The Best Of Covino & Rich

Rich turns the airwaves into Larry David radio! They react to Covino's Yankees adding Cody Bellinger. Is the personal life/wife situation between Cody & Stanton a real deal? The guys take a close look at the competitive NFC! They talk TV shows that are returning. Is the NBA Cup a snooze? Is the AFC only a three team race? 'SHOWTIME MAHOMES TRVIA' storms in on a limp! Plus, boxing news, Penix Jr. & Rich's softball Championship game!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:22):
Before we get into uh, Josh Allen in the NFL,
and you know where do we see things going? Getting in?
Like I said to week sixteen, someone brought in scones
and I felt like Larry David because there was an
episode if you remember, where him and Mocha Joe argued
about the difference between a scone and a muffin. I

(00:45):
barely remember, but I do remember love Mocha Joe. I
remember he opened up a spiked coffee shop. Well't tell
you Larry's. But if you remember the old episode of Curb,
take a listen. It's a little soft scone. Yeah, the
scone's supposed to be hard. This is like a mufflin.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well not really, it's supposed to be fresh, yeah, fresh hard.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, that's a fresh scone. I'm not quite sure you
know where the scone is. Munca Joe, Oh, I know
what scone is, do you? Yeah, you might have a
looser definition of scone than I do. I don't think
it's really open to interpretation, though. Do you want the
scone or not? Yeah, I'll keep the scone slash muffin,
So you're gonna keep the scone. Yeah, muffin muffin enjoyed

(01:29):
this coone muffing. Now I'm confused because did someone bring
in stale muffins or scones to the office. And that's
my point. I as much as I'm enjoying, you know,
free food in the kitchen is a scone just a
stale muffin? No? But does anyone opt for the scone?
I mean like, if you go to an Italian restaurant,
are you grabbing? Are you grabbing the soft bread or

(01:52):
you grabbing that like the hard ass Italian bread where
it's like, oh it it's hard to chew. No, you're
grabbing the soft bread. If there was a blueberry muffin
in the kitchen or this blueberry scull and that, it
was like there's a brick.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
There's a difference. Muffin is like chewy treat. A scone
is like a dessert. Biscuit, and I know it's like
crumbly and buttery and a little.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Bit stable like a biscuit. But would you ever off
to the scone if that's all they had? If that's
all they had, But Danny, would you have a choice.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I'm going on a weak I was just gonna say, Rich,
the harder bread of the Italian restaurant, you're talking about it,
even those you soaked those with the olive oil and vinegar.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, no doubt. So again, just dumb thoughts here on
Covin On Rich, I just felt like Larry David for
a second when I was in the kitchen. You should
feel like Larry David because of your hairline, but I
felt like Larry David because you're way closer to Larry
David than me. You both have way more hair than
Larry David. David ever did personal conversation as Larry David. Yeah, exactly, thanks,

(03:00):
But anyway we can get into the NFL, it just
go no. Because I was like, as I'm eating the scone,
I'm like, you know what, this is such a Larry
David moment. I'm like, O wait. He had a fight
with Mocha Joe about scones, and I just ask when
you go it's like your theory when you go to
a drug store or a truck stop and you look
down at the candy row, you're like, who gets the

(03:22):
baby Ruth or something like I always say who gets
the Clark Bar? Like? How is that still? Like buys
the zagnut? How are these in business? Still? Who chooses
the Abba zaba? Besides Dave Chappelle and he trust me.
I want to make sure I sound grateful because I'm
eating a free scone someone brought in. But if I
were to go to a bakery, or you were to

(03:42):
go to a bakery, you're getting the coffee cake, You're
getting a muffin, a black and white cookie, some Italian cookies.
There's so many I can't imagine, Like where does the
scone drop to? Like this won't even make like the
top twenty five. We ate p rank them, not even
top twenty five. I make a pretty good scone. Actually, Yeah,
I don't hate on him the way you hate on it.
I say, it's my choice. But if we went there, dude,

(04:03):
I'm eating it. I don't really care that much, especially
if it's free. That's my counter. I want to make
on anything. I want to make you a scone.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I make like a good orange cranberry scone this time
of year, with like a little icing orange icing drizzle.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Make you scone. I left anything out there on the
counter and it was free to have. I'll taste a
little some dude, I'm must of course it's raccoon, which
we'll get to later on. You'll you'll bury your face
in anything. From what I understand. So if I if
we go to Bees Bakery in Tarzana, just I'm picking
a random good bakery here in southern California. You really
hung up on these scones, man, right, So go ahead,

(04:39):
you go to Bees. If I say, cad, you know,
pick any treat. Calories don't matter. You could pick out
scone to be like the least because it's probably like
an old guy thing. Yeah, you know, it's like it's hard.
You pick chocolate cake, you take strawberry shortcake, black white cookie,
you take two scones, okay, and I muffin. But does
the score? People probably needs to be dipped to top

(05:01):
it up.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I think a scone should be toasted with a little
bit of butter and jam, much like a biscuit.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Why does this scone have to be hard, like Larry
David said, why can't it be soft? A soft scone
seems more appealing. It seems like the top of a
Muffinich at the muffins, But Noah, muffin has a top,
and it has a bottom, top of the muffin to
the top of the muffin too. You my muffin top
is all that bonds say, full grain, low fat.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
So hey, listen, I'm sorry. I haven't brought it up.
I just I got in my head and I really
felt like we were living out a real Larry David moment.
People bring in their retreats, Yes we know. I don't
know who brought them in by whoever did is saying, yes,
the last time I bring these ungrateful guys any treats,
I said, I'm thankful. So I'm just saying there, I'll

(05:44):
give you the other one. You said, who buys like
the zag nut unless you are doing it purely for
dietary reasons? Yeah, you go to a Mexican restaurant who's
not taking flour over corn tortilla? Yeah I do, But
for a taco I like it.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, I was gonna say street tacos.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Choosing one or the other. They wouldn't off for both.
It's like it's the Christmas season. Who's buying all that
ribbon candy? Grandma's yeah, I do. Yes. Let me give
you a story, because everything has a dumb story on
our show. I worked at a cards and gift store
in high school, and this is why I'm telling you
ribbon candies about to go out of business. No, certain

(06:26):
things die with a generation, and that has to do
with technology, that has to do with, you know, types
of clothing, food, anything. I hope those strawberry candies don't
die with the older generation. Individually wrapped ones, you know,
individually wrapped strawberry I had one at Rich's house. I
had one. You had some in those. Someone must have
put it in a little bag of treats. Really, that's
because Rich is seventy five years old. They were part
of the ginger bread house making. Uh there was one inside.

