Rockets vs Golden State, Will Astros Get It Figured Out Here Soon? Tim Roye & Ryan Hollins Joins The Show!

Rockets vs Golden State, Will Astros Get It Figured Out Here Soon? Tim Roye & Ryan Hollins Joins The Show!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas show.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I told uh, I told h Johnathan, I was gonna
go from the baritone on that one. I may try
a little higher octive today. I'm not at one hundred
percent when it comes to that. Like, I don't think
I'm in like full mid throat. But I'm better today
than I was last week, that's for sure. Hopefully you
can get full throat, because that's what we call you,
full throat Thomas. Nobody calls me that, Yeah, they do.

(00:31):
I've been on the streets of Houston. As a matter
of fact, I went to a restaurant yesterday. Uh huh.
I think it was on your placard at Maid Creek
High School. Full throat Thomas. Can I tell you a
quick story? If Mass you can't go ahead? So I
went to more go to Malt Mass yesterday.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Catholic Mass, Malt Mass Steakhouse.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, Me and the big one, oldest son went and uh,
we have an I have an employee discount card which
gives me a discount. Uh huh. And uh. The guy
at the restaurant didn't know who I was, and I
gave him identification card with my ide that usually that's
all that is. And he goes, excuse me, so we're
gonna need a pay stub. Now, I'm like, back and mind,

(01:13):
I'm like, who brings a paystub to dinner? That's pretty good?
You get? Well, you got a PDF one can any
past ub or I don't know if identification card. Well,
the guy next to me, the guy about the table
behind us, has listening to the show and he's like,
excuse me, sir, that's Matt Thomas. He's the voice of
the Rockets. I mean I I listened to a show
every day, trust me, this is who he is. And

(01:34):
the guy's like, I'm going to it's a it's a policy.
I'm gonna need his identification card or a pay stub
or something. You've never been have you ever been asked? Never?

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Never before in my life? Okay, So what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
So I was able to go back in my direct
deposits and I will my deposits say rocket Ball is
the name of the company, and that proved it. And
he goes, okay, sir, I won't be happy to apply
that discount.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
So shout out to me. Does he talk like that?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I don't know, but shout out to malt Mass in
Humble for doing their due diligence and making sure that
I was an employee and that not building a fellow customer.
And people come in with those cards all the time.
It was really weird. It was really weird. I have
you do get hassled at varying levels. It feels like
sometimes people know the drill and sometimes they don't.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
M M.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
That's the really, it just got cards.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Sometimes you have to identification, sometimes you have to have
a special hours whatever. Good morning everyone. Is a Friday
edition of the show. It isn't anything goes. Friday edition
of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ross Hallo, Hell
are you doing Okay, I'm feeling a little sick, but
I'm all right. Yeah, We're all still doing We're going
over this focus no risk arrest for the weary got

(02:45):
Astros Baseball Tonight against San Diego Podres, I will have
your Astros on deck and tinhoning, and then the Astros
against the Potres on Saturday, I will have your Astros
on deck and tinthaning, and then Sunday we have rockets
against the Golden State Warriors. I will have your launch
pad and your Rockets wrap on news radio seven forty
k t here right, you know what you want to
take Monday off? You can if you need to. I

(03:06):
think I'm Wednesday. I'm gonna I found a hookup for
some Kendrick Lamar tickets. So, oh is a concert Tuesday?
It's Wednesday, So you're gonna take Thursday off? No, I'm so,
I'm just not working. I'm gonna work the show.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
I'm going.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'm gonna take any time out. I'm not working Rockets
game too. Oh we have a short we have a
shorter day, shorter day on Wednesday? Gus, do we not?
I don't know who? Is that true? I don't know.
I'm just making like that. No, I think I'm wrong. Okay, well,
I'm just saying I'm not working Rockets game too. I'm
a little disappointed, but you know it's fine. You should
go see you get tickets to the only Appulitzer Prize
winner for music that wasn't a jazz or orchestral artist.

(03:40):
I mean, what a landmark. I mean, if you go,
if you have to have a chance to go hear
the Picasso of music. Why wouldn't you know? How about
a man Johnathan knocking back a hash brand in there
and didn't even bring us anything.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
That's okay, I got him.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
It almost made me late. I gotta I had to
come out here and Russel here. Are you gonna eat
on the air too? Why should just take a big
old by let us all hear it? Yeah, he's a
rule one of radio. Don't talk with your mouthful.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Come on, Jonathan, just don't just take the al you
can't respond, Just hit your hat, you can't respond. Leave
him alone. But that many right. I just thought of
eating you guys too. Yeah, that's the other reason why
I brought it up. It's early, he's hungry. We have
a good show for you today. We have Ryan Hollands.
Are gonna join us in one hour. That's cool, you
guys are gonna do It's just a bachi talk for
a segment. He loves this abachi okay, double salad, double

(04:28):
soup and ice cream and extra protein and uh double okay,
the chloric intake of him. He also, by the way,
on a game day, we are able to eat with
the team on game days at the lunch and I
don't usually because I'm working with you entertaining Houston. He

(04:49):
will get two waffles, lather them with whipped cream and strawberries,
and I mean not just a dollop a lather ring. Okay,
that's probably in itself about ten thousand calories. Why are
you putting his business out here like this man? Because
the man is in physically amazing condition. He works out

(05:09):
like a fiend. He's seven feet tall, he doesn't carry
an ounce of fat on him. We're in three piece
custom suits like a mutter. That's just part of his meal.
The other meal is two large smoothies, okay, foddled by
a big bowl of pasta with both Alfredo and Marinara
sauce mixed together.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Alfredo and Marinaro.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, they call that like vodka sauce is what they
call it when you mix the two together, call it
vomit sauce. Well, I would not necessarily disagree with you
on that. So the man can eat, Okay, So we'll
we'll talk about it, full breakdown of his diet a o'clock.
We'll talk about it's palette at eleven o'clock. Okay. We're
gonna owe some people some apologies at eleven thirty today, okay.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
And we got the news at noon.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
A friend, uh, Tim Roy, the voice of the Golden
State Order, is going to join us at one o'clock
to wow. They are coming in at actually from San
Francisco today because the game is on Sunday, but the
data travels a long trip four hours suposed of time
change or whatever. So he'll be joining us on the
way to the airport this morning as the Warriors and
Rockets get after for game number one of the Western Conference.
Are they calling it first round series or quarterfinals? I

(06:16):
guess they call it first round? Right?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Nice?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
The first round series? Yeah, and that'll be an eight
thirty start time inside Tota Center, which hopefully all of
you will be there h wearing Rocket gear. It has
already been announced as a sellout. Okay, ready to go,
meaning in your seats on time. I'm gonna be wearing
my jersey with my name on it in the press box.
Are you really? That's good?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
I haven't seen yours yet?

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Where is it? Did you take it home? Already? I
put it on my Instagram at sports rv'. That's nice
that a team would give us a gift to get
ready to collaborate a part of a postseason. Yeah, we
appreciate them, and so I don't think we're jersey and cheek.
We're not trying to humble brag too. I am, well
you are for sure you live your life as a
humble brag. Uh huh. But I mean it's nice. I

(06:59):
mean it's just a nice token of it, you know,
for hey, please cover us, talk about us, do whatever.
We would do that anyway. You don't give me anything,
but yeah, it was nice something they took care of you.
So yes, and the most important things I told you
yesterday was the extra spelled your name correctly. Yes, I
appreciate them for that. The old double R, double L
as well, double L as well. That's a lot of
lot I mean value, I mean letters on the scybal board.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Would that be well?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
I used to sometimes on Scantron's I would run out
of room depending mm hmmm. All right, we are with
you today and sad anything goes Friday at seven one three, two,
one two five seven nine zero there was apling nothing
really in sports that happened yesterday. Right, Rockets were off,
Astros were off. Rangers and Angels played I mean rangers,

(07:43):
uh hockey clothes out their regular season yesterday. Wow.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
There were no playoff games whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
In the NBA. Now for us to chew on the
uh Nico kids still can't figure out where wants to
play college football? Yeah, go, No, he's going to UCLA.
I thought I thought so too, but I don't think
is that a definitive thing? I still keep la yava?
Excuse me? What that's like an e lotion? Would you
like something yava? Yeah? A l yava? Oh yeah, late Java,

(08:09):
you know this this He's not with u c l
A for sure, Gordy, do we have a see that's.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
What I said.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
He was packing up his stuff and leaving. Everybody said everybody, Yeah,
I don't care. You know what, I don't care. I'm sorry. Okay,
go play the u u c l A and goes six,
seven and six, wishing you the best.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
I like U c l A.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Though. Beautiful campus, beautiful bowl. Yeah it is a very
nice campus. Baby nice are you okay? No, I'm just
saying U c l A is fantastic. No, but you
went in the clouds for a second. I saw your
eyes glazed. I was thinking about it some times, and
you said a beautiful campus and your eyes glazed over.
Yeah that's true, all right, Gordyon's gonna stop by. Are

(08:46):
you still sat by her? You already too tired because
you did a four hours? Did he do the full
four hours today? I think so?

Speaker 4 (08:51):
Gordy got there at six mm five.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
He must like the Shawn Salisbury show them rested better
than us, hardest working man at the station.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
I don't I don't understand some of that sidework.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
But that's you too. Yeah, this is you know, he's
got he's got four calls to make unlocked an sec.
How do we pronouncing it? I got the kid's name again?
Uh yama le yava, Yeah, I'm the say it again.
He sent to me vou textma, I am yeah, yeah exactly,

(09:26):
Ima yep, shut up?

Speaker 4 (09:28):
I alava boom? Was that right?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay? Thank god? Lama don't for your mama, Lama for
your mama. Got a lamma you want for your mama?
All right? Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
It isn't anything goes Friday. Ross, explain some of thething

(09:55):
goes Friday here. You want to talk about lamas for
your mama's seven one three two one two five is
seven ninety is the phone number? You know what we
need to lock in Rocket series predictions. Were you working
gut feelings on Tuesday? You weren't.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I was not.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did you make one? Yeah? I did?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
I don't even I think you have Rocket twenty or
do I?

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh? I got a serious prize? Brother, worried about serious
prize a little bit. Well, they gotta word about serius prices.
If you want to go, bet the price.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
If you don't want to bet the price, don't worry
about the price.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
That might be a state away. We'll see, we'll talk
about that. Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.
Are the Astros gonna sit up in their chairs against
a good team like they have done the last couple
of years. It's a guaranteed to win Friday because they
lost on Wednesday. Oh did you see who's pitching for
the Astros? I did not, Ryan Gusto. That's fine, all right,

(10:45):
go four innings, hope, hope. So and then we're sending
Gordion to Midland to see Lance mc color story. That's true.
Actually big deal for us, because I mean we're so yeah,
so Gustos like, man, am I pitching for my life?

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Not my life?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
But you know what I mean? I don't think he's
pitching for his lot, because at this point mccaullars could
just slip in there and take his spot easily. Correct.
I would like to know win this game because tomorrow
is uh. Michael King, all right, it's pretty good. Dylan
Sea saysn't been good so far this season, so we'll see.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
But I like the Astros. It's a two on three weekend.

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Speaker 2 (17:38):
All right, it is a good Friday, Laura, as we
like to call it here, Sniffles Friday with Rossville Reale.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
I only care.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm looking good by the way. Good morning to you, Molly,
you precious child. Ten twenty one. It is the Matt
Tamas Show with Ross seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. It is anything oh Friday and a
lot of you. I'm going to presume that probably what
eighty percent of you that normally work on Friday, you're
off today? Would that be right? Those kids are out.
I know traffic today was a breeze. No one was

(18:11):
playing a daredevil on the fifty nine Ahndred into the city.
Usually takes me about an hour and ten in the
morning to come here. It took me about forty five
to day. So I was very happy about that. So
which means I think there's probably less people out and about.
If you are out and about or at home listen
to the show or listening to us in the iHeartRadio app.
Thank you for that. Secondly, give us a shout if
you don't get a normally chance to call a show.

(18:33):
We don't bite. We have the longest leash in radio period,
sometimes too long of a leaf, but especially today, isn't
anything goes Friday leash Rossie. I'm gonna pullish a shmadam
shmantna on you here. Oh oh, they complain about the officials.
No no, no, no, okay, no no, Well, I mean
that that could be coming a time, because that'll probably
happen with me when I've been Sam Frchisco. It's gonna

(18:54):
go and give you a little car before the horse
of that one. That's gonna probably happen. I don't dislike
a lot of teams in sports. Now, Well, am I
going to root for the Houston teams over other teams?
Of course I am. But I don't like flat out goal.
I don't like blank like. I have no opinion whatsoever

(19:16):
about the Dallas Cowboys. They haven't won since I've been grown. Yeah,
you can hate Dallas Cowboys fans. I can hate Dallas,
but I'm talking about the team itself. Everybody's fan group
can be obnoxious. Ranger fan group can be obnoxious. Yeah,
I mean yeah, everybody. Everybody's gonna have a group of

(19:37):
section of fans that are gonna be obnoxious. I like,
I think the people that do the wave at Astro
fans are morons. Okay, but I'm going to separate the
teams from the fans. Typically Like, I'm not a huge
fan of the Yankees. I respect the hell out of
them now, granted they also spent a lot of money.
I don't like the Dodgers, but I respect him. I

(20:01):
root against the Yankees. I don't like Aaron Boone. I
don't like Aaron Judge, even though he's the best hitter
on the planet. Yeah, I mean I want them to fail.
I want them especially to fail because they're a directing
opponent to the Houston Astros and a chance to win
an American League. Pennant. I do not like the Golden
State Warriors. Do you hate them? A week ago Saturday

(20:26):
when we played them and beat them? Was it a
Saturday Saturday or Sunday? Forgot what I think it may
it was a Saturday. I think when Draymond Green was
poking at Opera and Shangoon no less than about fifteen
twenty seconds, just trying to get a technical foul, and
then he does that obnoxious, really fast clap after he

(20:49):
got the technical foul there. I don't like the Golden
State Warriors. I just don't. So if there's any team
that I really want look to take down Lebron and
Luca will be great in the semifinals. Of the Rockets
get that far, to upset the Oklahoma City Thunder and
be the charmed kids of the NBA would be great.

(21:12):
I mean, but I'm not looking that down in the future.
I need the Rockets to beat the Warriors. They have
played each other four times in the playoffs in the
last ten years. They have played each other obviously between
three and five times in a regular season, and the
Rockets do have two wins against Golden State this year,

(21:33):
and that has been nice because the previous five or
six years have been zero. I don't like what the
Warriors represent. I don't like going to San Francisco. I
sure as hell don't like the way Draymond Green conducts
himself on the court. Off the court, I think he's
one of the most incredible personalities the NBA will have,
and I think he will be a major television star

(21:54):
when it's all said and done.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
He's very thoughtful. He actually is fairly.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Bragging doses about the Rockets when you're talking to him
to a locker room or talking to him on a
television show or a podcast or whatever. But he becomes
a one percent major a hole on the court, and
I hate him for that. I hate Steph Curry's mouthguard hmm.
I hate Steve Kerr complaining about every call. I hate

(22:23):
everything about them. I need you hear this in my voice, Rossy,
I need the Rockets to beat the Warriors. They're not
favorites to do so. It would be frankly, in the
world of betting, not that the world revolves around betting,

(22:44):
but in the world of betting, it's going to be
a sizeable upset if the Rockets beat the Warriors in
the series. When VLAs Vegas says there's a two to
one shot that you lose to them, that's a pretty
significant little bump. I Houston, Texas, listen to me very carefully.

