The Best of the Week on The Dan Patrick Show

Covino & Rich are in for the great Dan Patrick and the Bushwackers are back! The guys react to getting more airtime on the 4-letter network than when they worked there after their epic work during the MLB Homerun Derby! And they take some serious heat for leaving the stadium early on Tuesday night and missing the magical MLB All-Star game Swing-Off. Plus, 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe featuring Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn and LaVar Arrington take their turn filling in on The Dan Patrick Show, and they react to TJ Watt finally getting paid by the Steelers.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, it is our pleasure to fill in for Dan
Patrick on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Covino and Richard.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
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at All Star game dot Com. So yeah, Covino and
rich are back day two of the Dan Patrick Patrick

(00:39):
It's always great filling in and we're famous. What could
you say? I mean, Adia saw us on TV last
night at the Derby Bushwhacken. I mean, it never gets old.
It's it's a tradition that I will do until I
can bushwhack no longer. Oh man, it is the best
thing we ever started. This tradition started many years ago.

(01:01):
Our goal was just to get on TV like Beaves
and butt heead, whether it be whether it be behind
a reporter you know, on the news, or bushwhacking in
the stands. And it's such a thrill. It's the goofiest
thing ever. If you've ever been on the big screen
at a ballgame, yeah, you know, when you're just there
and all of a sudden you're on the big screen,
you just lose your mind. That's how it is when

(01:24):
the home run comes into your direction. So yeah, there's
a sense of showmanship because we're trying to get on TV,
but that's just pure elation, pure excitement and joy. When
the ball comes our way. It's the craziest feeling. And
we just know that the cameras are there, so we
might as well bush whack like Luke and butsch whoa
from the WWE. And we got a lot of airtime

(01:46):
last night because we found our way right there in
left field. And what a night. It was electric last night.
We got to tell you all about it. What's up,
Danny G What up?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Good morning?

Speaker 5 (01:56):
I think Jerry Wiley on social media he posted this,
He said it best. They got more airtime tonight than
when they were actually on ESPN.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
And you know what, I can't disagree.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
He's absolutely right. We had more fun. I'll tell you that.
You know, it was so great last night. Baseball's really
they're really up to something remarkable. They figured it out,
they got superstars. The event was amazing and again not
our first rodeo. This is what like our tenth maybe
home run derby we've ever gone to, and it was

(02:28):
just as exciting, if not more than ever came down
to the wire, small market teams representing so much to
talk about. Well, I was just gonna say, there's so
many angles from last night, but let me give everyone
the quick backstory of bushwhacking and Cavino rech Just a
quick backstory so you know what the heck we're talking about.
So like our first derby way he said, maybe ten

(02:48):
fifteen years ago. Yeah, we decided to tell our listeners,
you guys look out for us tonight. We're gonna try
to get on the derby somehow someway Kavino's gonna be
wearing the pinstripes. It's like a little like Where's Waldo
sort of game, like I think I see you, I'm
gonna rock like my old school Mets Jersey, So you'll
see us together and if we think the cameras on us,

(03:10):
we'll start doing the bushwhack. Remember the old WWE wrestlers Yay,
And we did it one year and then the next
you were like, let's do it again, And like Cavino said,
it became more fun to try to unintentionally get on
TV than when we're intentionally on TV or broadcast. Not
only a thrill for us, and it's a double thrill,

(03:33):
the thrill of the home run ball coming in your
direction and you're there sharing in the moment with the crowd,
but the thrill of knowing that all your friends and
listeners are going to see you on TV. So it's
so funny and I don't know how to dec I
don't know how to describe it because it sounds ridiculous
because not to brag, we've had TV shows on different networks,
different you know, things we've streamed, but sounds like when

(03:56):
you are unintentionally on TV light there there's more of
a joint. Like Danny g one time I went with
my wife to a taping of The Bachelor after the
final rows and they hand it on me and my
wife like clapping.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
More people hit me up for that than anything I've
ever done on my own.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
So I think I think people love to see someone
they know at like I guess you would say, like
a unique event or something. Right, So last night Home
run derby.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
I will say this.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
We go to the derby with our credential, we have
our press pass, we don't have an actual seat. So
I say, Covino follow me, and I just sort of
go to left field, walk down the aisle and I'm like,
all right, I see some empty seats and like the

(04:51):
fourth or fifth row in left field, I'm gonna sit
there until someone tells us to move. And guess what,
Danny g whatever, No one ever came the girls, nobody
ever told us to move.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
You know, it helped that the two guys you chose
to sit next to were wearing bright neon colored shirt.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Not only that, bro, it's such a small world that
the guy we were sitting next to is like from
the same hometown as Rich, in the same area.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
He goes, yeah, let's go Mets.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
And he had a Met shirt on underneath his yellow
Neon shirt. And he goes, yeah, I went to I
went to Swanka High School in Long Island. I go, dude,
I I went to his competing high school. Like we
lived five minutes. You went to Franklin Square carried Carrie
high and Rich was like yeah, so again, like what
a coincident dance? How random is that. You have to

(05:42):
realize Rich is from a small part of Long Island's
random high school. Were in Atlanta. We're in Atlanta, and
they were welcoming of us to be there, and yeah,
it was easy to spot us because we're sitting next
to two dudes in Neon green shirts. And what an
excite event. We've said it every year and every time

(06:02):
we're still coming off that high and all the feedback
because people are like, dude, I saw you a million times.
It was hilarious. But it is the greatest sporting event
out of all four major sports. We're not saying World Series,
Stanley copp NBA Finals. We're saying, like, as far as events,
it's the most exciting, or the Super.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Bowl exhibition, it's the best exhibition.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, by far, the best, most fun you're gonna have.
If you have buddies you want to have fun with,
if you have kids you want to build memories with,
this is the event to go to. It surpasses the
All Star Game, I think by a mile in my opinion,
that that's how much fun it is.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Guys like, I'm excited to go.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm excited to go to the game tonight, but I
told Kevino tonight, and we're gonna get to the derby
in a second.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Just our observations.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
If you go to at Covine on Rich at Rich
Davis at Steve Covino, you could see all the ridiculous
photos and videos of us bushwhacking, but the game itself.
Tonight and I said, I'm most excited about the player
intros and the first couple innings. I said, do you
know what, Like, that's what I'm most excited about. The
Derby to me is the that's the pinnacle. It's an honor,

(07:14):
it's special. You want to be there, your heroes are
all together, the camaraderie, you get to see everybody in
one game compete, it's beautiful. The All Star game is great, yeah,
but the Home Run Derby is just a spectacle. It's
an event. It's fun, it's exciting, and there's nothing like
seeing these dudes just tee off and hit bombs moonshots.

