Speaker 1: Yeah, lunch timers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: He's head out to a town. Good morning, everyone, and
welcome to a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross.
Speaker 3: This is Sports Shock seven ninety at.
Speaker 2: A Jabari Smith the rebound and the Rockets come right
back right to left in this first quarter of playing,
here's a men Thompson left baseline on the trail to
Jabari for a two half blush. Two shots two makes
for Jafari Smith's four nothing Rockets. Rockets win the tip.
They'll have seventeen to shoot back save.
Speaker 3: It's going to be picked up by.
Speaker 2: A Green and he'll run down the floor, grab it
and then jam it down for two. That was almost
like they ran the play to perfection Adams and the
tip to Jalen thirteen of the first half. Can't win
make account got care small screens of books and hing
you go white signing. The left hand ribble gets fight
CP three underhand toss comes up short. The putback is there?
How about two offensive rebounds and putbacks for a men
Thompson Here in the first one forty five a quarter
number three, Jalen turns right, then spins left, goes baseline
right to Jay Shawn out to a Dylan Brooks three pointer,
and again he knocks that one down. He is unconscious. Tonight,
Dylan Brooks is five of eight from three. He's got
nineteen ninety five seventy one Houston Weslee repo line, dotted
circle bounce passing member Keller's feeling he won't get the
shot up, and ladies and gentlemen for the second good
second at night, the Rockets secure a win inside his
Tote Center. The final score megan one to eighteen, one
oh six and eight. A Rackets win.
Speaker 4: You d.
Speaker 2: The Rockets do is win except Brooklyn in that Utah
game this past Saturday. Hey, but they've won three or four.
If you're fifteen games under five hundred, we got issues. Otherwise,
Rockets gonna beat you. That's right. Good teams kick to
the curb. Second half of Back to Bags have been
great of the last night. First of all, I think
the crod was asleep at halftime. Eight point fifty does
not give you a like when you go when you
go out and have dinner and you run to the
clubs as you and I frequently do. Uh huh, the
club starts hopping about nine, nine thirty, ten o'clock about
probably like midnight sometimes back in the day back the
stupidest thing ever, people be like, oh man, it's too early,
we can't go out yet. The last calls it too.
What's the deal? Then, so you you get to the
club like at eleven, then your glass calls it too.
So you've been out for three hours. So you're tired
after that. Yet when you day drink, you start at
noon and then you go to like nine pm. You know,
nine hours. It's crazy. But anyways, AnyWho, uh so the
game started at eight to fifty. People are like, oh man,
I mean I'd be working eight thirty this morning. I
had to go take feed the kids. I had to
go home, check on the dog, then come back downtown.
I wasn't there. Building didn't look very full at all.
No it the rockets have to wrestle with this all
the time. You could put the game at seven, seven thirty, eight,
eight thirty nine. I personally prefer three o'clock first, the
tip off time. I was thinking one thirty. It's true
it would not be bad, but yeah, it was a laugh.
For last night, San Antonio was really bad and I
hate to hear that because we have so many great
friends that we are that are Spurs fans. And here's
the thing about the Spurs, not that we're gonna get
into a large sanatorio conversation. That team right now is
built of first round picks. That team is built of
guys that were top forty selections in the NBA draft.
Speaker 3: Not very good.
Speaker 2: I mean, Daron Fox looked like he was ready to
check out for the season. I mean, I liked the Aaron,
but he didn't look like he gave tooth. You're saying
that it was a one two three can coon in
the pregame huddle. It felt like that way. No victim
women Yama out there yesterday. You still got the deep
vein thrombosis, which again that to me sounds like something
that would be really graphic.
Speaker 5: HM.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm wishing him the best as am I I
wasn't said that he wasn't on the floor last night.
But you know, some call him a bum. He's he
does affect the game on both ends of the san
He's only you know, twenty and ten leads save twenty
five and ten second the league in blocks. Now, granted,
there's some deficiencies in his game, turns the ball over
too much. But you know he's going to have to
obviously face the same situation that a lot of players
of his build are going through, and that is being
a lean, seven plus foot at basketball player. There have
been some that to thrive, but there's also been quite
a few over the years that have had a difficult
time staying healthy. Now, I don't think his build necessarily
hurt the deep vein thrombosis. Yeah, I'm not a doctor.
We have to get a doctor on that. No, we're
not going to get a doctor on that or not.
But I think we can guess a vascular surgeon. We
could do that too. But yeah, they're terrible. Rockets won
last night, and Rockets now in the fourth spot in
the Western Conference.
Speaker 3: Are we headed for Luca Lebron versus the Rockets in
the first round? Four B five.
Speaker 2: I don't really want that, But I'm gonna tell you
I'm not that scared. I'm not saying the Rockets are.
Speaker 3: Gonna roll with backs. Not scared.
Speaker 2: Not that I really should trust any of Shak's ambay opinions.
He's like that old Laker team going against that young
Rocket team. They're gonna be a mail. Dude.
Speaker 3: You heard of Jalen Green two weeks ago. He's like, yeah,
Jenny Green going run by the Lakers, all right, shack.
Speaker 2: He called him Jeremy Green for the first two months
of the year, for the first three years of his
career probably, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: It is a Matt Thomash oll Ross. I hope all
of you have had at least some rest. Uh.
Speaker 2: And we're here today until two o'clock. We've got a
full show today.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Astros who showed up, We appreciate you for that. I'm
gonna be here tomorrow too. Wow. I'm gonna record almost
shut up all next week. I will be on the
road with the Rockets Oklahoma, sittastic. You'll be home all Marto.
Oh my god, you see the schedule? Straight games at all?
I mean holy so, I don't even know what that's like.
I was going through that live on air on the
Rockets Rap last night, and I was like, I didn't
realize it was six in a row. Well hopefully because
the rock I didn't spend any time in the month
of Houston, the month of January or February.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, except for the break. Yeah. So yeah, the
Where's I going with this?
Speaker 2: Okay, uh, Rockets Rockets one off until Saturday. We have Astros. Oh,
Astro was mentioned. Astros are playing today at noon and
that's a tape delay game on seven Ice. We'll tell
you what's going on when. I don't anticipate anybody going.
I can't wait seven hours to hear it with Robert
and Steve, so we'll play it later tonight. Yeah, make
sure you check it out. But if it's something that
happens it's eventful in the game, we will be happy
on that. You know, if you get it spoilers, I
don't know. Social media is kind of get.
Speaker 3: Round spring training baseball. It's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now if something now, Cam Smith is playing today
at third base, I think, oh, I think Jordan is
batting today for the first time. Jeremy Page was playing
for the first time. So if they're any highlights or
we could put we could put Connor to work for
some live listening. Well, I can tell you we're gonna
do that tomorrow for sure. Really do you know why
I think I do? But I don't understand exactly how
you listen into somebody in the field.
Speaker 3: You just play it. When the other team is batting.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're yeah, we're gonna let you hear what
Jose al Tube does tomorrow if he gets the ball,
Will he get a ball? It'll be a weird.
Speaker 3: Listen like, uh look live listening, but we're gonna try it. Great,
So that's coming up.
Speaker 2: So if anything eventful happens, uh with the bats today,
we'll play him on at a highlight. We should really
know we have to do is if Cam Smith gets
a basehead or any Jeremy Paine or your On Alvarez
just we should just over sell the hell out of
it and then play the just the preseason bits, although
most of those are getting deleted off. So do you
think we have you know, it's early in spring training?
Do we think we should ask people to send us
audio of it's just bring training? We could we could
record a few ourselves.
Speaker 3: All right, would you like to start?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 3: We go? Uh, Connor, you're rolling on this. Here we
go three two one.
Speaker 2: Mec Brown here, Texas, former Texas coach and former North
Carolina coach, saying it's just spring training. Hi, I'm Ross.
It's just spring training. Hey, it's Matt, It's just spring training. Hey,
it's a joy love mofeedo. It's a justice spring training Cosby.
I don't think we should be doing this, Bill Cosby.
It's still spring training. Wool button bobs. I think we've
uh passed the expiration date on that one. I know
he's still alive and.
Speaker 3: In prison or anything.
Speaker 2: At this point, I don't think okay, all right, So
if you would like to send us uh, it's just
spring training. Oh, you can do it all like on
your voice notes and your voice members or stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Send us uh.
Speaker 2: MP three is preferred. MP four I can't figure out. Sorry, Connor, No,
we'll I'll do the heavy lifting up. Yes, I'll actually
do that. I'll shut up, I'll do it. Send me
an email on a voice memo MP three. It's just
spring training, and celebrity personations are more than welcome.
Speaker 3: What else do we do? Old West?
Speaker 2: Sure we can play the music. Yeah, we'll get this done. Spencer,
I'll get it from Athens. Joel just saying it's just
spring turning. I something that Bok Cosby hasn't used enough,
all right, I think it's used more than enough, probably
so on the radio program today at ten to fifty
coming up in thirty eight minutes. I've got a pair
of tickets I want to give away to the Cougars
versus Cincinnati Bearcats.
Speaker 3: Really, we'll do that again.
Speaker 2: At ten fifty and eleven fifty today, let's go. You
ready for that? No, the news at noon, I just
don't get it earlier than that. At eleven thirty today, Okay,
And then we have email Doaku's going to join us
at one o'clock this afternoon? Looking forward to that, and then,
believe it or not, today, finally we get to use
the gene Hackman questions. Have we had those? No, we're
just I'm just saying we've been. I've used Gene Hackman
un I'll ever dead before, and he's been. Gee, Hammick died.
Speaker 3: He died yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my gosh. And here's the creepy part of it.
They found him in his home in New Mexico. He's
not I think he's ninety five. I think he was.
His wife was dead and the dog was dead too.
They're not saying anything criminal yet, but they're still can't
be a coincidental. Well, my first play all huffed the
same fumes of like gas my gas is. There's something
about some sort of illegal not illegal, but dangerous drugs,
gas or something. I mean, I can't imagine all three
of them going, you know, it's time. I can't imagine
all three of them getting croaking at the same time coincidental.
It is a little bizarre, there's no way. Yeah, they're
not saying it's a criminal investigation, but they're investigating. He's
ninety five. I think the wife is thirty years younger.
So you know, again, we're going to find out more
about it, but clearly one of the best actors in
the history of American cinema and television real fast before
we get to break.
Speaker 3: I think people that worked with him thought he was
an a hole as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know my favorite Gene Hackman, Okay, honestly,
I'm gonna go to the early eighties. I thought he
was a relatiously awesome Alex Luthor. I really did in
the Superman movies. Ah, Okay, he's not one of those
guys ross that I followed his Like, anytime this person
was in a movie, I wanted to watch it.
Speaker 3: You're not going coach Norman Dale. I mean we could
do that too. Hmm.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Royal as Royal Tenenbaumb in The
Royal Tenenbaumbs. Okay, did you love that movie? I never
saw it. I know, don't watch it. It's fine. You
won't gonna like it, because why, that's probably a little
too artsy for you.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: Normally I would consider that an offense. But I kind
of know who I am and how you react towards anything.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 2: I don't mean that in a negative way at all.
I just don't think I wouldn't recommend it. I don't
think you'd enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I know what you would like, not like, Okay,
and so yeah I wouldn't. That's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm not offended by it in this particular hour, but
maybe later on the day. So that's Gene Hackman, all
things about him, believe it or not. Today at one
fifty this afternoon, when we return, the most exciting thing
happened yesterday at the NFL Combine. We'll tell you what
that is in a moment ten to fourteen of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three, two one
two five.
Speaker 3: Seven ninety.
Speaker 6: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Spots
Talk seven ninety right.
Speaker 2: It is a ten to twenty on The Matt Thomas
Show with Ross seven one three two one two five
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at Sports MT, at Sports RV, and at Connor Dy McGovern. Uh,
We're gonna hear from Nick Casserio a little bit later
this hour. If you were at the Rockets game last night,
did you enjoy it? Did you fall asleep? In the
second half. I sat in the back of my chair,
like my arms crossed like this right now. I was
just like calling an ice little.
Speaker 3: I was just calling a star, not off.
Speaker 2: I did not off, but it was it was like
you were calling a stroll in the park. It was
like it was like a couple of lovers walking down
a lake on a beautiful day, and just everything was
working well. Rockets are making their shots, they were playing
good defense, the turnovers weren't bad into the fourth quarter
when it didn't matter.
Speaker 3: San Antonio sucks. I mean, it was kind of a
perfect night. It was great.
Speaker 2: The only problem is I'd like the game started an
hour or and a half earlier than it did. I'm
sure the national audience just loved that game with no
whimby in a blowout. So you had Philly, New York
Philadelphia sucks. That was the first half of the doubleheader,
and the second half was the Rockets and Spurs. Yeah,
I'm going to assume that the ESPN folks did not
get great ratings in either one of the games. Honestly,
probably not all right, So the NFL combined to me
just not my cup of tea. I'm not a big
NFL draft guy. I mean, the day comes, it's of cool,
but getting in the weeds of you know, who the
Texans or who the Eagles should take in the fourth
round doesn't appeal to me. But they're at the combine
right now, and this is where agents and coaches and
general managers all collaborate with the athletes, and there's a
lot of talking in a new window and roomormongering and whatnot.
So ross at the raid rebu rariot. Oh Jesus, there's
a bar bucks. Oh my god. Okay. And Ian Rappaport
of the NFL Network was having a conversation with an agent, okay,
and the conversation got interrupted in the middle of it,
bye by whom Matt Jordan Schultz. That would be the
reporter who used to break basketball news. First of all,
his dad's a billionaire christ he works for Fox right now.
He was with He's hopped around everywhere. He was like
Huntington Post. He was doing his own thing. He was
somewhere else, right, He's the one that told that. Our
first introduction to him on air was him telling us
that Dwight Howard was coming going to the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah,
he's he's moved his sources on that. He's gotten a
number of stories wrong over the years. Yes, it continues
to rise up the ring because he's gotten some things right. Yeah,
I mean he's not betting zero, but he's not betting
a thousand. But once you goof on a bunch of stories,
you lose my respect. And then he blocked me for
no reason, and you know what, he'll be crashing burns.
So he comes up on Ian Rappaport at the Raw
Rocks at the hotel and they have a verbal altercation. Now,
well exactly what was said. There's a little bit of
he said. He said, m hmm. But NFL security is
looking into this. How two NFL reporters, well one legit
maybe one not so much, although again Schultz works for Fox,
so he's employed by his website that is a legit media. Yeah,
and uh, it all comes down to a story that
Schultz is going on saying that Tom Brady and Matthew
Stafford had a conversation about maybe Stafford going to the
Las Vegas Raiders, and they had this meeting in Montana
apparently if I'm reading.
Speaker 3: The stories correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, Rappaport didn't think there was anything to the story
and said it was a chance meeting, that there was
no conversation. No form will get together because there could
have been some tampering issues, although the Rams have already
publicly said that Matthew Stafford is free to go look
somewhere else, so they're not going to file tampering charges
if anything. They're like, if you can find somewhere else
to go. We understand pooh poo died the report. Jordan
Schultz said, bra I got this, and apparently they had
an argument.
Speaker 3: Verbal altercation or else.
Speaker 2: See, you don't understand life too short for two mediate
people to be fighting over something stud about a report
involving Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford. I mean, if you're
really gonna fight about something in life. Don't you want
to fight about you calling somebody a name or insulting
a member of your family, or how your wife looks
or what your kids do. I mean, do you really
want to get into a peer six er over whether
or not Tom Brady had a chance meeting or a
non chance meeting with Matthew Stafford in Montana.
Speaker 3: This is interesting because.
Speaker 2: On one side you have Jordan Schultz, who I do
not respect at a order right at all. And then
on the other side you have Ian Rappaport, who has
a history of beefing with people. Remember he got it
into it with Jason lunkinfora back in the day. Remember
he and Adam Schefter had some beef on a report recently.
And then you add in this and I want to
say there was something else. You know what my deduction
of this is is that these media types just think
way too much of themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to be.
Speaker 2: A certain type of individual to raise the ranks that
Ian Rappaport has. Kind you gotta step on some people's backs.
You gotta be justplas this. You got to if you
want to be a reporter that breaks his types and
type of news. It's kind of baked into the job
because you have to separate yourself from the rest of the
people that like, there's certain types of reporters that all
they do is confirm things, which is stupid. Either you
break stories or you don't. But when you confirm stories,
it doesn't mean Jack squad. You're also not going to
be an NFL insider or MLB insider or NBA insider
unless you break stories if you want to be in
that one percent club, which is what I consider and
Rap reports in the one percent club.
Speaker 3: Now, doesn't he not.
Speaker 2: Work for the NFL, so he's got to have a
little bit of an advantage, although they tell us over
and over again that the NFL network doesn't.
Speaker 3: Maybe not because he can't.
Speaker 2: There's some things he can't report on, right or no, Well,
there's you have to protect the shield.
Speaker 3: That's an important thing you do when you work for
the NFL network.
Speaker 2: You know, it sounds like protecting the shield would be
a tampering meeting, getting set up and then going out
and trying to publicly say that it was coincidental. Now,
Pro Football Talk speaking of douchebags, Mike Florio speaking of
guys who to these heights.
Speaker 3: They're d bags.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my Florio has said exactly what you just said,
not about the tampering. He's like, where there there, They're
very well could have been a meeting. It's not beyond
the shadow of a doubt that Tom Brady, who has
not hidden the fact that he wants to be involved
in the operations of Las Vegas Raiders, would have figured
out a way, somehow, some way to meet face to
face with Matthew Stafford. That's not completely crazy. So I
don't know, do what is there? Parts of both sides
of the story. I believe, Yeah, I kind of do that.
I'm not I'm not saying that Jordan Schultz is lying.
I'm not gonna completely belie him because he's missed out
in stories before. But for these two, jabronis to go
to Indianapolis to cover an event where guys are in
their underwear and T shirts and running around running forty
times and get into a squabble at a ra Rocks,
I mean, come.
Speaker 3: On, bigger than that, man. It's about reputation, is it really?
Speaker 2: What if you came out and put out this big
report and then somebody said it wasn't true you'd have
some beef with him, but you're gonna do in front
of a bunch of people.
Speaker 3: Why. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe you wouldn't meet him privately. I think this is great.
I think we should get him in the boxing ring together.
My point is this, This to me, is way more
interesting than anything can happen to the combine. I want,
I want reporter beef. I want those guys to get in.
