The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R talk Aaron Judge's big comments on Mike Trout! Why is Trout so loyal to the Angels? They discuss a future where Trout WINS. Rich The Mush strikes again! Should he continue his torture? Dianna Russini resigns from The Athletic, the guys react! Plus, a Tuesday edition of 'LAST ONE STANDING,' & a "would you rather" for the NBA Play-In games!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:22):
Asides from last one standing, we got to talk serbian
booty slaps. What does that even mean? Sounds fun, serbian
booty slaps. Unfortunately, we're gonna have to address this Diana
Russini thing. I think we've handled it as respectfully as
we could as former colleagues and people that know her.
But you heard Dan Byer's update, We're gonna have to

(00:43):
like touch on it a little bit. I have her
statement and we'll just you know, glance it over it.
I want to go over her statement as she resigned. Yeah,
so we'll talk about that. My instinct here though, and
that has nothing to do with the serbian booty slapping
by the way, that's not an unrelated story, related story.
Just you know, resigning from the situation doesn't necessarily make

(01:07):
it go away, does it. Well, I see what she's doing,
so we'll explain, We'll we'll talk some of that, some
serbian booty slapping, some NBA playings that happened tonight. But
there's a guy who has a reputation, and I'm convinced

(01:27):
that maybe he likes this reputation. A guy that's been
in the MLB for sixteen seasons now, a guy that
has get this, four hundred and eight home runs, two
of them hit last night. Wow, a career batting average
of two ninety three. A guy that battled some health issues.
But you know what, it seems like he's back. Seems

(01:49):
like he's all the way back. Seems like he was
auditioning last night for something else or maybe not. No,
I would say, no, we're talking the one the only
Some people call him the goat. Aaron Judge called him
the goat. Wait till you hear this. Mike Trout, Mike
Trout of the Angels put on a show last night

(02:10):
and he got people remembering and thinking about, Yeah, that's right,
he's one of the best. What's his deal? Why is
he on the Angels? That's the question, right, So you
got to ask yourself, does Mike Trout like his narrative?
Because if he didn't. He's had so many opportunities to

(02:33):
change it, or forcibly change it or totally not even
against his will when he resigned an extension in twenty nineteen.
When Mike Trout has been on a team that hasn't
sniffed the postseason and over a decade, they haven't had
a winning season in a decade, no postseason since twenty fourteen,

(02:55):
and not a winning season since twenty fifteen. And we're
talking about a team that had both shows Hey and
Trout on the team at the same time, and it's
so sad. What really puts a spotlight on Mike Trout's
career was his incredible night last night and the fact
that Shohio Tani left and won two World Series since,

(03:17):
you know, because it makes you think of what the
possibilities could be for a guy like Mike Trout. Mike
Trout on any other team other than the Angels would
be a household name, a superstar. Granted, he's not personality plus,
but his stats do enough talking. The guy is one
of the greats. And if you don't believe me, can
I just say that Aaron Judge was gushing over him

(03:40):
last night. Aaron Judge gushing over Mike Trout. If you
missed it, take a listen to who I think is
to go Aaron Judge talking about Mike Trout. He's the greatest.
He's the greatest of all time.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
It has been fun to watch his whole career, you know,
coming up at such a young age and instantly just
putting yourself at the top of the list. Especially you
know he's let those boys over there for quite a
few years, and just to see him day in and
day out show up. I always had some tough injuries
over the years, but you know, to see himself put himself.
He's back on a better spot this year, and every
time he comes to the Bronx, man he puts on
a show. I hate to see it, but it's fun

(04:13):
competing against.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
A guy like that. So you got Judge gushing calling
him the goat and in typical fashion. What also makes
us think we need to talk about this is Mike
Trout puts on a show at Yankee Stadium yesterday, hits
two home runs and they still lose the game. He
has five RBI. That's been the meme, the hottest since

(04:36):
like memes came out. Typical Mike Trout Knight. He made
his debut in twenty eleven, and the memes since then
have been Trout two home runs because it used to
be him and Otani. Remember, it would always be like
Otani and Trout combined for four home runs, eight rbrs
and the Angels lose nine to eight, Like that was
the joke. And by the way, that was a back
and forth game. Yankees won eleven ten on a wild
pitch to add insult to injury, Like after all that

(04:58):
battling and back and forth, the Yankees went out a
wild pitch like misery. If I was Trout, I would
want to bang my head through a wall. But since
he's not banging his head through a wall complaining, we
can't help but ask you and ask each other Fox
Sports Radio Nation. Is he okay with this narrative? Is
he okay being content with the Angels? Is this sort

(05:21):
of the career that he wants, the low pressure, not
really getting the credit he deserves sort of career you
and I have talked about in the world of entertainment, sports, music,
reality TV actors, Like when you are in somewhat of
the public eye, some people lean into the I want
to be the celebrity, the people that tip off TMZ

(05:42):
like I'm gonna be here, or the people that want
to go to Coachella to show the world I'm here,
and the people that go to every award show versus.
There are very successful people in the entertainment world that
are like, no, I'm just gonna like chill with my
family and be low key. Yeah, but why do you
get into sports? Right? You could say I get into
acting and entertainment because I love the arts.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
We had the sports to win because you're the ultimate competitor, right,
That's the name and lifestyle takes a takes a little
part of this. I'll give you this. Go ahead. Anaheim, California.
We live in southern California, Los Angeles. If you don't
know the landscape, Danny, I rely on ways of GPS.

(06:26):
How would even get to Anaheim? The five the five free.
So you take the five and as you know, the
further you go down between Los Angeles and San Diego,
it just gets more like beachy and beautiful in my mind. Right,
there's something about like Anaheim. Disneyland's there. It's like their
ballpark has like a Disneyland vibe. Yeah, it's like a

(06:47):
really low maintenance. It seems like so low key. Maybe
he likes flying under the radar, not having people up
his ass. Maybe he likes the idea of making one
hundreds of millions of dollars and the owner doesn't care
about winning. The owner said, you think he's okay with
seeing guys leave and become uberly successful and win championships.

(07:10):
So that's like saying, uh, you left the Cavino and
Rich show and you became a super duper star and
I'm just like super cool with it. Like that would
be not true, Danny, Danny, what was the name of
the first radio station you worked at? K m I X.

(07:31):
My point is, I'd be happy for you Rich, but
I'd also be thinking to myself, like, damn, what am
I doing wasting away my talents here? You don't you
don't care about where Danny first worked in radio. I
don't think you cared about what I said. Well, you
interrupted me my questioning to Danny. Carry on, then, yeah, Glamormouth,
is there one person possibly that still works there when
you work there?

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Because I know that in that market, Yeah, probably not
at that exact station.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
I started my first real radio station was hot one
oh seven nine in Syracuse, and I guarantee there's one
person that still works there because they don't necessarily care
as much as you would think about moving up and winning.
And they're like, you know what, I just like my
life here, and I wonder that there has to be
something that Mike Trout is like, dude, I got it, man,

(08:19):
I'm living I'm living a great life. He's thinking, what
go to New York, go to Chicago, No thanks, put
on the pinstripes. That would be cool. But then there's pressure,
and then all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, Mike
Trout playing in New York. Maybe he's like, dude, I
got a beach house I live. Maybe he lives in
Long Beach with a view of the ocean and he
just chills, you know. And the constant comparisons. Last night

(08:40):
again they were playing the Yankees, the constant comparisons of
Mickey Mantle and the type of player he is. I'm
telling you, you ask do the mom test. They're like,
I heard of Mike Trout. Maybe we're talking a guy
with insane stats. We're talking a guy who they can
to Mickey Mannle were talking about a guy who Aaron

(09:02):
Judge calls the goat, and he's giddy about it. He's
like giggling and giddy about him, and your mom doesn't
even know who he is. So it's like, I don't know, man,
I don't know what his deal is. Maybe Rich is right,
maybe he's okay with this narrative, maybe he has a
comfortable life. But there's a part of me that thinks
that he's just a humble dude and he really does
want to win. He just doesn't want to be a

(09:23):
diva about it and maybe doesn't want to take the
steps that a show Hey did to do what he did.
But I think that's what you need to do in
today's world if you want to win. And I think
it's sad because last night he was also part of history.
Last night, I'm gonna need some help here because I
forget who it was, but he was part of something

(09:43):
we might not ever see again in our lifetime. Two
former MVPs both hit two home runs last night, Aaron
Judge and Mike Trout. And the last time that happened
was like in nineteen fifty something. So Matgine, if you
were at that game, you saw a history. We saw
Aaron Judge hit two bombs. You saw Trent Christiam hit

(10:04):
two bombs too, but you saw Mike Trout hit two bombs.
Hasn't been done since night since like Roy Campanella and
someone else or something since the nineteen fifties where two
MVPs went at it like that, and Aaron Judge gets
all the credit in the world. Again, he's playing for
the Yankees. Mike Trout doesn't see any of that credit
unless you're a hardcore baseball fan. That's just the truth.