(07:36):
I would say, moon shot all night, moonshot, O'Neil, cruise, moonshot,
Oh my god. While rally. While kel rally won, I
think the swing I was most impressed by, where I
was like, I've seen this guy play a lot, but
watching him just tee off O'Neil Cruz, that swing is

(07:57):
just something to marvel at. It is like there's extra
pop coming off that dude's bat.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
And I thought Rich was gonna say, jazz chiselm.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh, we're gonna get to that bro, We're gonna get
to that guy. But the feeling of now, Rich and
I have never caught a foul ball or a home
run out of all the games and derbys we've been to.
Never yesterday two balls came right at us, literally one
seat behind us, literally one seat in front of us.
But the feeling of that ball coming at you, it's

(08:28):
like a very intimidating feeling because this is up there
forever and you feel like the chosen one of fifty
five thousand people.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Like, oh my god, it's coming here now.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
And YouTube Jabroni's had the big oversize Yeah gloves, Oh, Covino.
At least in the photos I saw you, Cove, Oh
you're holding the big blue promotional glove they were giving
away that. Mostly you see the little kids holding. Yeah,
but here's Covino and you still couldn't catch the ball.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
It's on me, You're absolutely right. But one came closer
to Rich than it did to me, and he said,
he'll tell you shicken down. There was part of me
because so the one in front of me, someone in
the row in front of us caught one. It was
too shallow. There's no way I could have got it.
The one that the guy called right behind me, I

(09:16):
second guessed. I'm like, if I would have jumped, I
think I could have got a hand on it. But
then I'm like, everyone's going at each other. If I jump,
someone's gonna body check me, and I'm gonna go over
a chair because because I'll be honest, I was like, if.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I reached up, no, but I would have had to
like the stent.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
If you've ever caught a home run, I'm sure people
listening have feels like it. Funds like a.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Meteor is falling out of the sky and it's like
what what, oh what.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's the weirdest feeling ever because you're looking up at
the night sky and all you see is this ball
coming and like everybody else phases you and that ball
and you're like floating towards it and it's coming down
to you and you're like, oh no, it's the craziest feeling. Ever,
we came so close, but then it lands. The guy
behind us one time right up lost his mind. He

(10:02):
lost his mind. I thought this guy was joking, Denny,
but he was having almost like an out of body experience,
like he was so like baffled that he caught a ball.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I thought he was honestly bs and I was like.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
He was goofing, was faint, yeah, because he was screaming
in pure excitement. And guys, if you want to see
our pure joy at his finest, like truly, the the
kid in side comes out just again, check our social
media at Covino and Rich, even at.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
You could see all the clips of us just losing
our minds at the home run derby because it is
that fun to be there. Yeah, and I highly suggest
to meet us in Philly next year and then Chicago
after Oh damn okay, next year's Philly, huh Yeah, and
that's our plans. So again, we're Covino and Rich. We

(10:53):
had a blast. We're excited for the game tonight. But
let's get into this. Congratulations to cal Raleigh Seattle Mariners
catcher the big dumper hitting big bombs last night.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I mean you knew it was gonna happen, because.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I mean, not not only did McAfee start the home
run Derby by saying the guy with the sweetest ass
in baseball Cal Rawley, not only did you know he
came into the derby as the biggest name in it,
I mean he only got there by zero point nine
to six inches, not even an inch. Didn't you lose

(11:27):
a spring break contest by that same mark remember back
in But I was gonna say he came in as
the biggest name in the favor to win. He's the
home run League leader right now, the only guy giving
Aaron Judge a run for the MVP.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
And not only that, he had a premonition.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Dude, have you seen that great video circulating on TikTok
and Instagram where then, this is the cool part about
these athletes being so young, their lives had been recorded
since their babies, because these kids were all born in
the two thousands or late nineties. So you're looking at
a dude who his parents have video of him.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Saying I'm gonna be a hout run chap one day.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
And that's just another layer to the story. And what
makes it beautiful it's watching his kid's childhood dream come true.
And it was a family affair, as they said over
and over again. If you didn't know it, Cal Rowley's
dad was pitching to him, and you got to think
of all those days and years he was pitching to
his kid in the backyard and working for this moment,

(12:28):
and Cal's little brother was catching. And when I see
a little brother, the kid was a monster. But he
was fifteen years old. And they kept saying that he
may have been the MVP of the event because he
was really hyping his brother up the whole time, coaching
him along the way, hyping up the dad like we
got it, like, just really getting everybody involved in the moment.

(12:51):
And again, what a what a amount of pressure for
a fifteen year old kid to be a part of
a Major League baseball home run derby.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
That's all. That was one of the most memorable moments.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
When the time was running out and he got that
last swing off and the catcher you're mentioning kid pops up.
Dad turns around and they're all watching it barely clear
the fence, Oh yeah, barely. They all celebrate together. That
was one of the great moments.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
It was a night of inches, because again, cal Raley
only qualified because he beat Brent Rooker of the A's
by zero point ninety six inches as far as distance,
because it came down to they both tied at seventeen.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
How do you know?

Speaker 3 (13:32):
That's how how do you know?

Speaker 2 (13:34):
And that's the difference between the robots No zero point
zero eight feet again because they both hit a four
hundred and seventy foot bomb, but cal Rally's was a
little bit further and like Danny g said, he barely
cleared the fence. He says at Home Run Derby says
who this says Elias of the I mean sports Bureau.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
So, I mean, let's we all Rally family, We all
wanted cal Rally no offense to Rooker, But.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
How do you measure that?

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Come on, well, it just adds to.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
His magical season? How much does it add? We're going
to debate that later on, but these are our observations.
What were you yours? What made you go hmm? From
the Home Run Derby last night? We were there. We're
going to tell you everything we experienced again eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox, We're live from all star village. You never

(14:30):
know who's gonna stop by, but we do want to
hear from you. And like I said before, not only
is baseball getting it right and marketing their young superstars
and everyone's pumped about it, as we've been saying baseball's popping,
but the major market teams really had no impact yesterday.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeap.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
When you think about who had impact, it wasn't the Dodgers,
it wasn't the Giants, it wasn't the Red Sox. It
definitely wasn't the Yankees with Chazz Chisholm's three home runs,
what a stinker he put up. It was all small
market teams, the Nationals, the Twins, the Pirates, Camin Arrow
with the Tampa Bay Rays, Rooker with the A's. So

(15:11):
it's like all these young superstars from mid to small
market teams that were really stepping up. And it goes
to show you, like, man, there's a lot of stars
in baseball. Well, you're an American League East fan because
you're a Yankee, dude, there's a lot of people that
are like Junior Kevin Arrow, who that might've been their
first look at this. Dude, if you're not a diehard
baseball fan, you might have not even have heard of

(15:34):
Junior put up a great fight in a great night.
But you know what it shows you rich when you
think of all these young names that are hitting moonshots
and putting on this event last night, the MLB is
setting up to be great for like the next ten years. Yeah,
like seriously, so we could ride this train and enjoy
it for at least another ten years because all these
dudes are so young, and we just hope that more

(15:57):
continue to come up and they influence more young players
to continue playing baseball. Because these young dudes are really delivering.
It's fun to watch. Count Raley's just another name to
add to the list, Like, dude, what a show he
put on. Congrats again to his family. It was a
very special night. We were just honored to be there.
I think one of my observations one of the things
that made me go hmmm last night at the home

(16:20):
run derby, I think Major League Baseball got it right,
meaning they figured out how to do the derby. Every
year or so, every sport out there changes rules. They
changed the rules for a slam dunk contest or a
three point shootout. There was like the magic ball or

(16:40):
the golden ticket or ball Major League Baseball. Remember it's
been outs, it's been timed, it's been there's been golden
balls at count for more. I love the three minutes
with a timeout reseting after the first round because remember
there were years where like two guys faced off in
the first ron and then the highest score and one

(17:02):
of them was out.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
I love the fact that all eight guys went top.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Four of the eight move on receding three minutes, leap
your hairline out of one time.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Out, and I thought it was the right way to
do it.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
And and the bonus three outs on time, three outs
with the extra out if you.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Hit a ball certain distance.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I think, as far as the rules go, it moved
and it was fair.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yes, as far as the rules go, Baseball has it
right coverage wise. The only complaint I was seeing all
over social media last night is people don't like the
way ESPN split the screen.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
I saw that now again, that was after the fact,
and I was going through social media watching all of
our clips of us clowning out in the outfield. A
lot of people were buzzing about, like, come on with that.
The split screen was not the vibe last night. But
congrats again to well. First off, like you said, Rich
Junior Camenaro of the Twins hit fifteen in the finals,

