The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R have fun with a WNBA Draft story! Will the #1 pick be the girlfriend (& new teammate) of last year's #1 pick by Dallas? What are the pros & cons? Rich embarks on a Hello Kitty mission to Dodger Stadium! Is it too early for his Mets to hit the panic button? Plus, the NBA playoffs begin & 'BIG PAPI TRIVIA' brings the laughter! 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:23):
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(00:57):
your teammates, what who, scandalous stories. Don't go banging your teammates.
We're gonna talk some NBA plans. We're gonna bang in
is pumping uglies Oh, I'm sorry, you got up. Yeah,
we're on terrest Field, Fox Sports Radio nationwide bumping uglies.
They're stooping something like that, some corny word. Yeah, make whoopie, Yeah,

(01:19):
make whoopee like they said on Newlywed Game that was Yeah,
that was a big That was a big phrase back then.
Huh making whoope making whoopie? Dude, big poppy trivia Like
you said, I have an annoying thing that I'm dealing
with tonight that I'll explain coming up. But I do
want to bring up a quick theory to start the
show before we get into uh, bumping uglies at your teammates?

(01:43):
Could you know and I both saw the same viral
video and I think it's just a great way to
look at your week, being that it is Monday. We
hear on Fox Sports Radio some doofis on TikTok said,
you know, I saw a way to look at your week,
and I can't think of it differently.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's a new analogy on life. How to win in
life now? In the NBA, in the NHL, in Major
League Baseball SAM, a championship series is usually best of what.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Uh seven?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, and to win the series? What do you need four?
Someone said you should look at each week of your
life like a seven game series. You just gotta win
four days. Yeah, you're gonna have a crappy day, like
Mondays are sort of a drag aass type of day.
But you know Friday is sort of a gimme right,
Like Friday is likely gonna be a win if you
win maybe a Monday that's like winning one on the road.

(02:34):
So you just gotta have four good days a week,
and you won the week. My only issue with this,
and it's a great way to look at it, right,
It's not every day is gonna be great. You're gonna
have an annoying fight with your wife, your kids are
gonna annoy the hell out of you. Something's gonna happen.
You're gonna you know, your boss is gonna be a
pain in the ass. It's easy to figure out which
days are the losses, right, Like you said, bad news

(02:55):
at work, the kids are hassling you. But like, how
do you define a victory? Like Sunday, Monday they might
be l's but Friday Saturday are w So you gotta
be like today, can I take two out of three
from Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and if we win today, guys,
we have fun and we close out this Monday strong.
We won on the road. It's like winning Game one
on the road. Yeah, And that's the way you gotta

(03:16):
look at it. You gotta approach every week like a
seven game series and all you have to do is
win four games, and you win in life because if
you win four, every series you win. Put it this way,
every series you win in baseball, you have a greater
chance of making the playoffs. Yeah, and that's what we're
trying to do in life. You want to win in life,
win the week. There you go, week by week by week.

(03:36):
Great way to look at it. Just an interesting thought,
So we'll get into the show. Cavino rich, what consists
of a win? Like, let's say, nothing great happen, like
squeezing some cheeks or something like how do you define
a win in life? To me? A win to me
is like no mental breakdowns from the kiddos, your team wins,
like maybe your team wins, and like, you know, you
and your wife have some loving not even intimate, like
you just had a really nice night. You watch the

(03:58):
show you liked, no call from like you know what
the bad day was last week. I went for a
dental cleaning and they're like, well, it looks like it's
probably best to put a crown on that that back moler.
I'm like, yeah, but it doesn't bother me. They're like, oh,
our best to be preemptive. And I'm like all right, Like, well,
after your deductible and your insurance, like eight hundreds on

(04:20):
the bucks and next week I have to go to
the dentist to get a crown. So you had to
buy a crown, but we think you're King Harley Race,
so that will be your King James. That will be
a loss of a day. Yeah, okay, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
You're about to play the rockets.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Go for the win, and let's take one on the road,
even if your Monday's been a little rocky so far.
Let's go. Steve Cabino, Rich Davis, Danny g Iosam and Buyer.
Buyer had a weekend. Buyer was loving golf all weekend
long man absolutely, speaking of I hope you had a
McElroy Tyson Fury maybe Oberg costa UFC three sixty three

(04:58):
twenty seven weekends. It's funny with say all those things.
You say, great before we get into the meet of
today's show, congratst Rory McIlroy and Dan Byron, all the
golf fans who really enjoyed a nice, a beautiful, nice
long weekend of golf. Did anyone happen to watch the
Tyson Fury middle of the afternoon fight on Netflix? I did,

(05:19):
because I did. I happened to get a text message
from my father in law who was like, you watching this.
I'm like, oh, yeah, Dave, You're right, I'm on, I
turn it on. He fought Mack Modoff, and the story
was if Fury won this fight, maybe they could finally
seal that deal for that mega fight overseas between Tyson
Fury and Anthony Johnson. The guy he thought, Mackmudoff. Yeah,

(05:42):
that guy was the definition of like a monstrous punching
bag Like that dude could take a punch, but he
was just not gonna He was not gonna hurt Tyson Fury.
But I mean, talk about the most beefy punching bag
you've ever seen in your life, had no head movement
at all, the beast right to hit for a guy
like Tyson Fury. So after that fight, I did get

(06:04):
a little excited, even though it's a fight that we
all wanted like a decade ago, when Tyson Fury brings
out the showman in himself when he calls out Anthony
Joshua rings On and he's like, you bloke, you gonna
take my You're gonna take my challenge? Yes, oh no,
And then Anthony Joshua was sitting there all chill. I
thought it was a cool moment for boxing. And I

(06:24):
hope they do work that out. Tyson Fury, by the way,
I know they're past their prime, like you said, but
if he conditioned a little better. He's only thirty seven,
and I know that's a little older, but not like ancient.
He's never been a specimen like an Anthony Joshua. But
Tyson ferhead a little extra backfat in that. Yeah, every
time he got hit it was like he's thirty seven,

(06:45):
Joshua thirty six, and it got a little lippy at
the end of the fight. A lot of fun, a
lot of theatrics. The Gypsy King is back. They're trying
to make that fight happen. So hope you had a Mceilroy,
Tyson Fury and both cool to watch, Like I said.
UFC three twenty was also exciting this weekend. Hope you
enjoyed it. I hope you have that kind of weekend.
And let's get into it. We have lots of theories

(07:07):
to get into, lots of trivia. Big Poppy is gonna
be here. We got prizes. But do you want to start?
Rich is to choose your adventure?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Game?

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Ready, choose your adventure. Let's let Sam choose WNBA drama
or Rich's Mets Dodgers dilemmas.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I'm choosing Yeah, WNBA drama.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Ooh, dirty dow.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
I hear more about the Mets on this show than
I do in any other, you know, span of minutes
in my entire life.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
All Right, we'll get this. The draft is tonight, w
NBA Draft, And here's what I'm getting out of this.
There's some drama for your mama. Dallas Wings have the
number one pick, Dallas Wings or a WNBA team. Right,

(08:03):
what else could it be? Your favorite appetizer? I thought
it was a restaurant when I heard Dan Byron you
talking about Dallas Wings. It is a new spot at
the Gallerias, a.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
New flavor of Dallas Wings. Ye, Rich, smokey.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
They're going to be playing the Asian Zings later. Tonight
Ano their flavor at Buffalo Wildwick. What I'm blue cheese? Please, Hey,
Dan Bayer and Danny g If I misstep while telling
the story, please correct me. Okay, But I'm also trying
to explain, like, do I got this right? The Dallas
Wings got the first pick tonight, and apparently they're going
to take asy Fudd. Now here's where the controversy gets

