:15,319
Speaker 1: No?

2326
02:09:15,720 --> 02:09:18,920
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I look, I know everybody's losing her mind

2327
02:09:18,960 --> 02:09:22,199
yesterday because of the USA hockey. Oh minus four eighty,

2328
02:09:24,680 --> 02:09:29,359
get it together, USA. Ooh, that's a super heavy favorite.

2329
02:09:29,760 --> 02:09:33,520
It's about almost five to one for people unaware. That's

2330
02:09:33,640 --> 02:09:40,079
like USA beating Russian eighty miracle. Those are probably longer odds.

2331
02:09:40,119 --> 02:09:43,960
I hope. I think. I don't know, minus for eighty.

2332
02:09:44,039 --> 02:09:46,840
Let's get it done, ladies. Let's go wake up one

2333
02:09:47,079 --> 02:09:50,680
one nothing in this in the second period. Oh, they've

2334
02:09:50,720 --> 02:09:56,119
already played twenty plus minutes then yeah, yeah, I love

2335
02:09:56,239 --> 02:09:59,760
Cole Thompson, part of our morning team. But he's trying

2336
02:09:59,800 --> 02:10:02,000
to again, this is this is what hockey fans have

2337
02:10:02,039 --> 02:10:05,720
done every single time here in Houston. Something cool happens

2338
02:10:05,840 --> 02:10:13,239
international and it Hey, this will work in Houston. I

2339
02:10:13,319 --> 02:10:17,079
don't know if people understand that we're russ We're we

2340
02:10:17,119 --> 02:10:20,760
are a sweet, fun, interesting sports market, but we're pretty

2341
02:10:20,840 --> 02:10:24,600
damn finicky too. Front Runners, I'll say it, what's up.

2342
02:10:26,760 --> 02:10:29,479
I've lived here my whole life. I can I can

2343
02:10:29,479 --> 02:10:33,159
call it my own. Well, but tell me how many

2344
02:10:33,159 --> 02:10:37,640
cities are not front runners. It's probably more cities with

2345
02:10:37,720 --> 02:10:42,600
like hundreds of years of fandom. Like people still show

2346
02:10:42,640 --> 02:10:45,239
up to Cubs games when they're terrible, but also the

2347
02:10:45,279 --> 02:10:47,479
Cubs have been around since the early nineteen times, right,

2348
02:10:47,520 --> 02:10:49,119
but they don't go to White Sox games. I don't.

2349
02:10:49,159 --> 02:10:50,920
I mean, I wouldn't consider a White Sox fan being

2350
02:10:50,960 --> 02:10:52,640
a front runner fan. I mean they're just, you know,

2351
02:10:53,119 --> 02:10:56,359
so they're never I think there's more front running in

2352
02:10:56,439 --> 02:10:59,319
sports than maybe even people. You need longevity, and you

2353
02:10:59,399 --> 02:11:01,520
need good winning history, and then there's just not a

2354
02:11:01,520 --> 02:11:04,640
lot of that here in Houston. Yeah, you do need that,

2355
02:11:04,720 --> 02:11:09,520
and you need a rich hockey history, and you can't

2356
02:11:09,600 --> 02:11:11,640
use the Arrows because that was thirty years ago and

2357
02:11:11,680 --> 02:11:16,640
the Arrows were fifty years ago. And as I've said

2358
02:11:17,199 --> 02:11:20,640
with anybody that ever asked me about it, it's not

2359
02:11:20,760 --> 02:11:23,399
about filling sixteen thousand tickets. Now, that would be a

2360
02:11:23,479 --> 02:11:26,479
huge part of it, obviously, But it's about what you

2361
02:11:26,600 --> 02:11:32,000
do in the corporate community. Can you get automotive and

2362
02:11:32,079 --> 02:11:37,439
beers and airlines and furniture places and insurance companies to

2363
02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:42,239
spend millions of dollars to back up the product itself.

2364
02:11:42,359 --> 02:11:47,079
And that's where the rub is. You can't go you

2365
02:11:47,119 --> 02:11:49,199
can't go to gallery furniture every time you're looking for

2366
02:11:49,199 --> 02:11:51,680
a sports marketing dollar. He's only gonna have so much

2367
02:11:51,720 --> 02:11:54,520
money to spend. You can't go to a particular dealership

2368
02:11:54,560 --> 02:11:58,000
over and I mean, they're gonna want return and if

2369
02:11:58,039 --> 02:12:00,960
those and if it's sixteen and people looking at it,

2370
02:12:00,960 --> 02:12:02,800
and that's it, and the television ratings aren't good and

2371
02:12:02,800 --> 02:12:04,920
it's hard to get the games on or it's it's

2372
02:12:04,920 --> 02:12:08,800
hard to find them. It's there's just so much more.

2373
02:12:08,920 --> 02:12:11,399
It's not a it's not a sport that says if

2374
02:12:11,439 --> 02:12:14,239
you build it, they will come and they will eat

2375
02:12:14,279 --> 02:12:16,560
it up. It has to be really good, especially because

2376
02:12:16,840 --> 02:12:18,600
there will be people the first year or the first

2377
02:12:18,640 --> 02:12:21,479
two seasons that we'll want to embrace everything about it

2378
02:12:21,479 --> 02:12:23,960
because it's the new, cool, hip, sportster thing to do.

2379
02:12:25,199 --> 02:12:27,399
But it's it's too big of a business. The hockey

2380
02:12:27,479 --> 02:12:29,880
is the fourth of the of the Big four. But

2381
02:12:29,960 --> 02:12:32,239
it doesn't still mean that guys don't get me paid

2382
02:12:32,479 --> 02:12:35,960
millions and millions of dollars. And it doesn't mean that

2383
02:12:36,000 --> 02:12:38,159
it doesn't take millions and millions of dollars operating. Now,

2384
02:12:38,159 --> 02:12:41,760
there's good profitability in sports franchises, obviously. That's another thing

2385
02:12:42,119 --> 02:12:46,319
if you buy, if you buy a team for expansion, uh,

2386
02:12:46,359 --> 02:12:48,520
you know you're gonna have to recoup that money pretty quick.

2387
02:12:50,640 --> 02:12:53,439
I just my gut tells me the corporate community just

2388
02:12:53,560 --> 02:12:57,720
couldn't back up the dollars that it would take ultimately

2389
02:12:57,840 --> 02:13:00,199
to sustain even if the team wasn't doing great on

2390
02:13:00,239 --> 02:13:03,640
the ice. But I could be wrong. It's not up

2391
02:13:03,680 --> 02:13:06,119
to me. But it happens. It happens. I don't watch hockey.

2392
02:13:06,279 --> 02:13:10,359
I don't get into hockey. Maybe I'll watch. I mean,

2393
02:13:10,560 --> 02:13:12,720
I got this Olympic gold game on, But do the

2394
02:13:12,760 --> 02:13:15,279
men's play men are going to play the goal for

2395
02:13:15,279 --> 02:13:18,840
the gold too? Right? I think the championship game, the

2396
02:13:18,880 --> 02:13:21,479
gold medal game is they're in the semifinals. I think

2397
02:13:21,520 --> 02:13:23,079
the gold medal game is on Sunday, right in the

2398
02:13:23,960 --> 02:13:27,439
sure why not are there any Olympic watch parties the

2399
02:13:27,439 --> 02:13:30,119
big the big bar downtown that was the hockey bar

2400
02:13:30,239 --> 02:13:34,159
on a business Oh, I know, the pub. Yeah I

2401
02:13:34,199 --> 02:13:39,039
didn't Peder bills. I mean, there's midtown real estate expensive, Mattie,

2402
02:13:40,039 --> 02:13:44,239
I know, I know, But yeah, I applaud I will

2403
02:13:44,239 --> 02:13:48,520
say this. I applaud the thirst that some people have here.

