The Best Of Covino & Rich

Rich Davis & the crew bring the laughs, while Covino is away! Rich has a Grimace update. They talk Celtics, Panthers & meat carving dreams. On the 20th anniversary of the classic movie Dodgeball, the guys & callers share their favorite or most unique P.E. games! Rich tells an embarrassing kickball story. There's another Ohtani bobblehead that's sure to break LA traffic & eBay! Did the In-Season Tournament matter at all? Jay-Will accidentally breaks news on TV & that leads to a round-table discussion on JJ Redick! What will his relationship be like with the players? Plus, they play a fun game of 'BOSTON MARKET WORKER OR BOSTON CELTICS PLAYER?!'

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Cabino and
Rich podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Be sure to catch us live every day from five to.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Seven pm Eastern two to four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.
Find your local station for Gavino and Rich at Fox
Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every day
on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. All it takes
is a fan base to get excited about something stupid,
and that was the point yesterday. Grimace thrown out the

(00:30):
first pitch just so happens to line up with the
Mets winning now six in a row, nine of their
last twelve, or actually nine of their last eleven, and
the Mets are right there a game out of the
wild Card. And I wanted to bring it up today
for a second because even Brandon Nimo, who had a

(00:52):
big game yesterday for the Mets, referenced Grimace after the game.
How much credit do you guys give to Grima for
this research?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I mean, hey, you know, I don't know, I don't
know about coincidence, and so you know, I mean, he
definitely correlates with us, you know, going on this run.
And you know, if that's what you want to attribute
it to, then then I'm all for it. Whatever it is,
let's keep it going.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm all for it. I didn't expect that one, you know,
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I love that that was.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
That was a great serious run into it. I thought
I was getting a real serious question there. But no,
I think it's great, you know whatever, Like like we
even said, you know, when we're having the team meeting, like,
you know, we need to have fun. You know, we
need to. We need to come out here, we need
to have fun. We need to be accountable to each other.
But first and foremost, you know, we all grew up
with this being a kid's game, and so I think

(01:46):
that's a lot of fun, you know, adding Grimace to this.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So I'm all for it.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
And I almost feel like they listen to coven On
Rich yesterday, Hello New York Mets, because that's exactly what
we said, that if the team could lean into something fun,
banter in the locker room, the fans are like Grimace.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You know, It's all it.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Does is just make baseball in June exciting for a
team that has otherwise been miserable thus far.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So hey have at it, Grimace.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
When you guys do go on like a six game
losing streak, and what are you gonna blame it on
the hamburger?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm not going to talk about it. Yeah, I'm gonna
blame it on a focus on the positive dating, damn it.
But uh, just another shout out to Grimace as the
Mets take on the Rangers tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
A lot of baseball.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Hey, it's the NBA's behind us. Congratulations to the Celtics.
We knew it was gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
I mean, did you Our instincts were right yesterday? Yeah,
blow out Central.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
You said it, what was it?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Six and a half, and we said, if we had
to be a betting man, probably Celtics by six and
a half. And I'll tell you what that game, there's
never a moment where I felt the MAVs were in it.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
We're in it.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
From the first quarter. You were like, Yeah, today's day.
Boston's ready to celebrate yet another NBA title. And the
crazy part is that puts them above your Lakers. Does
that matter to you what all, Danny? Or do you
not care about the past time?

Speaker 5 (03:06):
No, that matters to all Lakers fans and that should
light a fire under Jeanie Buss and j.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Moore Jmore the decision maker now, so we'll talk a
little more NBA a little later on. In fact, there's
a story that involves the Lakers and it has to
do with accidentally ruining a surprise? Have you ever ruined
a surprise? We'll get to that. We'll play a little
game in honor of the Celtics winning the NBA title.
Is it a former Boston Celtics role player that you

(03:33):
might have forgot or a Boston Market worker? Come on,
we're really leaning into these game spots. We're really leaning
from the shack.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Couldn't make it today for basketball trivia here.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
So it was probably like eight Boston Market workers left
because they're gone.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Last night when Danny and I were talking about, I
go just make sure Boston Market's still open. I remember
I remember Boston Market being in my neighborhood as a kid.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's not there anymore.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
We have three hundred and twenty two locations left.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wow, Oh that's it. At one point there had to
be thousands, right. I loved Boston Market back.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
In the day. Ah, those mashed potatoes.

Speaker 7 (04:05):
They like family meals that were felt like Thanksgiving, like
a random chickens.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Magnificent A bunch of them closed recently within the last year.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
When I was completely When I was a kid, I
wanted to grow up to be a meat carver.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah. I always give that credit. I was.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I always give that person credit because you're right for
a fast food place. You're like, look at them carving
the meat back there. It's like it's like when you
see the Chipotle workers cutting up the meat. You're like, man,
they're the next level. They're not just uh, you know,
putting fries in a box of McDonald's. They're they're slicing
real meat. They're slicing real meat. It's like the tableside
guat guy. I'm like, man, look at you, look at you.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm higher. How about that? The best?

Speaker 6 (04:45):
The other best thing is they had these retisserie chickens
just glistening in the background.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yeah, when they cut up your chicken, they just took
it from a drawer and it just came a chunk
and then they sliced it up like.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
You you thought like it would. Can I get that one.

Speaker 6 (05:01):
Harving of the leg that it just comes off of
the of the spits that did not?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, it wasn't like that.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
The days of busting markets a hang out for that
barn burner of a game. We'll be that surprise they
didn't last. Well, we'll do that in a little bit.
But I wanted to celebrate because today, my friends, is
the twenty year anniversary of a movie we all loved
and still do, not Fast and the Furious, that came
out on this day in one. So today is one

(05:29):
of those days where you're getting the anniversaries of some
of those big blockbusters back in the day.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Summer movies are trickling out now.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Bad Boys four and Inside Out too. If you got kids,
go check it that out. It was fantastic. But back
in one, Fast and the Furious. But four twenty years
ago a movie debuted that listen. It was one of
the last movies I feel like we quoted before social
media took over. And that movie is Dodgeball Global Jim.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Jove SPI the only place for Steve. If you could
dodge Wrench, you could dodge Ball.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
So twenty years ago today, Ben Stiller and the cast
of characters from Dodgeball that debuted in the summer of
two thousand and four all patches O Hulahan twenty years ago,
which feels like not that long ago. But it is
that long ago, so I ask you, let's keep it
light here. To start off, Kavin on Rich today, when

(06:25):
you think back to your gym days, Pe, high school,
elementary school, physical education, what was the weirdest or most
fun game or sport you remember? Because I feel like
I'm gonna kick it off with the old school. For
some reason, I thought it might have been only my school,

(06:48):
and you hear people from other states and counties saying
the same thing. Why elementary school decided to put this
in the gym curriculum, the Pe curriculum?

Speaker 7 (06:58):
Square dancing? I'm sorry what you did not? I didn't
have square We did.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
When the record player was the poke people? Yeah, Danny
g did you do square dancing? Square?