(08:39):
a little sticky. Asy Fuddud used to play at Yukon
no relation to Elmer. I don't know, I'm not sure,
but asy Fudd used to play at Yukon with Page Becker's.
And get this, if the Dallas Wings choose asy Fudd
to be on their team, she's now teammates with the

(09:03):
woman she's dating, superstar by the name of Paige Beckers.
So it becomes a sticky situation of is that reason
to pick asy Fud or a reason to not pick
asy Fudd because of the whole Page Beckers thing? Because yeah,
things are great now great, grand wonderful, But what if

(09:26):
you know it becomes a breakup of sorts, you'd forget basketball.
It's like going into business with your significant other. Can
you be Ugly's with your teammates, don't They say, don't
what is the company inc? Suntip your don't pen? Well,
there's no pen? Yeah, don't do you know what I'm
talking about? Okay, don't don't be whoopy making whoopee Sam, Yeah,

(09:47):
you can't be making whoope with your teammates. Is this
a good thing or a bad thing? How do you
feel about it? And then it brings up all these
other sticky situations in sports. And I'm gonna bring this
up just to maybe think that or give argument that
maybe there's nothing really here. Maybe this is a nothing burger,
as you like to say, Because there was some controversy

(10:08):
about a year back when the Yankees were getting Cody Bellinger,
Like Cody Bellinger, Oh, was that what he was in? Sleep?
He was sleeping with John Carlo Close. I know Cody
Bellinger's wife is Chase Carter. They have a wonderful family,
but Chase Carter was the ex of John Carlo Stanton.
I knew there was something with Stanton, right, So it's like, wow,

(10:30):
can you can you work and be teammates with a
dude that used to stoop your wife as we politely
kindly said back then. And you know, what. Nothing came
of it because they're professionals, they're grown ups. It was
never a big deal. I never There's more drama between
Lindor and Soto than there ever was between Bellinger and Stanton.

(10:51):
What are under the bridge? Bygones are bygones. The past
is the past, and they seemed to be great teammates.
So there was a lot of speculation there and nothing
came of it. Nobody seemed to care at all. If
you're not following again, Cody Bellinger's wife used to date
juhnk Carla. I am not speaking English. Oh that was
really fun. Really do you think I didn't explain it
well enough? Rich said it? So now it counts. So

(11:12):
the point is there was no issue there. When you
hear this is this one of those things like, yes,
it's probably not going to be an issue, but it
could be. Hold on if if Page Beckers an asy
Fudd met at Yukon, they won an a national title
together and they are dating, as Kavino said, they're bumping uglies.

(11:33):
I think the bigger newslash for me is that Paige
Beckers is dating Azy Fudd. Honestly, you thought you had
a shot. Yeah, I didn't know that. I mean I
really didn't know that because I was like, Ooh, she's,
you know, good looking woman who just doesn't want you. Yeah,
she's just not interested in this guy. So any guy
that might be common knowledge to a lot of you,
I was not aware of that. Apologies.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
They came out with a relationship I'd say, like a
year or two ago.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Okay, so Page Beckers z Fudd in a relationship on
the same team. I think has all the pros and
cons of honestly going into business with a family member,
opening up a restaurant, you know, starting a company, because
when things are good, it's gonna feel like honestly like

(12:19):
by glorious. I believe. Iowa standpointed this out last year.
This is also part of the fun that the WNBA
provides that other leagues really don't provide as often. There's
a lot of like love drama and love triangles.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
That go on.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
There's an added dimension of drama that happens in the
WNBA that we don't see in other sports. Of the
WNBA are lesbians. Why don't you ask Colin? Why don't
you ask Colin?

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Other of Colin will know?

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Why would you ask me?

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Colin no Covino.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
Before the show, I looked up notable couples who played
together in the WNBA and a list of four couples
came up. Alyssa Thomas and Dewana Bonner, they played together
on the Sun and the Mercury. Okay, Melissa Smith and Carrington,
they were on the Wings together before Smith was traded
to the Aces. Diana Tarossi and Penny Taylor, they played
on the Mercury together for years. And Natasha Cloud and

(13:16):
Isabelle Harrison. Yeah, see, they were on the Liberty.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's what makes this juicy, Like growing up, we didn't
have to deal with like Don Mattingly and Dave Winfield
having like.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
A lover's quarrel.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
But what also makes this, I think a sports topic
is you maybe knew Diana Tarassi's name. I'm not sure
if you're familiar with the other players, but Diana Tarossi
legend and the WNBA.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
These are two stars.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yes, this is two back to back first overall picks
who are an item power couple on one team. Yes, yes.
And if that ends up fracturing, does it fracture the team?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, of course it does. And that's where because people
did side. That's where I was gonna get at. If
they do have are a lover's quarrel. Let's say someone
breaks up with who there's something going on that locker
room is gonna be like, well a you team page
or they're easy like they're expected to take size and
unfollow on social media. It's like when you're friends with
a family or a couple and then they say, hey,

(14:15):
we're getting divorced and you're like, do I have to
like pick one of you now? So would you expect
the Dallas Wings to not pick easy fund then? As
a result, So that's where it gets crazy and send
there there the pudding because they want an an n
cuaa tournament together for Yukon. So yes, so they could win.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
It works?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Is evidence it works. I have a question now, because
we we live in a world where hr is a thing, right,
is it out of bounds for them to ask these
women what the nature of their relationship is because if
it's like hey, like it's casual versus like we are

(14:53):
monogamous and serious and we see this long term, Like
I think that's a fair question to sort of investigate
before you mortgage your future. Like like they're like, no,
we are in our circles and our friends and family. Yeah,
I've heard a tea that sleeps together wins together. Is
that true? I mean, is that true? I'll try anything, dude,
if it means rating snuff. If Page and Asy are

(15:17):
saying this is not like we're not there's not gonna
be scandal. We're not dating like we are in love
and this is it? Yeah, right now? Then, right now,
I believe that. But fast forward, you know, a year
or two from now. But if you hear rumblings like,
oh no, they go at it, they are, they're a
little feisty together. I think that's a different story. And
I don't think it's out of bounce for the Dallas
Wings to investigate out of bounds, and I'm playing devil's

(15:41):
advocate to think that they're just not consummate professionals who
want to get out there and win regardless of what's
going on, you know, outside relationships and sources and arguments,
that all goes aside for the fault, for the soul's
sake of winning as a team.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Beautiful.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
They are together though, right, and the road trips and everything,
they're with their the person they love. Right, If you
think about it. They're on a road trip, they're traveling,
they're doing things they are they are at arm's length
away from the person they love most.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
I'm married to someone who I met here at work,
but she does not she did not work. She doesn't
work here anymore. But she didn't work on the first floor.
She worked in the main building, in the offices. I
don't think that if we worked on the same floor
in that same area that we would be together. That's
just too close. It's you know, for how it works,
or at some point maybe you know, one of us

(16:30):
would have gone a different way and decided. But I
think the separation for us helped in that aspect.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
You know what. I'm glad he said that too, because
it made me think of something else, And you know
that separation is what was key for Dan Byer. Right,
let's just say one of them has a bad game, right,
either page backers or Aisy Fund. It's all going to
come back to I heard their fighting. It's speculation, right, like, oh,
they were pickering today, So it just gives more fuel

(16:58):
to random fire. Rich and I worked with a guy
who was dating one of the women on the same
floor and they kept that hush hush and quiet because
they know, like you know, people are gonna talk and
speculate and over speculate and bring things up when really
they held no no reason to even speculate. Did you know,

(17:20):
do you remember who I'm talking about at ESPN Rich, Yeah,
you know what I mean. Like, so let's say that
one dude who's having a bad day, You're like, oh,
are they fighting? It just gave reason people to gods, sure.