(23:04):
I need the Rockets to beat the Warriors. I wouldn't
come to eat the Rockets were opening up series with
the Wolves. I mean, I want the Rockets to win
the Wolves. I don't want the Rockets to beat the
Kings or the Mavericks of the spur but I don't
have that pisson vinegar, excuse my French ROSSI on those
teams like I do the Golden State Warriors. Yeah, I'm

(23:28):
pretty happy in my life I've lived being a sports fan.
I'm fifty three, holl am I fifty two, Yeah, fifty two.
I've lived forty five, forty six years of my life
being a sports fan. I don't really hate anybody. I
hate the Warriors. I hate the Warriors too, and I
hate Draymond Green and I don't want him to hurt anybody.
And yeah, if we're picking one team, I don't want

(23:48):
the Rockets to lose to In the entire of the NBA, it's.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
The Golden State Warriors.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
They get away with calls, wins, they have the biggest
home court at management. It comes to eight versus five
and officials in the NBA. And I've already told you
that earlier this week. Yes, Steve curR is a whiner,
like you said, and Raymond Green hurts people. He should
be kicked out of the league with his compilation of
hurting people. And instead of giving the Rockets props for
making Steph Curry's life miserable, last week's all Steve curR

(24:12):
has said was, well, the Rockets kept following my guy h.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
And that's how Golden State lived.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
So I'm gonna ask the simple question to this great
people in Houston, Texas.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Do you hate the Warriors? I just heard a loud
roar of a yes. I think I heard four million
people bumping around down though.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah. They all rolled their windows down and they started
hawking their horn. We hate the Warriors, Yeah, I see
you hear that. And by the way, by this opening
series price numbers sixty five Warriors basically is what it
means thirty five percent Rockets. There's a chance I still
ask of you. Has there ever been a seven seed
a two seed as only a thirty five percent winning?

(24:57):
Not usual? Now there's been injuries or something that's okay? Well,
part of the is it because Golden State is significantly
better today than they wore two months ago? The Jimmy
Butler trade made a major difference to them. Ten twenty
eight Sports Talk seven ninety It's the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven to one three two one two five seven

(25:20):
ninety Do you hate anybody? I mean, I hate a
lot of people in life, and I'll take you off there.
They say, oh, yeah, that list is long. I've got
a list I do. It's like Santa Claus. This list,
it's like a book club list. Let's move on to
the next book, next chapter. But I hate the Warriors?
Do you hate the Warriors? Houston seven one three two

(25:40):
one two five seven ninety Brandon says hate the Warriors
and also just finished my forty second year of hating
North Carolina State basketball, looking forward to forty two more years. Obviously,
must be a North Carolina or Duke fan. It's interesting,
Thank you very much. Rock Textro twenty one. You canna hate? Yeah,
I want we You know, we don't have enough. We

(26:01):
don't have enough hate. We just gotta just we respect
the hell out of people. Sometimes I'm not in for
it this week.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Now.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
I do have a lot of friends with the Warriors organization.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
They're very, very nice to us, and Tim Roy's a
friend and we'll be joining us coming up in about
two and a half hours from now. But man, ROSSI
I everything about San Francisco.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
I mean, just the.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
First of all the Curry jersey wearers that will be
in the building on Sunday night. There will be a
lot that's irritating. Number one. Number two as you go
to San Francisco, and I mean every call is f
U refs. And then third is that woriors. I mean

(26:49):
it's ROSSI it grates on you. You have to grit
your teeth. It's not good. Well, there's a very easy
way to shut them all up, Matt, win the basketball games.
Play on the floor. Win the games. Don't let the officials.
Don't let the officials make it a close game. No,
please can I'm just I guess I'm the weird one.

(27:11):
I just don't think the NBA is rigging this series
for the Warriors. I'm not saying I don't think they're
gonna get a bunch of calls on the Rockets floor either,
not any more than superstar calls. Look, superstar calls happen.
The Rockets don't have a superstar. Steph Curry's gonna get calls.
Lebron James gets calls. Jason Tatum, who have Jommran, they
get calls. James Harden when he was here got calls.

(27:32):
But why does dream and you don't know the answer
to this, but you agree with me. Why does Draymond's
greens leash when it comes to inciting anger from officials
longer than anybody else in the history of the NBA.
He is the all time biggest hotthead hot head not pothead,
hotthead in NBA history, and yet he has I mean,

(27:52):
I mean, who has more objections? Dylan Brooks or Draymond Green.
I mean, I don't know, guess is Draymond he been
the league. They're both top five and in UH in
technical fouls. But Rashid Wallace when he was playing got
technical fouls if he burped in front of an official.
He earned a lot of those. I'm saying he earned

(28:13):
a lot of those, but he didn't get the saving
grace that Draymond, for some reason gets. Why Why does
he get this? Is it because he's some I mean,
he's a great player. He's Grade five by five players,
and he's a routinely defensive player of the year. There
comes with a swag to it. And honestly, I mean,
if if you and I and meek emy A Doka

(28:35):
wouldn't have a pop a lot tonight get ready for
the game. I don't like may is like I I
despise every fiber of Draymond Green because Draymond Green is
an em like a Doka type of player. Dylan Brooks
and and Draymond Green were cut from the same cloth.
They just were Draymond Green's a little different to me.
He's screazy, got a screw loose. Dylan Brooks like, we'll

(28:57):
we'll mess with people and will kind of lock people
up for a while. Draymond Green goes out there and
he tries to injure people. Yeah, says it flying elbow
people in the face. Yep.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Oh, you had a call that guy.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
By the way, Colin said, the guy that said he
hated go on forty two years for no kind last
day is because that's forty two years since they hit
that the win.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
On the You of age.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh I see, okay, I gotcha, thank you. They got
affect check. You want a fact check?

Speaker 4 (29:24):
You know everybody knows that, Jonathan, it's kind of implied.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, it was. Oh yeah, you didn't need to interrupt
the show with that because it's like very widely known.
Just tell us affair next time.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Thank thank you. All right, Okay, back to what we
were saying.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
You're young. You weren't twenty years before you were born.
But yeah, it's a very widely known fact that we
knew that. But thanks to the guy for calling us
to let us know the very widely known fact. Yeah,
the huge Duke fan. No, we hate arth Cast. We
just we're never gonna get over that, and every pretty
can feeling when I can get over what happened san
Antonio either did you know the Cougars lost in eighty three?

(29:58):
Bet the NC State Wolfpack?

Speaker 4 (30:05):
You'll mean an apology?

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I do save it for eleven thirty, you know what
I do want to apologize, save it for whatever, to
write it down, Write it down so you don't forget.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
No, actually I'm not really sorry though, So never mind.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Okay, I'm gonna try to think of something.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Well, I was, now we're throwing off. I was gonna
bring up an argument.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Oh, we're talking about Dylan Brooks in the in the
I mean Dylan. We'll try to poke the bear. Eighteen
technical fouls this year for Dylan Brooks, number two in
the NBA behind Anthony Edwards. Draymond Green was seventh with thirteen.
Did how many great games of Draymond Green play this year?
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Luka Doncich had fourteen.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's funny guys, they still get lippy after all these years.
Luca didn't Luca did not take a seat back. I
did not take a breath of Hey, you know, I'll
let the referees to do the game one. I'm warring
Laker gear. He's just a mouth as despite all the
begging and pleading from the Mavericks brass.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
I want if the Lakers let him drink beer.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
I don't know, like, we don't care smoke all the
who could drink all the beer you want as long
as you show up on the court.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
That Mongolian barbecue you can have. I think they're going
to try to motivate him.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I think maybe this was probably a good thing for
Luka Doncic, and then maybe it maybe is a wake
up call. Then you say a wake up call, you
trade me to the Lakers. I want to get max money,
big deal, but could wake them up a little bit.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
By the way, Adam Silver was on I think McAfee
yesterday trying to explain that how the NBA was not
trying to push this agenda along, that they were looking
to get the Lakers back involved and being on top
of the marquee in the NBA and that that Silver
can't come in here and stop a trade, and that
you know that's not the commissioner's job. Blah blah blah

(31:51):
blah blah blah blah, and that and actually what Silver said,
which is really weird. He's like, hey man, the trade
got a lot of people talking. I don't think always
good talk is the best thing for a league. I
think it basically just shows you the incompetence of one
of your members. Yeah, but I think it was overall
a good pr move for the NBA. He was huge

(32:11):
in a huge way. We Adamy Silver. You think Adam
Silver's upset that this happened, Clearly he's not. He's already
said his much. No, he's gotta be thrilled. And he
also said he's guaranteeing the Dallas Mavericks are not leaving
Dallas because there is a conspiracy out there that the
owner of the Mavericks, who owns the Sands Corporation, is
doing this to basically destroy the Mavericks franchise so he

(32:36):
can take the team to Las Vegas. Okay, well, I
guess we'll see he Let me tell you something, if
we get casino gambling in Texas, the Dallas Mavericks will
have the nicest arena in sports because they're gonna build
this brand. They'll build a brand new arena next to
this brand new casino in the suburban Dallas area. Man, Man,

(32:59):
we'll be going. I'll be ready to go with you, Matt.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
But Ross, We've been talking about this for I've been
telling us for when you were a child.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Okay, we when do we don't get it?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (33:11):
When enough politicians get bought to make it happen.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, but we we could have been buying.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
These guys for years. We've had money in the state before.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, but the Oklahoma casino interests have been buying their politicians.
It's all about who's buying the most politicians. Oklahoma, Oklahoma's
buying the politicians.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
A Louisiana's buying the politicians. It's time for us.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
It's Texans to start paying off our politicians. Correct, kid, enough,
you know what, Screw the nil, I'll give you ni
l for uh for.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Politicians, get the money and get the votes.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
I'm ready. So how we roll in here? So you losers?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Are you of h I'm not giving you a damn dollar.
I'm giving the state every bit of my money I
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Where a party at? Okay, we want to give away
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(35:22):
Other front of the show, Chris Gordon, you heard on
the Sean Salisbury Show already today for four hours.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Couldn't get enough.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, honestly, people have nice say, man, what's go? What's
a Gordy? What's Gordy? Drive by ten fifty? You see
what's going on? Actually we are. What do you got
there in front of you?

Speaker 18 (35:38):
There, that's a that's a board op schedule, okay, producer schedule.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
That was something like some anidodal stuff. Yeah, we got
you on the board this weekend. Met that's fine. We'll
be ready. We're kind of lean. We'll get you on
the reel to reel. I have done it before.

Speaker 18 (35:50):
Crocket's actually requested could you do both PA and play
by play?

Speaker 4 (35:53):
We need to do both. I could do the starting
five if you wanted me to.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
By way, well we'll we will replay the starting five
for twenty eighteen the next half hour, just to oh nice. Yeah,
I still get a fair amount of tremendous hate.

Speaker 18 (36:10):
But from that, did you see? I did some I
did some research for Shawn Show this morning. The last
time the Rockets were the one A playoff game at
Toyota Center was May sixth, nineteen. Wait, I did some
research on that day, like on stuff that happened. Lil
Naz's Old Town Road was the number one song in

(36:32):
the country. I think it still is. Avengers Endgame was
the number one movie at the box office?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Great film? How much was a gallon of gasifically cheaper?

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Really, eggs were cheaper as well.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
But how's my far on k? Back then? Oh, you
were probably about the same as it is now. Actually
it was it was. It was Trump then, it's Trump now.
But uh, Tiger Woods, it just won the Masters.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Oh that's right, who do we beat?

Speaker 19 (36:59):
That night?

Speaker 2 (37:00):
The Golden State worse lost in their second round. They
only won one game that series, right or was it too?
And then uh, that was when Kevin Durant ripped his
achilles in that series and they still lost.

Speaker 18 (37:11):
Yeah, yeah, Durant dropped like thirty four in the loss
that night.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Great job, but no, it's.

Speaker 18 (37:18):
Crazy to think. So D'Antoni was the coach. Do you
remember the starting five for the Rockets of Night?

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Can I try?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Um, this is what years is? Twenty ninete, twenty nineteen.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
This is the year after the seven Gamer, right, Yes,
the reason was not a part of it, because I
think he was the fall guy for the twenty eighteen
am I correct on that? It was definitely of course
James Harden and Chris Paul and Kick Cappella Hall Capella.
I'll go PJ. Tucker maybe yes? And then who would

(37:48):
have been the Eric Gordon? There you go? Okay, and
a reason I'm a part of that team?

Speaker 4 (37:54):
And then can you can you name any of the
bench players who played na Ryan Anderson, Austin Rivers. Austin
Rivers was one, No, Luke bo Who's.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
In next year? I think? Who else was that? Austin Rivers?

Speaker 18 (38:08):
Poor guys saw minutes that night off the bench. Austin
Rivers played thirty three minutes.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Don't say, don't say, I don't say. Ryan Anderson was right.
You had Eric starting, who would have been the backup
five on that team.

Speaker 7 (38:20):
That would have been.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Oh, come on, everybody loved him? Is hardsta No, he
was on the team, didn't everybody loved the backup five
of the Rockets that year? Wait for everybody? Oh is
one name and I are Instagram buddies.

Speaker 18 (38:42):
Your other two players that play off the bench at
that series, Gerald Green now Space City Home Network analysts. Yes,
uh huh, And this is a name you probably I
would have given you twenty guesses. You probably never would
have remembered this guy, Iman Schumpert twenty one minutes off the.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
But I forgot he was a Rocket. The legend one
was Lou Williams on the team. Is that before this?
The next year? I think I think it was the
year before. It was a year before.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Yeah, So anyway, a lot of.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
You you would have held me against my wall and
said you can leave this prison. Once you name who
that ninth player was. I never would have gotten him
on Chremper.

Speaker 18 (39:22):
The other thing, the crazy part to think about, so
you go back to that to that year, the last
time the Rockets won a home playoff game against at
Toyota Center. Joe Burrow was just a guy. He had
not been Joe Burrow yet and still just not won
a Heisman and not you know whatever.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
The astros cheating skin we had no idea about. We
were still completely in the dark.

Speaker 18 (39:42):
Well it was going on, happened. Mike Fires was still
beloved at that point. We loved the Mike Fires.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Can't get enough of Mike Fires.

Speaker 18 (39:50):
Just crazy to think in hindsight, how I think how
long it's been since we've enjoyed a big win at
Toyota Center.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
The last ever home playoff win was against the Golden
State Warriors. It's four series and ten years. What one
sort of heartbreak? One we had no chance because that
was they were an eight versus a one. Correct. That
was the yearly That was when Bickerstaff took over for
Kevin McHale, So that was kind of a throwaway. There

(40:18):
were two series that you thought you had a puncher's chance.
Ever early eighteen, you should have one. They would have
They would have beaten the greatest team of all time.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
If Trevor Resa hits one of those threes.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, if christ Paul's hamstring doesn't, was it fair that
Theresa took the major fall for that?

Speaker 4 (40:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
No, yes, no.

Speaker 18 (40:38):
His one job with this team was the defendant hit threes,
and he didn't hit one three that night.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
I can't remember sitting at the court side going, don't
do it. Oh, another one, don't do it, du another one.
And it was the same guys. They weren't even contested.
They were open threes from the wing. No, it was
even worse because sitting one seat to my left was
mem Montemps. Since she was like, oh my god, the
biggest joke I've ever saying. I wanted to choke him out.

(41:05):
Mem mom Temps the worst.

Speaker 18 (41:08):
He's not the one who's the one who wrote the
Luca book.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Oh McMahon is very nice. I like him. I like him.
They loser, But anyway, Tim Bontemps and we had I
was also sitting with may he rest sick who Smith.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Great guy? Seven time guests on Sports.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Sucks of a ninety. By the way, do you hear
what we're promoting? Yeah, the dub nation. Look, I love
our company. We should do not listen to that. I mean,
why would you want to. I don't rather have needles
just stuck in him eye religiously.

Speaker 18 (41:42):
For like, the timing isn't great. I mean, for if
we were a non NBA market, sure whatever.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Well, I mean, look, it's not our fault. It's just
what our company told us to send. But one of
the companies sit back and go, you know what, I
think America wants to hear about the background of the
Golden State Warriors.

Speaker 18 (41:58):
It was it was the from the mind of is
Reel Gutierres who from ESPN.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
I don't know who that is.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
He's the host of the podcast.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
I don't listen. This is redemption though I feel like,
let me, I promise you this. iHeart and I love
you because I've been with you for a long time.
When you get a podcast that I think, I'm like,
I'm into this, I will hoard out like a you
know what, what.

Speaker 18 (42:20):
Was the gron Edelman one?