(10:25):
And he's got his health back, and that's the difference,
and that's why we're talking about it. It's one thing
if he was a shell of the Mike Trout he was,
and ah, yeah, man, we saw the best of Mike Troust.
It seems like he's back, dude, seems like he's back,
and it seems like he wants it. But what does
he actually want? Even when they played great, they scored
ten runs last night and lost. My bullpen Is Cheeks.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Covid was June twenty one, nineteen fifty six. Hall of
Famer Stam Musial and Roy Campanella each hit two home That.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Was the last time think of those names Musual on Campanella.
That was the last time we saw two MVPs hit
two home runs each in one game. It happened yesterday,
And you're like, oh, yeah, Mike, And here's what the
world's thinking. Oh yeah, Mike Trout, he's really good. Forgot
about that? Oh you forgot about that? Kid? A weak
ass Angel might hid us up in Cincinnati and said
he went to the game last week they played the Angels,

(11:13):
and for a minute he forgot Mike Trout was still
in the Angels. Goh, yeah, that's try. Mike Trout's on
the Angels. That's a shame, dude. That's especially when we're
in this baseball renaissance, like when we're we're talking about
baseball constantly, how it is number two now after the NFL,
and baseball's popping in baseball, baseball, baseball, when we're bringing
up sho Hel Tani and Aaron Judge all the time. Granted,

(11:34):
Mike Trout had some injuries, he should have been like
right up there in the conversation. But because he plays
for the Angels, and because he hasn't sniffed the postseason,
he's not in it. And it's a reminder like sometimes
you got to leave where you are to make it.
People don't want to do that. I never wanted to
do that. Actually, I was like, nah, you know, it'll
find me successful, find me. I never wanted to leave

(11:54):
New York to find you know, any ounce of success.
I'm still looking for it. They pay me and meatballs.
But maybe that has something to do with it Rich.
Maybe he is too comfortable for his own good. But
that's where someone needs to pull a Ben Affleck in
in uh what was the movie good Will Hunting where
he has to, you know, show some tough someone has

(12:16):
to show might trust, some tough love and be like
if you come back here, if I see you pull
up here again tomorrow. Whatever Affleck says to Matt Damon
in the movie, like, Hey, do your thing. You're too
good for this, You're too good for this town. You're
too good for your You're a great player, You're better
than the angels. Someone needs to tell him he needs
to get out. He needs to win because you know what,

(12:39):
it's sports rich and his legacy is defined by it.
That's just the truth. Yeah, he may be comfortable. He
may of course, he makes a great living. Guess what
most people in the MLB, make a great living. Your
legacy is defined by your winning. And he's not doing
Deadley's squat n Anaheim.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
I was just I was just across from the stadium
a couple of weeks ago. Very nice. I wouldn't want
to leave there either. They're not doing anything. Like we
had this discussion about when owner your existence, No was
the you ever see a Bronx tail, Sam, I have not.
The whole sentiment of the story is the worst thing
in life is wasted talent or the saddest thing in
life is wasted talent. He's the definition.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
He's one of the most talented guys to play in sports,
and no one cares.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
He's like, this is my job. I show up, I
live here, I love it, and I'm doing my part.
I'm doing my part, you know from Starship Troopers and
uh yeah, I don't know. I've man, it's nice down there,
but I get it.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
It is it is, it is. It is no one
when you.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Have your owner come out and say, you know, make
a family friendly outing, but we don't really care about
winning that much like that. That's got to be discouraging.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
This year he's batting. Oh wait, the average is kind
of low this year, but again two ninety three overall
four bombs to last night twelve RBIs. But again, when
you listen to him talk, he hasn't been this healthy
in years, so he feels like he's completely healthy again
and I'd love to see him have a monster season

(14:04):
and be in that MVP conversation again. So again we're
talking Mike Trout and the question we ask you is
or the statement we pose do you think he's just
cool with this narrative? Like he likes being that guy
and maybe that's just who he is and he has
to be It's I mean, and listen, maybe not everyone

(14:26):
is chasing glory. Could he know he has a six
year old and a two year old fortune gloe, He
lives in arguably one of the more beautiful places in
the United States. No offense till you know today, I
would really hate to be an Angels fan then, you know,
because you want to root for people that are trying
to win, and you know Dan, well, he ain't winning,
but nothing. He's loyal. Why would an Angel fan be

(14:49):
mad at him? He's been loyal to them because every
committed to winning. How is he not? Because you said
he's okay that this is his legacy. This guy wants
to win, man if I mean, I think in pro
sports that should be the goal. That's you just had
two opposite things. Why would an Angels fan be mad
at him for staying all right? A Trout fan, I
should say, a Trout fan hut. Angel fans could only

(15:10):
be like, man, this guy's the most loyal of loyal guys.
He'd gotten really barred about somebody. Like I said in
Goodwille Hunting, You're like, yeah, Manuti Piratesfield would get Pirates
fans like Skeens go away like, hey, dude, you don't
think I felt bad for like Don Manningly as a
kid like Don Manley's great, he needs I wish he
would win. I feel bad for the guy that he
never won. If you really care about a player and
really root for them, yeah, unselfishly like yeah, he's too

(15:33):
good for this. We have free will. How many times
have you seen someone in a miserable relationship and you're like, well, dad,
why do you guys break up? And they're never going
to because they could complain about it all day, but
deep down inside they're not going to make a change.
We like Mike Trout in twenty nineteen, decided to finish
his career with the Angels by signing that twelve year extension.

(15:56):
He could have absolutely decided to go anywhere, and anytime
there's a trade deadline, you don't think teams are poking
around like, hey, what's your story with Trout's Let's not
play this game where Mike Trout's like stuck there and
poured Mike Traut. Mike Trout had every year is in
a big every opportunity is still only thirty four years old.
That's why we're saying it's like act now, man, do

(16:18):
something now, at least go for it, no, or is
he just cool with the narrative.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
I kind of feel like it's if you guys had
stayed at ESPN and your show was just doing okay,
the TV show you started before COVID took it out,
and it was just doing okay, and it was in
a holding kind of in a holding pattern, but you
guys kept going and going, and ESPN Radio or whatever
entity you were with was kind of the second dog to.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
FSR, which it kind of is it.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
And you guys still were there, but you had a
lot invested in that company and they paid you well
and you were the face of them. But you know
what I mean, yeah, because of how much you had invested.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
It, because it is said, shot you loyal. The reality
is like, you know, we appreciate his loyalty. Then our video,
our video guy spot constantly does the whole like what
does it all mean? Like life? Right, I mean it's
a bigger question, like what does it all mean? And
like you could be like Mike Trout is happy, he
has a beautiful wife and two kids, and he lives
in a beachy area in southern California. At the end

(17:22):
of the day, does the Angels record really mean that much?
Like if he likes his life. If he likes his life,
then there's there's your reason. Because he has had every
opportunity commute. It's not like Mike, trust don't we don't
we all want to see this guy ran. Of course,
maybe he hasn't even win in champ win championships. I
don't mean win in life, because he already won in life.