(06:48):
Just grabbed it and had it.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
It was delicious. There's no name for those, by the way,
just strawberry candies. Where did grandmas get them from? That's
the mystery.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
The dollar tree, that's why they sell old. I thought
they just I thought they appeared at the bottom of
their purse. Dude, look at here's another. I worked at
the cards and gift store, and it sounds terrible, but
all the old ladies and old dudes would come in
and they would buy their brands of cigarettes, and they
slowly died off, one at a time, and then all

(07:16):
of a sudden, you know, fast forward a year or so,
I'm in high school working at the store. No one
buys Lucky Strike cigarettes anymore, let alone cigarettes in general,
because everyone that ever smoked Lucky Strikes is dead. They
were quite unlucky. I'm just saying, you go to a bakery,
there's gonna give a point where anyone that ever would
have opted for a scone is dead, so scones will

(07:38):
go away. I feel like you just worked out your
opening routine at Laughers this weekend. Here are show Stone.
Look at the clock.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's time for our first topical with Scone.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Hey, Rich, thanks for working at all the kinks on
the show. Hey, no problem, guys, Hey our first start
guess tonight. He's from New Jersey. Give it up for
Steve Camino. By the way, how do you feel about uh? Stones?
Were okay? Though I'll give you that. Let me let
me go. I'm gonna work out new material. How do
you about drones, guys? I mean, wow, do you believe

(08:20):
that they don't know what the drones are? I don't
believe that at all. You can't say that we're we
don't know anything and that we're completely safe at the
same time. Both both can't be true. Iowa, Sam, either
know or you don't. I'm not trying to forcibly make
them want to go back to food for I'm not
trying to forcibly push this into sports. But imagine if
a bunch of drones that no one knew what they

(08:41):
were doing, were hovering above a big stadium for a game.
Do you think that would fly? But do you think
that would be allowed? Like imagine would say your Jersey
Met Life giants are Jets game if they saw huge drones.
I don't live a met Life. I hate the Mets. Sorry, continue,

(09:02):
Would you believe that that would be okay? No? No way,
no how because the government knows these are our drones.
They're just not releasing why. We're searching for something, something radioactive,
something nuclear, We're searching these plasmoids. I don't know what
we're doing, but those are ours and the government's lying

(09:22):
to us about that. That's all I really understand. That's
my theory on it. There's no way they could say
we don't know anything about them. But you guys are
completely safe. They know they're just not letting us or
the public in on it. So, scones and drones, did
you guys see that mortgage rates dip slightly? Loans? I

(09:42):
just want to throw loans, Scones and drones, scones, shows
and loans. Give it up for Rich Davis everybody. I
would throw tomatoes and I will. You know what. I
wanted to let the Yankee News settle in for Kavino

(10:03):
because I did want to lead with that today other
than scones. Of course you did not. You wanted to
talk about scones all day. I think you have a
hanker in for some more. Maybe I guarantee you he
goes back into that kitchen and eats the rest of them.
He just hated on him for fifteen minutes. He's gonna
eat the rest. So the big news before we get
into show time, Mahomes Trivia Today, Rex Sports Connor McGregor's

(10:25):
in the news there's lots to get to. Yeah. Dan
Byer came into our little kitchen meeting area. He's like, Yo,
the Yankees just got Cody Ballinger. I gave him a
Derek Jeter fist pump. Hell yeah, yeah, Jeetz, that's exciting.
I like that left handed bat in the lineup. Bat's
left throws left. Could play a little first base. The

(10:47):
Yankees need first base. I don't know if you're appreciative
enough of what you got. Well, you got the number
one update guy in the world hand delivering you a message.
I think that's amazing. Yeah, and I'm grateful for that. Actually,
because he knew I'd be excited about it, and he
told me. I was like, yes, because the Yankees are
making moves. Here's the silver lining to losing Sodo. And
we lost Sodo. I admit that Los Soto, but it

(11:10):
forced the Yankees to make better moves for the team.
So the Max Freed was sort of a desperation. Got
to get him move after losing Sodo. Devin Williams, why
you let that's another move of strategy, get rid of
Nestor nasty Nestor gun you get him and his nasty

(11:32):
change up now and Cody Bellinger, who could play some
outfield and some first base, and he has some lineage.
I find that to be charming. I like that part
of the story, but that's not even where we're going.
If you guys remember, most of you probably don't. His
dad was Clay Bellinger of the New York Yankees. Now
I'm a Yankees fan, I don't expect everybody to remember

(11:52):
this dude. He was your quintessential utility guy, you know,
average player at best. And then when I to have
a superstar stud of a son, yeah, I mean one
of those scenarios where the sun is significantly better than
the significantly But I bet you Cody grew up admiring
the pinstripes because that's where his dad played. And Yankee

(12:14):
fans remember Klay Bellinger because it's not like he was
a scrub. It's not like he sucked. He was just
one of those utility guys who you know, when he
came in, he delivered. He just wasn't a dominant player
by any means. And now his son is a New
York Yankee. I think there's some pride in that, following
in his dad's footsteps doing maybe what his dad couldn't

(12:34):
becoming a star in New York City. I think there's
a lot of cool storylines there, But then there's like
a little side storyline I was hearing whispers of as
a Yankees fan, is it a big story? Probably not.
But as a Yankees fan who gets all the social
media updates and sees all this gossip and bossip online,
I did hear a story of, Wait a second, is

(12:56):
there gonna be any beef between Cody Bellinger and Jean
Carlo Stanton? Why would there be beef? Cavino, Well, get
this in around twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. This is all gossip,
and I'm not wishing for any sort of turmoil, and
I'm not trying to be sillacious. I'm just trying to
tell you what people are saying online and how would

(13:16):
you feel about it? According to the legend. According to
the story, Jean Carlo Stanton one of the most handsome
guys in baseball. We can agree, right, we can put
our machismo's side and say John Carlo Stanton's a bit
of a stud. Even my girlfriend's like, geez, louis the
buns on that guy? And I have to say he
must work out. I mean he's ripped. The dude is

(13:37):
like the rocking pin stripes. Right. My girl says he
has a Frankenstein face. I was about to say maybe
a little too masculine. Yeah, I was about to say, like,
I don't think Stanton. I think ripped and chiseled. I
don't think handsome. I don't think y'all tell you what
according to this article. This article I did read to
prove my theory here says he's deemed one of the
most handsome men in Major League Baseball. Was on the

(14:01):
prow twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen and dated this woman named
Chase Carter. Chase Carter is a Maxim magazine sports illustrated
Behamian bikini model, and I think she's still in her
twenty She's like twenty seven year old, really good looking woman.
So her and gian Carlo Stanton were dating for a

