May 13, 2026 • 21 mins
Cal Raleigh went from MVP runner-up to an 0-for-38 nightmare, then Logan Gilbert told him to take a shower in full uniform. The Big Dumper actually did it, snapped the slump with two singles against Houston, and now Covino & Rich are deep in the greatest sports superstitions of all time: Wade Boggs' pre-game chicken ritual, Tiger's Red Sundays, MJ wearing his UNC shorts under his Bulls uniform, and the legendary story of Jason Giambi's Gold Thong breaking Derek Jeter out of an 0-for-32 slump. Then the Pentagon drops 162 declassified UFO files and C&R ask the real question — which athletes could actually be aliens? Michael Phelps, Wembanyama, Sam Cassell, Willie McGee, and Juan Soto all make the list. Plus the weekly "They Might Be ASS" - it's a quarter into the MLB season and Fernando Tatis Jr. has zero home runs, Manny Machado is batting .193, Corey Seager is at .184, and Logan Webb has a 5.00 ERA. Even Shohei's bat has gone quiet. What is happening?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
This isn't some green screen real brick if I want
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
So it's a work in progress. It's over promised with
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the West. Everything at Cobino and Rich FSR. That's our
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Hit subscribe today. Players that could be alien Oh yeah,
we're gonna say players that could be asked because we're
(00:50):
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
To that too. That too, that too.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But hope you're enjoying your NBA. Hope you enjoy the weekend.
Hope you enjoy the show. Let's do it Rockapella because
there's a story about Big Dumper, and you know how
I feel about Big dumps.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I mean, since I've known you, you've loved Big Dumpers.
I'm a big fan of Big Dumpers. In fact, you
love the cover of the New Sports Illustrated with Hillary
Duffo Duffy and her stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hillary duff got that stuff, tell her, I said hello.
But cal Ronny, the Big Dumper had a magical season
last year runner up MVP sixty dongs batted two forty
seven sixty home runs, second to Judge where he should
have been because, yes, magical season, but it was highly
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doubtful that he'd matched that this year. Judge is a
consistently great player, so not to take anything away, but
the dude has been asked this whole season. It started
with the WBC and then just recently he went on
for an zero for thirty sixth Street.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
That's hard to be that bad. Like that's that you
can't buy a hit, like nothing's drop and nothing's fall.
And it was sixteen strikeouts over thirty six at bats and.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
During that span he was batting one fifty seven. Dude,
we're talking about the runner up MVP from last year
that had that dream season.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And as we said yesterday on Fox, he went from
the second best player in the league to when the
one hundred and eighty one registered players that are eligible
to have their batting average ranked, he was one to
eighty out of one eighty one, so second best to
second worst.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, making no contact and not hitting as many bombs,
and they had to figure something out, right, just sort
of fix this season, get out of this hole. And
teammate Logan Gilbert picture Logan Gilbert was like, Yo, dude,
you gotta get out of this funk way.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Logan Gilbert the guy that got the ball stuck in
his jersey, right, yeah, yeah guy right, yeah. I mean,
this guy's got some tricks.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He's like, yo, bro, what you need to do is
need to get in the shower, full uniform, scrub a dub,
wash that funk right out of your life.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It would take a shower with all your clothes on. No.
Freshman year of college, I drank tequila out of a
plastic jug. What was I thinking? I remember getting so
trapped my roommates threw me in a shower with my
clothes on. What a mess.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, like weird feeling mess. But you know, desperate measures
was the old saying.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's forrate times, for desperate measures.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So this psychopath behavior actually worked because he got in
shower full uniform to wash away the funk, and he
finally after.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't know not getting a hit since April twenty seventh.
How many of fats a lot?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He gets two singles in a win over Houston and
they celebrate, and now he's bat in a whopping one
sixty six.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But he broke the streak. So it's weird tonight he's
getting in a bath tub. But Logan Gilbert, so the
superstition worked. This trick worked, and cal Raly says, Logan
gave me some good advice to wash off the bad
mojo or juju from the baseball gods. So yeah, it worked.
He was right. I got to give him credit where
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credits due. So you see in the world of hockey, hockey,
beer and people have superstitions. So you saw it in
a major league didn't a Joe Bou the Pedro surround,
don't have to eat a live chicken?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I say a few job bu. But you know he
did it himself. And that poses another question. Are you
superstitious or just a little stitious? To quote Eli Manning,
I'm just a little stitch.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah. Iowa.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sam on the show today was like, dude, anyone that
believes in sports superstitions just the rube, And Jay stew
was like, that's because you've never played competitive sports, because
if you did, you'd know there was rituals and superstitions
and things you did.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Dude, there's guys that I play rex softball with. They
get in the batter's box and they start writing initials
of like whoever they're dating. Like, you know, people do things?