What is that event that Pat Mahomes Senior were supposed
to get in with Rock? Yeah, let's go rough and
running with those guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Look, I don't like, Like I said, I
don't respect Jordan Schultz, but his story makes more sense
to me than they accidentally happened to meet in Montana
at a ski resort at the exact same time. Yeah,
come on, I would tend to believe there is some
assemblance of more than just a informal Oh is that you,
Matt Nots can't it's crazy? Yeah, free agent quarterback owner
of a team weird in Montana.
Speaker 1: I don't be come on this, How.
Speaker 2: Can this have happened? Let's meet up for a second.
Whatever that NFL security getting involved?
Speaker 3: Hmm?
Speaker 2: Yeah, even Rapport's got probably get better security. Oh, I
think for sure. But now the easiest way for Schultz
to make up with the Rappaport gift card. Who doesn't
love a raw Rocks gift card? You can probably give
him an unlimited one. I have one, and I have
three of them in my phone. Okay, that's why I
give my wife all the time. That's cool. So I'm
just saying thank you. And again, the coffee's mid but
I'll take it. It's very convenient, extraordinarily convenient, all right.
Ten twenty eight Sports Talk seven and eight. Speaking of
the combine, Nicky C spoke yesterday forgetting about guessing about
when Nikki C said ross, I want you to grade
how entertaining the sound bite was? No, we know what
the great no no, no, no, no no. I want you
to have an open.
Speaker 3: Mind on this.
Speaker 1: One to ten.
Speaker 2: How entertaining was the nick Asio sound bites. We'll run
through some of those next seven one three, two, one two,
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Speaker 7: Matt's really smart, he works hard, he has a good
grasp of players.
Speaker 3: He's been around the game.
Speaker 7: You love him, We love him so excited for the
opportunity that Matt has in front of him.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 6: This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety is
how you reach this radio program today?
Speaker 3: That is a Matt Thomas show at Ross.
Speaker 2: I just don't get it coming up today at eleven
thirty and my just don't get it is going to
come from a town hall meeting that Chris Delcante had
with the University of Texas fan base. Oh really, yeah, okay, wonderful.
So and it's not about something that you t did.
It's just something that was brought up yesterday. I just
thought was really odd that you just don't get. I
just don't get, okay. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nightty Nikky c spoke yesterday. He was on the
Pat McAfee show. He was on Pro Football Talk. Wow,
he spoke to the media.
Speaker 5: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: He did not make it a parents on any seven
to ninety show. It never has, it never will. There's
a zero percent chance that he'll ever be on.
Speaker 3: That's okay. Yeah, it's not good content, it's not, but.
Speaker 2: You know what, it's good to have the name to
say you're getting them on, but then but then you
wind up going, Jesus.
Speaker 3: That was twoe minutes of my life, will never get back.
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, we'll give you a minute of Yeah, twel
minutes of your life you'll never get back. Where does
maybe chunks of one in two minutes? Hey, no, this
is great stuff.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 2: How about Nick Cassario talking about well moving on from
Bobby Slowick, He says, that's what Demiko Ryans felt like
was the right thing to do.
Speaker 7: Bobby did a lot of really great things for the organization,
helped the number of players. I think as we went
through it, Dimiko felt in the end that was the
right thing for our team.
Speaker 3: So it wasn't easy.
Speaker 7: I mean, Demiko and Bobby essentially grew up in the
NFL together, so to be able to make a decisions like.
Speaker 2: It was hard. It was taxing.
Speaker 7: So but you know, that was a decision we felt
made the most sense for us.
Speaker 2: So we got to turn the page.
Speaker 7: So it's a good opportunity for Nick has experienced kind
of a multitude of systems, so we'll kind of see
how it goes. But you know, Nick's highly respected coach
in this league, so again, it's gonna be a collective effort.
It's not going to be specifically about Nick Hayley. It's
going to be about the offensive staff, the offensive players,
how we play, how do we handle things in games?
Speaker 3: So all of it kind of fits together in the end.
All right, entertainment factor won to ten. It's about a four.
Good for you. I was gonna go with the two. Okay,
we'll go three and split seas.
Speaker 2: Basically, so basically, the new offensive corner is gonna have
some control. But he's gonna be a lot of people
overseeing his situation. Well, you see, he's no, he does
going to do a good job. Comes from multiple systems,
highly regarded. But it's not. But he's he said, it's
I'm just been Nick Caley's the player. It's about the team.
But he's a play caller. I mean, Dimiko is getting
in that game, and actually is Nick Cassario calling the plays?
Speaker 3: You remember the whole headset thing with him.
Speaker 8: Back in the day.
Speaker 2: That was a sense of topic for one on Nickey
c Yeah, it was Nick Caley better be good because
you're not. Don't you think as an offensive as a
head coach, you're allowed one coordinator change before people start
putting it on you. I think for sure it's to me,
I think of it as a get out of jail
free card. It happens in college. I just happen in
Philadelphia this past year. It happens in Philadelphia. You get
like the one get out of jail free card where
you can fire yourre each of your coordinators. But then, yeah,
if things are still bad and you keep changing coordinators,
they're gonna start looking at the top. So that to me, absolutely,
you get that card, you use that card, but then
that starts ticking your clock. Now. I don't think Domico's
under any pressure me, but that's why I would have
if I was him, I would have probably not made
the move because you don't need to speed up that
card because again, if this team falls flat again, it's
if the Texans offense does not perform better next year.
To me, it would be a very simple reason, you
don't have enough skill position players in your offense.
Speaker 3: Line didn't get improved.
Speaker 2: I don't think CJ is gonna regress if he had
a slat regression this year, I don't think it's gonna
be I mean, I can't guarantee anything, but I think
I know who CJ is after two years in the NFL.
He's gonna make the plays. He canna make the throws.
Have there been some times where he held the ball
a little bit too long? Or was he staring down receivers? Again,
that's every quarterback. But I have a good feeling that
I don't think we're gonna put the word bust or
major disappointment behind the CJ stroude resume no or not.
But if the offensive line struggles and the running game
doesn't get going again and mix and misses any length
of time next year and there's no backup or there's
no number two legit receiver alongside Nico Collins, I think
there's gonna be people going, what are we doing here?
I don't know if it's gonna be on Kaylee, it's
gonna be on Demiko, or maybe I'm the general manager.
Speaker 3: Who's to say? But continue on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, more from Nick Cassario. Something we've talked about Matt
possibly bringing Stephan Diggs back. Nick Cassario says, the dialogue
is open. That's rehabbing.
Speaker 7: He was a good asset to our team, helped us
win some games, So we'll go through the process.
Speaker 3: Here, he's a free agency.
Speaker 7: Contracts canna expire here and then you know, a week
or two if we can't get something worked out. But
kind of keep the dialogue moving, keep it open, but
as far as any bombs going off, but try to
stay below the radar here a little bit and just
try to make good decisions for our team. That's the
most important thing.
Speaker 2: Entertainment factor on that would be about a point five.
Somebody chuckled at the end.
Speaker 3: Who was that? I don't know. Was it part of it?
Speaker 2: And he was on whatever the insiders is. I don't
I don't know what else that is. I mean, h
m hmm. I I compare this to Dana Brown and
Bregman us we're a small little bit ooh okay. I
think Dana is like, I've got a comfortable number. They
will bring Bregman back back, Bragman back. I think Nick's
got a comfortable number that he'd like to bring Stefan back.
I think there are different situations. Because you're under number one,
you're on a hard cap. They could have given Nim
Breagman whatever he wanted, but did you.
Speaker 3: I'm worried about.
Speaker 2: I mean, if the general manager has in his mind
what a players valued at. Yeah, it doesn't change. They
each have values in their mind of what the players worth. Yes,
but I he's Stefan Diggs isn't going to be some
highly touted free agent going to be in a bunch
of negotiations. But Dana Brown clearly said life will go
on if Alex Bregman. It's not an astro. I believe stuff.
I think I believe the Texans will also believe that
Stefon Diggs life will go on if he doesn't resign.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: Problem is, I don't know where I mean, at least
in Alex's case, there were probably four or five teams. Yeah,
that doesn't feel like to me that Stefan's gonna have
a variety of options you when you went through list
Stefon Diggs, I mean, Alex Bregman was ever everybody's top
five free agents. The only two teams I've heard Stefon
Diggs of interest would be either Houston or Dallas.
Speaker 3: That's all I've heard.
Speaker 2: Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that somebody could come out
of the way woodworks and and want it sign him.
Speaker 3: But again, wrong side of thirty.
Speaker 2: Uh and coming off of major A c L I
mean not necessarily what you want to you put on
the other marquee. Yeah, that's what you would take. You know,
another one you probably a one year deal you got
brought him back if if somebody needs a one year
deal receiver and the Texans when you have a lot
of money invested in Nico Collins, it does make a
little bit of sense. Plus you're already without Tank del
The question is going to be in Nikki's mind. Can
I go replenish this in the draft as compared to
bringing back somebody that I don't know what he's gonna
bring us when he's if indeed comes back all the
way from the injury.
Speaker 3: All right, anything else?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Sure? How about the topic?
Speaker 2: Djure you don't season in the NFL, don't do it,
don't doush push you don't want to hear it?
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean I heard, I heard good? Plain were
worry about it? We can play?
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see, eh, tush push you want to hear
you want to hear his thoughts on Cole Popovich? No, okay,
Well let's get some touch push talk.
Speaker 3: Let's do some touching and pushing.
Speaker 7: What I would say to Miko and I have talked
about this. You don't necessarily want to penalize a team
that's done something very well. Credit to coach Stoutlin and
coach Siriani for that's a play that's been effective for him.
They got a good quarterback who's got good lower body strength.
I mean not every quarterback and squad six hundred and
seven hundred pounds, so the techniques that they utilize.
Speaker 3: So again, just because.
Speaker 7: You can't stop the play, I mean, is that something
that you have to take out of the game, you know,
I think we got to be careful about just totally
readying the game of it. I would say, I'm sure
the league will talk about player health and safety.
Speaker 3: Is it put the players at risk? It's a well executed.
Speaker 7: Play by the Eagles, all right, and they've had success
doing it. No one's been able to stop it, so honestly,
at some point the onus is on like figure out
a way and if you can, and the way they
implement it.
Speaker 2: They're one of.
Speaker 7: The few teams or they own about the only team
that handles it the way that they do. So the
sneak play and of itself, there's a lot of dynamics
that are involved. Some quarterbacks want to be in a phrase.
Some quarterbacks don't. He's like a buffalo Josh is, you know,
sixty five and fifty pounds, So I mean he reaches
his hand out there, he's got a first down, you know.
So every team's got to handle a little bit differently.
So I would just say, like to penalize a team
because they do something well, it's probably something we just
you know, need to think about as a league.
Speaker 2: Brevity is not one of the things in Nick Casterio's repertoire.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Nick.
Speaker 2: I think he's right. You keep it. I don't care,
but it when you got pass some of that words out,
He's like, you know, what if one, why are we
penalizing something that one team can do well and thirty
one teams have tried and not done so well? Or
maybe I aren't even trying. At this point, it seems
to be the prevailing thought for most people. Yeah, it's
been one of the hot topics at the combine. I'm
getting all these NFL people together and talking about it.
I think the hot topic is going to be who's
going to win the throw down between Jordan Schultz and
Ian rappoport Yount Remember, for what's short, right, I've never
seen him in person, so I can't tell you.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know how big Jordan Schultz is.
Speaker 2: I know he's now. I know he's soft because he blocked.
He blocked me, and I never even tweeted at him
or anything. I blocked he. I went at him and said,
you're a fraud, and so for sure he would soften,
wilt with in any sort of confrontation. I apologize for
you getting blocked through my association with No I don't
think it was all right. Ten forty four On the
Matt Thomas showed Ross seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven And when we come back, I got that trivia
question for a pair of tickets see Houston versus Cincinnati
this Saturday inside the Fertita Center, the hottest building to
watch college basketball in America. Ten forty five Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 6: Matten Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, I've got a pair of tickets I want
to give away to the Houston Cougars versus the Cincinnati
Bearcatz is Saturday at for Tita Center. I believe the
start time is three thirty on them. Let me double check.
I should probably take in case you got planned or
something you can't go, But if you can go.
Speaker 3: I want to give away a pair of tickets. Yeah,
of course you're busy.
Speaker 2: By way, shout out to that Facebook listener that says
you were mean about Kelvin Sam's a couple days ago.
I really appreciate that. I appreciate that. You know what,
that guy can shut his bum ass. Well, come on, man,
don't you know what trolling is? And he said I
said I was nasty and mean you aren't nasty and
mean you are nasty? I mean, all right, we'll go ahead,
and do you want to read that? What was it
I'm trying to find I'll read. I'll read it in
a minute. Since Attie Houston, probably three thirty if the
game's on CBS, So you need to we need to
pack the building and make sure we show them America early.
So it's early. Huh Yeah, eleven am, three thirty, three
thirty all right. Uh, the question is in the first
correct answer to seven one three, two one five seven,
and he is going to win these tickets. The Cougar
Is earlier this year retired a former Cougar Legends number.
What player got his jersey retired by the University of
Houston this year. If you know the answer first person
seven to one three That was not chicken oles seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero seven
one three two one two five seven ninety All right, um,
so let me tell you this.
Speaker 3: So uh. Our Facebook page said the following, I'm gonna
go find this.
Speaker 2: This is from Dave Pittman, Dave friend of the show.
I love you, Dave.
Speaker 3: Dave Pittman. I think Ross VS.
Speaker 2: I never call you that, it's called you're ROSSI and
Ross but sports have you've been ever a ross V?
I think Ross V's vicious attack on Kevin Samson this
morning was disgusting.
Speaker 3: It was vicious. I was here for it. It was vicious.
Speaker 2: It was in poor taste to bring up crap that
happened almost twenty years ago for no good reason. Is
he jealous because the Longhorn basketball team sucks? I think
he owes Samson an apology. That's a great Oh this
that No, it's got zero likes. Great stuff, Dave. I'm
giving it a like, right, you need to. You need to,
by the.
Speaker 3: Way, I'm responding to Dave on Facebook right now, what
are you gonna say? Are you gonna apologize?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm sorry if my comments have hurt you in
some way, That's what I'm wishing you the best during
this difficulty day. Let me tell you something. If you're listening,
thank you very much. I appreciate you calling out my
partner here. He deserves it. That's funny. ROSSI uh, we
have a little what they call in the business signature segments.
I thought about thinking one for Fridays?
Speaker 3: Would you?
Speaker 2: And I've not even brought this up to you off air,
but I'm gonna do it on here. Hold on, I'm
giving this guy three prayer emojis? Are you really you're
going to now double troll him? By the way, Jackian
in Louisiana is our winner. He can't be called from Louisian.
Is he gonna drive all the way for the game?
So Jack, congratulations. DoD Cheney got his jersey number retired
by the University of Houston. Is the Temple coach. No, no,
the former Rockets coach, ironic coach trying to John Perry. No, No,
John Chaney, not Don Chaney. John's dead. Don is very
much alive. So okay, Don Chaney got his jerseyy prayer
emojis and send.
Speaker 3: Dave get him once you respond to him.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I said, wishing you the best twice. That's
what happens when you do this.
Speaker 3: You canna edit. You can edit your own pro s
caan't you? All right? So here's my thing.
Speaker 2: Last week, Ross Steve Smith got into a situation where
he was having relations with a man's wife who works
for the Ravens Band or whatever she does. Okay, and
the graphic texts were put out there and the guy
calls Steve Smith on his cell phone and says, hey,
you been blanking my wife. What do you have say
for yourself?
Speaker 3: And all? All he said was I'm sorry. Let me
ask you this question.
Speaker 2: Okay. Should we do a Friday segment every week called
I'm Sorry where we apologize for things we've said over
the course of the week. I could apologize you to daily.
I think we're gonna try it tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 3: We should love to give anything specific.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you need to apologize to I've thought
about something the other day, Calvin Samson. First of all,
you always need to apologize anything. University Houston that you
would just slander us at every possible opportunity. But you
also have to apologize to Rick Ronalds why they've been
serving the filet of fish now see hold on since
nineteen sixty two. It is a sixty three year old sandwich.
See I didn't slander the file of fish. That's more.
And you know what, maybe I'll just use it in
thirty minute. That's more of an I just don't get it.
It's not and I'm not saying it's horrible. I'm not
saying it's bad. I hadn't had one in thirty years.
And actually so I put the pole on my Twitter
account yesterday. Have you eaten oh forty one minutes left
on the pole? Get in that way you can. Have
you eaten a fast food fish sandwich in the last
twelve months and it was twenty five percent yes, which
quite frankly is more than I would have thought. Do
you like fish sandwiches in general? No?
Speaker 3: I like catfish filets. I like pole boys.
Speaker 2: So you weren't necessarily slandering record If you were slandering
the whole fish sandwiarch, No, I'm not see. All I
did was, how is this slander? I put on a
pole that says, have you eaten a fast food sandwich
in the last Well, you've made fun of the fact
that I went gotsh Where is the slander?
Speaker 3: Maybe it was four.
Speaker 2: I just don't get it. If I'm going to a
fast food place, I'm not trusting them to make fish.
It's where did this fish come from? It's the same
thing when you go get a chicken sandwich and a
rest got from the golf of well, Golf of America.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: First of all, I don't eat it a lot, but
I was seen, but sometimes eat crave it. Now here's
one for you. This isn't gonna be a chance for
you to make a chance of big time money. Here,
I'm gonna give you ten thousand bucks. Okay. What is
the difference between the bun on a filet of fish
then a bun on say a quarter pounder with cheese
or a just a regular cheeseburger. That's your final answer, Yes,
that is correct. Yes, give me my money. They do
not toast the bun on a filet of fish. They
steam it. Yeah, is that right? That I will eat
a filet of fish. But it's like, let me put
it this way I would probably eat. Oh no, I
wouldn't need to make rib first. Oh it just doesn't
seem appetizing, that's all.
Speaker 3: What if I call Dan Matthews and have them bringing
some filet of fish in here, would you want?
Speaker 2: I guess I'll eat it.
Speaker 3: It's not torture.
Speaker 2: Connor, if I get you a fish here in a
few minutes, would you would you use? You said it
has to be somewhat good, because it isn't. It's not
like the McRib where it's off the menu and they
just get a bunch of portgunk caught up in the machines.