2404
02:13:50,000 --> 02:13:53,159
But it's it's it's so much more than just oh,

2405
02:13:53,239 --> 02:13:57,920
I'll buy tickets. It's you know, you'd have to get

2406
02:13:57,960 --> 02:13:59,880
your arena up to code, you'd have to have a

2407
02:14:00,039 --> 02:14:02,800
build a practice facility. I mean, and it's easy to

2408
02:14:02,840 --> 02:14:04,640
sit there on your couch and say I'm gonna go,

2409
02:14:04,640 --> 02:14:06,359
I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna get season tickets, and

2410
02:14:06,399 --> 02:14:08,199
then when you get the it's can be how much

2411
02:14:08,479 --> 02:14:12,720
I'm good. You always will have more interest of verbal

2412
02:14:12,800 --> 02:14:16,439
interest than actual interest. Right because again, if you know

2413
02:14:16,479 --> 02:14:18,359
the Rockets and you've been a Rocket fan for all

2414
02:14:18,439 --> 02:14:20,800
your life and you know basketball, you're gonna suck it up.

2415
02:14:20,840 --> 02:14:22,760
And Sarah, I want to sit downstairs, gonna cost me

2416
02:14:22,800 --> 02:14:26,159
one to fifty If you're spending that down to sit

2417
02:14:26,239 --> 02:14:28,680
downstairs in a hockey and you don't know the intricacies

2418
02:14:28,680 --> 02:14:30,479
of hockey, and you just want to be in the building.

2419
02:14:30,560 --> 02:14:34,479
It's harder to spend that one fifty per ticket. Let

2420
02:14:34,479 --> 02:14:37,760
me take a loan. Let's get you on the games. Mattie.

2421
02:14:39,760 --> 02:14:44,439
I've never called a hockey game. Uh yeah, Craggs are

2422
02:14:44,439 --> 02:14:48,960
getting chippy? Oh are they throwing hands? There's more like

2423
02:14:49,039 --> 02:14:53,119
chucking more shoving? They don't really, They don't really throw

2424
02:14:53,119 --> 02:14:55,560
hands in the girls hockey, do they do? They do?

2425
02:14:55,640 --> 02:15:00,840
They cat fight? At least what does that mean? You

2426
02:15:00,880 --> 02:15:07,439
know what women cat fighting is? Explain it? Uh, Jonathan,

2427
02:15:07,720 --> 02:15:09,560
explain what women in a cat fight do?

2428
02:15:10,520 --> 02:15:10,720
Speaker 7: Ah?

2429
02:15:13,119 --> 02:15:14,560
Speaker 9: No, you know what, man, I'm gonna put this back

2430
02:15:14,600 --> 02:15:16,359
to you.

2431
02:15:16,359 --> 02:15:21,399
Speaker 2: No, all right, I'll start. It's time for a break,

2432
02:15:21,439 --> 02:15:24,840
mat If you like to break two Oh damn, I

2433
02:15:24,920 --> 02:15:27,880
want to go to it. We gotta break. We gotta

2434
02:15:27,920 --> 02:15:30,199
hit our brakes on time. That's that's important.

2435
02:15:31,600 --> 02:15:31,720
Speaker 8: Well.

2436
02:15:31,760 --> 02:15:33,159
Speaker 2: I was gonna tell you all what women do when

2437
02:15:33,199 --> 02:15:35,239
they cat fight, but I can't do it now. Oh

2438
02:15:35,319 --> 02:15:42,880
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2439
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Thank you to Andrew and Nico, who also do not

2463
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want me to die of terminal cancer. Got two new

2464
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followers on that, so you know, whatever works, maybe it's

2465
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2466
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want me to die of terminal cancer? I do not

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want you to die of terminal cancer. Man. Thank you.

2468
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I appreciate that very much. One eighteen on The Matt

2469
02:17:17,399 --> 02:17:20,760
Thomas Show with Ross, We've got Rockets basketball. I'm here

2470
02:17:20,760 --> 02:17:23,440
in Charlotte for tonight's game. Tomorrow I'll be in New

2471
02:17:23,520 --> 02:17:27,360
York City for the Knicks and the Rockets on Saturday night.

2472
02:17:27,840 --> 02:17:29,680
All right, Ross, We've not really got much in the

2473
02:17:29,799 --> 02:17:33,239
on the Rockets so far today. What do you want

2474
02:17:33,319 --> 02:17:35,399
to see? And then I'll give you my hands. I'll

2475
02:17:35,440 --> 02:17:36,840
let you go first. What do you want to see

2476
02:17:36,840 --> 02:17:39,399
from the Rockets over the last third of the NBA season. Yeah,

2477
02:17:39,479 --> 02:17:41,000
just a little bit more energy and this is what

2478
02:17:41,120 --> 02:17:43,200
I think was kind of sapping them and they were

2479
02:17:43,239 --> 02:17:45,399
able to well, they lost that last game as the

2480
02:17:45,440 --> 02:17:47,680
Clippers and Kawhi went Leonard went New Clear and he's

2481
02:17:47,719 --> 02:17:49,840
just been so good what do you have nineteen points

2482
02:17:49,879 --> 02:17:52,399
in that fourth quarter or whatever it was. Wow, that's right.

2483
02:17:53,879 --> 02:17:59,000
So I want to see the better energetic team. It'd

2484
02:17:59,040 --> 02:18:01,879
be nice to see tarry and consistently in back to backs.

2485
02:18:03,120 --> 02:18:04,639
You know. One of the things that made me think

2486
02:18:04,639 --> 02:18:06,559
they were kind of just losing energy was the fifty

2487
02:18:06,559 --> 02:18:11,959
to fifty balls, the offensive rebounding, slipping, lazy, bad turnovers,

2488
02:18:12,399 --> 02:18:15,360
just like things that end up when you get physically tired,

2489
02:18:15,360 --> 02:18:17,520
then you get mentally tired, and you see lack of

2490
02:18:17,559 --> 02:18:22,000
focus and losing guys on basket cuts and not rebounding

2491
02:18:22,000 --> 02:18:24,319
and not all the little type of things is what

2492
02:18:24,360 --> 02:18:31,680
I want to see. Yeah, I want to see maybe

2493
02:18:31,719 --> 02:18:36,239
more consistency in the three. The numbers have dropped after

2494
02:18:36,280 --> 02:18:37,799
the first month of the season. Not that they were

2495
02:18:37,799 --> 02:18:39,719
going to shoot forty percent of the entire season, but

2496
02:18:40,120 --> 02:18:44,000
it runs ebbs and flows on that. I still think

2497
02:18:44,040 --> 02:18:45,959
they should take better care of the basketball. They're going

2498
02:18:46,040 --> 02:18:48,479
to be a higher turnover team ross just because of

2499
02:18:48,520 --> 02:18:50,559
who there's doing the ball handling. There's not a true

2500
02:18:50,559 --> 02:18:54,200
true point guard, but you're living on the edge if

2501
02:18:54,239 --> 02:18:57,000
you continue to turn the ball over eighteen plus times

2502
02:18:57,040 --> 02:19:00,319
per game. Yeah, and then that's the thing. Look, the NBA,

2503
02:19:00,440 --> 02:19:03,000
we talk about this. The margins are so thin, and

2504
02:19:03,159 --> 02:19:07,120
if you one unfocused, lazy turnover leads to a basket

2505
02:19:07,200 --> 02:19:08,760
and one time you lose a guy in a basket

2506
02:19:08,760 --> 02:19:10,879
cut that's four points. That's a spread to night spreads

2507
02:19:10,879 --> 02:19:14,280
four and a half. Like that, that's the game. It

2508
02:19:14,280 --> 02:19:16,399
it can be those little things. They just don't let

2509
02:19:16,440 --> 02:19:18,959
them pile up on you. I'm generally pleased. We've got

2510
02:19:18,959 --> 02:19:20,719
some phone calls coming in at seven one, three, two,

2511
02:19:20,799 --> 02:19:23,319
one two, five, seven, and am generally pleased with the defense.