Are you hop over the line? You never touched the line? Like,
there's things we've all done.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Jeter and Garcia Paro, They've all had their routines, and
that becomes a superstition because.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
If you don't do it, you're like, oh, something's off right.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So I got us thinking here on over promised you
know some of the most famous sports superstitions that we
could think of, and you have to start off with
one of the most famous ones.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, I mean a you know, Pedro Serrano, not a
live chicken. But rumor has it that Wade Bogs insisted
on eating chicken before every game, like fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Though. However, Sky stay fit and he looks better now
than he did then, full head of hair.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
He gave up the chicken. He has a full head
of hair now.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But it seemed to work because my dude was riding
horses with the Yankees and had a full lifetime batting
average of three twenty eight and three hits.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Bro So it worked for Wade Box. How about for
the golf fans? Tiger Woods started doing this and then
fans caught on every Sunday wearing that red shirt red Sundays.
It was what he called his power color. You know
what's wild about that? When you want to wrap up
a tournament and win like Tiger Wood on a Sunday. Yeah,
every highlight when you think of Tiger Woods, he's wearing
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that red pole.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
He's wearing the you associate that. I think I remember
when Tim Meadows played him on SNL. So he's wearing
the red shirt and the hat and like, yeah, every
great moment in red, and he's had.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So many bad luck moments recently. The guy should just
wear red all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Remember this, I wear that, you know, for the rest
of my life. So superstition in sports, what else comes
to mind?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
How about the goat?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Even Michael Jordan had his own superstitions. And I don't
know if this is common knowledge, but he wore his
Lucky University of North Carolina shorts under his bull shorts
every game.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
But you say bull shorts, his bull shorts. Yeah, yeah,
but that was the lucky shorts of MJ. And you
see him right there. You see the shorts peeking through
if you want to be a gazer.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I think they were like red white and blue, red
white and red black and red black and whit.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But yeah, they were under there. So he wore those
lucky shorts. And you know, speaking of the NBA, he
still does it. We don't think of it as a
superstition but more of like just something he does for
the fans. But Lebron with the powder toss.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
If he didn't do it, yeah, be in his head.
And it's probably some sort of thing where I gotta
do this, you know, I'm not gonna hit my threes tonight.
Probably should have did a little more of that this season.
But another one that I'm not sure you might know.
But it's a true story, and it's a funny story.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's a famous story. You've told me this.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't think most people know this, the story of
the Golden Thong, and it's the Gambino Jason Giambi, who
I feel doesn't get enough credit for what a dominant
player he was. I know, steroids and all that kind
in the way you look at those stats, you're.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Like, dang.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There was a story when he was new on the Yankees, right,
he had a gold thong hanging in his locker and
Jeter at the time didn't know him that well, and
he'd always see the gold thong there but never asked
about it. Derek Jeter went through an OH for thirty
two slump, OH for thirty two slump, and Giambino is like, hey, Jeets,
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you gotta put on the thong, and you know, Jeter's like, no, fun,
stiff guy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I mean, he's one of the best, but Jeter's not.
He's on a Shenanigan stepe and fell actually went along
with it. That's how was it desperate?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I called for desperate measures. Yeah, he was so desperate
he put the thong on. He wants every know over
his shorts, over the shorts. He puts the thong on. Okay,
And it is very first that bat. The next that bat,
very first pitch off of Barry Zito hit a home run.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
They go and the.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Legend grew, and it's the story of the gold thong
and sports superstitions and things like that. It's it's now
gold and it makes us think of, you know, our
own lives and your own life and things you do like,
you know, step on the sidewalk cracks, you know, leave
a basketball court when out hitting a three.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You know, interestingly enough, it's not a superstition. But speaking
of like the thong, yeah, I'm sure other people besides
me play like adult rex sports. If you strike out,
by the way softball, you might want to let your
dad know. We're not talking about flip flops.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh oh, thongs like my flip flops.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I've played on teams where if you strike out in softball, yeah,
you have to wear like a shiny thong until the
next guy strikes out. So I played where guys were
weeks in or had them to just show up. We'll
put on the thong over there, you know, their uniform.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
But people even outside of sports still do this because
you do believe in some sort of way, maybe it
is a sports mindset, but you bring that into your
every day and even here on the show, the three
of us after every game, well just like the San
Francisco Giants, after every show or podcast, we do the
outfield junk bump. The junk bump is something that we
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do just, you know, to keep the good vibes going. Yeah,
I mean I always feel like if we don't do that,
our next show is not going to be as good.
A little yeah, little thrust. You know, sometimes we do
it to start the show and to end the show
just because it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Guys. Sometimes they are a commercials And by the way,
aren't your Mets doing this now? So the Mets do
it last night, So maybe the junk outfield junk thrust.