(18:05):
only to come up short to cal Raley who was
just hitting bombs and again, props to his family. But
your observations, your thoughts, feel free to share him. I
do got to say that, Jess Chisholm. I think he's
just making excuses right now. He said he didn't want
to mess up his swing.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
He don't do the Derby putts.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
He said, he's not worried about it. He had three
home runs and thirty eight swings. As a Yankees fan.
I almost wanted to put a bag on my head
an embarrassment. Can I tell you it's really funny, But
he said he didn't care. But I mean, you're human
and you're a competitor. There is no way. I don't
care how confident you are. I don't care how flash
you are, how many home runs you have, because he

(18:48):
does have what seventeen home runs at the All Star break, Yep,
he's an All Star.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
He belongs there. But there's no way he's okay.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
With his By the way, I.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Say putts lovingly, jazz seems like jazz.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
Great.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
It seems like a great he's great for the game,
but I mean that's sort of a poor performance. In fact,
truth be told, I didn't see it. One time during
the home run derby, we were in left field. I
had to pick a moment because we Cavino and I
were both starving because we did our show. We were
hanging at the FanFest MLB village batting practice, you know,

(19:23):
doing all the little challenges, went home, recorded a bunch
of stuff for Serious XM.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
But we realized, like, Yo, did you eat? I'm starving?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
So I volunteered and said, you keep our seats warm, bro,
you stay here, I'll go get us two drinks and
what do you want.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
I went on a little food run.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
By the time it came back, I'm like, Jassism's done
and Kavina looks so like sa wow.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
During the week, during one of the breaks, they had
some high school students battle Yo in the derby.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Right now, they're using aluminum bats, but those kids were racing.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yeah, it's one of the kids hit what eight and
nine to win it? And I was thinking, what's what
is Jazz thinking like when he sees the high school.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Kid hite in the kid the kids were teen off
that even though they were using aluminum bats, even with
wood bats, those kids would have hit some bombs because
they were they were strokings. They had one islands. Carter
bro may be stroking those kids too. I don't think
people see that on TV.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, I think it's just for the stadium.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
They have the two high school kids that are going
for the championship and they have one minute during your
commercial break. One kid hit nine in a minute and
the other kid hit eight, and they weren't just clearing
the fence. So aluminum bat, what gives you maybe an
extra fifty feet or so.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
But these guys are hitting four hundred.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's the reason why rich you think you can hit
a home run in a mL people.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Which is why the challenge with an illumina bat one
hundred percent. I could hit a hold on, hold on,
hold on pause, yeah, pause, you're so full of yourself?
Is crazy? I know you could hit myself. Yes, because
you always discredit or undermine the pressure involved in the moment.
You think you hit more bombs than Jazz Chislm. He
hit three when the bright lights were on. So when

(21:06):
the pressure's on you, if we really built up to
this moment. Yes, you think you're hitting bombs like there's
a lot of pressure aluminum bat, okay, but you're forgetting
again the pressure of the moment. You're immune to it.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I guess what jazzism wasn't, but you are what bat?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
In my mind, I'm like, oh crap, what if I
have warning track power? But aluminum bat it gives you
an extra fifty feet.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
You if you play rex softball or baseball and you're
hitting the ball three hundred feet, you know, I mean
better than anyone. You sound like a bozo that it's
a rhythm, So you got to catch that rhythm. Is
the rhythm gonna get you? Are you gonna get the rhythm?

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I don't know about that. I don't doubt the power.
The fact that you, as a grown man could hit
one out, I get it. But can you hit it
out when it matters? And in that moment it was
so easy. Jazzism would have had more than three in
my rhythm. In my mind, it's like it depends on
how long you have to Like if someone said, rich,

(22:04):
you have ten swings and that's it.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Then you're in your head like, oh crap.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Because you can't. But you're all you're also under a
time limit when when you're competing. So but three minutes though,
three minutes with an aluminum backs fast damn well man.
And by the way, how ironic would it be? I
just want to throw it out there to say I
told you that was gonna happen. How ironic would it
be if Jazz Chism, who stunk it up last night

(22:30):
with three home runs and thirty eight swings? How ironic
would it be if he hit one tonight when it
actually mattered in the game. You know, it's so funny.
I was capable of it. We know that I was
looking at DraftKings, but he didn't belong there, that I
was looking at DraftKings before the derby and Cavino so adam,
He's like, yo, I think chishm might pull the upset tonight,

(22:51):
and because we're in the state of George, I think
things might be. I don't know what the gambling rules are.
I was like, eh, who cares. I was about to
put like a hondo on jazz Chism, because you know,
I had a hunch, and I'm like so glad that
that hunts built for that type of competition. But I
thought he would come through just based on the way
he swings right yeah, and how he's throwing seventy percent

(23:14):
into his swing just to make good contact, put goodwood
on the ball. But he stunk it up. Not to
take away from the actual winner. Congrats Seattle, you have
a superstar, the first winner from Seattle since Ken Griffy Junior.
When your name's put in that company, you're having a season,
and the first catcher, first switch hitter I believe to

(23:36):
ever win the home run derby. I see that picture,
The beautiful picture of cal Raley as he's winning was
taken by Ken Griffy r So, which I thought was cool.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
At one point last night everybody stood up, fans of
all different teams and tip their caps to it was
a cool thing to see.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Now it is, it's cool, and what a season he's had.
It's a magical one. Does that add to his MVP?
Alur We'll get to that later. We have a lot
to get to later. And like I said, you never
know who's gonna stop by. But we had a great time.
The pictures prove it, the video proves it again. Search
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Speaker 2 (24:57):
Dr live from iHeart My Heart Studios in Atlanta, Covino
and Rich Steve Covino, Rich Davis, super producer Danny G
with a smooth and buttery voice. We're gonna hear from
his perspective how the swing off went down live and
of course Spotty on the videos at Covino and Rich,

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studios in La We got Sam and Mark hanging out.
And thank you Fox Sports Radio Nation, Dan Patrick fans
for hanging out with us.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Let's wrap this up.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
We'll move on to some NFL but you are final
thoughts and the swing off to end the All Star
Game last night. It was awesome and there's always gonna
be people that bitch and can play like like you said,
you had buddies like it's gimmicky. I had a friend
that his first statement on our group chat was like this,
you're stupid.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
I'm like that, You're stupid.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
I really found this.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
To be exciting, but I didn't like the fact that
because Dave Roberts mismanaged, we're in this situation. That's how
I felt about it. But they put these rules in
place for a reason. I get it. And it was
the first time we've ever seen a swing off. Well,
hold on, now, did did he mismanage Because if there's
a rule for a swing off, then he mismanaged.

Speaker 8 (26:11):
Nothing burnt through all this pictures.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
But if the MLBS put rules in places for swing off,
he he mismantaged nothing. I'm not a fan of that,
but they have to figure out who wins this game.
You got all these fans there waiting and but yeah,
well you keep saying, miss he mismataged nothing. Because if there,
I personally think he did because he kept his arms
fresh right to get to that point, to to give

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every player, Karon Boone kept people on reserve in case
they needed who's still ready to go?

Speaker 8 (26:39):
Does no one case because it goes to a swing.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Off A fan of it.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
If this still affected the World Series, then I would
say mismanaged.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
But I do like the end result because the swing
off was exciting. And then our first question as fans
is like why did they choose these bats? There's no
mismataging because if it got to you he did. If
it goes to burnt through his pictures and it went extra,
if they would have went extra innings, if it goes
to a tie game and they burn through the pictures
as a swing off dude, as a fan, I don't
like it. I'm telling you I'm allowed to feel that way.