Speaker 6 (17:29):
But I don't think who their bosses were thought like,
we need these two to be a couple to make
this company thrive. And it may be a weird way
of thinking of it, but if you're running the Dallas
Wings and you're trying to figure out what is the
best way, maybe they maximize it. Maybe because they won
that national championship, it's a bonus for them. But there's

(17:49):
the other side of the coin that again, if the
bottom falls out or something happens, if something goes wrong,
now you've got a mess on your hands. And when
we talk about draft evaluations, because we're a week and
a half away from the NFL Draft, we know how
gms are suaded or persuaded by certain things or hearing
certain things because they don't want their reputation on the line.
So if you're putting your reputation as a GM on

(18:10):
the line that this relationship works, that's a pretty heavy
thing to do if you're a general manager. Also, not
picking her could make your star player.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Oh imagine that's your flipsite. Imagine imagine Paige Becker's like
your sons a bitch, You're not picking my girl? Correct?
But how about this two favorites, Like, it's safe to
say Paige Becker's is well, she's a superstar, but a
leader of that team. Now she's playing favoritism to one
of her teammates. How does that rub the other teammates?
You know? So it's it's a really interesting dynamic that

(18:44):
we really have. We haven't explored or had had any
reason to explore it.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Sport.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's really I have to say, if Colin knows here,
I mean it is. I think it's relevant. Hold on
every play, every stat every storyline. I've got it all.
What do you want to know, Hey, Colin? What percentage
of the WNBA is LBGTQ? I mean, Colin knows everything.
There's no official WNBA number because the league doesn't publish

(19:12):
a verified percentage, So anybody giving you a clean stat
is guessing. I only asked that because have you ever
thought of mental mind tricks? Someone could play on them?
Meaning imagine if I told you Cavino, it would be
advantageous for you to meddle in that person's relationship a

(19:34):
league where a lot of these successful, super talented women
are in that community. What if there was the meddling
to mess up team chemistry? What if the Dallas Wings
are rolling and it's like, well, we'll put an end
to that, like rumors, gossip, drama, like you don't have
to deal with that in other sports gets there aren't

(19:54):
if any open gay players, Like this is a whole
new layer of chemistry, camaraderie, sabotage, rumors, like, there's so
many other layers. How about this, If you're an opposing
player and you just really want to get the page Beckers,
you could you could either you know, use that as ammo,
or you could really just mess with azy Fudge just
to get Beckers out.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Of her game.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
You see what I'm saying. Yeah, your second fiddle to
your part. You know, but you can know, but you
don't beat it's gonna be there's gonna be personal things
that are happening that we never had to deal with
in professional sports before. I think it's an interesting, cool
layer to be ho. I think it's like the what
goes into its wild right, what goes into the decision, Like,

(20:38):
all right, if we pick her, then we are rolling
the dice that this will work out and they could
work together and be a couple. Imagine they don't pick her,
You're right, then d be pulling out. Then all of
a sudden, Page Beckers could be like, you didn't trust
me and asy, but how does that work? As far
as hr situations, Like I thought, you're not supposed to.

(20:58):
Have you ever worked with like a married couple in
this aim like building? I was like, department, I get
it to work. But have you guys, we all came
up in radio. You ever noticed those morning shows that
usually on some like hot AC, like adult contemporary station,
like Bob and Shirley in the morning, And it's like
they're a married couple and they've been doing mornings together
for twenty five years in Syracuse, Like yes, And I
always wondered, like it always ends up the Bob shows, Yeah,

(21:22):
and they got the money and.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
They bicker like you two do, except they're really married.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I've heard those shows before.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
I've heard of those shows and they don't really last.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, yeah, there's there could be other reasons as well.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Wait, wait, isn't it Kelly Rippa, she's married to her
co host mar He just oh no, yeah, right yeah, yeah,
like four different hosts.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Right.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, they've also been together for a really long time,
worked out and they have a family and you know,
maybe a little more of a safety net.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
There, and he filled in all the time. Yeah, he
got the permanent gig or.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
I was just gonna say though, like in that situation,
if the show isn't working, Mark's gone right, like like
that's let's find someone else for Mark. Kelly's gonna stay.
Like what do you do with the Dallas Wings?

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Who if it isn't working or whatever happens, and then
you know, do you say, hey this listen, we're not
maximizing this player isn't good.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Like there's just.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
There's just a lot of things that you have to
consider that you wouldn't normally, and I think this.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Is a not a certainly wouldn't be a bad thing.
We were talking about to women dating on a WNBA team.
But I'm saying I think anytime there's storylines that are
like ooh, that's enticing, is good for a league that's
trying to get more momentum, right, Like you can't rely
on Kaitlin Clark and Angel Reese to just carry the load,
Like this is, to me is just another fun story
that people love gossipy stuffings. FORTSCA should lean into it,

(22:53):
Like we could pretend we don't like anytime ooh there's
a fight at the game, or there's a this, or
you know, anytime this something you know, like you know,
here in the locker room, these guys are fighting or
you know, Nick Sirianni lost the locker room. Like, we
love gossip, whether we want to admit it or not
in sports. So I think the WNBA should lean into
this because it's just another fun storyline, Like you know,
they're dating and they're two star players, all right, So

(23:16):
the phone calls are starting to come in, you know
the story now eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
What are your thoughts on page Beckers and Asy Food
and her being on the team seeing our line from
the Fox Sports Radio studio, you know, we never thought
of what just a whole layer two. If these two
stars don't play well together on the WNBA level, then

(23:40):
there's gonna be all the noise of well, it's because
there are a couple they don't know, you know, it's
not working like they're they're leaving themselves open to criticism
if it goes wrong. Hopefully it goes well. Sam, you're
the WNBA guy, what do you.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Think, Well, you know, when Caitlin Clark was coming up
through the WNBA a few years ago, and when Doug,
Doug Gottlie is still on our network, uh, you know,
him and Jason would talk about the w NBA a lot,
and Jason Stewart brought up this idea of having like
a reality TV show of like love interests in the
NB and the w n B A and also just
sort of like reality like Reality TV meets Hard Knocks,

(24:16):
like you know World, Real World meets Hard Knocks. But
for the w NBA. That was Jason Stewart's idea.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Boxed out, good one, good one, Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
I'll tune in Gold Baby Gold, Let's go Here's and
Rich is right? Rich another point for you. I don't
know how to react to this. Trauma is good for
the w n B A because you got NBA playing
games and we're talking about this, so it's it's good
for the w NBA because it's exciting people like trauma
and we haven't seen it, like we've never explored this

(24:51):
before in the world of sports. But right listen, not
in this way. I know that's a smaller sample size
because they did play in winning Yukon together, But what
if there's also something where it's like, all right, people
start realizing Azy Fudd plays emotional when someone is physical
with Page Beckers or vice versa, aware like they let

(25:14):
that emotional side like, yo, that was a foul and yeah,
it's a way to rattle them, have someone the head out.
That's what I was getting out before. Like if you
were and I aren a team together, I'm not getting
mad if someone's hard fouling Covino, I might be like,
that's why teammate. But if you have that next level
of relationship with someone, you're going to take those things personally.
This could get good, This could get juicy. I think
it's a great storyline. Tonight is your WNBA draft. Truthfully,

(25:36):
this is the story that makes you realize there's a
WNBA draft Before DB's update Dan Byer's update, let's take
a few quick phone calls and chop it up at
the Fox Sports Radio Nation eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox Who we got the d n EG.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Let's start in Columbus, Ohio. HR executive Tyler, Yeah, he
works in.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
HR, break this down for us, man, what are your thoughts?
Can you can you ask about the can you ask
about the nature of relationships?