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Two dudes. We've had dudes, Dudes on dudes. We've had
it was dudes on dudes, right, Women's Basketball pod. We
had the Polynesian something Philipino Filipino pod. We've had the
John Wall Pod. We've had dudes on Dudes, and now
we're promoting this Dwayne Dwayne Wayne one. Now now we're
in the dub nation.

Speaker 18 (42:42):
I mean when did I was the one about learning
all the quirks of NFL rules and stuff.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
It was like, I'm Peter Schrager right now and We're
gonna hear it in do draft picks and dudes or whatever,
like Jesus Christ.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Like, did you know the first field goal kicked was
thirty seven yards? We'll talk about all those fun facts.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Dudes on Dudes is still going Hell, yeah it is
with Gronk and Jewels.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Yeah, very busy. Doesn't this feel like redemption time? Though?

Speaker 18 (43:11):
This feels like we just talked about the history of
the ass of the Rockets playing the Warriors over the years.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Yeah, this feels like the redemption arc is here. It
is time.

Speaker 18 (43:20):
It is all new faces, a whole new cast of
characters for the Rockets.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Now, why doesn't America believe that either?

Speaker 18 (43:26):
Because they just look at Steph and they see Rings
and Steve Kerr and Draymond and Jimmy Butler's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
And Jimmy and that's a better basketball team than their record.
Ind case, it's just the reality. They're twenty one and
seven since Jimmy Butler has been inserted in the lineup
together when he and Curry played together their twenty one
and seven that's an incredible winning percent.

Speaker 18 (43:45):
Should the Rockets have when Jimmy Butler was available in
the markets? Should they have considered that a little bit more?
It would have It would have cost you some of
your young pieces to give up for him. But who
would you've given out?

Speaker 4 (43:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (43:56):
I mean they gave up who was it? Wiggans for Butler?
I mean, but you also knew that you were. If
you were, if you're signing Jimmy or you're gonna get
Wiggins next, Jimmy Butler, you're gonna have to give him
a contract extension. And I wanted no part of any
sort of contract extension to Jimmy Butler, because what Jimmy
Butler does is he goes war and he behaves himself
for a while, then he causes issues in they leaps.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Oh, the Warriors gonna give him a contract the dead Wow.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I think he's getting one hundred and twenty million over
for two years. It's a ridiculously fat contract. This will
be great.

Speaker 18 (44:27):
Then when we beat them, they're gonna be in hell
for the next few years, because they're only gonna get
older and worse.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
That's why there's a lot of pressure on them to win.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
All right. So if you are going to the game
on Sunday eleven oh one on Sports Talk seven to ninety,
let's say how to our good friend Ryan Hollands. You
catch him on Space City Home Network, and he will
be on the call for game one Sunday night. Remember
any game that's not on the ABC that means all
the TNTs, at least in his first round, Ryan's happy,

(44:56):
smiley face will be on there. Rhino, what's a good word?

Speaker 3 (45:00):
What's going on? Brother?

Speaker 20 (45:01):
Man?

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I missed you. The Rockets didn't win while I was gone.
It's time for me to get back. It's time for
the Rockets to be dub Nation for the third time
this year.

Speaker 21 (45:11):
You know what, I think? It means so much more
to the city, to the teams.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
And it's all of us.

Speaker 21 (45:17):
You can see the excitement, the frustration.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Matt. This is the first time I.

Speaker 21 (45:23):
Will say since I've been in Houston that I'm struggling
right now, dude. And the reason I'm struggling is I've
been a player in these situations like my juices are going.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
I'm ready to get on.

Speaker 21 (45:32):
The part and go make it an impact. But you
will be there cheering our guys on. But again, man,
you can cut the tension with a knife. And it's
felt nationwide right now with the Rockets and Warriors about
the square off and in matt I don't know, it's
just crazy right now that the lawyers are favored.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
But you know what, I think.

Speaker 21 (45:51):
That's the way you'd like it if you're the Houston Rocket.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
You know what, I don't know why it is.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
I think a lot of it is because Golden State
has the playoff pedigree. Also, they're twenty one and seven.
Since Jimmy has joined that team and him and Curry
been together, I also think there's a lot of unknown
about the Houston Rockets team. So with that being put
in perspective, what did you take away from the win

(46:17):
the Rockets had in Golden State a week ago when
Curry went one for ten. What did you take away
from watching that play in game where Memphis was able
to come back from down twenty to make it a ballgame.
Are there any chinks in the armor right now for
Golden Steak It feels like to me, it's a lot
about Jimmy, It's a lot about Steph. Brandon Pajimski has

(46:40):
had its moments, but there's not a whole lot beyond
what those two, maybe two plus and a half bring
to the table right now. For Golden State, want to
get down to it.

Speaker 21 (46:50):
With all due respect to the greatness to Jimmy Butler
when he's brought to the table. From what we've seen,
and obviously Jimmy can pull a rabbit out of a
hat some playoff time. We've seen it with him time
with the Miami Heat. They're still very step Perry centric
and they have to have Steph to have a major
game essentially to win. So for Emay and the Rocket standpoint,

(47:15):
and you've seen this from Emay even more so fine
tuning down the stretch, he's gonna say, somebody else has
to beat you. And one big takeaway that I saw
and I know if from playing against the Warriors is
when they have non shooters on the floor, you can
zone up, but those non shooters become dangerous because they
play it throw.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
And god games.

Speaker 21 (47:36):
So even though Draymond's open, I'm sagging ten feet off
Draymond right But as soon as Draymond gets it, he
pitches to Curry and he runs off a DH show
or he kind of runs off his hip. So now
you go from guarding a non shooter. So I got
to be at the level it's not extended. So that's
the challenge. And Steph Curry, the problems he presents, they're

(47:59):
so unorthodoxed because.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
You break the rules of basketball.

Speaker 21 (48:02):
I got to pick the guy up at half part
when the ball's on the weak side, what do we
do mat we jump to the ball? Oh no, no, no, no,
you don't jump to the ball against Curry, so you're
pretty much playing one on four. I'm also looking to
see if he may throw some wrinkles in his zone,
if there's some extended coverage or a different type of
maybe a box and one. But as extreme as the

(48:25):
Warriors now, as step Purry centric as they are, I
think you're gonna see some unique defenses thrown at him.
And again, Houston did an unbelievable job, not just starting
with the Ben Thompson but as from a team perspective,
jumping out on those screens, hedging being high and you
got to overly communicate against Curry and the Warriors.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Ryan Hollins spa City home network with us here on
the radio program. How much do you want to see
the double bigs out there? For the rockets of all
the teams that you wouldn't put a lot into it,
it would be Golden State. Can you force the agenda
or do you have to kind of pick your spots
on that?

Speaker 3 (49:06):
No, I think you roll with it.

Speaker 21 (49:08):
And the challenge when you go double big, I think
you go zone and you match up and you draw
the attention to Curry. So I very much think it
will work. And what happens when it's effective mat is
it forces the opposing team to do what They gotta
go big. They got to throw size out there. They
have to play a way that they're not used to playing.

(49:30):
So if you end up with Draymond and Looney on
the floor, that's a lot of defense, a lot of
size that can help rebounding.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
But at the end of the day, it hurts you.

Speaker 21 (49:40):
And if you watch Memphis, Memphis went double big, they
played Edie a whole lot in that game. Edie ends
up with fourteen and seventeen. And I think that Houston's
biggs are you know, arguably the most effective double big
that you can find in the league. You see what
Dallas has over there obviously, you know it's it's more
about Jaron Jackson Junior playing the four when Edie's out there.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
But with Steven Adams.

Speaker 21 (50:05):
On the boards and Shingoon lighting up offensively, I think
you can do it in spurts.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
And that's what we've seen from.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Email Ross with you here as well, Ryan, and yeah,
that's what I wanted to kind of go to is
the Rockets. We talk about them defending the Warriors. What
about them offensively? What are the things that you're going
to be keeping an eye on that you really want
to see for them to be most effective against the
Golden State Warriors defense.

Speaker 21 (50:29):
Well, you got to be strong with the basketball, you know,
whenever you drive against the Warriors. They're great individual one
on one defenders because they don't have a lot of
help on the weak side. Also, defensively, they're the best
team in the NBA at being at the level and
the pick and roll.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
What I mean at the level.

Speaker 21 (50:45):
They don't sit back at a drop. They don't give
you space. Draymond Green and Looney if they're not switching,
they have the athleticism to get up and then retreat
with the shingoon or retreat with an adam. So for
our guards, they got to be super technical. They got
to attack downhill and then go out that fluff test
the foot speed at Draymond Green, get him in foul,
trouble test the foot speed Aloney make those guys have

(51:07):
to defend. But they've been there before in these big moments,
and again you're gonna have to force switches, you're gonna
have to force double teams, and you got to play
through their physicality because it's not just an outright foul.
It's just we're bumping you, we're shouldering you on everything
you're doing. And they're very, very technically sound.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
And one of the things we talked about a lot,
Ryan is the the the amount of Playoffs experience, and
obviously the Warriors have the edge there, how much does
that actually matter?

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Like where does it matter most?

Speaker 2 (51:38):
I should say, is it preparation, is it on the
floor or is it something that we kind of just
talk in the media and it gets overblown.

Speaker 21 (51:46):
No, it ain't overblown at all. When it's when the
game gets extremely tight, guess what happens. Like they know
what they're going to they know who their guy is,
they know the sex they're gonna run. It's a very
cerebral group. If per throws out an adjustment, they're ready
to adjust on the floor. And in those playoff games,
every fill is different. Sometimes the energy is really high.

(52:08):
Sometimes the referees are calling it tighter. And for a
young player, that can throw you off. You can emotionally
get caught in the shuffle of what's going on. Draymond's
used to pushing the line. Okay, he's going to be
pushing the line, and the challenge is, hey, do I
push that line back with him or do I tune
him out? You know what puts me in a situation
where I can, at the end of the day play best.

(52:29):
So you're gonna be looking for those things. It is
a factor. And for Houston, the beauty is that email
Udoka has depth.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
He had guys. He has Jeff.

Speaker 21 (52:39):
Greens, he has Dylan's, he has Van Bleez, he has
Landell's if you needed, he has Steven Adams.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Who have experienced in those moments. And you ain't have
to be patient, you know. So let's say let's just
throw it out right, Let's spitball.

Speaker 21 (52:52):
Let's say Jalen Green's not having a night you might need.

Speaker 20 (52:55):
It might be Ian.

Speaker 21 (52:56):
Holliday stepping in and saving the day with all due respects,
but you're gonna need Jalen Green to bounce right back
and show up and be prepared the next game. And
for emay, he hasn't been afraid to, you know, pull
that switch. It's nothing personal, but he's gonna go with
whatever he feels best out there, all.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Right, for let you run. Look, if you stop Curry,
you got a great shot. If the Rockets don't get
much from Jalen Green, the Warriors are a great job
of stopping him and Shanun the Rockets don't have a shot.
Can you give me one intangible factor that helps and
or hurts the Rockets?

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Not name the things I just said, like in the
back of your mind.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Give me a sneaky headline that I think you think
will be a huge part of this series. If the
Rockets are able to pull off what will be considered
an upset.

Speaker 21 (53:43):
I'm gonna give you two guys on each side. Let's
just spot like that, and I'll bet just answers your question. Sure,
what the heck is going on with the John and
Jonathan Tamina deal. He is corning the Rockets up in
the past. He actually didn't play when they played because
he was injured and they had a one and done game.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
And I don't know if this was because.

Speaker 21 (54:01):
Of the lineup, trust whatever it is. Cominia gets zero minutes.

Speaker 9 (54:05):
Bro.

Speaker 21 (54:06):
So Kaminga's a guy when the Rockets are going big
stuffould really help out Golden State or.

Speaker 22 (54:14):
Hurt him or is current not gonna rule with him?
And for the for Houston, I'm going big now. Another
guy that I want to point to for the Houston
Rockets is the unsung hero right now who kind of
makes things work. He's that He's the oil to the
will right right now. Jabart Smith Jr. In the flow

(54:35):
of the game, this guy has rebounded the ball out
of his mind. He makes Houston very big. He's a
small ball center. He's the three guard okay when you
go in the double big lineup.

Speaker 21 (54:47):
And Jabbari is really a guy that has just quietly
helped the Rockets roll along with their success. So for him,
I think less has been more. He's done a lot
of the little I know men, Thompson.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Is mister little things.

Speaker 21 (55:03):
Okay, we're running out of things to say for him,
but Jabbari having a good series in the role that
he's in. He's the sneaky guy that I don't think
you really prepare for. And as we've seen through his
young career, he loves these big moments. Man, He's mentally
in a great space where some people would have lost

(55:23):
their starting spot and get in their feelings and take
this guy's excelled.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
All right.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Lastly, tell Ross the ultimate I'll batch you pregame meal
for a Sunday night tilt with the Warriors. Go ahead,
let's go.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Listen.

Speaker 21 (55:38):
We we've been doing. We've been doing Benny Hanna. Benny
Hann is a go to bro. Now we will match
up with Denver. But listen, Ben, Matt, Me and Matt Thomas. Ross,
Me and Matt Thomas at the time of our lives
here in Denver, and it was just like me and Matt.
And what I'm finding out is like Matt's really possessive
over me, so he doesn't like to share.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
Yeah, when.

Speaker 21 (56:03):
Like he's really possessive, Like you know, yeah, he's like that.
I did put a Botchi with Gerald, our great social photographer,
and I mean, like, you know, Matt.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Matt couldn't even look me in the eyes.

Speaker 21 (56:15):
The next day.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
He was just a it was a it was a thing. Okay.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
So yeah, he's got he's got child syndrome. That's not
fair at all.

Speaker 21 (56:24):
Absolutely, absolutely he is Mattie Simmons says, it's play he does.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
He's not a share. Okay, he's had a share, you know,
he had a share.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
All right, Hey, I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
You get your game face on you. What suit you're
gonna wear on Sunday night?

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Oh my god, I don't know, dude.

Speaker 21 (56:41):
I'm so man.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
I'm still excited. I don't know what to do with myself.

Speaker 21 (56:45):
My hands, my hands just keep floating in the air,
and I'm just I don't know if I'm playing in
the game or calling the game.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I'm just excited, right all right, Well, hey, get you
some rest. Thank you, friend, We'll see you on Sunda night.
Thanks for the time today. We really appreciate it, all guys.
All right, as our breddy Ryan Hollins, you know he
was in a mad sprint doing that interview right there.
His cardio is so good he can do a radio
interview while doing like a mad dash around town. Oh really? Yeah? Okay, me,

(57:11):
I gotta be like in a chair sitting down with
a cole beverage in my head. Yes, he generally is excited.
It's great to have Ryan with us, and we appreciate him.
Stop and buy for the show. We're gonna get a
perspective on Golden State coming up at one o'clock that
I look forward to that ross. Speaking of food, are
you ready for our Master's menu Fantasy five? No? Okay,

(57:34):
Well I'm going to give you giving you two hours
and fifteen minutes to be ready for it. Okay, actually
two hours and five minutes. We'll do it at one
twenty now. For those that don't know, we mostly do
non Florida stories on Fridays, but today we're gonna do
a Fantasy five. And the Fantasy five is we're going
to create our Masters winning menu.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
When you win the Masters, you get to choose the
menu the following year. Okay, and what are we doing again?
We're doing two appetizers?

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Two are we going in order?

Speaker 4 (58:01):
You know?

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Whatever you want?

Speaker 6 (58:02):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Okay, But once you choose an app it's off the board.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Okay. And Jonathan, since you are the new beat of
the crew. We're gonna let you have the very first vote.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
Okay, that's good. So we're gonna choose two apps.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Let me write this down. Two appetizers, go ahead, and
you can choose a salad if you want to. I
don't think I would go to the salid card for
an app. And that's that's each of owne. I know
we're in Texas. I'm all right. Salad's one main course okay,
a main side okay, and a dessert. Two appetizers Okay,

(58:41):
you can choose them any which way you want to
choose them.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
There, all right, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Is are coming up at the bottom of the hour
seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
If you didn't remember me doing the.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Starting lineup for the Rockets in twenty eighteen for Game
seven the Western Finals, it's worthy of playing. Just get
it right in the mood for Game one of Golden State.
Houston will have that.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Next on of the hour.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Here's where you apologize for what we've said over the
course of the week. Seven one three two one two
five seven And they just ross to get some people
in the move.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Those that don't know the show.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
I was a former p announcer two different times, once
in the nineties when the Rockets won the championships, then
most recently in the mid two thousands, twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen,
that Range and Uh had the great call of being
honor of being the PA announcer for Game seven of
Golden State versus Houston. Now, where were you you were
in the media section? I'm assuming sitting?

