The Best of Covino & Rich

Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos in for C&R as they discuss the night that Covino and Rich had at the All-Star game for everyone to see on TV.

Dan and Monse react to comments made by Scottie Scheffler as he admitted that winning is not that fulfilling. 

Dan and Monse talk about where they want to sit at a baseball game and why.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Yes, you heard that correctly, no jury duty today for
Manci Bolamios.

Speaker 5 (00:26):
That's right. I didn't even have to lie my way
out of it.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
You wouldn't lie because you abide by the rules. Sometimes,
don't throw it away, you don't ignore it. You call
in and you find out your status. How nervous was
that phone call?

Speaker 6 (00:42):
I was? I had to go online, so I didn't
call in. I was able to go online. And I
was sitting at dinner with some girlfriends because my friend
Natalie is moving to New York. Hope she's safely traveling
right now. But I read it and I was like,
read this, Am I right? Am I good for the week?

Speaker 5 (00:59):
And she's like you're good for the week And I
was like, yes, shuts.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Keep that music rocking, Ryan, there you go, it's just
a want to play forever.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Well. Yeah, So It was a really really exciting moment.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
But I had somebody else to read it to make
sure that I wasn't crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Am I reading what I think I'm reading?

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:16):
And also sometimes don't you have to call like multiple days?
And so my thing said you're good for the week.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
You're done.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Really, Oh you're done.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
I'm done done, And that's why I was like super
super excited. But I had somebody read. I was like,
is this read what I think it reads? She's like, yeah,
you're done. I was like, great, Margarita's let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Well, congratulations. We weren't sure if Moncy was going to
be here today, and she is here. I am able
to survive her commitment. It doesn't it feel good? Does
it feel good?

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Things the right way?

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:45):
She does?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
And now you don't have to worry about it for
like another year.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Much How exciting, very exciting.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, quite a twenty four hours Here on Fox Sports Radio,
Jason Stewart is here, Papa Bearry, who you heard, is
our technical producer, and Isaac lowing On is me at
the news desk. We've got a great show for you today.
Some ups and downs, some highs and lows. There are
there was no bigger high than watching the home run

(02:13):
derby last night and seeing Cavino and Rich by the
way multiple times during the broadcast, Yes, multiple times as
they took in the home run derby. Now the guys
aren't here because either're in Atlanta. They're taking in the
festivities right now, just like they were yesterday. But they
were also in for Dan Patrick earlier today as they

(02:35):
were broadcasting from the All Star Game. So we're gonna
hear a little bit about their experience last night. But
I was I recorded the home run derby because I
wasn't gonna be able to watch all of it through.
So I saw the beginning, saw James Wood lead off. Yep,
my four year old is learning to swim, so we
you know, we got them some swimming lessons, and so
we were doing some of some of that stuff. And

(02:57):
I go and I look on my phone and Jason
Stewart has sent me a clip Cavino and Rich in
the outfield, and so then it kind of went like wildfire.
So I'm like, great, I'm gonna go and rewind I
remember Byron Buxton was the batter. Yeah, So then I
see them, I'm like, wait a second, that's a different angle,
yea one that Jason Stewart sent me so multiple times.

(03:18):
They were bush whacking during the home run derby last
night in Atlanta.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
I feel like you and I had the exact same evening,
except you were with your four year old and I
was out having margaritas. Because I also stopped after James
Wood put it to record and went out to dinner
and then came back and watched it already knowing that
I was gonna see them on screen.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
And then the first time I saw them, and.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Obviously one is wearing Yankees and one is wearing Mets,
so it was easy to kind of catch them.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
And I thought the same thing. I was like, that's
not the clip Jason put up. How many times are
they gonna come up? And so it was really cool
to see them. I mean, just those idiots. They were
having such a fun time.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
They were in the Byron Buxton sweet spot. Yes they were,
because that's where he was launching his home runs last night.
We want you if you're a big Cavino and Rich fan,
and maybe weren't able to catch him. This morning, here
was a little bit of the guys explaining what it
was like to be Basically, I feel it's target practice,

(04:13):
like I really is, like when you look at how
those home runs are flying off the bat, and I
just feel every fan is a sitting duck. So they
were in harm's way for a good two and a
half hours last night, especially when Byron Buckston was at
the plate. This was This is what Cavino and Rich
had to say about their experience in the bleachers last

(04:33):
night for home run derby.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
We go to the derby with our credential, we have
our press pass, we don't have an actual seat. So
I say, Covino follow me, and I just sort of
go to left field, walk down the aisle, and I'm like,
all right, I see some empty seats and like the
fourth or fifth row in left field, I'm gonna sit

(04:56):
there until someone tells us to move.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
And guess what, Danny g No one ever, No one
ever came, Nobody.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Ever told us to move.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Now, Rich and I have never caught a found ball
or a home run out of all the games and
derbys we've been to.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Never.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yesterday, two balls came right at us, literally one seat
behind us, literally one seat in front of us. But
the feeling of that ball coming at you It's like
a very intimidating feeling because this is up there forever
and you feel like the chosen one of fifty five
thousand people, like, oh.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
My god, it's coming here now.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
One came closer to Rich than it did to me,
and he said, he'll tell you he's shicken down. There
was part of me because so the one in front
of me, someone in the row in front of us
caught one. It was too shallow. There's no way I
could have got it. The one that the guy caught
right behind me.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
I second guessed.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'm like, if I would have jumped, I think I
could have got a hand on it. But then I'm like,
everyone's going at each other. If I jump, someone's gonna
body check me, and I'm gonna go over chair.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
Rich.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
I'm right with Rich Davis. I am right with Rich
Davis on this. I know I'm a Covino guy, but
I'm right with Rich Davis. The way that they talked
about leading up to the home run derby, with the
balls coming at them, it was a frightening perspective. They
knew I got looks, and you know what I wanted
to say. Jason Stewart Paus when they talk about that

(06:27):
you think you have all the time in the world,
it's only because time slows down, yes, and so you
have a millisecond to respond. And I think Rich, you
made the right call. Get out of get out of
the way. You don't know all of these MANSI none
of these are cheap. These are all rockets, yes, being
hit at you. There's not the ability of let me