They got to get it out so they may they press.
They did do a little chesting checking. They brought the
filet of fish in for Catholics because they couldn't eat
meat on Friday's. Yeah, and that was in nineteen sixty two.
Something must be going right. Didn't the Vatican just make
that up the whole Friday fish?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I shouldn't know as a converted Catholic, But
I don't know. Don't shake your head and meet Connor.
I just don't get it coming up in a half
an hour from now. Okay, Astro Spring Training baseball. Not
today live, but on tape. We'll give you some updates
on that. Matt will actually call the game live for
two hours. I think I would do a good job.
I've done some baseball before, Yeah, Cougar baseball. I've done
some uh, some pings and some dings. By the way, baseball,
radio pop up play and TV pop up playing kind
of the same thing. Ground ball to short. Well, of
course I'm watching the game. I know when the ball went.
Speaker 5: Hm.
Speaker 3: It's the it's the it's the wardsmen.
Speaker 2: It's the way you phrase things in television words Smith difference, Yeah.
Speaker 3: You are one of the greatest wordsmen in all the time.
Speaker 2: And then give him strange little nicknames. I mean, model
kind of started that though, Baggy bing Berkie Goody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like he had a pattern. He's just short.
And now we got Doobi.
Speaker 2: He had a nickname for me.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Alphabet. He called you the alphabet.
Speaker 2: I was producing, uh spring training, and you know they
think the producer. After he broadcasts, he's like, all right,
ros so I need to thank you. Uh spell your
name for me. I'm like, uh, the I L L
A R R E A l I'm just gonna call
you alphabet. Oh, thank you Milo.
Speaker 3: Hmm. I never knew that until right this moment. I
told that story before. I must have been off there.
Speaker 2: Ten fifty nine. Second hour. By the way, Don Cheney
a winner. Uh, we'll have another pair of tation. Don
Chaney won his own tickets. John Cheney's dead. Okay, Don
Cheney alive. Don Chane did that? Win his own tickets.
Another set of tickets coming up at about fifty minutes tier
on Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers.
Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show eleven.
Speaker 2: O three on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the
second hour of four. This is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. Nice to have you with us on this Thursday.
So we're gonna I think we're gonna debut I'm sorry tomorrow. Now.
We need to get major production value on it and
Brenda Lee Brenda Lee. Uh, probably get Mike bow Beyond
to create an open for us. But that's gonna try it.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be two weeks away. He's gotta worry about
Michael Berry stuff.
Speaker 2: So very busy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So if Mike, if you can get a smidge of
time in between Michael Barry promos. Then we'll be I mean,
you get an opportunity to get an I'm sorry introduction.
We'll try it tomorrow. This is we apologized for something
that happened this past week. Okay, sounds great. We'll try
to love it.
Speaker 3: We'll sail away. If it was a good segment.
Speaker 2: We'll keep it going.
Speaker 3: If it doesn't work, we'll then move on. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Matt, you're you're a fountain of ideas. I just think
you have to keep different ideas going on the show.
And we've had we got some of our trademark segments.
I think shut your bomb Ass Up as one of
our favorites. Yes, I just don't get it as gaining steam. Yeah,
I think it's in neutral. But I love it. I
get it because there's something I just don't get that
is becoming a quite a national phenomenon in the athletic world. Actually, hmm,
that's my teas for twenty five minutes from now. Rockets
last night beat the San Antonio Spurs and I have
now won three of four. They gained a half game.
They're gonna right now in the four spot in the
Western Conference. Rockets Lakers Round one. Now the rock guys
are only two back of Menace of Memphis and Denver
for the two and three spots, let's come from. Let's
focus on Memphis because you got the tiebreaker there. So
let's go beat Memphis. And honestly, you want to get
out of the four or five spot because the second
round opponent would be the number one seed Oklahoma City
thunder who just don't like to lose much, Thunder and five. Yeah,
let's get Let's not do that because think about my
life for a second, and this is where you, Oh,
here we go. What do you think I'm gonna say?
I've been suffering through all these losses. It's all about
me and I call the games. It's not about the
GM and the owner and the players. It's about me,
Matt Thomas. I've been suffering through these games. I want
some playoff success. No, my thought was this, if the
Rockets for the Lakers in the first round, I'll be
in LA for several days.
Speaker 3: Okay, that is fantastic.
Speaker 2: If you beat the Lakers, your reward should be going
to another awesome place, and certainly no disrespect to Oklahoma City,
but there is yven much to do there. If you
know what I'm saying, saying, I can't go from traveling in.
Speaker 3: A different angle about you.
Speaker 2: That's well, I mean that's what I'm saying. You you
guessed the wrong angle. Yeah, but I was in the
right ballpark Oklahoma City. Now my Bourdilla would go a
lot further and uncle and say that it would be Yeah,
what are you wanting about?
Speaker 3: They got casinos?
Speaker 2: Uh, they do in Norman, which is kind of weird.
The nearest one to Okay season Norman Norman. Yeah, so
a half hours so it's not too bad, but it's
still a little bit of it. But because and here's
another thing. Side note, Oklahoma aint kiding a round. They
want your money. I know. They have their rules about
casino gambling in Oklahoma. Now you can do blackjack, crabs
into all the good stuff. Yeah, but do you still
have to anty on blackjack?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, the last time I went to an Oklahoma casino,
they did give you it. You had to pay bet
six to win five. So yeah, there was an anti
to it.
Speaker 3: It ridiculous, But at least they've opened it up. There's
now three or four casinos in the south of Oklahoma. City.
So you know you're somewhat.
Speaker 2: Right, but you know ross being with beautiful people in
Los Angeles flat bellies. You you barely leave your hotel room. No,
I stay in Beverly Hills the whole time. I move
around where. You don't go on hikes, go see sites?
You I've been to LA twenty five times. What's site
I need to see? I don't need to go to
Universal Studios the nineteen times they got they got hills.
You can go for you.
Speaker 3: There's those hills. I see the hills.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about those plastic hills or silicone hills.
Speaker 3: I don't go.
Speaker 2: You don't go to the beach.
Speaker 3: I do go to the beach. No, you don't. When's
the last time you went to the LA and you
went to the beach?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Santa Monica two years ago on the pier, which I
don't know as much of a peer anymore.
Speaker 3: What was that for? Was that on a rockets trip?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Who made you go out there? You were meeting somebody? Yes?
Okay it wasn't of your own volition? Are they said
let's go San Macaparas.
Speaker 2: That's sure? Why not?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: LA stabbed? No? I did not.
Speaker 3: Is fine. I mean, after nine o'clocket's not so great,
but ross.
Speaker 2: If there's anybody that typifies uh, Beverly.
Speaker 3: Hills is me.
Speaker 2: No, it's not you eat filet of fish and make
rib Nobody nobody in Beverly You're you're fraud Beverly Hills. No,
you're just there as a as a barnacle on the
Houston Rockets boat.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 2: I was there for the filming of Beverly Hills Cop four.
You know what I'm gonna say, I'm sorry. That was rude.
I didn't mean to say that. For tomorrow, you know,
I'm gonna write that down. I didn't mean to call
you a barnacle on the Houston Rockets boat. That's pretty mean.
You didn't call me squidward or something like that. Jesus,
you know, I don't hope you get your call from them.
Look at that. That CoP's not getting any better. You
know why, because God's looking over you. It's not it's
not like going.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Uh So, Rockets and Spurs last night, Rockets and Kings
on Saturday. Then a week road trip, and then that's
three more road trips and that's it. Two to the
West Coast and one to Florida. So the dog that
hard travel days are over pretty much after that. And
you told Dylan Brooks only is that correct? Only three
more back back? That's good news. By the way, did
you ever anticipate Dylan Brooks being your best three port
shooter and it ain't even close. Here's a guy that
got ran out of Memphis because he shot too many threes. Yeah,
he's been great. He's taking wide open ones and he's
been knocking him down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like when he.
Speaker 2: Takes him and he jumps up and down because it's
going about to go. He is for a guy who
likes to fight. He wants a hops getpen, jumpy all
the way down the court.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is his best best year of his career,
almost at forty percent now I think, right, thirty nine
point six career thirty five. Wow, that's that in that world.
That's a significant difference because these he's taken better shots.
He's also playing more minutes than he ever has before.
Why because he doesn't get into ful trouble anymore. I
mean he doesn't. Sometimes it gets into it, but it
hasn't been much so far this year. And there's a
little bit of a luck factor. I mean, these numbers
go up and down unless your name is Steph Curry.
Basically mm hmmm, that's right, all right? Seven one three,
two one two five seven nine. If you want to
jump in on our conversation, we got I just don't
get it coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Seven one three, two one two five seven nine zero.
We heard a little bit from Niky c earlier today
worthy of replaying a game. Maybe the news at noon?
Speaker 3: Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 2: What do you think we're doing the news at noon? Yes,
we haven't done in all week because we had short
games on Tuesday and went we'll put that together, all right. Uh,
Gene hacktont passed away. That's in the news, definitely. That
is the Is that the number one news topic in
America today?
Speaker 3: Probably not Probably something happened in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: Other deficit I have even checked. I have no idea.
I'm just burying my head in the sand, trying to
stay happy. Like if I asked you right now, what
is the current deficit? Could you get it within oh no,
ten billion, it's trillions, it's trillion. Could you get within
ten trillion? No, I'm gonna I have no idea ten trillion. Fifth,
I'm gonna go fourteen.
Speaker 3: Person.
Speaker 2: Isn't there a website that constantly keeps tracking like a
like a rolling clock of deficit? Okay, good, it's only
two trillion, not fourteenth. See, like I said, I had
zero clue.
Speaker 3: We'll see President Trump's doing the right things. It was
fourteen trillion a month ago.
Speaker 2: Now it's down the two twelve trillion. Let's go, Donnie,
let's go baby.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: Astro is playing the Metropolitans today and that'll be a
tape delay game at seven o'clock on seven hounty. But
if anything happens during the game, we will completely over
the top embellish it. It's the greatest thing that's ever
happened in Astro screen training history.
Speaker 3: Right, got that?
Speaker 2: Uh NFL combine continues in Indianapolis, where reporters are getting
fights at a coffee.
Speaker 3: Shop and anything else sports relay wise.
Speaker 2: Going on college basketball, AASTI, how did your beloved Longhorns do?
They forced overtime again, that's good, so they went to
they had to play an extra five So Arkansas had
to take an extra five minute to beat your beloved Longhorns.
I don't think they're making the tournament now after that
loss and the loss to South Carolina, and I feel
bad because Trey Johnson, Trey Johnson, the five star, wonderful player,
leading the the SEC. He's leading the SEC and scoring
and he might get no help and he might not
make the tournament. I feel bad for him. You could
tell he's like, God, I'm tired of putting this team
on my back. Man, this is terrible. He scored like
thirty five points in a college game. It's a freshman record,
as the longer's that's some good freshman's freshman, freshmen, freshman,
some good freshman. Yeah. Yeah, And and they lost. You
don't know what, because nil is such a big part
of sports now, I would like to know what these
guys are making. Which you think that's up for conversation.
I don't know. I'm sure whatever whatever trade Johnson's making,
he kind of looked like on the floor that it
wasn't worth it.
Speaker 3: He was like, I saw a tweet yesterday thirty nine points.
Excuse me? He had thirty nine points and they still bro.
Speaker 2: That's well.
Speaker 3: He's going to transfer out right.
Speaker 2: No, he's gonna He's gonna be a lot of repick
okay wearing rocket gear. Actually, I said, one of the
mocks I saw from ESPN had the rockets taken them?
By the way, did you see who was in the
rocket game a couple nights back working out with the
guys just for blanking gigles LaMarcus Aldridge? Really? And I
teased the EMAI, I said, man, what did he just
shoot a bunch of top of the key jumpers? Yeah,
that's what he did in nice career, very nice career,
great career. Yeah, all a very good Yeah. But you
know what the Basketball Hall of Fame is such? No, no,
are you sure that place is a great college and
pro player? Are you sure he can't get it? If
he gets in, that's the Hall is even more of
a joke than I thought.
Speaker 3: And I say this as a long time it's really
tough for you to say that.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, sixteen years, how many time all
seven time Alls are he's getting in?
Speaker 3: He's you better start right in the speech.
Speaker 2: He doesn't deserve it. He's getting on great college career
and pro career. He's absolutely getting.
Speaker 3: In seven time All Star. I didn't realize that Portland,
San Antonio, where else did he play? Hall of Very
Good and then briefly with Brooklyn at the end of
his career.
Speaker 2: That's right, and basically would be shunned in today's NBA
because he takes long two says, compared to stepping back
a few more.
Speaker 3: You can you can make them.
Speaker 2: They let you take them. That's true. But you remember
last time I checked, three is always greater than two.
H All NBA Second Team, twice All NBA Third Team.
Speaker 3: He is going to the Hall of First Team. He
is going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: No, he shouldn't.
Speaker 3: He's going to.
Speaker 2: I mean they made an Elite eight at Texas. He
was hurt his first year. He hurt his hip and
then they made the Elite eight and that's when they
lost to LSU.
Speaker 3: I think and Big Baby Davis, I'll fly you up there.
Spring film is at Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: You can go all right, seven one three, two one
two five seven out if you want to get into
on ourversation. I just don't get it coming up at
the bottom of the hour. And that's again something in
your life you just don't understand. Ross connor myself. We
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Speaker 2: On Sports Talk seven ninety it is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross.
Speaker 3: I just don't get it coming up in about ten
minutes from now.
Speaker 2: Not a super hot heavy day in headlines, ROSSI, I'm
trying to find something that would be uber entertaining from
Romni great headlines. That's why the news at noon is
kind of wonderful headlines. Amazing, incredible, unbelievable headlines coming up
at noon. All right, Okay, Justin Tucker. Speaking of Texas,
Longhorn grades oh Man once again disputing the allegations of
sexual misconduct at a high end SPA or several of them,
but also apologizing. Yeah again, he continues to apologize for
something he didn't do wrong. Quote. It devastates me to
know that anyone I have worked with would not take it,
would not have felt respected and valued as a professional,
but more importantly as a person, And to anyone who
has felt otherwise, I am sorry. I want you to
know that I am committed to ensuring that everyone I
interact with continues to feel that I feel respect them
and care about them as a human being. I mean,
come on, that's laying it out a little thick, don't
you think? Hm hmm. He said that in a statement
to OutKick the coverage. Tucker has been accused of it
inappropriate behavior by now sixteen different massage therapists from eight
different Baltimore spas. Again, if you're going Baltimore, major city,
right betternight, New York, it ain't Chicago. Analy if you
have to go to eight different places to go get
your massages, are you? Are you really sample sizing this
is that we're doing today now with a massages therapist?
I don't know. Yeah, ten therapists, it was.
Speaker 3: It's a sixteen therapists from eight different Baltimore spots.
Speaker 2: Oh okay. All the incidents reportedly occurred during sessions between
twenty twelve and twenty sixteen, which were his first five years.
Is Tony this case?
Speaker 3: Oh you gotta mean he's got to have a jet
go ahead of that direction.
Speaker 2: Because I thought he got his jay Z got his
case dismissed or they dropped that one because Mony Musby
was coming after jay Z.
Speaker 3: Really mm hmm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Why are we called him Mony Musby? He's a real person. Look,
he's also it's a no free plugs.
Speaker 3: We are.
Speaker 2: We are the court of public opinion. Okay, the quarter
pound opinion says, well, there's smoker's gotta be a little
bit of flame, right. My opinion is that there were
some improprieties committed by Justin Tucker. My opinion is that
sixteen women aren't making this up. My opinion is sixteen
massage therapist one didn't do what and say, you know what,
maybe I ought to jump on this train all make
something up because you're asking for high end attorneys to
vet the situation, and high end attorneys can vet situations
and go this doesn't sound right. I think you're making
this up. There can be lawsuits filed by people who
are just looking for a settlement and not looking to
follow through. That happens, It does, but the number is astronam. Say,
ross were repeating ourselves when we were talking about Shaun Watson,
Well he's so like, what was it? How many did
they count?
Speaker 3: Like fifty six or whatever? It got crazy after a while.
Speaker 2: New York Times so honestly, ross the therapist did help him,
because this past year he won as good as previous.
Speaker 3: Years as they didn't help him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he just took away a year away from
the massage therapist and things haven't been just weighing on
his mind. Maybe he knew these accusations were going to
come out. He was distracted.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's also just like thirty five thirty six years
old and he doesn't kick like he's twenty five, or
he's just a horn dog. Oh his legs were tired. Yeah, true,
it's gotta stay in tip top shape. I imagine by
going to sixteen different massage therapist, I mean we were again.
This is like we're inserting new name and new number.
Speaker 3: M hm, sixteen.
Speaker 2: Come on, how's his wife doing with all this? Can
you imagine? Oh? I'm sure she's fully supporting her husband
and also calling her attorney right now, went in private. Yeah,
how you want me to support you?
Speaker 3: Guess what I just gonna cost you this?
Speaker 2: What is that discussion? Like, when this news breaks, you're
supposed to meet your wife for dinner or you're coming home.
What if I what if? What if my wife found out?
I went to sixty massage therapist, and then they were
accusing you of improper things forgetting about the back half
of what you just said. What if it was just
six if you had if I had receipts on a
credit card for sixteen different places, Yeah, wouldn't the alarms
go off.
Speaker 3: A little bit? I would say so.