(17:44):
He already won in life. Dan Bayer, Danny g everyone
in this room, I was saying, in every sport when
an athlete wants out, Damn Bier, what usually happens. Look
at any NFL player, NBA player, they put up a stink,
they say some controversial stuff about the owner or coach,
which means then they forced the hands like oh, now

(18:05):
he's just it's so out of character for him. So
maybe he's just in an awkward situation with that. Brandon
Ayuka my forty nine ers didn't even suit up after
his contract and just played baby games until like, I
guess he's not on the team anymore. Any NFL players,
NBA players are masters at this. Yeah, look what's been
going on with the honest You're honest? Look at what
for a minute. I know he's back in your team now,

(18:26):
but Max Crosby for a seconds, like I'm gonna go
on to trampoline to show everyone I'm okay, what's up? Raiders.
Mike Trout lives in a nine point one five million,
nine thousand square foot mansion in the gated Harbor Ridge
community of Newport Beach, California. Nownd's awful. Purchased in twenty nineteen.
I've driven totady that neighborhood isn't let me in. It's

(18:47):
located roughly twenty miles from Angels Stadium. I think we're
getting to the core of the questions. He's really just
comfortable and he's got two beautiful kids, and his wife
seems like a sweetheart. Like, Mike, well, what do you
want to do? He's like, what do you want to do?

Speaker 5 (19:01):
The home?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
The home features panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean and
a private pool. So yeah, twenty minutes from the stadium,
So he's probably like, yeah, why would I want to
complicate my life?

Speaker 6 (19:12):
As you mentioned, we're ninety minutes away and a good
day of traffic sixty minutes. We met a good day
of traffic last week coming back from Lego Land. Just
driving on the freeway or in Orange County, I'm like,
why don't we live down here and we're on the freeway?

Speaker 1 (19:26):
You said it recently to Seal Beach or no, but
that was North Oh yeah, Seal Beach.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
And the joke's on us that is, that's the southern
version of the Central Coast.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Every time you go to these beach towns, we all
even when we live in La we say, oh, that's
like an hour away. Why don't we live there? So
Mike Trout's live in the life. So Coveno, I think
to answer your question, Anicher is a great question. Perhaps
he's like, listen, I would love to win, and they
keep telling me they're going to build a winner. And
much like in Philadelphia, where how many years do we
trust the process with the Sixers, Eventually it's like this,

(19:56):
I'm losing trust. Yeah, but as a sports, sports fans
w want more for the guy, the Angel. He could
be one of the goats. Dude, he could be he
could really be one of the greats. But instead he's
just playing comfortable. Guys, that's not wrong in saying that
the Angels have tried to get people.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Just never work's never worked out.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Rendon, that was like a nightmare, Like there's so many
news they made and you know you just said the
word comfortable. You guys have been saying that.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
In a quick search of Trout, there's an article that
comes up from Essentially Sports and they wrote Trout's loyalty
is influenced by his personal comfort.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah. I think his loyalty. You know, certain people get
in their own way, and we all do in our
own way. So it's no criticism, it's we all want
more for a Mike Trout. I think his loyalty is
getting in his own way. It's again we're talking sports man.
If this is anything else, Yeah, he's comfortable, he's happy.

(20:49):
Sports you're defined by winning, and I don't know if
you're on a team and you know there's no hope,
you're just coasting, You're just you're just hitting home run,
the collecting. You know what the opposite is is is
someone going for the team or partner upgrade meaning meaning

(21:09):
what happened when Chris Pratt got all handsome and he
became a leading man. You put a poster up in
your room besides that, oh oh Leftanna Faris and he's like, yeah,
I'm I'm I'm the star now, Like I just think that,
uh hey, show look what just look at showhe his
career after he left the Angel You know he's won,

(21:32):
he's won MVPs World Series, and he's the face of
baseball internationally. Yeah, that's that's what makes it so hard.
Would you get don't think that, I think that bothers
him a little bit? Answer this, yes, Would you get
mad if Mike Trout went to the Dodgers, the all powerful,
Mighty No, I would say a guy like Kim He's
earned it like that, That's what I mean, at this

(21:54):
point of his career, sixteen years in, we get it, Mike,
You're loyal almost to your own detriment. We got hey, Mike,
you're the the you earn this matchin Trout in that lineup,
I can it would be insane. I would also like
to see him on the Yankees. Really, would you think
he would want a lot of people a lot of
sentiment bring up Mike come home, because a lot of

(22:17):
people think he should have been a Yankee, especially with
the Mickey Mantle comparison. You see the peach House. Yeah,
what does he want to live in a in a
brownstone in Brooklyn? You thought, what do you think this guy?
You think this guy's You're gonna go the Bronx live
on Long Island.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
If Mike Trout has his panoramic views and his incredible
neighborhood and all that and great lifestyle, how to explain
someone like Joe Thomas in Cleveland spending his entire career
there and they were barely you know, they were barely
even you know, competing made the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, you know, some people he was there his entire time.
Sam some people he did his job really well. My
radio analogy is a true one, because there's people that'll
be like, yeah, I'm gonna be the morning guy and Boise. Yeah,
but dude, you got you can get an opportunity. You
could be on in LA or Dallas or New York
or no, I'm I'm cool doing mornings and Boise. And

(23:01):
that's how some people operate because say they're happy. They're
not chasers like Listen Covino and I've always had aspirations
to go after big things. Not everyone's like that. I
have friends that. But contentment is like almost the opposite
of the competitive spirit you need in sports, Like they
don't go hand in hand. Like we're talking regular careers

(23:24):
and professional athletes. I think they're just completely different. Like
you can't be content and and and win at the
same time, you see what I mean. I feel like
they cancel each other out. I have a question for you.
I know he's won so many championships so it doesn't
matter at this point, but how do you think Steph
Curry feels that the final chapter, I guess you would

(23:47):
say of his career is some like losing lackluster seasons
where they're playing in a playing game they're under five hundred.
Do you think does it think that when you're a
professional athlete and you start thinking like that the writings
on the wall, that you know it's time to retire.
Do you think do you think the great say like,
when you no longer have that fire and desire and
love for the game, when you're not giving it your all,

(24:07):
that's when you know you got to hang it up?
What am I? How do you play? I just don't
have the fighting gut. They don't have the fighting guts, right,
So contentment is fine, my contentment in the real world.
I'm looking up contentment quotes, like there was a nice
on right here. Contentment is like the killer of a Yeah,
I've contentment is the only real wealth. Yeah, if you're

(24:27):
you know, just living a normal life, if you're playing
professional sports, it means it's time to go. So speaking,
I gotta go. We gotta fix. We got your feedback
on Mike Trout. Is he a loyal dude? Is he
is he too content? Your thoughts? Is he happy just
chilling in that nine million dollar beach front man with

(24:52):
his beautiful family? Do you blame him? We'll talk some Trout. Uh.
Danny G's got a great story about serbian booty slapping,
and we'll play a little game of hypothetical. Diana Rassini,
we have to break down her statement from the athletics.
She has resigned based on the Oh, that's always a
confusing Now did they resign those We're too close, that's
so dumb, too different, And of course we'll do last

(25:15):
one standing, one of our favorite games all coming up
right here on Fox Sports Radio. Let me stamp this.
Let it be no right here nationwide that we're in
it to win it. I know we're not professional athletes,
but we're talking sports and we're professionals in it to
win it. Heart's on fire, burning desire. I'm not staying

(25:35):
on the Angels bro waking up at four am tomorrow.
That's right. That's why we're filling in for Dan Patrick tomorrow.
In it to win it, And you gotta imagine that's
gotta be inside of Mike Trout. A guy that takes
his career to these levels. It doesn't happen by accident.
The guy's a winner, he's a competitor. He has to
have that burning desire. But I had an ep Fanny.