(06:48):
just snag this one. Maybe I can bare hand this one.
I am while being a Covino guy on most days,
I am totally with Rich and I agree wholeheartedly with
him chickening out in that scenario.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
I've got he admitted that he chickened out because when
I read that, I hadn't heard it into right now,
but I read the story and I was like, of
course Rich chickened out. He was worried he's gonna throw
a hip out, that he's gonna do something. But I
will say, I'm not judging them as hard because they
didn't have a glove, right, Yeah, yes, so that does
that makes a difference. Like naturally, if I have a

(07:22):
glove and there's a ball coming in my direction, I'm
climbing over you, over the next person. I'm getting this
ball just naturally if I.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Have a glove.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
If I don't have a glove, I may reassess my decision.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
But it all happens so fast.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Like you said, there there was a okay, there was
a point, and this is Cavino did put on a
blue Geico big glove, and that was in the clip
Jason Stewart had in the first one that Buxton hit
that we saw them on TV. He did not have
a glove. Now, granted, I think these are inflatable gloves
that are eighteen times bigger than a regular goal, right, right, right,
So it's not like you're going to snag one. However,

(07:59):
it would cushion the landing of that meteorite that's aiming
for your head.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yes, I wonder if now Rich is like, man, I
should have gone for it.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
I should have gone for it. What if I would
have got it?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
I am on team Rich, you know why? Because there
are like eighty some home run balls, like even more
than that. Is it worth sacrificing breaking your hand for it?

Speaker 8 (08:20):
Maybe?

Speaker 4 (08:21):
And for a guy to not be able to play
softball like he.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Does, Okay, fine, you're adding a layer to it.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
You're right, he does still play he probably you're adding
layers to it, You're right.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I just the home run derby.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
You just get so excited, you know, being in that
you see all these home runs that you want to
partake in it, even like I feel like naturally you
would go for it without wanting to go for it.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm gonna I'm gonna say this, and I am curious
on the thoughts because I think there is the bigger picture.
Are you a Rich Davis and would get away? Or
how would you stand in for it? Sorry to use
rich as a verb here, but when I when I
saw the cliff at first, I know they talk about,
you know, bushwhacking and stuff and the Bushwhackers, the old
WWE tag team magnificent. But when I first saw them,

(09:08):
I'm like, oh my gosh, they look like little school kids.
They're in their jerseys, they're having a great time. It's like,
oh my goodness, a baseball almost came our way. And
then I thought, that's awesome that they look like school kids.
And then they did the bushwhackers stuff even better, like

(09:29):
it was. I tweeted it was it was magical because
it truly was. And to see those guys for how
much they love baseball to see them rocking their teams.
I think it's cool when you have you know, they're
both New York guys, and Kevino's the Yankees fan, Rich
is the Mets fan. To see them have that joy
and excitement, And what better place to be if you're
a baseball fan than the Little Star Game. Yeah, the

(09:49):
whole thing was just was just great. And I'm not
saying that because we're filling in on the show, but
it was. It was really cool to see. But at
first I was like, guys, chill out, and I'm like, no,
don't chill out.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
Keep the I agree with you, and I thought that
even before seeing them, like seeing all of these you know,
whether it was a father and son. But the minute
you catch that ball, the excitement over everyone around you.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Everyone's excited for you.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
It's a weird feeling because it's like, again, nobody cares
about the final score.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
When you're at maybe.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
An away game of your favorite team and there's a
home run from not your team, You're like, oh, and
then the ball's coming at you and you don't know
what to do here in the situation, all the home runs,
everybody wants them, Every single person wants to get one.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
There's pure excitement.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
It doesn't matter if you caught it, the guy next
to you, the son.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
It is such a cool.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Vibe to see everyone so excited. I cannot believe they
got down there. Here at Dodger Stadium a few years ago,
when we had the home run derby, you know Dodger Stadium,
you can go to the pavilions and walk around. On
a regular game, they actually held security and you couldn't
come into that section, even to stand in the back.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
You can only come in if you had a ticket there.
They really kept it.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
You know, secluded from the people, and I thought that
was smart. So I had to see that they were
able to get down there, and then nobody stopped them
because at Dodger Stadium when we had the home run derby,
the pavilions were locked down.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
You can knock them in unless you had a ticket there.
On a regular game, you can go in there and
walk around.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
We have a surprise guest, Brock Purty, signed an extension
the last time we had him on the show. Live
from the All Star festivities in Atlanta, Rich Davis joins
the show talking about the highlight of last night. Rich
I know I've said I'm a Cavino guy, but I'm
with you. I'm getting out of the way. I'm getting
out of the way from the ball last night.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
You know, it's not so much that I got out
of the way, it's just that there's so many people
around you reaching out with gloves. One of them was
definitely in front of me. I had no shot at
but the one where the guy right behind me caught it.

Speaker 9 (11:42):
He was six six, he.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
Was a big dude, and he caught it with one
of those big ass blue gloves. And I was like,
if I jump as high as I can and then
I fall my back hits the chair, and or if
I get knocked over, I'm.

Speaker 9 (11:54):
Like, you know what, I don't need the ball.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
We just want to do the bushwhacker. I'm like, I
know I can catch a fly ball, but I think
the funniest part I just heard MONSI say. I literally
just walked with purpose and made it seem like I
was going where I was supposed to go. I had
my lanyard on that had like all my credentials, and
I just walked past the security guard gave him a
little like how do you do? Like like I'm supposed

(12:16):
to be going there. I looked for two empty seats
and I was like, all right, I'll sit here with
Cavino until someone else comes here. And no one came.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
I would say that the reason that no one was
in those seats was because they would be like me
and realize, I'm gonna get peppered by baseballs for the
next three hours, three rows from from you know, from
the outfield wall. There's absolutely no possible way to do.
So how did Cavino get that blue glove? Sorry that
I just liked direct, but if he had, we saw
you guys multiple times when when Byron Buxton was up

(12:48):
during his multiple rounds. How did Cavino end up with
a blue glove?

Speaker 7 (12:52):
Oh, he snagged it because he wanted to give it
to Aaron Judge.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Stop.

Speaker 7 (13:00):
No, it was it was sitting there and someone goes,
is this is yours? And it was one of those
you know, it's like a bobblehead sitting around. If no
one claims it, maybe he's like, I'll take I'll take it.
And I think Geico was just handing them out if
you gave up like your email address or something.

Speaker 9 (13:11):
But yeah, we we were we had a purpose. Dan
and Monci we got down there, and uh, you know
the fact that right hand hitters stayed in was the key,
because when lefties are up, it's sort of like a
snooze timing. You're just watching.