Speaker 5 (07:13):
They did square dancing out La Unified School District?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah? What it was a whole week of your partner
probably what you think? We're playing a joking?

Speaker 7 (07:24):
I swear like, did you guys play this before I
showed up today?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
People?

Speaker 7 (07:29):
I was Sam, what's that? Did you have square dancing
as part of your gym?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Brother? That corn husking is no?

Speaker 1 (07:36):
I listen, I don't think we ever did square dancing. Okay,
think every time you dance. It's square dancing, isn't it.
It's a square dancing. Yeah, so hey, listen, the weirdest
thing you remember doing in gym class or the most
fun you had. I know Cavino's not here today, but
him and I have shared the same sentiment that none

(07:56):
of our friends played volleyball in high school.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
But when you played volleyball and gym class, that so great.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
The competitive juices came out because you know, a lot
of the guys like I played basketball or football or baseball,
but not many guys you knew played varsity volleyball. So
when you got to compete against your buddies in pe,
I always thought volleyball was top level.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
Those type booty shorts didn't really look good on me.
You didn't have to wear those spots.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh, so square dancings on my list.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm going volleyball. Anything else come to mind from you guys.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
Elementary school, we would always laugh when the pe teacher
would say, all right, it's time for banana tag.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Did you ever hear that I played that in college
with girls? And oh, sorry, there's kids.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I know what I'm talking about. Nana tag, banana tag?

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah, Like the kids are the monkeys like you spread
the kids around the play area, and then they tag
another student. That person turns into a monkey, or a
banana is banana and a monkey is dreams dancing. No,
I swear no. Look it up Google banana tacks and
was there.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
Okay, the tag as many people you can, turning them
into bananas. Yes, the tagger will attempt to tag the runners.
If tagged, the runner will turn into a banana by
holding both arms above their head, hands together in the
shape of a banana.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
But how did you grow up, Danny? A game of Thrones?
Touch another one, it becomes Yes.

Speaker 7 (09:32):
The bananas will have to stay still with their arms
up until they've been peeled by two runners. Each one
peels at arms and the banana becomes a runner.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Any I'll be honest, I don't think because sounds vaguely familiar.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm shouting back, shouts out rialto California.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I don't think the kids in my school were smart
enough to play what you're describing. So all right, banana tag,
we got volleyball, we got square dancing, and you guys
can chime in now at eighty seven seven nine to
nine on Fox.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
My height and this is a crazy thing, but it
is kind of crazy to give you played sausage tech.

Speaker 7 (10:02):
No high school students bows and arrows, but we did.
We had an archery like semester where Big Mike who
runs his place, Oh yeah, Big mic In. We did
it in the gym. They would set up the targets.
I was great at it because it required no physical
ability whatsoever. But sometimes then we would go outside and
do like more long range bow and arrow That.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Was so much fun.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Spot confirmation from our buddy Sean Weller, who listens out
here on the Fox Sports radio app in La. He said, Yo,
Danny's right, La Unified square dancing. It was always a
week or so where and you know what I always
felt bad for. You know, back then it was like
grab a partner, so boys and girls would would partner up.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, a partner around and round. It was a
different time.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Everyone was just like boy and girl team up and
there was always a few extra boys and it was
always probably like the foreign exchange student. They got stuck
just square dancing with another boy, which is never good
for like your reputation. When you're a little school boy
and you're dancing together, it's it's a memory I remember
square dancing was a big one now when it was
a rainy day in New York or snowy does not

(11:07):
apply to you out here in La Danny G. But
do you guys remember something called silent ball?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
No? Or seven up? Seven ups? Sounds familiar, right?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
So these are two classroom games that were extensions of
pe where so silent balls, everyone sat on their desk
in a square. No one could talk. This is probably
the teacher's way of just being like, shut the hell on, yeah,
but you would you could fake throw it a different day.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
You could.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
You could do a I can look at Danny G
and throw the ball, damn buyer, And if you bobbled
it or dropped it, you were out. It was essentially
just a dodgeball light but you sat on your desk
and it was called silent ball. But seven up, you remember,
like you put your head down on your desk with your.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Thumb up, heads up.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Seven up.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
These are all games from back in the day. Any
others come to mind?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Uh? I got one?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah? What you got?

Speaker 1 (11:59):
I was saying so well before this became a national
or international sensation. Uh, back all the way back to
junior high school. Our schools were playing pickleball, and we
had all of this stuff to play pickleball. And this
was more of an inside the gym's kind of thing.
But you could have invested in pickleball back then. We
were like what you even like you had bitcoin before
it was bitcoin. Like, imagine if Danny, imagine if I

(12:20):
was saying it was one of the original investors in
the rage of pickleball?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
What am I investing in the paddles the idea of it?
Did you call it corn cob ball?

Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, it was given coming, keeping coming, But no, we
were we were playing brock ball, right, Yeah, there you go,
the brought pack But no, we were playing something and
like then it's you know, twenty years later it takes off.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
We're like, we've been playing that since we were kids. Yeah,
so just to clarify, we're only making fun of Sam
State today. Okay, that's Wisconsin's off. Yeah, that was yesterday.
Brought pack was another row pack mail that we're done.
Iowa is today's victus.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
We have to parachute? Do you guys? That was great?

Speaker 5 (12:55):
You hated it when the pe teacher brought that out. Why,
it was like a lazy day.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Great spotlight. When the teacher wheeled in the VCR. So
there was a game that we played. Now some called
it wallball. We called it. The teachers didn't call this,
but the kids did. Your plate asses up.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Butts up.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Now again, you may have played a different version of
this in college, but it was you threw a handball
or tennis ball against the school wall when fielding it
like a ground ball off the wall. If you bobbled it,
you had to run and touch that wall before someone
either pegged you at the ball or you touched the wall. Now,
if you spelled out ass, you had to stand up

(13:40):
there defenseless, like like hands on.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
The wall, like you're being arrested.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
The fast you and every one of your buddies got
one fastball attempt.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
We used those real racquetballs, the blue ones.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yea, yeah, that's stung a little bit if someone called
your kid so hey, phones were all lit if you
one in Let's do it eight seven, seven, nine to
nine on Fox celebrating the twenty year anniversary of Ben
Stiller and Dodgeball Spot You still go to Globo Gym right?
I do twenty year anniversary patches of Hula him.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
I'm still hung up on archery to be out, like
were they actual arrows or were they like suching cups?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
No, Spot took out of kids through the neck. I
heard murder, murder, yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:23):
And they were actually weaponry, yeah, like they were real
archery targets.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Did you shoot at squirrels in the trees?