(25:57):
I went to the bathroom and I had some thoughts
that happens. That's when you shake when you pinon, and
then you have callot that's called the wasgasm. Had actually
had a multiple lascasm. It's impressive. I thought to myself.
Could it be though? Could it be along with contentment
with Mike Trout, because again he's one of the goats.

(26:17):
But could it be? And I hate to say this
because again me no disrespect. I think he's one of
the great I guess what you're gonna say? What is
it something Rocky once said to Adrian. Yes, I'm afraid
of right?

Speaker 5 (26:31):
Like?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Could it be that he just does I wrote, I
wrote this down. Does he just not want the heat?
Does he just not like the pressure? Is he just afraid?
Because then I saw his postseason stats three games in
twenty fourteen, twelve at bats, one hit, one home run.
He batted zero eighty three in the twenty fourteen Alds.

(26:52):
And let's not forget he also struck out to lose
the WBC. The last time the US was in the
Championshi he struck out against Shoheyo Tani. Maybe Mike Trout
has great plans every October and he doesn't want to,
you know, mess with that. Could it be a guy
who's such an ultimate competitor just doesn't want the heat
and the pressure of those moments. It could be scary

(27:16):
or is he scary loyal or is he just scary loyal?
Like when when we're reminded last night that this dude
is one of the goats and we see him put
on a show with five RBI, can't help but speculate,
why is he still there? That's all yep, and Rich
came up with the conclusion maybe he just likes the narrative.
Maybe he likes that narrative because it makes him look

(27:36):
like loyal. And no one's ever bashing Mike Trout if anything, like,
no dude, no one's talking about what I'm saying. When
they do, it's never like anything other than you know,
Trout's a stud and he's stuck there like it's almost
like it's never negative about please please please, we're not
radio blowhards. I never wanted to come across like we're
talking smack. I admire the guy greatly. I wish he

(27:57):
was on the Yankees, I really do. So it's not
coming from a place of what a loser. That's not
who I am or who we are at all. And
I hate idiots like that on the radio because truthfully,
all these guys talking smack from a negative place would
be kissing the ass of my trout. Let that be clear.
There's so many people that are such smack talkers, especially
in sports radio. I want to karate kick all of them,
you know, you know who might have some fun perspective.

(28:19):
Tomorrow morning, when we fill in for DP, we are
joined by our good pal Coach Coach ball Game. Coach
ball Game. What a guy who at a boy at
a boy. He's a great dude. Works with kids around
the country. I know he's been working with Bobby wit
Junior and Derek Jeter, traveling the country talking to kids.
And he's a big baseball guy. Dude, look in the

(28:41):
grand Scheme of life. He won the lottery, he's a winner,
he's a goat, he's made his millions, he's living a
dream life. We get all that. It's just that we
want more from for the dude, that's all. But maybe
he's like God, I'm good, guys, Ah, we want him
to Who do we got, Danny. Let's talk to Gus
in Los Gatos, California. Oh, what's up, gus, Hey, fellaws.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Love the show.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
Uh, just a question for you. When you think of
Mike Trout in the month of October, where do you
associate him with the most.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, it's like this. It's a crickets like Sam play
not assistant.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
Yeah, Philadelphia, he's at the Link every Sunday in October.
He needs to go back to the Phillies or the Yankees,
go to the Northeast, be under the spotlight and deliver.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
And I mean that sounds like a great plan for him.
But he's thinking, yeah, no, I'm good. Maybe he cannot
handle pressure. Maybe that Billy Joel song gives him nightmare.
That Billy Joel song is frantic. Yeah, man, Billy Joel
talks about how that song is designed to sound frantic

(29:51):
and it is, you know, pressure by Billy Joel.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
I was Sam, maybe we'll hear it coming back.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's got to tease Sam. Don't tease me like that.
Let's go DV for an update. Damn fire, what's up? Man?

Speaker 8 (30:04):
Get to wait seven minutes? I know, wait on coming
up in seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Portion don't you just like like want more for and
from the guy? Or no, you don't care? No, I
think that there's something to that.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
It's interesting because I always think of like Ray bork
when he played all those years for the Boston Bruins
and then left and won a Stanley Cup with the
Colorado Avalanche, and Bruins fans were cheering for him, you know,
like it was you know, they were so happy that
he finally got a Cup though it wasn't theirs, And
that's a very passionate fan base, and so like, I
would think that would have been even less likely in

(30:41):
a situation like that, like if you're Ray Borking, Like, hey,
I'm a lifelong Bruin, I didn't win a Cup, but
I you know, that would be awesome. Like I don't
think there's tons of cachet being like a lifelong angel.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah right, And can I just say, like last year
watching the Blue Jays battle Danny G's Dodgers, I'm like,
just win one for don Manningly, I don't care if
he's come on, Donnie, Baseball needs to win something. Yeah,
And I bet you if Trout ever found his way
to a World Series with someone else, the narrative would
be like come on for Trout.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Yes, absolutely, I don't think his performance would even matter.
I think it's just getting to that point, all right.
We'll get to just a couple of baseball notes in
a second, but first couple of big stories of the day.
NFL reporter Diana Rossini similar to resignation from the Athletics.
She released the statement saying she has no interest in
feeding into quote speculation that is simply unmoored from the facts.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
End quote.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
It was a week ago that it paid six reports
showed her with Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel at an
Arizona report a resort that is. Roussini revealed that her
contract with the athletic was set to expire on June thirtieth. However,
the athletic will continue their investigation into the matter despite
her resignation.

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Speaker 1 (32:41):
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Speaker 3 (33:09):
Hold on, Rich. We haven't heard a damn thing about
your night last night. Oh I was how do we
get to all this baseball stuff? And we don't hear
about your Hello, kiddy night man, did you.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Get your sweatshirt? Did you get rained on, I got
my Hello Kitty shirt. There was no rain. It was
a beautiful night. I was actually gonna say, okay, I am,
I am get this oh and seven bringing my kids
to Mets games. You're the mush and Sam, you beat
me to the punch. I was just about to say sorry.

(33:38):
The weekend of May, first the Mets are going down
to Anaheim. Opportunity to see Mike Trout in his prime
and to break yeah the record?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Or or do I say no, you exercise the demons
because you have a chance to do it, like the
team has to.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Win, or it means the Angels will be on a
wind streak. Like if I say, all right Friday night,
May first tell my wife, Hey, maybe meet me at
work right after the show and we'll go straight down
to Anaheim. Like Dan Bayer said, a good hour and
a half, two hours, but we'll get different game time
Friday night.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
May first try three hours in traffic.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Mets Angels, you think I will make it, I'll make
first pitch. It's not three hours. Isn't. Don't make me
hated that much? Daddy? Would you go down or would
you be like guys rich, you're just terrible luck don't
do it. Yeah, right, your Mets to lose oh win seven,
you gotta go, you gotta do it. Exercise of demons.
Rich is the real life Eddie Montanaro, a mush for
his Mets. That's true, right, we have more CNR next

(34:38):
right here. I gotta says Tacos locos forever on a
Taco Tuesday or something. I found, uh a picture Sam
based on you saying I'm the mush and you guys
making fun of me. I found the picture of each
year of me taking my kids to the game, and
it's on one oh and two own three, O four, own,
five and six, oh win seven, oh and seven and