Speaker 7 (13:24):
By the way, oneal Cruise look like his balls were
moving out of the stadium more than any like. It
looked like he had a different swing than every other human.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
It looked like that watching it from home now dead.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
Okay, how fast did you know that you guys were
on the on TV or on the screen. Did you
immediately get a text from somebody? Because, like Dan say,
you guys kept.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Coming up.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
Immediately, like all our friends and listeners are like, you idiots,
there you are, and like, honestly, it's uh, it's comino,
and I agree. It's the one time of year where
we feel most like school kids, and like I think
Danny even said, we look like little school boys in
our jersey.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, I thought, come on, guys, be cool, and then
I thought, nah, that's not the way to be cool.
You guys were awesome.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
No, but it was fun. Thank you guys for giving
us a love with that. But yet it's definitely doing
that stupid bushwhacker at the Derby. It's a Caveno on
Rich tradition. We've probably done it ten or more times,
and each time the goal is to get on TV.
And the funniest part is, but you know, we had
our own TV shows, But that's more exciting.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
Yes, totally, totally.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Also great to know that Truest Park has great Wi
Fi connection that you can get all those texts and
not find out after the fact that you know that
you're on TV, because in a packed house, you never
know how that's gonna work out.

Speaker 7 (14:36):
All right, it was a great time.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
You think, Yeah, are you headed to the game tonight?

Speaker 7 (14:41):
Yeah, we're actually we're headed early right now. We're gonna
interview Zach Brown, who's gonna be doing the national anthem,
and that'll be on our bonus podcast this week. I
believe over promise. So we're headed there early. They're gonna
grab some food and watch a game. So we're headed
there now.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
All right, enjoy it, Rich, thanks so much for the
entertainment last night.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, don't see anyone sees tonight.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Later they Rich Davis, he's the Rich part of Cavino
and Rich here on Fox Sports Radio as they were
taking center stage last night, I don't know cal Raley wonted,
but still it was about Cavino.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
And Rich last year he really really was and cal Raley,
I can we just talk about the best moment for me?
And watching the home run derby was honestly matt Olsen
because you wanted him to get in right there in
the first round and he only got to what was
at sixteen, But it was like everyone was obviously rooting
for matt Olsen to get in or he ended with seventeen,

(15:31):
but he didn't have a home run that went as far.
But because it was Atlanta, you know, everyone there was like,
come on, get in.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
Brent Rooker was mad, well, yeah, like that.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
Yes, on the broadcast they said it looks like we
might have a swing off. When it happened, you know,
right away when they ended with seventeen, and then they
then they said, oh no, he's in by less than
an inch. And I wondered if did the broadcast know
the rules or are the players like, I don't want
to swing off, you want me to do three rounds

(16:02):
of this.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
I think they made up a rule so cal Rawley
would make it to the next round.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
And you know, and you know what, I'm not even
mad about it. I'm not even mad about it.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
If Matt Olsen didn't get in who it was in Atlanta,
I wouldn't have been mad.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
You know, I'm not even mad if they did put
him in there and he ends up winning. That's what
everyone wanted to see, the big dumber.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Something that was missing last night were young children getting
peppered by line drives in the outfield because they it
seemed Jason Stewart and I bring you in that there
were more older athletic kids playing, including one that robs
home runs like that was that was amazing last night.
But I know it's one of your favorite traditions, is

(16:42):
trying to see if anybody can escape serious injury and
not be peppered by those line drives that don't go
out of the park. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I don't know if it's my age or the fact
that I'm a father or whatever, but I can't not
think of it the entire event that I'm watching it.
I'm just kind of waiting, not like eagerly waiting, but
waiting for one person to take in the face. Because
no matter how much older they are or how much
more skilled they are, everyone knows that when we played

(17:10):
heads up, seven up or whatever in the on the
school yard game. The worst part is when somebody jumps
in front of you, blocking your vision and then you
get the ball in the face. Now, if they have
to take this poor kid to a hospital or even worse,
like everybody on talk radio for the next week is
going to be like, how did they allow these kids
to be on the field. Yes, but it's gonna take

(17:32):
something like that for us to have that conversation. I'm
the one who thinks about it the entire event.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
I didn't think of that once.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
And last night. Last night, last night, I saw a
couple of kids who are like, all right, these guys
are these are there are other high school kids or
their college kids out there. And then the one kid
robs Kevin Yell of the home run, like, that's the
only rule that you have is to not steal the ball.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
But just like I said, if I'm out there and
I have a glove, I would go for it. If
I'm out in the field, I would try and rob
a home run.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
How great would it be?

Speaker 10 (18:10):
Na?

Speaker 5 (18:11):
And it's still counted, right because it counted yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Gonna tell Dale or and our junior to not dry
fast like it's it's who he is.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yes, it would be like if if you're watching the
three point contest and the ball boy that's supposed to
mop up shoe wetness blocks one of Curry's shots.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Yes, he's in it like warming up so good. Yes,
that's exactly. You can't help it. You can't help it.
I am out there.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
I just great. Somebody wrote like you had one job. No,
he did his job. He didn't. He just didn't do
it correctly. Able to field the baseball, just not as
it's about to soar over the fence to add to
his home run total in the.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
In the final, it was so good. It was such
a fun home run derby. It was so fun.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
How does night top it?

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Well, you get to see yeah, and you get to
see Paul schemes to start things off, so it'll be good.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Uh it was. It was a good night. And I
think that was more jack because of what Caveno and
Rich were able to do experience, but still it was
it was fun. You had you had drama, you had
a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Yeah,
it was good flavor last night. There also is a
point with it, and I think that we can all agree.
And it's something that Monts and I even mentioned yesterday.
She went to the home run Derby at Dodger Stadium.

(19:31):
When was it twenty twenty two? And I've been to
about four home run Derbies throughout my broadcasting career. There's
a point where you just want it over. You don't know,
you don't know where you are, but you're just like, Okay,
this has gone on like too long now, and you're
just waiting for them to play out this string. But
there is a point where you're still invested, invested and invested.

(19:54):
And for some reason, when I look on my TV
guide that pops up on we have direct TV, it
has a two hour window from home run Derby. Yes,
never in the history of the Home Run Derby has
it been anything less than like three hours.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
I tunned in at like I don't I don't know.
It was like seven forty five local time out here,
and it's like, all right, here comes cal Raleck. They
weren't even done yet. Ah goodness, just make it bigger.
So that's that's all we ask. I'm talking about the
window on your direct TV or however the TV guide you.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Are not wrong.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
I set it up to record and it was like
extend and I was like, uh huh, extend because this
is not two hours.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Like to extend one and eighty minutes. Please, She's Monte Milanio.
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Speaker 4 (21:15):
Was Rich Davis's sports baby by trying to avoid that
baseball I know, I don't think so He's only doing
what's right again.