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Yes, I was in the press box. I was doing
pre and postgame.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
I think we were did pregame in the concourse, and
then I was in the press box for the game
and then postgame. How depressing was that postgame show? Missing
the first twenty seven shots? Extremely? I mean, you just
couldn't believe what you were seeing. I mean, I know
this has happened to you met, but as far as
me and in my career of being in the building

(59:56):
of where things are happening to where where you're you're
in complete disbelief into what you're seeing, whether good or bad. Yeah,
that's the most incredible. I'd never seen anything like that.
I never have since watching the Spurs come in here
and beat the Rockets. Was it eighteen? I was there

(01:00:17):
for that seventeen seven seventeen when when James Harden went
one for eleven and blocked his shot, I was like, jeezus,
I did the press game for that one too, Is
this all my fault? Yeah? That was pretty bad too.
But also they were down by forty in the I mean,
they got destroyed in that game, and that was definitely
a gut punch and the wind came out of the building.

(01:00:39):
This was different. This was just this was a slow
death and quicksand where they were clawing their way out
and every time they did, they just sunk deeper and
deeper and deeper and suffocated and lost. It was unbelievable.
There wasn't a run of two or three threes in
a row. There wasn't a run of seven or eight

(01:01:01):
consecutive miss made shots. There wasn't a streak where Golden
State went on a five or six minute slump. This
was the Rockets literally could not find the three pointer
to save their life. Twenty seven miss threes in a round.
I was in disbelief, all right. So here here's how
I announced it to the national audiences. And this part
of the video, which is just the Golden State side

(01:01:22):
of it. Me announcing even to this day to my
seventeen year old daughter, who doesn't think I'm very cool
under any circumstance, still still gets lots of run on
the TikTok streets. Are you playing it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
I don't hear it. All right, we're gonna try this again.
So the audio I sent this to Jonathan, He's going
to play this right off, right off the Twitter feed.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
This is from TikTok. My daughter said this to me
this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
So let's try that out. My em myself on the
to be there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Just give me like two seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Oh okay, he says, give a couple of seconds. Okay,
all right. Ummm So if I need a bell that
laugh in my life, I'll come back and listen to that,
and then I'll go look at the comments.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
Okay, where they hate the Warriors fans hate you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Warriors fans apps, and I'm going on I'm going on
a San Francisco radio station today. As a matter of fact, Now,
I don't know if they'll put two and two together
because it's been it's been a while, okay, and they've
housed in one championship since then. We're sitting here still, Okay,
they shut you by mask and they're like, man, we
got Riggs by shut up, shut up, we got Rigs.

(01:02:36):
So yeah, it's the comments are that's the best he
I've ever heard of in my life. Or this guy
should be ashamed that I'm silver, should never let this happen.
Somebody on Twitter this morning even said to the NBA
and Minus, You're like, no, let's help Warriors.

Speaker 23 (01:02:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Play Tom soon.

Speaker 23 (01:03:11):
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Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
From State cart We got our TikTok noise. Don't know,
I couldn't. Yeah, I mean that was the That was
the best part of the night for me. Everything else
went downhill right after that. Whoops. Yeah, we don't have
to talk about what happened after that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:37):
You know what the you know what the absolute worst
part was.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
What was the absolute worst part matter is that Craig
and I had been talking about how fun it is
for Steve Sparks go in the locker room after each
playoff series. He's like, what should we do something like that?
I said, oh, hell yeah, I said, if we win,
I'll take it. We'll get a microphone and I'll go
in the locker room. Because he was doing radio at

(01:04:00):
the time, and he was he could stay up there
where he was and I could go into the locker
room and do all those interviews. And we were setting
it up. We had the wireless mike, we were testing. Really,
we were ready for this. There's gonna be a lot
of dump buttons, a lot of dump buttons.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
Yeah, I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Does a does an NBA locker room celebrate like a
a playoff locker room does in baseball? I think so
they do more about the champagne. They roll the CHAMPAGNEUT
feel like they do more of it on the court
that they did and baseball does on then you know,
we do unfortunately too much of and it's our fault.
We do too much of the let's plan things out

(01:04:42):
like I was playing a big old party to celebrate
the Cougars winning national championship. Were like your house or well,
like we were gonna go We're gonna go out after
the game. And then we turned around and waited forever
to leave the altual dome and then walk nine miles
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(01:05:05):
we were the bride left for the altar. We weren't
in the bridesmaid. We were the damn bride. We were ross.
We had a space open on our hand to put
the merit the ring on the finger, and the guy
came by in the in the and the preacher said, here, man,
the rings please. The guy said, all right, here it is.

(01:05:25):
Let's give it to Florida instead, and the Cougars choked again.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
You can't, you can't. You can't blame you can't blame
faisa'ma a jam on this group. You just can't. Sorry, Matt,
I hope that you that Texas is not uh become
a bridesmaid again yet for college football this year, that
the wine when the whole damn thing. At least they

(01:05:54):
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calling yourself a basketball school and you got no championships.
I don't know what you speak, it'd be tough. Whatever.
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I want to say sorry in advance to Draymond Green
because I will probably be not very pleasant about his
performance in the court over the next week and a half.
As I call the Rockets Warriors series. There's just a
huge part of me, I know exactly, I know, I know,
I've just I was so disgusted by the way he

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was just trying to bully alprin Chengoon and they're frees
to sat there get his ass out of the game,
and he stops doing it. He just does quick trigger, goodbye,
so long, farewell, we'll see what happens. Just so he
didn't kick Steven Adams and the nuts again, or I'm
honestly worried about him raking someone in the face. He's
done it to Yokich Harden and Lebron James twice. What

(01:11:28):
if Steven Adams walked over there and I don't know
a new Do you do new his England accent New Zealand? No,
not really, mate, No, that's not I can't do New Zealand.
That's what we call you, the kid the chameleon. Matt cheers, mate,
that's this is Steven Adams. No, I can't kire. Steven

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Adams walks over him, says if you touch one of
my players, I'll grab your testicles and squeeze them a kiwi.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
To one of my playoffs. I'm gonna rip your nutsack off.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
That was that?

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
That's not something more like gringo star, Okay, I.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Just want to live in the Octopulus's gun and then
write horrible songs and play bad drums. One of the greatest,
good whole players of old time.

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
He didn't play guitar. I mean, well, he would be
He's a great, he'd be a great. He's one of
the greatest.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Drummers ponytail, even though in bold Okay, seriously, can Steven
Adams go over there? And say, touch one of my
guys and I'll grab you and make sure you cannot
move again. I don't know, because they wouldn't play him
if you had a fight club Golden State versus Rocket players.
Who's Steven Adams going against Cavan Loonie is a sweet kid.

(01:12:44):
They're no way he's gonna want a monna with him. Yeah,
you said Rockets are winning a fight club against any
team in the NBA.

Speaker 7 (01:12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Yeah, Steven Adams, Dylan Brooks and then Thompson, Ben Thompson
a little rangy. Yeah, I like a Tommy Hearns if
you will. Yeah, it's like give me, bring bring me
Moses Moody. I'm like, I'll knock you out. Meanwhile, Fred
van Zelie is like, I'll take Gary Payton at one swoop.
I've been hit me done with his life. Yeah, Fred
Vavlida scrap. We scraped a bunch. They are number of

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technical fouls total in the series over under. Now promise
you don't we know it's gonna go at least. First
of all, Ema is getting two or three. Yeah, Steve
curR is probably getting some. Now I can't get it
because I'll be too far away from the action.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
Okay, nobody was thinking about you, Matt Well.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
I mean they can players, I mean officials, broadcasters of
getting in trouble before. Okay, I won't be doing the
choke sign from two hundred feet away. Okay, I'll be
crossing my mind now. Huh uh. Yeah, number of technicals
in the first four games in the series, we are
guaranteed at least a four game series. Let's go with.

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
Eight.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
I'll go under between the two eight tim and four
games between the two. It's gonna be tough. That's a
tough number. Yeah, we'll go under because the Rockets are
gonna sweep theug Olden State Warrior. I like it. How's
that serious price come along? You put that serious price
out right away? I think last night saw it went

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up for the Warriors. Jez too ten. That's fine. So
again for those who know, when you get a serious
price like that, you have to bet two hundred and
ten dollars to win one hundred. Yeah, so basically you're
given over two to one, and conversing most times, if
you give one hundred, you're gonna win two ten if
you happen to take Yeah, I loft for the juice
or the vigoroush as They say, how to spell vigoroush

(01:14:38):
V I g O r I s h I hear no,
I know ding. You must have got it right. Good
for you the big as the kids call it all right.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven And if you
want to apologize for anything, last chance seven one three
two one two five seven ninety We had the news
at noon. Coming up, we have Tim Royd, Voice of

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the Warriors, join us at one o'clock. One is our
fantasy five Master's meal. Two appetize exercisers, A main course yes,
a side dish one side, one side.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
Okay, and a dessert okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
You really can't go wrong with this unless something on
one of our lists.

Speaker 8 (01:15:20):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Man, that is down to people's preferences, but you have
to choose the menu. I mean, I think when you
take the McRib for the main course, it's gonna be
a mistake. But I mean I could do a McRib,
wouldn't that be funny? The McRib meal for Did you
see the photo that was sent out from people saying
that the water Burger did a McRib?

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
It we call it the photo. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
A long pork, delicious patty seared beautifully. They're not bearing
anything with beautiful barbecue sauce and three onion rings across
the top.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
Oh you caught me a water rib m.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Disgusting? Yeah, I did. Look at a new video of
the latest in Holley mcgribb is produced, and it's it's
what you say it is. By the way, it also
gristle porch. It also just harassed chicken nuggets too. So
if you're a nugget, if you've seen that pink slurry
they make chicken nuggets out of, it's disgusted. It's basically

(01:16:17):
the veins. Oh come on man, Yeah, it's entrails. That's
what we're eating. I mean, that's what ground beef is too.
We just we'd still enjoy it. Vegan probably the safest
thing it probably is. But how about going I just
go vegan, but just eat steak? Is that okay?

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
You'd be a what a vegan steak misteak?

Speaker 24 (01:16:39):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
What do you get yourself?

Speaker 20 (01:16:40):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
What exception? I see how it goes?

Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Real quick before the top of the hour. Uh, we've
got Rustlemania coming up this week. Oh my god, I
was hoping we would get to this. So all these
in ESPN is a promotional partner. Where is it Cleant's
going It's in Las Vegas, okay, And ESPN is a
promotional partner, and they're interviewing these wrestlers like you get

(01:17:05):
a big match coming up? How do you see things
at the it's all been decided. Yeah, So I was
thinking to myself, why in the world would would ESPN
waste their time interviewing these sports entertainers when the result
is already designed. Are they in character in these interviews? No,
they're They're just regular but oh they call themselves who

(01:17:27):
they are. But they speak very plain spokenly. They don't
grow out. There's yelling and screaming on there. They're they're
cutting promos and they're not cutting. Yeah, it's so I
thought about it the other day. It's just like having
an actor on a movie.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
Come on the Today.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Show, lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
All right, twelve o six on Sports Talk seven out.
We've got the voice of the Golden State Warriors joining
us in about fifty five minutes from now, right now,
right now, we present to you the News at noon.
And with that the day Board of Houston Sports Journalisms,
the one and only sports Ross vilil you, Matt, what

(01:18:13):
a high honor to Calbie the Dave Ward of a
Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's go and start with your
Houston Rockets getting started up this weekend against the Golden
State Warriors. Ryan Hollins, who had a great job getting
this ready for it over earlier on the show. You
do have other NBA action tonight, the Heat taking on

(01:18:33):
the Hawks, you have the Mavericks taking on the Grizzlies.
Then there will be four games of playoff action tomorrow,
four more on Sunday, including our Houston Rockets still holding
as one and a half point favorites in game number
one against the Golden State Warriors. So if their Golden
State is favored in the series two to one, then

(01:18:55):
they must be not favored in the rest of.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
The games of the series.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Right, No, it'll be one and a half, it'll be smaller,
and so when they go to Golden State and they'll
have a bigger advantage, it'll in theory, normally basketball gives
you about five six points for home point advantage, home
court advantage. Yeah, so they're saying the Warriors are the
better team, so they're just giving the Rockets only one
and a half points. Okay, I got you, So there

(01:19:19):
you go. I understand it. It's it's been kind of
funny throughout the years. So what they're saying is the
Warriors have a better chance on the road did the
Rockets do so overall, they think they're gonna steal home
core advantage and win the series, is what Vegas is saying.
But Vegas isn't always right, man.

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
Hopefully they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Well, hopefully they're right on Sunday because they have the
Rockets as a favorite, but hopefully the Rockets can crush
the Golden State Warriors. You also have the Houston Astros
in action this weekend, as it will be Ryan and
Gusto against Kyle Hart with the San Diego Padres today.
Then it'll be Michael King versus Hayden Wesnsky on Saturday

(01:19:58):
and Dylan Cees taking on Frober v. It'll also be
an ESPN Sunday Night Baseball tilt. So if you're wondering
six o'clock Astros eight thirty Rockets on Sunday, get your
pot of coffee on that should you should probably in
theory be able to catch both rather easily, and if
you're going to either one of them, just be prepared

(01:20:19):
for traffic of some sort around that. Seven thirty five, Well, no,
i'mbout a double dipper.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
You could.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
You couldn't do it in theory together. Our games an't
gonna start to play forty five, eight to fifty. This
is what it is. Yeah, I don't know why the
NBA lies about their start times worse than any other league.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
They pushed back more anybody else too.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
NFL says the games at noon, games at nu yeah,
let's it go. Yeah really zero zero, games at seven
to me, seven to ten. If the game starts at
seven thirty, well six seven, it's forty two. I'm talking
about like if the astro say seven to ten. Generally
first pitches by like seven eleven or seven twelve, very latest. Yeah,
they very they keep that down to and I think
the NBA should adhere to that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
Certain games.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
We feel like it all right. Elsewhere in the news, Matt,
are you a big fan of jazz Chisholm Junior, the
speedy second basement for the New York Yankees apparently is
quite volatile these days. Well, he was ejected in the
New York Yankees six to three victory over the Tampa
Bay Rays on Thursday night, and then he appeared to
violate Major League Baseball's social media policy. He posted in

(01:21:26):
game criticism online. He posts on his x account quote
not even close. He later deleted the post. MB regulations
do ban the use of electronic devices during games.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
Even though he was ejected.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
It prohibits quote the Despoyinger transmitting content that questions the
impartiality of our otherwise or otherwise denigrates a Major League umpire.
Probably a fine, probably not a suspension coming for Jazzism, Junior.
And my guess is the money the jazz has made
in the last couple of years, he'll be just fine. Yeah,
he'll probably be fine. All right, let's keep it moving
on the news at noon, man. Of course, as you remember,

(01:22:04):
earlier this week we discussed Dion sand or excuse me,
the Colorado Buffaloes and the retirement jersey retirement of both
Travis Hunter and the Sherdor Sanders. Yes, Deon Sanders was
speaking to the media, and well, of course he had
something to say about all the criticism. Can we start

(01:22:27):
off with me just shaking everyone's hand that played here before.
Just give them a hug, he said, after practice, they've
got to come back for that, right, Let's start with that.
That's what I want to do. I think he's talking
about criticism for some past players. He said, Travis Hunter
and Shudur Sanders are both great buffs and exceptional talents
who have been tremendous representatives. Are programmer actively his athletic director,
Rick George at our university and led our team back

(01:22:49):
to national prominence. Anyways, Deon Sanders defending his son's inclusion.
If his last name wasn't Sanders, we wouldn't have this discussion.
He's thinking that people are criticizing Chador because he's his son.
I don't think it's necessarily the act of no, you

(01:23:10):
know what. I think there's variety different ways to criticize it.
One is he that good to be getting his jersey retired?