Speaker 7 (14:31):
It was mostly in the gym, but I just remember
like we went outside like maybe once a week.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Spot was way into it. I remember when walking down Daruge,
he was like, dude, it was like Daryl Dixon.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I was great at it.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
Lawn darts, you know, no, I can't do those, but
let's bring in the arrows for archery.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Love it, you know what was great? And that was
great in high school. Again, it's gonna be different wherever
you grew up. But you know, we had the football team,
but there were a there was a week or so
where we played flag football in pe class and it
was a good chance for all the kids that weren't
on the football team to show off their their skills.
And it got a little rough, and I always remember

(15:11):
flag football was really fun. Weak or so in high school.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
I will also say this, and I don't know if
you guys went to a middle school or a junior high,
but we had a junior high, so it was six
to seven. When I was growing up, the toughest transition
was lack of recess and then what gym class was,
because in elementary school it was all games except for
the stupid two weeks of square dancing and parachute. But

(15:36):
then when you actually went and you were in middle school,
it's like, let's lift weights. You're like, no, I just
I want to play, you know whatever, hit the guy
against the wall game Like that was the worst.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Let me tell you it was. I don't want to
insult anyone now, but I will. You're still good at it.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
If you were one of those people that during gym
class you opted because sometimes remember you had the option of,
like if you just want to walk the track, you can.
It was always those like the non athletic, like our
her sports nerd crew that was like.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
I don't want to play anything.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
They don't want to sweat one drop of perspiration, and
I don't know why they let them get away with it,
But do you remember the pe teachers would be like,
all right, well then just you know, for the next
forty minutes, just walk around the track. And it was
like in my opinion, like the lazy loser's way of
handling pe like that was an opportunity. Now let me
take you back on a take it back Tuesday. I

(16:27):
guess right. So that smell of a high school locker
room they could do nothing about that, huh.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Was baked into the walls.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I mean it was brutal, and when you think about it,
I don't know about you. My high school, we didn't
shower after gym class, like maybe like in teen movies
you see people showering.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
That wasn't a thing.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
So I just feel like we would put on and
a lot of guys kept the same dirty gym clothes
and a bag in their locker. It would change in
and out of them, and then you would just stank
it the rest of the day. Teenage boy stank like
covered in axe bodies, Like why were we okay with that?
You ever think back, like how it was just a
bunch of stinky teenagers, half of which like we're scared
to ask their parents to buy them deodorant.

Speaker 7 (17:11):
And it was jim clothes that like stayed in your
locker all the time. Like you you didn't have a
gym bag that you brought to school with you every day.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Dude, that locker smell like your dog's feet, like that,
like that chet like that, No, like that like def
Friedo's corn chip smell. So hey, you know what, We're
gonna go to all your phone calls next, Cameron, Jody,
Eric Jason, everyone hang on uh, doing a little reminiscing
on the twenty year anniversary of Dodgeball Ben Stiller, a
legendary movie, in fact, one of the last movies we

(17:40):
ever quoted. So we'll go over some of your favorite
old school and weirdest Jim games from your childhood, and
of course, congrats to the Celtics tonight. The Panthers try
to do the same in the NHL, so maybe we'll
have an NHL Stanley Cup champ the day after eighteen
time Boston Celtics victory. So we got more Cavino and
Rich right here on Fox Sports Radio. His name was

(18:04):
mister Walpole, and mister Walpole said that, ah, speedball, which
everyone knows is team handball, which is a US Olympic sport,
which is an Olympic sport. It was like soccer, but
you dribbled a few times and you would pass it.
Essentially soccer with your use of hands.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
And it was called.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Speedball, and yo, we had speedball tournaments. People love that
crap on the East Coast. But let's go to Cam
in Myrtle Beach. What comes to mind for you?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Cam?

Speaker 8 (18:36):
You know, actually I was about to say ultimate persbey myself. Wow,
I grew I grew up in Missouri and we were
so bad at throwing the frisbee. They just eventually just
said screw it and we played ultimate frisbee, but with
the football because none of us can throw a frisbee.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
So you know what is that a true test of
a man or woman?

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Like?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Can you throw frisbee? Would you? Danny g can you
throw a frisbee? I actually could.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, if you're at a beach and someone's at frisbee.
And also I'd be like, it's like someone you give
a ping pong paddle. You're like, you know, did you
not have a basement as a kid, did you not
have a did you have a garage?

Speaker 6 (19:07):
There is a difference between doing the old backhand to
you and then what these guys do in the underhand
from the hip.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yo, chuck it.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, backhand frisbee is easy, You're right. The people that
do like the side arm front swing. Yes, like you're
swinging a tennis racket. It's about the angle of your
wrist when anyway you throw. Because I've done a lot
I played. Was it frolf you know frisbee gulf? Sure,
and those are like hard rubber, you know, discs, and
you really have to have the right strategy with your wrist.

(19:37):
Your letterd in fral right f Yeah, that's how you
got all the girls. Oh my god, it's a froth Tampion.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Got a park in San Diego one time and saw
a league. These guys had, like a rec league for
ultimate frisbee, and they were all chucking it like that.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a lot of cardio ultimate frisbee, no doubt, no doubt.
Let's go to Eric in Phoenix.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
What's up? Eric covin Rich, what's up? Man?

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Your phone's stinking like a Blincoln. Hold on one second,
Jason and San Antonio?

Speaker 2 (20:06):
What's up? Jason?

Speaker 9 (20:07):
Hey man?

Speaker 10 (20:08):
First of all, I love you guys, Uh, thank you.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
I I'm gonna be there soon.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
My wife's from New Bronfels, so I go to I
go to San Antonio every summer.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
What's up there? We go? I got two for you.

Speaker 10 (20:19):
One's a pretty weird one. But first of all, the
classic tether ball. Yeah, that's that's that's one of the best.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
But all right, so for my elementary.

Speaker 10 (20:27):
School, we had a unicycle team, and uh, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
It was. It was one of the dopest things.

Speaker 10 (20:36):
But not looking back on it, it's like probably one
of the dorkiest things that I've ever done. But yeah,
we had a unicycle team for the fourth and fifth
grade and our biggest performance was the halftime at the
Spurs game.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
But yeah, I just wanted to share that with you.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
You know, the fact that you got to perform at
the Spurs halftime show. There is Jason on a unicycle.
I want to see those pictures probly.

Speaker 10 (20:55):
Well, actually I got I got in trouble for kissing
a girl in the bathroom and they sat in the
me on that one.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Because of it.

Speaker 10 (21:01):
So I think it was worth That's definitely worth.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
It was worth it because I was any guy that
drives a unicycle probably doesn't have any options of girls
kissing him.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
How spot gets to work?

Speaker 1 (21:17):
What was the what was the first one he saidide
before he said the unicycle, there's something else he said.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I don't know. We all got stuck you're talking about. Yeah, yeah,
I'm a bird brain, all right, Adam Florida. What's up?

Speaker 9 (21:31):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Hey, buddy? What comes to mind?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Listen?