(14:21):
few years on and off or whatever. Either way they
were associated. I'm sure Jean Carlos Stanton dated plenty of women,
but then Chase Carter around that time ends up with
Cody Bellinger. They're now married and they have two kids.
Now you could say ancient history. Who cares, right, They've
all dated each other, all good looking, rich people. It's

(14:43):
not the first time something like this happens. But would
you be willing to put that aside if there ever
was a beef there? I don't know, like the inner
workings of does Cody hate Gean Carlo because of their past?
Did he steal her from Gean Carlo? I don't know
any of that. But what I do know is they
were associated at one point together his photos, so I

(15:04):
saw the photos unless they're AI and then she ended
up with Cody Bellinger, so the story was and now
we have to figure out what happens is can they
put those differences aside for the greater good of the Yankees?
They didn't want to let something like that get in
the way of them playing together and winning together with
the Yankees. Seems like it wasn't even an issue because

(15:24):
the deal is done today. But it could be stick
yek yeky your thoughts. There is going to be so
many little childish whispers in the Yankee clubhouse. And by
the way, that's just one part of the story. The
other do you think Bellinger's gonna prosper in the Pinstripes
because he did slide a little bit last year with

(15:47):
eighteen home runs. He went from twenty six home runs
in twenty twenty three to eighteen last year. He was
a little hurt last year, but he went from three
zho seven having to look at the guy that used
to leave with his wife, right, right, that's a little
awkward a right, So let's put it in regular guy terms.
You got a new job and you roll in and
now you're working with the guy who used to date

(16:11):
your wife and date you know, you say date to
be kind rich put it in other terms, you're thinking
about Lundberg what Lundberg used to do? Yep, Right, So
that's a little awkward. Will that get in the way?
Is as something that would bother you? And what do
you think about this Cody Bellinger move? I honestly think
this could be he already had a comeback year, but

(16:31):
I think it could be another comeback year of sorts.
He's still a young player and I think he could
be a big bat with that short porch at Yankee Stadium. Listen,
you could say maturity will prevail and they're on the
same team, or the professionalism could prevail, right he did
you know? They're married, they got kids, different level but

(16:52):
it's not easy to have to constantly deal with someone
you know was with the woman you ended up with.
You you really ended up. You ended up going on
a few dates with a girl you really liked, and
I remember you couldn't carry on because you got win
that I had hooked up with her. Riches so badly

(17:12):
wanted to mention that because I got with her, I
was not Why would I try to mention that in
presk it goes along with the story you you did,
you couldn't proceed maybe taking her more serious. Hadn't I
known this fact? I thought it was a character flaw

(17:34):
on her part, So I was like, she's got Yeah.
I looked at it like she's got terrible judgment. So
I really can't really take this further. But yeah, no,
that was sort of a deal breaker for me of sorts,
like yeah, we can hang, but eh Rich will always
have that army that he used to get with her.
Who needs that? That's not something on you, that's in

(17:54):
your own head. So if you don't think Cody Bellinger
is on the new team being like I'm happily merried kids,
oh they're stant looking with this stupid muscles used to
sleep at my wife. You're a soft like you don't
think that's Come on, They're in their twenties. They're not
as mature as you think. Cody Bellinger before we start
playing games and giving away prizes trivia NFL to get

(18:14):
to but Conor McGregor lots to get to Cody Bellinger's
the story right now. I'm a Yankees fan. I'm pretty
excited because we're seeing them make these necessary moves to
sort of compensate for the loss of Juan Soto. It's
forcing them to be more creative and crafty and make
better choices. That's not like that. That's the silver lining.

(18:36):
They were sort of forced to work harder here to
create a better team instead of just banking it all
on Soto. So I'm liking what they're doing. It's good.
It's a good move, but you know what, it's a
it's I think the Yankees making the right moves. I'm
a firm believer in don't make a move just to
make a move. But as of right now, Devin Williams,
you shored up your bullpen with that. Yeah, I mean

(18:59):
next red. Only a hater would say, well, you know,
he's you know, a little older and he's coming off
with surgery. He's one of the best lefties in the league.
You got him so too. May have overpaid, or not
even overpaid. They came him maybe a year or two
too many. No salary cap to get the ball rolling
in the right direction after Soto, I think they had

(19:19):
to make that move. It's like a rich person at
a restaurant. You know that, you know how much a
bottle of wine cost? Who cares? They're rich? No salary cap,
paymas read the hundreds of millions of dollars. It doesn't matter.
And Cody Bellinger, it's only twenty nine former MVP. You
saw what he did now in Los Angeles. Of course
he dipped off a little bit. Had to come back
year in twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty three, twenty

(19:43):
six dogs, WHOA and batt at three oh seven again
fell off a little bit last year. That's almost as
many as that girl that broke a record. But he
was battle than one hundred and injury. So coming back
to New York has to rejuvenate him, has to get
the adrenaline flowing, as they say, and Rich hates it
putting on those pinstripes. Has to breathe new life into

(20:04):
this game. I mean putting on any new uniform. It's
not the stupid pinstripes, but it is when your dad
played for him, rich.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Did they put them on like that old Mento's commercial
where the guy sat on the bench.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Bench Remember his dad. A lot of people don't know
it because he wasn't a big star, but his dad
played for the Yankees, and that makes it more prideful.
I'm sure. I'm sure it's a proud day in the
Bellinger family and that's the primary focus here. Congratulations to Bellinger.
I wish him a great season. I think it's a
cool move. I like him in that Yankee lineup. A

(20:35):
solid left handed bat. He could play first base. The
Yankees need that, they need an outfielder. He plays the outfield.
I think he's gonna be a great fit. And the
right field porch is very appealing to left handed power hitters,
especially that fly out a lot. So and they're giving
up what potit for him and eating up through ust
at the Cubs contract. Well, let me give you the
number just so you know. Cody potit was a three

(20:59):
and zero young picture for the Yankees last year. Well,
they got Bellinger and the financials. From what I'm understanding,
he's owed about fifty mil over the next couple of years.
So the Cubs to entice the Yankees and make it,
you know, more of a deal that it was appealing,
they're throwing in about five million dollars to offset. So

(21:20):
you're paying Cody Bellinger in the low twenties, which I
think is fair market value for a former MVP. A
guy that's ninety thirty. Yankees get Bellinger and five million
for Cody potit a right handed picture on the Companyeah, yeah,
meaning five million dollars less than his contract with the Cubs,

(21:40):
which a lot of people thought was a little inflated.
So that's the story. It's a cool one because you're
seeing the Yankees make moves. But the other fun side
of the story, based on gossip and and life, actually
is the fact that Cody Bellinger's wife used to date
Gean Carlos Stanton. Hey, for all we know, is nothing serious,

(22:01):
but there was photos taken together. It was within a
two year span. I don't know how serious it was.
And for all we know, they're they're all friends, but
you yeah, for all we know, they're the best of friends.
Cody Bounder obviously has been married to her. They have
two kids. It's probably ancient history, but you know that's
gonna be ammunition for other teams and other fans when

(22:24):
they come visiting. Do you throw it? People handle these
things differently. Let me ask you. Let me start with Danny.
Danny and his wife, Brenda seemed to be very protective
of each other. Danny. If you started working at a
place and the other guy you had to work closer
with was like, oh, Brenda, oh man, I used to
Oh that's your life. Would that be something that you
enjoyed every day working with a guy that used to

(22:46):
do all types of things to the woman you love?