Speaker 6 (21:23):
I know I'm just gonna I'm just gonna hold it
against him, much like I understood hold it against him
last night.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Welcome in, by the way, Isaac lowincroniz here, Jason Stewart,
Ryan Smith. We are in for Cavino and Rich because
they're taking in all the All Star festivities in Atlanta,
as they were in for Dan Patrick earlier today. Last
night I had my son. We were playing some t
ball in the front yard. Fun, yes, but I was
so careful that I wasn't gonna twist an ankle or

(21:49):
rupture my achilles because I got golf to play in
a month with my buddies back home. So that's that's
what I was like, making sure that I don't have
any serious injury trying to correct a line drive in
our front yard. I played it safe, and he just
had double after double after double.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
Good for him.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
I understand that's probably where Rich was thinking. I've got
a softball game. I can't throw out a hand, I
can't spring a Yeah, I get that, I get that,
but I just I live life on the wild side,
so I don't even think like that.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Moncey's got a volleyball game tonight.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
I don't. My team is too good.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
My team is too good and we got to buy
in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
We're too good. I don't like that.

Speaker 6 (22:30):
I told my team we have to be mid like
the kids say six seven.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Next week playoff volleyball for Moncy Bologna is off.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
On this Tuesday, This Tuesday party time.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Jason Stewart the topic going into next week. I don't
know what we're doing. We're probably doing the show rest
or Rust.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
That is a real thing. That is a real thing,
and I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
I'm I'm not not happy about this again. We want
to be mid six seven?

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Do you because you want to be primed for next
week or because you just don't like missing a week.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
I don't like.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Taking a week off. I don't. It feels because.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
It's empty in your life.

Speaker 6 (23:08):
No, it feels like I had a week off and
I'm like, oh my gosh, how do I serve again?

Speaker 5 (23:11):
How do I die for this ball?

Speaker 6 (23:13):
You know it feels I know it seems weird, but
it does. It's two weeks of no.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Volleyball and it's not the same.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
Like I can't you can go catch a ball, like
you said, right, you go play catch with your friend.
I not many people know how to play volleyball, so
I can't like.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Pepper with someone.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
Do you know what pepperine is?

Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah, okay, I'm just making sure you know.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
I don't know the ballparks, but yeah, like you know
pepper allowed.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Yeah, I just don't not a lot like nobody really
can pepper or like pepper.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Well, so it's not like I can you know, do that?
Thank you? It is very sad. Do you know what
a pepper ryan exactly?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yes, yes I do, actually.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
Yes, like well, yes, that's the difference.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
There are many of us who play golf that can
just go to a range and hit balls, not like
Mancy Bell. She does not have that luxury. You could
take a tennis racket and just volley back against a
brick way against.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
A brick fault, which is and you think maybe you
could do that against the fault, but it's not.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
The same, not hitting line drives.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
No exactly, and no one's sitting at me.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
I get it. I get it. Well, enjoy the night
off and go get them next week in the volume playoffs. Hey,
I want to let everybody to know that. Shortly after
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(24:38):
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Speaker 5 (24:57):
Earlier today, right now, right.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Now, it is Open Championship week in golf, oh major
of the year it is. I have a long standing tradition.
Like you play volleyball, I wake up early in the
morning and watch golf and I make a roll of
the Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. I have done this for probably honestly,
I would say twenty five years, thirty years. I'll wake

(25:21):
up even when I lived back home in the Midwest,
different hours at that point, but I will get the
eight pieces. Sometimes only seven are eating because I've used
up all the frosting already.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
On the first seven.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
The other one, yeah, plain, but that's okay. I don't
mind sacrificing one as long as the other seven are magnificent.
But I'll get up and I'll watch the Open Championship
starting early Thursday morning.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
The cinnamon rules.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
Are you getting the ones that you have to like
roll or the ones that you just pull apart and
they're already ready, so.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
It's the tube and so you gotta do though, uh huh, yeah,
and then you unrail and then they're just like stacked.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Correct?

Speaker 6 (25:57):
Those are because they also have the like ones and
I use air quotes because they're not very good, but
that you actually have to roll it like it comes
in all. Yes, they're not as good. Those that you're
talking about are the good ones. Those are delish.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
So this is that? What five in the morning?

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, five, I'll get up at five, but I won't
make them until about six or six thirty, okay, yah,
at that point local time, whatever the case is, that's
when I'll usually end up putting those in the oven
and be good for that morning. I don't do it
every morning. I just do it on one of them morning,
one of the morning. Yes, So I'll keep that streak alive.
And when I'm up, I'll be watching the likes of

(26:36):
Scotty Scheffler, world number one, winner of the PGA Championship
earlier this year. He's a two time Masters winner. So
there's a lot with Scotty Scheffler on the table as
he looks for major number four, as he looks for
his first Open Championship and his first Claret jug But

(26:56):
Scotty Scheffler spoke today at the Open Championship at Royal
Port Rush about success about winning, and it may not
be the answer that you would expect from the world's
best player. This is what Scotti Scheffler said earlier today
about winning.

Speaker 11 (27:13):
It feels like you work your whole life to celebrate
winning a tournament for like a few minutes. It only
lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling, like
to win the Byron Nelson Championship at home. I literally
worked my entire life to become good at golf to
have an opportunity to win that tournament. And you win it,
you celebrate, get to hug, hug, my family, my sister's there.
It's such an amazing moment. And then it's like, Okay,

(27:35):
now what are we gonna eat for dinner? You know,
life goes on. This is it great to be able
to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have
in the game of golf. Yet I mean it brings
tears my eyes just to think about, because it's literally
worked my entire life to become good at the sport.
And to have that kind of sense of accomplishment, I
think is a pretty cool feeling, you know, to get
to live out your dreams, it's very special. But at
the end of the day, it's like, I'm not out

(27:57):
here to inspire the next generation of golfers. Don't I'm
not here to inspire somebody else to be the best
player in the world, because what's the point. You know,
this is not a fulfilling life. It's it's fulfilling from
the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a
sense of like the deepest places of your heart. There's
a lot of people that make it to what they
thought was going to fulfill them in life, and then
you get there and all of a sudden you get

(28:18):
to number one in the world, and then they're like,
what's the point. I really do believe that, because you.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Know, what is the point?