Speaker 2: Yes. So we're saying, if you're going to use sixteen
massage therapists, use cash still has the highest field goal
percentage in NFL history. Let me ask you this, and
this is a little bit football related. Is this going
to impact his Hall of Fame status? I don't think so. Now, Grant,
you have to have a little character to be in
the Hall of Fame, because there's been a lot of
guys that have been the Hall of Fame that if
had done much worse. He's five times AP All Pro
First Team kicker. That's pretty crazy. I mean, help me out,
is if he's not the greatest kicker of all time,
who is the greatest kicker of all time? Well, Adam
vent Arry didn't even get in. Uh, but there was
a time ross when Justin Tucker wouldn't miss for like
a year. Distance wind rain snow needed to kick forty
nine yards one second left to go in the clock. Boom,
Morton Anderson. Morton's on that list. The greatest field goal kickers,
Van Terry Vnitary didn't get in though, right.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: It's very hard to get punters and kickers in. He
was three time first team All Pro. He had all
those clutch kicks kicks. I guess he's gonna eventually get in, right, No,
he will get in because I mean, Ray guy was
considered the greatest punter of all time, and it took
him for a while to get in. Kickers in the
Hall of Fame would be Morton Anderson, but George Blando
was quarterback two. Yeah, that's a little different. I assume
the same thing for Jan Stener non Stener Rood, Yeah,
longtime NFL kicker, Packers and Vikings, you know Chiefs. So
John Centerd's not in the Hall of Football Pro Football
Hall of Fame, raisi he is? Okay, So you o
a MANE. Let's think about this for a second. It
is an important position. Now, granted it's not a true
football you know, knockdown tackle, physical spot, but it clearly
holds an important responsibility in the game, Anderson Blande, Stener,
Rude Groza. That's the list, Lou the Toe Groza. That's
there's four and one of them is a quarterback. You're
talking about three kickers, three true legit kickers in the
history of the NFL, which is what about ninety years,
give or take. Is that disrespect or is that the
NFL going? We know who you guys are. You just
have to be the greatest of the greatest of the
great to get in.
Speaker 3: Then why are why are.
Speaker 2: Closers getting in more often these days in baseball and
not getting in and kickers are not not that many.
It took it took Billy Waggner ten years. Ye closes
a rivera Goosetasage is in. I think Roy fingers is in.
That suitor I think is in the Hall of Fame,
Trevor Hoffman. So this guy there's more for sure? Uh nine,
Lee Smith, we missed Dennis Eckersley's kind of both both
did both John Smolts John Smoltz is both.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with none relievers. Out of a
thousandfense of the kickers, I think there should be more
kickers in the and the I would say vinitary In.
But after that, who's who's slighted? Could you say? Maybe
a guy like a Jason Elam? Jason Elam, is I
just put up the pulled up the all time career
points scored. Of course it's all kickers, Yeah, Jason Elam's eighth,
Robbie Gold's tenth, Mason Grosby's eleven, Sebastian Janikowski. Ooh Janakowski
was a former? Was he the last kicker picked in
the first round of an NFL draft? Longhorned legend Phil
Dawson and a Hall of Fame Justin Tucker's sixteenth all
time in NFL points already. But if Justin Tucker can't
shake this situation, like there is not a massive misunderstanding
about this, that's gonna be a hard first ballot guy
to get in. Jason Elam's second team All Pro twice,
zero time first team. You're out, You're out, Jason Ellen.
Part of the reason why he was so good is
because he played in Denver and those kicks were going
five ten yards further than other places.
Speaker 3: And shut jobumass up.
Speaker 2: Elam. I'm sorry, I'm just kidding. Wow, you very very volatile.
All right, I just don't get it. It's coming up next.
Why don't you get ross? Think about it a lot?
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
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Speaker 4: Do you have something in your life that you just
don't get? No need to worry, no need to press.
We will disuess the topics. Just see if we comprehend
the things that they can use our friends. It's time
to say I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
seven one three two one two five seven ninety This
edition of I Just Don't get It starts with me. Yesterday,
Chris de Elcanti had a town hall meeting with I
guess some University of Texas fans. There is concern about
parking lots and thirty five construction and getting the game.
There's also been concerned about the raising of the ticket
prices for long corn football.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: The one thing I didn't expect to be asked during
this town hall meeting was whether or not the University
of Texas would sponsor a pickleball team. I've watched pickleball
being played in person. I've watched pickleball being played on television.
There is a professional pickaball league. I didn't know this
until about two months ago. If you see a pick
a ball play match being played, it's not good TV.
And I understand being active, it's cool and everything, but
I think this is the second time appearance for me.
Pickleball is just like a glorifying game of pingpong, is
it not. There's not a tremendous amount of athleticism. Yeah,
it's in between table tennis and actual tennis. It's to me,
it's a good active thing for people who are older. Yeah,
not like eighteen nineteen twenty year olds for a college,
which would happen with the Texas I understand pickaball being
the thing, because again, you have to move around like tennis.
But I don't know if anybody's really breaking a sweat
playing pickleball. And if you are, then maybe you got
some sweat glands that are a little out of control.
I would say to the whole pickleball fascination, and it
clearly is a fascination. I just don't get it. Hmm.
And I certainly don't don't get why anybody would ask
Christo Kanti that'thought I directed the University of Texas whether
or not pick a ball should be a college sport
because how many twenty one year old bros are playing
pickleball right these days? Probably not as many. I don't know.
This is the question for our We have to go
to the Young Young Bureau of the show. Connor, you
and your guys playing a little pickaball now and then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do actually.
Speaker 2: See the broskis are playing pick a ball? How do
you like it? Do you ever play tennis? It's easier
to learn.
Speaker 9: Yes, I think that's what makes it more appealing. It's
more accessible. It's easier to play the more people can
play it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's upsets with pickleball. Is rafel Stone and
Im Doka. Yes, you should ask him if he gets it,
gets till you know, he's gonna be like, get your
ass on the court, off, beat your ass for two hours.
Certainly actually we're here from says shut your bum ass.
Speaker 3: Ye's exactly what he says.
Speaker 2: So I would just say asking the athletic director of
one of the five most powerful college institutions. Abou whether
pick a ball should be a college sport. I say,
I just don't get it. That's all I got. Thank you, Matt,
thank you.
Speaker 5: You can go.
Speaker 2: Connor, I mean I got one.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: But someone if you got something you just don't get,
you want us to help you with. We're here for you.
Well that's kind of simple.
Speaker 9: I just I just don't understand why there's like a
deadline to spend a flight credit. I had to cancel
flight last year, and the deadline's coming up in order
for me to spend it, and I can't like delay
it or extend.
Speaker 3: It at all.
Speaker 9: So why why is there a deadline to spend a
flight credit? Why can't I just have it on my account?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 2: I have asked Schmiden one time to extend the flight
credit and they said no. It's a very easy answer. Connor,
tell me they want your money, because that's why they
give you store That's why everybody gives you store credits,
but especially the ones that expire.
Speaker 3: They want to steal your money everything stores.
Speaker 9: I don't encounter store credit being like a expiring thing.
Speaker 2: Well, the two things I can think of is one,
they want you on the airplane, and second all they
also think that you're probably gonna forget it. They think
you're gonna forget People get busy, people don't fly that often,
and what happens when that expired? They just get to
keep the cars pure profit. It's more money for them,
it's profit. These airlines, they squeeze you everywhere they can.
They play, They put as many flights as they possibly
can on their schedule. They're all delayed. They nickel and
dimute every point. Bags keep going up, fares keep going up.
You get nothing when you get on the plane. They
just they they're just ringing you for every dollar they can.
So I get it. I don't like it. We can't
do anything about it. Now planes are flipping upside down
and everybody's getting hurt and crashing into everybody else. People
are dying out there. Also, we can just get some
more money.
Speaker 3: Makes you want to jump on an airplane tomorrow, doesn't it?
Speaker 9: I was gonna say, maybe I should just not use it.
Speaker 3: All right, So how much card do you have?
Speaker 2: I don't have a choice.
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Should I say? The dollar you sure went out? You
don't to say what it's for or why you cancel?
Begin with what's your thousand dollars? It's like five hundred.
When's the deadline? You better fly?
Speaker 1: You better fly?
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on. You have to spend it by today,
by May May. I'll each today. Then, you know what,
stop your bitching. Go somewhere where can't kon? Take your
girl somewhere? What happened to that?
Speaker 9: I don't know if I can leave, like t days off? Yeah,
you know, we know people. We'll give you some days off.
Speaker 3: Madam, give you some cash. He makes a lot of.
Speaker 9: Money and can't Coud's expensive too.
Speaker 3: It's just the flight is.
Speaker 2: Expensive, especially in those places you were trying to stay at.
Speaker 3: Well, I forgot to go there.
Speaker 9: I might as well get.
Speaker 3: Well, you don't want to fit. You don't want to
stay at a two star. I get it.
Speaker 2: Let me charge someone who doesn't believe in two stars.
I totally get it. You don't want to be at
the PI a Mexico. Is there a p I can't come.
It seems kind of weird. Look for a good airbnb. MM,
we'll go the resort, all right? So yeah, spend your
money in Stop complaining? Uh So I get I get
all the airlines, but you gotta put a deadline on it,
because I think they don't. Ultimately they're going to probably
for Southwest doesn't Southwest is not I'm sorry, Mark Messt.
You know Southwest you get, you get your name mentioned
because you don't burn the deadline in your credits. Ross
What don't you get?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Did you see that the new president of basketball operations
at the University of New Orleans has been named?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: First of all, I didn't even realize they needed to
have a president of basketball operations. Percy Miller, also known
as the Rapper Master Pete, whose son plays at University
of Houston. He does right now, mrsing Oh really transferred?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: Where's he at?
Speaker 3: First? I think he's a freshman.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, is it a different Well, he's got some
I thought he had other sons playing. That's good. Does
Mercy play a lot?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, well that's unfortunate. Yeah, I guess all these places
have presidents of basketball ops. You had the guy Jim
Nagy who is the head of the Senior Bowl, just
named the general manager of Oklahoma Sooners football. Do you
know who the general manager of Stanford football is? Would
be Andrew Luck.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Do you know who the I just made that?
Speaker 2: No, that's right, Yes, you know the general manager of
a Saint Bonaventure basketball is Yes, I do, Adrian Riggie
d So. I mean I I some of those I
kind of get. But master p at the University of
New Orleans basketball, I don't get that. No disrespect to
University of New Orleans, but here it comes. It's probably
one of the five worst athletic institutions in Division one.
Speaker 3: Sports, is it?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: Didn't They recently have a scandal as well. There's point shaving,
scorn shaving. But I mean un L barely exists as
an athletic program. I mean their budget is gotta be zilch.
Is there know where Gordy started before going to LSU?
Speaker 3: He started LSU?
Speaker 2: I think he started you and you and O and
transfer maybe huh, well, thank god, because I don't even
think you U ando is really much of a degree.
I might be making that up. It might have been
some other maybe it was Loyola or some other What
is their team nickname? You know what they're for ten
thousand empty bucks?
Speaker 3: They're the Hurricanes. No, they're the Jazz. No, not the Jazz.
They are the Bourbon Street vomits. No they're not.
Speaker 2: They're the privateers. Okay, I was close, you were not close.
But the but the vomiteers is not extra terrible. Actually,
So you just don't get master p running a basketball team,
much less U and L And I guess everybody's got
to get these general managers now with all this nil stuff.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's adding a layer of administration.
Speaker 2: It solid for like doing, and it's taking the power
of the program away from the coach and just making
him coach.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 2: Marischal is alive. He just threw out the first pitch
in Port Saint luci one. Marischal's got to be in
his eighties. Yeah, they take him out there to pitch.
If that's the case, I respect the hell out of that.
They will him out there? Or what was he the
one that would charge somebody with that hit him with
a baseball bat? They all was that, Louis till On,
They all did that back those sixties. Pitchers were vicious. Hmm,
All right, So that's all you got. Yeah, that's all
I think I got more of. I just forgot what
I was gonna do. We got phone calls coming in
right now. If you would like to. Uh, we'll start
with the Steve, is there something in life you just
don't get? Let us know at seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. Oh yeah it was mareschal
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Speaker 3: I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: Segment number two of that coming up, plus trivia for
Cougar basketball tickets in the next segment, and the news
at noon.
Speaker 3: All in twenty here on seven ninety.
Speaker 6: More Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, I've got another pair of tickets to see
the Cougars take on Cincinnati three point thirty inside for
Tita Center on Saturday. If you like a pair of tickets,
you must give me the answer to this hour's trivia question. Well,
we'll give away some U of H Kansas tickets on
tomorrow's show. About that, Rossie, All we do is give
away tickets to the top five teams in the country.
You don't get the you don't get the mid level
Texas tickets. You don't get the mid level Rice tickets.
You get UBH Prime good looking seats again two CINCINNTI today,
we'll give away the Kansas tickets tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's how we roll here on the program.
Speaker 2: Here's the question for you of h versus Cincinni this Saturday,
three thirty at for Tita Center the Houston Cougar Is.
In the last ten years, I've had quite a few
players drafted in the NBA draft. In fact, two years
ago they had two players drafted in the first round.
Name either one of the two two players that were
drafted in the first round of the twenty twenty three
NBA draft. And if you know one of the two
Chicken Noles, and you're the Chicken Noles, and you're the
first person to call seven one three two one two
five seven Naty, you will win a pair of tickets
to see Houston play Cincinnati Saturday at three thirty. You
think you're so damn fat, Joe. I know it's so stupid.
It really is stupid. I mean, it's some of your
dumber stuff I've ever heard. How's that cough? It's better?
You ever notice when you say something really stupid that
cough comes into play. It's almost like God's watching over you.
That's what Bette Midler said. God is watching us. But
he's you know, he's doing it is it's of course
as a rather inside baseball commentary in that, but it's
still really really good. Seven. Most people got that, I'll
go over fifty percent of our audience.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that one. How many Bette Midler
songs on my phone?
Speaker 9: That?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 3: Zero?
Speaker 2: Okay, I would put the rose on there. I think
it was a great song back in the day. Sure,
all right, let's talk to uh Steve in East Houston. Steve,
I have one sip a question for you. What don't
you get.
Speaker 10: The women's basketball talk on National Sports Radio?
Speaker 3: Who does that? Don't get it?
Speaker 2: Who does that?
Speaker 1: Late night?
Speaker 10: The Smith's Nissan Fox Sports Radio?
Speaker 2: How about a Fresco go? I mean, how about a Fresco.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's yeah, that's the guy that's him. Yeah, And
and they'll spend I don't know what a segment is
in radio, is it ten or fifteen minutes whatever, and
just go on and on and on and talk about it,
and I just don't get it. You guys are broadcasters.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a great question. Thank you Steve for
the phone call. I don't listen to how about a
fresca and I sure is telling to listen to Ben Maller. No, god, no,
I mean there's something called music and I play it. Yeah,
I don't. I don't know. I don't listen to the show.
I don't know what they're getting into over there. The
last time we talked about women's basketball was Franklin the
Caitlyn Clark stuff. But is up and on the uptick.
But never for sports radio. It'll never be a mainstream
sports radio. Yeah, we can talk Longhorn basketball, women lady
basketball later.
Speaker 3: I'll lay out for this. Can you name three players
on the team three?
Speaker 2: No, I can name one, Madison Booker, and she's good
and great and I and il deal. I'm sure I
maybe I could get a couple of the others off
multiple choice. I've watched, you know, half watched a couple
of their games.
Speaker 3: They're good.
Speaker 2: When the tournament starts, I'll get more tuned in. Give
me this really quick favor. Can you check the attendance
at Texas women's basketball games.
Speaker 3: I could probably do that now.
Speaker 2: Their volleyball team has won two of the three national championships,
and they fill up the old gym where they were
the basketball team played way back in the day before.
Speaker 3: The Irin Center.
Speaker 2: Yes, talking about the Gregory Jim Gregory Gym. Yeah, shout
out to the greg You ever been to the greg Oh? Yeah,
we used to go play a little cut. Yeah. I
learned very early that I was not of the quality
that I needed to be to play pickup hoops at
the greg They're good over there.
Speaker 3: Did you go shirts and skins over there too?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: You don't do shirts and skins? Ya, I don't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want my belly being exposed. I was like, Yeah,
these guys are weird guys. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
go to the children's school. Rod in Cyprus is our
winner of the Cougar Basketball. Take you Rod. You could
have gone with Jaris Walker, who was selected by the
Wizards who eventually went to Indiana. Or you can go
with Marcus Sasser, who was originally selected by the Memphis Grizzlies,
who then went to the pick went to Boston and
the ball Austin Pick went to Detroit and that's where Sassar.
Speaker 3: Is now with the Pistons.
Speaker 2: There you go, Thank you, Matt. So Marcus Sassar would
have worked, or Jaris Walker would have been applicable on
that too. First Sasa Jarius. Yeah, okay, Uh so do
you look at what's the intendants of these games? You
know we don't have to look right away. No, I
was looking, and I have got distracted. You know, you're shocked.
Let's see LSU Texas. You want the average attendants? No, whatever,
give me some numbers. What were they draw on? Uh?
Ten thousand and five forty two, which I think is
a sellout for the game. That's what the mood cells
I think than that. No, it's about ten. That's it
for for a concerts that they open up the top level.
It was up to sixteen when the Spurs played that.
You know, they played two games there. Yeah, they might
open up the top and then it goes to sixteen. Wow,
by the way, you know, and I don't way it cares.
But Dearon Fox has yet to play a game in
San Antonio since the trade. Yeah, he's played nine games.
Two of them were home games that were technically in Austin. Yeah.
Basketball capacity is ten thousand and seven sixty three. Total
capacity is sixteen thousand. I want to see their schol
The scoreboard surrounds the arena correct on the very top.
Speaker 3: Is it like that one has?
Speaker 2: How I've done it? I was there once, but also
there was a happy hour special, So I don't really
who you blacked out. Okay, it seems fair. No, I
don't think it's a wrap around scoreboard.
Speaker 3: I don't think reed Gett.
Speaker 2: It's my partner in UH broadcast thinks it's the best,
one of the best facilities I've ever seen in his
life for college basketball. I've been meaning to go back.
Speaker 3: Not a high ceiling, right, it's a lower hanging ceiling. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw the crowd right on campus, which before the
the Irwin Center was a little bit south. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I still like the super drum still in Jordian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice. We just got old and they
moved on built the Moody Center. But you know, you're
seeing now these arenas being built small like Austin, Like
in Baylor, they built the new arena there that's smaller. Yeah,
you just make it small. Tita's seventy five hundred. You
make it smaller and nicer, and you jack up the
ticket prices so you don't lose.
Speaker 3: Money, and you make it the place to be. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, So shout out to Texas Basketball for drawing ten
thousand a game and Craig Wait trying to figure out
playing it one game in Manhattan, Kansas, the next game
playing in Austin within two.
Speaker 3: Hours of each other. The man calls him Syria.
Speaker 2: He loves in some Texas and he play does twenty
five softball games if he could. Let's see Texas Kentucky.
It says eleven than sixty for that, that's over fast.
They had to overflow the bad Boy. Dang, yeah, Matt,
you want to go to the mood? Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I want to. I mean, it's
too late to see basketball.
Speaker 2: You just asked me. Now there's three games left. I
think they gotta cut concerts coming there all the time.