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I'm not the only guy. Because Rich says so doesn't
make it true. I'm just telling you I don't like him.
Now he managed it, because that's not fair to Aaron Boone.
Then you know what Aaron boonche is fresh arms in
the games. Aaron Boone good comeback. He should have had
fresh games too, making no sense if he was going
to burn through his pictures, Aaron bon should have burnt
through his pictures. But if there's no penalty for burning

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through your pictures. Because they so assumed that they were
going to win this game, that Dave Roberts willy nilly,
there you go. That's probably why you enjoy it, because
that's how you roll in life. Now just started throwing
people into the game instead of trying to really manage
the game.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
He was just like, he get it.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
What do the fans want to see? Everyone get a chance?

Speaker 9 (27:45):
Right?

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Because look it turned down was great. But I didn't
find that to be fair for the al and Aaron Boom, I.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
Just did it.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I'm not saying he broke rules. I'm saying, in reality,
I feel he mismanaged it.

Speaker 8 (27:56):
But it's to his swing off. Think what you want and.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Shove it up. Yeah, but you're missing the point. Mismanaging
would mean there's a penalty. I'm not trying to make
it clear for you. I think people understand.

Speaker 8 (28:09):
I think you're an idiot.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, you know what, let's take the phone calls. Who's
the idiot? The bonehead who thinks he's always right and
he's wrong? But he often thinks he's right, you can't
seven ninety nine on Fox, or really, why did he
burn through the pictures? You know why because they thought
they had the game in the bag and that's why.

Speaker 8 (28:27):
And also because there's no penalty if they did. I
get that, but we've never gotten to this point.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Well, I bet you Aaron Boone, I bet you Aaron
Boone would have put more pictures in if he was
in the business of sort of mismanaging. So because of that,
it's forced into a swing off. Am I mad at
that now? Because it was awesome. I don't like the
end result, but it was awesome. And as a fan,
you're like, wait, a second, swing off? Why is Kyle

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Stower and Randa in this? You know and Randy arose
arena because it was pre selected? But I didn't know
that at the time. I found out later on. Oh,
so they pre selected it, probably never thinking it was
gonna matter anyway. So it's kind of like when you're
on a plane. Here's my understanding. When you're on a
plane and you're in the exit row and they're like,
hey man, in case of emergency, Uh you're in the

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exit row. Are you good with uh? And you're like, yeah, yeah,
what I raise my head going through the motion.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
You have to take out one AirPod and you're like, yes.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, I'm in the exit row. Yes. Yeah. They prior
to the game say hey, if this goes extra innings
into a swing off, or you want to do a
derby action, Hey Schwarber, you want to do this?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, whatever, because you're assuming it's never gonna happen. Sounds
like sounds like Aaron Boone mismanaged that part. Not really,
but there's a lot of people wondering, well, why wasn't
judging It wasn't Otani in it? You know, Danny g
had the best suggestion of all. And social media was
also buzzing about the fact why not just have the
people that participated in the home run derby be the

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guys on standby here in case this happens, because it
intertwines the derby all the actual game. Yeah, it wraps
it up perfectly. It's like, well, these are the derby guys, Well,
these are the guys that are gonna be participating in
case the swing off happens. But no, you got Brent
Rooker and Stow Wars and it wasn't even supposed to
be Stow Wars from Miami. It was supposed to be

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Eugenio Suarez. He got hurt.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
At least Rooker was in the derby, and then he
went on to hit two homers out of the three chances.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Rozarina and Schwarber and Ronda and Pete Alonzo. I guess
was the anchor.

Speaker 8 (30:35):
I just can't imagine.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
I can't imagine why Iron Judge wouldn't be one of
Boone's three guys unless he was scared to do it,
or Boone mismanaged and said it doesn't matter, I won't
need him. But there's a big rumor going around that
so many of these starters once he got pulled, some
of them left the ballpark. Someone hung in the clubhouse,

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someone to hang with the families search I really don't
care about.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
It's the All Star im it's an exhibition.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
But for people speculating, they showed a school. He looked
like he was ready to go out clubbing.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
So when you you know, when you're in the All
Star Game and there are no stakes really other than
just your entertain the fans, and it's a fun night
of celebrating your sport. Like this rumor's pride on the line.
No one wants to embarrass themselves. It's the All Star Game.
A lot of people are watching. But I but I think, uh,
there's still ultimate competitors. But Otani, there's big rumors that

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he wasn't even in the stadium.

Speaker 8 (31:34):
You have a problem with that or not?

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Really?

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I do, yeah, kind of, But I also get it's
probably standard for something like that.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
And you also have to.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Keep in mind, what did we learn from being on
the field and watching all the fanfare and the media.
It's like, you know, a guy like Otani probably just
has to get out early or.

Speaker 8 (31:54):
Else he's there until three am.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
They retired just like you guys from a long weekend
Atlanta and wanted to get Don't blame me if I
left early.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Oh Tony left early.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
In our defense, we're not in the game, dude, right
my bro, I don't know if you know, my bro
show Hey, hit me up.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
He's like, I'm leaving, are you I'm like, yeah, me.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
Too, show Hey.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
You know what, I hear a lot of a lot
of people on social media right now speculating dog in
us for leaving early. Guys, we were super pumped to
be there. No one was more excited than us. We
were exhausted, and if you really want to know, we
didn't have seats. We did have credentials that got us
to really cool places, as we discussed, and we're really
grateful for that, but we didn't have actual seats. So
it's like I'm just walking around trying to get a view.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
Let's go back and watch it.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
We had access to a lot of cool places, but
no actual seat, which.

Speaker 8 (32:41):
Is I'm reading some really raw feedback.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Look at this Jabbroni Bubba hating on us because we
left early. It's like, hey, dude, we were working so long,
all work. I used work, you know with quotes, air quotes,
because we have fun doing what we do, but we
really had to get back. We had other work to do.
The truth is, and we didn't have anywhere to sit.
It's not like we left the playoff game early, or

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we left the concert before the encore. It's not like
the people that left. It's not like the people that
left the Gibson. Yeah, it's not like this people. We're
not the people that left the heat Spurs. Get sweet
that out from fsr's account.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Right now. Covino and rich are break lights.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
But but we did miss I'm not going to like
downplay it. We did miss history and something awesome and
something I wish I could tell my grandkids one day
when I'm feeding the ducks. You know, kids, the first time,
the first ever swing off Grandpa was in Atlanta. I
was there. No, honestly, we could have lied and said,

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hey guys when we were there, all right for you
knowing on, let's go to a couple of phone calls
and then we'll talk about all how it all culminated.
I want to hear how it was from inside truest Field.
Because Danny g said, the crowd erupted with this in excitement.
Here's Stephen in VIRGINI. You beat it's up, Stephen, Hey Steve,

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what's up? Steven Man?

Speaker 10 (34:07):
So why saving arms when there's no possibility of extra ding?

Speaker 2 (34:16):
He missma was that's what our buddy in Minnesota, our
buddy Matt and Minnesota hit us up, going Caveno is
so off on this. You can't miss in your personal
buddy who's hitting you up? Oh really, well, listen, I'm
telling you he's not your friend of Minnesota. I don't
like mattin Minnesota. I like uh, I like everyone agrees
with me, and I'll read their comments in a minute.

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You can't define mismanagement when it's not mismataged. So okay,
but yeah, Boon no, because Roberts just assumed they were
gonna win. That's really it. But I mean when you
can't like we're never gonna see, we're never gonna see
eye to eye on something. You can't mismatage something when
there's no repercussion, right. I wasn't vying with it at
that point. I was like, well, that doesn't seem fair.

(34:59):
It's not and Boonswalt Roberts try to get every arm
in there, give everyone a chance. I guess I don't know.
That's that was my first instinct. Let's go to Kevin
Culver City. What's up Kevin.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Fellas?