Why is everyone stealing our junk thrust? I think at
the end of each game. And by the way, guys,
it's not weird, it's just superstitious. Yeah, I think the
left fielder and right fielder meet and center on their
way into the infield. And I've seen multiple teams do
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a little like a little little thrust. I do a
little double up, sir, mix a lot of style. Well listen,
whether it's athletes even like if you get on a flight,
these things you do when you're.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh, I see you do some weird ear thing before
you fight. They do the sign of the cross. Everyone
gets I've traveled many times with Rich. I see Rich
go and he goes.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I think everyone's got there a little shit they do, so.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know, but it does put the question are you
superstitious or are you like Iowa, Sam.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You're like, that's just baby nonsense. I think there's a
little something to be said, right, I mean, because even
if he gets in your head mentally it works yep, yeah, yes, exactly.
So hey, whatever works for you. And congrats again to
cal Rowley. No one's rooting against him. I hope he
continues to play well. Yeah, I mean the guy. I mean,
for a guy that was an MVP runner up, he's
not gonna end the season bat in one fifty. Now,
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you got to get pretty hot to bat over the interstate,
Like it wouldn't be shocking if you batted like two
ten this year.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Like you gotta step it up, gotta step it up.
There's a lot of players that need to step up.
So hold up on that thought. But now, another story
that swept the nation and Mike Vaiboles very happy that
this story is in the headlines.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Though that takes away I'm still giving a shit more
about him and die Aresceni than than Aliens. It's wild
to me, you know, we're Sini in her family seem
like they're working past it good. Vrabel and his wife,
they're fine. We're obsessed with it.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Meanwhile, aliens, aliens, UFOs UAPs. This past week, one hundred
and sixty two declassified files were released that consisted of
one hundred and twenty PDFs, twenty eight videos, and fourteen images.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And it's pretty wild. Some people are like, oh, I
don't give a shit, Like, how could you not give
a shit?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I mean the answers we've been searching for our whole life.
Maybe there's some really cool clues in videos and footage
we have never seen, and there has been, but based
on that, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I see those those pictures, Yeah, they're like black and
white taken from another plane. Have you seen the videos?
But there's nothing that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, they're also saying that this is the tip of
the iceberg. More files are coming. I think there's images
in proof of little creatures.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Still, I see mechan me.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Little creatures that look like the following athletes that got
us thinking here on over promised of athletes celebrities that
we feel, you know, could be a little alien because
there's some thought process that hey, maybe we are the aliens,
and maybe some of them are.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Here already and we don't know. Maybe they're coming to
watch some of their favorite alien athletes. Some athletes just
have big alien heads, and some athletes are just so
oddly dominant that you're like, I think you're part alien.
The Inkees like, for me, Michael Phelps comes to mind, Dude,
this guy I think is like part aquatic alien. Yeah,
Like you know you've talked about how are aliens from
otter space or do they come up from the ocean.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, there's a lot of new footage all things hovering,
you know, over the water.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Maybe he's one of those. And everything about Michael Phelps
makes me think that this guy, yeah, is an aquatic
alley his whole look too, He's got a look about him,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So I think in his dominance definitely alien like when.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
He tries to blend in with humans by like a
smoking weed and stuff like, oh, we're here to see Michael.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You know, they were probably there at the Olympics cheering
him on. So Michael Phelps definitely comes to mind. Stature, physique, dominance,
all those things. And one of my favorites, bro, because
I've been saying this since I was a little kid,
and I'll explain why Willy McGee was definitely like a
little alien.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I think you know something alien about the guy alien?
Or is he just not attractive? Dude?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I remember getting that nineteen eighty six tops card the
King to myself, like that, daddy, t oh, it's Willie McGee.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's one of my favorites. Great great player.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I love how he played, and I say that respectfully.
But my dude, you know he might have been an alien.
I say that, like I said respectfully. It just means
that he had extra skill level?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Is that Sam Cassell or Mack and me, Oh good one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You know, hey, he had a reputation. Everybody to watch
basketball knows that. Hey man, he's so dominant in different
The crazy part.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Is it's really just guys are big bald heads, but
you's something about you know. I don't know how to.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Explain this, but again, the theory is that we might
be amongst the aliens already.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So if that's true, If that's true, oh who are they?
It might be Sam Cassell? I mean what if you
believe like in like Nephlins and John Neflin's right giants. Yeah,
there's that young kid that's like gonna be playing college ball.
That's like eight foot and then that long neck and
that weird like lurchy body. His body language and how
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he moves it's just alien. Like what's his name? There's
he'll be looked that up. There's there's pictures of Wemby.
Oh my god, we saw him in person blocking shots
where it's like he looks like like he's a different
species of like I think, dominant.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I think this is why we're getting so much you know,
footage and so many new sightings because they're here to
see their guy, his dominance, his.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Physique, the way he plays. He's got alien elbows. This
guy makes us like, well, he makes us look like
little bit we're not. How are we the same species?