I'm surprised that Austin the city doesn't have a bigger
venue than that for us. For they played Georgia this Saturday,
I could go, I got a Rockets game.
Speaker 3: What am I doing next Saturday? The eighth? Georgia sucks? Right?
Are they okay? They could play oh you the next Saturday?
After that? George bad? And oh you sent very good either?
Are they no some winnable games?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 3: Call it hashtag resume builders. That's how they need to
win out.
Speaker 2: Basically, I wish the Rockets have been Spurs a play
game in Santai and Austin. It'd be fun, it'd be nice,
and you go on to you can go out to
the sixth Street after? Is that still the place to be?
Speaker 3: Yues? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Rainy Street's cool. I went to. I haven't been at
the Dirty six as they call it, in the last
couple of years. What makes the Clean six different than
the Dirty six? Uh West six. It's a little bit
more of the twenty seven to thirty two people, a
little older, little class yer. Dirty six is like the
twenty year old with a fake ID throwing up all
over the place and trying to hook up. So what
part of time are we going to again? You want
to go to the dirty state, doesn't matter. I just
want to spend time with you. Ross.
Speaker 3: I don't all right? That was I just don't get it.
For this week, the news at noon is coming up.
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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show twelve.
Speaker 2: O three on Sports Talk seven on me What's happened
to lunch Timers? This is our number three of a
four hour edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Time for us to give you the most important things
happening in the world of sports in life. We present
to you the News at noon. With that to the
news center, here's Sports Talk seven on his own, Ross Hilrea,
yes man, thanks for having me here at the News
at nude here all to Sports Talk seven nighty here
in the Houston sports sphere. Well, I'll help them. Houston
Rockets then straight away, Rockets are almost at forty percent
of the night from distance baseline left to right for
green in the baseline left hand ribble drive down, then
he goes, flips it up with the right shoulder, threw
it off the backboard. It kissed it for two. That
was our latest highlight. And that was probably like in
the third quarter. Matter no, I guess it was in
the fourth Rockets get the victory one eighteen to one.
Speaker 1: Oh six.
Speaker 2: Jalen excuse me, I'm in Thompson leading the way with
twenty five points, also had nine rebounds, five assists. Jalen
Green was good. Dylan Brooks five of eight from three.
Every game down the stretch mat is a must win
game for the Houston Rockets, as they now must stave
off the Lakers, who are half game behind them in
fifth place, and they are a game and a half
behind the Memphis Grizzlies and the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 3: And wait, by the way, my phone's all screwed up.
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be I'm messaging somebody and showing us
with a text message, how's that happening?
Speaker 3: Ohone? Updates sucks?
Speaker 9: Ye?
Speaker 3: Maybe sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean interrupt news.
Speaker 2: You're glad that you're locked into the news at noon.
Matth Hey, that was a great call whatever you played.
Oh yeah, I'm sure it's fine, well man. After the
game against the San Antonio Spurs. Of course, the Rocket's
relative strength of schedule has gone up. Good news is
Denver has the third most difficult, Lakers fourth, and the
Memphis Grizzly ninth, but now creeping up to fifteenth. About
five hundred the remaining opponents for the Houston Rockets toughest
test two with Oklahoma City, two with Denver, and two
with the Los Angeles Lakers, and while with the Clippers too.
We're trying to get out of that sixth spot in
the West. Yes, that's that's true as well. Two more
with Utah. But I thought it was supposed to be
a piece of cake. The first one was are we
saying don't sleep on them Golden State Warriors? Math, they've
won four in a row. Now it's play Golden State.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 2: Yes, both Golden State and the Lakers are playing really well.
Oh all right, Matt, Well, let's keep it moving on
the news at noon. As we talked about this earlier,
Justin Tucker has denied the allegations against him, but also
has apologized. Quote, it devastates me to know that I
anyone I have worked with would not have felt respected
and valued as a professional, but more importantly as a person.
Speaker 3: And to anyone whose house felt otherwise, I am sorry
to all sixteen of you that have been pissed off.
Keel Ross. I don't want to be a man who
makes sixteen women mad. There's probably more for different reasons,
for various reasons, for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, Matt, well, let's keep it moving. On the
news at noon, Gene Hackman, who will be today's Believe
It or Not, has died at ninety five. People say hoosiers.
Some say the greatest sports movie of all time. So
at least in the sports world he's been known for that.
Of course, he was also in the French Connection Royal
ten and Boums. Was he in the Replacements too? Yes,
he was the coach in the Replacements?
Speaker 9: Or was he was?
Speaker 3: Okay, he was?
Speaker 2: He was also You know what I'll give you. How
about a quick preview of the Believe It or Not?
Signed up for the Marine Corps at the age of sixteen,
lied about his age, told them that he was eighteen,
signed up for the Marine Corps and then was sent
overseas into China and also in Hawaii and Japan. He served.
Speaker 3: That's a long believer or not question and the Marine Corps.
I'm gonna say all of that.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, shoot, you think I'm gonna put every single
word of those I'm just that's that's true, that that happened.
So Gene Hackman, thank you for your service. And also
you are dead, found dead with his wife and dog.
All past gotta be. I don't know if it's foul play,
maybe like a Jim Jones drink the kool aid situation.
I don't know, a little fishy Matthew, you asked me,
it's honestly ross disturbing something. I mean, this takes no
h inspector close so to figure this out. There's something
that's really off about that.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: So whether it's a killed not a helped be get killed.
I don't want to go this. It's just terrible.
Speaker 2: It's just not.
Speaker 3: His wife's thirty years younger. And why does a dog
have what happened there? I don't know?
Speaker 2: Continue on. I'm sorry, Okay, well let's move on. Let's
go to the NFL draft. Top prospect Abdul Carter, edge
rusher from Penn State, apparently discovered at the combine that
he has a stress reaction in his right foot. Carter
now will have to decide whether or not to have
surgery before the draft in April. He is expected to
make that decision later this week, according to Adam Schefter
agent Truro's and House, saying there are mixed opinions on
whether he needs surgery. We will figure that out in
the near future. Why do I want to I need
a full medical breakdown. I need assurances from multiple doctors
ross before I take that guy one dash one stress
reaction doesn't sound like it's too bad. Supposed to be
a maybe a couple of months recovery for Abdual Carter, Man,
I know you'd been breaking down his tape. If you
wanted to give us your first let me give you yes.
Has got great twitch uh huh and frequently freakishly athletic,
high motor and has a great awareness of where he.
Speaker 3: Needs to be on the field instincts. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: I think it's a complete player except for the stress
fraction or as a kid say, stress reaction. Thank you,
Matt and well, speaking of Adam Schefter, let's keep it
with the NFL reporters. Apparently we talked about this earlier
as well. There was a big confrontation between Jordan Schultz
and Ian Rappaport. Now he broke this down a little
bit earlier, Ian Rapport's had confrontations with Jason lachanfora he
and Schefter had a dust up. Now Jordan Schultz, Jordan
Sultz putting out a report that Tom Brady and Matt
Stafford met face to face at a Montana ski resort
in I protect the shield. Rapaport says it was a
chance meeting. Wink wink at a ski resort. Oh my gosh,
can't believe you're here, Tom Brady, And apparently there was
a confrontation over it, a verbal confrontation at a hotel
room between Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport. Now the altercation
of plays at the Starbucks though, Oh sorry, I had
to start Bucks. Yeh, yeah, yeah, he was in the Starbarks,
in the hotel, in the hotel, Okay, I'm sorry. Well
the way did they did a rucks cost more inside
of a hotel than it would be on a standalone shop,
right a Brook and Mortar?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 2: Probably? Yeah, certainly inside though may w Darriott. Yeah, may
be where we're at, and certainly a Robbie Airport. Yes, yeah.
Jordan Schultz said we need to talk, Ian Rapport says no,
we don't, and then that's when things got I think
it's just too highly statistical to think they're really bigger
than they are. They're blank, doesn't stink, and they're just
trying to beat their chest about being first on a story.
And one guy got beat, maybe the other one. Again,
I don't like Jordan Schultz. I think he is gravy
training off of his his dad, just like Ben Gravy
chains off of Justin and but.
Speaker 3: He's able to carve out a career out of it.
He's working for Fox, and.
Speaker 2: I just don't think that Matthew Stafford just randomly happened
to be at the same hotel as Tom Brady and Montana.
It's oh, man, I can't believe funny seeing you here.
So I would lean towards Schultz maybe being right about it.
But you certainly cannot make a scene at a hotel
in front of other agents and other general managers and
most importantly other NFL media sitting there watching going. You
guys are a bunch of jackasses. I guess I really
don't want to back Jordan Schultz, but with everybody having
beef with Ian rapp Report, Yeah, if you think he's
in the wrong one, And don't you think rap Report
has to defend the NFL a little bit because his
paychecks are signed by the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know who's trying to buy the NFL network?
Is he SPN?
Speaker 2: How is that going to work? Is the ESPN going
to all of a sudden at the shield? You have
to have to the shield, tack the shield and be
a little more. It's a little saper.
Speaker 3: When they're reporting of stuff. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: Our journalism and today you've got guilty by association almost
every single thing. You if you're a corporate partner, if
you're a television partner, you there is nobody out there really.
The only exception maybe is the athletic who doesn't have
a dog in the fight. They can report whatever they
want to, not to answer to anybody. Although does the
New York Times have a summer relationship with the leagues seams?
I mean, it doesn't take you long to figure out
that somebody's got to cover somebody's back all the damn time.
Speaker 3: Welcome to journalism.
Speaker 2: That's why I shouldn't get in it. Honestly, good thing.
Speaker 3: I'm not a journalist me either. We're commentators.
Speaker 2: We're not journals. All right, Matt. A one quick offbeat
story as we end the news at noon, Denville, New Jersey.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been? I don't believe so. Well, in Morris.
Speaker 2: County in Denville, New Jersey, there was a raid at
a spa called the Oasis Spa where apportently, purportedly, there
was a prostitution ring being run out of a massage parlor.
The woman in charge of said massage parlor her name
Soon Bang. So I must ask have you ever seen
Soon Bang at the Oasis Spa?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: What was this thinking when she when she had the baby?
Speaker 5: Soon?
Speaker 3: I think it's probably an s an Asian name Soon
I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's gotta be her like stage name right, nor her
nickname also known as Cindy. How about the given name
soon at Bang? How about the woman that had sex
with a thousand people in one day and she's now pregnant,
she has to figure out which one did the deed.
That's a lot of more episodes. Oh you are not
the father? Next in line. You are not the father.
Next in line. You are not the father. Next in line.
You are not the father. Next in line, you are
the father. What is Guy A thousand feeling? All right,
let's move on.
Speaker 3: Hi, no pain.
Speaker 2: That said it was at noon? Connor just covered his
head in discuss I believe twelve fourteen Sports Talk seven
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Back to the legitimate sports conversation next year on Sports
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Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Part of me and why there I don't want the
Rockets by the Lakers is because there are gonna be
some media folks and I won't mention names Matier Slanton,
who believes that the Lakers are gonna get favorable calls
Ross in the playoffs against the Rockets because the Lakers
are a sexier draw, and the Lakers need to be
a part of the NBA television package because NBA television
ratings have suffered, and that Luca and Lebron being on
national television every single game is gonna carry more cachet
than say, Dylan Brooks and men Thompson and Jalen Green.
Why haven't the Lakers won since twenty twenty then, but
they're the sexy thing right now, Luca in his doy
little body. If they're getting all the calls, they should
win all the games. I'm just saying that's what's gonna happen.
Critical thinking here, people. I'm just a little nervous about
that about Rocket fans and some media. You're gonna want
to lose their mind over the fact that the Rockets,
if they play the Lakers and don't win the series,
is because the Lakers had Scott Foster and Tony Brothers
in the back of the hip pocket whatever. Just go
out there and beat him. But I will say Jalen
Green doesn't get a great whistle. He got beat up
again yesterday. He's been I mean, I don't know if
he's the star to start flailing. I think you know
what it is he's got. He's gotta let the braids out.
Unless you let that hair grow, it go out that way.
It flops in the wind when he gets hit, and
it looks more dramatic. Let me ask you this, what
if he was just asked, are you getting hit more
than an average NBA player does, and he just said eloquently,
I'm tired of getting hit. The league's gonna watch this now,
I think getting in technical fouls, you know, being mad
about a call.
Speaker 9: Not.
Speaker 2: But he doesn't really do you any good because that's
just that's just immediate, that's in the heat of the moment.
Speaker 3: That's not fawful.
Speaker 2: But if he wanted to get into a microphone and
say I'm sick and tired of jailing ground asking me
about this, he joins us as all his text are
not going through.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's taking a nap or something.
Speaker 2: But you probably blocked you now, I hope not maybe
switched to Android. There's no nobody says android anymore. Thousands
of millions of people have weirdos. Do Android? Oh boy?
If you if you're in the cloud, you ain't doing
it right. Hi, that's Matt Thomas saying that if you
have an Android, you are a weirdo. My name is Ross,
and I'm just letting you know that wasn't me that.
I know two people that are Android users that are
I considered really good friends. Okay, and they're both a
little different. I will not name their names, but I
happen to think generally speaking, Apple eye clouders are eye
messengers are way nicer people, not nicer, but way more
even keel than say the Androids. Some people say, especially
computer nerds, that you get more features and everything for
the price with Android than iPhone.
Speaker 3: And I believe they're back to my why do I
do this to myself? This is totally my fault.
Speaker 2: What were we talking about? Jalen Green and me trying
to text email? He is not getting calls. I would
agree with that, and I don't know if somebody's got
to say something. But again, being in the heat of
the moment and calling a referee, what are you effing
you know, blind or whatever? That's how were you going
in the postgame presser and saying they need glasses? That's right,
that's right, that's gonna cost you a hundred g's or
whatever it was? Yeah, yeah, Can you can you just
go full Darryl Morey and send a tape of bad
calls to I don't think I think you absolutely could,
because if you, if you went and showed them and
you were saying, asilvered, NBA dot com want to send
you these videos. I got seven calls in the last
ten games where Jalen Green is getting mugged and he's
not getting any calls, can you please explain love, I adoka, Okay,
let's do it. Let's get to the league office in this,
because I do think he gets an unfavorable whistle. I
think he gets calls. He doesn't get calls that other
guys get. Put it maybe unfavorable. Maybe he's too strong,
he doesn't get the same whistle that other players whist. Edwards,
Janis was getting a bunch of foul calls. I'm like
nobody even touched him right.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: It's hard for me to say whether or not Lebron
gets the calls because Lebron argues about every single thing,
So it's hard to figure out when he really should
get and when.
Speaker 3: He doesn't get.
Speaker 2: He gets calls, but he acts like he doesn't, right,
That's that's why it's confusing to me. Well, there a
lot of players do that. A lot of players get
calls in then act like they don't. I don't know
Tom Brady or part of it part of Donic's criticism,
flopping around getting a bunch of calls and then still
complaining every trip down to the referees. Luka Doncic. I
would get if I was a teammate of those type
of players, I would get exhausted of hearing that. Well,
the Mavericks clearly were exhausted with Luka Doncic. They they
literally went to him and it's like, hey, stop complaining
so much.
Speaker 3: We brought this up a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 2: Is this the smart thing for Dallas to do is
to try to shame Luca around the NBA streets. They're
doing damage control. It's not smart because I was talking
about this with some people in the Rockets yesterday, and
not front offs, but just people that were on the team.
If you really didn't want to pay him the supermax,
which you'd have been eligible before, that's justifiable. If you
think a guy's gonna have issues with injuries and staying
in shape, and you believe his alcohol and or tobacco
consumption is a concern, and you've brought up to him
on multiple occasions, I mean, I get it. You're not
gonna invest a lot of money in the guy, especially
because if you if you super max a guy and
he doesn't wind up being very good, it could potentially
damage your salary cap for a long time and plusin
also makes a guy an untradable. That's when you basically
call everybody and you have to be not as you
brought up your stray.
Speaker 3: Don't be scared.
Speaker 2: If you really say, I just can't commit to Luca,
but one of you teams out there can give us
a call.
Speaker 3: Let's talk it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't fail to give yourself the best market just
because you're scared to say out loud you want to
you want to trade Luca.
Speaker 3: It came out anyway because you.
Speaker 2: Gotta have stones enough as it is to trade Lucas.
So I don't want anybody to know we want to
trade Luca. People are gonna get mad. They're gonna get
mad anyway. Either way, you can deny the rumors are
say you know what we're looking for the best market.
You drum up a market and they didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that was,
but it's needless to say.
Speaker 2: When you have thank you Nico Chance going out in
the La Arena a couple nights back, I will say,
though Luca's defense is terrible and he was tired at
the end of that game, he was just he was
just had his hands on his knees like sucking wind
and not defending at all. He's got to get in shape.
But you know what to Dallas's defense, and it's not much.
But they've been We've been saying that about Luca since
he left Serbia. Yeah, we understand. It's like we said,
somebody breaks up with a nine. There's something going on there, Matt,
that's true. Um checking on the Astros real quick? How
many home runs since camp Smith have?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: No score bottom of the first, Mets have a runner
at first. Oh, there's the game just starting. Yeah, and
we'll give you updates about so long. It's been over
for thirty They started at twelve ten. Yeah, they started
a little bit. Yeah, let me tell you what this
is happening so far. I mean, we can't. We don't
tell me what's happening so far, Matt. Well, let me
see the box score here that the Astros with one
hit in the first. Jeremy Payne let off today, play
shortstop and out albare is out. Christian Walker with a
basic Christian Walker's had a pretty nice spring so far
and limited samples. Jeremy Paine has struck out on three
straight sliders. He did not I'm just kidding, you're terrible.
Speaker 1: What is wrong with you?
Speaker 9: Kids?
Speaker 2: Just trying to get past that reputation not being a
hit a slider and you're not helping the car No,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Carotini also on an out as well. So lineup today
had Payna short Albarez DH Walker at first, Carrotini in
the cleanup spot.
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
Speaker 2: Zach Decenzo in left field, Cam Smith at third, Mauricio
Dubon at second, Chas McCormick and right, Jake Myerson center.
Speaker 3: It's not bad line up for a road game today.
Speaker 2: Let's go baby Astros by twenty.
Speaker 3: No, they're not playing by twenty. Uh pitch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they can't score twenty, not in the spring training game.