Speaker 4 (22:49):
No, I might have to take that dude out for
a conversation in the parking line.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I wonder if there is a good Yeah, you know,
still stories low. You know, it feels disrespectful a little bit.
I don't want to hear about it. I understand everybody
has a pan and think of all the locker room talk. Yeah,
you know it just it's just you said before that
I was room talk sounding immature. I did go out
a few times with the girl that dated Rich For

(23:14):
a minute, you don't think in reality. In reality, Rich
is my boy. But if I ended up dating that girl, seriously,
you don't think behind closed doors, he'd be telling everybody
that he used to hook up with her. You know, Dan,
well he would Rich, David sinks ships. He can't keep
his big mouth shut. And it wouldn't be to make
me look bad, but it would be just a little

(23:35):
feather in his cap, just to tell everybody else I
used to dater back in the day. And Rich, I
can't say I would blame you for having the urge
to maybe say that because it was your truth. It's
the truth. But that doesn't make me look or make
me feel any good in that situation. You know what,
they got me thinking about other stories in sports, not

(23:57):
not necessarily players who slept with teammate wives. But remember
the Yankees that swapped wives, Yeah, wife and dogs. They
swapped wives, wives and pets. Yeah, basically swapped lives they did.
That was a story from him, I believe, the seventies.
And then remember Jalen Ramsey when he was a first
time like hot shot in the league. He went down
the laundry list of how every quarterback in the NFL sucked,

(24:19):
not realizing that there would be a day where he'd
probably play on one of those teams, which he did famously.
He never played, He never played with him, right, But
then he say Josh Allen was trash. You know what
could happen though out of this subconsciously a fun sort
of competition amongst each other and they bring out the
best in one another. In that New York Sack Exchange

(24:43):
documentary about Mark Asteneau and the New York Jets, they
talk about how Joe Cleco and Gastineau they hated each other,
hated each other right, but what it did was brought
out the best in one another because there became then
became a friendly competition and amongst teammates. So you don't
think Jean Carlo hits a Stantonian blast. There's a part

(25:05):
of Bellinger that does feel like, oh man, now I
gotta step up and go yarn. It could it deeper
on a friendly competition. It depends on the maturity level,
it really does. You never want, I'm sure, say ancient history,
but the facts are still there and subconsciously, well, you
actually still want to be better. You act like people
are mature, and you act like young athletes are above

(25:27):
like pettiness and relationships, hopefully for your sake and the
Yankees taking their sake. Everything's fine, but don't act like
people aren't in subtle competitions with exes and oh who's
with who? Now? Oh your ex wife and this guy,
Like it doesn't make you happy that your ex's new
dude isn't as cool as you're like that, that doesn't
make you feel good, of course it does. So again.

(25:52):
Cody Bellinger's wife, beautiful wife, beautiful family, is twenty seven
year old Chase Carter, apparently allegedly suppose was linked to
Jean Carlos Stanton. Remember past, Remember when your baseball pitcher
Marcus Stroman, when he was at the Mets, he trashed
New York and how terrible the city was, the media,
the people, how bad New York was. And then a

(26:14):
couple of years later went to the Cubs, came back
to the Yankees and he had to do like the
whole Yeah, that was like blown out of proportion logo
I love New York that he was wearing like an
iHeart New York shirt. Get out of here. I will
wish Cody Bellinger the best. Welcome to the New York Yankees.
We gotta go to Dan Byle with an update. Dan Buyer,
do you think when they do like a tour of

(26:35):
the facility in stadium? John Carlo winks at Bellinger's wife.
I'd hope not. I would hope that would not happen.
I hope it is an awkward part of the story
that I wish didn't exist for the Yankee sake. But
I know a lot of fans will be talking about
that mark.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
You are spun on in terms of maturity that there's
it's it truly is can you get past it? Or
can't you any If you can, you're likely mature enough
to do so. You guys talked about the big deal
in baseball today. A lot happening in the NFL. Chiefs
quarter back Patrick Mahomes actually fully practiced today. Now I
light workout for the Chiefs and then go. Jandy Reid

(27:13):
said that they're going to go light this entire week
because of the cram schedule that they have with Week
sixteen on Saturday and then Week seventeen on Christmas Day.
But Mahomes dealing with that high ankle sprain.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
I had the games on, but after that I try
to watching other stuff. I just can't focus anymore. I
have no ability to focus on even hot making. Fox
as a robot couldn't get my attention. You don't want
a robot for Christmas? H I just keep looking at
my phone. In the second I start looking at my phone,
I'm like, Eh, I guess I'm bored with this show.
It's really it. I started watching season two of Silo

(27:49):
on Apple TV. Damn good show. Silo's good. Danny g
you know what I have not started yet? Shrinking? Oh yeah,
that's not what your wife said. Man. Wow, man, you

(28:09):
guys making fun of my scone conversation.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Yeah, it's like you guys are trading off with your
stand up routine.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Come on, he said, you know what I haven't started yet, shrinking.
Come on, anyway, you gotta laugh out of Sam. I
guess that's all that counts. And a rim shot, you
know you know what? Anyway, so rim shot? I yeah,
we heard that. We heard the first part, So jeez,
play one on yourself right now. NFCFC yes, oh you

(28:40):
could go either way with that. I guess all right.
The NFC North, let's talk NFC North for a second,
and the NFC Elite as we currently sit in the
studio on December seventeenth, the day the Simpsons debuted in
nineteen eighty nine, December seventeenth on the Tracy Oemens Show
or stand standalone stand like Fox Sunday Night remembers like

(29:03):
Married with Children, Simpsons, that old deal on this day,
nineteen eighty nine, So thirty five years ago the Simpsons debuted.
Now there's three teams that are twelve and two, the Lions,
the Vikings and the Eagles. Oh my, and as of
right now, there's you know, percentages in Vegas of who