That's the point when someone is that athletic, that big,
that dominant, and you're like he really so yeah, Wemby
on that definitely you know alien. Anyone else could be alien.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna burn your boy because I'm still a
little bitter that he chose the Mets, But now I'm
kind of glad that he did. Remember when he came
out looking at his shape. I'm talking Wan Soto, by
the way, Wan Soto definitely a little et thing going on.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That's a photoshop of this belly. I'm talking pregnant Wan Soto.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And by the way, his name is very Han Solo,
Juan Soto, very you know, from another planet kind of name.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Hans Solo one so and Bacca. You think he's got
an et physics.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yes, look at it, that's e t in a Mets
jersey right here.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I could be all right, so Fat Sodo, Fat Soto,
Han Solo, same guy. This leads us to something we
do on over promise every week. By the way, hold
on before you move on. You have any other metro
want to make fun of?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well sucks as the kiddo say, I y K, y
k if you know you know Jason Dominguez the Martian
and Bernard Hopkins the Alien bro and shout out to
the aliens. Maybe they're listening. We want to be on
on your side.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Guys. Yeah, they're gonna kill everyone except Comenia your friends.
Do you still think the A's should you think you
they still think that the A should go with some
type of alien vibe when they moved to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I do, I do because they can't keep the athletics
name as now as of now, but they keep the
A and be the Las Vegas A's for aliens. I
think that would be cool as hell, But think about
who else do you want to add to the list
based on skill and overall appearance or you know you
can see the alien's root and form for whatever reason,
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who might be in those the class of finance?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Moving forward? Let us know at Covino and Rich at
Fox Sports Radio. All right, something we do every week
on over Promised might be as who might be as
this week?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And well, you know what, a lot of people may
say the Lakers based on getting swept, and people love
to hate on them, but I think they went further
than and we thought all injured like that right.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Further than we thought, but they thought. You know what,
sometimes the team goes as far as you think they'll go.
So I look at it like, did it surprise me?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The Lakers were a team that we're not going to
make it to the Western Conference finals, but they were
going to put up a fight. So it's not them,
it's not you, it's me who might be I want
to talk about baseball for a second. We touched on
some of these names yesterday, but we're fourth of the
way there. There's no more it's early, like it's early,
(18:02):
it's getting late early. As Yogi Berra said, we're fourth
of the way into the season. Like the Mets even
their GM was like, yeah, it's not early anymore. They
need to fucking turn it around. Some of these players
need to turn it around. Fernando Tattis Junior, who I'm
a big fan of. I think he's a great ballplayer.
Zero home runs, He can't find the power stroke. What
is that about? Like the other teammates are using his
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bat and hitting home runs before him.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, based on our social media, a lot of
people don't saying, hey guys, yeah, I remember pitching's next
level this year, and that is true. But next level
where superstars like Tattis can't get a home run, I
don't know about that. There's a lot of other players
hitting home runs. Some of these players are just.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Off for whatever. Heason. I think that it's wild when
some of the star players are off, because star players
always somehow find their way right and maybe they will,
but man, this is uncattackt dot EASTI. When you see
a star player that hasn't found their way yet, I
think of Corey Seeger, the Rangers, like, you know, went
went to Texas on a big deal. He's an All
Star every year for the most part. Corey Segers is
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betting one eighty four. Yeah, he's a complete player, so four.
It's like, wow, dude, I don't know how the Padres
are even hanging in there when Machado also one anything Interstate.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
If we were kids and this was the eighties, you'd
look at that baseball card and you'd toss it. You'd
mean the minor leagues. It's nuts that we accept these things.
But you know, hopefully they'll turn it around. How on
planet Earth? Yeah, are the Padres? The Padres currently right
there at the top of the NL West, like a
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half a game above or below, depending on the day.
With the Dodgers, when Tatis Junior has zero home runs
and Manny Machado's batting one ninety three, they have decent
pitching and Bogarts is playing well, my goodness, if the
Padres turn it on, I mean, come on, yea Shado,
So Machado, what the hell do you have the post
(19:58):
World Baseball Classic blues? I don't know, ninety three, one
ninety three, that's my weight on a bad weekend, you
gotta do better than that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's my weight on a good week. So you know,
who might be asked Let me throw another stud out there,
Logan Webb, pitcher who every year is in the Cy
Young conversation year after year. Logan web I mean, there's
still plenty of time to turn around. But he's two
and four with a five RA. I know. Uh, Crochet
on the Red Sox has not had a great start.
So there's certain guys that are just schoolball guy hurt,
(20:28):
school bull hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, you know, exactly not what he expected, but he's hurt.
Are you giving show hay in fat Soto a pass
here because either of these guys are having the season
that they should be.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, I think I'm giving some day You say fat
Soto the alien, he was a little injured and he's
just fine. I think show Hey because his era is
under one, Like can you judge one side of his game?