Speaker 11 (28:23):
You're like, why do I want to win this tournament
so bad? That's something that I wrestle with on a
daily basis. It's like showing up with the Masters every year.
It's like, why do I want to win this golf
tournament so badly? Why do I want to win the
Open Championship so badly? I don't know, because if I win,
it's gonna be awesome for about two minutes, and then
we're going to get to the next week and it's
gonna be like.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Hey, you want two majors this year?

Speaker 11 (28:42):
How important is it for you to win the FedEx
Cup playoffs? And it's just like we're back here again,
you know, So we really do. We work so hard
for such little moments, and you know, I'm kind of sick.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Oh.

Speaker 11 (28:52):
I love putting in the work, I love being able
to practice, I love getting out to live out my dreams.
But at the end of the day, sometimes I just
don't understand the point.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Very revealing, very candid, and very honest from Scotty Scheffler
in that scenario, and I think he's echoing what we're
hearing more and more about just more surprising coming as
he sits there as the number one player in the world.
Lonely at the top is a cliche, but I think
that's everything that Scotty Scheffler is saying right now that,

(29:23):
especially in an individual sport and of what you're trying
to accomplish, the winning of that or being at the
top of the mountain just isn't what it's cracked up
to be.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Crazy to hear from a guy who has pretty much
done everything in golf and like you said, world number one,
but this is something that I think is a real statement.
There's times and I don't I'm not a world number
one anything, but there are times where I'm thinking, I'm like,

(29:57):
what am I doing with my life to make the
world better? And I've thought I was like, I wish
I could win the lottery and I would open an
animal shelter, and I think that's where I would be
the happiest.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
I do not that I don't love my job or.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
Sitting here with you week to week talking about sports,
because I love it, but I wonder, like what would
make me like truly the happiest, and I, you know,
I need money to do that.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
So that's that is something a goal I have.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's not landing that media job that pays you one
hundred million dollars. It's getting the million one hundred million.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
Dollars so I can go do that, Yeah, so that
I can go help animals, That's what I would want
to do.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
So I really understand where that's coming from. But it's
crazy to hear it from someone in his position.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
It is and it's a point that we've actually heard
before in the world of golf, but not when the
player's number one in the world. David Duval about twenty three.
It was twenty four years ago he won the Open Championship.
David Duval for years was considered to be the player,
the best player of the world who have never won

(31:01):
a major. This is also height of Tiger Woods, Like
this is Tiger Woods. Is the guy Tiger Slam from
two thousand to two thousand and one. David Duval is
trying to track down that elusive major and trying to
become number one in the world. This I've probably told
this story a couple of times because I've heard David

(31:23):
Duval retell it as well. Duval ultimately made it to
number one, and he ultimately made he won a major
in winning the two thousand and one British Open, But
he was so obsessed with being number one and winning
that major in taking down Tiger Woods, that he changed
his diet and everything. He said he wouldn't even take
an after dinner mint from a restaurant because he was

(31:45):
so strict on his diet. So he goes and he
wins the Open Championship, and he's got the Claric jug
in his hand as he's flying back home to the
United States, and he's like, is this it? Is this
all there is?

Speaker 9 (31:59):
Like?

Speaker 4 (31:59):
This is what I've sacrificed so much that I wouldn't
even take a dinner mint, And I don't feel anything
hours after accomplishing what I've put not only just the
past few years, but ultimately your whole golfing life. David
Duval never won a major after two thousand and one,
and I don't think that Scotty Scheffler, David Duval, and
other players are that different in feeling this sort of feeling.

(32:23):
But David Duval revealed all of this a few years
after he won it, not while he's still trying to
track down another major, a career Grand Slam, to match
Rory Mcarroy, to keep that number one ranking. That's what's
so telling about Scotty Scheffler to me is that he's
doing it while he's in the process and to have
the wherewithal someone like Naomi Osaka, who the tennis player

(32:46):
who had talked about her struggles. It's a new athlete,
it's a new world. But I also think that the
pressures that these specifically individual athlete have to deal with
that aren't a part of team sports. Mike Harmon and
I couple of weeks ago, Mike brought up the point
of talking about this is during Wimbledon, of the difference
between team sports and individual sports and how you deal

(33:08):
with it mentally, And as we were talking that the said,
I just think that individual sports are completely different, and
Scotty Scheffler shows why that is. For as great as
his team may be around him, he's the only one
that won the Open championship. His caddy with him on
the bag. Ted Scott, Yeah, he was with him the
whole time. But Ted Scott didn't win it. He hugs

(33:28):
his wife and his kid after they didn't win it.
They were along for the ride, but he's the only one.
And that's what I think is so different, especially when
you compare it to team sports, is if you win
a championship, if Manzie and I, you and I win
an award as a show, it's like we share in
that we can talk about that with a process. Scotty
Scheffler's the only one that has that, so nobody else

(33:50):
can understand what he's going through, but he also has
no one to share it with. And I just thought
it was very, very just a clear explanation of what
it's like in the the drama of being number one
in the world.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
And I think you hit it right on the money,
the sharing aspect of it, because it can come off
very egotistical if he keeps talking about his win because
he's by himself, Like you tell your best friend that
you won, your wife or whatever, and it's like they're
gonna tell you, oh my god, how great.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
But then that's it.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Like if somebody else is there to relive the moment
with you because they were part of it, it keeps
you can keep talking about it.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
But when you're by yourself. It's like everyone's like, yeah, no,
we know, why do you keep talking about it? But
it's like he has nobody else to live it with.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
He has to share it with people who are probably
tired of it, and it is a tough, tough situation.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
Not to interrupt, but honey, this trophy is why I
was at the range for ten hours a day and
not with you at home.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
Right, that's remind you of that, Yeah, this is.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
This is now. I'd rather be there, just like you'd
maybe rather be feeding dogs and cats around the world.
That's but that's like the point as well, is like,
look at what I've got, and maybe I hadn't spend
time with you. I thought it's there's a lot more
to it. I want to bring in Jason Stewart as well,
because you were pretty struck by these comments as well.
From the World Number one.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
I think that's what's so cool about what he said
is that I think I think what he said resonated
with everybody listening, and I think we all have kind
of our own takeaways from it. And you just don't
get athletes that are this sophisticated and this articulate to
lay out feelings like forty on that chair. That's all right.