(29:26):
will be the one seed. The Lions the heavy favor
to get that one seed at fifty four percent, the
Eagles at thirty percent, and the Vikings at sixteen percent.
As you know, the one seed gets the bye. Everyone
else has to play Opening Weekend. We're gone of the
days because of the seventh seed, gone of the days
of two teams getting a bye. Everyone's gonna play Wildcard Weekend,

(29:48):
the Super Wildcard Weekend as they've called it the last
couple of years. One team gets a buy, likely the
Chiefs in the AFC. In the NFC, it's a three
headed race right now. I don't know how we're so sure,
you know, Oh, it's gonna be the Lions. They've suffered
some key injuries. Let me give you the tail of
the tape. Neither team is dominant at home or on

(30:09):
the road. All three have a home loss. Lions six
and two at home, Viking seven and one at home,
Eagles six and one at home. They've all scored ballpark
same amount of points scored, Lions a bit more. Their
defense is all in the same area as far as
points allowed, so there's no like runaway while they have
there the one seat. Let me give you the final

(30:31):
three games for each and let's see where we think
these three teams. Did you mention the Vikings are three
and one in their division. Yep, but let me tell
you they have a lot more damage to be done
in that division. So here's what I want to do
when we come back. Let's go over the final three
games and let's assess where we think these three teams

(30:52):
will be. One will be a one seat with a buy,
and one's gonna be a three seed. I'm sure one's
gonna be a wildcard, and one's gonna be a two seed.
We'll get to all that next NFC playoff picture. You
know who's sit in the corner crying right now, NBA
front office people, because we have not mentioned one time

(31:13):
buyer mentioned the All Star Mini Tournament. But tonight tonight's
the isn't tonight the Cup Final? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (31:19):
I try to talk to you guys about this in
the pre show meeting today and neither of you even
knew who was playing.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Actually, the moment you asked me that right in my eye,
I guess that's how the algorithm works. Sometimes I opened
up my social media and it was Yanna saying that
they can't like, they can't lose. Losing is not an option.
They're going to win. This guy said to Danny, I go, okay,
see versus somebody the Nicks. But you got it half right.
It's it just proves the point that no one's in

(31:45):
that NBA mindset. Hey listen, Maybe other shows, maybe other hosts,
but here on our show. You know where our heads
are at. NFL college football still after the Super Bowl,
college football bowl games, baseball, winter meetings, in free agency.
These are where, you know, I think a lot of
people are thinking some good fights coming up. There's some
gimmicky fights coming up, and the ratings are showing that

(32:07):
in the NBA we've discussed it. It's yeah, so I
feel not off the mark when you see that ratings
are down twenty five plus percent. I don't feel like, Wow,
we're really missing the NBA Cup because I don't know
if anyone cares about it. Did Doug talk about it?
Dan Byer, No, he's an NBA he's a basketball guy. Nope,
didn't happen. It just proves.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'll also add another thing to it, because there's another
sport that's near and dear to my heart that hasn't
done a great job of promoting itself. And the division
within this sport is golf. And right now there's a
pay per view Rory McElroy Scotti Scheffler match against Brooks,
Koepka and Bryce and to Shamba. Then nobody also knows
about that. Nobody's talking about.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Or stars stars. Yeah, yes, nobody knows about it. Yeah.
That's sometimes our jobs to get people hyped, Like there's
a big fight coming up this weekend, and I don't
hear anybody talking about it. So I feel like it's
my duty make sure people know about it. Yeah, you're
a big golf guys, always feel free to be like, guys,
you're missing out of it because Camino's very quick to

(33:07):
tell us about who's boxing.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
No, but it's the organic nature. Like I get what
Kavino is saying, but there's also just the point of
and as I'm sitting here reading the stories, what's a
bigger story that the NBA Cup is tonight or that
Raheem Morris was noncommittal about Kirk Cousins being a starting quarterback.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, I think that's a way bigger story a coach's
speculation or I hate to say, it's a washed former
MVP going to the Yankees. Yeah, but you know what,
that time turned really quick, man, because NBA was creating
its own storylines for a long time. Yeah, and now
it seems like we're a little disinterested for whatever reason.
We've been exploring that. Now, back to the NFC North

(33:45):
And by the way, if you're watching the NBA Cup tonight, okay,
see five and a half point favorites and Giannis is saying,
you know, it's a must win, they're gonna win, So
maybe lay a few buckeroos on moneyline bucks tonight. Jannis
coming in with some fire or what thunder have a
strong squad like Giannis over thirty points, Bucks win a

(34:05):
little parlay action, so hey, you know, maybe give you
something to make you want to watch now. NFC number
one seed, Lions, Vikings, Eagles all twelve and two. Like
I said, one team will be the one seed, one
will end w in the two seed, and one of
those North teams will be the wild card. And Kivino,

(34:26):
let me throw the schedules at you and that's the
easiest way to start, and then there's some tiebreaker action.
But as of right now, you don't want to hear
this because it's a team that no one really wants
to see in the Super Bowl unless you live in
Philadelphia and you want some cheese steaks. Pats Geno's give
me in the where'd we go spot? Last time?

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Joe's Tony Tony Tony looks. The Eagles play all division games,
three division games to end the season. Eagles trying to
fight for the one seed. You know, nine in a
row since their bye week, nine in a row. I'm
so it's a ten in row since about ten in
a row since the Bible Row. They've won ten in

(35:09):
a row. And they play the Commanders, Cowboys and Giants.
You might stamp that fifteen and two ticket right there. Yeah.
I maybe the Commanders give them a little a little trouble,
but I don't even know if I see that, do you?
That was early season, Commanders. They were playing big, they're
playing nice. This game is in DC, is in Washington.