Speaker 8 (21:34):
So you never played it in gym, but you definitely
played it in school.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bloody Knuckles, Yo, not only Buddy Knuckles, Cavino is a
you know, I'll speak on behalf of him since we've
been buzzed for twenty plus years. Cavino claims to be
the pencil fighting champion. Remember you would you would uh
hit the other guy's pencil and Cavino's like dude O
and and knuckles.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
That was tough.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yeah, you want to talk illegal games at school? We
played core every day at lunch.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
No doubt.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
So yeah, these are all bringing us back a little
bit on the twenty year anniversary of Dodgeball. We'll take
one more quick phone call trip in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
You're on what's up?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Man?

Speaker 9 (22:10):
Hey, guys, Grady's always looking for talking to y'all on
the back Thursday. But for today, a great game was
obviously red Rover because you called out the weakest kid.
You called out a kid and they let him break
your hands. And you call off the weak kid in
the clothes line, because that was always oh.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
You know that definitely read Reverend. But I will say
that kid said tether ball. I remembered what I was
going to say. Do you remember at least one kid
getting like a bloody nose because someone whipped around that
tether ball and some kid that wasn't athletic or dull
like right like right in the face. That was like
an automatic bloody nose for some kid.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Now we left out.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Something that I was Sam said during the break, and
I'm thinking, how did no one say the ultimate game
in gym class and recess that somehow everyone loved everyone played.
It was probably the league leader of what you played
most kickball? Hell yeah, oh I loved kick Do you
like it a little bouncy or do you like it
a little Yoh? Most embarrassing moment, I'm gonna tell you

(23:13):
right now. Top three embarrassing moment in my life for real.
There's this little cutie. Her name was Cassie. I had
a crush on her. Sixth grade. The late great mister
Frasca was our gym teacher. Ooh, and Cassie was in
a different class.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Damn. Bayer. You could picture this. I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
I got my glasses on my mullet nineteen ninety something.
I'm a little nerd, but I had this crush on
this girl and she was pitching in kickball, and I'm like, Oh,
I'm gonna show her.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'm the man. Watch this.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
There I go, Hey, Cathy, I like a little bouncy.
So she bounces the kickball eleven year old me with
all my might. No, I wind up like I'm Adam
Viniterry trying to kick a sixty yard field goal. I

(24:09):
miss it and I follow my back.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Cassie Structure Brown, Charlie Brown.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
You know, this girl struck me out, and I feel
like I'm probably the most humiliated I've been in my
forty plus years of life.

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Speaker 1 (25:10):
A lot still to get to, but I want to
talk about bobbleheads for just a minute because I'm scrolling
on social media and I see that they're doing another
O Taani bobblehead at Dodger Stadium and I didn't remember correctly.
I'm like, didn't the first one go over really well?
And yeah, it did so well that fifty thousand plus

(25:33):
fans filled Dodger Stadium for this game, and there were
forty thousand bobbleheads made, seventeen hundred or a little easter egg.
He was wearing his road jersey like the Dodger Grays,
and spot how much of those going for on like
eBay and like Amazons.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
There's there's an array, but it's going upwards of like
fifteen hundred thousand dollars for a.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Road gray Otani bobblehead jersey, and the home ones are
going for one hundred. So there's a new Otani bibblehub
and before I tell you what it is, I gotta ask,
are you, uh, you know, a little judge. If you
go to someone's house and the dude's got a ton
of bobbleheads? Is that a nerdy collectible or a cool collectible?

(26:21):
Because I do have a couple buddies where I'm like,
you think you think women like your multiple shelves of bibbleheads. Now,
I know you don't do everything for women. But if
you're a single guy and you're think welcome toy pad
and you got a you know, fifty eight bobble heads
on a shelf, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Is it in your living room or in your game room?

Speaker 1 (26:40):
You know, that's a big difference if if you got
your man cave or your game room or you know where,
you got a couple of jerseys? Hung, I look at
it this way. I'm a big fan of a jersey
signed in a frame or a beautiful photo. Maybe you
got to meet the person. I think the best memborabilia
is you got to meet the person and you even
have the picture of you and them in the frame

(27:02):
with the sign piece.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah, except you look, you look really bloated in the photo.
Maybe that's just me.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
That's that's usually almost now, Dann Bary, are you a
bobblehead type of guy or what?

Speaker 2 (27:16):
dB?

Speaker 6 (27:17):
I don't mind the bobbleheads. I am not a huge collector.
I do have a few, but if I were to
see fifty or sixty in someone's home, I would not
look down upon them. I would actually probably look at
them and be like, Oh, that's interesting. Oh that's a
cool one. So I am. I guess I am pro bobblehead.
The only problem that I have with it is I

(27:38):
think there's no guidance on it, Like when you would
collect baseball cards, we would try to collect the.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Set arbitrary, right, Like, Yeah, there's like Big Mic has
like four random bubblehead.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
He has a bottlehead of Magic Johnson and an elfhatt. Yeah,
here's my James Worthy Kroger.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
You know, bobblehead you're like, and some of them are
like more official than others. You're right, right, you might
have the Otani Dodger Stadium one, but somebody else might
have like, oh I got.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
It in a Texico cort That's the only that's the
only thing that I would just like to see is
just some guidance along guide.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, get the rim shot ready.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Iowa Sam Big mic just popped his head in and
he said he has a ton of bobbleheads in his
bedroom because he likes an audience.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Big mic Ma gets on air.

Speaker 13 (28:23):
Danerg're to repeat this one, but there's a new Otani bobblehead,
and they're saying, already people are scoping out tickets trying
to figure out how to get their hands on the
new And by the way, this is his second of
the year to show you the bobblehead rage.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
That is a show Hey Otani the road Jersey one
going for thousands.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
There's a new bubblehead and it's.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Show Hey with his puppy decoy, so it's Otani holding
his puppy. And they're saying that this is going to
create such a buzz that people already trying to figure
out how to get their hands on one. But I'm
just saying, bobbleheads, I'm with dB. I'm not going to
judge you too much. Have it in your man cave

(29:08):
of your space. But there is no uniformity. Doesn't Todger
Stadium have a nice little area when you walk into
the stadium.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I left Yoga, there's a display case of a ton
of great one right by the first bar there.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
So, Hey, your thoughts on bobbleheads compared to other memorabilia.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
How about the name that That's just what struck me.
I'm not a huge o'tani guy, but the name of
the actual pat was Decoy.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
Yeah, after his interpreter just kind of some of us
think may have taken the fall, Like, isn't that odd
as anybody else's ring?