Speaker 5 (01:23:16):
Two?

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
Should any college kid just freshly out of college be
getting his jersey retired? And three are you doing this
to keep Dionne happy? I think those are all factors
I think. Now, does it mean any of them are valid? No?
Does it mean that any of them can't be discussed?
I think absolutely can be. Can you tell me the
three fans I just brought up does not cross your

(01:23:38):
mind when it comes to this at all? Yeah, I think.
I mean, chadur had good numbers, but they were I
believe it was thirteen and eleven or thirteen and twelve
in games he started something like that getting his jersey retired.
Good for him, wishing him the best. Okay over the
Texas Longhorns and Kevin Durant think it was a great decision.

(01:24:00):
Wade Tail of the fourth at A and M has zero
problem with that. Oh my god. The dude was like
on the floor getting his jersey retired, that they had
to stop the game with three minutes off to go
in the game to jersey to retire his jersey when
he's tearing it up for Pantheacos and Greece, I'm sure
he's really.

Speaker 6 (01:24:15):
That's correat me going wrong. Did Johnny manzielg Giz Does
he retire?

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
I don't know if they do that. I mean it's
different for different programs because especially in college, they don't
really retire numbers because you got like ninety guys on scholarship.
You don't only have so many numbers but if you
were to Jonathan's point, if you were going to really
retire a jersey of a current athlete who basically puts
you back on the map after years of dormancy, it's
Johnny Manziel. Yeah, Google says it is not retired.

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
Okay, and that's your news at.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Noon, Matt. Oh, by the way, Emmanuel Sharp is going
to come back to the University of Houston. Oh, thank goodness.
And I can't gonna shoot this time this year.

Speaker 7 (01:24:56):
That was a low blow. Well that was tough.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Are you just asking a question on everyone's mind? Well again,
you of h because it's stupid. I mean, I love
my school, but we do stupid things. Their release, Man,
it was back, I mean it was back. That's great.
Guess what that means. He reapped on a one year deal.
I mean he got it paid. I mean, let's not
hide this, m h. I don't trust our NIL people

(01:25:22):
at all. Really. Oh, that guy's slimy. The recruiting classes
that are looking pretty good, Yeah, but I mean it's
because it's because of Calvin. It's Calvin's finally cash, not
these Gibbronis. By the way, a little little loone secret.
These n IL dealers that are in the best interest
of schools. They're taking commissions off these bad boys. Do
not hide, do not So this all doing this for

(01:25:44):
the greenness of our school. Yeah, we're finding out how
much you're making on the side. You'll be a shady yourself.
So we're hoping for a sizeable donation from the Thomas
household the university. You'll get double what I gave you
last year. By the way, Baltimore's uniforms, you see these
aren't they're wearing Jesus's burn the the irises in my eyes, Okay,

(01:26:07):
they weren't. The whites. You can't see it now, so
I'll take your word for it. All right.

Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
That was the news at noon.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
Thank you? Uh no, thank you, you did it. I
didn't do anything except just comment seven one, three, seven
eight And by way quick predictions. I do believe that
Cody Rhodes will keep the belt against John Stena, Okay.
I do believe that uh, Tiffy Stratton's going to beat

(01:26:33):
Charlotte Flair and maintain the WW when wres is this,
I think? Okay? And what other things you want to
know about? Oh, I believe that John Hayman's going to
turn on CM Punk, the MLB dot com writer. He's
in WrestleMania's CM Punk. Oh you said John Hayman, Yeah,

(01:26:53):
John Hayman, the writer. No, the wrestling manager. Oh cool,
he's gonna have to he he don't want to. He
doesn't want to make the tribal chief mad. You Okay,
we're there, seriously, what's wrong with you? Seven one three

(01:27:17):
two one two five seven eighty pardon my partner's rudeness?
Seven one three two one two five seven eighties. Anything
goes Friday. And if you'd like to get in, we
need it. We're gonna need judges, by the way, for
the fantasy five. And if it's very simple, two uh appetizers,
a main course, a side dish, and a dessert, and

(01:27:38):
you get draft in any order, any order you want to. Okay,
the once an item is taken, you can't take that item.
You can't add to your Look, there's so many food
a its like, it's just doing that. Plus our palates
are so different. So and I fully anticipate losing. I
just see what happens. I don't think I don't think
you're gonna have a bad item on the menu. I
don't think it matters. It's gonna come down to random

(01:27:58):
preferences for the callers. So then you will not decide
your vote until you hear our entire list. You'll sit
back and listen, listen like the audience does. So I'm
just saying, if you want to get some brining points
of me, you know, order to.

Speaker 6 (01:28:11):
Vote, I'm gonna be writing down every time else you
should You.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
Shouldn't right that composing cons Remember yes, that's right, because
I mean there may be something on my vote for
Matt because he's look, he's like, we talked about this
only child syndrome, and he gets very mad when you
when you like, vote against him. He tells people that
vote against him to go to hell. I've never done
that once in my life. Oh my god. I never
never want Jonathan. I've always said thank you very much
for your contributions. Yeah, he's exactly tells them to go

(01:28:36):
to hell when they gets very upset. Never just vote
for Matt. Never done that before.

Speaker 6 (01:28:42):
It not like chicken tenders and fries and catch up
then I can eat.

Speaker 7 (01:28:47):
Stop.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
I'm looking at this menu right now and I'm like, damn,
this is going to be a delicious menu at the
Mask I haven't the only thing I got to figure
out is my side dish. Okay, not my side piece,
my side dish, all right, thanks seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety. The iHeartRadio network has amazing podcast.
Don't listen to that one. Just don't. I speak on

(01:29:10):
behalf of every Houston iHeart Radio employee. Do not go
click that. Do not listen to that. It would be
a waste of your time. By the way, I was wrong,
as normal as the case may be, I was. I
was in. It was not John Hayman, that's the wrestling manager.
It's Paul Haman. I had call her. Literally, I was
gonna tell you, but just.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
Tell me right, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
I mean people make mistakes. Sorry, sorry. Out there in
Twitter verse, y'all are perfect with everything. I'm gonna hunt
you down like a rabbit dogs and check your life.
See how your life's going. With your names you are,
you were in a different stratus here today. I'm ready.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
I know you know what it's golden stake.

Speaker 2 (01:29:51):
You've been incubating with all these days off days, off
working fighting is one oh two. You know what it is.
You know what my life is like?

Speaker 4 (01:29:59):
Ross, what's your I'm fever free. That's great. Maybe maybe
the five days of one hundred and two in a
row got to my head.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
It seemed to have boiled your brain. It's what we're
seeing here. So don't make any mistakes out there, Twitter,
I'm gonna find you right, getting back, getting.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
Back, get back at you. You know how this job is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
As soon as we can say a hundred things right,
we get one thing wrong, and this time for its
time for everybody jump on you.

Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
So goes not nice, You'll be nice.

Speaker 27 (01:30:28):
I'm a nice person to who to most people, Not
to everybody though, not to John Hayman or Paul Paulie.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
So Paul Hayman is the manager. Yeah, he has a
nickname that Roman Rains gave nice. Can't think of what
it is. I'm not watching a lot of current wrestle either,
but uh yeah, Roman Rains and uh so is the
rock going to be there? We don't know. That's a
good question. Stone Cold Steve Austin gonna be don.

Speaker 6 (01:30:57):
It could be a good I'm looking at the Eradicator,
no id is that the eradicator?

Speaker 7 (01:31:02):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
Is that a wrestler?

Speaker 6 (01:31:04):
Yeah, she's like just as tall as Pat McCaffrey, like,
he's a huge Pat McCaffrey. Who's Pat McAfee, Pat McAfee.
Oh yeah, uh no sponsors, no sponsors.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
What was I gonna say? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
You're talking about Paul Haven.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
Oh yeah, Paul's Yeah, he's, he's he's he's been an
advocate for a long time, e manager and he's been
with the tribal chief for a while and now it's him.
It's there's a there's a triple threat match, no matter,
three people in there and whoever pins who one person
leaves one? No, they win the match. You just pin
one person. What is the other guy doing just standing there? Well,

(01:31:41):
if A B and C, If A B and C
and A pins B, you're gonna wait for somebody to
get crushed in the head with a chair, and then
the other guy's gonna pin one guy. Seth rollins, You've
got Roman reigns, and then you've got CM punk. Oh wow,
this is incredible. You're walking a commerce Sorry night, No,

(01:32:02):
I'm busy. I'm working the wrong I'm working the astros. Okay,
well you want me to text you updates?

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
I thought it was barred from your house for life. Well,
it comes out of town. Okay, so you do get
a free pass normally not with you not invited. That's
exactly right. You told me to mention how far out
it was. You set me up. I don't believe that
to be accurate. Matt's wife got all mad at me
because I kept joking about how they're in South Nacadosius

(01:32:30):
up there and the deep depths of Kingwood, I mean,
God my goodness. And I was like, hey, they just
make fun of make fun of how far out we are.
I was like, okay, I'll be I think. I guess
everybody's gonna have a good time. And then he got
he's got his wife mad at me. Next thing you
new is gonna make me blame blame me for saying,
why don't you go tell Teresa how much your cheese
sticks suck with South Acadosis. I would be that too.

Speaker 6 (01:32:54):
Oh you live in king Wood too, No, but I've
been in Acadosis.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
I know it's a joke. It's a joke for how
far it is. He lives way back there in Kingwood.
He looks he lives in the far reaches of Kingwood.

Speaker 6 (01:33:08):
Where other than that Manson's that I've been over there.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
Yeah, I wish I speak. Let me tell you. If
it was a mansion, I would be I would not
feel sorry for myself.

Speaker 4 (01:33:16):
But it's not a mansion. It's comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
This has a new sod put in the front of
the house, a new what now so grasp.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
Cool? So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:33:29):
It's anything goes Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Speaking of that, did you see the Athletic who I
I do believe is uh it's my favorite sports journalism.

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
I mean s I is long gone.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
Oh s I is terrible, it's not Uh yeah, uh
has a new ranking of any every NFL roster. Would
you like to know where the Texans fit in that
thirty two man twelf you'll find out next Oh I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
Sorry I thought this I ruined your teas or a
kind of dude.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
So the Athletic is getting ready for the NFL Draft
and they're doing projection models ranking all thirty two rosters
ahead of.

Speaker 4 (01:34:05):
The draft, obviously, and.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
They call this is very metric of the them and ROSSI.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
You'll love this expected margin of.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Victory indicating how many points a team is expected to
win or lose by against an average NFL roster for
every NFL team as of April fifteenth of this month wonderful.
So the higher the positive number you are, the better
you are, and the lower you are the chances of
you being the lowest. So just putting in perspective and

(01:34:41):
whether the numbers are what they are is irrelevant. But
the number one team in the NFL is a plus
six point seven under this expected margin of victory. Okay.
The thirty second ranked team is minus five point two.
So there's your range of best to worst in terms
of roster construction. Okay, I would like for you to

(01:35:02):
guess where you think a variety of teams are. Why
don't we say you can how you can do? Then
on the top five of roster construction, going in and
see if you can name the five teams in that group.

Speaker 4 (01:35:14):
I will go with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
They are the point six six point seven your number,
their number one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Then I will go with the Buffalo Bills, number five
at plus three point eight, number five. Interesting Ravens. Ravens
are number two at plus six point zero, Lions number
three at plus five point five. I guess we'll throw
the Chiefs, but I plus three point Okay, So you
got off nicely done. If I don't, I don't have it. No, no,

(01:35:40):
but those are all those most were the best teams
in the NFL. So let's get to know the five worst.
Let's se how the five worst go for you. Titans
a dead last minus five point two. So if roster
construction when it comes to this what they call expected
margin of victory, if the Eagles are a plus six

(01:36:02):
point seven, the Titans, according to this article by the
Athletic is a minus five two.

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
Titans suck Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
Giants are not in the top bottom Yeah, Patriots bottom five.
They're at number five at minus two point seven. Jets
minus four point three. They're considered the second worst. Nope, really,
let's go with the the Bears are actually I'll go

(01:36:33):
to the Panthers. Nope, okay, couple more I don't know,
Saints Saints minus three point three, okay, and the third
to worst would be the.

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Just say so yeahs all right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
So you have three teams in the super blue category,
which is awesome. Yes, you have the two of the
darker blue. Okay, you got two in the little lighter blue,
and you have three in the lighter blatt would be
all the teams that are plus zero point zero or more.
That's three, five, seven, nine, eleven. Twelve of the thirty

(01:37:08):
two teams are in this plus category, which is kind
of surprising as only twelve of this metric twenty that
or not. Where would you like to put the Houston Texas?
What do you think the Houston Texans great on in
this twelfth No, they are actually considered nineteenth nineteenth at

(01:37:29):
a minus point eight. That sound good? Yeah, So if
we're putting in there is this we calling this a
power ranking? Correct very non draft related are empowering. Why
are the Texas nineteenth? According to the Athletic it goes
by this the lowest playoff team on this year's list.

(01:37:51):
There is some work to do in Houston. After fielding
maybe the worst offensive line in the league in twenty
twenty four, the Texans ship star left tackle Jeremy Tons
at Washington, so you can probably guess where they need
the most help. Outside of the offensive line, they could
stand to boost the interior, defensive line and linebacking group,
which each rank in the bottom third of the league.

(01:38:13):
Who does the Athletic I think have a better roster
than the Texans right now? The Atlanta Falcons at eighteen.
Oh wow, the Miami Dolphins hit seventeen, Oh dear, the
Pittsburgh Steelers at sixteen, the Dallas Cowboys at fifteen, and
the team the Texans beating the playoffs last year, the
Chargers at fourteen. The Bengals who didn't make the playoffs

(01:38:39):
last year number twelve. Never Broncos who whimpered out of
the playoffs number eleven. Now, again, it's just one metric,
it's just one website trying to draw up a little
bit of news headlines for what they're you know. But
in the constant thirst for NFL coverage, people are saying,

(01:39:02):
let's take a look at the thirty two rosters as
currently put together, not counting next week's draft with the
Rock where the Texans even than Caserro.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
So there's no needs anywhere. The team's already stacked. I
didn't say there's no stats.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
Oh my gosh, because he may even give up even
drafting this year because they don't need anybody, no mat Yeah,
because they just saves cap space. Yeah, there's needs everywhere. Now,
I wouldn't expect them to go with the secondary as
far as the first round, and and you always get
a little there's a little bit of a lie. They say, oh,
we don't draft or need to draft for the best player.
That's true to a point, right, as he said, they're

(01:39:34):
taking quarterback off the board, so they're not drafting best
player available.

Speaker 7 (01:39:40):
No matter what.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
If they have a quarterback rated as the best player available,
they're not gonna draft that person. I would say, for
the most part, probably the same thing if it's a
cornerback as well. So after that, basically though, there's there's
needs everywhere. Offensive line, defensive line. You can never have
too many pass rushers, tight end, every linebacker. As you

(01:40:01):
mentioned the linebacking corps. Some people are not so sure
how good it is. So there are needs. There are
a lot of needs. But to put it at nineteen, again,
that's just one person sizing things up middle of the pack.
I could see that. I mean, I had them it's twelfth. Now,
of course nineteenth is seven places different. But I had

(01:40:22):
them slightly above average and they have them slightly below average.
At the end of the day, and it's still gonna
it's still put together as this rot me.

Speaker 4 (01:40:30):
As long as cj.