(35:32):
Philly is favored by three and a half on the road,
and the other two games should be cakewalks for me,
unless you think the Cowboys and rush Is gonna play spoiler. Okay,
so you got the fifteen and two Eagles. Wow? Huh
Yeah after starting ten to two and us saying they've
been understated all year, that means thirteen game win streak

(35:52):
to end it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Sometimes those in division games, though, are slug fest. Guess
the teams know each other so well.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Imagine if the Giants f them week eighteen. If imagine
if Tommy DeVito or someone like is the reason why
the Eagles don't get the one seed. How embarrassingly awesome
would that be? Oh, I got your Philly, That would
be Tony. That would be the biggest f you from
New York to Philly, which you know that rivalry. Imagine

(36:21):
if the Eagles just needed to win and they're the
one seed, and Tommy Duvito is your demise that Almighty
got something to root for? All right, all right, let's
go to the Vikings. Vikings have the hardest path, but
I also feel like they're the most underrated of all
these teams. Right. The Vikings play three playoff teams to finish,
which is why they're their odds are the lowest. The

(36:43):
Eagles have it, like I said, a cake walk in
their division. Maybe the Commanders give them some trouble and
the joke of maybe Tommy DeVito, right, listen to the
Vikings play because this is this is uh not simple
at all. The Minnesota Vikings have to go all the
way west Pacific northwest to be specific, to play Dan

(37:05):
Byer's Seattle Seahawks in Seattle. So the Vikings have to
go to Seattle. Then they come home to play the Packers. Okay,
so two tough games I think are the dark course
of the NFC. They just had a couple tough losses
in there. I think the Packers are as elite as
these teams. They're just not going to get a one seat.
As we mentioned, the Vikings are seven and one at home.

(37:29):
So Vikings at Seahawks, then they have to come home
to play the Packers again, two playoff teams likely, and
then they finished the season Vikings at Lions. Wow. So
let's say they take two of those games. That's that's ambitious.
But that's fourteen fourteen three. Yeah, all right, Lions. So

(37:53):
that means you got the Eagles at fifteen to two,
Vikings and fourteenth three team in three. If we're being ambitious,
let's go Lions. Now, Lions play at the Bears. I
mean they should handle that game, especially coming off of
a loss against the Bills. They score points, they'll win.

(38:13):
They're banged up, but they'll score points. So they got
a w there. They're playing on Monday night in San Francisco.
They should wipe the floor with the Niners, especially with
the Niners season being over. But what if the Niners say, yeah,
we want to play spoiler and you know that team
could get up for that game. But I still think
the Lions should win that game. So it really comes

(38:34):
down to Lions Vikings final game of the season. That
could very well mean who's the number one seed. And
then when you look at that NFC Lions, Vikings, Eagles, Packers,
those are four great teams. You know, for anyone that

(38:55):
thought the NFC was the weaker of the conferences, because
for a minute it was like, yeah, the AF seems
to have a leg up. I think the injuries are
going to really impact the Lions in this final stretch here.
You know what, that's tough Montgomery like that. So I
don't know that's tough for the Lions. I think they

(39:16):
got a tough break there. And co you know, just
for the heck of it, the Packers play the Saints,
the Vikings, and the Bears, so they could very well
end up they'll be like a twelve and five really
solid team going into the postseason. So twelve and five
the Packers no slouch. So again, Lions, Vikings, Eagles, Packers.
And then on top of that, your boy Colin and

(39:37):
you both high on Baker Mayfield. You don't want to
bump into Baker. Baker Mayfield a star eight and six.
They're on a four game winning streets that he said,
despite popular belief that he hates Baker Mayfield, he said
he actually offered Baker Mayfield the job turned them down
on the Volume Network. Yeah, yeah, that was the Star Stars.

(39:58):
He's a star well, guess what the Buck you know,
Mayfield is going to battle. I agree with them there
for sure. The Bucks are eight and six, and I
want to be shocked if they won out they play
the Cowboys, the Bucks in the Saint I'm sorry, they
play the Panthers in the Saints. Those are two w's right,
They're gonna be an eleven and six reasonably, you know,

(40:19):
solid team. Don't discount them because they're hot right now.
They've won four in a row. And the Rams, the
Rams have won three in a row and they've won
what nine of their last ten I'm sorry, seven to
the last eight or something, whatever it is. The Rams
are hot. So the NFC is going to be really
great playoff football. I see no real weakness all these

(40:41):
moving parts to either lose to the Bills or the Chiefs.
Probably the Bills. I mean, Danny g When you look
at that NFC, doesn't it feel a lot more solid
than we anticipated when we started this year? Me, you Covino,
Dan Bayer Iowa. I was saying, we all agreed. We
thought it was like forty nine Ers Lions, maybe the Packers, Like, yeah,

(41:02):
a lot of us took the Lions.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
You and I even before preseason talk were high on
the Commander's new leadership and of course Jade and Daniels.
But you know, and as you said, second half of
the season, they're not playing as good as they did
out the.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Commander's could be very proud, d energy, they'll be very
proud of a playoff berth and likely an early exit.
But that's a great step in the direct, in the
right direction for Washington.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
In the surprise has to be the Rams in first
place now in the NFC West, because you're right, so
many people like yourself included, wanted to see the Niners
hopefully catch that window before it closed.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
And they doesn't appear like it will be. Maybe they
revamp and come back next year. But Dan Byer week eighteen,
you got to be a little fired up anticipating Seahawks
at Rams. Are you gonna try to hit up that
game out here? Are you too busy on the air
at Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Here on the air at Fox Sports Radio that game though, Yeah,
I probably wouldn't love being there anyway, to be honest
with you, it's.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, driving, parking everything, Yeah, yeah, it's It's happened in
my old age.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
But there's the other turn of it is over these
last couple of weeks. Not a lot can happen unless
the Seahawks can completely fall in their face for that
game to not have meaning, Like I mean, it's it's
very likely going to have meaning. Danny says Rams are
in first place. They have the same record right now,
but yeah, Rams beat them earlier this year in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
I don't know if the Seahawks are peaking.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
They're just not up to the quality of the other
NFC teams that you mentioned, including the Rams right now.
But yeah, it's still there for him.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
So I think the NFC going into the playoffs in
a month from now, I think it's so much more
promising than we thought we really, I mean, I'll admit
I'm in niners Homer. I thought it was forty nine
ers and maybe like the Lions or Packers might give
them a little trouble. Remember, we thought, well, we saw
the Cowboys take a big step back, but we thought

(42:51):
the Eagles and the Cowboys would take a step back.
And we said, we said, well they well the South,
who is Atlanta with Kirk Cousins maybe, and that's likely
not the story. So you're looking at a really great
NFC playoff picture with Sam Darnold with the Lions, who
are a little more back to earth now back to
reality because they have some injuries.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
You didn't mention the Buccaneers who surprised a lot of
people by pounding that Chargers defense, which yeah, one of
the best defenses in the whole league.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, I told you. And Cavino and Colin Cowhar are
gonna go have some lattes and talk about their love
of Baker Mayfield. He gets the team fired up behind
them tough, They're gonna play tough, no matter what. You know,
They're gonna play tough. You know he could play and
they lost it. Think of the wide receiver injuries they
endured early on in the season. So the Bucks they fight, man,
they play hard. So NFC looking solid, really looking forward

(43:44):
to the playoffs. And again, because my Niners are out
of it. I do, I do acknowledge that I'm zoning
out a little bit as the season comes to an
end because I just want the playoffs to get here,
because you see all these teams and most of the
playoff team are locked in here before you know it,
I know, Week sixteen, let's go, now, we don't we
don't need to really talk about the AFCCUS. Is that

(44:06):
a in your estimation? Is that a three team race?
Or are you even counting on Pittsburgh or Houston or
one of these teams to make noise? Maybe Denver in
that defense or is it really Casey Buffalo and maybe
the Ravens if they catch fire? Yeah? I mean, do
you get Pittsburgh? Do you get Pitts? Credit to the Ravens?