Like offensively stinks, but he's gonna be the cy Young
Award winner. Is he gonna trade an MVP for a
Cy Young?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You have to assume they're all going to turn it
around because they're great players, and that's really it. Who
might be asked a whole slew of great players, a
whole slew of all stars seemed to be asked, not
in general, just this season, so it's an ass sort
of season so far.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
We'll see what happens. Hey, any thoughts, any feedback you
want to throw in at Covin and Rich. Thank you
guys for hanging on over Promised who might be asked
for you? We'll see you guys next time. Until then,
Arima Dercci baby, do you in the over Promised Land?
Alliens
Yeah, everbody welcome to over promise our bonus pot episode
one nine. It's our soft launch, the liquid launch of
our new students. Oh three dudes and the new students
bare Bones. It's a work in progress. But this is
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
This isn't some green screen real brick if I want
to bang your head against it exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So it's a work in progress. It's over promised with
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Hit subscribe today. Players that could be alien Oh yeah,
we're gonna say players that could be asked because we're
(00:50):
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
To that too. That too, that too.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But hope you're enjoying your NBA. Hope you enjoy the weekend.
Hope you enjoy the show. Let's do it Rockapella because
there's a story about Big Dumper, and you know how
I feel about Big dumps.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I mean, since I've known you, you've loved Big Dumpers.
I'm a big fan of Big Dumpers. In fact, you
love the cover of the New Sports Illustrated with Hillary
Duffo Duffy and her stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hillary duff got that stuff, tell her, I said hello.
But cal Ronny, the Big Dumper had a magical season
last year runner up MVP sixty dongs batted two forty
seven sixty home runs, second to Judge where he should
have been because, yes, magical season, but it was highly
(01:34):
doubtful that he'd matched that this year. Judge is a
consistently great player, so not to take anything away, but
the dude has been asked this whole season. It started
with the WBC and then just recently he went on
for an zero for thirty sixth Street.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
That's hard to be that bad. Like that's that you
can't buy a hit, like nothing's drop and nothing's fall.
And it was sixteen strikeouts over thirty six at bats and.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
During that span he was batting one fifty seven. Dude,
we're talking about the runner up MVP from last year
that had that dream season.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And as we said yesterday on Fox, he went from
the second best player in the league to when the
one hundred and eighty one registered players that are eligible
to have their batting average ranked, he was one to
eighty out of one eighty one, so second best to
second worst.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, making no contact and not hitting as many bombs,
and they had to figure something out, right, just sort
of fix this season, get out of this hole. And
teammate Logan Gilbert picture Logan Gilbert was like, Yo, dude,
you gotta get out of this funk way.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Logan Gilbert the guy that got the ball stuck in
his jersey, right, yeah, yeah guy right, yeah. I mean,
this guy's got some tricks.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He's like, yo, bro, what you need to do is
need to get in the shower, full uniform, scrub a dub,
wash that funk right out of your life.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It would take a shower with all your clothes on. No.
Freshman year of college, I drank tequila out of a
plastic jug. What was I thinking? I remember getting so
trapped my roommates threw me in a shower with my
clothes on. What a mess.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, like weird feeling mess. But you know, desperate measures
was the old saying.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's forrate times, for desperate measures.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So this psychopath behavior actually worked because he got in
shower full uniform to wash away the funk, and he
finally after.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't know not getting a hit since April twenty seventh.
How many of fats a lot?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He gets two singles in a win over Houston and
they celebrate, and now he's bat in a whopping one
sixty six.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But he broke the streak. So it's weird tonight he's
getting in a bath tub. But Logan Gilbert, so the
superstition worked. This trick worked, and cal Raly says, Logan
gave me some good advice to wash off the bad
mojo or juju from the baseball gods. So yeah, it worked.
He was right. I got to give him credit where
(03:55):
credits due. So you see in the world of hockey, hockey,
beer and people have superstitions. So you saw it in
a major league didn't a Joe Bou the Pedro surround,
don't have to eat a live chicken?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I say a few job bu. But you know he
did it himself. And that poses another question. Are you
superstitious or just a little stitious? To quote Eli Manning,
I'm just a little stitch.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah. Iowa.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sam on the show today was like, dude, anyone that
believes in sports superstitions just the rube, And Jay stew
was like, that's because you've never played competitive sports, because
if you did, you'd know there was rituals and superstitions
and things you did.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Dude, there's guys that I play rex softball with. They
get in the batter's box and they start writing initials
of like whoever they're dating. Like, you know, people do things?
Are you hop over the line? You never touched the line? Like,
there's things we've all done.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Jeter and Garcia Paro, They've all had their routines, and
that becomes a superstition because.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
If you don't do it, you're like, oh, something's off right.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So I got us thinking here on over promised you
know some of the most famous sports superstitions that we
could think of, and you have to start off with
one of the most famous ones.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, I mean a you know, Pedro Serrano, not a
live chicken. But rumor has it that Wade Bogs insisted
on eating chicken before every game, like fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Though. However, Sky stay fit and he looks better now
than he did then, full head of hair.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
He gave up the chicken. He has a full head
of hair now.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But it seemed to work because my dude was riding
horses with the Yankees and had a full lifetime batting
average of three twenty eight and three hits.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Bro So it worked for Wade Box. How about for
the golf fans? Tiger Woods started doing this and then
fans caught on every Sunday wearing that red shirt red Sundays.