Speaker 10 (35:13):
Hey, Ken, couldn't be better guys to do the show
this morning. I mean, I was over the moon watching
the game last night. It was incredible. You know, all
the major sports trying to figure out how to you know,
do the All Star games, NBA, Pro Bowl and Major
League Baseball got it right. I mean, swing off. It
felt like showmanship. It was like the show and the

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biggest fight box office type of show. That you could want.
You got Colin Schworber winning it on the swing off,
and I like, I don't like bringing the home run
dirty guys, because you don't get Schwarbur, you don't get
Alonzo to close it out. I mean, two of the
biggest home run heres in the league going, you know,
you know, backing up each other in a swing off,
and I just I can't imagine, and I know it

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will never happen, but I'm crazy to say it. In
the World Series setting go Tony versus Judge and the
swing up for a wheel tree.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
It was. It was exciting that theatrics were incredible.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'm so glad keV brought that up because on the
shuttle ride back when the game was over, all of
the people were buzzing about they should end regular season
extra inning games like this, forget that automatic runner on second.
I heard several people saying that out loud, and maybe
they were just caught in them up in the moment,
but I heard that from several fans that were there.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, the game is based nowadays a lot on the
home run. It's exciting. Yeah, It's like it's like an
NBA slam dunk or do a far three pointer, or
let's be honest, like a deep pass in the NFL,
a pick six, like it's the excitement of the home run.
And I will say I feel a little bad for
Polar Bear ped Alonzo because I agree with you. There

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he was, he was, he was going to be your MVP,
and then he was one for two with three RBI
big yes, you bomb.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
He was definitely your MVP of the game, and he
was the anchor of the swing off got a shot.

Speaker 8 (37:05):
So if let's just say it was tied, right, let's say.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
The dude on who was the last guy? It wasn't
even like a big star. I mean, he was an
All Star, but who is the guy that hit zero? Ronda, Ronda,
if he would have hit, if he would have hit,
It's not that he's not a big star. He's an
All star, but he just only has eleven home run
The last hit.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
Came close, and then his third strike, dude, he came
inches away.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
But I'm saying, if he hits one and it's tied,
I think if Peter Alonso just hits one and he
walks it off and he should.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
Have been the MVP, he's the because of the game
I think.

Speaker 8 (37:40):
I think if Alonso would have just hit one.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
But I'm saying I had a bunch of thoughts and
a bunch of feelings because three players from each team,
three swings from each player, team's alternate team with the
most home run wins the All Star Game, right, And
I'm like, man, this is wild.

Speaker 8 (37:58):
The whole thing was.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
So we'll see, let's say, how to Gaarth Garth, you're
hunting Washington? What's that in?

Speaker 9 (38:05):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (38:05):
What's going on though?

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Is?

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (38:06):
I just want to talk about number one. So this
last night it felt like a shootout in a hockey
game or a soccer game.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
So it's sweet.

Speaker 10 (38:16):
Man.

Speaker 9 (38:16):
You know, that's one of the coolest things in sports.

Speaker 10 (38:18):
You know, if you're in a.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
World Cup final or something and they had to go
to a shootout, man, you're everybody's on the edge of
their seat.

Speaker 10 (38:23):
So that's kind of how I felt watching this last night.
And number two.

Speaker 9 (38:27):
I want to just want to talk about Aaron Brune.
I guess I didn't realize that they predetermined the lineup,
but man, how do you not let Judge and cal
Rawley swing off if they're still there?

Speaker 11 (38:36):
Man?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Like, that's like, these are the thoughts we all had
watching it, So I'm trying to express what I was
thinking at the time. I don't never having a stake
down the ball to pretend that everybody knew these rules.
Everyone's full of boloney, like Rich, because nobody knew that
they had these things predetermined, unless you're Tim Kirkschin or
Jeff Passing. Because I didn't know that, and I'm a

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baseball fan.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
Since it was predetermin and the managers have been around
these games before, maybe they know Judge isn't still going
to be around O Tawny's going to be in his
limo by then, and that's one of the factors in
why they picked too.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
They picked That's another point, Danny G. But here's where
I actually agree with Rich again. First instinct, we're watching
from the bar. What Kyle Schwerber did, three pitches, three
home runs in that high pressure moment, he even admitted
it was a high pressure moment was amazing. And how
he went down and scooped up that last home run

(39:35):
on a knee, like you mentioned, that was insane. But
for him to win the MVP for that, I really
do have a problem with it. I don't think he
was the MVP because he had no hits in the game.
You're saying, this is like a separate portion of the game.
In my opinion, this is just my opinion relaxed. So
not you, Danny G. I'm saying everybody who's like, yeah, dude,
and then he gets MVP for hitting three meat balls.

(39:57):
Pete Alonzo hit a three run blast in the the
legitimate pitcher off a legitimate pitcher. So yeah, Kyle Schwarber
is a hero and it was incredible. I don't want
to take anything away because he made it look easy.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Dude.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
It was highly impressive.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
I get it. But he's the.

Speaker 8 (40:11):
MVP for that. He had three meatballs for home runs.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, it was a big moment, But Pete Alonzo is
still the MVP in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Dave DeMarco tweeted out this morning, Kyle Schwarber's bat has
to be on the way to Cooper's town. The first
ever perfect round in a swing off to win an
All Star Game.

Speaker 8 (40:30):
Yeah it was cool.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
He was pressure so cool.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Guys, don't don't yeah, please don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
But I still think that.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Along he's still got the MVP.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, that's how I That's just how I felt, because
I'm like, that was just how you decided to win it.
That wasn't really part of the game, was it? Or
I guess we just have to look at it differently. Look,
it's the first time we ever experienced it. These are
the things I was thinking. I did feel for Pete Alonzo,
even though you know he's had his moments. He's good.
This is what fifth All Star game, and it's wanted

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to see guys like him. Are the veterans rich nowadays? Yeah,
he was saying that when he was miked up, how
it's a great mix of young players and veterans. I
just wanted to point out one thing because there are
gonna be people that say Aaron Boone head rally and
judge and there's sluggers oh Tani that didn't do it
leaving a game early. I'm not going to get down

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on them. It's an All Star game. Then again, there
are fans there watching in person and on TV. But
I think it's one of those scenarios that we've all
been through in life where you don't really think something's
gonna happen, so you don't prepare for it. Like I'll
give you, I'll give you one. And I had to say,
because we're all flying today, but you know when they're like,
there might be turbulence and someone doesn't put their seatbelt on,

(41:43):
and then then they might you know, spill their drink
or bump their head or something, or you leave that
house that example.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Yeah, thanks for putting that out there.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, you'll leave the house two flights today.

Speaker 8 (41:54):
Appreciate it. You'll leave the house right.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
And you're like, you know what, I'm wearing a flip flight,
so I didn't cull my hair.

Speaker 8 (42:01):
I'm not going to bump into anyone.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
And then you bump into like your high school sweetheart
or you like, what's a chant? You always do the
what's the chances? And I think Otani's probably in his
limo like what's the chances?

Speaker 8 (42:11):
Oh I would Oh dude.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
Don't you think because of how this all played out,
that might.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Change moving forward?

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Yeah, I mean bigger stars may think twice about doing
what they used to do.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Absolutely, And I think that now this may be a
stretch too, but things like the Savannah Bananas where they
lean into the entertainment side of things and they do
goofy things and they're willing to try other things, you know,
sort of even though this was a decided thing a
while ago. I feel like baseball's feeding off of those
fun theatrical antics and it works sometimes. Some of the

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changes they've made are working. And that was when they
made a few years back that actually works.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
Oh yeah, we didn't even talk about abs and how
they used that last night and a strike a.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Ball call was over and turned place strike.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
How cool.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
And the reaction of Edwin Diaz when he's like, no, no, no,
I think that caught the corner.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
And like you had did strike three?