2512
02:19:25,040 --> 02:19:31,360
The uh turnovers bother not necessarily stretching minutes, stretches of

2513
02:19:31,959 --> 02:19:35,040
not scoring. That happens with every NBA game. But it's

2514
02:19:35,159 --> 02:19:38,760
I don''t even say they turn turn the heat down

2515
02:19:38,760 --> 02:19:41,520
a little bit. But there have been some games where

2516
02:19:41,520 --> 02:19:45,159
that fourth quarter should have been an opportunity to maybe

2517
02:19:45,319 --> 02:19:47,520
rest some guys down the stretch, and they were unable

2518
02:19:47,520 --> 02:19:50,120
to do so because that second tier group had a

2519
02:19:50,120 --> 02:19:52,920
difficult time scoring. I really do want to see a

2520
02:19:53,040 --> 02:19:56,719
men in Katie's minutes dropped here in the next twenty

2521
02:19:56,719 --> 02:19:58,239
five or so games. I don't know what's going to happen,

2522
02:19:58,280 --> 02:20:00,159
because we keep asking for it, and it has. There

2523
02:20:00,200 --> 02:20:02,399
just hasn't been enough confidence in order for that to happen.

2524
02:20:02,559 --> 02:20:03,799
But that would be a nice thing to see their

2525
02:20:03,840 --> 02:20:06,120
minutes drop a little bit. Yeah, blowing some blowing some

2526
02:20:06,200 --> 02:20:09,840
teams out and you don't necessarily have a ton of

2527
02:20:09,879 --> 02:20:14,280
easy matchups left on the schedule, but that would be

2528
02:20:14,399 --> 02:20:16,719
nice too. That's good you get the guys because you're

2529
02:20:16,760 --> 02:20:18,920
you're not You're not gonna all of a sudden, EMA's

2530
02:20:18,920 --> 02:20:20,719
not gonna all the start and start playing ten guys.

2531
02:20:21,079 --> 02:20:24,040
You've you've had two major rotational players down nope, and

2532
02:20:24,079 --> 02:20:26,840
Fred VanVleet and Steven Adams that are not coming back.

2533
02:20:27,360 --> 02:20:32,280
So the pathway to limiting the minutes is big victories

2534
02:20:32,319 --> 02:20:35,120
are unfortunately blowout losses, but you don't want that to happen.

2535
02:20:35,600 --> 02:20:38,239
And at this point, everything has been pretty quiet on

2536
02:20:38,280 --> 02:20:40,600
the buyout market, so if they're looking for additional depth

2537
02:20:40,600 --> 02:20:42,399
at either the five or the point guard spot, that

2538
02:20:42,440 --> 02:20:47,200
has not come into pass at this point. You know,

2539
02:20:47,280 --> 02:20:49,239
they have never hidden the fact they liked I mean,

2540
02:20:50,360 --> 02:20:53,319
stay true to what they said pre trade deadline. They

2541
02:20:53,440 --> 02:20:56,200
just weren't very interested. They kept saying over and over

2542
02:20:56,239 --> 02:20:58,440
again they were guys, there were teams that were more

2543
02:20:58,479 --> 02:21:01,719
interested in their players, then they were insted in other

2544
02:21:01,760 --> 02:21:05,639
teams players, right, And I mean that that makes sense.

2545
02:21:05,680 --> 02:21:09,280
And also we have to continue to bring up that

2546
02:21:09,360 --> 02:21:14,680
they are so close, they're close to cap out. Yeah,

2547
02:21:14,920 --> 02:21:18,000
I wish I and it could take me. If a

2548
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:19,879
fella I went to lunch, you probably could give me

2549
02:21:19,920 --> 02:21:24,040
a basketball salary cap for dummies. Lesson with some bad

2550
02:21:24,079 --> 02:21:27,079
news matter. They're doing the wave at the USA VERSUS

2551
02:21:27,079 --> 02:21:32,159
Canada women's final in Courtina. What's the score. It hasn't

2552
02:21:32,159 --> 02:21:35,840
popped up yet. I think it's still won nothing Canada. Yeah,

2553
02:21:35,879 --> 02:21:38,719
but what are the Euros do? I don't care? Okay,

2554
02:21:38,840 --> 02:21:42,239
so outside of the United States, it's fine. I don't

2555
02:21:42,239 --> 02:21:44,040
think it's fine, but I'm saying I'm not nearly as

2556
02:21:44,079 --> 02:21:46,559
bothered by it. Okay, still one nothing, eight to forty

2557
02:21:46,639 --> 02:21:49,399
left in the second Remember wave Busters, h ou only

2558
02:21:49,440 --> 02:21:51,920
focuses on what's happening in the US market, Right, it's

2559
02:21:51,920 --> 02:21:55,799
not wave busters Ita for Italy. Let me so many followers.

2560
02:21:55,799 --> 02:21:59,200
Wave Busters has here. I think we're at one thy fifty.

2561
02:21:59,600 --> 02:22:06,360
It's not terrible, it's good, it's great. I mean we

2562
02:22:06,399 --> 02:22:09,879
could you know what again, it felt like last year,

2563
02:22:10,040 --> 02:22:11,799
the wave was not as big of a deal at

2564
02:22:12,040 --> 02:22:15,399
Dyke and as it was in previous years. I think

2565
02:22:15,479 --> 02:22:17,479
I think you're right, man, maybe you're maybe it's working

2566
02:22:17,600 --> 02:22:19,879
all right. Back to the rocket. Sorry, I get I

2567
02:22:19,879 --> 02:22:22,079
saw him do the wave, and that's okay. I'm glad

2568
02:22:22,079 --> 02:22:24,520
you told me that. That's kind of basically breaking news

2569
02:22:24,520 --> 02:22:27,959
on that. Okay. So I'm trying to think, is there

2570
02:22:28,000 --> 02:22:34,319
anything else I'd like to see, uh read Shepherd be

2571
02:22:34,559 --> 02:22:38,600
more consistent offensively? I think he needs the All Star

2572
02:22:38,639 --> 02:22:42,760
break low key, he's he's uh, he's he's young. But

2573
02:22:42,799 --> 02:22:44,719
as we mentioned, he's played like thirteen hundred minutes. He

2574
02:22:44,760 --> 02:22:47,399
only played six hundred something all last year. Mm hmm.

2575
02:22:48,200 --> 02:22:50,319
And you're expecting some sort of wall to hit for him,

2576
02:22:50,319 --> 02:22:52,600
which would be not a typical of athletes and that

2577
02:22:52,840 --> 02:22:54,600
have played as much as he has after not playing

2578
02:22:54,600 --> 02:22:57,600
a whole lot the season before. Let's get a fresh

2579
02:22:57,719 --> 02:23:01,079
Shepherd out there. I want to see the Dorian Phinney

2580
02:23:01,120 --> 02:23:03,840
Smith that we saw the Lakers and Mavericks. I mean,

2581
02:23:03,840 --> 02:23:08,760
I'd like to see some of that I forgot about him. Yeah,

2582
02:23:09,079 --> 02:23:11,040
not that he's a huge difference maker, but if you're

2583
02:23:11,440 --> 02:23:13,879
you're going further down your depth chart. You need some

2584
02:23:13,920 --> 02:23:16,760
help offensively if you're playing. If you're starting Tarry Easton

2585
02:23:16,840 --> 02:23:19,879
in DFS and Capella and Reed Shepherd are your only

2586
02:23:19,920 --> 02:23:21,959
bench players. Yeah, you need some production out of there,

2587
02:23:22,040 --> 02:23:24,680
because I'm gonna tell you Clickapellia and going off for

2588
02:23:24,799 --> 02:23:28,200
thirty not So you need to get it from somewhere.