It was what he called his power color. You know
what's wild about that? When you want to wrap up
a tournament and win like Tiger Wood on a Sunday. Yeah,
every highlight when you think of Tiger Woods, he's wearing
(05:48):
that red pole.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
He's wearing the you associate that. I think I remember
when Tim Meadows played him on SNL. So he's wearing
the red shirt and the hat and like, yeah, every
great moment in red, and he's had.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So many bad luck moments recently. The guy should just
wear red all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Remember this, I wear that, you know, for the rest
of my life. So superstition in sports, what else comes
to mind?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
How about the goat?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Even Michael Jordan had his own superstitions. And I don't
know if this is common knowledge, but he wore his
Lucky University of North Carolina shorts under his bull shorts
every game.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
But you say bull shorts, his bull shorts. Yeah, yeah,
but that was the lucky shorts of MJ. And you
see him right there. You see the shorts peeking through
if you want to be a gazer.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I think they were like red white and blue, red
white and red black and red black and whit.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But yeah, they were under there. So he wore those
lucky shorts. And you know, speaking of the NBA, he
still does it. We don't think of it as a
superstition but more of like just something he does for
the fans. But Lebron with the powder toss.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
If he didn't do it, yeah, be in his head.
And it's probably some sort of thing where I gotta
do this, you know, I'm not gonna hit my threes tonight.
Probably should have did a little more of that this season.
But another one that I'm not sure you might know.
But it's a true story, and it's a funny story.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's a famous story. You've told me this.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't think most people know this, the story of
the Golden Thong, and it's the Gambino Jason Giambi, who
I feel doesn't get enough credit for what a dominant
player he was. I know, steroids and all that kind
in the way you look at those stats, you're.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Like, dang.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There was a story when he was new on the Yankees, right,
he had a gold thong hanging in his locker and
Jeter at the time didn't know him that well, and
he'd always see the gold thong there but never asked
about it. Derek Jeter went through an OH for thirty
two slump, OH for thirty two slump, and Giambino is like, hey, Jeets,
(07:51):
you gotta put on the thong, and you know, Jeter's like, no, fun,
stiff guy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I mean, he's one of the best, but Jeter's not.
He's on a Shenanigan stepe and fell actually went along
with it. That's how was it desperate?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I called for desperate measures. Yeah, he was so desperate
he put the thong on. He wants every know over
his shorts, over the shorts. He puts the thong on. Okay,
And it is very first that bat. The next that bat,
very first pitch off of Barry Zito hit a home run.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
They go and the.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Legend grew, and it's the story of the gold thong
and sports superstitions and things like that. It's it's now
gold and it makes us think of, you know, our
own lives and your own life and things you do like,
you know, step on the sidewalk cracks, you know, leave
a basketball court when out hitting a three.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You know, interestingly enough, it's not a superstition. But speaking
of like the thong, yeah, I'm sure other people besides
me play like adult rex sports. If you strike out,
by the way softball, you might want to let your
dad know. We're not talking about flip flops.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh oh, thongs like my flip flops.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I've played on teams where if you strike out in softball, yeah,
you have to wear like a shiny thong until the
next guy strikes out. So I played where guys were
weeks in or had them to just show up. We'll
put on the thong over there, you know, their uniform.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
But people even outside of sports still do this because
you do believe in some sort of way, maybe it
is a sports mindset, but you bring that into your
every day and even here on the show, the three
of us after every game, well just like the San
Francisco Giants, after every show or podcast, we do the
outfield junk bump. The junk bump is something that we
(09:27):
do just, you know, to keep the good vibes going. Yeah,
I mean I always feel like if we don't do that,
our next show is not going to be as good.
A little yeah, little thrust. You know, sometimes we do
it to start the show and to end the show
just because it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Guys. Sometimes they are a commercials And by the way,
aren't your Mets doing this now? So the Mets do
it last night, So maybe the junk outfield junk thrust.
Why is everyone stealing our junk thrust? I think at
the end of each game. And by the way, guys,
it's not weird, it's just superstitious. Yeah, I think the
left fielder and right fielder meet and center on their
way into the infield. And I've seen multiple teams do
(10:01):
a little like a little little thrust. I do a
little double up, sir, mix a lot of style. Well listen,
whether it's athletes even like if you get on a flight,
these things you do when you're.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh, I see you do some weird ear thing before
you fight. They do the sign of the cross. Everyone
gets I've traveled many times with Rich. I see Rich
go and he goes.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I think everyone's got there a little shit they do, so.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know, but it does put the question are you
superstitious or are you like Iowa, Sam.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You're like, that's just baby nonsense. I think there's a
little something to be said, right, I mean, because even
if he gets in your head mentally it works yep, yeah, yes, exactly.