Speaker 7 (26:04):
Most definitely cancel. Most companies are going to have some
type of policy around workplace relationships, and I mean I
have it today where you got a husband and wife
and stuff like that working for the same manager. Where
you run into the issue is when it's when they
are within each other as kind of reporting structure, so
one reporting to the other or reporting to someone who

(26:24):
reports to the other. That's when you want to try
to keep them separate. I actually had one time we
acquired a company made all these founders super super rich.
We're talking high eight digits, millions of dollars. We set
out a business president to go lead this group from within,
and then about a year later she comes forward and says, hey,

(26:45):
it's going real well. Out here, I'm actually now dating
one of the founders and I need to report it.
So we take it. We're like, okay, listen, like we
got to give you a little slap on the wrists.
You need to tell the whole founder's team everyone that
you're in a relationship. Up. We got to make this
up and up.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Think about the couple that was caught at the Coldplay concert.
Wasn't the big discrepancy, not that they were cheating, but
in that corporate structure, didn't one of them report to
the other. And that's the that's the no. No, that's
the no.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
And then the show The Office touched on that where
Michael and Jan Jan is his Michael's boss, and then
they start dating and then it leaks out, and then
they have to do depositions and then Jan ends up
getting reassigned or loses her job. I can't remember, but yeah,
it's like a whole mess.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
How awkward is that because we've seen it at every
company you worked at, where it's like he's dating her,
she's dating him, she's dating her, she loves him, but
he loves that guy over there. I remember seeing How
awkward is that when you think you have to sit
down with HR and be like, hey, uh, Cindy just
want to let you know we're sleeping together. Like, how
does that meeting go? You have to just admit, like

(27:51):
you already broke the rules. You're just confessing to him.
I get I guess you're confessing to a random stranger. HR, Like,
just so you know, I'm sorry, boss, for I have sinned.
Oh and then Michael starts dating the HR woman Holly,
I love that show. Uh, quickie, let's go to West Virginia.
Fred is in the house.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
All right, guys, I'm so glad I went after the
HR guy because as a dude, I've got a bus
Camino's balls a little bit. Dude, you're killing me with
this talk. Okay, first you describe it as sticky, and
now you're calling it juicy. Okay, come on.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well, I mean I meant I use those words on purpose.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Curve.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
I mean, I mean, I think we know where we're
headed here. What I find most interesting is the fact
that we never had to explore these complexities for the
in the teams we rooted for in the past. So
I think that's pretty interesting And I'm surprised, are we,
Like one of the first shows Dan to bring this
up today, I think, so, yes, you know, what about

(28:55):
opposing what about a pextanu man? What about opposing arenas?
Have you thought like what if signs and heckling? Like
there could be some you know, some caddy stuff.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
I think that most people are above the immature stuff
that could happen, Okay, And that's why I think it's
such a sports story.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
I like to think that, but I feel like every
time I think people are mature enough, you see how
people go about their business and yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Yeah, I just I think that the crowd that you're in,
I think would prevent that sort of deal. But I'm
just going to go back to the Draft Day movie.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right. We laugh at Draft Day and Kevin Costner. The
whole premise of.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
That movie was how many people showed up to Bo
Callahan's birthday party, right, or how many of his teammates did.
And we laugh at it, but we're like, you know,
that seems like an NFL sort of thing to do.
And so when we're talking about again, the decision to
make the draft pick for this person, this isn't just
a throwaway thing. I just I think it's very significant. Yeah,

(29:55):
And I think it's so interesting and just what you
guys have talked about the last forty minutes.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Because Dan, I'm gonna somehow tie it back to my
Mets as we get into your update in just a second.
What happened in the Mets offseason? They unloaded a lot
of players because of wives and players Like, there's all
this thing that Lindor didn't get along with Nimo or
Alto and the wives didn't get along. That was a
big factor. Imagine a full fledged relationship between star teammates. Yes,

(30:22):
it could get crazy, absolutely. All right, Well, well we
got your dB. What's going on?

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Give us an you guys like you guys having a
bad day and maybe you and the wife aren't getting
along with you and the girlfriend, Like, I just got
to get away. Where are you gonna get away to?
You can't go to work because that's where she is.
You probably have the same friends because you're all on
the same team in a different city. Yeah, yeah, can't
be easy. I'm gonna go sit in the car, my space.

(30:46):
I'm just going into the other bedroom, all right. NBA
news outside of the w NBA Draft tonight, Luka Doncic
expected to return to the States on Friday and to
rejoin the Lakers, not to play. Still no timetable for
his return, but he's in Spain to get even for
that injured hamstring. That's according to ESPN, jersey sales released guys.
NBA most popular jersey belongs to Steph Curry the Golden

(31:08):
State Warriors, with the New York Knicks getting the most
merchandise sold in team sales dB.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Is that a surprise? Like to me, it is like
Steph Curry still. Now, I'm not trying to undermine his superstardom,
but I'm surprised that's not a younger.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
I would have thought Luca or Wemby would have been
number one, right, and I think Luca was two, Wemby
I think was four.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
So does that prove his star power is still there
a lot of his jerseys, Yes, I think.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
I think that that's a part of it.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
There's also no one else on the Warriors that you
would get a jersey of, which is I always felt
like it was the Tom Brady thing.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
And it's a jersey you could buy that will never
go out of stop when he's retired. Yeah, you know
my throwback Steph jersey?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Absolutely, Yeah, because a Yiannis. That's a risk, right, if
you're gonna buy that.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
That's absolutely absolutely it is especially now.

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Speaker 1 (32:35):
The Guardians off to a pretty good start this year.
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Speaker 10 (32:44):
There she goes, Josey Ramirez has done it. The first
Cleveland Major leaguer dever homer of all twenty nine other
Major league teams.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Damn first, what was that? The first Guardian?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
That's what he said?

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, wow, pretty impressive. That is great. Cleveland beats the
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Iraq play of the day. For all those that talk about, oh,
there's a you know, a couple of power teams in baseball,
there's a power couple in the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I know.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Let me tell you. Look at the Major League Baseball
standings thus far. Other than the eleven and four Dodgers,
which is predictable, the American League, especially Yankees, Rays and
Baltimore Yankees are stinking like a believe, stinking to the
high heavens.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
It's early.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
It's early, but people get nervous nowadays, way way too early.
But everyone The best record in the ALE East is
eight and seven. Minnesota's nine and seven, which is two
games over five hundred. They're in first place. Maybe just
that these teams are ultra competitive. But out West, the
A's and the Rangers are eight and seven. So we're
talking about an American league consisting of all around five

(34:04):
hundred teams. So to talk about parody and how it
doesn't exist in baseball so far, was seeing just no
team Like every team in the AL has at least
seven losses and we're like two weeks into the season.
Even the teams that we thought were cheeks, like the
A's are playing tough. That's the thing. So we're going
to talk some baseball because there's a rivalry between the

(34:27):
Mets and the Doyers and they're playing tonight, the rivalry
of the high payrolls three hundred and seventy five million
versus four thirteen million, and Rich You're going right, I'll
be there, and I'm aggravated about it. Oh, I got
to hear about this so tonight this is like, I mean,
these are good problems to have. I'm lucky enough to

(34:48):
be able to bring my family to the ballgame, but
tonight at Dodger Stadium happens to be like, Hello, kitty
sweatshirt night.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, hello kitty hoodie and gonna get one? Are you
gonna wear it?