2589
02:23:28,200 --> 02:23:30,639
And Dorian Finney Smith absolutely has to be one of

2590
02:23:30,639 --> 02:23:33,719
those resources. Yeah, because he did it. I mean, that's

2591
02:23:33,719 --> 02:23:35,440
the reason why the Rockets put good money in his

2592
02:23:35,440 --> 02:23:37,280
picky bank for this year next year for sure is

2593
02:23:37,319 --> 02:23:39,239
that he he was going to be a literally a

2594
02:23:39,239 --> 02:23:43,879
three and D guy. Yeah. Okay, so that's uh, that's

2595
02:23:43,959 --> 02:23:46,280
kind of our our sketch of what we want to

2596
02:23:46,319 --> 02:23:48,040
see over the rest of the season. The West is

2597
02:23:48,079 --> 02:23:50,920
super competitive again. The Rockets right now find themselves is

2598
02:23:50,959 --> 02:23:53,600
the four seed. They're a half game in front of

2599
02:23:53,639 --> 02:23:57,079
both the Lakers and Minnesota for five and six. Now,

2600
02:23:57,120 --> 02:23:59,280
if the season ended today, the Rockets to the tiebreaker

2601
02:23:59,399 --> 02:24:02,440
for both of those teams. The Suns are two back

2602
02:24:02,920 --> 02:24:04,920
in the Rockets to the timebreaker with them as well.

2603
02:24:06,079 --> 02:24:10,840
But you're talking about Denver in Phoenix. That's three all

2604
02:24:10,840 --> 02:24:13,280
the way down to seven being separated by three games

2605
02:24:13,559 --> 02:24:15,680
doesn't sound nearly familiar to what it was like. Act

2606
02:24:15,840 --> 02:24:19,159
it sounds like every year now the West. It's ridiculous.

2607
02:24:19,200 --> 02:24:23,200
I'm glad Yannis stayed in the East at least. Yeah,

2608
02:24:23,520 --> 02:24:27,040
the question where will he be next year? I don't know.

2609
02:24:27,120 --> 02:24:29,000
I mean, he dropped the he dropped the Wolf of

2610
02:24:29,000 --> 02:24:32,840
Wall Street. I'm not bleeping leaving meme. I tell you

2611
02:24:32,879 --> 02:24:37,079
if I mean, does Milwaukee make significant moves if they

2612
02:24:37,079 --> 02:24:39,920
can get rid of Doc Rivers and Janice is is

2613
02:24:39,959 --> 02:24:42,319
now it's his team and has nobody to interfere with

2614
02:24:42,360 --> 02:24:45,159
any of the playing and who knows what they're gonna

2615
02:24:45,159 --> 02:24:47,840
do on that. I'm telling you a team that you

2616
02:24:47,920 --> 02:24:49,840
gotta look out for next year. Not that people are

2617
02:24:49,840 --> 02:24:51,639
here in Houston are looking out for this, but Indiana

2618
02:24:51,760 --> 02:24:54,879
is gonna be good next year. If Halliburton comes back.

2619
02:24:55,600 --> 02:24:58,520
Vitzi Zoobots is a huge addition to that squad. It

2620
02:24:58,680 --> 02:25:03,520
just is getting other guys back. If who else is

2621
02:25:03,559 --> 02:25:06,239
the neck Nemhard if plays a full eighty two or

2622
02:25:06,280 --> 02:25:11,840
close to that, Pascal Pascal second out now uh Matherin

2623
02:25:11,920 --> 02:25:13,600
is now playing for the Clippers. But you had to

2624
02:25:13,600 --> 02:25:17,120
give up something to get something, so that'll be that'll

2625
02:25:17,159 --> 02:25:19,000
be interesting. Yeah, stay in the east, everybody, stay in

2626
02:25:19,040 --> 02:25:20,520
the East. Yeah, but it's say in the east, we

2627
02:25:20,600 --> 02:25:22,360
want no more West. And you know what if Jog

2628
02:25:22,479 --> 02:25:24,520
wants to retire because he wants to raise his horses, like,

2629
02:25:24,559 --> 02:25:26,840
that's all by good as well. You already got to

2630
02:25:26,840 --> 02:25:30,680
deal with thunder Spurs are already ahead of schedule. They're

2631
02:25:30,959 --> 02:25:33,280
they're too far ahead of schedule. Ross So the number

2632
02:25:33,319 --> 02:25:36,840
two seed in the West, Yes, they shouldn't have been

2633
02:25:36,840 --> 02:25:39,399
rebuilding faster than the Rockets and they're ahead of them.

2634
02:25:39,440 --> 02:25:42,159
I'm saying, all right, Uh, let's go to our friend

2635
02:25:42,479 --> 02:25:45,639
Doug in South Padre at one seven on seven and Doug,

2636
02:25:45,639 --> 02:25:47,520
good afternoon to you guys.

2637
02:25:47,520 --> 02:25:48,799
Speaker 6: How are you all doing? Good?

2638
02:25:50,120 --> 02:25:50,719
Speaker 10: Question for you?

2639
02:25:50,760 --> 02:25:52,959
Speaker 6: I wanted to switch back to baseball if I could

2640
02:25:53,120 --> 02:25:55,520
and maybe get your guys opinion on this. You know,

2641
02:25:55,559 --> 02:25:57,280
when you look at the last five fellows that have

2642
02:25:57,360 --> 02:26:00,719
been inducted to the Hall of Fame, Lance worksman, his

2643
02:26:00,879 --> 02:26:03,520
stats are better than all five of them, you know,

2644
02:26:03,600 --> 02:26:06,559
Dick Allen, he's got a better average, more home runs,

2645
02:26:06,600 --> 02:26:10,079
more RBIs. Andrew Jones for everybody thought was a shoe

2646
02:26:10,120 --> 02:26:13,799
in Basically the same stats. He's got less home runs,

2647
02:26:13,799 --> 02:26:17,159
but Andrew Jones batted what two thousand times more than

2648
02:26:17,239 --> 02:26:18,719
are a thousand times more than he did?

2649
02:26:19,520 --> 02:26:21,040
Speaker 2: Few gold gloves.

2650
02:26:21,479 --> 02:26:24,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, well true, But you know Lance Lance in the

2651
02:26:24,079 --> 02:26:27,280
postseason three seventeen nine homers, forty one RB eyes. Lot

2652
02:26:27,280 --> 02:26:29,600
of those guys you know didn't do too well. I'm

2653
02:26:29,600 --> 02:26:32,200
just curious why the he doesn't even get a shake,

2654
02:26:32,280 --> 02:26:35,479
a fair shake, and it seems like he should. Curious

2655
02:26:35,520 --> 02:26:36,479
what your thoughts are on that?

2656
02:26:39,000 --> 02:26:43,280
Speaker 2: My thoughts are I love Lance a lot. You see

2657
02:26:43,280 --> 02:26:49,680
what I did that? Oh wow, the day unheralded, underwhelming

2658
02:26:50,440 --> 02:26:56,600
national run, which I don't understand why. But if I'm

2659
02:26:56,680 --> 02:27:01,920
being completely honest, I am a huge beholder of the

2660
02:27:01,959 --> 02:27:04,799
best of the best of the best, and I don't

2661
02:27:04,840 --> 02:27:09,440
know if Lance makes that group. I think, and and again,

2662
02:27:09,639 --> 02:27:13,319
the argument for Lance is that guys of similar numbers

2663
02:27:13,360 --> 02:27:15,680
are getting in. That to me says you got to

2664
02:27:15,680 --> 02:27:18,520
tough en up and tighten up. Who's who's getting your fame.

2665
02:27:18,719 --> 02:27:21,559
I just think that's the way I see it. Yeah,

2666
02:27:21,559 --> 02:27:24,959
that didn't to me. Hey, this guy is better than

2667
02:27:25,000 --> 02:27:27,200
the absolute worst guy. And then the Hall of Fame.