So hey, whatever works for you. And congrats again to
cal Rowley. No one's rooting against him. I hope he
continues to play well. Yeah, I mean the guy. I mean,
for a guy that was an MVP runner up, he's
not gonna end the season bat in one fifty. Now,
(10:54):
you got to get pretty hot to bat over the interstate,
Like it wouldn't be shocking if you batted like two
ten this year.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Like you gotta step it up, gotta step it up.
There's a lot of players that need to step up.
So hold up on that thought. But now, another story
that swept the nation and Mike Vaiboles very happy that
this story is in the headlines.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Though that takes away I'm still giving a shit more
about him and die Aresceni than than Aliens. It's wild
to me, you know, we're Sini in her family seem
like they're working past it good. Vrabel and his wife,
they're fine. We're obsessed with it.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Meanwhile, aliens, aliens, UFOs UAPs. This past week, one hundred
and sixty two declassified files were released that consisted of
one hundred and twenty PDFs, twenty eight videos, and fourteen images.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And it's pretty wild. Some people are like, oh, I
don't give a shit, Like, how could you not give
a shit?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I mean the answers we've been searching for our whole life.
Maybe there's some really cool clues in videos and footage
we have never seen, and there has been, but based
on that, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I see those those pictures, Yeah, they're like black and
white taken from another plane. Have you seen the videos?
But there's nothing that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, they're also saying that this is the tip of
the iceberg. More files are coming. I think there's images
in proof of little creatures.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Still, I see mechan me.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Little creatures that look like the following athletes that got
us thinking here on over promised of athletes celebrities that
we feel, you know, could be a little alien because
there's some thought process that hey, maybe we are the aliens,
and maybe some of them are.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Here already and we don't know. Maybe they're coming to
watch some of their favorite alien athletes. Some athletes just
have big alien heads, and some athletes are just so
oddly dominant that you're like, I think you're part alien.
The Inkees like, for me, Michael Phelps comes to mind, Dude,
this guy I think is like part aquatic alien. Yeah,
Like you know you've talked about how are aliens from
otter space or do they come up from the ocean.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, there's a lot of new footage all things hovering,
you know, over the water.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Maybe he's one of those. And everything about Michael Phelps
makes me think that this guy, yeah, is an aquatic
alley his whole look too, He's got a look about him,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So I think in his dominance definitely alien like when.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
He tries to blend in with humans by like a
smoking weed and stuff like, oh, we're here to see Michael.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You know, they were probably there at the Olympics cheering
him on. So Michael Phelps definitely comes to mind. Stature, physique, dominance,
all those things. And one of my favorites, bro, because
I've been saying this since I was a little kid,
and I'll explain why Willy McGee was definitely like a
little alien.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I think you know something alien about the guy alien?
Or is he just not attractive? Dude?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I remember getting that nineteen eighty six tops card the
King to myself, like that, daddy, t oh, it's Willie McGee.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's one of my favorites. Great great player.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I love how he played, and I say that respectfully.
But my dude, you know he might have been an alien.
I say that, like I said respectfully. It just means
that he had extra skill level?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Is that Sam Cassell or Mack and me, Oh good one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You know, hey, he had a reputation. Everybody to watch
basketball knows that. Hey man, he's so dominant in different
The crazy part.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Is it's really just guys are big bald heads, but
you's something about you know. I don't know how to.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Explain this, but again, the theory is that we might
be amongst the aliens already.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So if that's true, If that's true, oh who are they?
It might be Sam Cassell? I mean what if you
believe like in like Nephlins and John Neflin's right giants. Yeah,
there's that young kid that's like gonna be playing college ball.
That's like eight foot and then that long neck and
that weird like lurchy body. His body language and how
(14:48):
he moves it's just alien. Like what's his name? There's
he'll be looked that up. There's there's pictures of Wemby.
Oh my god, we saw him in person blocking shots
where it's like he looks like like he's a different
species of like I think, dominant.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I think this is why we're getting so much you know,
footage and so many new sightings because they're here to
see their guy, his dominance, his.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Physique, the way he plays. He's got alien elbows. This
guy makes us like, well, he makes us look like
little bit we're not. How are we the same species?
That's the point when someone is that athletic, that big,
that dominant, and you're like he really so yeah, Wemby
on that definitely you know alien. Anyone else could be alien.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna burn your boy because I'm still a
little bitter that he chose the Mets, But now I'm
kind of glad that he did. Remember when he came
out looking at his shape. I'm talking Wan Soto, by
the way, Wan Soto definitely a little et thing going on.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That's a photoshop of this belly. I'm talking pregnant Wan Soto.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And by the way, his name is very Han Solo,
Juan Soto, very you know, from another planet kind of name.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Hans Solo one so and Bacca. You think he's got
an et physics.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yes, look at it, that's e t in a Mets
jersey right here.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I could be all right, so Fat Sodo, Fat Soto,
Han Solo, same guy. This leads us to something we
do on over promise every week. By the way, hold
on before you move on. You have any other metro
want to make fun of?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well sucks as the kiddo say, I y K, y
k if you know you know Jason Dominguez the Martian
and Bernard Hopkins the Alien bro and shout out to
the aliens. Maybe they're listening. We want to be on
on your side.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Guys. Yeah, they're gonna kill everyone except Comenia your friends.