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Just maybe could he change the name of his dog
if it was named by a guy that almost got
him put in prison? Well if you if you and
your girl get a dog and you break up quickly after,
can you rename the dog?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah? I'm just thinking, like to have a you know, decoy.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
Hey, all right, just as it hits a little too
close to home when there may be a certain amount
of people that still believe that show Hey was the
one who was making those bats.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
So they're saying, mark your calendars once they figure this
all out. The new show Heyo Tani bobblehead featuring his
little puppy Decoy.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
By the way, Decoy also has had also bobbles, so
it's not just show hayes Head that bobbles the dogs
had bobbles as well.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
See now now you're going next level? Kid? Is that?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
You know what they had at City Field? Throw my
East Coast Mets fans. I know there's some of us.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
There's some Met fans out there, I promise heartbreaking loss.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
You know they will have a they will have a
Grimace bobblehead. Do you mark my words? If this continues,
is this whole body just bobble I thought I thought that.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I thought that it sucked last year that they continued
on with a Timmy Trumpet's Edwin Diaz bobblehead, even though
he was out for the whole year.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
It was like insult to injury.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
It's like, hey, the Mets think this year we lost
and when Diaz, but hey, here's a bubble ahead of
him holding a trumpet. You should have canned that one.
But they had their three announcers, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez
and Ron Darling. They had a three piece bobblehead where
you connected them and it made the booth and made
the broadcast booth.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
So there's some cool ones out there.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
But I just thought that was very much in the
vein of our show that Otani because of the success
of Bobblehead night number one, him with his puppy.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
So, hey, look at that.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
I collected mini helmets back to your original points. Yeah,
and so I've displayed them in my home in our
loft area.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
And what's that? How do you display them on severed
head spots.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
On little mediature headsad of yourself?

Speaker 6 (31:40):
So for a while I did on the square ikia
shelves that you could just I would have matchups. But
now there are some people who make custom ones where
it's almost like the shape of a j where you
can stick it on the wall and then you place
the the habbit.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
And so I've done that. And maybe my wife.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
Has been lying to me for all these years, but
she says that she actually thinks it looks cool or
that it does present some sort of you know, atmosphere
to the area if it's done correctly.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Listen, I'm a bigger fan of that than the bibbleheads. Sure.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
It brings me back to our childhood when you went
to the supermarket with mom or dad and you were
done paying, Mom was done. Uh, you know you're bagging
the groceries on your way out. How many times you
could I get a quarter and.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
You would get that. Yeah, the gumball helmes.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Out of the gumball machine, those quarter helmets. Looking back,
I cared way too much about it, Like I would
get so excited if I if I got a team
that I had not gotten before, and then if you
got like a dud, like oh the Colts again, some
of them like you put like think about like eight
year old you and how much stock you put in
those little helmets.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Always the Colts and the Browns. Yeah, my kid was
playing with the Jets, one of mine. Like if they
you know, the other day, I'm like, should I maybe
that could be worth something.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
I just let them play with it.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Danny g Well, you might be a little glum that
the Celtics have eighteen chips now to the Lakers seventeen.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
They deserve it.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, but I mean, isn't it really eighteen eighteen because
you won the d season tournament.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
I mean, not really, I'm looking back, But looking back, Rich,
that did create a little bit of talk and buzz
at the time because usually during that part of the
sports calendar, we weren't really paying attention to.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
The NBA all that much.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
You know, I will back up that sentiment for sure,
but you know how they say a presidency you can't
really judge it until years later.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Time is over. We talked about it at the time.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Actually we said, let's wait till the season's over and
then we'll see if we care about it or not.
And the answer is like, we probably don't.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Not to be negative Norberto or Debbie Downer, wah wah,
but you know the Celtics holding that trophy up, and
you know tATu yo, I'm the greatest with his kids.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
The Celtics.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
I'll trade you two N season tournaments for the one
Larry O'Brien trophy.

Speaker 7 (34:04):
Did Lebron like seriously say, like at least we what
the Ncason Tournament when they were knocked out?

Speaker 2 (34:09):
No? No, I swear I heard.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
That DV any significance of the n season looking back
at a full No.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
Not only that, I and I I don't even remember
talking about it, guys. And then my team, the Bucks,
made it to the Final four and they lost to
the Pacers. I don't know if it's if it's because
we were in southern California and that's because the Lakers
were in it. It was a topic, but I still
think football is dominating our minds.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Danny, you gotta keep that banner up in the at
crypto or what.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Well, you know, you know that the NBA pressured the
Lakers a little bit to put that up because they
wanted it to be legitimized by the Lakers organization and Lebron.
So I think that at least the story goes that
Genie Buss wasn't a fan at first of putting that up.
I did ask an NBA in sadder and I forgot
who it was because of the Pacers run, and then

(35:01):
we saw what they did in the postseason and making
into the Eastern Conference Finals. I asked kind of half heartedly,
but I said, can you take anything from that run
of Indiana?

Speaker 6 (35:12):
Did it carry over for them into these playoffs? And
it was a resounding no that it had nothing to
do with it. Whatever I will.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Say, it'll be I think the first time it'll mean
something is when a team wins both and you can
then argue that they just dominated the whole NBA season.
If the same team wins the d season and the
NBA title, you could say, yo, that year was just
clearly all I don't know, Nuggets.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
You could say that.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Now.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Rick Carlisle did say that at that point of the
season is when he spoke to his team about playing
at least good defense for them to finish the season
and get to the NBA playoffs. So it was at
least a point of demarcation where he could tell his team,
if we want to do better than this, this is
how we're going to do it.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Your thoughts at Covine and Rich eight, seven to seven,
nine to nine on Fox The The in Show, Best
in Show, Now, the n season tournament in the NBA
title clearly two different levels of importance, but you know.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
One hundred different levels. Yeah, let me tell you about Danny.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
At least you got you know, that's something like the
most positive person on earth will be.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Like, well, at least you got the n season, come on,
come on now.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
But hey, you know at the NBA in the rear view.
And then tonight you know what tonight is? No, not
my softball game at seven thirty NHL Stanley Cup Finals.
So maybe the Panthers walk away tonight, so we shall see.
Now there's a concept of not necessarily concept, but there's

(36:39):
those people in your life that you're always concerned that
they're going to ruin the surprise, like I don't know.
Maybe it's like like Mom, you're you know it's a
secret writer. The certain people, you know, they got loose lips.
You guys accuse me.

Speaker 7 (36:52):
Of this, don't Yeah, if you want everyone to know something,
just tell Rich saves you the trouble.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Now will today.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
So matter of fact, he spoke on ESPN as if
JJ Redick was the official new head coach of Lakers.

Speaker 14 (37:09):
And I feel like you have the Los Angeles Lakers
that are trying to figure out with JJ Reddick, a
first time head coach, we with some all the bets
of luck with Lebron.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
James in his twilight years.

Speaker 14 (37:17):
Granted they're still there, they still have a chance a
could ten, but I mean you're going to give the
edge to Boston in a really big way.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Did I miss the memo here? It's official?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
I mean, I know Dan Bayer said it's in the works,
and it looks like it could be, but there's no
official word jet right Dan byro on JJ.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Redick In everything official, there's another Lakers insider who said
that the deal is done. Anthony Irwin is the one
that reported that. But to the point of the reports,
that was actually one of them that I'm referring to
is if j will is saying it, and it was
also mentioned pretty much by Mike Breen last night during
the broadcast, it sure seems like it's a done deal now.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
It brings up two layers to this conversation. You want
to share a story where you put your foot in
your mouth, you ruin the surprise, you announced someone's pregnancy
for them. You told some girl like, oh yeah, oh
your guy didn't give you the ring yet?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh forgot?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
I said that, like, did you ever blow a surprise
where you felt like a big, huge ass?