(35:01):
add on that. Remember when I went to the Mets
playoff games by myself when they played the Dodgers and
was I, oh in three, I'm oh for my last ten?
Vegas would say, that's honestly very difficult.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Remember yesterday I told you don't worry Rich, it's Robleski.
He's a spot starter usually for the Dodgers. You guys
made him look like a cy Young Award winner.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Dude, it was. It was a perfect game until like
the fifth inning. By the way, you know what, Rich
and Lindor have in common. Zero RBIs for the Mets.
Did you see that meme? I actually reposted. It's a
barstools Frank the tank and it's like zero RB eyes
lindor zero. I mean even that is like impossible to
think about. How does that dude not have any home
runs in any no RBI, Like he didn't hit a

(35:43):
ground ball that drove somebody in nothing, zilch, nada nothing.
That's crazy to me. So anyway, Rich's Mets really stink.
Maybe it's your kids, respectfully that in the MUSHes though
it has to let up at some point. Please go
to that game because Rich lost when he went by him. Yeah,
that's true. Over three Uh you were oh for three

(36:04):
before you say that, you don't blame us kids. So
out of the last ten, Wow, you want to hear this,
because the Mets are an above five hundred team over
the last what handful of years since my kids have
been born. Yeah, I've been good. The Mets have maybe
a couple of postseason runs even when they fall short,
they're over five hundred. So get this. The odds of
me going to ten losing games in a row, three

(36:26):
postseason games and seven regular season games with my kids
point zero one six percent, a one and six hundred
and twenty five chance, a one in six hundred and
twenty five chance. That would be a hell of a parlay. Guys,
that's like hitting a ten for ten parlay half the
time betting on the underdog. Oh for ten is pretty remarkable.

(36:51):
Do I try to end that streak? Friday? May first
in Anaheim? Yes, go see Mike Trout and I'll.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Ask you back to your good election.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm walkome with you. Hey, Mike, the last Mike in
Major League Baseball. My buddy Cavino once Inno, like, did
you just like it? Down here? I can ask him.
Maybe I'll get a press credential. I'll have a little
sit down with Mike. Go watch the Mets lose again.
All right, zero for ten and you know what we're winning?
Why would I leave? I'll post those pictures if you're
interested in all my Instagram story at Redchabis, just to

(37:21):
show you if you want to see his kids sad face,
just to show you the progression of my sad kid
faces from when they were little babies till now six
and eight years. I'll just loose, loose, loose, loose, loose,
and interestingly enough, Danny J I'll post this video later
as well. When Otani got hit by that pitch, I
was at that time, I was sitting like second row

(37:43):
right behind home plane. I was, I had a buddy
down there. I was switching seats. A couple of times.
I heard Otani and I have it on video of
him going like did you hear it on TV? There
was a audible like like he made like a.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, and you've heard Tani like yeah, I was watching
before my toddler was running around screaming with his whiffleball bat.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Scary moment. I was like, oh, please, don't, please, don't
hurt oh Tani.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
That's why I love it. Though, Like my wife, she's
in on the mushting. She knows all about it. So
when I told her you were at the game at
the time there were.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
No guests the mortgage, She's like, it's going to be
a no hitter, and it was almost almost alight. Well
he uh mlb is popping and you know what else
is popping? And I hated for her and I got
we got to take feelings out of it because we
we personally like Diana Rassini, right, She's always been cool
to us at ESPN. We just saw at the Super Bowl, Danny.

(38:38):
We bumped into her in the street also in the
Super Bowl. Just a great woman. She's always been really nice.
And uh, that's what made it awkward. I mean, from
our standpoint, you want to give her the benefit of
the down as a former colleague and great analyst and
always a great guest, you want to give her the
benefit of doubt. And when you hear the story and

(38:59):
when you look back, you know, my whole side of
it was, well, pictures don't always paint inaccurate, and I
still story because we've been caught in those weird situations
and you know, hey, let's let's let this whole thing
pan out before we really speculate. That was sort of
our stance when this story first came out. But there
was a lot of smoke, and now as of today,

(39:20):
she resigns, and respectfully want to say I wish everybody
involved the best because it sounds like an awkward situation
for sure. But my only question is and now I
was talking to Mike, who runs this place, who runs
this take. We'll be doing that tomorrow on Dan Patrick.

Speaker 10 (39:37):
Mike.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
He looks like Rick from pond stars who but more
handsome Mike, never of them. Resigning doesn't make the story
go away, does it. I mean, but now you have
no job, and and now the story's still out there. Well,
I cam fired, No, but I feel I feel for
Diyna Versiti because if she really is not one hundred

(40:02):
percent guilty of what like you, I mean, I can't
speak for her, but I'll say this. If it was
me and I had pictures of me with other people
I was with, you better believe I'd be putting them
out there. Be like, Yo, you guys are crazy. Here's
me with someone else, here's be with the bellop, here's
me with the velop That's what I would do, respectfully.
You go back there and reenact photos. Yeah, like I
would double down on my innocence. So you guys are

(40:23):
out of your mind. Get a life speculating on me,
you creeps. How about you creeps us, you know, taking
fake pictures of me I was with this person, X,
Y and Z. Here's all the photos you lose. I
get what she's saying, though, that it was fueled and
escalated by the social media world we live in now,
where it's like everyone loves to be a trash talker
and all funny memes and funny jokes. So it does
escalate and you're not quite sure of the true story, right, Like,

(40:45):
even if it was like of a friendly, flirty nature,
it doesn't mean her and Vrabel were sleeping together, Like
we're really you're you're uh, you're really making a hell
of a lot of assumptions based on a couple photos
that that weren't terrible, And I by her resigning is
what I'm saying. I resigned because her contract's coming up
soon and they will either clear this up and be like,

(41:08):
oh my god, let's hire her back because it looks
terrible what they did, or she'll find a new suitor
someone too, or they knew the writing was on the
wall and they were going to fire her anyway, so
she just beat him to the punch butt. Isn't there
something to be said though about Like I know you're saying,
like show me, then show me you hang with other people.
I'm just saying, if I was guilty of murder whatever

(41:29):
they said I was guilty of, I'm doing everything in
my power to be like no, to prove my innocence,
Like you're out of your mind, that's not what happened.
Here's what happened. You know, I would make it clear
to everybody, like and if I was with a bunch
of people like she said, which she said, he didn't say,
I would have definitely shown those pictures. Maybe she has
the reasons for not. Maybe she wants to keep other

(41:50):
people out of it. That's fair too. I don't know.
I'm just like I said, I can't speak on her behalf,
and I'm trying to do this respectfully. It's awkward. I'm
just saying what I would do in that situation. Yeah,
but you know what, what do they always tell what
the lawyers and people say, Like when someone's like I
didn't do it, I didn't murder them. It like they
always tell people to be quiet. It is like your
attorney like, you come across more defensive, right yeah, Like

(42:13):
like that's like then you would say that. It's like
a it's deflection one oh one, Like doesn't it make
it look worse when you resign. It's almost like you
caved into the accusations. It's like, even though it doesn't
make it true, when people settle out of court, I
get it. You're saving money, it's easier. You just want
to move on and just get out of this. But
doesn't it imply sometimes in your mind that maybe they

(42:37):
were guilty. Yeah, but even though it's not true, maybe
maybe she maybe she resigned with the payoff, and we
don't know all the details. I'm saying. I'm just that's
just a speculation. I'm saying. You know how a lot
of times when they want to fire someone important, what
do they say? No one important? We guys, we could
all agree. Unless you're a coach in major league sports
or professional sports, no one important gets fired. If a

(42:57):
CEO of a company, what happens. They resign or they
step away and they get a little package to leave,
and they say, how would you like to leave? You
see it in TV shows, but it's also real life. CEOs, presidents,
big dogs of companies don't get fired.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
They stepping down.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
They step down to pursue your Yeah, like ways.

Speaker 11 (43:19):
So I do.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Though, you know the athletic and this is again just speculation.
They could have been like, yeah, Diana, I don't know
if this is gonna work out, and she's like, well,
then you know what, let's let's package it that I
resign And you guys still do your investigation. You don't
know what's going on behind the scenes. I just hate
that someone she lost her job. Yeah, I think there's
a kids, you know, a double standard that were with
his mom and lost her really probably high paying job.