2668
02:27:27,559 --> 02:27:31,959
I don't like those arguments, but I don't. I'm honestly

2669
02:27:32,000 --> 02:27:37,200
not super familiar with Dick Allen's career. But as far

2670
02:27:37,200 --> 02:27:40,040
as Andrew Andrew Jones, it's ten gold, ten gold gloves

2671
02:27:41,319 --> 02:27:43,479
and more. He had over four hundred home runs, which

2672
02:27:43,559 --> 02:27:47,079
Lance I think has. Uh, let mean it's three sixty six. Yeah,

2673
02:27:47,280 --> 02:27:48,719
and was a part of a team that was going

2674
02:27:48,719 --> 02:27:50,680
to the playoffs every year for a better part of

2675
02:27:50,680 --> 02:27:53,600
the decade. Right three, Look, I would like I think

2676
02:27:53,680 --> 02:27:56,000
Lance is like a fringe Hall of famer. He's just

2677
02:27:56,040 --> 02:27:59,760
not a Hall of Famer. Let's see. Oh, he's got

2678
02:27:59,799 --> 02:28:03,000
four top five finishes in the MVP. That's pretty good.

2679
02:28:03,520 --> 02:28:06,120
Oh no, there's no question that Lance Pertman can rest

2680
02:28:06,159 --> 02:28:08,639
today or play golf or hang out with his kids

2681
02:28:08,639 --> 02:28:10,280
and go, my god. I was a hell of a

2682
02:28:10,319 --> 02:28:14,559
baseball player and he was and played multiple positions for

2683
02:28:14,639 --> 02:28:20,719
this team in center field. Well that was that was interesting. Yeah,

2684
02:28:21,319 --> 02:28:23,840
only rewire it. Well, only one point two percent in

2685
02:28:23,879 --> 02:28:26,719
twenty nineteen and then immediately off the ballot is a crime,

2686
02:28:27,559 --> 02:28:29,719
and that's come on. Oh no, no, he should have

2687
02:28:29,719 --> 02:28:31,840
gotten much more run than he did. For sure. I

2688
02:28:31,840 --> 02:28:34,280
can't argue that at all. One to twenty nine on

2689
02:28:34,319 --> 02:28:36,239
the Matt Thomas shod Ross, if you'd like to jime

2690
02:28:36,319 --> 02:28:38,319
in and join us, We've got kind of an open

2691
02:28:38,319 --> 02:28:40,760
board of conversation pieces. We've been talking some astros, a

2692
02:28:40,760 --> 02:28:43,399
little bit of rockets there. Uh, we've got a little

2693
02:28:43,440 --> 02:28:45,760
bit of NC double A chatter to get to when

2694
02:28:45,799 --> 02:28:48,639
it comes to the NC Double A tournament. This will

2695
02:28:48,639 --> 02:28:52,440
come as no surprise Ross. They're looking to add a revenue.

2696
02:28:52,479 --> 02:28:56,600
How do you do that? No shocking you. Well, we'll

2697
02:28:56,600 --> 02:28:58,639
tell you what they do next. It won thirty seven

2698
02:28:58,760 --> 02:29:03,799
ninety all right, believe it or not. It's coming on

2699
02:29:04,920 --> 02:29:08,399
in just a few minutes. Topic, Gross, did you figure

2700
02:29:08,399 --> 02:29:15,040
out what you're gonna go with? Robert Duvall? Robert Duvall.

2701
02:29:15,200 --> 02:29:17,079
All right, Robert Duvall, believe it or not, real quick

2702
02:29:17,079 --> 02:29:19,159
before we go back on the phones. Charlie Baker is

2703
02:29:19,159 --> 02:29:23,239
the president, Clay, did you know that? Yes, I'm more

2704
02:29:23,280 --> 02:29:26,000
of a chet Baker guy. I didn't know who Charlie

2705
02:29:26,000 --> 02:29:27,399
Baker was until I read the story of this. I

2706
02:29:27,399 --> 02:29:30,760
heard the name. Okay, he met with ten members of

2707
02:29:30,799 --> 02:29:34,040
the media in Indianapolis and he would like to see

2708
02:29:34,239 --> 02:29:41,200
march madness expanded. Oh really, yes, he would could be

2709
02:29:41,239 --> 02:29:45,159
as soon as next season. He would not give you

2710
02:29:45,159 --> 02:29:49,520
a definitive time on that, but the wink wink I was,

2711
02:29:49,920 --> 02:29:57,600
let's go, is that the official report? Wink wink, I

2712
02:29:57,600 --> 02:30:02,920
don't know. Thirty heat. The biggest argument, he says, is

2713
02:30:03,000 --> 02:30:05,719
thirty six at large teams is too small for the

2714
02:30:05,760 --> 02:30:08,239
number of teams that could get a crack at winning

2715
02:30:08,280 --> 02:30:14,200
a championship these thirty six spots. Baker says, that means

2716
02:30:14,239 --> 02:30:15,879
you're going to leave a bunch of the top fifty

2717
02:30:15,879 --> 02:30:17,879
teams out of the tournament. Right. A couple of years ago,

2718
02:30:17,959 --> 02:30:20,000
I was kind of bummed when Seaton Hall in Indiana

2719
02:30:20,079 --> 02:30:22,040
State didn't get to the tournament because they both had

2720
02:30:22,120 --> 02:30:25,200
quality wins and quality schedules. The more you do to

2721
02:30:25,239 --> 02:30:27,799
create opportunities with a so called bubble teams each year

2722
02:30:27,840 --> 02:30:30,879
to get in the tournament. So he wants to protect

2723
02:30:30,879 --> 02:30:33,239
the automatic qualifiers, which I'm all for. I do like

2724
02:30:33,360 --> 02:30:36,360
little conferences getting in, but he wants to expand the

2725
02:30:36,440 --> 02:30:40,959
at large. The thing I'm seeing is sixty eight to

2726
02:30:41,000 --> 02:30:43,840
seventy six. Who are these at large teams that are

2727
02:30:43,879 --> 02:30:48,879
winning championships? That'd be none. I mean Florida was a

2728
02:30:48,959 --> 02:30:52,239
one seed. U Kon went back to back. They were

2729
02:30:52,399 --> 02:30:57,520
like basically one seeds, right, I mean no, I mean

2730
02:30:57,600 --> 02:31:01,120
I think he's adding a layer for to make some

2731
02:31:01,200 --> 02:31:06,239
coaches happy. One. Two to add some more dates and

2732
02:31:06,319 --> 02:31:08,920
more buildings full of fans or at least fans, and

2733
02:31:08,959 --> 02:31:12,520
then three to add extra layer of television. Two renegotiate

2734
02:31:12,520 --> 02:31:18,920
television deals. Now I don't know how much the first four.

2735
02:31:18,959 --> 02:31:21,520
I mean the first four basically does anybody ever watch

2736
02:31:21,520 --> 02:31:23,079
the first four unless you get a Betty hand in

2737
02:31:23,120 --> 02:31:28,040
it for some reason? No, Like when Mount Saint Mary's

2738
02:31:28,079 --> 02:31:30,520
is playing Alcorn State, Are you guys sit down on

2739
02:31:30,559 --> 02:31:32,559
True TV and wants that? I mean, you're looking for

2740
02:31:32,680 --> 02:31:37,000
what does that show that's always on True TV when

2741
02:31:37,000 --> 02:31:41,040
you make fun of people and uh oh they're practical jokers? Yeah,

2742
02:31:41,200 --> 02:31:43,840
people are. I mean that's what people get mad about.

2743
02:31:43,879 --> 02:31:45,799
You put the True TV and you got you're looking

2744
02:31:45,840 --> 02:31:49,040
for your an impractical jokers show, and boom, there's there's

2745
02:31:49,079 --> 02:31:51,680
the show. There's a you know, a first round tournament game.

2746
02:31:52,000 --> 02:31:55,520
Thirty five out of the forty NCAA champions have been one, two,

2747
02:31:55,639 --> 02:32:01,000
or three seeds twenty six to one seeds, five, two seeds, four,

2748
02:32:01,200 --> 02:32:05,280
three seeds. Yeah. I don't think it's about I don't

2749
02:32:05,319 --> 02:32:07,559
think it's about giving more teams a chance to win.