Speaker 1 (35:03):
I'm one, get one, and I'll tell you why.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
He's got to put the coach Rich lettering on the back.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Of it, though, because my wife is picking you up
here at Fox Sports Radio at four o'clock when the
show ends, and I'm like four o'clock, babe, She's like,
we need to make sure the kids are one of
the first how many people there to get the hoodie.
So I'm gonna be at Dodger Stadium. We canna be
rocking a this medium Hello Kitty swear traffic.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
I didn't mean to play the clown horn. By the way,
I don't know what it's okay. I'm gonna hurt, hurt.
I'm gonna feel like a.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Clown at Dodger Stadium two hours early, just so my
kids could get a Hello Kitty hoodie. And truthfully, I
think they should give it to everyone, first of all.
But secondly I said to give you know, would you
sell this thing immediately? Not immediately there, I'd put it
online and get my bang from my buck. There's no

(35:55):
way my kids are gonna last a whole night if
we go two hours early, and the Mets have never
won when I've gone with that kids so frustrated, but
not I'll tell you more next. I remember the NBA
playing games for this week, so if we have time today,
we'll talk about that. I was looking at our Twitter
feedback x and Burnett forty four made a good point,

(36:19):
he goes, yo, you know, and Rich you did mention
how drafting Fudd would make Page happy, But what about
the val happy? But what about the alternative, if you
don't draft her, you really like upsetting your star player.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
And think about it.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
If you're telling me that star players, the teams run
things by them, why would they not run something by
Page Beckers? Meaning like, if they're making a big decision
in the Bronx, I'm pretty certain that Aaron Rodgers is
giving a heads up if the judges to what I said,
Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Judge. If they're making a big decision
in Kansas City, don't you feel like they give Mahomes

(36:59):
the little like, hey, Patrick, just let you know, here's
what's doing. Star players get that that little heads up,
And I think Paige Becker's would be awfully. I feel
like she would feel backstepped a bit if they don't,
if they don't choose her girlfriend, if she wants that.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
And it's not like asy Fudd is some fringe second rounder,
like she's gonna go. She's if whether whatever team it's
the uh, you know, the Atlanta Dream have the first pick,
first overall pick. They're gonna pick asy Fudd. So it's
like they have to. They kind of have to take her.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
They have to.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
It'd be weird if they didn't. I think it would.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
I think they take a little gamble with them being
a relationship, but overall, I think that it makes much
more sense to take her.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
And the big history in sports, Rich's reluctance to go
to Hello Kitty Night Tonight here in Los Angeles, the
Mets take on the Dodgers. Mets are stinking too, Mett's
and the Dodgers going at it. It's the battle of
the high pay rolls. You gotta tell me more about
your reluctance, and then we have a question based on
you know, New York fans especially. I think it's the
culture of baseball because I've been seeing a lot of this,

(37:58):
Like you have to be insane to want to play
and to want to watch baseball because seventy percent of
its failure, right, it's like getting through the failure and
your team loses a lot. You know how many times
I tell kid on my team when I coach, like
you know, Aaron Judge and Otani, they you know, they
fail seven to eight out of ten times, you know,
and you know MS lose a lot. It's just part

(38:18):
of the game. It's the long season. Best team loses
some sixty roughly sixty to seventy games. You know, when
you have expectations like they do in New York, people
will start to panic. So we're gonna ask you a
question based on that. But before you tell me about
your drama, rich it's New York versus La right now.
I know we've debated this, but right now today, would

(38:40):
you rather a deep slice from New York or real
juicy beerria tago here from La? I rather pizza always.
New York's that way better food than La. But I'm
handled down. You eat a taco bell all the time.
I'm talking a tango bell at the time, Like home,
may I go to taco stands more often that I
go to taco bell and it's still not even close

(39:02):
pizza pizza in New York. When you eat tacos every day,
you know, I actually agree with you. I was just
seeing if I caught you in a different mood.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Your taco bell consumption is actually low and you eat
tacos every day from a bunch of different places.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Yeah, all right, ready, let me wherever the greatest taco
place is if there is one, Dan need do you have, Like,
is there a famous taco place? So the best La
Taco versus just you know, average New York pizza. You
still choose pizza? Please? Not even close?

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Okay, hey, I would go for a nice deep slice
or bigger. The bigger LA New York debate for me
is bacon, egg and cheese on a like in everything
bagel versus the breakfast like the best breakfast burna. That
to me is a better question. I go to y
versus LA bacon, egg and cheese on everything, or like

(39:51):
a sweet like Chudy so egg and cheese.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
Cove if you're ever in the Highland Park area, vias
tacos so good?

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:59):
But rich does he take average New York beats over
the any day?

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Wait?

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Wasn't that the Was that the taco stand that was
featured in the Super Bowl Halftimes show.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
That's a different one, different one, all right?

Speaker 5 (40:08):
I mean you got you know, forty really good authentic
taco spots here.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
I got to ask, depending on where you live around
the country, this can't be a local thing. I know
it's not here in LA. I know it's certainly not
in New York where you grew up, or Texas, where
my wife is from, or Idaho where your girls from.
Do we all have the same reluctance that like going
to the stadium for a concert or a game, you
always end up loving it, But just the thought of,

(40:33):
like if you could just teleport there, it would be so.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Much more awesome.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Danny, I don't know if is this just the hassle
of getting there? So it's something about getting to Dodger
Stadium that is it like a stereotype your whole childhood,
like getting there's a pain in the ass.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Oh yeah, I think that's the reason why my mom
made our grandmother take us to the stadium. She didn't
want to have anything to do with the traffic.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
I think a lot of times it's not that you
don't want to hang or go to the concert or
go to the game. It's like you don't want to
deal with the hassle of driving, traffic, parking.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah, and then she knew we wanted to stay for
the whole game. We wouldn't leave early. My grandmother she
just sat around with the sun umbrella, listening to Vin
Scully on her transmitter radio.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
So she didn't care.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Like to me, like and I sound like old cry baby.
So I accept it, guys, Rich Davis, crybaby, I'm saying
it the idea of my wife picking me up on
the way. She's like, Babe, i'll pick you up on
the way. Just leave your car. Fox. That's four o'clock
at the stadium at like five, sitting in an hour
in traffic. Then I'm there two hours early so my
kids could get a Hello Kitty shirt. I know I

(41:31):
sound like a baby, but I'm like, what, I don't
want to I can just and my Mets are stinking.
Peterson's pitching. Who stinks? No One Soto he's on the
il and I heard Edwin Diaz. They're not even playing
the trumpets because heat. They're reassessing his role because he's struggling.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Danny j I mean he had one bad lost save there.
Robleski is starting for the Dodgers, where it's a little
bit of a bright spot for you as a Mets
fan because he's.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Not the Dodgers. Some offense, I maybe.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Gonna be at least nine runs score.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
I hate too. Yeah, for the Dodgers, I hope because
I hate to root against you, Rich, But we got
a bet who has the better record? Yankees are Mets.
We have a thousand dollars bet. And I'm also over
that's over one hundred and sixty two. You could root
for my kids to get their first man some of
that Dan Bayer survivor league. And I chose the Dodgers
this week because they play your weak ass Mets and

(42:22):
the Rockies you less go even more reason for I
just want you to then lose.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
No, no way, dude.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
So the question is, you know, should Rich man it up?
He has this reluctance and then back to the game
at hand. I can't really say much about Rich's Mets
because the Yankees are terrible right now, right now, it's
a long season. Yeah, what's the earliest you could fire
a manager? Because that's really what becomes the talk of
the town, the narrative. It's like, all right, for the Yankees'

(42:51):
like Jashism's the worst, he has the worst baseball, IQ Christian,
we paid this bum all that money. Oh my god,
Aaron Boone stinks he's the And then for Rich de
already saying fire the coach, what's the is that like
hitting the panic button too soon?

Speaker 5 (43:07):
Yeah, and it's not the manager's fault that Lindor is
having trouble fielding right now?

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Has thething?