(43:42):
Because I think it really sucks that Rabel sort of
gets away Scott free. I don't know what's going on,
back to normal for him. Angry wife, That's that's what
I mean. Like he is an angry wife. She lost
her job. He might be sleeping on the couch, but
life's still moving forward. And you also have to ask
yourself to like, that's not distracting for him. It has
to be distracting for him, well, the way you want

(44:03):
his focus to be on football, that's got to be
a thorn in his side. But it seems to be
like his life moves forward and she has to resign.
That's that's unfair. I don't like that.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
But the difference in I forget who posted this over
the weekend, is that he's dealing with a moral issue
where her issues are twofold ethical and moral because of.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
The conflict of interest.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Yeah, she's a journalist, so yeah, it's not fair, but
that's how it is.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
What was the statement in the article or in her
statement that stuck out to you, Rich because I know
you wanted to dissect her part that Dann Byer pointed
out on his Update dB where she where she says
she's not resigning as some sort of sort of admission
of guilt. Correct, she's she's she's resigning because this needs

(44:49):
to go away, and she'll refuse to lend it further
oxygen and let it define me or my career. And
it's a really it's a really unfortunate thing. It's, uh,
you know, something gandalus happens to someone and it's really
a bummer that that's the you know, that's the thing
that will always pop up in their Google. That is,
that's the one thing that will always pop up when
someone talks about them. And again, I'm not saying what

(45:12):
she did was right or who even knows if she
did anything right? Who knows if it's just a really
flirty relationship. We've no one, no one you know, has
ever had a like a flirty relationship. That's so yeah,
maybe a little a little much, but like why we
were all assuming they're like, uh, what did you say yesterday?
Bumping uglies? Well, I didn't know what to say. We're

(45:34):
on Fox Sports Radio. I mean we we stuck with whoopee,
that's right. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
This isn't the first time that there's been a maybe
someone of head coach sort of level power connected to
someone else, But it was never. There were never photos,
there were never there was never this sort of like
speculation that you would see the victims that you guys
talk about, are everyone directly related to them?

Speaker 8 (45:59):
Family? Why?

Speaker 6 (46:01):
And the other portion of it is I think there's
the Philadelphia Eagles fan base who is upset because of
the AJ Brown narrative that has gone on of AJ
Brown being sent as a possibility to the New England Patriots.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
And so if you're the.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
Philadelphia Eagles fans, you feel like, hey, wait a second,
what's going on here? But ultimately, I don't know how
it would affect anybody else except those family members and
the people that are affected and in those small NFL
circles that we talk about, Like, I just I feel

(46:40):
like there's been we don't know what went on. But
if we want to look at think worst case scenario
and think of the victims, I just think that our
NFL information that we got that maybe jaded is just
further down the list than what needs to be.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
I'm just thinking out loud, this is really awkward. It
really is. And if we're going to like be ethics police,
you know, when it comes to journalism and everything like that,
is this the first time we've heard about these type
of relationships? What about other people dating professional athletes? That
doesn't matter? Because I hear stories of that other people

(47:16):
dating professional athletes. Does that not matter the other the
men or women journalists or people. Yeah, I mean that's
what I'm saying, Like, all of a sudden, journalistic integrity
matters with this story, but it doesn't matter with other
hosts and other people in sports. That's interesting to me too,

(47:37):
And that's not the point, fingers. I'm just saying things
that I hear. It's like, no one really seems to
care about that stuff too much. Maybe the photos really
tell a different story now. Honestly again, it's it's it's
a weird story, and I would feel way different if
I saw and I know they whoever this was whatever,
and no one's ever Who's who hired some private investigator?

(47:59):
That's another great question, and we got to the bottom
of that. Who took these photos.

Speaker 6 (48:03):
We haven't gotten the bottom of anything. Nobody knows anything
except from what was was released, Like no one's no
one said anything about anything. We know just as much
now as we did a week ago, aside from everyone
unearthing all of these Diana Roussini clips from the past
ten years.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Pure of them, side innocent picture of them, Yeah, pick
them walking by a resort, innocent. The only one is
the interlocking holding hands, and that's what people are going
off of because of that picture. I was like, man,
they're definitely sleeping together. And this thing went out of
control to the point where she's lost her job. No
one else has else seemed like just to be fair

(48:40):
that the stories didn't seem to be aligned the same way,
Like she's the one that said that they were in
there where the pictures were taken, and he sort of
dismissed like any like, laughed about it, didn't even mention that, well,
it was ahead of what wasn't in that area. Wasn't
there some coaches, This.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Was a couple hours away that adults only like romantic
type resort, according to reports.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Who called it a romantic Yeah, it's known as like
I want to know, I want to know where it
is so I can maybe, uh, hold on me look
it up, a nice little getaway, the yelp its, his
bang palace.

Speaker 6 (49:19):
Don't about the like engagements and the weddings and yeah,
like the NFL affairs.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Yeah, the whole thing really is a shame. But it's
not like, hey, we didn't do anything. Mmm. I hope
for they. I hope for their sake. Their families and
everyone are are good. But it is interesting, like if
it and if it is true, Hey, you know what,
I'm not wanting to judge other people. We all we
all uh no, one's perfect. What is it? The glass

(49:46):
house stones? He who lives in glasshouses? Something like that?
Or pool me once shame and walk around naked. Yeah,
if you live in a glasshouse, don't don't walk around
on you literally can't get fooled. If you live in
a glasshouse, don't walk around with your junk ASTs, throw
stones and the stone thing. Well, either way, my point
is I would really hate it for I would really

(50:10):
hate it if if they were just that careless. I'm
not gonna lie if they were, if they were just
that careless, like hey, they were, let's say, yeah, but
allegedly there was something going on, and they were careless
enough as a visibly noticeable, recognizable main NFL reporter and
head coach of your AFC title game Patriots to so

(50:32):
willy nilly be in public. You're asking for like bad
things to happen. If it's innocent that it's like, I
don't want to see anyone lose their job something like this.
That's the truth. But it's unfair to me that she
has to deal with consequences that he apparently does it.
And I'm not saying that he should be fired. I
wouldn't want that at all. I'm just saying it doesn't
seem to be a fair situation right now.

Speaker 6 (50:53):
I would just say to that though, And I don't
know there. I know Diane Orsini is married and as
a young child, and I know that Mike Vrabel's married
and has kids of his own, But I would just
think about their significant others. Are those kids seeing that
picture and the feeling that it would have, Yeah, And
that's where I think that they're the true victims in
all of this. And if this is in the same point, yeah,

(51:14):
to your to your point of you know, you gotta
be better, you know, because if those because just that
that's still image, even.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
A flirty photo would say it would be like still
would be very upsetting to those the closest to you. Yes, No, agreed,
one hundred percent. Oh I knew my final point. I
was going to say, and then we need a contestant.
By the way, if you want to play, this is
gonna be a fun one today. I'm gunning for Dann Bayer.
Let's do this debate. Oh boy, eight seven seven nine
nine on Fox, Last one Standing, He's the man to
beat if you want in again eight seven seven nine

(51:44):
to nine on Fox. Are a CNR Prize pack. I
think everyone piling on is the part where I'm like,
I just don't feels dirty. All these people that have
been probably like friendly with her over the years very
backstabby to me, right, And not only that, that's why
I'm handling this conversation, yeah, or we're handling this conversation

(52:06):
the way we are. It's like, you don't want to
seem like a surface no good son of it. But
at the same time, you also can't ignore it when
it's one of the main headlines. No, exactly, but I
also think what's what's bs is that all these podcast
and radio clips of her just being really likable and
funny the way Versini is and taking out of contacts,

(52:27):
like listen and we're talking about her husband. If you've
only heard the joking nature of things Cavino and I
have said, or any hostess that trying to get a laugh,
like when you're trying to get a laugh, when she's
in an interview being like, man, I don't know the
night before my wedding, like I bumped into Jimmy Garoppolo,
Like that's clearly like a funny, ingest comment. But under
these circumstances, people are people are pulling up all these clips,

(52:50):
and I think it's gross. I really do. I really do.
I think it's disgusting how people are jumping at this.
I hope I hope that we see some photo of
them in mixed company, just to put the fires out
if anything makes some AI wants Diana Jeezy cover the faces.
All right, Well, hey more covene on Rich and we'll
do Last One Standing next right here on Fox Sports Radio.