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Very very cool to see. By the way, do you
mind if that were incorporated in the regular season, if
each team got what would be the let me think
the balls and strike challenge because you can't have too
many because then it's sort of closed the game. But
probably needs to be like three because because they're real quick,
it's like tap of the hummet and you find out
within five seconds.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
So I think three a game.

Speaker 8 (43:27):
Is not crazy, right, I mean, who's opposed to it?

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Innovate or die?

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Right?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
You gotta you gotta evolve.

Speaker 8 (43:37):
The guy in the light, the guy.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
In the mark. Baseball the sport where it's it's bad
to evolve. Who have to today's war? Who's Balken Aganuken?
Kyle Stowers? Stowers he saw he did the tap and
and it just caught it for striking, and he's like, ah,
I think it's a I think it's cool. I think
it's He wasn't supposed to be in the swing off,

(43:59):
like I said, it was Eugenio Suarez. So again a
guy that stepped up. He probably said, yeah, I do
it if you need me. But you know, I think
that was a pressure filled situation. Props again to counch
Warber not trying to take anything away. Maybe the people
here Pete a. Lonzo got hosts of it. Maybe the
people that volunteered also on the flip, you know, saying
guys like go Tani and Judge like yeah, what's the
chances I won't do it? The guys are like, yeah, yes, sure,

(44:21):
I'll do it. Maybe those are the people, like you said.
Maybe it's like at your workplace, it's like who wants
to be the fire marshal of this floor of the
building and then all of a sudden someone lights something
on fire in the kitchen. You're like, oh man, I'm
doing I'm got it signed up. So that's how it felt. Yeah,
that's how it felt exactly.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Swarves on his knee for that third home run was theater,
the same way the night before cal Rawley was theater.
Remember when his dad turned around and it was just
all of it.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Man, what a week for baseball. And by the way,
we're allowed to gush, we're gushing. I know, we sound
like fanboys to the max. Baseball had a great week,
but baseball had a great week. And how many people
are quick to dump on baseball? How many times do
we say hmm as host of a show, Yeah, let's
lead with football because people get bored with baseball talk.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
We keep it real.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
And I wasn't doing the field stuff with you guys earlier,
but I stayed, you know, in the seats, and there
were MLB executives in that row and they were really
happy with how it turned out.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
But what did we You guys said it yesterday.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
You thought the home run derby was going to be
the highlight and you said it on the air. So
you're not fanboying too much because you were honest on
yesterday morning show saying that, oh, home run Derby's the highlight.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
The game is probably going to be boring.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
You said that, I did, and I think a lot
of people assume that, and then look what happened. They
do the All Star Game better than any other sport.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
That's just a fact.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Dandyg to wrap it up, you know again, we left
were the worst, but so did Aaron, Judge and Otani
get off us.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
And I said, there were a lot of fans I
saw leaving when it was six to three.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, what was it like? Two things? When the swing
off was announced and when it was going on, and
that Hank Aaron Tribby got to tell him that was beautiful.
But yeah, what was it like when the swing off happened?
Did everybody just go nuts?

Speaker 5 (46:13):
At first, it was a lot of confusion, and I
saw a lot of people bust out their cell phones
trying to get the TV feed so they could.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Have and turn the audio over, turn the volume up.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
Yeah, and then once we figured out what was going on, dude,
everybody was just so excited. And when Schwarber thought that
his third one was gonna go foul, I thought, because
the way he was leaning on his knee like that,
I thought that ball was going foul.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
It wasn't really even that close, and they brought out
the net. And when they brought out the net too, like,
I'm like, what the heck? Yeah, And then I thought, too,
that's that's some decent amount of pressure too for the
pitching coaches. They have to deliver a star games. They
didn't plan Yeah, but they didn't plan on that, dude.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
We didn't know who was going to be pitching either.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
That's the other thing, right, Yeah, I've never seen before
much is again three swings.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
The stadium went bananas when Shorter hit that third one.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, that was awesome.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
It really was.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio w APP.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
It is the Dan Patrick Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you in for
Dan and the guys. You can hear us weekday mornings
before Dan nine am Eastern time, excuse me, six am
Eastern time, three o'clock Pacific, whatever it's before. This show
Monday through Friday, and we will be taking you all
the way up until noon Eastern time nine o'clock Pacific

(47:40):
here on this Friday morning, I feel like we've gotten
through it. Yesterday was like the last not a whole
lot of sports really going on, all right, because now
baseball's back after the All Star break, You've got some
golf event on another ugly course over in Europe somewhere
are really fired up about, and other than that. But

(48:02):
I feel like we've gotten through the real difficulty.

Speaker 11 (48:04):
So I'll take a shot super early, U super quick,
six oh one into the show.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
He's gonna try.

Speaker 12 (48:10):
But I think, really what I'm most disappointed about as
I was going through the rundown before the show today
and I didn't see anything about a special guest live
bet Jesus. Now for the Dan Patrick Show listeners who
don't know who live bet Jesus, says Jonas, could you
explain who this is?

Speaker 6 (48:26):
So years ago we were doing the show on Fox
Sports Radio on Sunday nights and got interrupted by some
lightning and thunder in the studio. Some music started playing
in a piece of paper.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
What was the music?

Speaker 6 (48:40):
Like a prayer?

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Oh Donna?

Speaker 6 (48:41):
Yeah, And so the piece of paper fell down onto
the desk and I just read what was in the paper,
and it was somebody by the name of Live bet Jesus.
Was there a signature on it was, No, it wasn't.
It just said LBJ And I didn't know Lebron was
a gambler. And then I came to find out that
Live Betgejesus made a pick, and like most of his picks,

(49:03):
it hit and one on the air and on a
live sporting event. So you know, if you when when
everyone talks about the popularity of in game wagering and
in game betting, just remember where it started, right here
on Fox Sports Radio with a a being. We'll call
it named Live bet Jesus.

Speaker 12 (49:22):
Now, mind you, I should warn our listeners and LeVar,
I think you've actually seen Live bet Jesus and action
enough to know this guy's a.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Flip and loser.

Speaker 12 (49:30):
If you want to fade him as much as you
possibly can, you won no part, I mean no part.
If any bet this loser lays Lee, you can back
this up to what's his lifetime win percentage, like two
something like that.

Speaker 8 (49:44):
That's that's very generous of you, Brady. I'd say roughly
about high ones.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
Boy, there's a trusted source.

Speaker 11 (49:52):
I gave lab bet Jesus some amount of money in Vegas,
and you know.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
First how to work. I got it. Tell you.

Speaker 11 (50:00):
First of all, I got to tell you the experience
of being in his presence at first was overwhelming, exciting,
maybe a little bit nerve racking, but you know, we
went with We went with it. No, I gave La
I bet Jesus my money, and well nothing came back.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Okay, that was you can't win, but the winnings aren't
going to be yielding you much. That's that's for sure. Okay.

Speaker 6 (50:26):
What happened in Vegas was there was a fight during
Super Bowl week, I think Thursday night and LeVar listen,
LeVar got some advice about who to bet on, and
because of a shoddy decision and a terrible decision.

Speaker 8 (50:43):
It was a got screwed. It was got screwed.

Speaker 6 (50:46):
But you can't go up to the sports book in
Vegas and be like, hey, that was a terrible decision.
Can I get my money back? They'll tell you to
go kick rocks. So it didn't happen.