Speaker 5 (43:14):
Thank you, Rich Lindor even if he starts cold at
the plate, usually his gloves stays hot. So it's strange
to see those brain farts he's had on the field.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
You have a life slumper. What's going on? That's the
bigger question. What what's colder than cold ice? Cold dry ice?
Thank you? Uh? Shake it like a polar picture, Thank you? Outcast?
What's called the b a nice coat? You know? Right now,
this is a stat that you wouldn't even believe. And again,

(43:46):
I'm a Mets fan, so I'm allowed to bring this up. Lindor,
who's like, you know, is he not getting along with everyone?
Star Player All Star started the AS game last year
a shortstop for the NL. Would you believe right now
he has zero home run, zero rbi. That's insane.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
No.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
I thought he had one rbi bright now and he's
doing a few and had some mental er sig. So
it really comes down to what the players are doing right.
But people are like Mendoza's gotta go. I looked it up.
The earliest manager has ever been fired to start the season.
This is when we were little kiddos. Cal Ripkins Senior

(44:28):
managed the Orioles when Owen six and they pulled the
plug six games into the season. As far as a
bigger sample size, what would be considered in early firing.
In twenty sixteen, Freddy Gonzalez managed the Braves. He started
out nine and twenty eight and they're like, we've seen enough.
That's about a fourth of the way through. But would

(44:48):
you be shocked if a big market team with a
big payroll said, hey, we're like a couple weeks into
the season, we could see what's happening here. I wouldn't
be shocked because of the amount of money we're talking here.
The Mets are big spenders, and if you remember last year,
you're not getting productivity out of this team, Like you
gotta make moves. Something's got to happen. Like I know
it's too early to panic for the fans, like relax

(45:11):
a little bit, but you got to show some sense
of urgency, some sense of like getting on the right track.
And that goes for the Yankees or any team of
that caliber paying that kind of money to these players
that aren't producing. It's like do you care? Like I
love Jazz Chisholm, but his nonchalant attitude not even knowing
the rules this past weekend kind of pathetic, Like the fans.

(45:33):
When the fans seem to care more than the players
who are getting paid millions of dollars, that's the problem.
You talk about that all the time. It's funny you
would bring that up. I put that on the manager sometime, like, yo,
get it right. I took a screenshot of this because
I thought it was interesting because we talk about, dude,
it's a long season. You look at you look at
some of the end of the year's stats and standings

(45:54):
in baseball every year, and then you go back to like, hey,
what do things look like in mid April, and you'd
be like, oh my god, we panicked. Thought it's a
long season, dude. It's a long, long season. So when
a guy's slumping over a fifteen game stretch, can you
really assess fifteen out of one hundred and sixty two games? No,
But if Lindor's cold tonight, Rich, you can give him
your Hello Kitty sweatshirt.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
It's a good idea.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
It's the real reason Rich is going speaking of cold,
your boy, Jazz Chisholm, I'm curious what you guys thought
of this. To quote Jazz and you actually have the sound.
Oh no, not about the rules. I have another thing.
Jazz Chisholm is quota saying it's cold. It's literally all

(46:39):
it is. I'm not using I'm not using it as
an excuse. As soon as the weather heats up, I
heat up. That's what it is. Well, it's hard to function, Haan,
So he didn't grow up with the cold. It's hard
to he goes. It's hard to function when you can't
even feel the bat. Well, guess when it's also called
out in October? So what are you saying, Jazz, I
don't like that. You gotta you gotta adjust. You accept it.

(47:01):
Wear a turtleneck, you accept the fact that some of
these guys just can't play. Wear some insulated batting gloves,
put on some freezy freakys. Yeah, wear some ear muffs.
I don't care because if you want to play in October,
it's gonna be called dude. And I love Jazz Chisholm.
So when is it too early to panic? Is the
question here? And should Rich put his Hello Kitty shirt

(47:23):
on eBay immediately or just sell it to someone at
the stadium? Put out an offer up man Facebook, Marketplace
only creepos.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
It's a hoodie that adds about two hundred dollars to it.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Sell it to MANSI bro Hey, Danny, what do you
think man as far as like forget the Mets in general,
what's too early to fire a manager or a coach?
Like how early into the season, Like do you think
you could see a vibe that early on? Like the
Mets are seven and nine? I would say the Mets
is more fair. Sorry to interrupt, Dan, but let me
just get this thought out. When there's so much drama
in the LBC and in the Mets clubhouse and in

(47:54):
the WNBA, when there's so much drama between Lindor and Soto,
it's like that does fall on the manager, even though
they're adults and you can't control what people do. Like
if Carlos Mendoza was taken more seriously, they'd work that
out and they'd figure it out. If he can't get
these dudes to play together and play right and and

(48:17):
win essentially, which is the name of the game, it
falls It does fall on him here, I do I
do believe that. And again, Hot, what is it the
second highest payroll?

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:28):
You something thought, Noel? Like a pause? They and the
same what's up with it?

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Is dramatic?

Speaker 5 (48:34):
Because if you get fired this early into the season,
I'm not buying it. Like the players need to perform
on the field, and rich your manager can't get out
there and make those plays for Lindor, you can't get
their bats to be hot. I don't know what's going
on in the clubhouse as far as him firing up
the players or being a leader for that team, but
you also need your star players to lead by example.

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Unless there's a glaring issue in the clubhouse with that manager,
you at least got to give them what to the
All Star break.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
I think the bet to make tonight knowing that I'll
be there and luck never goes my way. Maybe tonight
we change things up. What is today the day? Prop
bet wise that you throw a little something on Lindor
his first RBI. Maybe his first home run is tonight.
I mean it has to happen eventually.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
In the line.

Speaker 5 (49:24):
Right now, the Dodgers by a run and a half
and the over under is eight and a half runs.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
I might see some offense tonight. Well, hey, you could
look for me on TV. I'll be wearing a Hello
Kitty sweatshir. You know it's crazy for me too. I'm
looking at like everyone else there. I'm looking up Carlos Mendoza,
the manager of the New York Mets. I'm three years
older than this guy, so I mean, it's not an
easy task when you're trying to get all these dudes
to get on the same time, on the same page,

(49:50):
and you know, God bless them. But we'll see what
happens tonight. All right, Well, hey, speaking of baseball, coming up,
we are going to play Big Poppy Trivia, bring in
Boston Red Sox Legend, Big Poppy Bootleg Poppy. Are you

(50:13):
gonna wear your Hello Kitty sweatshirt to work tomorrow? You
know what more resale value? If I'm going to Dodger
Stadium and worn by Rich Davis on Fox Sports Radio
two hours early and it's actually overcast in LA like
the one day where it's a little rainy, If I
have to go sit in like miserable Dodgers Stadium for
two hours, I'm I'm gonna sell that on the spot

(50:36):
for it. I'm gonna be like, who wants.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
You under selling the weather a little overcaster's thunder and
lightning out there, and.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
By the way, put it online. Why would you sell
it to some dude for one hundred bucks. You can
get five hondo for that bad boy. Wait, five hundred bucks,
ro Kitty, Yeah, Dodger's sweatshirt. I'll see ninety four dollars,
all right, maybe ninety four dollars. We're Cavino and rich
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Covino and Rich. Now, before we get the Big Puppy
Trivia and Dan Buyer's Update. Danny g. This is the

(51:48):
week we've talked about it. What does everyone? What does
everyone love to say? As far as the NBA.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Goes, especially you two always well long regular season. I'm
gonna start watching really when the playoffs start. That's what
I'm going to get excited about the NBA.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Here we are and the one thing I'll point out
by saying, all the playing games. Just last week we
talked about how the NBA listen. If you're a die
hard basketball fan, you knew how to find your team
every day. But we did point out how the NBA
is a little scattered because there's different off days where
in baseball you know your team's off Monday or Thursday.
I would say the inconsistency doesn't help. The inconsistency of

(52:25):
not knowing who's playing, and the inconsistency of when the
games are and where to find them. Yeah, there's a
lot of networks that got their you know, finger in
that pie. As far as the playing games, they're all
on Amazon Prime yep, so there's no confusion that helps.
Over the next few days, you'll catch all those games
on Prime. Playing games got some big stars in those

(52:46):
playing games, so it should be fun. I'm stars. I'm
actually more intrigued than you would think. I think the
playing games maybe not so much, because once the real
playoffs start, then it's you.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Know, it's kind of like the play in game for
the NCAA tournament. You're like, Okay, now the field is set. Yeah,
Like I mean, I don't know. I just think it's
you know, giving teams that the first forest maybe don't
necessarily deserve to even be there to begin with, are
now in. So the NBA playoffs are like three months long,
so it's like its own little season.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
That's why I that's why I say, like, realistically, I
really pay a lot of attention during the playoffs, but
the regular season, I'm like, what for two thirds of
the league to make it all?