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Astrida stays upright, he's the best quarterback in the division
by far.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
He regressed a bit last year.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
But he think he's gonna be better. But the team
defense is locked up financially for sure, at least in
the secondary for a couple of years. And you would
assume that Cassario will start to draft heavy on the
offensive line to at least, if not create starters, create competition,
create some sort of depth in that area as compared

(01:40:58):
to just having to rebuild the bad boy every other year.
And the AFC South's winnable and there's no power play there,
I would say probably going into twenty twenty five, expectations
can't be any higher than really, frankly, what they were
last year when a lot of folks thought they could

(01:41:19):
go to the AFC Championship game. That's where you are
right now. I haven't seen win totals yet. I don't
know if they've even come out, but that's where you
are right now. I still think they're the best team
in the AFC South. You win a division, you're in
the playoffs, You're good. YEP. I think the teams that
I'm most intrigued about going into the season next year.
Does can Buffalo finally get over the hump? Does Kansas

(01:41:43):
City finally sea there for thirty years? Now does Kansas
City finally start sewing signs of regression?

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
They did?

Speaker 4 (01:41:49):
I mean they got to the super Bowl, but they.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
Got Cinnati Hills, got a power packed offense, but they
have spent no money on defense and have no end
issues in doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
And did you spend too much on one side of
the ball and not enough on the other?

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Yeah? Can the Ravens, speaking of teams that need to
get over the hump, the Lamar Jackson led Ravens right
have not? Yeah? Are the Chargers gonna be better in
season two of Jim Harball? And now that you've got
Justin Herbert with consistency in terms of his coaching staff,
do they all of a sudden become a better football team?
Is there somebody were forgetting about this year? There could
be this upstart surprise team.

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
I don't know, but like last year, to me, there
was just I thought there was over a level of
excitement about what this team could do. Be cause I
thought can Kansas City and Baltimore were so much ahead
of everybody else in Buffalo for that matter, I'm ready
to knock down Kansas City down a peg. The question
is does somebody jump in with them, or does Buffalo

(01:42:47):
and or Baltimore go You know what, We've finally gotten
Kansas City?

Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
They look human, They looked aged? Are they? Do you
think Kansas City and the Golden State Warriors.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Share any sort of common storyline thread, meaning that this
is this finally the start of the decline of the
Golden State franchise. No, what's Pat Mahomes like twenty nine thirty? Yeah,
but they, man, they just look so out of sorts
in the Super Bowl. They made the Super Bowl though,
yeah they did, but it was it was painful to

(01:43:17):
be a king for Chiefs Nation. I mean even even
Town didn't want to stay for the whole time. Did
she leave?

Speaker 4 (01:43:22):
No, but she wanted to leave.

Speaker 2 (01:43:24):
Travis Kelcey probably wanted to leave too, Sure, Yeah, Travis
Kelsey's like, man, can we go?

Speaker 20 (01:43:27):
This?

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
S weren't good enough? I mean the Eagles are just
too good, especially defensively in offense. Yeah. Yeah, So I
just want to give you a little perspective of what
the athletics said about the Texans having the nineteenth best roster. Now,
just because you have the nineteenth best roster, doesn't necessarily
mean it quits one win. I mean, if they were nineteenth,
they didn't make any massive changes. Nobody who else made

(01:43:50):
massive changes in the NFL. He went, wow, that's that's
roster went way up high. If nineteen gets still get
you to the playoffs, still get you in the playoffs, right,
uh huh? And I can do this play play better
for four quarters On a particular Sunday, so we talked
about the astros. We always make the parallels like just
be better than your division, get in the playoffs, especially
in the NFL. Eatything could happen. Yeah, yeah, all right,

(01:44:11):
twelve forty three on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety If you want
to jump in and say hello, I know today is
a off day for a lot of you. And if
you've never called the show before and you're like, hey,
i'd like to know how Matt and Ross.

Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
Tick come in and join us. We don't bite, do we?

Speaker 24 (01:44:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
No, well we do it what unless we've got a
couple of vodkasotas. But that's a different issue for a
different time. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven to one three two one two, five, seven,
nine zero.

Speaker 4 (01:44:42):
I was afraid of something.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
Yesterday, the Rockies fire their hitting coach, Hensley Mulleins, Hensley Mulleins.
The Enterprise the name surprised we didn't get forty five
calls of the show asking when the Astros are gonna
fire their batting coaches next, Well, if you can't get
the boys that to hit in course Field.

Speaker 4 (01:45:02):
I don't know if it's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
I'm but they're ops. Course Field's like probably seven to
twenty five and other places.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
Four thirty. That was the knock on Brendan Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
Okay, early returns solid, kind of a nice, pleasant surprise
for their local nine. Yeah, we had him on and
he loves the batting coaches and batting coaching that he's
getting here. Yeah in Houston. Yeah again, I am You're
never thank you. You're never gonna hear me ever ask
for a firing coach. Firing of a hitting coach. Wow,

(01:45:34):
Cause again that's in the weed stuff that we don't
know about. And now, if I was broadcasting the games
and travel with the team, I probably could have a
better indication of that. I don't, but I don't. I
can't do it now. If a team is underperforming as
a managerial staff, that's one thing. And if the team
is fifteen twenty games under five hundred and the guys
are checking out, it's gonna help. Coaches do get fired,

(01:45:57):
they do take up to take the l Sometimes you
gotta shake things up. Right now, It's all fine, Padres
in town. We'll see. It's a two on of three
weekend Ross I hope, so yeah, two out of three.
They lost Wednesday in Saint Louis. Oh, the streak's gonna
end at some point. I don't know. Does does this
team feel like a team that could go eighty one
eighty one right now? Yes? Yeah? Is eighty one eighty

(01:46:22):
one getting you the com punch chance the.

Speaker 4 (01:46:23):
American League West?

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
I mean kind of? Actually? Well, I mean seriously, we've
talked about this far. What how many is it gonna take?
Eighty six? I don't know. My preseason prediction was eighty eight.
I'm not feeling so good. Well, the reality is this?
What is the reality? You have five teams in Oakland's
got no shot, noe me Oakland whatever. By the way,
the Oakland I'm sorry, the Athletics are ahead of the

(01:46:48):
of the studing. They are not. Yeah, the Ashos are
a dead last place in the al West. No way.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
I would just let you know. I'm sorry to be
the bearer of bad news. You know what I haven't done.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
I don't. I don't observe the standings like that. You shouldn't.
I mean, I'm just checking. I'm not getting all obsessive
about it like you. At least your standings watches stop
for the Rockets. No, last place, we had the eight
and ten last place Astros.

Speaker 4 (01:47:15):
That is correct. The positive is only three.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
And you think you think I was lying to you. No,
but I didn't want to see it for myself. The race, well,
the Rangers just swept the crappy Angels Texas twelve and seven.
They're nine and one at home. Oh, Kuber Rocker had
a good start. That's not good.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
If the Raiders get Jack Lighter and Kumba Rocker pitching, well.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
I'm going to be honest, they're gonna be favorites for
the West. Don't speak like that. I'm sorry. We have
to deal in realities here. I know some people like
the sugarcoat things and we're all homers and blah blah blah.
I'm just gonna be real with you. If Jacklider and
and uh Kua Rocker pitch, well, it's gonna be real
bad for the Astros. The Ale West Angels. Don't scare me.

(01:48:09):
Rangers don't scare me. No excuse, mean the Rangers should
scare me. They just do. Jack Lighter hurt. Oh they
had a finger issue. He's on the fifteen day. We've
had all finger issues before. Huh, we've all had finger
issues before. Okay, so the playoffs are start today, they stop,

(01:48:31):
don't go with the playoffs start today. It's April eighteenth,
or even a half game behind the A's. You know
they're not drawing flies in Sacramento. Why would they You
would think Sacramento big city. I check it out. They
know twelve thousand people, that's all it takes to fill
the building. They can't fill that up. Yeah, but they
know that they're just a side piece. They know what

(01:48:51):
this is.

Speaker 4 (01:48:53):
I mean, that's a that's a great little sideways you
went on this.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
If the side piece knows who the side piece is,
the side pieces, I know, take advantage of being a
side piece. Yeah, but are you taking side piece out
to Mastros? No, you're going to rock in the Rocks.
But you'll tak then, so it's gonna get its low effort.
The athletics are given the very low effort and and uh,

(01:49:19):
and Sacramento doesn't think isn't gonna like that now, Sacramento, Yeah,
you're right, you're not going to Mastros, but you're also
you're not going to the drive through either. The Sacramento
is the side piece and and the athletics are shacking
up there and all they're doing the whole time they're
there is saying I can't wait to get back my
wife or my new wife in Mount Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (01:49:39):
So you think Sacramento is like, so, how Sacramento feeling
about that?

Speaker 7 (01:49:43):
Matt?

Speaker 4 (01:49:44):
Better do you have been a side piece than not
to have any side piece?

Speaker 7 (01:49:48):
Love at all?

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
No, man, Sacramento loves they They love themselves. They pride
themselves on being great. They probably think they're great, and
there they are, but they still have to have some
self esteem on the matter.

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
Like in Tampa where the Rays.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Are playing at George Starvinterfield with the Yankees, they've actually
made the stadium as ray friendly. It looks clean, there's
nice concourses, there's plenty of Rays stuff, around. I mean
it looks like it's presentable. They're literally just taking the
old signs from Oakland's Paul Park and just plaster them
against the wall in Sacramento, like this is a dumpespathetic.

Speaker 4 (01:50:26):
We're just putting.

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
I mean really, it's It's just shows you how poor
the leadership is a Major League Baseball that that the
manjor League Baseball allowed this to even happen, that it
allowed to have a segue.

Speaker 4 (01:50:38):
Yeah, you could have gone anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
The only reason why they chose to stay in Sacramento
is because Sacramento the A signed a huge TV deal
with NBC Sports California, and because Sacramento is in that region,
you still get the money from being the NBA NBC
Sports California. But they had been much better serve. Going
to say, I don't know Salt Lake City or Nashville

(01:51:04):
or Portland or anywhere that at least had a good
looking stadium. The people actually gave too crap. But you're
right they maybe they are just the you know what,
come in here, have sex with me and leave, no cuddles,
no fine dining. Just get in, get out, do what
you got to do, say what you gotta say groan,

(01:51:27):
you gotta groan and be on your way. I'm not
making fresh I'm not having fresh bed sheets for you.

Speaker 4 (01:51:33):
I'm not gonna cook your breakfast.

Speaker 2 (01:51:34):
In the morning. Just come in here, lay what you
gotta do and get out. Twelve fifty five PM. Go
ahead and get that one, Jonathan, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
You know he used to living soccer. I know, was
Tim Roy. Oh well, let's hear what he's got. I'm
sure he's got a little few opinions on that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
Way about you talk. You have a great time with
Tim Roy.

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
You know what you're working on?

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
Believe or Not?

Speaker 18 (01:52:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:52:02):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:52:03):
Which and we got we got a busy laughed out.
Tim Roy's coming up. Then we have the Fantasy five,
and then we have Believe it or Not? What is
the category today? Helly? Are not today? All things about Ross?
When we think about while he's eating lunch. Twelve fifty
six on Sports Talk seven ninety one oh two on
Sports Talk seven ninety is the fourth and final hour

(01:52:23):
of it. Anything goes Friday here on the program Sunday
Night inside Tota Center. We'll have it for you right here.
Ashle just gonna be on our sister station we're going
on the blowtorch. We're going fifty thousand watts for Game
one of the Western Conference first round series between the
Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets. Joining us now
the longtime voice and a good friend of the show,
Tim Roy with ninety five seven and the Warriors Radio Network.

(01:52:47):
On your way to the airport right now. How is
the current Bay Arier Freeway situation?

Speaker 20 (01:52:53):
So far, so good. I live way out by Napos,
so I've got a little bit of a hike to
get to, but so far it's pretty good. Usually the
middle of the day is probably your best bet to
drive around the Bay area because that's when the traffic
is minimal and you can get here to there. We've
got coastal clouds coming at me and thesis. Kind of

(01:53:15):
a nice day.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
Last stupid question about weather. Have you ever driven when
during a earthquake?

Speaker 4 (01:53:20):
And what is that like?

Speaker 2 (01:53:21):
If you do.

Speaker 20 (01:53:24):
I have driven during a small earthquake and the car
just kind of bounces a little bit. I've not driven
in a big one. But actually this is the anniversary
of the nineteen oh six quote which San Francisco in
a big way and then a huge fire afterwards decimated
the city, and they always pause to remember that a
lot of people lost their lives on this day in

(01:53:45):
nineteen oh six.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
Wow. Wow, great reference of history there, Tim Roy, the
voice of the Warriors with us here all right, Tim,
so you are not a typical seventh seed. Vegas doesn't
believe that. I don't think Golden State Warriors believe that.
I certainly don't think Memphis believes that twenty was a
twenty one and seven. Since Jimmy and the staff have
been in there, beyond the record itself, and look, I've

(01:54:07):
seen you guys play obviously a handful of times, including
once in person. What has been the change in your
mind since Jimmy joined Golden State.

Speaker 20 (01:54:16):
Jimmy brings a he kind of put all the puzzle
pieces together, and he brings a belief, He brings a confidence,
and he also brings playmaking abilities. So when Jimmy has
the ball, he's a little bit like Andre Goadala, where
he really wants to set up other people. He doesn't

(01:54:38):
really want to score as much, but when he has
to score, he can score. And so he's done like
three things. He's Our defense became a lot better with
Jimmy on the floor. Free throw shooting, which was abysmal
before he got there, is now pretty good, and they
get to the line a lot more because Jimmy draws
fowls and so he's kind of lended everything together and

(01:55:02):
has allowed, you know, the role players for the Warriors
to flourish, and there's a little bit of chaos when
when Steph and Draymond play and Jimmy brings a little
more order to the party.

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
Do you think there has been too much reliance on
If it's not Jimmy and Steph, the team is in trouble.
I know Brandon Pejemski has really broken out this year,
especially from three point range, so I don't want to
seclude him, but it felt like in that game against Memphis,
and certainly in the Rockets game when we saw you
guys a couple weeks back, it was those two guys

(01:55:36):
and you were kind of searching for that third score.
Has there been a lot of third searching during this
last two month stretch of Warrior basketball.

Speaker 20 (01:55:45):
Not that much, but there has been more lately. Moses
Moody went on a really incredible, incredibly consistent run for himself.
He was getting ten to fifteen points every night.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
He was solid as a rock.

Speaker 20 (01:56:00):
He's lost a little confidence of late, but I think
I think he'll be fine. He started to get his
shot to fall a little bit in that Memphis game,
but Jewski has incredible confidence. But but you're right, I
think at times they do look too much for Jimmy
and Steph and I think that's what you know, you
need to have those other scorers to to really balance

(01:56:21):
the floor out and to keep the attention off step
and and the way teams are guarding step with a
lot of top locking, a lot a lot of you know,
guys not even looking to help off of other people,
so that you've got to have guys that make the
other team pay. And I think that's gonna be a
big key for Golden State in this series, if they
can get consistent scoring of some of the other guys.

Speaker 2 (01:56:43):
We had our friend Ryan Hollins on the show earlier
today and it's one of the things that I was
going to bring up to you. Almost immediately he brought
up with me even asking John The Kaminga has had
some really great games against the Rockets, especially earlier in
the season, but there have been a lot of d MPC.
I don't know if you're a perplexed by because you
see it every night and you know obviously know what

(01:57:04):
the coaches are thinking, but we as outsiders. John the Kaminga,
I'm stunned that there are as many dmpcds.

Speaker 4 (01:57:11):
What's going on with his rotation time?

Speaker 20 (01:57:15):
I think Steve wanted to shorten the rotation for those
last two games, and I think he really wanted to
make sure that the ball was gonna move all the time,
and I think that's why he didn't play. Jonathan. I
think he'll be different in this series because I think
the matchups are a lot different from the Lawyers as
opposed to the Clippers. So I would expect him to play.

(01:57:38):
And yeah, he brings to athleticism that the Warriors don't have,
and so I just think for Jonathan it's a matter
of him kind of seeing the floor and being patient
and doing other things. You know, he hasn't rebouted the
ball as well as maybe he could. He's such a
great athlete, you would assume he could rebound better. I

(01:57:58):
think that's one area they like to do well, especially
in this series where you know, defensive rebounding for Golden
State's gonna be huge.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Were your thoughts about what you just you liked and
didn't like about what Golden State did when Adams and
Shanghun were on the floor at the same time together.