Do you still think the A's should you think you
they still think that the A should go with some
type of alien vibe when they moved to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I do, I do because they can't keep the athletics
name as now as of now, but they keep the
A and be the Las Vegas A's for aliens. I
think that would be cool as hell, But think about
who else do you want to add to the list
based on skill and overall appearance or you know you
can see the alien's root and form for whatever reason,
(17:09):
who might be in those the class of finance?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Moving forward? Let us know at Covino and Rich at
Fox Sports Radio. All right, something we do every week
on over Promised might be as who might be as
this week?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And well, you know what, a lot of people may
say the Lakers based on getting swept, and people love
to hate on them, but I think they went further
than and we thought all injured like that right.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Further than we thought, but they thought. You know what,
sometimes the team goes as far as you think they'll go.
So I look at it like, did it surprise me?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The Lakers were a team that we're not going to
make it to the Western Conference finals, but they were
going to put up a fight. So it's not them,
it's not you, it's me who might be I want
to talk about baseball for a second. We touched on
some of these names yesterday, but we're fourth of the
way there. There's no more it's early, like it's early,
(18:02):
it's getting late early. As Yogi Berra said, we're fourth
of the way into the season. Like the Mets even
their GM was like, yeah, it's not early anymore. They
need to fucking turn it around. Some of these players
need to turn it around. Fernando Tattis Junior, who I'm
a big fan of. I think he's a great ballplayer.
Zero home runs, He can't find the power stroke. What
is that about? Like the other teammates are using his
(18:24):
bat and hitting home runs before him.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, based on our social media, a lot of
people don't saying, hey guys, yeah, I remember pitching's next
level this year, and that is true. But next level
where superstars like Tattis can't get a home run, I
don't know about that. There's a lot of other players
hitting home runs. Some of these players are just.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Off for whatever. Heason. I think that it's wild when
some of the star players are off, because star players
always somehow find their way right and maybe they will,
but man, this is uncattackt dot EASTI. When you see
a star player that hasn't found their way yet, I
think of Corey Seeger, the Rangers, like, you know, went
went to Texas on a big deal. He's an All
Star every year for the most part. Corey Segers is
(19:04):
betting one eighty four. Yeah, he's a complete player, so four.
It's like, wow, dude, I don't know how the Padres
are even hanging in there when Machado also one anything Interstate.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
If we were kids and this was the eighties, you'd
look at that baseball card and you'd toss it. You'd
mean the minor leagues. It's nuts that we accept these things.
But you know, hopefully they'll turn it around. How on
planet Earth? Yeah, are the Padres? The Padres currently right
there at the top of the NL West, like a
(19:38):
half a game above or below, depending on the day.
With the Dodgers, when Tatis Junior has zero home runs
and Manny Machado's batting one ninety three, they have decent
pitching and Bogarts is playing well, my goodness, if the
Padres turn it on, I mean, come on, yea Shado,
So Machado, what the hell do you have the post
(19:58):
World Baseball Classic blues? I don't know, ninety three, one
ninety three, that's my weight on a bad weekend, you
gotta do better than that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's my weight on a good week. So you know,
who might be asked Let me throw another stud out there,
Logan Webb, pitcher who every year is in the Cy
Young conversation year after year. Logan web I mean, there's
still plenty of time to turn around. But he's two
and four with a five RA. I know. Uh, Crochet
on the Red Sox has not had a great start.
So there's certain guys that are just schoolball guy hurt,
(20:28):
school bull hurt.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, you know, exactly not what he expected, but he's hurt.
Are you giving show hay in fat Soto a pass
here because either of these guys are having the season
that they should be.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, I think I'm giving some day You say fat
Soto the alien, he was a little injured and he's
just fine. I think show Hey because his era is
under one, Like can you judge one side of his game?
Like offensively stinks, but he's gonna be the cy Young
Award winner. Is he gonna trade an MVP for a
Cy Young?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You have to assume they're all going to turn it
around because they're great players, and that's really it. Who
might be asked a whole slew of great players, a
whole slew of all stars seemed to be asked, not
in general, just this season, so it's an ass sort
of season so far.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
We'll see what happens. Hey, any thoughts, any feedback you
want to throw in at Covin and Rich. Thank you
guys for hanging on over Promised who might be asked
for you? We'll see you guys next time. Until then,
Arima Dercci baby, do you in the over Promised Land?
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