(35:28):
I've tried to tell Ryan. Once I open the mic
and this this chair goes off, it's amazing. So so
my point is this, it really this is how it
strikes me that it just sounds like a guy who
has something wrong with him. And I'm not I'm not
being eflippant with this. It sounds like there's something in
his life that has it needs fixing. He needs to

(35:51):
go to therapy, he needs to do something, and that
if he leaves for work every morning unfulfilled. So if
it's something in his personal life, maybe he is someone
that has not found the faith that fulfills him. Maybe
that whatever that purpose in life that we're all that
we're all struggling to find, is he hasn't reached that yet,
because he's never going to be able to enjoy the

(36:14):
results of work until he has fixed what is wrong
with him when he walks out of the house every morning.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
And I know that.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Probably sounds a little too philosophical for this, but that
was the takeaway from me, and that we could all
relate to. That the people listening to the show right
now could relate to. I had a bad day at
work today, and it's because of unfixed things that happened
in my personal life or in my personal consciousness. And
I think that's the takeaway for me with Schefter nothing

(36:43):
to do with individual sport or team sport. I think
it's just he's telling us that there's something about him
that's unfulfilled.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
I think it was Scotti Scheffler that they're the fact
of your going to another tournament the next week. And
I think that's also what he kind of led some
stuff to as well, of like it just doesn't stop
as well, like maybe there's not a point to appreciate
it yet. And you know now that I'm saying that,
maybe that's not the case, considering he says after a

(37:12):
few minutes, he's like, Okay, all right, what's and maybe
that less to the point. Yeah, there's and and I
think that you'll understand it's not that there's we use
the term or Jason uses the term wrong, and it's
not that there's something wrong with Scotti Scheffler. There's just
something that's not right at this time, I think, And

(37:34):
if that makes sense, because I think it's an easier
way to look at it of just like all right,
for some reason. I'm I'm not getting fulfilled by this,
but there's got to be a way where others have
been able to be fulfilled. How do I maybe reach
that point? Isaac?

Speaker 10 (37:49):
You want to Yeah, well, first of all, I do
have to dispute Mancy on something. You actually are the
world number one at avoiding Dreury duty bright the way.
We're all very envious of that. I want to raise
this topic. Do you guys see any similarities with Scotti
Scheffler's comments and kind of what Sean McVeigh recently went through.

(38:11):
He won the Super Bowl, but then he was it
was a mixture of burned out and unfulfilled. Is this
all there is? I'm still in my thirties. What am
I going to do with the rest of my life?
And he came very very close, as it turned out,
to stepping away until he ultimately got rejuvenated, really only
in the last year.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Go ahead, Yeah, no, I there's just so you guys
are all making really great points, and I think there
is a similarity to that and to what Jason said.
I just think he's like, I'm a golfer, Like I'm
not trying to diminish it. He's just saying like, I'm
just a golfer. What else am I doing? I'm just
an athlete. When I think off his job was, you know,

(38:57):
I'm sure it's exhausting, but being a doctor, you probably
go home feeling exhausted and it's hard.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
But I feel like that's a fulfilling job.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
You're you're helping people, and you're helping them, right, So
I feel like he's just kind of like, I'm a
golfer and I've done it all and it's like cool,
But what else?

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Yeah, everything is done for Scottie Scheffler. If everything that
has done around him is for him, whether it be
his his coach, whether it be his caddie, whether it
be his wife, and the traveling, like everything is done
for him. And you know, I go back to the
what do I have to show for it? Shore a
big paycheck right, shore big sponsorships, but in this trophy here,
Sorry I wasn't at home. That's how I heard some

(39:36):
of his comments. I also he said something in the
first part early on saying that he doesn't play the
game to inspire people. I don't think anybody does. But
I also think it shows the heavy burden and how
Tiger Woods was wired so differently. And when you're talking

(39:58):
about the greats of the world and what and we
could even go into other sports, but Tiger obviously wasn't
wired like Scotty Scheffler is. And Tiger had this desire
and this goal to reach the point he was going
to reach the goal that he had set out when
he was younger, and that's to break Jack Nicholas's record
of eighteen majors. Jack Nicholas was an amazing, amazing player

(40:24):
that also had his wife and family around him that
they were a part of the tour. I don't think
golf today is conducive to what it was fifty years ago.
It's on a much smaller scale back then. Now it's
much bigger. You hear you heard a lot about the
Nicholas family. You hear stories about the Nicholas family, Jack
having his son's caddy, his son Catty for him in

(40:45):
eighty six, how much his wife sacrificed but also was
along there with him. I'm not making any comments about
Scotty Scheffler in his personal life. That is absolutely one
hundred percent not what I'm saying. But what I'm saying
is is for some reason, this has gotten so big
and for Tiger Woods and to do what he did,

(41:05):
he did inspire a whole generation, the generation that is
Scotty Scheffler like it truly is. And Scotty Scheffler's the
first player that we have had since Tiger Woods to
really match what Tiger has been doing. So for his
greatest Brooks Kopka and Rory McElroy have been like Scheffler's numbers,
and what he's been doing at times has been Tiger esque.
And even Rory McElroy, who had just mentioned Monty said

(41:28):
after winning the Masters this year, just months after saying
he had three goals left in life, winning the Masters,
winning an Olympic gold medal and winning another away Ryder Cup,
he accomplished the first and then admitted at the PGA
Championship and at the US Opened that, yeah, there was
a major leutdown after the Masters. I had accomplished what
I had intended to accomplish at least one of those things,

(41:51):
and it took a while for him to get back
on track. Hopefully, for Rory's case, he gets back on
track at his home in Northern Ireland this week. But
Scotty Scheffler isn't alone and feeling that way. Rory McElroy
felt that way. David Duval felt that way. It's just
to have the number one player in the world who's
at the top of his game talk about how unfulfilling

(42:12):
it is right now. Crazy, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
It made me really like Scotti Scheffler, hearing him say that.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
I just felt like it was such a real answer
that maybe people are afraid to say people who are
successful and are in the media and famous, who have
money like that's that took a lot to say because
he's gonna be criticized.

Speaker 5 (42:30):
People would be like, what do you mean, you have
all the money in the world. You're a champion in
the world. What are you complaining about when I have nothing?