Speaker 12 (50:55):
And what would be Prisco say. He'd say, you're on
the wrong side of a good bet. That's it, that's
the go to. Yeah, I was on the right side
of it. It just didn't work out. You know, do
the same thing well over again. The reason why I
bring that up is that golf tournament that you're not
a fan of the Open over there in poor rush
Uh that they're playing. You would think that live bed

(51:18):
Jesus if he had any kahonas anything on him, you know,
you'd think that maybe just maybe he would want to
visit the show for a segment, maybe lay out a
live bet.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
But I don't know, he's probably probably typic. You know.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
My problem with the Open Championship or the British Open.
I'm just gonna call it the British Open. The courses
are so unattractive, like Augusta National, beautiful on TV, like
the US, but Oakmont. I've been to Oakmont beautiful, Like
you go through all the major championship. You go to
a golf course, it could be golf and stuff out

(51:55):
here in Southern Come. You've never been there. How would
you know watching TV? It's beautiful its own way. What's
its own way? They got weeds in the background.

Speaker 12 (52:06):
No, No, that's called heather. Wait what it's a it's
a link style. Know where that name came from? Wait
what it's it's it's called heather. Yeah, it's it's a
link style course. The wrong call it supposed to look.

Speaker 11 (52:24):
Oh, that ain't not but some heather on the back
of the course.

Speaker 6 (52:28):
Why is it, heather? It's very white of them.

Speaker 11 (52:33):
You gotta go, you gotta go take a stroll through
the Lorainas.

Speaker 6 (52:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
I don't know where that one's going, but I.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Mean, what does it matter, heather? I mean, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
To watch it.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
There's just weeds. You're in an open field with weeds. Oh,
they decided to mow that part. All right, let's tee
off everybody. It's like, come on, dude, clean up your grass.

Speaker 11 (52:57):
Why are you so Why do you so down on
the course?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Jonah, I just.

Speaker 6 (53:00):
Don't like the way it looks.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
That's it.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
That's what I feel about it.

Speaker 12 (53:03):
No, you know what he said, this is this is
due to his experience being over an Ireland.

Speaker 6 (53:09):
The people weren't as fred Jonas. Why did I did too?
I don't know that, Joe, Well, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (53:16):
They weren't as friendly towards you, weren't as welcoming. You know.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
It was.

Speaker 12 (53:20):
Jonas really played up the whole thing. He would barely
drink any of his guinness, which was noticed by many locals.
I said, oh, you don't want to drink assimilate to
our culture.

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Okay, to drink and you drink coffee.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (53:33):
The Dan Patrick Show guys were there as well too.
We were all out there. And there's a thing you
do in Dublin or in Ireland where you've got to
drink down to the line you've got to drink. It's
called splitting the g all right, Well they can split
this g Uh. I almost got there, and I'm not
going to be judged because I didn't accurately get to
the line. Okay, like I didn't see a lot of

(53:55):
people accurately get to splitting the Wow.

Speaker 12 (53:58):
LeVar, I'm not gonna let him keep going because he's
not really ever talking about really what took place. You
know what people bought us a guinness? Do you have
any guiness into the show? Yeah, I'm sure. But they
were all left full, just sitting there him, just sitting there,
that's the fence, until until Lee would.

Speaker 6 (54:16):
Come by and pass them.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Oh.

Speaker 12 (54:18):
Lee made it look like Yonas actually drank any of
the guinness that people.

Speaker 6 (54:21):
Bought for him.

Speaker 11 (54:22):
I got your Lee, How did that make you feel
to split the Oh, I'm pretty good at it.

Speaker 8 (54:28):
I get it, uh one every six times at lease split.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
My gas three times in Ireland. And here's the thing
that please, Like any good dog, whatever you don't finish,
they'll take care of like this. That's why they invented
the term doggy bag.

Speaker 11 (54:48):
My kids drink extra stout Guinness all day.

Speaker 6 (54:52):
Really all day doesn't fill you up.

Speaker 11 (54:55):
That's rost rosta bredrid and that's that's we drink. Man
drink that, dude, it's a light beer, extra stout really
what not me? That's that's that's that's my weapon of choice.
In fact, outside of surveys is like drinking. I've been

(55:16):
on this Corona light late light thing lately. I don't
know why, but I've been really liking Corona.

Speaker 6 (55:23):
Like now you're a Pacifico guy.

Speaker 11 (55:25):
I love Pacifico, but like it's been hurting me. There's
this one beer coming out that I feel really good about.
But we'll hold on to that one. You know, let's
stick city we we we we wet now Citrus weak.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
But let me tell you how long we've been hearing
about we're going to get beer?

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Don't you should?

Speaker 6 (55:49):
Wolf tickets no way.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
It's coming.

Speaker 11 (55:51):
I promise you it's on the way.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Anyway, I think that's not coming.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
It's t J.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Watt's new deal. It's there. It has dropped.

Speaker 6 (56:01):
Yeah, three years, one hundred and twenty three million to
take that line to it, one hundred and eight million dollars.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Why isn't t J.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
Watt guaranteed? It puts TJ. Watt as the highest paid
non quarterback in NFL history. Forty one million dollars a
year he's going to get. So they tack on another
three years, which.

Speaker 11 (56:21):
Is what one million more or one hundred thousand more
than I think one one million more than Miles Miles? Okay,
so which did you know what that means? We got
who was next up? You gotta believe this name? Yeah,
because I don't think. I don't think Hendrickson is going
to get that type of track. So I don't think, yeah,

(56:44):
I don't think Dallas has to wait anymore. Like now
Michael Parsons can get his deal done.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Thanks captain obvious. The question.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Who did that?

Speaker 8 (56:56):
Who did that?

Speaker 9 (57:00):
Now?

Speaker 11 (57:00):
I think the question now becomes is it like forty
one point you know, one forty one a million more?

Speaker 2 (57:09):
You think.

Speaker 6 (57:12):
Okay, So do you think the Bengals, in seeing this deal,
looked at him, We're like, that's awesome, not even a thought.

Speaker 11 (57:21):
I think, yeah, that's absolutely well there there there, LeVar actually,
and you backed him on this.

Speaker 12 (57:30):
Jonas Givar made the case yesterday that he thinks Jerry
Jones wants to say, hey, hey boys, I'm paying I'm
paying the most defensive the most money for the defensive playing.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
In the league, the non quarterback, I'm paying him the most.

Speaker 11 (57:44):
That might you, guys, that might be a little out
of context, though, I mean, I'm not saying he's waiting
to say that. Well, I just don't think he wants
to have to be the one that has to say
he did it where he knows he has to.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
That's all.

Speaker 12 (58:00):
Well, all I'm saying is the Cincinnati Bangles of the
exact opposite. There you go, Yeah, we can't agree on
to Jonas's point, what was that?

Speaker 6 (58:09):
What was that they just drove by that teach people
don't hop it on that.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
He's like, ha ha, way to go.

Speaker 11 (58:17):
We don't use the Joe b Lane. We'll stay right
here in this one.

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Like they are the Rob Parker of the NFL, Like
like Rob Parker who brings his own tea bags Rob
Parker super Bowl Week and they're not even like named
tea bags. Their their store brand signature select from Ralph's
or Albertson's or Pigley Wiggly. And it's because he doesn't
want to spend money on actual tea bags. That's the

(58:45):
Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
I'm a woman they have.

Speaker 6 (58:50):
They have no interest in matching that deal.

Speaker 11 (58:52):
But all seriousness, all seriousness. If you're Hendrickson, what are
you going to do? Like that's got to be the
biggest question here. What is he going to do?

Speaker 6 (59:04):
Retire?

Speaker 11 (59:05):
Why would you retire when you can make a lot
of money? Like, okay, resign to the fact that you're
not going to get that money from the Cincinnati Bengals.
They're not going to trade them. Do you think they
trade them? Who does the trade? Who does the trade?