2750
02:32:07,600 --> 02:32:10,680
I think it's just more chances. It's more opportunities to

2751
02:32:10,680 --> 02:32:14,360
make money. Well, it's also trying to get some schools

2752
02:32:14,360 --> 02:32:15,840
in it to be a part of the matters, which

2753
02:32:15,879 --> 02:32:18,360
again is exciting for the first second round until you

2754
02:32:18,360 --> 02:32:20,000
start playing the heavyweights and you want to get when

2755
02:32:20,000 --> 02:32:24,639
I'm getting bounced out. Seven of the last eight champs

2756
02:32:24,680 --> 02:32:26,280
have been one seed, by the way, man, Yeah, no,

2757
02:32:26,479 --> 02:32:29,440
the layer is to add a layer of games. Yeah,

2758
02:32:29,479 --> 02:32:32,319
you know, what's what we're seeing with college football. We've

2759
02:32:32,319 --> 02:32:34,360
seen it with expansion in baseball. We've seen it with

2760
02:32:34,360 --> 02:32:40,799
expansion of the NFL. I boy, I'll tell you what,

2761
02:32:40,920 --> 02:32:45,920
is there a number that would be too many? I mean,

2762
02:32:46,200 --> 02:32:49,959
do you could we eventually see another sixteen team bracket

2763
02:32:50,000 --> 02:32:53,479
getting into playing and going to eighty? Probably?

2764
02:32:53,600 --> 02:32:53,799
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2765
02:32:54,360 --> 02:32:57,319
Speaker 2: Look, as I said, I'm done over estimating the greed

2766
02:32:57,360 --> 02:32:59,879
of the of these coaches in nc double and not coaches,

2767
02:32:59,879 --> 02:33:06,760
but these schools and the NCAA and ROSS. I always say, well,

2768
02:33:06,760 --> 02:33:08,840
you're now this class time they're missing. These kids aren't

2769
02:33:08,879 --> 02:33:15,319
going to class. No, No, there's no chance the student athletes. Matt,

2770
02:33:16,600 --> 02:33:19,799
That is so funny when administrators and like sports information

2771
02:33:19,840 --> 02:33:25,680
directors do that they own sports administra Oh well, no,

2772
02:33:25,719 --> 02:33:30,440
they're they're they're they're compensated, and that's why you can't

2773
02:33:30,440 --> 02:33:32,520
treat them. You have to not treat them with kid

2774
02:33:32,520 --> 02:33:35,959
gloves anymore. There was always a when you when you

2775
02:33:36,000 --> 02:33:39,120
got into journalism and sports and radio and entertainment, you

2776
02:33:39,159 --> 02:33:41,959
had to kind of treat the athletes with a little

2777
02:33:41,959 --> 02:33:45,079
bit of uh, you know, there's still scholarship. Kids are

2778
02:33:45,079 --> 02:33:47,159
still nineteen twenty years old. When they're making two and

2779
02:33:47,159 --> 02:33:48,959
a half million dollars a year, you're missing free throws,

2780
02:33:48,959 --> 02:33:51,159
you're gonna get called on on it. You just are which,

2781
02:33:51,200 --> 02:33:54,399
by the way, can they jump ball? Is that what

2782
02:33:54,399 --> 02:33:56,680
you're looking for? I mean no, I know, it's like

2783
02:33:56,879 --> 02:34:00,280
it's not probably the top five on the agenda. Well

2784
02:34:00,319 --> 02:34:02,040
I don't get it. That said, I don't get it.

2785
02:34:02,040 --> 02:34:05,319
Why are we doing the possession arrow in twenty twenty six. Well,

2786
02:34:05,360 --> 02:34:08,399
we're gonna keep things fair, folks. You've got the possession arrow,

2787
02:34:08,479 --> 02:34:11,680
so it's gonna be your ball. What can't they they

2788
02:34:11,719 --> 02:34:15,200
can't jump? Why can't they jump something? Is it my door?

2789
02:34:15,319 --> 02:34:18,239
You talk to everything. Okay, that's fine, I think. Okay,

2790
02:34:18,239 --> 02:34:20,639
I'll talk to Jonathan. Jonathan, you help me out with this.

2791
02:34:20,799 --> 02:34:24,479
Why why can't they jump ball in college basketball? Wait?

2792
02:34:25,120 --> 02:34:27,159
I don't know this. Only they only they have a

2793
02:34:27,159 --> 02:34:29,840
possession arrow. It starts with one team and then it

2794
02:34:29,879 --> 02:34:32,040
goes to the other. Well, you've jumped the ball. It's

2795
02:34:32,079 --> 02:34:34,360
your turn to get the ball. And then the next time, well,

2796
02:34:34,760 --> 02:34:36,559
now we have another jump ball, and then it's gonna

2797
02:34:36,559 --> 02:34:39,680
be the other team's term to get the ball. We

2798
02:34:39,680 --> 02:34:43,920
can't have them jump for the ball anyway. Never, it

2799
02:34:44,079 --> 02:34:46,040
never made sense to me, But now that these guys

2800
02:34:46,079 --> 02:34:49,239
are millionaires, it makes even less sense. Like, let's get them.

2801
02:34:49,280 --> 02:34:50,600
I don't know if it's like you're trying not to

2802
02:34:50,639 --> 02:34:52,879
hurt anybody's ego. They can't go jump for the ball.

2803
02:34:53,239 --> 02:34:55,399
It's ridiculous. Well you know what ross which cannot by

2804
02:34:55,399 --> 02:34:58,399
the way, you get in room service. Well can I God,

2805
02:34:58,440 --> 02:35:06,879
I hate to out somebody, Trey Ackerman, Ryan, No, I

2806
02:35:06,920 --> 02:35:10,760
can't do it. Okay, Okay, they I need we need

2807
02:35:10,760 --> 02:35:12,840
to help them get the college basketball game down the

2808
02:35:12,840 --> 02:35:17,159
two hours. We are using way too many timeouts and

2809
02:35:17,239 --> 02:35:19,120
way too many fouls. We we got it. We have

2810
02:35:19,200 --> 02:35:24,319
to completely shake up, uh, college basketball. We can't ask

2811
02:35:24,319 --> 02:35:28,479
for more reviews. Then there was a certain college basketball

2812
02:35:28,479 --> 02:35:32,360
fan saying review everything. Wait a minute, Who's who is

2813
02:35:32,360 --> 02:35:33,959
that guy? I don't even know that. He was running

2814
02:35:33,959 --> 02:35:36,520
around to everybody in the clubhouse who could listen about

2815
02:35:36,559 --> 02:35:41,520
the officiating. Was that Timbout mctagger? Hey, I didn't say

2816
02:35:41,520 --> 02:35:45,639
who it was. I said it Ryan Record mac on

2817
02:35:45,719 --> 02:35:48,920
seven talking to Joey Loberfield. Did you see these refs?

2818
02:35:49,000 --> 02:35:51,479
I know you're going to yrn On Alvarez talking about

2819
02:35:51,479 --> 02:35:54,399
the basketball is kind of a risky situation.

2820
02:35:54,040 --> 02:36:02,760
Speaker 13: There, Sorry about that, you there? Yeah, okay, Lance Berkman

2821
02:36:03,639 --> 02:36:06,879
his numbers will be better. He was injured almost two

2822
02:36:06,959 --> 02:36:12,000
complete years in the heart of his career, and unlike

2823
02:36:12,120 --> 02:36:15,920
many guys who knocked the tar out of the ball

2824
02:36:16,000 --> 02:36:21,799
against bad pitching, Berkman could hit anybody. I think if

2825
02:36:21,840 --> 02:36:25,920
you talk to pitchers who faced him, you will be

2826
02:36:26,000 --> 02:36:27,719
more inclined to think he should be.

2827
02:36:27,680 --> 02:36:33,040
Speaker 4: In the hall and on the jump ball thing at

2828
02:36:33,040 --> 02:36:38,239
one point, so in college ball, they're not very good

2829
02:36:38,239 --> 02:36:40,520
at throwing the ball up, and there was so many

2830
02:36:40,559 --> 02:36:43,920
complaints that they went to the back and forth because

2831
02:36:43,959 --> 02:36:50,840
the college refts were so unskilled in throwing the ball

2832
02:36:50,920 --> 02:36:51,440
up straight.