(53:18):
Now it's time to play Last One Standing. Let's go.

Speaker 11 (53:22):
You have five seconds to battle for your sports trivia love.
Put your electronic devices down and pick your Sports Knowledge
it CNRS Last one Standing.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Last one standing, Yeah Yeah, a Tuesday edition. I have
four categories ready to go if needed a tie break.
Each contestant gets five seconds to stay alive in the round.
If you run out of time or answer incorrectly, I
would Sam takes you out with this big, bad buzzer.
Don't want to hear that. We keep battling until you
are the last one standing. If you win two of
the rounds, you're the top dog. Here the contestants. Thirteen

(54:02):
time winner Steve Covino right over there, Bro doesn't.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
I'm always a winner, Bro, always a winner. Next to him.
Nineteen time winner Rich Davis, I Lust twenty, Today's a
big day and.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
The leader in the clubhouse. Forty three time winner Dan Byer.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Hello, Hello Dan, heybb. Let's go to the studio lines
right now.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
I'm going to see who's playing for seeing our prize
back A lot of calls. Buyer, I'll use you for this.
Would you love to travel to Lynchburg, Virginia, Spokane, Washington,
Saint Louis, Missouri, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Hatchipeak, California or Corpus Christi, Texas.

Speaker 6 (54:34):
I may have done this before it could be deja vu.
But let's go to the home of Vision Quest, great
movie from the nineteen eighties, spoke Cane Washington.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Oh, hey, that is Steve.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Hi, Steve, I've come for the king.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Let's do that.

Speaker 6 (54:48):
Oh, change of plans to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Just kidding, Steve,
all right, Steven Washington. By the way, in for Spotty
Shay is our phil in fact check here during the
game today.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Spot But oh try to Fosta, do a good job
helping out. When I say your name, the clock is
going to start first. Category Rich starts watching today. You
have five seconds to name an NBA player who leads
the association in all time playoff scoring, so most points
in the playoffs. Also going to take the top twenty five. Covino,

(55:20):
you are up first, starting right now. Go Tim Duncan, Yes,
number six with two points. By the way, great answers.
By the way, I do start watching today. We'll just
get out of the way. Why hold it, Lebron James
number one.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
More Uno buyer.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Kareem Kareem is on there, ye, Steve.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
MJ MJ.

Speaker 10 (55:44):
He is on there, of course. Coveno Curry Curry Curry
should be on there. Steph Curry indeed, yes.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Rich Uh Carl Malone.

Speaker 10 (55:54):
Carl Malone, Yes, He's on their number eight, four thousand,
seven sixty one. Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant, he is on
there number seven with four thousand, nine hundred eighty five.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Steve in Washington, We're gonna go.

Speaker 10 (56:08):
James Hardy James Harden is on there with He's number
fourteen with three thousand, eight hundred and ninety five. Cove
Magic Johnson Magic Johnson is on there, number seventeen with
three thousand, seven hundred Role here. Rich Dirk Dirk Nowitzki
is on here with three thousand, six hundred sixty three,

(56:29):
Number eighteen.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Buyer, Let's go Kobe.

Speaker 10 (56:32):
Kobe is on here with five thousand, six hundred and forty.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Number four battle in this category, back to Steve Shack.

Speaker 10 (56:41):
Shaquille O'Neil's on here number five with five thousand, two
hundred and.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Fifty Covino name you, Steve Kawhi, Leonard Kawhi.

Speaker 10 (56:49):
Leonard's on here number twenty four with three thousand, one
hundred and thirty three.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Rich three two. Larry Bird.

Speaker 10 (57:00):
Larry Bird is on their number thirteen with three and
ninety seven.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
What about Bill Russell.

Speaker 10 (57:06):
Bill Russell is not.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
On there in the top twenty five. Okay, Steve just
because he played a lot a lot of years.

Speaker 10 (57:18):
Juwan Howard, Juwan Howard, let me see, I don't see
Juwan Howard on here, all right?

Speaker 1 (57:25):
R could be I guess though. Let's go with the
other splash brother, Klay Thompson.

Speaker 10 (57:33):
Clay is not on.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
So the man who barely starts watching NBA today wins
that round.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
With Scottie Pippen on that list. I know, I was
thinking hit too. Yeah, yeah, Scott he's on here. Jason
Kidd on that list. That was my next one.

Speaker 10 (57:49):
Here, Rich Jason Kidd is not on here.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Oh good, So I beat you by the skin. Any
other big names.

Speaker 10 (57:56):
Yeah, I'm gonna make you guys punch yourself right now.
We got Jerry West, we got Elgin Baylor, we got
a Keem Elijah Wan had Paul Pierce, you.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Know the Keem one the minute he said James Harden,
I thought rockets, and I eliminated the Rockets on my
little mental list once. This is a good one.

Speaker 10 (58:14):
You guys got Tim Duncan and Kawhi. I'm surprised you
got Kawhi and not Tony Parker. Oh, oh, Tony Parker.
Tony Parker's on the list at eleven.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Yeah, so Rich on the board.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
As we go to the second category, top of the hill,
you have five seconds to name an MLB pitcher who
led the league in wins in twenty twenty five, led
the league in wins. We'll take the top twenty. It's
thirteen wins or more is what it comes out to. Okay,
and we go in reverse order. So Steve, you are
up first, starting right now.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Go, Uh, this is not my strength, strang point.

Speaker 11 (58:46):
We're gonna go Luis Castillo.

Speaker 10 (58:48):
Luis Castille is not on here. Fire Trek Scougle, Trek
Stugle is on here next seventeen. He had thirteen wins.
Rich Crochet on the Red Sox. Garrett Crochet, he's on
here number three with eighteen. He blew up yesterday though.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Win did Buyer still? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (59:21):
Right, the robot gosh, I just uh Garrett Cole, Garrett Cole.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
No, Rich Rich does the game today. He's the winner. Coratulations,
Dicky Doodle Davis.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
But I can't go to a game when they win.
It was God showing you some pity.

Speaker 10 (59:49):
Today number one in the list, guys, Max Freed.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Yeah, right, I thinking your mind. I was thinking Max,
you know, I just I was thinking, like, you know,
super studs, and I thought of skeens and I was
like the minute you said it, regredit no, yeah, I was.
I was gonna say on that list, I had a few,
But was did Zach Wheeler get enough starts? Wheeler even
on that list? He was banged up last year. Another
game stinks because I know Max Freed.

Speaker 10 (01:00:12):
The some of the other pictures, so we got logan
web number five from some of the San Francis and John's.
He had actually had fifteen wins. Garrett Crush had eighteen wins,
Freddy Peralta had seventeen wins, and then someone Sonny Gray
had nine wins.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Oh really, yeah, you know what. To be honest, after Freed,
I wouldn't have known where I went after that. You
know what's funny. I should have I should have immediately
started with Peralta because the Mets got a big winner
from your Brewers.

Speaker 11 (01:00:39):
Dah.

Speaker 10 (01:00:39):
Yeah, you should have just thought of good teams.

Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
I was going to say Peralta and then you then
I was like, eh, And then I can remember the
short last name from the Yankees.

Speaker 8 (01:00:49):
Cold Yeah, I knew what you meant when Tommy John
what July?