Speaker 3: No, No one would allow that. No, but you just
don't want that.
Speaker 2: You don't. You don't want a twenty run baseball game.
Then you think, then your general manager's losing his mind.
Look at the Manda wouldn't mind it would be out
of five thirty. Yeah, yesterday the game ended quick. They
were think they were at two fifteen. They had to
put almost a full out, full four hour day in.
Poor guys.
Speaker 3: Blame an overtime apparently, or some sort we were off
really but I did pre and post and I worked
the game.
Speaker 2: So we're good.
Speaker 3: We're doing great.
Speaker 2: We'll put our hours in, you know what, mattuh, you know,
I know, we don't want to say, but we have to.
We're just carrying the station at the end of the day. Yeah,
and we're most modest about it as well, never bringing
up to anybody. Meanwhile, Sean and Brian are like those
table four hours every day morning. We have to get
here at five o'clock in the morning. We got a
pres we get here at five fifty eight and we
have to you know, sing on during our first segment
and all that kind of stuff. They're doing great.
Speaker 9: We love them.
Speaker 3: We've seen more of them in the last four months
we saw in the previous four years. Absolutely, isn't that crazy?
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been given by the school to its athletes for the
future I'll tell you how they break that up next
and to show you again how the football is, how
what drives the university and everything else pales in comparison.
Speaker 3: Twelve to twenty nine on Sports Talk seven.
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Speaker 2: All right, there's a revenue share going on at the
University of Georgia. What a two time national champion the
last three or four years, then they went back to back,
right I believe. So, Okay, this comes from Ross Dellinger
on Twitter. Okay, uh twenty and a half million dollars
they're going to give back to the players on the
campus of the University of Georgia.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of money. Who stay with me on
this though.
Speaker 2: Okay, of that twenty point five million dollars, seventy five
percent that's going to football.
Speaker 3: That's thirteen and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a lot of money going to About what
you say, I don't walk ons could get that time.
I'm assuing, yeah, mean, there's no reason why they can't.
So that's a ninety man roster basically, uh huh. So
ninety players are gonna split thirteen and a half million dollars. Now, granted,
probably your starting quarterback is going to get you between
a million and a half and two per year for that,
So a lot of it's going to be taken care of,
probably by skill position players. I'm guessing the backup tight
end of the third string left guard is not going
to get is only the same. Fifteen percent of that
twenty point five million dollars is going to men's basketball,
So seventy five to football, yes, fifteen to men's basketball,
five percent to women's basketball. So add all that up,
seventy five, fifteen and five. That's ninety five percent goes
to three teams. Five percent goes to every other sport.
That's the cross country, that's the golf, that's the volleyball,
that's the tennis, that's the swimming team and all that
kind of stuff. It does mirror probably what the brint
with the money is brought in by the schools. Yeah,
but Georgia ain't messing around.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: You take Ross Dellinger's tweet and you show it to
any recruit that's thinking about going to play college football,
and you're telling me that seventy five percent of twenty
point five million dollars is going to one foot is
going to one part of the athletic program that is
going to help them remain relevant in the world of
college athletics. Yeah, I would imagine. So here's the big question.
Then let's say your football team, because football drives everything.
But let's say you're Kentucky. For example, Kentucky's had a
mid football program, right give or take. They're known for
being a top twenty program. Yes, but if Kentucky's football
program is still bringing all the money in because of
the SEC television deal, but it's the basketball team that
it's known for, how do you wiggle the numbers of saying, well,
I'm going to give most of my money to the
sport that makes the most money. But in reality, Kentucky
is known for it's basketball program. Kentucky wants has a
shot at high end basketball players, or maybe the Kentucky
football program does not. Oh, I don't know. I mean,
if you have every other program doing the same thing,
I don't know, how's the Kansas basketball doing and how's
UCLA it's not competing with the other people. I don't
know how that would work. I don't know anybody. Yeah,
the football makes the most money at every program. Because
if your bill self and you're at Kansas, do you
do you think the distribution of funds would be would
be This would make sense at Kansas like it would
make sense at Georgia. How does this work? Anyways?
Speaker 3: Legally it's the NCAA.
Speaker 2: How do they say they are an amateur athletics entity?
If these players are being paid this money the revenue
The University Georgia Athletic Association is preparing its share revenue
with athletes starting July first. Georgia plans to pay the
maximum allowed, approximately twenty and a half million dollars, with
football receiving about seventy five percent. The athletic department, by
the way, will also be adding approximately one hundred scholarships
across its twenty one sports, bringing the total to three
hundred and seventy. It was the last meeting before a
final approval of the House Settlement on April seventh, which
will change the way athletic departments, including Georgia and others
at NCAA schools operate. Georgia is preparing for revenue sharing
with athletics that would go into effect on July first.
In the House versus NC double A antitrust settlement, George
is planning to directly pay the players the maximum of
about twenty point five with about two point five of
that going to new scholarships, working off a model off
of the House versus NC double A anti trust as
you mentioned settlement. Hmmm, I mean two point eight billion
dollars in damages. Yeah, so this is a one time payment.
I don't think. It doesn't sound like it would be.
I don't even know why would? Why would would?
Speaker 3: I don't even know? This is very This is a
what do you? I? Legal expert on this? Bad boy?
Let's get somebody. What's Charles Adams doing these days?
Speaker 2: Point being assist, We're now going to see a model
where the school is directly going to pay the athletes
and nothing new with that il at this point, that's
just separate compensation for doing their job. Okay, So is
the NC double A gonna have to pay taxes now?
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's amazing to me that well,
I mean, Georgia knows where to butter it's bread here.
I mean they know that the more money they put
towards football, the better chance they are going to have
the better athletes and they're gonna be able to keep
their stake.
Speaker 3: As a top five college football program.
Speaker 2: Oh so there's a second case, Johnson versus NCUBLEA that
is the threat to student athlete amateurism, student athletes alleging
their employees, which they are, which was you know, we
need to we need to just forget the amateur athletic
portion of it. Just give them ten ninety nine at
the end of the year and say, if you want
to represent the University of Georgia Athletic administration, you're a
paid employee. It's like you if you were teaching a
class of Coculus or something. And now all these revenues,
the NCUBA and these teams, they're gonna have to pay
taxes on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody, the government will get their share of this.
Speaker 2: But oh, uncle Sam always what it? This got many
But I'm just curious, how again, how do you if
if you're if you're part of an if you're part
of a college. Oh, somebody is here coming in to
save the program, comes in to save it. Here, you
can explain this to us.
Speaker 3: Show all right, I'm here to save the show. Yes,
you are locked in SEC. Whatd you got?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: So what was your questions on all this?
Speaker 12: So this twenty point five money is that that specifically
is just SEC schools. That's the revenue share from the
new TV contract they the billion dollar TV contract they
signed with Disney ESPN. Okay, you're going to do well
just this year. It's twenty Yeah, it's not just Georgia.
Seth Emerson, who writes to The Athletic, covers Georgia. He
wrote this article around Georgia because Georgia's eighty. Josh Brooks
talked about this publicly the other day. But how they're
addressing this, but every SEC school like the chunk of
their uh change they're getting from the TV contract they expect.
They expected it was around twenty million per school and
they're breaking it down. But the interesting part of this
too is it's not just revenue share. What they're doing
is they're taking I think Georgia said they're taking a
five million to that and they're just gonna add extra scholarships.
So basically walk ons go away. If you've been a
walk on, you now will become a scholarship athlete. And
what they're gonna be able to do is add baseball,
the baseball team, gymnastics, women's basketball. You're gonna be able
to put more girls on scholarship to add depth to
your team. So you think of it as just like
a guy's getting a duffle bag of cash. They're expanding
this out a little bit more to go. Hey, let's
put kids on scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be on scholarship.
Speaker 3: All right, So this is just SEC schools doing this
right now. That's as far as I'm now.
Speaker 12: Everybody else is they can start revenue sharing, but the
SEC specifically is getting twenty million per school. The ACC
Big ten, they're doing it, but it's much less because
they didn't sign this massive TV deal with ESPN.
Speaker 3: My question to Ross a minute ago.
Speaker 2: If George is get seventy five percent of that twenty
million dollars but towards football, I get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just there how they're deciding to divvy this. Okay.
My question is this, if you are a basketball school,
I e.
Speaker 12: Kentucky, Yes, you will spend more on basketball, allocate more funds.
Speaker 2: You know, ookate as much as you want. Can you
just do a hire nine?
Speaker 3: Here's here's the other thing distinction.
Speaker 12: This is just the revenue sharing component that was proposed
through the or that was a proof of the House settlement.
Collectives are still the things can still so the Kentucky
can still pay for all their basketball players via collectives
if I do both.
Speaker 3: Well, really, why teams are hiring gms?
Speaker 12: If you missed the news yesterday, Jimnagy, who's been with
the Senior Bowl for the last decade, just left to
go be the GM at Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Yes, they every school's hired.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they're they're hiring gms to handle all the dollars
and cents and allocate where all this money is gonna go.
Speaker 3: You basically need a nikky c to come in. Hey,
it's crazy here out where all this money's going. Because
I'm a head coach, I'm doing ex's and o's, I
can't deal with all this.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's actually smart. We mentioned it and your
luck about a month ago. Took the eighties or the
eighties the general manager spot at Stanford football. Yeah, by
the way, the Stanford athletic director resigned just the other day.
Speaker 11: WHOA.
Speaker 2: I wonder if Andrew would want that or he would
just want to just get his feet wet in the
GM world. First, let's let uh mister Noona is at
u of H. No, if they have an opening for
a GM, I'll volunteer my services. You want to be
the general manager of U of H football.
Speaker 3: They might need some help figuring everything out. I mean,
if you want.
Speaker 2: I think radio is still vibrant. I mean I saw
you couldn't. You couldn't do your lock on SEC podcast anymore.
Speaker 12: Lombardi who left uh former GM, he's he's the GM
for North Carolina with Bill Belichick abou yesterday.
Speaker 3: He's making one point five million. Wow, go be a
GM of a college. Purpose a lot of headaches. So
it's not even it's not even TA violation.
Speaker 2: It's just basically separating your nil from your revenue that
you're coming in and how you're spending it.
Speaker 3: And allocating world that money is going to go.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Like I said, the biggest thing about that is
this is they are doing away with roster limitations. So
you're no longer like your walk Ons quote unquote. They've
expanded the roster. So it used to be football you
had to get down to eighty five or whatever it was.
You can go one hundred and ten hundred and twenty
whatever it is. And you can put all those kids
on scholarship now through the revenue share.
Speaker 3: So the smaller schools, the none Power five, they're not
going to see this kind of money. They have revenue share.
I mean they have.
Speaker 12: They all have TV contracts. The Conference USA has a
TV contract. They all have contracts. It's just not what
the SEC is.
Speaker 2: When's the last time a Conference USC team won the championship? Anyways?
Speaker 3: Well, had NAC champ Boise made the playoff last year?
Speaker 5: True?
Speaker 3: Northern all?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, and I beat Uh?
Speaker 2: It was no.
Speaker 3: I was in a beat Notre Dass game a few
years back. Where than not? Wasn't that the school? What
was some of Illinois they've beaten? Uh, they beat Notre Dames.
Speaker 2: No, there was a there were somebody was in a
BCS five or six years ago, wasn't it all?
Speaker 3: You've had a few sneak through.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean you have h made a New Year
Six Bowl many moons ago, not that many moons ago,
back before Tom Herman even went to Austin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well.
Speaker 2: You better make room this year.
Speaker 3: We're going to be in a college football playoff.
Speaker 2: Could make top twelve. Actually, Indianna can go. Why can't
we get there? Don't don't ask Indiana's coach about being
a basketball school.
Speaker 3: He don't like that. They don't ask Kelvin's sampson about
Indiana either. Hey, let's buy gonna be by guns.
Speaker 12: You guys need to win the championship this year. Don't
you have to get in his face. Let's say you
have h national champs.
Speaker 2: I Am going to take a week long suspension if
the two years don't make the final four, swishing him
the best because I'll swear in the air multiple times
and call you people names.
Speaker 12: I think we should start asking you of H about
getting that spot on the parade route to broadcast live.
Speaker 3: I couldn't said it better myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might want to wear your kevlar. Might want
to have a swat team the park. Yeah, maybe not.
Maybe don't do it on campus. Maybe somewhere safer like
the Woodlands. Yeah, have the preyed in the world.
Speaker 3: Somebody got shot in the Woodlands Bar about two weeks ago,
well two days ago.
Speaker 2: Isn't there any smart place? Is there any safe places?
Speaker 3: It was like the h the Irish Bar or something,
Goose Acre. Somebody got shot that pop got shot there.
It was like two am.
Speaker 2: I've been drunk there. Don't stay out that late. I've
been drunk there a number of times. One at two
ams can't be safe either.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 2: It is not normally that bad.
Speaker 3: It was two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Used to be where you go rope a cougar. My
guess is you still can do that. By the way,
I'm getting a lot of slander from a friend of mine. John,
who lives in Oklahoma City, is mad at me for
two reasons. One he met mad at me because I
said Oklahoma City is on a thriving metropolis. He said,
there's a strip bar that that highlights pregnant strippers. If
you're into that sort of.
Speaker 3: Thing, like you said, that is probably metropolis.
Speaker 2: And then I complain about people that use Android. Then
he was like, I'm an Android user too, So you're
looking for androids and stripper bars that feature pregnant women.
Olklohoma City's your spot. Yeah, that sounds about right, and
about fourteen loves truck stops and the home of a
Sonic too ironic, and I'll spending money with us ronic
my Vin. Yeah, Burger's overright, and everything elseretty good pretty
much on Rate forty seven. And this is Matt Tomaschael Ross.
He made oak in fifteen minutes here on seven ninety
Quick cannimal fact number two hundred and thirty three. Most
Whales don't watch sports. They're Dallas fans. And when I
think of whining, I think of Dallas.
Speaker 6: Oh and speaking of Wales, back to former whale Matt Thomas.
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Speaker 1: On Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Chris Gordy's a national treasure.
Speaker 5: He just is.
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of issues, but we still love him.
We all have a lot of issues. All right, Emo,
Doka is gonna join us in ten minutes.
Speaker 3: I hope he is. I try to getting a hold
of him, but uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going on. I heard he's blocked you. He
did not block. I wonder if he's got his phone.
I'm gonna try this some more time. Copy, I'm gonna
do this. See this his text message SMS. That doesn't
make any sense. You think he doesn't have updated his
phone or something, and I think you're blocked.
Speaker 3: That's the easiest solution. Ockham's razor Matt.
Speaker 2: All right seven one three two one two five seven
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zero on Twitter at Sports Empt, at Sports RV, and
at Connor d McGovern. I was gonna bring him something
here in a minute. I just totally forgot because Cordy
took a conversation Tody couldn't stop talking about SEC the days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going to Atlanta this year, so he'll be
He and Dan will be room dog in it for
a week.
Speaker 2: That'd be great.
Speaker 3: Dan's are sweating when you say you said Atlanta SEC
Media Days. Oh we gotta go, dude.
Speaker 2: Ceey Houston can't get enough of SEC and we can't
get enough of Vanderbilt offensive tech. Question is does on
the trip does Dan bring more l s U gear
or more Georgia here? Well, he's the one that puts
a half. He gets a special shirt made ls LSG.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you can't. It is a fraud. You cannot
be both in the same conference. You just can't. Now,
I love Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Hold on, you wear tech gear, Aggie gearge gear. Yeah,
so you're a fraud and you're gonna be wearing Rhode
Island gear. But but but when Texas Tech played Houston.
I told the audience, I'm your age to take a
model right now. As who plays Georgia Dan has a preference? Well,
you know, I don't know. He is a Texas Lutheran guy.
You gotta got fraud. You can't just go all in
on there.
Speaker 3: It'd be like a dufis that went to Tech and
all of a sudden roots for Texas. I mean that's stupid.
Speaker 2: Well, some people grow up rooting for certain things and
they don't let it go. You know what, THENK get
you're ass in that school. Then unless you're just stupid enough,
can't get in.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: We have some friends of.
Speaker 2: Ours, one in particular who has is a phantom of
twenty different schools. So it's you know, we're kind of
used to that. Yeah, it happens, but my mine have ties,
family ties to it. Yeah, but you didn't go to
Texas Tech. But my son did.
Speaker 3: But you didn't.
Speaker 2: I paid for it, so really I shouldn't Your son
went to Preview? How come be in a root for them? Matt,
I do root for Prairie You're curious. Peyton had a
great time there. I'm team Prairie View. They were very
nice to him. Great education, good schooling. You want to
go to and finish his career? Did tell me, for Tina,
go to your h I believe he did. I don't
think it is a degree in restaurant.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he finished. I don't know he
went there. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know that for sure. He toured the campus,
but he's on the DA border region. He says it's
too dangerous. I'm out of here. Also wrote a check
for a certain arena that's galvanized America. His money is good.
I wish I could spend a ton of money. I
would make it the Thomas Center. Rockets and money is
good too. Rocket money evaluation of that building it went
from two point two billion to five point seven billion.
Speaker 3: That's the smartest guy.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: It's not bad. Did you ever get your fighters fee
on that?
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: Two greatest mistakes in my life the finders fee on
the on the sale of the rockets, and of course
Crush City.
Speaker 3: That's a bigger one to me. That one really hurts.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't have made that much money, and I meant
something you probably wouldn't even been on a trademark. Could
you imagine if the astros back in the day, so
we're gonna make a bunch of crush Citty shirts. And
then I'm like, wait a minute, the trademark has already
been Who wouldn't be so dashedly enough to make crush City?
It says Matthew Lewis Thomas on there. Hmmm, could you're
you're you're a good Negotia Ross? What could I have
made him the deal? Would I could I have taken
a lump sum check and just called it a day,
said I can be bought off. Let's see, crush City
was trademarked already. I'm doing a trademark search. Oh, actually,
what time? What year was this? Fifteen? They haven't inspired.
I don't know this application filing date twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, I know.
Speaker 2: And this other one was filed in twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not and and not paid off. And Baltimore
Oils did not doing any of them either, one of them.
Thinking about you should feel bad for me because if
I would have, if I would have trademarked crush City
like I should have, you'd have probably had the show
to yourself. I can living off high off the Academy. Hog,
I don't believe that. I don't think I could better retire.