Speaker 6 (59:21):
Well, they gave him a chance to go seek a
trade and nobody and nobody moved, nobody Budge. Okay, So
you don't have the opportunity to go seek a trade.
I mean, is it messed up to say? At some
point you got to say I'm not going to get
this type of money in the market.

Speaker 11 (59:40):
I'll get his close. He can get into the thirties, right,
he can.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Get close to it. Yeah, he can get to.

Speaker 12 (59:47):
The tough part about his position now is you would
have thought if something was going to happen, it would
have happened earlier. This year where there's a bit more
cap space, teams are spending a lot of money. But
you know, again we kind of talk about like deadlines
due deals. You always hear that phrase. In this case, Look,
he's under contract and it's the last year of his deal.

(01:00:08):
He's scheduled to make what fifteen point eight you know,
as far as his salary this year, which is grossly
underpaid considering how productive he's been in the past two years.
But he's thirty one, and we keep talking about that
age thirty number and what that means for players as
they move forward, greater injury risk, you know, the lack

(01:00:30):
of production tends to kind of fall off. So that's
that kind of that point in time where teams want to,
you know, not necessarily have to shell out a ton
of money. So I think as we get close to
the season, he'll get traded for and obviously if that
team trades for him, they know that, like he's being
traded to show up and get paid more than.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Whatever the Bengals are paying them.

Speaker 12 (01:00:49):
I think the tough thing for the Bengals is that
if they were going to replace him, which they have
with their first round pick and Shamar Stewart, they should
have done whatever trade deal was on the table before
the draft, because that's what you had the most leverage.
Now that you already have this replacement, it looks kind
of tough. And on top of that, teams are looking

(01:01:09):
at you thinking, well, you're kind of desperate because not
only have you not signed this guy to extension, but
your first round rookie, you know, draft pick, has not
even signed his deal. He hasn't been there at all.
So it becomes a very difficult situation all the way
around for Hendrick, sim purely because of the size of
these deals that the Bengals can't pay, and then the
fact of his age and factoring in other pieces of it,

(01:01:32):
and really the Bengals and where they're at where they
don't have to move on from him yet, I mean,
and he's under contract, so they can find him and
they can, you know, do whatever they need to do
to try to entice him to come back and play
under the contract that he's.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Currently playing on.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
In this In the same off season, Max Crosby signed
one for thirty five million a year, and now we've
just seen TJ. Watt sign one for forty one. It's
going to be closer to Max were literally in the
same off season.

Speaker 11 (01:01:59):
It's going months ago, and I honestly speaking, I think
Cincinnati's going to try to get it for less than
thirty five. I think it'll be in the thirties, but
it's going to be less than thirty five. It's going
to be what does Hendrickson want to do? But I
think that again back to the original point. Now the
stage is set. Now Jerry Jones can go ahead. He
knows what he has to pay. He can go to

(01:02:24):
go to Micah's representation and say, here's the market here,
it's now here. It is like, let's get the deal done.
I wouldn't be surprised if Michael Parsons deal drops today
or like in the next couple days, today, tomorrow, Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
I wouldn't be saying so that they were just waiting
wait on TJ. That's what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (01:02:45):
I believe so I said it yesterday. I know I
believe so. I do not think that they wanted to
put your city.

Speaker 6 (01:02:52):
Wasn't waiting that he wasn't looking either. It smack him
the face you.

Speaker 11 (01:02:57):
Are I almost called you a name on on live radio.
Why are you so stuck on that lot like Michaeh.
First of all, I'm talking about Jerry Jones, not Michael Parsons.
And I stand ten toes down on the fat toes
that Michael Parsons is not looking for a contract. He's

(01:03:17):
the contract is coming to him. And Jerry Jones was
most certainly most likely waiting for TJ.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Watt to get his deal done.

Speaker 11 (01:03:29):
And I don't think that Jerry Jones would want it
to be out there that the Pittsburgh Steelers did a
better deal with TJ. Watt than he did with Michael Parsons,
knowing the conversations and the players. As we mentioned that
you have to make comparisons to as it applies to

(01:03:51):
Michael Parsons, I stand on that.

Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
You mentioned Jerry Jones. He actually was asked what he
wants out of the Michaeh Parsons extension. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
I won't make some glory Hill guys are a hole.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
I don't know break go to break man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Yeah, you know what, I.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Don't either.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
I'm with Jerry.

Speaker 11 (01:04:11):
Jerry maybe wants to keep talking about mikel waiting on
a contract. You're sitting here talking about Terry on some
glorial hating like like like my my stepbrothers that I
want to kick out of the house. The slumber party
is over. I don't want y'all here anymore. I'm taking
my sake. Y'all need to go home.

Speaker 9 (01:04:33):
Man.

Speaker 12 (01:04:34):
You know, I think you're touching on something that I've
I've come to learn over the years, and this is
where I'm like out of touch with it because I'm
just a you know, I grew up in a middle
class family in the Midwest. Is I know some people
who are like wealthy and they will brag about like
bets they've lost or money they've lost, how much it
is that that they exactly so it like puts them

(01:04:55):
in a category of like oh yeah, and it's like okay,
and and that actually falls back category. Then if you're
telling me that you think he's going to kind of brag,
if you will, about paying Micah Parsons more than any
other player in the league.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
I don't know that he's going to brag about it.

Speaker 11 (01:05:11):
I just know that he doesn't want to have to
be in a situation where somebody else did a bigger
deal for the same.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
We know this someone eventually will.

Speaker 12 (01:05:20):
I don't know who that player is, but we always
know that like it doesn't to be at the same time,
it doesn't need to be.

Speaker 6 (01:05:28):
And weeks apart, I don't think a part. I don't
think it bothers him if he ends up paying more
than he could have two much prior, I don't think
it bothers them all. I think I've always thought it's
like a fashionably late tax, Like he's alway.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
How cheap you are. That's shocking to hear you.

Speaker 11 (01:05:45):
Because he's talking about someone. Oh yeah, this is me.
If he is talking about himself would be much different. Please,
I saw what he Can you imagine.

Speaker 12 (01:05:52):
If Jonas missed a sale at ross stress for less,
like he would be so frustrated about it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:57):
Well, I can still remember when I missed. I swear
to God, I saw on my life, I swear to God,
and I remember my mom telling me, I think we're
going to regret that. Oh, because it was there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
What was it? What was the sale? Do you pass up?

Speaker 6 (01:06:11):
It was a jacket. It was a jacket that was
like nine dollars and her and I were looking through
Ross and I still I remember this moment. She's like, well,
let's just you know, we'll come back. I was like, okay,
and then we went back like a week later.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
Was not there.

Speaker 6 (01:06:27):
Oh it's gone, it's gone.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
That day, it's gone, like minutes or I.

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
Love watching LeVar look at you as you tell he's
so full. I'm not even I'm not even making that
story out on everything. I remember her telling me specifically, Yeah, listen,
you know, sometimes when you want something, maybe you just
have to jump right then and there. I was like, oh, okay,
that's a good point. Let lesson learn. But I still
remember that Ross stress for less thousand oaks still there by.

Speaker 11 (01:06:54):
The way them defects on them, them clothing, like if
you could find one that had that, just that slight.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Defect, you were good. You were good.

Speaker 11 (01:07:05):
It's like, oh, it's a starter. Well it's the Pittsburgh Penguins, right,
there's no g there's no iron pin.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Not this one.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
That's a different sport. That's like those the liquor store
glasses you get. They're not Oakley's, they're OKI's.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
Hell, I swear to God, why are you chiming on on?

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
This?

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Wouldn't leave you?

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
Am I making that up? Like you get fake glasses
at a liquor store. Oh yeah, I get them all
the time. You get the the ray band, fake O,
the fake ray band. Yeah, that's the best.