Speaker 6 (42:36):
Like that's I think the natural reaction that people are
gonna get the first reaction. But what he said is
is absolutely so real. You got there and then it's
like that's it. I celebrated for twenty minutes, and then
we move on and I have to go do it again.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Then you're back to normal.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
Well you're back to normal, and that whole thing of
like I'm not here to inspire again. People can read
into that and be like, what do you mean. I
also think like the inspiration comes naturally. You don't get
to pick when you're an inspiring person.

Speaker 5 (43:04):
It just happens. Caitlin Clark didn't pick to be an
inspiring WNBA player. She is inspiring.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
It's just it. You're selected to do that, like Tiger Woods.
So I feel like a lot of what he said
was really brave to say it in his position because
it can be looked at really negatively from the public perception.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Such a great point because there's so many different ways
that you could take it, and that's why I wanted
to make sure that I said that I don't I'm
not saying that there's problems at home or problems with this, yeah,
because I think that some people will take it that way,
and I don't. That's I don't think that's what he's
saying at all. I think what he's just trying to
say is there are pitfalls to putting everything that you
have in life into one thing, and then that not

(43:50):
you know, the fruits of your labor aren't necessarily what
you thought they would be. And if he wins this
week at the Open Championship, guess what, let's get ready
go back home because the fed Cup playoffs and like,
there's more tournaments that are that are you know, going
to be happening after that, So you're not sitting there
basking in the limelight of winning an Open championship. It's
just it's a bit of a rat race. Yep. I

(44:11):
think maybe it would be the best way to say it.
Final thoughts Jason on anything of what Scotti Scheffler said
out of this discussion.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
I think I just kind of worked this out in
my mind too as you guys were talking that I
think that the the the weird thing about this is
that the singular focus that scheffer talks about, and he
also talks about embracing the process. He loves the process.
He loves going out and hitting balls every day, he
really does. But that singular focus, so the same thing
that makes him amazingly great is also making him like

(44:42):
ultimately unfulfilled. Does that make sense? Like, yeah, and I
think Tiger Woods, I think he's just built completely differently.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
That I think. I really do think Tiger Woods wins
one major, checks it off, He's going to the next one,
and I think he is fulfilled by the competition and
by beating people's ass. And I don't think Scheffer is
fulfilled by that last part.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
I know we're going along. Tiger changed his swing multiple
times not only to can you continue to be great,
but also because he just loved the process of working.
So he's revamping his swing not only to try to
help things, but he just love that process and to
try to reach a greater height. And so it's like
kind of why Tiger's like one of one. But when
he made the inspiring deal, which I totally get, as

(45:28):
you said, you don't choose to inspire people, but it
shows the also the weight that Tiger Woods carried on
his shoulder, that he was able to carry it because
he was a different cat than Scotty Scheffler was.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
Yeah, there's the thing wrong with finding fulfillment in kicking
someone's ass.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
And working towards that.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
There's nothing wrong And that's so Kobe Bryant I think
was fulfilled in kicking your ass on the court every
single day.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
And Scotti Scheffler, I don't.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
Maybe he didn't realize this five years ago and this
is just an epiphany that he's having now.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Yeah, absolutely, we could go on and on talking about it.
You can always reach my life at Monty Bologna, so
you can find me at Dan Byer on Fox Scottie
Scheffler playing with Shane Lowry and Colin Morakawa. They're gonna
have an early tea time for us on the West
Coast here about two o'clock local time for us on
Thursday morning teeing off, but East Coast a little bit

(46:16):
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Speaker 8 (46:21):
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Speaker 4 (46:30):
This is Monty last night as she got her jury duty.
Notice that she's done for the week. Shots all around.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
All around. I don't like Patrump, but I'll drink it.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
She is Moncey Belogios. I'm Dan Byer in for Covino
and Rich here on Fox Sports Radio. Vegetarian but not
a fan of patron.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
It's you know, it's not great, but it tastes like tequila,
so I'll drink it.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
There's just better tequila.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Wait to take one for the team.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
Mom.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
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on YouTube. I hope Rich didn't take offense to say that.
I thought that they looked like little kids jumping up,

(47:17):
but they did. They did, and at first it was jarring,
and then I really appreciated it. And in this day
and age, where do you remember Over the last week
or two, there was some like ESPN versus ESPN drama
with kirkurb Street saying something about I don't think you
should be a fan of teams and then l Duncan
being like, well, I'm a fan, and then it's back

(47:40):
and forth.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
I thought it was silly, so I didn't dive into it.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
Yeah that's okay, Yeah, it's the point is this, and
everybody has their opinion. If you're in a locker room
and you're covering a team, and you're covering a sport,
you're talking to the players, you don't have a fandom.
You're not a fan. I feel like when you have
a sports talk show that it's not it's not necessary

(48:06):
for you to be completely impartial, because I feel it's
more about entertainment as it is in terms of anything else,
And if you're more passionate about something, then maybe you're
more likely to be more entertaining about it. That's as
simple as that I can put it. So I have
no problem with anybody that is doing a sports talk show.
Mad Dog Russo honestly one of the first ones ever.

(48:28):
What is so known about Mad Dog is that he's
an enormous San Francisco Giants fan. So when something happens
to the San Francisco Giants, aside from listening to the content,
you know that there's something that's going to happen, Right
Stephen A. Smith with the Cowboys, now, just of him
being a hater, when there's something bad that happens, there's
going to be something along those lines, and I feel

(48:49):
the same. I feel the same here. So I love
seeing Covino and Rich when they talk about their Mets fandom,
their Yankees fandom, and the bet that they have going on.
I think that only adds to the show.

Speaker 6 (49:01):
I couldn't agree with you more. There is a time
and place, but they're not covering a team. They're entertaining,
and that's there's a big difference in that. And even
let's just hypothetically say that Cavino did cover.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
The Yankees and was at this game, this is different.

Speaker 6 (49:17):
You're not working. Be a fan here, go crazy. But yeah,
when you're in the locker room and you're covering a team,
that's that's a different job than what they're doing than
what you and I do.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
I think that if you are covering a team, like
if he was and he was at the All Star Game,
first of all, he'd probably.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
Be not covering the team.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
I get it, I get it, and it's on his
own time. I think it would be a bad look
if he wasn't if he was in the locker room normally,
and then all of a sudden he shows up and
he's wearing a Yankee cap, like I don't think you
should wear like I don't think you should wear a
Dodger cap to a you know, a Dodger game or
a Laker game or something like that. I mean, just
like if you're a member of maybe different of the
if it's cross sports. But you know what I'm saying, totally.