I don't think so either, But I could have stopped
a lot of this. You racked up to A and
m into Texas Tech Hell, and I'm going I'm team
Rolling Island.
Speaker 3: Go Roady, Go Rams. Let's go Roady. Is that what
they call they call it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, every school's got a little nickname. I love a
good Roady. We've had some great roadies in our day. Yeah,
and Charles Rody's are fantastic.
Speaker 3: So as soon as the Rockets are going out done,
we're going on. We're going to like Charles Roady.
Speaker 2: Let's go that next week. We usually try to go
during spring training.
Speaker 3: I'm all gone next week. Oh my god, you're the worst.
Speaker 2: Hey, And maybe hopefully if the Rockets go all the
way in the NBA Finals, going to go without you?
That's fine, you can do that. Would you want? It
was much fun? I might have more fun, depending no
I have. You know what it'd be less Christopher crossed
on the road trip. If I would have not gone,
I'm not would have seen you with those two utterly
black women that were in their sixties. So you were
hanging out with Excuse me, yeah, what'd you say? The
two elderly black women that you were hanging out with
that were loving on you? What are you talking about?
Those when you were drinking it had too much drink.
They were all like, who is this sweet talking man there?
That did not happen? Oh was at a bar getting
a drink. See this story is way overblown. H And
there were nice ladies. I appreciate them. They loved they
They were like, I gotta go. They were they went,
what's the opposite of cougar chase? And they were they
were looking for the young'ins and they found you. Okay,
they want to make a sandwich with you. Excuse me,
you heard me. You should see an acount of you
even impressed number women in dresses and they were sorry,
sweet ladies, They were like, yeah, they were nice ladies. Yeah, like, look,
I can't help but I was trying to get a
drink at the bar and then I was accosted.
Speaker 3: You were you were acosta, that's exactly right. You should
be talking into buying you a drink.
Speaker 2: Drink. They wanted to take him up to her room.
Is completely overblown story. They were whispering sweet things and.
Speaker 7: Left.
Speaker 9: It was really crazy. They slipped the room key in
your pocket. This says none of this is accurate.
Speaker 2: It said meet us for dinner baby at three thirty.
I'm like, okay, Ross, go do it.
Speaker 3: He said, give me a blue plate special. All right?
Speaker 2: Uh, dok is going to join us as long as
his phone works. That's to start the final hour, then
to block you. It doesn't surprise me. The Matt Thomas
Show of Ross continues next on seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. All right.
Speaker 2: I don't think he made his phone's working because I
just texted him three times. He's usually he's a much
better text than you are. He's a coach of an
NBA basketball team, so it doesn't merely make time for
anybody except his players and Adam. I got to respond
to Adam Clinton from this morning.
Speaker 3: Uh what do you say?
Speaker 2: Sorry, Adam, I'll be co hosting with him on Friday
the whole four hours for two hours.
Speaker 3: Really okay, So we are trying to get a hold
of I may doka it is green. See That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The only thing that the great thing about the iPhone
as if it's blue. And you normally get text to
somebody you know, and it's okay. But if you're if
you usually I deliver my message to somebody and then
it shows up green. Something's wrong with his phone. So
he lost his phone. Lose it. Maybe it's dead, maybe
he left it at a restaurant or something and then
it died. Okay, Well we are going to pivot until
we get a hold of im Adoka. Channel twenty six
was at the Shell.
Speaker 3: That's a shell. I always called the shell hustup. But
it's the Is it the astros open? Is that what
they call it? I know it's there's some sponsor two.
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: But Jim Crane spoke today about jose L twov playing
out in left field and a couple of general statements,
and I just sent you the comment to Connor.
Speaker 3: So Connor, if you want to play that, here it is.
Speaker 2: Here's Jim Crane literally a half in full of minutes ago,
talking to the media about Josel Twovey's move from second
base to left fields.
Speaker 11: He's a team guy, he's our anchor guys. He's going
to be here for a long time and hopefully he'll
be in the Hall of Fame. But he's a team player.
As soon as he heard the word he was nobody
had to tell him. He was out there taking fly
balls and he's a great athlete that you know he'll
cover the ground.
Speaker 2: And you know he looks good out there.
Speaker 11: I mean, he's been catching a lot of fly balls,
and you know that just shows he's a team guy.
And you know, you look back at players like Visio
that made the adjustments. Streat athletes can make the adjustments.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'll have a problem there, and he'll
still probably play some second base.
Speaker 11: We're still we're still working on a few things with
the team, but it's jelly nicely and our objective is
the win of the visit. We think we can do
that and get some of our pitchers back. We should
be deep in pitching by the middle of the year
with three or four guys coming back. So I like
the way the team's set up that there's three things
in baseball. I tell Joe spout all the time, and
Dana pitching, pitching, pitching. You know, he's get a good pitching,
you're going to be in the games, and we should
have a deep pitching staff this year with picking up
another guy in Chicago, a little ready to go.
Speaker 2: I think the team's looking good.
Speaker 3: Ready to go.
Speaker 2: Last half full Babs looking good. I love it.
Speaker 3: Pitching, pitching, pitching.
Speaker 2: Talking about Hayden west Nesky, the Houston kid now part
of the Chicago trade, I wouldn't call him a depth
ad if he's your fifth starter, depth would be six
or seven.
Speaker 3: But well, I mean he is.
Speaker 2: Kind of penciled in first week of the season at
least opening five man rotation. I gotta look at the
Astros schedule see how long they can go. I wonder
what they're off days are like. If they can go
five for a while, they have to worry about getting
to a six man rotation because the Astros haven't been
afraid to do it. I don't think and they shouldn't be.
I to think that in twenty twenty five you can
go twenty six turns through five men, it's just ridiculous
injuries and also, let's face it, somebody's gonna regress that
last year was amazing and somebody hopefully will improve that
wasn't so hot last year. I'm renew Blanco to me
is the wild Card. I'd love to be able to
pencil him in as what he did for this team
last year, but that he didn't even have to be
that good. He had a two eighty ERA this is insane,
threw a no hitter and had an ERA of two eighty,
went thirteen and six pretty darn hundred and sixty seven innings.
I mean, he had a spectacular season. You don't need
that from him. No, if you get that, that'd be amazing. Yeah,
I'm not. I'm not necessarily expecting that slight regression are
around three foty are under.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five, If your ERA is under four,
you're a freaking cult hero. And I think everybody in
this starting rotation can do that and should.
Speaker 3: I would expect them to well.
Speaker 2: I thought the second half of Arraghetty obviously was the Arraghatty.
That second half, he had an ERA of low threes.
It was like three oh six or three nine or something.
Strikeout numbers were significantly better, the walk totals were much
better than they were in the first half, and we
talked about learning how to be a picture. In the
great interview that we had with him, you missed it,
he felt, so he was like, guys, he's a natural. Yeah,
he's he's he's very good in front of a microphone. Yeah,
and he'll have a nice, successful career whenever. That's but
let's let's not put that too much ahead of the count.
Get him on the mountain first, let's go yeah, strikeouts. Uh,
So we are awaiting May. Apparently the phone is not working,
so we have definitely a confirmation on that. So okay,
I wasn't crazy. When when it goes green, it means
something's wrong. So what do you do now? Well, you
and I try to entertain Houston right now for the time.
I mean, like, I hope, how would one contact Ima
a Doka right now? We're out to the pr people.
I've already put the Apple watch. I don't know. That's
a great question give him on that. Have you ever
felt paralyzed by the fact your phone hasn't worked? No,
I prefer it.
Speaker 3: Why do you think I'd like to go out in
the woods.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I have everything on my phone from
I know you're attached to the hip, credit cards, to
charges to phones, email no to eighties wrestling videos. I've
seen you in action Mattie.
Speaker 3: That is accurate. That is accurate. I'm paralyzed. My phone's
not working. Now I got a better phone. I don't
want you to be like that.
Speaker 2: Man, it's too late. I need you to turn it, like,
turn it off. I want you to get home. What
are you doing tonight.
Speaker 3: I'm taking my wife and daughter to the airport and
then I'm going to dinner.
Speaker 2: What time they going to airport?
Speaker 3: About four o'clock.
Speaker 2: Okay, after you drop them off of the airport and
you know they've taken off, I want you to turn
your phone off for three hours.
Speaker 3: But what if people want to get ahold of me?
Speaker 2: You'll be fine. You don't need anything.
Speaker 3: You don't know that. I don't have a home phone.
Speaker 2: So literally, you're telling me to take myself away from
the world for three hours. Okay, put it down, put
it on silent, and put it down for three hours.
You don't have to turn it off.
Speaker 3: But I wind up checking it. I know.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It's like I've got a nervous twitch or something.
Speaker 5: I know you do.
Speaker 2: I'm trying. You know you kids today know what Here's
what we'll do. Why don't we do this? Why don't
we come to one of the center. You need to
return your text once every thirty hours, and I will
now back away from my phone a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Does that seem fair? You come to my come to
the mean here?
Speaker 2: No, I don't have to know. This is not about me.
It's about you. That's about you text. We're making it
about you. No, No, we weren't talking about me in text,
talking about you being tethered to your phone.
Speaker 3: Well, it is the information world that we live in.
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 3: Uh, why don't you go to the movies? No, I
don't want to see. Keep your phone down and good
bio picks out.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Problemise all the good stuff is on
Netflix now, Like I want to watch that uh OJ
Simpson doc.
Speaker 3: I still want to get to that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Netflix out of control, by the way, We'll keep
raising the rates, you know why, because it's worth it. No,
it's not. You're gonna You're gonna lose NFL games because
they're more coming. I'll resubscribe when the FOLC comes back. Oh,
so you're going to circumvent the system. I'm gonna miss
Crabby Jake Paul fights and wrestling that I don't watch
had enough of you, Netflix. I gonna get off them
for a few months.
Speaker 3: We'll tell you what Ross is gonna do.
Speaker 2: He's gonna say how much he hates Netflix, and then
he's gonna ask his brother and his sister for the
true I'll cancel it right now, but don't ask anybody
else for it. I won't.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2: I can't think of the last thing. I mean, I
watch Netflix, but the last thing that I really I
get on there and I brows and a click on stuff.
Of the five of us in the Thomas household, I
am the least watcher of it. If we turn Netflix
off of my family, I think they would all cry. Okay,
all right, just throwing it out there. Uh seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Uh, let's real quick
check out how the Astros are doing. They're playing a
spring training game, or you're not missing much. It's zero
zero bottom of the fourth spoilers. Matt, oh, stop, come on, man,
I mean, we'd love for you to listen to the
game at seven o'clock, but we get it. Your life,
the Pitcher's Battle.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, who's pitching one for the Strows. But let's
give you the offensive numbers. Uh, Peena oh for two,
Bryce Matthews, Holden Gordon, who the hell is that He's
future Astro legend? Alvarezoo for two, Christian Walker two for two.
Christian Walker's ops in spring is twenty six hundred.
Speaker 3: Is that good? It's amazing. It's epic.
Speaker 2: Caratinio for two, Descenzo oh for two. Cam Smith won
for two today. His ops this spring training is three thousand.
Here's the question. Can Christian Walker and Cam Smith combine
for an ops of six thousand? And If that's the case,
the Astros are one hundred and fifteen games this season.
But more importantly, Jose L two A and left field
the owner does not mind seven one three, two, one
two five sevent A'm gonna try to chase down the
one and only Eme Doka for some point during this hour,
believe it or not, today all things about Gene Hackman.
Is there any more details of what's going on with
that freakish death situation? Joan was saying, like, uh, carbon
monoxide poisoning. Maybe I'm trying to come up with theories
how they all three pass to me that sounds plausible. Yes, yeah,
that something got in the air. Maybe they were in
their car, who knows, who knows? One thirteen Join us
at seven one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 6: Ninety Matt Thomas Ross viial It's the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross five Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, we're effening. The one and only Ema Doka
is gonna join us in a few minutes. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nighty, Well we wait for
coach to join us. Let's talk to Tony. I get
my phone situations straightened out here. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninting again believe but not today
has all things about Gene Hackma may he rest. Let's
go now as promised, it's working. Hi, Tony, you're on seven. Hoy,
thank you for holding.
Speaker 8: Yeah, curious to find out the starting rotation for the Astros.
They're not counting on mister mccullors at all. He seems
to be pretty injury problem past there every years starting.
Speaker 3: Toy you think Lance mccullors is injury prone? Really? No way,
come on, they'll be kidding with me like that.
Speaker 8: How many years have you been in the league, and
how many years has been act well, I mean.
Speaker 3: Think about how great he was last season and then
the season before that.
Speaker 8: I can't think of that.
Speaker 3: Ye me either. I would say, no, he doesn't factor
in and they're not banking.
Speaker 2: I would imagine on big production from him, but they
don't need him in the starting five at this moment.
Speaker 3: No, no, thank you Tony for the phone call. It
sounds like to me, he's gonna pitch.
Speaker 2: He's pitching again today to some live hitters, I think,
or either the next day or so open Saturday.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, live bullpen, Satay, live bullpen, which is a
tabe delayed bowl.
Speaker 2: That's the next step, Yeah, throwing bullpens. Then you throw
face live hitters. Then he might try to get into
some games in West Palm or in the Grapefruit League,
and then it would be to Triple A. That's what
he talked about. He talked about trying to get in
a couple of games and spring training, then getting a
couple of games in Triple A and then then seeing
where he's at all. Right, by the way, we just
got word emay cannot do today, so we'll move him
to one o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's okay, one o'clock.
Speaker 2: Okay with you. I'm not doing anything, I mean hosting,
co hosting the show.
Speaker 3: Do we have tomorrow? We have nothing at one o'clock tomorrow?
Do we I think we're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do we have him to do non Florida stories for us?
It's something to bring one to the table.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't even know, boll Way, Can I tell you
something that I gave I gave him a phrase that
he's never used before, and I mentioned on the show yet,
I don't you talked to you? Hold me off air.
I don't know if we mentioned this on air. I
think it's okay to say, yeah.
Speaker 1: I brought up.
Speaker 2: I dog cuss somebody the other day and he's like,
what does that mean? He had never heard what dog
cust meant? And I thought that was strange because he
may has dog cussed his athletes, his players many many times.
Is that a more Southern phrase? I don't know where
I heard that, but I was like, I don't think
I'm making an episode, no doubt. I go to Urban
Dictionary and there was definitely a definition, a definition of
dog cuss. Many thumbs up to that though, I didn't
even know. I didn't even look at the thumbs up category. HM,
sixty nine thumbs ups and that thought a lot. I'm
a thumbs thumb thumbs it up. We got to sew
how many how many thumbs up do you need for
things that have hundreds? You heard You've heard the phrase
dog cust though, Okay, I'm familiar with it, so yeah,
he was like, I'd never heard that before. So so
then I did say, hey, did you dog cust anybody
after the Utah game? And he said, yes, I did.
Works out that way all right, So again, sorry about
Imay not joining us today. He'll join us tomorrow one
o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety and hopefully get
the phone. I mean, I mean he May is making
good money. He had to pay the bill, right. I
think it's probably taken care of by the Rockets. So
the Rockets, so that's who the guilty party is. Maybe
all right? That seems fair seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety We're open line now until we have
believe in I one fifty today.
Speaker 3: That's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to im about the win last night,
and I do want ask him about the Jailly Green situation, mean,
which is, oh, he's getting beat up he is. Do
you feel like the officials would be like, man, we're
sorry when you have to call a time out, when
the official has to the official stop the game because
he had blood.
Speaker 3: On his face.
Speaker 2: You don't just all of a sudden trickle blood out
of your body for no reason. Somebody had to hit
you in order for that to happen, and when they
hit you, it's a foul h.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 2: I mean, now, granted there there can't be some incidental contact.
He's bleeding a lot, getting beat up a lot. Actually, yeah,
so I don't know.
Speaker 3: It felt like to me that he needs to get
a little bit of help.
Speaker 2: He needs he needs somebody to be an advocate for
him and maybe send some tape to the NBA because
what he can't do is you can't yell at the
officials as soon as you miss a call, because you're
gonna get the reputation of anytime a calls missed, you're
gonna get a t and you don't want that. You
want you want evidence to say, here's what's going on.
So all right, So that's what I just I feel
bad for Jealing because he's like anybody. If he's going
to penetrate the lane as much as he is, he's
going to get more contact than others. Yeah, I wonder
they have they have statistics on how many drives a
game and how many fouls called for drives. You don't
necessarily want him to become uh you know, they call
him foul free throw merchants like Jalen Brunson or Shay Gill,
just Alexander. But that is a way to get to
the line and fish. We saw it for years here
with James Harden. You know what, Anthony Edwards is a
free throw merchant too. Yeah, he he doesn't. He is
not as tricky, I would say, as maybe those others.
But he gets to the free throw line of fair amount.
I'd be curious who does in the most because who
only gets there get anybody to choose five times a game.
I don't think anybody that choots ten free throws a
game couldn't be called anything but a free throw merchant.
And jan just gets there ten times a game. But
to me, merchant means like that's a huge part of
your game is tricking the officials and kind of just
flopping our bout. Yeah, James, That's who I am. James
Harden was a free throw merchant. I mean he just
was so imya. I'm trying to find most free throw
attempts a game, be honest, is first with ten, Shake
Gill just Alexander in second with nine. Where's Jalen Brunson
he gets seven a game. He's six, But way down
the list is Jalen Green. He's forty fourth. He gets
to the line four times a game. That's as These
are the players around him, Keyante, George, Jalen Williams, Colin
Sections and Men Thompson. None of those guys playing as
much as Jalen No, not driving as much either, So
I would like his numbers to go up there. And
some of it has to be calls and some of
it has to be just being more aggressive. Can you
sell a call harder? Can? Is that something that you
would be you'd want to teach your player guy, But
then you all of a sudden yourself he's fouled. You
open yourself up to being an actor and maybe worrying
about being flopping him. James Harden was selling those calls,
but he was getting hit on the arm and he
would throw his head back. Throwing his head back is
selling the call. But if you there was contact there.
Speaker 1: It's a foul.
Speaker 2: Another guy that did a great job well, including last night,
was Chris Paul. He threw his shoulder into the player
after a loose ball to attract the foul, and I'm
like he got fouled. He technically got fed, technically got fouled,
but he made sure that he used his body as
a weapon to get the contact. Because most players in
the NBA don't want to get found. They want to
go to the basket. They want to score. In Chris's case,
whether it was a loose ball or just in the
course of action, he'd rather beat at the free throw.