(44:26):
Damn by you give the Pittsburgh a little credit? Mind?
Am I still sleeping on the Steelers? I know they
got something gone.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
I think Pittsburgh could go to Buffalo and win. I
mean the Bills in these great games of offense, like
what their defense is done?

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yeah, they're giving up like thirty and forty spots the
regular big games.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I think Pittsburgh would be able to score against some
of their defense is good enough to at least keep
the Bills in check. I think that that would be
a nightmare matchup for the Bills if they ended up
facing that in the divisional playoffs.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
I will prepare and they're rich. We in the NFC.
The last team we mentioned was the Bucks. AFC South
Texans are in for place at nine and five inconsistent,
so you don't know which Texans team might show up
in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Last year they finished, remember how strong they finished and
everyone was like no, in their defense, surprised a lot
of people. Well that was a you know, if you
remember back Camino your your favorite player to talk about
the end of last year with c J. Stroud and
Danny G's for sure, you guys until c J. Stroud
the big time Danny at the Super Bowl. Yeah. That
is interesting about the season though, because if you were
to pick a team, a most dominant team, you'd have

(45:27):
to say it's Buffalo this season. At least I would
say in moments, say Eagles, but Buffalo, right, But they
also do let up a lot of points, So it
really is any one season, which makes it a little
more interesting. Rich, which is why I'm surprised you're tuned out.
And it all comes down to your forty nine ers
not being a season where it really could be anybody's
that's where you should be the most tuned in. Yeah,

(45:48):
I'm I'm in it, but it's it's it's more about
just anxious for the playoffs. Now. I really want to
see these these key matchups, but there's some great matchups.
Like I said, getting into Week sixteen seventy eighteen, the
final the final stages of the year. All right, listen,
we want to play Showtime Mahomes Trivia. Giveaway some coveno
on rich goodies. Speaking of the AFC show Time Mahomes Trivia,

(46:11):
I saw Mahomes in the hallway. How's his ankles around?
I guess, so we'll do some Mahomes trivia. The mostly
lovable Patrick Mahomes. Truth is, I want everybody to love me,
not just the reps. It's time for some NFL trivia.
I'm here, I'm here, Yes, we know you're here, all right,

(46:33):
Patrick Mahomes here to play Showtime Homes Trivia. All right?

Speaker 4 (46:37):
FSR security walking our broke Patrick into the main studio.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Curry a little bit of a limp there, Yeah, it's
my pit walk. What's going on? All right? Guys? Hey,
how you feeling? Patrick Mahomes here? Uh. They say it's
a mild high ankle sprain. It's a little spicy. It's
actually a little spicy. But I'm still playing on playing
this weekend rich one spring to his ankle whially high? Yeah,
I know, count yeah, yeah, But when isn't he high

(47:05):
on the show.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
On the show yesterday, Rich said you should just take
that game off.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Man, man, man, I'm a gamer, and it's something he
would do. Yeah, something that's Rich Davis sort of move.
I'm gonna go in there and light up the Texans,
light it up with my mouth's brain and then let
Carson come in and finish it off. You're looking at
the quarterback of the sixteen and one Chiefs. WHOA.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Let's go, all right, shirt up, talk talk there from
a camp. All right, we're gonna meet the contestants. Twenty
four time winner Rich Davis, you, fifteen time winner Dan Byer, Hello,
six time winner Spotty Boy yep, and looking to win
a seeing our stainless steel Swiggy on our studio lines,
Josh and to Hatchapee, California.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Josh, what's up? Bud? What up? Jay It? What's up? Josh?
What do you do for a living there in to Hatchapee?
I'm a trade manager on Edward Dead.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Oh cool, We salute you, sir. Here are the rules
we show time mahomes NFL Trivia. The first contestant with
two correct answers is the champion. If there's a tie,
we have a tiebreaker question. Your name is your buzzer,
but you do have to wait until all three possible
answers are read. If there's two wrong answers in a row,
we move on to the next question.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Are you ready? Let's get it on. I'm Patrick Mahomes.
I'm here on September twenty Hold on, why don't you
give Carson Wentz a chance just to have one start?

Speaker 3 (48:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
No, because why can't we both play? Simple answer?

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Right?

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Everyone's like, am I gonna stars? You get it? Why not? Both?
All right? Round one? On September twenty fifth, nineteen ninety eight,
Tennessee Football LP file for its two final trademark ideas
Tennessee Titans and blank A Tennessee tradition B Tennessee Tornadoes
or C Tennessee Tigers. Dan buyer B. Yes, the Tornado Tonadoes,

(48:57):
Tennessee Tornadoes. That's a good name. I like that. It's
no place like home buyer. HiT's on the board.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Yeah, the owner of the Titan City actually hated that
tornadoes idea.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
All right, we go to round two. Round two. What
was I once quoted saying about my daily routine? A?
Every day is different, but I run through the same
plays in my mind each day. B. I try to
focus in on being the same routine every single day.

(49:28):
See in a league group chat, I text good morning
Sunshine to the refs every single morning. What was I
once quoted saying about routine?

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Yes, spotty got in there. Uh well, as much as
I'd like to say.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
See, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with a no. Well, Josh, oh,
Josh with a quick steal. Yes. Yes, I try to
just focus in on being in the same routine every
single day. You know, you don't text. You don't text
the refs in a group chap, good morning tree, not
every single day. Okay, it's not my deal. It's like

(50:02):
a weekly thing.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Now you actually text them. Let's win this every morning.
Buyer and Josh on the board as we moved around three, All.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Right, pack mahomes here, I'm here. Which NFL running back
is third in rushing yards behind Saquon and Derrick Henry
Karen Williams of the Rams, b John Robinson of the Falcons,
or see Josh Jacobs of the Packers. Dan Buyer for
the win. See, yesho, is that the win? Yeah? It is,