2833
02:36:52,120 --> 02:36:53,239
Speaker 6: And we'll see y'll soon.

2834
02:36:55,319 --> 02:36:57,120
Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt. I hope it's better now. Thank you

2835
02:36:57,239 --> 02:37:00,719
very much for the phone call. Is that what it was? They?

2836
02:37:00,799 --> 02:37:02,600
I don't I had not heard me. I know the

2837
02:37:02,639 --> 02:37:06,120
refs are bad in college basketball. Let me tell you

2838
02:37:06,440 --> 02:37:09,840
the game. They're making a lot of money. The least

2839
02:37:09,840 --> 02:37:11,000
they can do is learn how to throw the ball

2840
02:37:11,040 --> 02:37:12,840
up straight. You said they're making a GA game. Yeah,

2841
02:37:12,879 --> 02:37:15,200
throw the ball up Yeah. At least let's go lea. Hey,

2842
02:37:15,200 --> 02:37:17,360
I got an idea. Let's get some off season practice

2843
02:37:17,399 --> 02:37:22,520
in see if I can throw the ball up. I

2844
02:37:22,600 --> 02:37:24,239
like the I like the I like the energy here

2845
02:37:24,239 --> 02:37:26,200
for this eliminitting the jump ball, I love it. Or

2846
02:37:26,319 --> 02:37:31,520
adding the jump ball, Yeah, possessionnaire sucks. Let's go to

2847
02:37:31,600 --> 02:37:33,280
John on seven honey, Hi, John.

2848
02:37:34,239 --> 02:37:35,040
Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing.

2849
02:37:35,159 --> 02:37:37,479
Speaker 14: I think that they had to create some kind of

2850
02:37:37,559 --> 02:37:41,000
spiff that somebody would win if they got all the

2851
02:37:41,000 --> 02:37:43,959
practice right, because I don't know how many more quintillion

2852
02:37:44,040 --> 02:37:45,840
it's going to add to the odds of getting all

2853
02:37:45,879 --> 02:37:48,799
the bracts correct in the tournament, because nobody's really come

2854
02:37:48,840 --> 02:37:53,399
close so far, and that's going to really make it impossible,

2855
02:37:53,520 --> 02:37:55,319
I think, but I think there ought to be some

2856
02:37:55,440 --> 02:37:56,120
incentive for that.

2857
02:37:56,159 --> 02:37:57,319
Speaker 13: I don't know what you think.

2858
02:37:59,000 --> 02:38:03,959
Speaker 2: About a perfect bracket. It yeah, no, there will never

2859
02:38:03,959 --> 02:38:04,840
be a perfect bracket.

2860
02:38:06,159 --> 02:38:09,920
Speaker 14: Severalillions for that correct going to add more, and so

2861
02:38:09,959 --> 02:38:12,360
they ought to have some kind of incentive for you know,

2862
02:38:12,399 --> 02:38:14,360
if somebody should win something, if they get it all right,

2863
02:38:14,399 --> 02:38:15,959
which I don't think will ever happen.

2864
02:38:16,040 --> 02:38:19,920
Speaker 2: But it's not gonna happen, never gonna happen, not even

2865
02:38:19,959 --> 02:38:21,639
a thank you John for the phone, not even a

2866
02:38:21,680 --> 02:38:23,760
conversation piece. No one will ever have a perfect, perfect

2867
02:38:23,760 --> 02:38:28,840
bracket now never, never, ever, ever, ever, ever ever. That's

2868
02:38:28,840 --> 02:38:30,879
why when I find out, when I find out companies

2869
02:38:30,920 --> 02:38:33,280
are like fill out a break and you get everyone right,

2870
02:38:33,319 --> 02:38:35,040
I will give you a million dollars. I want to

2871
02:38:35,079 --> 02:38:39,600
go to their competitor and buy their products. So let

2872
02:38:39,639 --> 02:38:42,520
me tell you something, McDonald's. You offer me a lifetime

2873
02:38:42,520 --> 02:38:44,440
and make ribs for a perfect bracket, I'm gonna go

2874
02:38:44,440 --> 02:38:46,319
to Rory Ring and send and get a Wapper Junior.

2875
02:38:47,360 --> 02:38:49,000
That's how. That's how strong I'm a stand I have

2876
02:38:49,079 --> 02:38:53,319
on this. Do not insult the intelligence of people. There

2877
02:38:53,360 --> 02:38:58,680
will never be a perfect bracket. Ever, ever, ever, even

2878
02:38:58,719 --> 02:39:04,399
if there's a fire, a fire. Sorry, there's a movie

2879
02:39:04,479 --> 02:39:08,479
reference for you. I went Dan Matthews on you alongside

2880
02:39:08,559 --> 02:39:11,840
Dan Matthews. I'm Matt. This is the Matt Thomas Show

2881
02:39:11,840 --> 02:39:14,479
with Ross featuring Dan up next Believe It or Not,

2882
02:39:14,520 --> 02:39:17,399
All Things Robert Duval. We're playing for some nice prizes.

2883
02:39:17,600 --> 02:39:19,479
You don't really care what the arcause your prize horse

2884
02:39:19,680 --> 02:39:23,079
seven one three two one two five seven nintie for

2885
02:39:23,159 --> 02:39:25,639
Believe It or Not? Yes, the game is back seven

2886
02:39:25,719 --> 02:39:29,719
one three two one two five seven Natti all right,

2887
02:39:30,079 --> 02:39:32,280
Uh tomorrow on the show, I'll be in New York.

2888
02:39:32,399 --> 02:39:35,239
Ross may have another sports radio hosts those three shows

2889
02:39:35,239 --> 02:39:40,239
in three different cities in three days. None, see, that's

2890
02:39:40,280 --> 02:39:43,600
why you And it's surviving cancer at this point, terminal

2891
02:39:43,600 --> 02:39:51,719
cancer a great job. Yeah, Uh, we'll have I'm sorry

2892
02:39:51,760 --> 02:39:53,319
is to get to and we have an Ald timer

2893
02:39:53,360 --> 02:39:57,600
for tomorrow. Would you agree? No, I'm not gonna do it. Okay,

2894
02:39:57,639 --> 02:40:01,280
that's fine, I don't care. And then, uh, tomorrow, we'll

2895
02:40:01,319 --> 02:40:03,200
also have a Kelvin Sampson on the show, and we

2896
02:40:03,319 --> 02:40:05,040
were trying for a couple other things as well. So

2897
02:40:05,120 --> 02:40:07,840
looking forward to hanging out with you for four hours

2898
02:40:07,840 --> 02:40:11,000
and anything goes Friday. That'll be tomorrow at ten o'clock

2899
02:40:11,079 --> 02:40:14,319
until two from New York City and from Houston five minutes.

2900
02:40:14,399 --> 02:40:16,479
Let it go on the show. What should we do?

2901
02:40:18,879 --> 02:40:23,079
We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show.

2902
02:40:23,079 --> 02:40:25,760
We simply called it be Leaving or Not. And here's

2903
02:40:25,799 --> 02:40:27,680
how it works. Should call seven one three two one

2904
02:40:27,799 --> 02:40:30,680
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

2905
02:40:30,719 --> 02:40:33,079
five seven ninety Today's edition and Believe or Not. It

2906
02:40:33,159 --> 02:40:35,680
is brought to you by absolutely no one category today

2907
02:40:35,719 --> 02:40:38,399
is all things about Robert Duvall. I'll read you a

2908
02:40:38,440 --> 02:40:41,159
question about Robert d. Ball's statements, completely utterly acheory. You'll

2909
02:40:41,159 --> 02:40:43,959
say this, believe it, yea, at the same as he

2910
02:40:44,040 --> 02:40:45,879
ronni As full of bon comme up. You'll say this

2911
02:40:47,520 --> 02:40:49,680
not to believe it or not in a row when

2912
02:40:49,719 --> 02:40:52,239
you either when you a seven Hounty t shirt or

2913
02:40:53,319 --> 02:40:56,120
a pair of tickets to see Dave Matthews Band May

2914
02:40:56,200 --> 02:40:58,840
the eighth of the Woolands Pavilion tickets go on sale

2915
02:40:58,799 --> 02:41:00,680
this's Friday at ten o'clock, or you can see a

2916
02:41:00,680 --> 02:41:03,520
Perry tickets to see Triumph on their Rock and Roll

2917
02:41:03,559 --> 02:41:06,879
Machine Reloaded tour. May twenty second at Smart Financial Center.