Speaker 2 (38:17):
You could hit us up.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
With that or The second layer of this is if
jj Reddick is the guy, which all reports are making
it seem like it is. I know Doug Gottlieb and
Steven A there was some there was a little debate
on whether or not other head coaches are mad, and
Race got involved in this said, I don't want to
get into that. I want to get into the idea
of working for a peer and the sticky situation that

(38:44):
could be as we all get older in the workforce,
right like when you're entering not only the NBA, the NFL,
Major League Baseball. Hot Dog gatting you know the four
majors in your own life. When you enter the workforce,
you're eighteen, twenty two, twenty five years old, Chances are
your boss, your manager, he or she is established, they

(39:06):
were a veteran. You're taking orders in commands from someone
who's been there, done that. Now when you're a first
time head coach and you've seen this in radio, Danny G.
I'm sure there's been times where you're like, you know
that program director is younger than me, or someone gets
their opportunity on your sales team and you're like, we're

(39:27):
you know, we're boys. He's my boss, now she's my boss.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
She was my intern.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
This happens in all industries. So do you think there's
a weird underlying vibe that will exist on the Lakers
permanently that JJ, Reddick and Lebron are not only boys,
but like they got the podcast doing and JJ they
played in the league together. Is there something there that

(39:55):
rubs you the wrong way? Or do you think it's
so case to case if the.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Team wins, I don't think it's going to be an issue.
If the team stinks it up with him at that spot,
then there might be some underlying resentment.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Like if you watched Winning Time, I know it was
based on a true story, not totally true, but remember
when pat Riley took over the Lakers on the show
and in real life in the early eighties, there was
that moment where the team looked at him too much
as like one of them, Like yo, Riley, Like you know,
because he was the up and comer assistant who helped
out and made his way up up.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
The rest, he had to go crazy and punch the chalkboard.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
He had to punch a chalkboard, loses s, you know,
go little nuts, and then put like his hand.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
People then had to be like, oh, yeah, Riley's for real,
Like you know, I'm not your boy, I'm your coach
and Dan Byer your thoughts. Do you think there'll be
that learning curve with JJ Reddicks listen on TV on podcasting.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
He's a know it all.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
He's likable, some people don't like him, he's knowledgeable, but
again he is a peer to some of the guys
in the league.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
Yeah, I think that it would be in JJ Reddick's
best interest to do whatever Lebron says, because that is
the reason that he's being hired. Correct, I mean like
that's so the point where JJ Reddick stands up in
a practice and I don't know, lays into Lebron for
something he's lost. Lebron and nobody else on the team

(41:18):
believes that JJ Redick probably would have gotten the job
if it wasn't for his relationship with Lebron. So I
actually think for JJ Reddick's case, and it's different than
maybe an assistant who is building up and worked in
a system for so long. I think that JJ Reddick
really has no choice but to do kind of what
Lebron wants to do. And if there is resentment, tough

(41:38):
beings because that team is probably going to go as
far as Lebron and Anthony Davis takes them.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
It's an interesting thought because we've all been there, right,
unless you're a twenty seven year old kid fresh in
the work world, We've watched our bosses, whatever you do
for a living truck driver, doctor, lawyer, teacher, you've watched
your superiors go from people that were your parents' age,
they were your elders, they were people you looked up
to to now like, I respect the hell out of

(42:07):
our boss. Our boss is our age here at Fox
Sports Radio. That's an interesting dynamic that you finally hit
right at serious XM one of the women that run
the channels. I'm on Pop two K, the two thousand channel.
Choose my intern back in the day. So it's like
you start to see, like what we work together, we're
peers and now you're you're running things. And I just

(42:30):
think that based on what Dan Bayer said, what if
they are to practice and this is so sleazy, But
what if what if JJ was like, Yeo, Lebron, I'm
gonna be tough on you. I gotta I gotta laid
on the table. I got I gotta show this team
on the alpha, So follow my lead. Is that sleazy
or is that like a good move by JJ Reddick say, Yo, Lebron.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'm gonna yell at you. Don't don't take it to heart.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
But if I don't assert my dominance, I'm gonna lose
the young guys.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
See a better actor than Lebron. I mean you hope.
So if this is gonna work.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
Here's the other thing with like and I was just
looking back and trying to think of a different situation.
Or you're looking around the NBA, if maybe you have
a coach, let's just use the pacers. We were just
talking about them. Let's say Rick Carlisle steps aside and
Tyr's Halliburton gets to pick his coach. Tyry's Halliburton is
not Lebron James. This is true, so it is a

(43:25):
different sort of rule. So like Austin Rivers and whoever
the supporting cast would be, I think would understand what
is going on and how it's going to play out.
But I also think that JJ Reddick is going to
have a different role of just being the traditional coach.
I just don't think not that Lebron knows all. I
just think that you're you'd have more problems if you

(43:46):
try to veer away and do your own thing, because
the reason that you got the job was your relationship
with Lebron James.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Are we looking at this too much from a silly
fan perspective, because that's what we are, and you know
I'm broadcasters. But within the locker room, these young guys
admire Lebron James. So I think maybe there'll be less
of an issue than we might think because if the
young guys respect Lebron the way they should, right, and

(44:14):
JJ Reddick's doing a great job, I think it might
you will get that way, you can say, oh, this
could work just fine. It does make me think of
one thing this ever happened in the NBA. Correct sorry
for my ignorance on this, but in baseball, remember the
days of like player manager, like Pete Rose and guys
were wearing both hats.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Yeah, I mean, Russell did. Lebron's like that light right now.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Don't you feel like there's, like you said, Lebron has
major influence at this stage of the game.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Yeah, I mean that's the tricky part of it as well,
because I think Danny would even admit that too much
Lebron influence has been a problem. But if you don't
have Lebron there, then it's going to be difficult anyway.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Like to think that at one point in our lifetime,
we always say how it's crazy to think, you know,
Bo Jackson was doing what he did in multiple sports.
In our lifetime, we watched guys in baseball manage and
play at the same time. The fact that Pete Rose
was like, I'm gonna play, but I'm also the manager.
It's a wild thought to think that you could do
those roles and you could say there's certain veterans that

(45:20):
are the light version of that. Now Aaron Rodgers in
New York, Randall Cobb, we're getting him doing this. You know,
you start calling the shots and you're Lebron or Aaron Rodgers.
Aren't you sort of player coach light? Like under the radar?
It's the same thing. Can you do them?

