February 4, 2025 • 41 mins
Covino & Rich are live for Day 2 on Media Row in New Orleans ahead of the Super Bowl! MLB Legend Curt Schilling joins the guys to tell wild stories from his playing days. Plus, the guys look ahead to Sunday's Big Game!
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a lot of fun with the show, honestly so far,
a great time in New Orleans, bumping into a lot
of old colleagues and friends, and yeah when you say old,
you mean like they're like one hundred and five years old.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Now, heyho are you youngsters?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Everybody got so old except for us. I'm not sure
how you know not to date ourselves.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But we've been doing this for a minute, and it's
interesting because wherever you work.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know, you don't see those people much anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
But the Super Bowl is one of those times where
serious x M, ESPN, NBC, Fox Sports, like everyone's in
the same place, so it's almost.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Like a reunion. It's a reunion.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And again, a lot of people in the media world
and sports world that you haven't seen in about a year.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So you're like, hey, looking good. Some people, Hey, not
so good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You don't say that, but you don't say that, you
think it and you talk about them behind their back.
That's how it goes, of course, especially when you hang
with Rich, the biggest hop knobber in the land.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now we have lots to get to today a pack show.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We're joined by golfer turned influencer Paige Sporanic. She's quite
the looker. If you don't know, and most people do.
She has over eleven million followers across all social media
plain arms. So Paige Sporanic will be here Kurt Shilling
as a Yankees fan. Yeah, but you know what, I'm
(02:22):
such a baseball fan that I put all that aside
and I'm just intrigued to talk to the guy. A
true champion, a true legend in the game, one of
the greatest pictures of our time.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Kurt Shilling will be here.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
A polarizing guy though, a polarizing guy, so let's chop
it up with you exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So we'll be hanging out with him.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And of course you never know who's gonna stop by
a radio road. It's always a pleasure to be here.
We had a fun time yesterday. Super Bowl Week is
all about the events and all about the boozing and
schmoozing with your bosses and your friends.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And again, like you said, it's a reunion.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And last night was something called Opening Night, and they
do that every year. That's basically like a big media
night at the stadium, Caesar's super Dome. We went there,
we represented and we took some social observations, we took
some notes for you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
First off, stadium large, it really was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was massive. You walk in there. I can't tell
you the amount excitement you feel, you know, when you
walk in and you're like remember in the Bad News
Bears when the little kids were at the Astrodome.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And they're like, We're like, oh my god, we're in
the Astrodome.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Honestly, I still feel that way as an adult, because
if you told any of us as kids you'd be
on the field someday, Hey, you're not playing, but you're still.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Gonna get a chance to be on the field and
take it all in. I would have been like, no way.
And it's just such a thrill.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Guys, I gotta tell you, I'm living that thrill on
your behalf, and I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
A lot of fun to be on the field. If
you want to see.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Some fun videos of us on the field last night
at covin on Rich, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, where we posted
a bunch of stuff. Now, I don't think it's possible
that this dome is way bigger, but truthfully, we've been
to a lot of stadiums, arenas and domes, and for
some reason, you look up at that ceiling of the
Super Dome, it felt way bigger than Danny. Last year
(04:13):
we were in Vegas for Your Raiders Niners Chiefs, and
it didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It felt a little cozier.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Because some of the new arenas and new stadiums in sports,
they're going the intimate route right where they're you know,
they're shrinking it down a little bit, and this felt
like kind of old school. A bigger stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The super Dome was bigger than Rich's Dome, and that's
saying a lot since he has the biggest dome in
the last you know. So we're on the field, why
because again, it's a media night basically little mini press
conferences for all the players in the game. So each
little player has a little booth and everyone's going up
to them like their scoops callahan with their little microphone,
like hey, Jalen Hurts, tell me are you ready for
(04:52):
the game on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And you're just seeing all the question answer stuff. I'm
sure you've seen the highlights.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
On social media or on already, but that's where we
were representing, just taking it all in.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I just like to observe those moments.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I don't want to be like Trump's Kelsey, Trump's Kelsey, but.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But people do.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And I think two of the takeaways did you see
this clown? And I gotta give them props for the courage.
I'm just not that rude. You see the guy that
went up to Patrick Mahomes and he's like, Patrick, who's
your favorite ref?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Which refs do you say? To Christmas cards? Too?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And I was like he tortured Travis Kelcey as well.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean that guy was a bit rough.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And I did see someone approach Mahomes with a pillow
to potograph.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Did you see that? And I was like, ah, yeah, right,
I'll sign it area.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And then they're like turn it around, and he turned
the pillow around. It was him with his dad Bod
and Patrick Mahomes is like, it was actually a funny comedy.