Speaker 20 (01:58:17):
I like the fact that they didn't go crazy with
adjustments per se. I like the fact they stayed the course.
I don't like the fact that they I don't think
they did a good enough job rebounding playing against the
Twin Towers there and and so I think that's that's again.
I think it's gonna be a huge key for Golden State.

(01:58:38):
They gave up way too many rebounds in the second
half against the Clippers, second half of overtime, and you know,
they had to play really against a similar front court.
You know, when Edie and Jaron Jackson Junior out there,
those are two large humans, so I expect them to
be ready for it. I think you may see more
of Kevon Looney when that group is out there, and

(01:59:00):
you also may see more of Quinton Post. His Post
is a guy that, especially with Jimmy's out there, he
kind of opens the floor for Jimmy because you know
he can shoot a three, and so you know you've
got to honor that and if you don't, he's going
to knock a couple down. So I think that's that's
gonna be Maybe one of the keys that for the
Warriors is can they get them my post and can

(01:59:21):
Cavon give them the kind of you know, rebounding minutes
that he's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
At Vizy with Tim Roy the voice of the Warriors
with us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
on Sports Talk seven ninety and a lot of the
conversation National League Tim is the experience of Golden State
versus the inexperience of the Rockets per se. And now look,
obviously Dylan, Fred and Steven and Landel to a smaller
extent have been around the playoffs before. Is there a
part of what you think Steve will tell the guys is, Hey,

(01:59:48):
it's time for us to throw that first punch earning
the game, to get this team that doesn't have a
lot of playoff experience off kilter ear least early on.

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
I would I would hope so.

Speaker 20 (01:59:59):
But but you know, the Warriors tend to not get
off the great starts usually. You know, they've especially in
the last couple of months, they've gotten off to these
slow starts and they're down like, you know, ten to
two right at the beginning of the game, and then
they kind of get back into the flow.

Speaker 24 (02:00:15):
You know.

Speaker 20 (02:00:16):
I don't think you'll say anything special about that except
to be ready, but I'd like to see them get
off the good starts. And by the way, you know,
if you look at the West, this this whole bracket,
Matt is just insane. I mean, if they say Memphis
wins tonight, that's another forty eight win team, right, and
you'll have you know, everybody's forty eight wins are better

(02:00:37):
and from eight to three, it's all buttoned up within
a couple of games of each other. I mean, there's
gonna be four good teams going home at the end
of the first round of the West. It's crazy, absolutely crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
Well, I mean, selfishly, when you are Tim and you've
been in this spot before, when you're the number two
seed in the Western Conference, you're saying to yourself, all right,
we need to get get rid of this first round series,
not let it goes say six or seven games, and
then really start to worry about the semifinals. Not only
are you facing a Golden State team that's had your
number four times and ten years in the playoffs. Realistically,

(02:01:10):
this is not a seven seed Golden State team. The
team transferred it's whatever to what they are now based
off of the trade, and they're improved play the back
two months of the season.

Speaker 20 (02:01:21):
Oh absolutely, yeah. I mean the Warriors don't look at
themselves as a seventh seed. I don't think anybody should
look at him as a seventh seed because he let's
face it, a couple of shots go against the Clippers
and they're in the entire other bracket. Uh So, yeah,
I think again, I think three to eight those teams
are all in one big, you know, mos pile. Though,

(02:01:43):
I will say this, I think the other team that
is really took off in the last month and a
half of the season are the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard is back,
and he is he's hunting, and that that's a problem
for everybody in the West.

Speaker 2 (02:01:57):
Well, Timmy, thank you so much for coming on. Look
forward to catch up with you and your your crew
coming into this weekend. Give me one intangible some that
no one's talking about that you're gonna keep a keen
eye on during the seven game stretch or hopefully seven
games at least.

Speaker 20 (02:02:13):
Oh wow, Yeah, you know, I expect a great series.
To be honest with you, I don't think you know,
one team has a huge advantage over the other. Uh
I would say that, you know, for the Warriors, I
I think it's got to be said, you know, keep
what you know, what can Kamingda do in this series?
How can he help the Warriors? And will he be
an X factor if he gets the time in this

(02:02:36):
series that I expect him to get. You know, I
think that that to me would would be uh one
thing to kind of keep your eye out. What what
does he bring to the table for the Warriors? And
and you know, on on the on the rocket side,
you know, just how they you know, get used to
playoff basketball, how quickly they get used to that. It's
gonna be a big.

Speaker 1 (02:02:55):
Deal for them.

Speaker 20 (02:02:56):
And and I'm just thrilled that I got through this
entire interview without one Stripper reference. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Well that's that was an hour and a half ago.
Thanks for listening. Before I let you go, Hey, we
were just talking about Sacramento has largely rejected the A's
so far, and you used to live in Sacramento. You're
from that area. O oftously, and you covered the A's
and did games for them for many years as well.
Why hasn't Sacramento said, you know what, I know they're
a short term fixed, but we like to have them here.

(02:03:23):
What's up with the lack of love affair right now
for them?

Speaker 20 (02:03:27):
I think it's just it just goes back to.

Speaker 3 (02:03:31):
Ownership.

Speaker 20 (02:03:32):
The ownership has has alienated everybody. Uh, And I think
Sacramento is saying, hey, wait, but we think we should
have a major League baseball team here. They've wanted one forever.
It's a base it's really more of a baseball town
than a basketball town. It's produced a lot of great
bath the baseball players in that area. And so I think,
you know, the ownership has just really struggled to find

(02:03:55):
any common ground with the fan base right now. And
and you know, they until they do. You know, they're
always talking about Vegas. They're not talking about Sacramento. So
I think people were saying, hey, why should I go
watch them if they're only gonna be here a couple
of years. I think they've got some fence mending to
do in the in the next few months.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
Well, my key, obviously you got to stop Steph and
one for ten a week ago Saturday was fun for
us to watch and call. Obviously, how much physicality will
the Rockets be allowed on Steph? Will it get into
his system a little bit? Will the whistles come quickly?
And if those types of games happen like that again,

(02:04:34):
I think the Rockets have a very good chance. If
there's quick whistles, Steph goes the free throw line takes
advantage of it, or Golden State makes enough moves to
separate Rocket defenders and men Thompson, Dylan Brooks ieed anybody
else in that group to give Ste's steps and free avenues.
That's where think the Rockets could be some serious trouble.

Speaker 20 (02:04:53):
I think it's gonna be a fun series.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
All right, Well, safe travels, go the speed limit, don't
get a ticket, and we'll see you on Sunday night.
Oh okay, yes, that's good.

Speaker 4 (02:05:05):
Thanks Timmy. You appreciate your friend.

Speaker 2 (02:05:07):
Tim Roy, the very talented longtime voice of the Golden
State Warriors with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Let's start taking some phone calls. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
do you see Denver right now? The Rockies Nationals game
has been postponed. It is snowing like a mudda oh

(02:05:29):
my gosh, Easter Sunday in Denver, and I mean you
can't even see the field.

Speaker 7 (02:05:34):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
That was why I was saying ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (02:05:36):
But I'm just ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
Yeah, thanks Matt. All right, we need five six judges
actually because Jonathan will.

Speaker 4 (02:05:48):
Be judge number one, with Judge number one on our
fantasy phone.

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:05:52):
If you have a palette of any sort, you're eligible
for this, then why are you Why are you choosing then?
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety If
you want to be a judge, need to listen to
our menu, yes, and pick the better Master's menu.

Speaker 4 (02:06:10):
Master's menu.

Speaker 2 (02:06:11):
Yeah, and again to those who don't know, when you
win the Masters the next year, you get to choose
what everybody eats the pre night, the night before the
big event. Okay, since you and I were not together Friday,
we're doing it today. We're picking two apps. A main
item protein if you will could be I guess you'd
be a possi if you wanted to a side dish okay,

(02:06:31):
and a dessert.

Speaker 4 (02:06:33):
And we need judges.

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
Who has the better Masters menu seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. That's seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. Now, Ross, since you typically
win about seventy five to eighty one the last one, Yeah,
you had won the one before that. Okay, so we
need people to call in and Jonathan's the judge number one.

(02:06:56):
The rest of you are just the rest of the
people and think it's the best of seven. Okay, so
all right, No, hey, can we switch to just uh
I put the Master's themes in there, johnn I think
we should go to the Master's the founding. Yeah, absolutely,
great idea. Is it long enough clip that one? That's fine?
Uh No, it's not, Matt, No, I'm their head. People

(02:07:17):
always say yes, it is to me. This is putting
me in a better mood for a nice, delicious meal
at the Masters. Now, who gets to go to the
Master's dinners? Everybody that gets involved in the Master that's
a lot of everyone who's eating. Does Jim NaN's barge
into the meal at the mass Masters? Does he as
executives probably get in there? Sponsors? Oh yeah, because not

(02:07:39):
every golfer wants to go eat dinner night before. I
want to have a light meal you know those sponsors
want handouts and they play on pony ups cash.

Speaker 4 (02:07:45):
I get it, all right, that's that, I do get it.

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
Ross.

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
Uh, since you won the last one, do you want
to go first or give me the choice of the
first or you could take the selections two and three.
I'm gonna go first, Matt, all right because for the
main course, I think it's a direction you would possibly
go in, and I don't want it to slip through
my fingers. At the Masters, I'm gonna go with a

(02:08:10):
tomahawk ribbi cooked to order. Of course, I would do
it on the medium rare side. What's some are we
doing like garnishes? Can I just see the rost garlic cloves? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:08:20):
Sure?

Speaker 20 (02:08:21):
With the uh?

Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
Yes, no, I need a ruling?

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
Does that?

Speaker 4 (02:08:23):
Do I lose all steak? You can't do RIBI? I
guess you can, don't, right?

Speaker 2 (02:08:27):
You tell me I was making this up.

Speaker 20 (02:08:29):
I was.

Speaker 4 (02:08:29):
There's too many cuts of meat out there.

Speaker 2 (02:08:34):
I mean prime rib is RIBI? Yeah? So I don't know, Matt. No,
that mine is my cut of meat is not the
rib in the Ribby family. I'm going with a tomahawk
ribbi at the Masters with garlic? What roasted garlic. Yeah,
it's a good choice. I'm gonna go appetizer first and
foremos ROSSI okay, uh. I wasn't a fan of this

(02:08:57):
type of appetizer until about ten years ago, but now
when I and I, when I get one, when I
go to a high end steakhouse, it is delicious. I'm
gonna go with a good old fashioned Maryland crab cake. Ooh,
crab cake was on my list, with the rim alode sauce,
with the pank pancoa crumbs, bread crumbs. Absolutely, how yea
crispyer the better. I love the crab cake with the

(02:09:20):
part you love crabs, I mean, yeah, I don't look
for them, but if.

Speaker 4 (02:09:24):
I find one, I'll leave one.

Speaker 2 (02:09:25):
Let's say, cading to the crab Man in North Texas.
They did all right. Next, I know you hate soup,
but I'm going with one. Okay, is your main course? No,
this isn't my second pot. I'm going my second appetize. Okay,
second appetizer, wonderful. I'm gonna go with a big crock

(02:09:47):
of the French onion soup with a crew ton and
the Swiss cheese on the very top. It has crusted
over on the on the sides of the cup. Okay,
it is my go to soup of the day, soup
of the year, soup of the everything, French onion soup,
French onion soup. Okay, and a crab cake. I mean

(02:10:08):
you're giving me a I'm giving you a powerhouse one.
Two appetizer sounds great, Matt. All right, you have the
next two. All right, Matt, you're smart. You didn't take
a main dish since I've already taken one. You know,
I don't need to. I'm actually surprised you normally drest
so horribly, but I'm proud of you. Thank you man.
I'm gonna go with two appetizers as well. Now, Okay, actually, no,

(02:10:31):
you've taken two appetizers, so I don't need to take appetizers.

Speaker 4 (02:10:34):
Now, you do whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
No, yeah, I just called you smart for drafting smart,
and then I was gonna draft stupid. I'm gonna draft smarter.
I'm gonna take the main side, and I'm gonna go
with delicious, cheesy and with a bit of a like
a nice crust as well. Potatoes all grotten? Now does

(02:10:56):
this knockoff all potatoes?

Speaker 19 (02:10:58):
Like?

Speaker 4 (02:10:58):
I don't know, the problem is the one to you.
The one I was gonna go with is very close
to that. It's up to you. It's your deal. So
I need a ruling.

Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
Potatoes are grotting. It's like cheesy potatoes, baked potatoes. They're good,
they're delicious. Okay, No, I know if it's good.

Speaker 4 (02:11:12):
Okay, I'll go to the you have uh, oh, you
have another.

Speaker 2 (02:11:19):
I'm gonna go with dessert, Matt, Yeah, please, and uh
we're gonna go with a nice, wonderful brown sugar crusted
peach cobbler all the mode.

Speaker 4 (02:11:30):
Now, do you want vanilla bean? You want homemade vanilla?

Speaker 2 (02:11:31):
It's up to you.

Speaker 20 (02:11:32):
Mate.

Speaker 2 (02:11:32):
No, it's your dinner with vanilla ice cream and some
peach cobbler for dessert. Is it vanilla bean or is
it homemade vanilla?

Speaker 17 (02:11:41):
It's up to you.

Speaker 2 (02:11:42):
You don't know. You don't know. It's your dinner. You
have to set everything up. It's moomel homemade vanilla. What's up?
All right?

Speaker 4 (02:11:53):
I need a ruling on the side. Can I go
twice baked potato?

Speaker 2 (02:11:57):
It's pretty similar.

Speaker 4 (02:12:00):
If you say no, I can tweaked and potatoes baked
potato like masstatoes that variation.

Speaker 2 (02:12:11):
Okay, So you're saying, Okay, I'm gonna twice baked potato. Sure,
went on, all right, and I'm gonna have that with
a skirt steak with jimmerychury sauce on the side. Okay,
it's delicious. Yeah, so the shirts shirt steak skirt scak

(02:12:33):
skirt steak skirt steaks. They had three times fast with
twice baked potato. I've got french onion soup crab cake.
Now Rossi, you've got the tomahawk rabbi with garlic, potatoes
on grotten peach, cobbo with homemade vanilla, and you and
now the last two selections. Yes, Matt, I'm gonna go. Wait,

(02:12:55):
did you choose what was your dessert? That's right, just
show Okay, you're gonna hold off a dessert, that's right.
Oh so I gotta go with two appetizers, Matt. Yeah,
I'm gonna go with delicious fried crispy buffalo wings. Start
things off. Buffalo wings. This elegant meal we're all about

(02:13:18):
to have. You're gonna knock back buffalo wings. Yeah, you're not.

Speaker 4 (02:13:21):
This is gonna cost you. I think people love buffalo wings.
Who doesn't?

Speaker 2 (02:13:25):
But I can go to the barber.

Speaker 4 (02:13:27):
I can go to the Bowling Alley and get my
buffalo wings.

Speaker 2 (02:13:30):
Oh, I'm sorry. They don't have buffalo wings at the
nice steakhouses. Of course they do. When are you gone
to Rick and Ranthony's and had buffalo wings?

Speaker 20 (02:13:36):
I have you have?

Speaker 2 (02:13:38):
Yes? You cannot go to mass and say give me
a twelve piece of wings, bring special twenty twenty three.
Look up the menu. It's terrible. This is gonna cost you.
We are going to keep a classy yeah. Please with
a meat and cheese board or charcooterie if you'd like
to call cootery.

Speaker 4 (02:13:53):
Yeah, yeah, charcooterie.

Speaker 2 (02:13:55):
H give me some olives, almonds, some nice different cheeses
and meats, and you may have something meat. I'm going
to go with the buffalo wings, the meat and cheese
charcuterie board, all right, and I'm wrapping with my appetizers.
Yeah yeah, those are your that takes care of your
entire menu. In my last election, uh, I'm going with
a good old slice and I mean it is. I
love pie. I really love banana cream pie. You're going

(02:14:19):
with a cream pie banana cream pie. So let's recap
the menu. I mean, look, these are good meals. I
look either one of them. I'm very excited about either
one of them. You went Buffalo Wings, chacuterii board, tomahawk
rabbi with garlic potatoes, O grotten peach copper with homemade vanilla.