Speaker 6 (45:34):
But can you do them well? Like you can do
them both? But is that are you doing them well?
If it works, yeah, genius. If it doesn't, bad news.
Just a quick one on that. I'm curious on Danny's
thoughts as well. I think that JJ Reddick will also
have to navigate and maybe this is the biggest piece
of all is you have Anthony Davis coming off of
a second team All NBA season Lebron was third team,

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where this kind of now needs to be Anthony Davis's team,
but you still have to satisfy Lebron like that.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
That's the balance that I.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
See that JJ Reddick is going to have to strike
at some point, which I would hope that Lebron understands,
especially with his age and where he is. But instead
of more of getting guy eight, nine and ten on
the same page in that locker room, because that's not
going to matter if they win or not.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
I think that's the dynamic that maybe JJ's going to
hopefully for them have success with.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
Yeah, and what is the contract extension going to look
like for Lebron because that's going to play a lot
into moving forward. What is going to happen with Anthony
Davis maybe being the leader of the team in JJ
Reddick's role, because once Lebron's gone, then does his role
with the team change because Lebron's his big brothers not
there anymore?

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Doesn't the players and team are always going to say
we want to win. The goal is to win. You know,
fans and analysts will have different opinions. You as a
Laker superfan, d energy, you watch day in and day
you watch every game.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Die Hard.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Do you look at this as a longer term project
for JJ Reddick or do you think with the core
of Ad and Lebron both aging, that you could still
build around them and win a championship or do you
think that ship has sailed.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
That's the big question mark because JJ Reddick doesn't have
a resume coaching in the NBA, so we just don't
know how that's going to play out.

Speaker 6 (47:20):
I think that ship is sailed, but you can't. You
can't leave the doc without Lebron and Anthony Davis, if
that makes any sense. The point being is, we just
saw in an NBA Finals where we felt Dallas had
the best offensive tandem that we've seen in NBA history.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Wasn't that the you know what was being back court?

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Ever?

Speaker 6 (47:39):
Yeah, they got cooked, you know, by a team that
you know, had seven or eight guys that just play
unbelievably well together.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
And I just I don't think it's a two man show.

Speaker 6 (47:49):
But the Lakers aren't going anywhere without Anthony Davis and
Lebron playing at their best. Then you obviously need the
other guys to fill in. But that's the I think
that's the and the yang of it is, Yeah, you
need the other guys because they can't carry them themselves.
But whether they taking up so much air that nobody
else can even breathe to help their team.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Well, you know what, there's a bet right now that
you can make in Vegas. There's another layer of this
is JJ Reddick on board with Bronnie James being on
board because right now Bronnie to the Lakers is plus
one point fifty in Vegas. Everyone feels like it's automatic
that somehow he just ends up with Pops.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
And is that something JJ Reddick's cool with?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Because I mean, I know the coach doesn't have final say,
but does does the organization say? You know? JJ just
does a rub here too, that we're gonna take Bronnie
in the draft because if he's trying to build the future,
what if he doesn't feel Bronnie's part of that feature.
So there's so many layers here. I can't wait to
see how it unfolded. I'm sure you feel the same way.

(48:56):
Rich Davis comed on Rich right here on Fox Sports Radio,
Danny G you getting ready for our new game that's
sweeping the nation even though we haven't played it yet,
Boston Market or Boston Celtic eight seven to seventy nine
to nine on Fox.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
If you want in.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
A couple quick notes, I know we're gonna get to
Dan Buyer's update in a second, but I'm sure he
will not include these silly stories. But a couple things
I saw in the world of sports.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Did you see the.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Low budget NHL desk compared to the NBA? Did you
see that meme going around yesterday to show that they're
saying ESPN and networks care way more about basketball than hockey.
They showed this elaborate setup for the NBA finals, and
the NHL has the equivalent of a folding table. It's
like folding table TV set. It's a big difference. But

(49:42):
then again, you could argue hockey is it what the
NBA is. Connor McGregor saying he is not in rehab.
There was rumors that he's missing UFC for rehab. Nope,
not the case. And just a reminder, don't drink and
drive Timberlake style.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Good reminder.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Oh boy, he has no Donald Trump in his headshot.
He's very stoic, but he should have done more of
it Trump face and the.

Speaker 7 (50:06):
Other thought really realistic, really quick though, rich.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
Maybe the NHL will get an improved table next year
for the Stanley Cup Final.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Their ratings are up, you.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Know what, that's what happens. WNBA knows the same thing.
You want more money, you want more nice things. Ratings,
baby ratings, and one other quick note before we start
our game. I know we got Scott in Wisconsin lined
up to play Scott. Howie Mandel, who you might know
from Bobby's World. You might know him from AGT. You
might know him from Deal or No Deal. His wife

(50:39):
took a terrible fall, and she she's apparently gonna be
all right. But in Vegas apparently they were saying she
was really drunk and fell, but he's saying, no, no,
she was just really high on edibles.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
So be careful.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Either way, if you've had one too many cocktails or
one too many gummies, you can fall in your head,
So be careful.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
All right, let's play a game, shall we. Boston Market,
the worker, Boston Celtics player isn't peccable day?

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Wow, Boston Market top of it?

Speaker 1 (51:07):
You know?

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (51:09):
It is an audio collage man, Boston Market worker or
Boston Celtics player. Now, these really are obscure role players
throughout the Boston Celtics franchise history.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Danny g is just we keep coming up with these
games because Danny, He's like them will finally get picked
up by a network.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
You know, how are you?

Speaker 5 (51:28):
The w NBA game got picked up by this done
work on Fridays. I know, I love Covino won and
he's like, that's it. It's gonna be every Friday.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
I won.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
All right, here we go. Uh So you guys know
how the game works. Spot is going to keep track
of the points in the eight rounds as long as
Scott in Wisconsin doesn't come in last place. He walks
away with a stainless steel c n R swiggy.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
All right, you ready? You ready? Scott?

Speaker 4 (51:51):
Yes? I am not right?

Speaker 2 (51:52):
What Scott? What do you doing? Wisconsin? Something with cheese?

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Yeah, eat a lot of cheese pretty much where. I'm
a CI manager for Cniagra Food. I'm in Jamesville.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Hey, Scott, let me tell you a quick thirty second
story of an experience we had in Wisconsin which left
our buddy here Spot hating me still to My wife
is a big Packers fan. So we were in Wisconsin
and I insist. I'm like, we have to stop and
get her a cheesehead. I wanted to get her the
foam cheese head. I'm like, I'm like, what type of
husband would I be if I didn't come back with
a cheesehead? So we stop at this place they're selling

(52:32):
cheese heads. We also buy some actual cheese. Spots like, fine.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
You finally got your cheese and your stupid cheese head.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Let's go and I go, Spot open the hatch of
the suv that we rented so I could put the
stuff in the back.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
He goes, oh fine.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
We're driving down the highway in Wisconsin, and all of
a sudden we're like, oh no. We look in the
rear view Spots computer bag and everything is down, is tumbling.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Down the highways open.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
All of a sudden we he a cheesehead tumbling down
the highway and Spot hated.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Me for a good but my laptop on my money?
Id your past passport?

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Like?

Speaker 5 (53:10):
Come on, yeah, the real question is did you recover
the chief head?

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Right?