2918
02:41:07,239 --> 02:41:11,920
Those tickets are available at smart financialcenter dot com. Let's

2919
02:41:11,959 --> 02:41:16,760
play Believe It or Not. We'll start with line number two,

2920
02:41:17,440 --> 02:41:20,000
Bill on seven ninety Bill, what was your what is

2921
02:41:20,040 --> 02:41:21,600
your favorite Dave Matthews song?

2922
02:41:23,319 --> 02:41:24,799
Speaker 13: Hote it damn ball up straight?

2923
02:41:26,520 --> 02:41:30,239
Speaker 2: Robert Duval's father, Robert Duval's senior, was also a Hollywood actor.

2924
02:41:30,360 --> 02:41:35,280
Believe It or not?

2925
02:41:35,280 --> 02:41:35,360
Speaker 7: Not?

2926
02:41:37,760 --> 02:41:40,159
Speaker 2: All right, here we go statement number two for the

2927
02:41:40,159 --> 02:41:42,479
way and Robert Duval served four years in the Army,

2928
02:41:42,520 --> 02:41:45,239
where he achieved the rank of staff sergeant. Believe it

2929
02:41:45,360 --> 02:41:47,440
or not?

2930
02:41:47,440 --> 02:41:48,399
Speaker 3: Not not?

2931
02:41:53,120 --> 02:41:54,920
Speaker 2: There is no way Bill's going to see the Dave

2932
02:41:54,959 --> 02:41:57,799
Matthews band. Been a while. Chances huh, it's been a

2933
02:41:57,840 --> 02:42:00,639
while he's been striking out. I know he's like, I

2934
02:42:00,639 --> 02:42:03,760
should just go to a competence to go. Andrew on

2935
02:42:03,879 --> 02:42:05,920
seven ninty Andrew, you ready to play Believe it or not?

2936
02:42:07,200 --> 02:42:07,719
Speaker 3: Believe it?

2937
02:42:08,280 --> 02:42:10,760
Speaker 2: Robert Duvall was considered for the role of Obi Wan

2938
02:42:10,799 --> 02:42:13,959
Kenobi in Star Wars, but struggled with an English accent

2939
02:42:14,079 --> 02:42:16,840
and the role went to Alec Guinness. Believe It or not?

2940
02:42:19,079 --> 02:42:20,120
Speaker 3: Believe it not?

2941
02:42:20,719 --> 02:42:28,319
Speaker 2: Nos, excellent work on your part. My favorite A Frank

2942
02:42:28,600 --> 02:42:31,159
on seven ninety, Frank, your favorite part of today's ten

2943
02:42:31,159 --> 02:42:35,440
to two radio show, Howdy Man, Just listening to Er.

2944
02:42:36,319 --> 02:42:40,319
Robert Davall was personally trained by famed method acting coach

2945
02:42:40,479 --> 02:42:42,520
Lee Strasburg. Believe It or not?

2946
02:42:44,879 --> 02:42:45,520
Speaker 3: Believe it?

2947
02:42:46,079 --> 02:42:50,399
Speaker 2: No, we do, enjoyed Vicker Radio seven ninety. Let's go

2948
02:42:50,520 --> 02:42:52,959
to a gym in the heights. Jim on seven ninety Jim,

2949
02:42:53,040 --> 02:42:54,239
You're ready to play Believe it or not?

2950
02:42:56,239 --> 02:42:56,879
Speaker 3: Believe It.

2951
02:42:57,319 --> 02:42:59,959
Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty four, Robert Deavall won a Tony Award

2952
02:43:00,200 --> 02:43:02,360
for Best Actor in a Play for his betrayal of

2953
02:43:02,360 --> 02:43:04,959
William Lowman in a Depth of a Salesman. Believe It

2954
02:43:05,120 --> 02:43:05,319
or Not?

2955
02:43:07,120 --> 02:43:07,680
Speaker 3: Believe it?

2956
02:43:08,399 --> 02:43:14,559
Speaker 2: No, I'm sending it. I'm sending a trend here. Do

2957
02:43:14,559 --> 02:43:17,239
you want bickering? By the way, stay tuned. Oh you,

2958
02:43:18,440 --> 02:43:21,680
We're gonna give you a bicker fast coming up. Ken

2959
02:43:21,840 --> 02:43:23,959
on seven NINTI, Ken, you're ready to play Believe it.

2960
02:43:24,000 --> 02:43:25,760
Speaker 3: Or not Believe it?

2961
02:43:26,360 --> 02:43:29,719
Speaker 2: Ken combined. Robert Duvall was nominated for the Best Lead

2962
02:43:29,840 --> 02:43:34,000
or Supporting Actor Oscar nine Times, which trails only Marlon

2963
02:43:34,040 --> 02:43:36,440
Brando and Jack Nicholson. Believe It or Not?

2964
02:43:37,840 --> 02:43:39,200
Speaker 3: I don't believe it not.

2965
02:43:39,840 --> 02:43:44,920
Speaker 2: No, you shouldn't. Just seven times. Thanks for playing. Let's

2966
02:43:44,920 --> 02:43:48,280
go to uh, Greg in Livingston, Greg on seven Nintie,

2967
02:43:48,280 --> 02:43:49,879
What was your favorite part of today's ten to two

2968
02:43:50,000 --> 02:43:55,639
radio show The gas Station Store. While establishing an acting

2969
02:43:55,719 --> 02:43:58,479
career in New York, Robert Devall was roommates with Federals

2970
02:43:58,479 --> 02:44:04,399
struggling actors Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. Believe it or not,

2971
02:44:05,319 --> 02:44:07,959
Yeah yet, Bill statement number two for the win. Although

2972
02:44:07,959 --> 02:44:10,479
they were close friends, Robert Devall and Gene Hackman were

2973
02:44:10,520 --> 02:44:13,200
known to be ill tempered and had several bar fights

2974
02:44:13,239 --> 02:44:18,959
between them. Believe it or not, not, All they did fight.

2975
02:44:19,040 --> 02:44:20,559
They fit through hands quite a bit.

2976
02:44:21,479 --> 02:44:21,680
Speaker 1: Duh.

2977
02:44:23,399 --> 02:44:25,799
Speaker 2: So Bill, only when we got Bill and he's not

2978
02:44:25,840 --> 02:44:28,239
gonna go to either one of those concerts. Bill, this

2979
02:44:28,319 --> 02:44:30,479
is your most impressive win. Man. Have to do one

2980
02:44:30,559 --> 02:44:33,399
for a winner tomorrow? Yeah, well tomorrow is a one

2981
02:44:33,600 --> 02:44:37,399
answer win Friday. Get rid of these prizes, all right?

2982
02:44:37,559 --> 02:44:41,920
Uh pick the show today, Ross tend to. I don't know,

2983
02:44:42,280 --> 02:44:44,559
we didn't. I didn't feel it. Honestly, as far as

2984
02:44:44,600 --> 02:44:47,600
these shows go, I don't feel like we bickered that. Yeah,

2985
02:44:47,600 --> 02:44:50,840
we're the least bickering. We're the least angry of the

2986
02:44:50,840 --> 02:44:54,760
group of the unbickerers. That's what we call the show,

2987
02:44:55,239 --> 02:44:57,879
the full of bickering. Clinton and Wex are up next.

2988
02:44:57,959 --> 02:45:01,440
They're the team. I'll talk you for rockets at six

2989
02:45:01,559 --> 02:45:02,760
here on seven ninety eight