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
And that is Rich Davis's twentieth victory in this game.
You guys.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Thanks guy even spoken, Thank you for listening every day
and playing the game.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
We appreciate you. Hey, Stevie, you have a good one later,
Bud Way to go, Steve, Way to go. All right,
let's out. Let's go to our pal, Dan Buyer for
an update.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
D Now I'm your pal.

Speaker 8 (01:01:12):
You know you're talking ish to me earlier and now
Rich gets the ram.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Hey, what's that guy? You know that?

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Jason Stewart always talks about it, you know on the
golf course, which by the way, is totally me. When
I'm not playing, well, I'm the worst got to be around.
But if I'm playing, all right, Hey, let's go, let's
talk it up.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Let's have a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Hey, drink and.

Speaker 6 (01:01:30):
You're losing in poker. You don't want to talk to anybody,
but if you're up, your friendliest guy in the road.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Tomorrow morning in for Dan Patrick. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
the rest of the week you got Covino and Rich
When you wake up in for Dan and the dan Ets,
and we got Dan Bayer and Moncey filling it for
us the rest of the week. So you'll be in
good hands with Dan and Monsey. Are you in good hair?

Speaker 7 (01:01:59):
Good hair?

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
So we'll see you tomorrow morning in for DP. But
before we go, Danny G, maybe we continue this tomorrow
a little, would you rather? Because tonight we got your
NBA playing games? Yeah? What made me think about this?

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
This resurfaced on a sports website because it's been going
on for a few years now with Serbian, Russian and
Romanian women. They have this thing. It's the female version
of power slap. It's the booty Slapping Championship.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Yeah, how do I join this?

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
And so these ladies are in the middle of the
ring slapping each other's butts until one says I'm out
of here too much? And Rich you claim to watch
NBA starting with the playoffs. So I asked you, and
I'll ask both of you, would you rather watch tonight's
play in games or watch the booty Slapping Championships for real?

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Though? I mean, yeah, I got a couple more. What
Serbian booty slap competition or tonight's playing games? You want real? Talk.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
Yeah, I knew that was Rich's answer.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
I mean, I mean the heat, the heat and the
Hornets and Blazer.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
You've watched some NBA games this season, so I feel
like you're a little more invested.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
He also like Booty. We got the heat and the
Hornets and the Blazers and the Suns. But you know what, Rich,
I'd prefer to do my own Buddhist sappon. I'll watch
the NBA games. That's my true answer, all right. Would
you rather watch tonight's play in games? Or go on
a nice bike ride with Big Mic in Culver City?
Bike ride with Mike in Culver City? So, I mean,

(01:03:31):
does he have a bike ready for me? Do I
have to pack up my own bike bike with Mike?
I think I ride the bike with Mike. Wow. Well,
I like the idea. I don't like the hassle of
getting there, so I'm gonna stay home and watch the games.
No offense to Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
Would you rather watch tonight's play in games or watch
Love on the Spectrum?

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Oh, season four? I'm hearing great things, you know what.
I gotta be honest. You got me with this one.
My dude. I think he's funny, he's on the season right,
Tanner's not right? Which ones which? Who's the Tanner's out,
Tanner's out, Connor's in. Yeah, I'm watching the season four.
I'm hearing great things about it. You know what, I
will watch the NBA playing games. I love over love

(01:04:15):
on the spectrum. It's a endeering, but it makes me
feel weird. I don't know, all right, you know what?
I would watch the Love Island. Know what a temptation island?
On that fact?

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
To give you a compliment, now take effect. Would you
rather watch tonight's playing games? Or take Dan Bayer to
Benny Hannah for his first time?

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Oh easy, y'all start. I'll take Dan Byer. We owe him.
I would love to see his face enjoy an onion
volcano for sure's hot. I want to watch the onion
volcano because I'll be so busy watching Dan's face watch
the onion valcano. Oh yeah, we gotta make this happen
every It should be a giveaway, like come join us
for Hibachi night with Dan Byer, Dan Bayer. Think of that,

(01:04:53):
like you know when your kids see things for the
first time and you're like, oh, look at the joy
in their eyes. Dan Byer's never seen Beating Heart. He's
never seen onion volcano. He's never seen Japanese Coca cola
when they did. He's never seen the Book of Tricks.
He's never seen let me catch the shrimptail of my hat.
Get this. You know what I would do, I'll be like,
I'd go over to the hibachi guy be like, by

(01:05:13):
the way, it's his birthday, Yeah, Daniel side her birthday.
It would be so great? All right? Two final ones here?

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Would you rather watch tonight's play in games or go
to Target to spend a fifty dollars bill you found
on the ground playing games?

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Or go to Target and buy three fifty? But I'm
going to Target. I love me some Target. I'm spending
too much money. You lost me there? I hate Target runs.
I'm staying home watching the games. Yeah, easy, breezing all right?

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
And finally, would you rather watch tonight's play in games
or go with Iowa Sam to the batting cages at
Sherman Oaks Castle Park.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Oh, play a little game of mini golf too, or
just batting games. I'm hanging with I was Samuel. Yeah
that sounds like fun. I don't see I drive by
that every day. On my way here.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
Would you at least check the score is on your
phone regardless, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
I'm like, I'm gonna always say to myself, I wish
I should take my nephew now now I want to
go with Sam. I'll be checking yeah, Magic and Sixers
when I'm at my daughter's softball game, and then I'll
probably turn on Warrior. That's actually tomorrow. By the way,
it's even a conversation. I'll check you. I feel like
the NBA lost the little snech. She doesn't even know
who's playing tonight. Can I tell you this, though, Danny G.

(01:06:22):
When I say I watch when the playoffs start as risk,
when like the real playoffs start, Because we talked about
this before the show. We were saying how there is
more motive for some of these teams to not be
in the playing game because their odds in the lottery
go up and these bottom feeder teams. You what you're
Danny G. You laid it up perfectly before the show.

(01:06:43):
You were saying, so they could do what be like
the almost like the tin the tomato soup can for
the one seeds.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Yeah, which of these teams could you envision going on
this crazy run?

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
And winning at all. Like, let's say, like the Hornets
get hot, Oh, let's go to the Western Conference. Yeah,
they're not winning. Let's say like the Blazers somehow get in.
So what OKC can beat them four to zero or
four to one exactly, You're just gonna get your ass whip.
So I see very little initiative and meaning in these games.
But and the fan bases aren't that pumped because their
teams are borderline and the fans probably want them to

(01:07:16):
go get a better guy or something. So if you're
not going for bike ryand you're not playing mini golf,
you're not doing hibachi tonight Miami at Charlotte, Portland, at Phoenix.
Your NBA playing games start tonight. What are you doing
watching love on the spectrum? What do you do? I'm
coaching eight year old girl softball and then well, I
gotta get some better I'll turn on the Sun's game

(01:07:36):
because we're waking up early tomorrow, so hopefully you join
us in for Dan Patrick tomorrow. The Dan Patrick hat
trick begins Manyana, which means we'll be here bright and
early in the morning and we're gonna play some games.
Samuel you, Yeah, we're gonna do midweek major be here.
We're gonna do Mike, who runs this take right. He
brings up to take us a new feature and we

(01:07:58):
go over it, We debate it. Do we agree with
him or not? That's all tomorrow and you know what
be part of it. Coach ballgame will be here. We
want you to be here. If you normally call the show,
call in for Dan, Patrick, Manyana C and R in
for DP perfect the DP three, your same usual coffee orders, guys, Yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, hell.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Can you throw an extra shot of espresso in?

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Mind? Sam? Only if you're a jittery buffoon and you
go nuts tomorrow morning, you bet. Only if you bring
the heat, bring it. I will see you guys. Then
in for DP tomorrow, Have a great night, enjoy your
NBA play ins and anything else you might do, some
ass slapping or even there you baby, promise see you
tomorrow morning.

Speaker 10 (01:08:37):
You can go