Speaker 1 (53:13):
It didn't fall out, And the funniest part of that
is that I got home within a day.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
My dog ate it. So there you go. Sorry, move on.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
All right, Here we go the contestants here, Rich, Spot, Buyer,
Sam Scott Wisconsin. Here we go, Rich, You're up first,
Boston market worker or Boston Celtics player Joel Anthony, Oh,
Joel Anthony?

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Who could he have been a backup point guard? Or
I'm gonna go Boston market worker.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Oh Spot, I'm going to go Celtic on this one. Buyer.
He's a Celtic, all right, Sam, definitely a Celtic, all right.
Scott and Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Ah, I think I'm going to go Celtic as well.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
Joel Anthony is a former center for the twenty fourteen Celtics.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
I'm gonna pronounced Joel Joe Joe Joe Man. I'm gonna
stink at this game.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
Yeah, all right, here we go. Next name, Rich Philip Early.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Philip Early Early. Oh, that's definitely a guy carbon some
turkey in Boston Market. Let's go Boston Market, spot.

Speaker 7 (54:17):
Let's see. Yeah, you know what I'm gonna stick. I'm
gonna go market on this one. Boston Market.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Fire.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
Yeah, it sounds like double mashed potatoes to me. Sounds
like all right, Sam.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Phil up Early to carve turkey. It is, oh boy
Scott in Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Yeah, I'm going Boston Market as well.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Wow, it is a sweep.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
Philip Early is a general manager for the Boston Market
in Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
There it is.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Someone's hitting him up right now and he doesn't believe them. No,
they're talking about your Fox Sports all right. Next name,
I don't believe it. Rich Michael Hawkins. Michael Hawkins. That
sounds like an NBA player if I've ever heard one.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Michael Hawkins forward for the fourteen All right, yeah, I'll
go Celtics spot.

Speaker 7 (55:02):
I'm gonna go with He's Hawkin' Turkey's at a All right, buyer,
you know what, I'll go a spot on this one.

Speaker 6 (55:10):
I think he decided to put Ham on the menu.
Let's expeond, he responded Hawkins.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Sam, I like that. I'm gonna say former Celtic Scott
in Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
I'm gonna go Boston Market.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Michael Hawkins is a former guard.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
For the ninety guard for the ninety seven Celtics out
of Xavier.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Wow, all right, next name rich Chase Smith. Chase Smith.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Oh, he's definitely a corn scooper at a at a
Boston Market in.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Cleveland, Ohio. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go market on
this one spot.

Speaker 7 (55:49):
It sounds like he should be a Celtic, So I'm
gonna say Boston Market on this one.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Buyer. Yeah, you know, Chase is one of those new names. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm gonna o Boston Market. Sam. I'm also gonna go
Boston Market Scott and Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna go Boston
Market as well.

Speaker 5 (56:09):
Chase Smith is a meat carver Boston Market in Michigan.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Your dream job Danny.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
I want to do that. Next name, Rich Stephan Cooper.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Stephan, come on, I feel like you try to trip
me a trip because of Stephen Cerry.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
Boston market worker, Boston Celtics role player.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
I feel like Stephan Cooper might be like a guy
that bounce back and forth between.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
The G League. Maybe I'm going and I'm going Celtic here, spot, Yeah,
I'm going Celtic on this one too.

Speaker 6 (56:39):
Buyer, I can hear the Boston Garden and the chance
of Cooper raining down.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Give me Celtics, Sam Cooper.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
I am going to say he once played for the
Celtics and then he got a job at Boston.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
Former Celtics Scott in Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Celtic.

Speaker 5 (57:02):
Stephan Cooper is an assistant general manager Boston in Florida.
Wipe that out, all right? All right, awesome. The next
name Gary Phillips, Rich.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Oh, Gary Phillips sounds like a manager, like I want
to speak to the manager.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Gary Phillips. What's the problem, manager, Garry? Manager, Gary, what's
the problem here? All right? It's botty.

Speaker 7 (57:25):
I'm gonna say Celtic because he sounds like he should
work at Boston Market.

Speaker 6 (57:29):
Buyer, I'm just gonna I'll go with Rich. I'll say
Boston Markets. Like I'm out Sam. I'm gonna say former
Celtic Scott in Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
Oh man, I'm gonna go Boston Market.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
Gary Phillips is a former guard for the nineteen sixty
two Celtics.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Yes, out of Houston. Sounds like an old white guy
forgot the Celtics go back quite a while. All right,
Next name Rich all right, Billy Walker, Billy Walker.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
There's been some Walker Celtics, but I don't know about Billy.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
You know, I'm going Celtic.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
I feel like this is gonna be one of those
guys that, yeah, is Celtic spot.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
I'm gonna go Celtic as well.

Speaker 6 (58:14):
Buyer, I'll go Boston Market, Sam, Boston Market.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Scott in Wisconsin, Celtic.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
Billy Walker's a GM in training for Boston Market in Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
We wish it well, you'll get that gam position, Billy
all right.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
And finally Rich, Boston Market worker or Boston Celtics player
Ben Clyde.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Ben Clyde, Ben Clyde, an eighty Celtic. That's saw a
very little time. I'm going Celtic spot. I'm gonna go
Celtic as well.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Buyer.

Speaker 6 (58:52):
Gosh, it's so close to Joe Klein. I'm gonna go.
I know, I know, but Ben, it's Ben Clyde.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
I'm going to say Boston Market, Okay, Sam, Celtic, Scott
and Wisconsin. Ben Clyde is a former forward for the
nineteen seventy five Celtics.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Yeah, Ben out of Florida State. Now the moment of truth.
Did Scott come in last? Play? Spot?

Speaker 7 (59:17):
You know this is tricky because we have a tie,
we have a we have a three.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Way tie for last place technically, and has Ben is
Scott one of them? And Scott is one of those?

Speaker 1 (59:28):
No, Scott win surprised because this game is so ridiculous. Scott,
You're going away.

Speaker 7 (59:32):
Came second and ioa, Sam is coming first every time we.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Won lastday. Yeah that was last last Friday.

Speaker 5 (59:40):
But still look at that from last to first first,
Iowa Sam the American Dream. So Scott, we are going
to mail out a swiggy to you.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
I appreciate it, man, I love you guys. You guys
are great.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Thank you, thank you for hanging with the nonsense and
the fun every afternoon.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
Used to go some high school basketball and football and jeans.
Yeah the way back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Oh, look at this, so d B.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Hey, we do this fun silly stuff every day if
you want in every day, we you know, every couple
of days will play a silly game, give away some
prizes for you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Appreciate you listening. And Scott hold on in Wisconsin as
we go to Dan Buyer for an update.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
What's up by the way in Boston? Do they just
call it the market? Like, do they need to do
they call in France?

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
Do they say, all right, guys, we're about an hour
and a half away from face off and game Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Game five of the Stanley Cup Final. I was doing
my math in my head.

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
Game five, Oilers and Panthers, eight o'clock Eastern Time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Panthers up three to one.