Speaker 3: Line than he beach anywhere else.
Speaker 2: Just one more trip of game, get you at close
to the top ten. Anthony Edwards is ten with six
point one. Yeah, Jalen Green's at four point zero. So
if we can just get him one more trip a game,
he's gonna get in the top ten. So let's get aggressive.
Let's get to the basket. You know what I'm gonna put,
I'm gonna ask the video department for the Rockets to
send something to the Asilver at NBA dot com. You're honest,
by the way, shooting fifty eight percent from the free
throw line. And that's a huge detriment because as much
as he goes ten times per game, that's a lot
of lost possessions right there, all right, one twenty seven
Sports Talk seven ninety seven to one three two one
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the Mets have won. So if you were looking for
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And we have brought you a little treat. All this
really happening.
Speaker 3: Don't even really look at it, you get you God,
just some file of fish.
Speaker 2: Now my car smells like on air. No, I'll tape
it put on Twitter. Oh you are don't don't don't
don't touch it again?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Seven two one. By the way, somebody said they're not
getting a filet fish fish because he's worried about his
summer bod. Who this one?
Speaker 3: Which one? Damn Matthews? Matthews the eighteen. Are you slimming down?
Speaker 2: Okay? See hosting space. What's the name of the show
six o'clock tonight? The night Tap, the night Kept? The nightcap?
Speaker 3: Is that? Is that nightcap with Dan? Or is a
DM at Night?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: That's a good one. DM's at Night.
Speaker 6: Oh like that.
Speaker 2: That's the name of the new show six o'clock. That's right,
seven one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 6: Ninety lunchtimers, lunch timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, Falleo vision is coming up on my Twitter account.
Wait for you to post it so I don't spoil it. No, yeah, Connord.
So since you're not on his video, did he get
a sandwich?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I got him one too. Did you get one?
Speaker 2: Have you tried it yet? I haven't tried it yet.
We'll do a live taste test. Let's do it live
then I got I got an update on Gene Hackman situation,
which is not good.
Speaker 3: No, he's still dead.
Speaker 2: And then we got Christian Houston. We gotta talk to
it too. So okay, let's knock these out. Take a bite.
Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Matt just took a video of me.
Speaker 2: I honestly, honestly, the first fast food fish sandwich I've
had in probably at least a decade, if not more.
Speaker 3: I think it's my first time ever.
Speaker 9: Really, you're losing your fish virginity fried fast food fish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, go ahead, let's go. He's taking a bite.
Speaker 2: Connormer, Governor, he's unsheathing his his filet o fish about
four dollars and twenty cents a pop, by way, for
those of you concerned, which is made of pollock. I
was correct, both tried to correct. No, it's pollock. Wild
pollock is what all right? Connor is chewing. He's taking bites.
He hasn't made a disgusting face yet, so that's good.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 9: See that's kind of you said it was four dollars
in pop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dang, I'd rather get a couple of mcdouble's.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I really tried to go into this with an
open mind, Matt, No you didn't, I really did. I
promise bottom of the fifth, no score astros met.
Speaker 2: Still it tastes like fish dicks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's a it's a big fish plank, not
in a good way. There's more fish than I thought.
Thanks you good.
Speaker 2: It's I.
Speaker 3: I will not be ordering and I will.
Speaker 2: Be another to finish it, though, honestly struggling. If you
weren't sick, i'd finish your sandwich. But you're sick, so
i'll finish it. I'm probably with Ross's I probably. I
probably wouldn't order it again. I'm gonna try to get
that halfway. I didn't even want a second I didn't
even want a second bite. No, I'm I'm being serious.
I tried to have it. I was really trying to
be open minded. I was like, Okay, it's gonna it
can't be that bad. It's a popular it's a popular sandwich,
which worse than I thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 3: When you're on the struggle bus financially like me, and
you're I'm gonna finish it. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2: You want my half?
Speaker 3: No, you're sick.
Speaker 2: The tartar sauce is fine. You were healthy, I'd finish
is fine, And look, I don't think I'm contagious. Matt.
Speaker 3: Do you think I can't think I can finish your sandwich?
Then I'm gonna try to eat half of it. Please
let go from there.
Speaker 2: Let's take a phone call. Let's talk about I'm gonna
do that while you talk to Chris and Houston. Christ
I want to talk about the Astros and the Rockets.
This could be a perfect phone call. Chris, thank you
for waiting, and good afternoon to you.
Speaker 5: Hey, good afternoon. Let's start with the Rockets. So you
guys are mentioning Jalen's getting beat up in the paint.
We gotta go old school here and get an enforcer.
And I'm you know, Dylan Brooks. I'm looking at you,
but you guys thinking of that.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Dylan Brooks and he's making three point
shots for me. I ain't worried about it. I enforcer
stuff doesn't work because their NBA is going to curtail
that gonna tee up people, get flagrant fouls and kick
people out of game, especially with a guy like Dylan
Brooks who's a reputation by getting in these francases. On
a semi regular basis, So I don't think you have
to do any sort of enforcing. Just get some more calls.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: I missed the old NBA.
Speaker 3: No, I know, I don't know what else you got, but.
Speaker 5: Hey, regarding astros, like, uh, get some fire in their
belly for this upcoming season, what do you guys think
they can do?
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be competitive. I would be stunned,
and thanks Christopher the phone call. I think ninety wins
might be a little bit of a reach, but I
may it may take eighty eight to win the division.
Matter of fact, I don't know if what we'll got.
I felt gut feeling that, but I would be I
think if everybody is as close as they're going to
be in this division with Seattle, I think the Angels
are gonna be a little bit better, the Rangers are
gonna be better, could get healthier. I don't see why
you can't beat each other up during the course of
the year and maybe win the division with eighty eight
and seventy four record.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to pull up win totals and it's
getting blocked by our My computer is blocking it. Yeah,
we're having some issues that we get the phone calls
not working for email, and it's a eighty six and
a half is the win total that is the highest
in the American League. I'm not by myself. I'm thinking
that Majors are eighty five and a half, Mariners are
eighty four and a half. You know, part of me
is gonna be frustrated by that ross, but part of
me says, we're gonna have a real fun September watching
every one of these games being played out because it
could be very much a close, competitive, freeway fight for
the division.
Speaker 3: What are they the Angels at.
Speaker 2: They're off the board and I'm just kidding, I literally
cannot even find them.
Speaker 3: Where are they?
Speaker 2: Mike Trout, by the way, went deep yesterday for the
Angels in their game seventy one and a half. You
know what, I'm gonna tell you something right now. If
Trout stays healthy, which is a huge if, and they're
opening day starter, you say, Kakuchi, I won't take the
overrun seventy one and a half. Hmmm, that feels about right.
I don't really have too big of a feel on
just thrown Angels baseball. I'm gonna bet some astro numbers
next week. Anthony Rendone still out for like six more months.
He's the He's the Lance mc colors of the Angels.
We're tired.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 3: What's the A's now problem is the A's don't have
a place.
Speaker 2: They don't have They were playing in Sacramento, that's not
even a home for seventy and a half, one game fewer. Now,
the A's made some signings. Yeah, they actually caught a
little bit of money. Yeah, they're They're three and one
with a tie in spring training. We've never done that before.
I wonder how if we could ever have a correlation
between what a team does in spring training with the
record is never all right? Real quick, Everybuddy Jay to
the show sent us sent me an email. This is
coming from see this Jay. You have to help me out.
You got He obviously cut and pasted something here. After
Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa were found deceased
in their Santa Fe residents, authorities are now calling their
deaths quote unquote suspicious m Originally, the family believed the
likely cause of death was a gas leak or carbon
monoxide poisoning. Hmm. However, a Santa Fe detective who sought
a search warrant, wrote in his affidavit he believes quote
the death of the two deceased individuals to be suspicious
enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation.
Here are the sum of the suspicious findings. The front
door of the residence was found open and unsecured. A
deceased dog was laying ten to fifteen feet from Betsy
in the closet of the bathroom, while a healthy dog.
Speaker 3: Was found roaming freely on the property.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 2: There was a heater that was moved. There was also
a prescription pill bottle that was open with pills scattered
next to the female gene. Hackman's body was located on
a separate room of the residence. There was no signs
of a gas leak. So Jay send me an email
Tim where we got this rom He's obviously cutting pacing
this from somebody. The point being is, yeah, I don't
know I where you were spout in fake news now
Jay woinds in it to me. But people get tricked
all the time. We had the guys calling us about
the who was it? Luka Doncics going to the to
the locket. I mean speaking of that. Speaking of that,
people are getting hoodwinked on the Newsweek articles saying the
Texans are looking for relocation. Did you see that from
this week? Yes, you're stupid if you retweet that. If
you're stupid, you're buying into it. I told you all this,
and I ain't lying. The Texans are not leaving Southeast Texas.
Could they leave Harris County yep? Could they go to
Fort Benk County?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Could they go to Montgomery County not likely? Could they
go to Brassouria County possibility? They're not leaving the greater
Houston metropolitan area. But Newsweek or some some fabrication of
some fake AI model of Newsweek, and then a bunch
of dorks retweeted to maybe we can't even have another
team leave us they didn't have in Hayna can't go
to Lehman Marcus as a black card and be able
to get the same sort of cachet if she kicks
a team out of town. It ain't happen in the
NFL is not letting it happen. It's yeah, this is
happening all over the place. Unfortunately. I think there was
a Sporting New Sporting News. Shame on you, Spooze Weeks,
Shaming on you. Anybody that's tweeting that, shame on them.
Don't be stupid. Something has to be done about this.
Speaker 3: By the way, you should see the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2: Are going to the burbs. It sounds like for real,
for real, for real, for real, okay, ROSSI real estate
in big metropolitan cities and using the taxpayer money from
these bigger from these big cities a thing.
Speaker 3: Of the past. The Burbs want it. The Burbs want it. Okay,
that's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: You know what, when the Texans get their stadium out
in Fort ben County, We're gonna stay Adam Clanton's house, don'kay,
big tailgate at his house. We can actually park in
his house. Cool and save money. It'd be great. I'm
looking forward to it because isn't there a lot of
land next to right right Anchel the uh the pavilion. Yes,
there is a lot of land, just sad enough for
a stadium and parking lots.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh, they'll figure out a way. They'll figure out away
for sure, all right, Uh we believe it or not.
Today all things about Gene Hackman now the things that
just brought up will not be a part of gene
Ackman's believe it. I don't think confirmed reports of how
he died. It's still creepy. There's something that's really I'm
offended you didn't finish the fish.
Speaker 3: I'm trying.
Speaker 2: I'm try hard. You don't have enough. I'm not being disingenuous.
I'm really not trying to troll you.
Speaker 3: Sauce sauce. This tartar sauce is good.
Speaker 2: See they it needs pickles and lettuce or something to
distract you from the fish taste. You can add ta
sast to meno if you like as well. It tastes
like what is it those Gordon's. It tastes like Gordon's
fish sticks. You weren't infecting top is on a bunch
last time you had fishticks? Oh, fish sticks, jesus, I
don't know years. It's like it's on a bun with
it targets us at decent. I like fish sticks. It
needs like pickles and lettuce and tomatoes. You mean tell
me you wouldn't you want to come to the house
tonight and make I can make fish sticks and mac
and cheese.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't need it.
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna be Yeah, three year olds will
be floking over there, Matt, but I'm not going to
be there.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about love volleyball.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you want to play, believe it or not,
it's seven one three two one two five seven seven
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Speaker 3: Ross staring at the very the fish to eat is
quite interesting.
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Speaker 6: There, Lunchtimers, back to Houston's longest running lunchtime sports show
with a guy that yells.
Speaker 3: For a living.
Speaker 1: Yes, Matt Thomas, the legend continues now.
Speaker 2: That report about Gene Haman, it was reported by Fox News.
So there always fair and balance. We're good to go
on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm ross there's something really fishy?
Speaker 2: Is it fishy?
Speaker 3: Hmmm?
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: A little bit of sauce left over? Good, you finished it.
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: I yeah, it's just in my DNA. I don't want
I don't want to waste food. It's not that bad,
but it's also not that good.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So the finally you crave that, it makes me. I'm
deeply not.
Speaker 3: Daily, but I had I've had two this week. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: That is crazy. Actually, I've had I've had two since
this century final tally on the number Connor one to
ten on the fil A six. I will I will
never get another one.
Speaker 3: Ever.
Speaker 2: We should try different fish sandwiches. I want to catch
starts back up if as long as I don't have
to do another filo fish. I heard the people are
saying that the one from Darby's is the best. Uh yeah,
you know why it's I think it's pink, cold breaded.
Oh it's got the roast beef on it as well. Correct, No,
you're not putting roast beef on top of a fish.
Speaker 3: That's gross.
Speaker 2: Don't They have one that's like the mountain of meat
and it's everything they have. You have to walk in
there and tell them, Okay, I'm not gonna walk into
a restaurants.
Speaker 3: So I like your mountain meat. Please? You love the
Mountain of meat. I haven't had it lately. One nothing
the met.
Speaker 2: What'd you say? Let's see that one tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Is it Friday?
Speaker 2: Tomorrow?
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a good week.
Speaker 2: I think. I think our good friend Connor mcgovernent is
fully stocked, aren't you. It's well again, like I I
got a dose clipped and yeah and still get ready
to get played.
Speaker 3: So I have a lot left over. So like sometimes
you have to you have to wait a week to
hear them again.
Speaker 2: You know what you should bank all of them for
the because there canna be weeks that we're gonna behave
ourselves the best.
Speaker 3: I think this week is not a good week for that.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: We have a ground out rbi hose series going for
the Metropolitans. They lead one to nothing top of the
sixth in Port Saint Luci. You been to Port Saint Luci?
Speaker 3: I have not. It's fine now here, it's lovely.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know what it is. You know. Port
Saint Luci's where people that want to live in the
expensive part of Florida tell people they live in West
Palm Beach, but they really don't. And Jan Merishaal was
out there and he did not hit anyone over the
head with a bat. You think eighty year olds conduct
violence when they're pitching, when they're out there after playing, well,
he was involved in the most violent brawl in baseball history.
Go ahead and do tell quickly. Got a minute here, Actually,
don't have a minute. We got five minutes left to
go in the show. What should we do not tell
the story? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio
game show. We simply call it be Believe it or
not in here so it works you call seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Today's edition of but
Believe It or Not is brought to you by Rick Renalds.
I'm they're fish full as category today is all things
about the recently departed Gene Hackman. And hopefully nothing too
sinister has happened with this situation. But his career did
sound good. Dozen's how good at all? I read your
statement about Jeans statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this,
believe it with the samement Tierni is full of welcome
in up You'll say this, Nah to believe it not's
in a row in your prize?
Speaker 3: What are you playing for today? Connor?
Speaker 9: A pair of tickets to see Simple Minds live on
their Alive and Kicking Tour twenty twenty five. A special
guest Soft Cell and Modern English on May thirty first
at the William's Pavilion.
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Speaker 2: Favorite Modern English song ross that would be Don't You
Forget About Me? Mine is those Flowers Don't Bloom Anymore? Wow,
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is seven one three two one two five seven ninety,
Matt on seven ninety, Matt, You're ready to play Believe
it or not?
Speaker 1: Believe it?
Speaker 2: Gene Hackman lied about his age and joined the Marine
Corps at age sixteen.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not.
Speaker 2: Believe it statement number two for the way in Gene
Hackman's first acting experience was at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California,
where he was voted quote least likely to succeed Believe.
Speaker 9: It or not?
Speaker 5: I believe it.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, nicely done, and that was kind of nonchalant. I say,
believe it.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: He wins.
Speaker 3: He's going to win contra tickets.
Speaker 2: Greg on seven outy, Greg, what was your favorite part
of today's radio show?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: Really turned on when I heard it was Believe It
or Not?
Speaker 11: Sorry, guys, what.
Speaker 2: You been doing between tenants in the car?
Speaker 3: What did you do the rest of the day. I'm
just curious.
Speaker 10: Well, it's my day off from work, so I slept in,
did a little laundry eight to once.
Speaker 2: And just jumped in the car pick up with my wife.
Speaker 1: To pick up the car and she didn't want to
listen to port radio.
Speaker 2: Well we didn't have a serious talk with your wife eventually,
but thank you very much for your honesty. Gene Hackman
was inspired to become an actor after watching Mark Brando's
performance in a streetcar named Desire.
Speaker 3: Believe It or Not.
Speaker 5: Not.
Speaker 2: Oh, we've only talked about it for the entire SHOWND,
but I wanted to make you feel bad. Michael and
clear Lake on Sevenati, Michael, You're ready to play Believe
It or not Believe It. Gene Hackman won the nineteen
sixty eight Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
for his betrayal of Tom Wingfield and the Glass Menagerie
Believe It or Not Believe It?
Speaker 3: No, he was nowhere near that. He was even in
that movie.
Speaker 2: In the play no No Jikes seven one three, two
one two five seven, Nattie steven On sevenoainnty seven, You're
ready to play Believe It or Not Believe It. Gene
Hackman was set to direct and star in the Silence
of the Lambs before dropping out of the project.
Speaker 3: Believe It or Not.
Speaker 1: Believe It?
Speaker 2: Believe It statement number two for the Way and Gene
Hackman was an avid motorcyclist and even participated in the
Biscayne five hundred endurance race in Spain and Portugal goal
Believe it or not?
Speaker 5: Not?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. You're right.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to win of it?
Speaker 2: Uh Paul on seven pointy, Paul, your favorite part of
today's radio show, all of It. Gene Hackman was verbally
abusive to the director Wes Anderson on the set of
The Royal Tentonbaumbs, to the point where Bill Murray had
to intervene.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not believe it? Believe it statement.
Speaker 2: Number two for the way. Gene Hackman was a huge
fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars and attended many of their games.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not.
Speaker 2: Not believe it? How do you not know that Gene
Hackman loved his Jaguars. Not a big fantom of Trevor Lawrence. However,
all right, that's it for the show today.
Speaker 3: Fross. Let's go get you. Let's go get a second one.
Speaker 2: Get I'm never having another one ever in mind, in
your entire life, You'll never get it again. Sorry, that's
troubling today. I'm really sorry. That's fine, all right, he
made Noka was supposed to be on today. He joins
us tomorrow at one o'clock. Up next Waxler clinton Ty
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