(49:54):
The point is is I just feel like this is
all entertainment. When you're talking to the eyes, and that's
if you're meaning talking to the players, you have to
have you can't show favorites.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
I agree.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
If you are a big basketball fan and Covino is
covering the Yankees and he shows up in a Knicks jersey, completely.

Speaker 5 (50:17):
Different, completely different.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Yeah, totally that way. Totally stands like it's is off time,
he's not working, but he's not showing his allegiance. I'm
completely fine with it. But yeah, it was awesome to
see them in there.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
It was geeking out. Yes, this is just geeking.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
Ow see what jersey numbers they had on. So I
don't know what jersey Covino was wearing, and I don't
know which one that Rich was wearing. Something I probably
should have asked Rich early.

Speaker 6 (50:38):
But you know, in baseball, there's a lot of jerseys
where you don't have a name on it. It's more
common that way. So I also didn't see it, but
I wonder if they just had generic no no number,
no name.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Yeah, we'll find out on another day. No, you didn't win,
you actually lost, because to play the game is you
go low so then Isaac has the thunderous of uh,
you're wrong. No, I didn't like that, and then we're like,
what thirty four dollars right, Jason, Like, it's not about
getting it right, it's about propping up what Isaac is

(51:10):
about to shock us.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Well, I think I think Dan is still a little
butt hurt from losing jury duty.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
That's way we all agreed with Dan. But Moncey Wins
I think was a yeah, that.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
Was well, that's that's that's law. I made the right points,
I mean, the right points. That's how all works.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Oh gosh.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
I have a little bit of sound for you guys,
and it has to do with what you're about to
get into. So you said earlier in this in this segment,
that you don't know if Rich was offended or not
by you calling him a bunch of kids. I don't
think he was offended by that. But if you listen
to this sound very close, so it sounds like he
was offended by one assumption you made.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Rich. I know I've said I'm a Cavino guy, but
I'm with you. I'm getting out of the way. I'm
getting out of the way from the ball last night.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
You know, it's not so much that I got Oh, it's.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Getting out of the way. That's what he does.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Sounds like you were questioning his manhood a little bit.
If he felt the need to correct you.

Speaker 5 (52:08):
I don know, No, of course we were questioning his manhood.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
I think it's I think it's revisionist history, right, that's
like me.

Speaker 5 (52:17):
Chickened out, Cavino said, chickened out. He chickened out. I'll
let him explain.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Yes, if and then he said earlier today he said,
if I jump, somebody's going to body check me and
I'm going to go over a chair. Uh yeah, I
maybe maybe I did. But I'll tell you what. It's
only because it's the reason why I don't sit in
seats that can be hit with a foul ball, like
like I am all for the netting that extended down

(52:43):
the lines, because if I'm talking to Manci or I'm
talking to Jason Isaac Ryan and we're at the ball game,
I don't want to have to worry about being hit
by a line drive. And somebody may say to me,
will then go sit in the upper deck? I will gladly.
That's totally fine. But if the tickets that I'm going
to or have an opportunity to sit in that maybe
aren't my choice. I want to make sure that I'm

(53:05):
at least okay and not going to be hit by
a baseball that I don't know is coming.

Speaker 6 (53:09):
I completely agree with you, especially like if we're sitting
Let's say we're sitting down like the third baseline, but
you're closer to home plate. To talk to me, you
have to turn away from the plate and you really
can't see anything.

Speaker 5 (53:21):
And if you're on the other side, so.

Speaker 6 (53:22):
It's like you almost have to keep your back to
the person in order to keep your eye on the balls.

Speaker 5 (53:28):
I also don't want to sit there. I think about
the times.

Speaker 6 (53:31):
I know the net had been like a big discussion
when they extended it, but I think about how many
times people sat there, And maybe it's the phone. Everyone's
now on their phones, you know, and distracted, and back
then you were a little bit more in tune with
the game. Also, maybe hitting is a little bit higher
this time, at this time in this you know, twenty
to twenty five.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
But I would not like to sit down there either.
I would also like to sit a little higher, And
it's kind of like watching a musical.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
I want to be higher in a in a stage
so I can see the musical number. I want to
be a little higher at a baseball game so I
can see the whole field.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Could you do bleachers like Cavino and Rich did at
Home Run Derby last night?

Speaker 6 (54:11):
I mean, I would do it, but it's like I
can't drink as much as I would if I was
just hanging out at the game because I gotta look alive.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
Most important, I gotta look alive.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
I would have a glove and I I but it
would be like I'm going there to try and catch
a ball. You know, it changes why you're going. Am
I going just to like have fun? I wouldn't want
to sit there.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
I think there's also a chance of being in an
elbow and the chops.

Speaker 6 (54:33):
That's an outfield, Like, yeah, I would definitely be elbowed
in the head because I'm so short. Sure I would
go down, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
So I was gonna go to Isaac, but he's eating
a sandwich right now. So Jason Stewart, Ryan, you guys
have any preference on where you sit? Do you do
you take into accounts.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
I'm the guy who wants to catch a foul ball
because in fifty years of going to games, I've never
had one, and I'm going to aggressively move to the ball,
and I want to I want to be in seats
where the balls are coming. So I'm on the opposite.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
You would have been anti Rich, then you would have
jumped over over the wall.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
As you inferred Rich as a giant wooss and on
the opposite of that.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
But I'm with Rich. He may not want to admit it,
but I'm I'm on his side, Isaac.

Speaker 10 (55:23):
I'm gonna tell you guys a true story. As if
you didn't think I was weird enough. Uh. I in
high school, I lived in Orange County, so I would
go to Angel games and I would try to get
seats low in the upper deck, just off to the
side from directly behind home plate, so I could spend
the game looking into all the broadcast booths.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 10 (55:46):
And this true story. Back then, the TV announcer for
the Boston Red Sox was Sean McDonough who does such
a great job on ESPN now, and Sean McDonough actually
sent a security guard up to where I was sitting
because he was like, why is this weird? Hole staring
at me the whole game.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
That's so good, that's so good.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
It's hard to make that up.

Speaker 10 (56:09):
Yea.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
And plus there probably weren't a lot of people at
Angel games, so he stood out, all right. She's wants Bolano,
So I'm Dan byer Isaac Lorn Crowns here, as is
Jason Stewart and Ryan Smith in for Cavino and Rich
Here on Fox Sports Radio.