(50:37):
dam You just got smoke. That is Dan Bayer's sixteen
time victory in this game. He's got buyer. He just
likes the flex. Got Buyer.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
I'm on vacation and starting to borrow night, so I
had to go out on a high out.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Yeah, that's the way to do it.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
That's how we're gonna do it. Three andaroll, let's go. Yeah,
he's getting carried out of the studio like Rudy.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Also, right, guys. Oh, I'm sorry, No, Dan, you're the champ.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, you know what, It's all good. Thanks Patrick, Merry
Christmas to you.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Hey guys, I gotta go arrest my ankle and have
a great one. I'll see you next week.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Bye Patrick and Josh, And to hatch Apete, thank you
for playing later.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
Josh, Thanks Josh Speader, Patrick Letter, Bud.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Oh Man, he's always hiped man. You know what, as
the season starts to wind up, you can see him
getting more and more hyped. You know, we say this,
going for it. You know, you and I have worked
together a long time. In fact, yesterday we celebrated twenty
years together. Twenty years technically on Sunday, but we celebrated
yesterday and one of our running jokes is in sports,

(51:40):
we love to speculate and we talk over and over
and over about the possibilities of all this matchup or
this matchup, And for years it was like, no matter
what you said, it's gonna be Brady. And we feel
like the last five years we could speculate, Oh, maybe
this is Josh Allen or Burrow, this guy or that,
and it's you know what it's like, Well, homes like

(52:01):
oh weeks like that stupid rom com where this guy's
always looking for this hottie to be the one, but
the one has been there the whole time, knows his
best female pal. Yeah, like she was there the whole time,
and you know the whole time watching Oh, he's gonna
end up with her, She's the perfect one all along?
Is that really? Like watching the NFL season, it's like, yeoh,

(52:22):
could be that team, could be this team. Man, this
team looks hot, but in the end, oh, it's so obvious.
All along, it was always the Chiefs. Happy holidays from
your pals CNR on FSR, Covino and Rich celebrating twenty

(52:42):
years together this week. Three plus years here on Fox
Sports Radio are three favorite years. Not just saying that
even though this great advice. If your wife or girlfriend
ever asks you who's the best, who is the best,
you always say whoever you're with you, honey, unless you
want a challenger you honey. Of course, maybe she'll try
harder if you said someone else. I do mean it, hey,

(53:03):
any final thoughts by the way on this Connor McGregor,
Logan Paul, By the way, Logan Paul, not Jake Paul.
Connor McGregor Logan Paul fight rumor, because he's going around
saying it's happening. I mean, Jake Paul's way more hateable.
But I think the only lore is that whoever wins,
people enjoy seeing the loser get beat. If Logan Paul loses, dude,

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one of the Paul brothers got knocked out. If Connor
McGregor loses, then it'll be really wild to be like
Heil McGregor lost to a YouTuber and a wrestler. Connor's washed, right.
We don't know what he's got in the tank, to
be honest, but he hasn't fought in a long time.
Logan Paul not known for his fighting, known for his wrestling,
but he did fight and Mayweather go the distance with Mayweather.
But here's what sucks. We were talking about it in

(53:47):
our pre show meeting with Mike who runs this place.
Who Mike the guy who looks like Rick from Pond
Stars Who Mike, Oh, an older stone Cult Yeah, Mike,
he's like he hates that, by the way, because he's like, oh,
you know, I'm younger than Stone Cold. He was like, yeah,
but you know what we're gonna get. It's gonna go
the distance, Like because Rich is saying, the redeeming benefit
here is you'd love to see both of those guys

(54:08):
get knocked out. So it's a win win, but it
really is a wash if it just goes to dim
just waste their time. So Mike actually came up with
a great idea. He's like, I'd watch if they just
went until it ends, until somebody got that. But that'sntil
somebody dies. No, no, no no. But it's not a
bad idea, right because if they're gonna if they're gonna box,

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because Connor McGregor is a mixed martial artist, but if
he decides to box Logan Paul and they box, but
it goes until someone wins, I think that's kind of cool, exciting.
The only thing exciting is to see someone lose. You
know how in baseball we joked about the golden at bat. Yeah,
what if what if they gave uh connor like the

(54:50):
Goldmen kick like one time throughout the fight. One time
he's just allowed to go UFC for a second, like
like he's allowed to strategically pick one time like.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Nah.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
I mean it makes it icing rich where I think
it really lacks. I don't think there's a huge market
for McGregor. Well, listen, you're talking about a lot of
week it's just because you're talking about excitement. We're talking
about a great NFL finish. We got a couple of
great weeks coming up. The NBA Cup Finals is tonight.
But you know what else is tonight? Trumping all of
these things trump my softball championship game. Very serious. Oh yeah,

(55:24):
And I just had a question for you guys.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Are you going to talk about this Because'm gonna go
take a bathroom break. You should bring the other team scones.
It'll slow them down.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
You know, tell me about your yoga class spot. Is
that what you want to talk about? I mean, I
don't bring those things on the air. You just kidding.
So goehad, tell us about it. Here's the question. Yeah,
it's a championship game. Put in perspective that it's a
championship Well, at the same time, it is rex sports.

(55:52):
If we've had thirteen guys throughout the season, come and
go because not everyone can make every week their kids
got to recital. Some guys, Yeah I'm late at work.
I can't make this week. I'm on vacation. Yeah, you
can't roll with a roster of ten or eleven guys
because you guys are gonna take time off championship game tonight.
If like twelve guys can make it, do you bat twelve?

(56:16):
If you can like extra hitters because you it's like, well,
you're giving everyone a chance. It's a bunch of grown
men that are there to have fun. Or it's like, no, dude,
we bat ten. We're trying to win. Trying to win?
What are you eight years old? No, everyone gets in
that bat. No. But you could say, well, what are
the stakes do it's my man and realize that no
trying to win. But if it's a bunch of thirty
forty fifty year old guys playing, is winning the trophy?

(56:39):
You mean anything isn't it really about the hang. So
it's a politically correct lameness about little every little kid
getting in that bat is the fact that it waters
down the winning aspect of the game. We're talking about
adults here, So we made that exception for kids because hey,
they're just kids. Why can't adults then just wrap their
stupid heads around the fact that you're trying to win.

(56:59):
So you're telling it the best n you get out there,
telling the guy, hey, Doug, hey, Doug, take some time
away from your wife and kids and everything to sit
on the bench at softball. I still you're still possibly
needed in the championship game. Want to pinch hit? That's
not baseball. You can't. You can't make all this fuss
about little kids, and then adults have to all at bat.

(57:19):
They all bat. Kids are leading towards something possibly playing
in high school colleges that these are old guys just playing. Well,
I wouldn't want to waste my time if it wasn't
to win. So all right, well do you know what, Well,
I'll let you know how it works out there in
the Promised Land. Goodbye.