(02:14:44):
I went crabcake french onion soup skirt steak with chimney
cherry sauce, twice baked potato and banana cream pie. Delicious.
Two really good food dinners. Yes, which one? If you
had a chance to enjoy, would you prefer? Let's get
your votes in.

Speaker 1 (02:15:03):
When do we come back?

Speaker 2 (02:15:04):
When we come back?

Speaker 4 (02:15:04):
Now, we we need we need like three people here,
so let's go. It will find.

Speaker 2 (02:15:08):
Seventy one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero seven
one three two one two five seven ninety all right,
once again, for all of you that are judging, Ross's
dinner is Buffalo Wings, tracouterie board, tomahawk chop a tomahawk

(02:15:30):
ribbi with garlic, potatoes, ogrodden and uh peach cobber with
homemade vanilla. I have crabcake french onion soup skirt steak
with timmery churi sauce twice, baked potato and banana cream
pot ribbi over skirt. Let's move on. I like a rivite.
But the skirt with the chimmery chury sauce is just electric,

(02:15:50):
by the way, electric, it's electric.

Speaker 4 (02:15:52):
It's called a champions dinner.

Speaker 2 (02:15:53):
The only people that are allowed to go to the
uh masters Oh, that right is former champions that are alive.
So I'm my g is that if Jack Nichols probably
would choose my men, you'd be easier for him to
eat banana cream pie, soup, skirt steak. What do you
mean getting a little older? Okay, that's how to cut
his food up. Probably, Yeah, And I believe you. I

(02:16:15):
thought it was odd you chose Insure for the drink.
That's right, all right, Jonathan. This is your first ever
foray into the You can't see him in here, but
he is staring you down. Johns.

Speaker 4 (02:16:25):
That's not sure at all. And I'm staying right at
my notes.

Speaker 2 (02:16:28):
I here got all right, So you had a chance
to listen to them and use your thoughts and ultimately
your vote. Whose dinner would you rather spend time with?

Speaker 6 (02:16:34):
Okay, so my thoughts on both sides very good twices.
I was actually really impressed looking it up, like make sure,
like you know, I would do it. I didn't know
you guys pals with that, you know, far I would
appreciate that. It's a lot of different taste, a little
different avenues, different culture is in there. And so going forward,
going with Matt, I loved everything. And then my one

(02:16:55):
conduct taking away from you is that French onion soup. Man,
I don't know what's going on there, and I appreciate,
I appreciate and oh wait, real question, Matt. There's a
banana cream pie tastes like banana pudding. That's my second
question to you before.

Speaker 2 (02:17:09):
I go, Um, you never had banana cream pie before?

Speaker 6 (02:17:13):
No, but I had a bunch of it looks like
it's the same way as banana pudding.

Speaker 4 (02:17:16):
It's it's a little bit of pudding.

Speaker 2 (02:17:18):
It's mostly whipped cream, there's coconut on top, and it's
got a really nice crust.

Speaker 6 (02:17:23):
Okay, so I'll take I'm taking everything except for your
your your appetizer onion onto ross. I love the tomahawk,
the tomahawk with a French onion, that's okay, Boom, I
love that. I love the dessert with the peach cobbler,
like okay, like you're you're you know all right? And

(02:17:44):
then and then you go and say buffalo wings that
I had to take you all in there. I didn't
see why if I was going to the Masters, if
I'm eating some buffalo wings, I had to agree with
down there.

Speaker 2 (02:17:55):
I'm sorry for that.

Speaker 6 (02:17:56):
And then the last to the tide of the finishing tiebreaker.
I don't like shirt curdy boys, man, So I gotta
take this to my Matt, and I think Matt has
the best overall victory delicious.

Speaker 2 (02:18:09):
What's not so like about a charcoot re board. It's
meat and.

Speaker 4 (02:18:11):
Cheese, that's all it is. That's not a meal. Are
you gonna start this?

Speaker 2 (02:18:14):
It's an appetizer.

Speaker 20 (02:18:16):
You got all.

Speaker 2 (02:18:20):
You're smart. That's a good pick. I'm happy for you, Jonathan.

Speaker 4 (02:18:22):
Let's find out what Matt I get you.

Speaker 2 (02:18:24):
No, it's fine, He's fine, Hugh will he will eventually.
Benjamin on seven on me, Benjamin, whose Master's dinner list
do you think is better?

Speaker 4 (02:18:32):
Who won the Fantasy five?

Speaker 2 (02:18:33):
Me or Ross?

Speaker 21 (02:18:35):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (02:18:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (02:18:36):
Due to the appetizer selections, which Mats were ten times better.
I canna say, I gotta go with Matt, although I
love to come to Matt wins.

Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
Thank you very much, a great weekend. Who doesn't love
a tomahawk, Rabbi, I can get you.

Speaker 3 (02:18:49):
That's fine.

Speaker 4 (02:18:50):
Buffalo Wings advertising matter ros So the whole thing is me.

Speaker 2 (02:18:54):
It's it's one vote or nothing.

Speaker 4 (02:18:55):
You took French onion soup, delicious, cusion, Swiss cheese delicious?
John On seven ninety John, who wins a Fantasy five me?

Speaker 2 (02:19:02):
Or Ross? You know, Matt, you're the French Junion super right, Mad?
Yes I am.

Speaker 4 (02:19:09):
I love the French onion soup.

Speaker 21 (02:19:11):
But I gotta take me a tomahawk over a skirt,
say like nine days out of seven?

Speaker 4 (02:19:17):
Okay, Well John, that's correct. John. I hope you don't
choke on that tomahawk.

Speaker 7 (02:19:22):
Look at this.

Speaker 4 (02:19:23):
You're such a You're such a poor loser.

Speaker 2 (02:19:25):
Less On seven ninety Less who wins a Fantasy five me?
Or Ross?

Speaker 28 (02:19:31):
Well, Man, I wish I could say I'd go with you,
because I live in Humble and I know you're from Kingwood.

Speaker 2 (02:19:36):
But a tomahawk, Man, you can't beat to tomahawk.

Speaker 4 (02:19:41):
You've been traveling too much, Mad, You've been up north
too much, been north.

Speaker 2 (02:19:45):
I've been only in California. What are you talking about?
Thank you less, appreciate you less. I hope you don't
get hit by a car in nineteen sixty all right, see,
I mean, come on two to two? Geez, Matt, what
I said, I hope you don't get by hit by
a car? Yeah, being polite? Vincen seven on Evince who
wins a Fantasy five? Me or Ross?

Speaker 20 (02:20:06):
Well?

Speaker 24 (02:20:07):
Ross is very strong on it?

Speaker 4 (02:20:10):
Hello?

Speaker 21 (02:20:10):
Vin?

Speaker 7 (02:20:11):
Dessert?

Speaker 21 (02:20:12):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (02:20:13):
Okay, go ahead, yes, go ahead.

Speaker 21 (02:20:15):
I said, I said, Ross is very strong with the.

Speaker 2 (02:20:20):
Dessert. But overall, Matt is.

Speaker 20 (02:20:26):
Choice of sathatizers.

Speaker 2 (02:20:29):
All right, thank you very much. Just a vote for me? Yeah,
he had a backla three to two. Maybe you listen
to a different show.

Speaker 4 (02:20:36):
Three two.

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
Here we go. Let's go to uh Seth on seven
Seth who wins the Fantasy five? Me or Ross?

Speaker 28 (02:20:43):
Well, Matt, whenever you said crab cake, you got my
vote right there, because I'll take a crab cake over
steak any day. Not so crazy about French onion soup.
If I could change it, I would maybe change it
to either crab or loops or disc. And then for dessert,
when you said banana cream pie, that put it.

Speaker 20 (02:20:58):
Over the top.

Speaker 4 (02:20:58):
So Matt you went, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
Congratulations Matt. It's the fourth win, four to two. The
final score one more hair for just for s and giggles.
Javier who won the Fantasy five me or Ross? Oh,
I gotta go a ross on this one, too bad?
Doesn't count.

Speaker 1 (02:21:15):
It doesn't count because the champ.

Speaker 4 (02:21:18):
Is thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:21:22):
That was a crafty you had. I am the champion again.
Guttery and chicken wings. Now, Tom, come on to French onions.
I'm sorry, No.

Speaker 4 (02:21:39):
You got slaughter, but that's okay.

Speaker 2 (02:21:42):
The champ is here. The champ is here. You got
absolutely stros I did not. That's not true at all.
You're welcome here, not even close. But that's okay. People
feel sorry for you because you sound sick, sickly, no,
they said, they said, Man, I don't want to have
chicken wings and walnuts with my appetizers.

Speaker 4 (02:21:59):
I want to in your deathbed.

Speaker 2 (02:22:00):
I don't know, I sound fantastic, okay, So I want
aus you with onions in it. Call it a souper.
It's just it's an appetizer. And the tributarys on the
skirts steak you'll thank me later. And the banana cream
pie Houston. You should be embarrassing yourselves voting skirt skirt
over Ribbi. They didn't vote over just one thing. It
wasn't it wasn't toy, it wasn't battle the meats there exactly.

(02:22:24):
Thank you very much, Jonathan. I know Jonathan's scared to
you because you yell at them all day. So I
understand that vote.

Speaker 6 (02:22:29):
Boy and Ross, I promise you would have Yeah, see
your security board.

Speaker 2 (02:22:32):
You just need to make up for the fact that
your picks sucking the appetizer category. That's fine.

Speaker 4 (02:22:36):
Buffalo Wings blows.

Speaker 2 (02:22:38):
Tomahawk's excellent potatoes are grotting, outstanding peach cobbery, even with
Homie Vanilla. Tell yourself, I know it's a It's a
better menu than yours. You sucked on the appetizer. Not
a big deal, though, not a big deal at all.
I don't believe it to be the case at all.
All right, real quick, before we get to believe it,
helly are or not? Martin Angleton, what do you got, Martin?

Speaker 7 (02:22:57):
Hey, I was.

Speaker 24 (02:23:00):
Talk about Draymond Green. I wish the referees would call
more testical fouls on him. They need the need to
come down on him more.

Speaker 4 (02:23:12):
How many how many testical fouls do they call on him?

Speaker 24 (02:23:17):
Well, at least two, at least two, but preferably.

Speaker 2 (02:23:21):
More than that, thank you very much. How many testical
fouls Ross will uh Draymond Green get in this playoff series.

Speaker 4 (02:23:31):
In quarry minds want to know?

Speaker 3 (02:23:33):
What is the hell?

Speaker 2 (02:23:33):
You?

Speaker 4 (02:23:34):
What is hell? You're not today working on it? Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:23:40):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:23:41):
Uh Fat Colton says, I'm I'm hosting his own show
back here. I think whoever ve must pay back the
winner with his food choices. So Ross, I'll take Jimmy
cherry steak. Okay, I'll take you. Pick up the bill,
I'll bring it. You know what, you're such a good
master chef. Why don't you cook it? I've not made

(02:24:04):
crab cakes. That seems like it's a tough bit. You
used to get some break criminals and get some crab
meat and roll it all up in there. Fine, Probably
frying it perfectly is the hard part, the perfect seer.
When I was sick last week, I watched one episode
of a show. This guy had this probably ten feet
by ten feet chicken fire, all these legs, and he

(02:24:27):
rolled it into the fryer and he brought it back
at it was just this platter of yards and yards
of beautiful fried chicken. But sounds delicious fried chicken something
I think I've never I've tried to cook it home
one time and it was so messy. We're like, we're
never doing this again. What was the one that you
would just bake chicken? Bake, shake and bake chacon? Makes

(02:24:49):
not do that back in the day. Hey, I've shaken
and bacon before. Oh yeah, I used to shake it
bake quite a bit when I was younger, and now
I just just I don't chicken bake anymore. That's because
I don't know what I can do. I don't even
marinate properly. I want to get that checked out. They

(02:25:12):
have pills for that. You'll be hearing more about that
next week. As a matter of fact, I'm glad you
brought that up. Okay, that's good to know.

Speaker 4 (02:25:21):
Oh, five minutes left to go the show?

Speaker 2 (02:25:23):
God, what should we do? It's over? We made it,
Thank god we did. We should play America's fastest growing
sports radio game show. Monday through Thursday. We called it
be Leave It or Not, but on Fridays we call
it a Hell yeah No. And here's how it works.
You call seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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today's edition to Believe or Not?

Speaker 19 (02:25:46):
Is?

Speaker 7 (02:25:48):
Is this rotten?

Speaker 21 (02:25:48):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
I don't know what the category is here. It's see
Rockets playoff history. Are read your statement about Rockets playoff
history statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this, hey, the
same half. Let's say it was Ronius football get made up.
You'll say this not too. Helly are announce in Rowan
you're probably playing for today, Jonathan.

Speaker 6 (02:26:09):
We got the Sports Talk seven ninety s t shirt
and a pair of tickets to the Grand National Tour
with Kens of Lamar and says on April twenty third
at Energy Stadium.

Speaker 4 (02:26:16):
All right, oh now, my phone computer system is not working.

Speaker 2 (02:26:20):
This is not great. Seven one three two one two
five seven. Hinty, we're gonna need you to probably pop
these bad boys up. Here we go, let's we go,
bradword on seven ninety Bradwards, you're ready to play? Hell
yeah or not.

Speaker 19 (02:26:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:26:35):
Including years in San Diego, the the Houston Rockets franchise
did not make the playoffs for the first nine years
of its existence.

Speaker 4 (02:26:43):
Hell yeah or not.

Speaker 28 (02:26:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:26:48):
No, they're in their second year. Bradward, I'm sorry. I
have a great weekend though.

Speaker 19 (02:26:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:26:53):
John on seven ninety John, You're ready to play?

Speaker 13 (02:26:55):
Helly ah or not?

Speaker 20 (02:26:57):
Oh hell?

Speaker 2 (02:26:58):
The most most points the Houston Rockets have ever scored
in a playoff game is one hundred and forty one
against the Spurs back in nineteen eighty Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 9 (02:27:07):
Oh here?

Speaker 4 (02:27:07):
Yeah, that's right, hey State and number two for the Wain.

Speaker 2 (02:27:10):
The Houston Rockets have played the Los Angeles Lakers nine
different times in the playoffs, and their career mark is
three wins, six losses.

Speaker 4 (02:27:18):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:27:21):
Hell yeah, that's correct. I said none. You're winning. Mike
on seven ninety Mike, what was your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show? Talking about the Rockets
and Warriors. The highest scoring playoff game in Rocket playoff
history was the fifty one point game for James Harden
against the Jazz in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 4 (02:27:42):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 13 (02:27:45):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 26 (02:27:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:27:47):
He had forty nine against Seattle in nineteen eighty seven. Duh, duh,
Matt on seven ninety Matt, You're ready to play?

Speaker 20 (02:27:55):
Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:27:58):
In terms of points per game, the Houston Rockets playoffs
scoring leader is James Harten at twenty eight point four.

Speaker 4 (02:28:03):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 20 (02:28:06):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:28:07):
That statement number two for the win.

Speaker 2 (02:28:09):
This season marks the thirty fifth time the Houston Rockets
have made the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 4 (02:28:13):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 20 (02:28:17):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:28:18):
That is correct?

Speaker 2 (02:28:19):
Another winner.

Speaker 4 (02:28:19):
Congratulations, that's nicely done.

Speaker 2 (02:28:23):
Let's go to Philipe on seven, Ony Felipe, what was
your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show
Waking up the Strippers? As always, there are three players
tied for the most rebounds in a Rockets playoff game
at twenty six Keem Elijah Won, Moses Malone and Dwight Howard.

Speaker 4 (02:28:39):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
Hell yeah, that's right, statement number two for the win.
The Houston Rockets have only been swept in a three
game series in the playoffs. They have never been swept
in a five or seven game series. Believe it or not.
Hell yeah, No, they've been swept actually several times, last
time happening in nineteen nine six against those hated Seattle

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supersis everything Golden Stick.

Speaker 4 (02:29:05):
Up next Plant Waxinger.

Speaker 2 (02:29:07):
They teams see at the Tota Center on Sunday night
for Rockets