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Right?

Speaker 5 (53:26):
So, on a scale from one to ten, how excited
are you guys for the NBA playoffs?

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Scale one to ten, yay, I would say that level
of excited. Yeah right now, Right now, the blatant tanking
is not helping. I think the vibe with basketball in comparison.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
That's over. Now.

Speaker 5 (53:42):
That's that's why Now I know these teams all need
to step it up, and it needs to be a
goodies sure run for the NBA.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
I think it needs to be a good playoff runt
to really remind everybody like, yeah, you know, base basketball
is awesome, you know, as far as the playing games go.
I mean, I think you're more casual and the likes
more star power. Would you say Warriors Clippers seems to
be the one on the docket Wednesday that has the
most buzz and that's the nine ten seed. So winner

(54:11):
of that then has to play the next day.

Speaker 6 (54:13):
So I think if the Knicks make a run, people
get excited because it's the you know, the Garden and everything.
Timberwolves Nuggets in the past have had an amazing series in
their first round series, rot gets Lakers with Lebron against Durant,
the shorthanded Lakers, I think will be will be interesting.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
So it'll be there.

Speaker 6 (54:33):
It's just a question of if it's Oklahoma City in
San Antonio in the conference finals, which I think would
be awesome.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
People are saying that the Nugget Spurs Round two would
be a hellier battle Yokich versus Wenby to see like,
you know where these teams really lie with with you know,
something on the line.

Speaker 6 (54:51):
I would rather see the Spurs and Thunder than the
Nuggets and Thunder, But I think I think that there
will be enough there too.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
And you're you're definitely right about the Knicks. The Knicks,
not just because from New York. When the Knicks go
on a run, it sort of rejuvenates the Eastern Conference,
and because it's like, I'll be honest, as much as
we don't like the Cowboys, Dan Buyer, when the Cowboys
are good, there is more NFL buzz, like when there's
certain teams that when they're good, you either love to
hate on the fan base or that fan base is pumped.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
So it's it's one of the things that I've said,
it's crazy on how popular the NFL is when the
most popular team hasn't been great for thirty years.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Is that crazy?

Speaker 2 (55:27):
You know?

Speaker 6 (55:28):
But you're right, well, it would be even better if
it was the Cowboys were better. As crazy as that.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Sounds, Big Poppy Trivia, Let's go Iron, Mike.

Speaker 8 (55:38):
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especially the comrino. Guys, the other guy he head too big.

Speaker 8 (55:51):
It's time for Big Poppy baseball trivia. Radio game firing
some MLB trivia at you. I swing hard in case
big poppy for big crisis.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
We play game you called. That's big Poppy Baseball trivia.
The baseball trev Let's hope all right?

Speaker 5 (56:10):
FSR Security walking broke poppy into the main studio, the.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Music going, where's the sofa?

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Music's dog? Sorry to make you wait there in the
blue kitchen.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Hey, it's okay. I guess no wait, I guess no
one complained enough. He's back, he's Upwe Hey, it's my guy.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Pewe.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
Dude, you were really popular last Monday. We got so
many compliments about you coming into the studio. That's right,
are you betty happy? Do we here already happy? We
hear cuts Meet the contestants. The man right over there
who needs to sprint into LA rush hour traffic in
order to get his very own Hello, kiddy hoodie Rich Davis.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Hey, what's up baby? You don't need a hoodie? I
got a T shirt that says my dog, my dog.
You know, take a T shirt? What's that shirt?

Speaker 5 (56:53):
I would take it Poppy everybody wanted, and right over
here the Master's biggest fan and goat of all radio games.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Dan, Hello, it's sad day day after the Masters Poppy.

Speaker 5 (57:03):
They can see you and looking to win and seeing
our prize pack on our studio lines. Dan in Boise
was the first through.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
What up, Dan? How we doing?

Speaker 8 (57:15):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (57:15):
I hope you win today, but I hope the Yankees lose.
Dog Yankee lose? Hey, Dang, you go with me, Dan,
You go with me?

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Damn.

Speaker 7 (57:24):
I'm good with you, Buddy, you.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
Go with me.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
You go with me because I couldbree heat.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
What do you do for a living there in Boise?

Speaker 7 (57:32):
I'm an HR director?

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Oh wow, we talked about that HR home run director too.
I hear home run or Sunday like that?

Speaker 2 (57:40):
All right?

Speaker 5 (57:41):
Here are the rules for Big Poppy Baseball Trivia. The
first contestant with two correct answers is the champ. If
there's a tie, we have a tie breaker 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 (57:54):
Yo, Man, I like your voice. Man, you my dog boy.
You got like that smooth voice.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Baby, are you read? Let's get it on, all right.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Let's go. I go be here, be poppy. He and
I'm a big guy like Peewee's head, like Richie's head.
He's got besas So I didn't steal a lot of bass.
But who holds the MLB record? How you say most
consecutive stolen bass? He's a A Davey Lopes rested in peace?

(58:22):
B Bean Scorman or c Ricky Henderson? Who most consecutive dan?

Speaker 4 (58:31):
I would say, see Ricky, no.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Dan buyer for the steal? Vince Coleman, Yes, sir Vince.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
How many did it go without getting caught? Rin's fifty
fifty nineteen eighty eight and eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Look at that dB on the board right out the
gate we moved around two.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
I thought it was Ricky. Why are you lighting me
like that?

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Poppy? I'll throw you off the sand, all right?

Speaker 1 (58:57):
I love racking off beach. Who is the most career
losses in Major League Baseball history? A Cy Young, B
Nolan Ryan or Phil necro c rich Rich. I almost
feel like Cy Young.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I almost feel like you got that point.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
I feel like Cy Young just had so many decisions.
Way to go bee Wee was rich ninth Bwee. He
had a record of five eleven and three fifteen or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
A lot of decisions, all right, So Dan Byer and
Rich Davis on the board.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Wait you tell me Cy Young? Did he go five
and a third every star like pitchers? Now, hey, man,
you got it right.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
You go with me, You go with me.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
I could be heing we killed around three okay, around
three big Poppy three bea. I was once quoted saying,
how you say? I was quoted saying how you say longentivity, long,
John jevity, longevity or something like that. Did I say, A,
I guess I'm the last dinosaur? B. When I started

(01:00:01):
with the tweens, it was like starting your long career
on vacation or see I sleep for nine hours every
night and east one of my secrets to having a
long career. What I say about longel Dan? And yeah,
would you say nine hours?

Speaker 7 (01:00:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
What I say about longevity?

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Dan Buyer for the steal in the wind, Hey is correct.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
I guess I'm the last dinosaur and last week the
listener one. So Dan Byer, you're the first crew member
to win this game. Adulations win number.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
One for DV. You go with me, you go with me,
that's good news. That's good news for me.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Thanks boy, I'm anybody happy to be here. And the
Yankees lose and let's go Red Sox. And by the way,
Dan Byer, I got my dog T shirt for you,
my dog.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Because you oh all right? Great? Yeah nice? And the
other Dan in Idaho, thank you for listening and playing
the game. We appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Hey Dan, you like uh you like the Yankees? The
Yankees lose, the Yankee lou like, oh good, okay, doesn't
like the Yankees?

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:01:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
By the way, crazy to think that, Hey later, prewe
it's rich, it's not teeweed, Hey later. We worst team
in baseball right now? Just to show that, we talked
about the parody of major League Baseball in house speaking
of Poppy's Red Sox, they're what, they're six and nine,
six and nine, But the Mets are seven and nine.
The worst team in baseball right now, if I'm correct?
Is it it the Giants at six and ten and
Rocky six and ten? So, by the way, it's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Did you see that? Really? Banthrow Rome? Now?

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
I'm not a Roman Anthony hater, right. I think he's
a big time player.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
For the Red Sea.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
People love him and his sister, Yeah, like super stud
bright future. But he made like the weakest throw to
the plate, and now they call him Roman noodle arm Anthony,
who says that you everybody, everybody, even Poppy was talking
about his noodle alarm off the air and there's all
these photoshops of Roman Anthony with a noodlelarm, like I

(01:02:11):
know you're saying, it's all over. There was one one
throw I saw. He was playing left field, and it
looks like a play. At the play, it looks like
the ball had to have slipped out of his hands
because it was like a six bouncer to the plate.
I'm like, yo that he certainly does not have a
cannon in left field, but it had to be alarm.
It had to be. There's no way a professional young
athlete like Roman Anthony has a noodle arm like that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
How you saying, nood alarm, noodle arm, noodlelarm, thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
A nude alarm or noodle nude alarm or a noodle alarm.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Noodlelarm or nude alarm.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
He has a noodle arm. All right, so guys we
got more Coveno owners. Thanks again a big poppy for
stopping by. I hope you guys enjoyed that. Always a
lot of fun, big poppy trivia. We normally do it
on Tuesdays, but that means tomorrow here on the show,
we'll do some last one standing the game this weep
in the Nation. And speaking of which I said, Wednesday,
Thursday Friday, we're going to be hanging out for Dan Patrick.

(01:03:08):
We're doing six to nine am out here on the
West side, but we might have some guests right nine
to noon East Coast. As you know, the DP show,
biggest show on the network, Dan Patrick Wednesday, Thursday Friday
and Wednesday at eleven am Eastern eight out here on
the West side. Coach Ballgame is going to join Cavino
on Rich. If you follow Coach Ballgame, you know this

(01:03:29):
guy's hilarious at a boy, I had one dumb question.
I was scrolling through, you know, social media feeds, seeing
if there's any hot story we're missing today. Guests, listen,
it's a controversial tonight WNBA draft. Our teammate's going to
be dating, right. I think that's a really cool, wild story.

(01:03:51):
That story should not be going under the radar because
to my knowledge, I know there have been a lot
of gay players and gay athletes and sports, but we
haven't heard about these love triangles and and and loving
situations and complexities in professional sports before the way we're
hearing about it in the w n B. A if

(01:04:11):
you just joined us, the draft is tonight and the
number one draft a z fud May joined former teammate
and current girlfriend Paige Becker's on the Dallas Wings and
we're saying, by the way, which is not a restaurant,
it's rough team, more like the Dallas Swings to Dallas Swings.

(01:04:33):
We basically speculated, is that reason to pick her or
maybe reason not to pick her because that could be
a disaster in the future if things don't pan out
right for the team. And we never had to explore
these situations before, like which you never wondered if Ray Knight.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
Was did not think that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
When you have a sport that has a Patrick John
Starr and there's an abundance of les means in the
w NBA, this is gonna happen. It's a different layer
that we haven't had to deal with at least openly.
That's why I think it's really really interesting. So that
that goes down tonight. Will teammates be lovers? That's that's
the story. NBA playing games start this week. So for

(01:05:15):
the most part, it's sort of a week of like
not a lot going on. Baseball's two weeks in where
you know, March Madness and the Masters are behind us.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
I'm in basketball withdrawal in that sense, like once all
those tournaments wrapped up, I'm like, man, so.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
You know those weeks where you got to be honest
with yourselves, Our show is going to be more fun
and you know off sports, you know, more off sports stuff.
But I just saw a clip. It was from like
a week ago. But would you really want to see this?
Did you see that Hunter Biden said that he wants
to get Eric or Donald Junior in an octagon? Do

(01:05:49):
you think that's a pay per view everyone would watch?
Would you watch Hunter Biden against one of the Trump
sons in a ring? We live in the world of
I can't I believe this has happened. You were talking
about what we watched. We watched Tyson Fury this weekend.
We saw that the hockey album Mayweather fight was called off.
We keep talking about, is this like in the Congo

(01:06:11):
Mike Tyson fighting happened? Like we live in a world
of Jake Paul spectacles. I think we would pay or
be intrigued to watch any controversial, random fight like this.
I think there's a market for it where Yeah, set
it up, make it happen. Sean Merrymans who runs a
fight league, sign them up. How about a that's one
of the prelimbs for the for Trump's birthday, the UFC fight.

(01:06:33):
It's by Hunter Biden versus Eric McDonald junior. Absolutely, there's
a market for that. Let's go. It'll be wild. But
but I saw that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Let me ask you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
I'll prove to you why UFC three twenty seven was
this weekend? Yeah? Right, And I want to show you
some of the names. Do you know these names?

Speaker 7 (01:06:53):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Like if I said Oldberg was the winner this weekend?
Rlos Oldberg. Yeah, I'm not trying to expose myself as well.
It doesn't know a lot. But UFC right now is
going through a pattern. You Jaska, you know UFC is
going through a moment right now where they're looking for
their next I'm not saying they're not fighters. I'm saying,
these are not household names. So if I were to

(01:07:16):
tell you that, yeah, Hunter Biden's gonna fight one of
Trump's kids, You'd be like, oh, yeah, you would. You'd
be more likely to watch. The casual fan would be
more likely to watch that than any random us with
Zuckerberg who is at Zuckerberg and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Never came to be. But we were all talking about that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
But you know, it's uh in the octagon much like
boxing in all sports, right, you go through your ups
and downs of divisions and high profile names but more
zach Kanov lost to Paulo Costa over the weekend. But again,
you you you go through times where they're stars, Ronda Rousey's,
Connor McGregor's, John Bones Jones, Henry Suhudo. There's guys that

(01:07:56):
are women that take over division and you're like, oh,
I'm really intrigued. I want to see when's their next
fight and who they fight either and it's not UFC,
but they're going to that Gina Carano rouse well, because
there's more intrigue in something like that. Two legends fighting
ladies versus ho kid over the weekend, and that's no
knock on UFC again. Props. UFC three twenty seven was

(01:08:17):
five great fights over the weekend. From what I heard,
I saw only the headlining fight, and I watched that
Fury fight over the weekend. Sports are cyclical, and it
happens in every sport where you go through a little
time period where it's like, yeah, the names aren't buzzed,
and how about baseball for a good decade, and now
baseball's back. It's happening with the NBA a little bit, right,
and it's happening with the world of UFC. You can't
tell me that the big names are as big as

(01:08:38):
they were over the last ten years or so. It's
just not the case. It's the you're seeing the tail
end of a lot of big names. So your thoughts
on that sounds silly, but I think people would tune
in to watch it now Tomorrow again, Tuesday will be here, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
we're in for Dan Patrick. So'll make note of that,
mental note of that we're gonna have a Tuesday Day

(01:09:00):
of last one standing. That's a heated, heated, high intense game.
For me, it's always tough because this process of elimination.
You may have an answer but someone steals your answer
and we give away prizes. So join us for a
Tuesday edition of that and more Coveno and Rich fun
here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm gonna go eat some
Dodger dogs in the rain and a Hello Kitty the Hoodie.
We'll see you guys tomorrow, Go Dodgers, Go Mets. We'll

(01:09:22):
see then. Arriva Dereci baby, We'll see you in the promise.
Thanks Big Poppy, US Love you, Pa.