He's like, I just want to know what side of
the pillow you sleep on, you know, So it was
kind of funny. But yeah, there's a lot of funny
antics out there, a lot of funny questions, James.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, but all the superstars were out there.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All the superstars were out there last night, and it
is cool to see them and to see their excitement too.
You know, sometimes we forget that they're young men out there,
so they're just riding on nerves and energy and excitement,
just like anyone would be. They're young men, just excited
about playing in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And think about it, there are a lot of NFL
players that their season ended like months ago, like it
was a long long time ago. Then the teams that
are eliminated the last couple of weeks. But you know
what it's like, Cave, You know, when we were watching
the baseball playoffs, you get into like the end of
October and.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You realize some other guys had been off for like months.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What was the last time you felt like you were
caring about your Raiders, Danny, like a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now there's teams that aret.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
For Pete Carroll and the coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, so it's crazy to think that these guys are
still preparing for the biggest game of their lives in
a few days. And you do look at their faces, like, yo,
what are they thinking that they got some nerves right now?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The veterans like is this just old hat? For Patrick Mahomes?
And I can't state this enough.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean you see it after the game, the press
conferences and everything, but I really think it's an understated, underrated,
overwhelming part of their life. They have a game to
focus on, they have to practice, they have to mentally prepare.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But part of that is dealing with so much press.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Honestly, I think that we do take that for granted,
and I think we undermine how much of their job
has to do with dealing with question and answer and
that sort of thing that must be so mentally draining. Honestly,
I would be like I would tell my superstars, like,
if you want to dip out, just dip out.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But I know that's part of the game. They can't.
I know the game, but it's a training draining part
of the game. If you are.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The likes of Mahomes, Jalen Hurts Travis Kelcey, especially if
you're an a lister like that, not just sports like
you're just a popular figure. Your Travis Kelsey has to
go into that mentally prepared, like I don't want to
say anything stupid. I can't say something inappropriate about their
Taylor Swift, or if I seem too confident, then they'll
(08:10):
be like, oh, Kelsey's not focused on the super Bowl,
Like he's probably in the toughest spot of anyone right straining.
It really is, but again, so exciting, and oh we
didn't learn We did learn the Travis Kelsey loves that
Taylor Swift makes homemade pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
He said, she can take her ass off.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, and I imagine that's going to be the next
viral craze, how to make your own pop tarts because
Taylor Shift Swift does it.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Speaking to her. How about your boy Dallas Goddard saying
that his favorite Taylor Swift song was Waterfalls? But did
you say that? Yeah, They're like, you mean TLC. Yeah.
I kind of think he was doing it on purpose,
but on NFL network they were roasting his music knowledge
water Falls.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Either that or it's really good sneak dis Yeah, exactly,
Like I don't really know, I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It beats me. But here's one other thing that we
took away from this event. Again, huge event. Everybody was
there for us. We're just walking around taking it all in,
feeling the excitement.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Except for Spot You're bearing the lead.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well that's exactly what I'm getting at. So we roll
up and security here is next level for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right, we got all these IDs.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
And letters and badges, exactly, we.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Got all the cages and codes.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So we pull up to the stadium for opening night
and it checks and scans our IDs and our picture
pops up, like, yep, that's your mister Cavino, come on in.
We get in and our buddy Spot didn't have access
for whatever reason, he didn't have the proper letter on
his ID that allowed him access to Opening Night, and
it was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's not that Spot's not cool enough or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You know, we all thought we were getting in for
whatever reason he didn't have that letter.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I'm gonna go with that. I don't think he's calling on.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, i'd like to say that and think that too,
But because it was work related, we were like, we
gotta go in there just so we could paint the
picture and have something to talk about. We don't know
what we might miss if we don't go. So we're like, hey, Spot,
I'm only going in there for an hour or two.
We'll meet up with you later for dinner. Sorry about that,
(10:14):
And he was very cool, like, of course, let down,
but like, guys, go in, have a good time.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The reminder here, though, is oh the.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Charter bus back. I heard he tore up the seats.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh, it was freaking You'm probably mad about it. He's
probably breaking things like Paul O'Neil. So the moral of
the story is, how many times in your real life, though,
do you pull up at a club or a restaurant
or just an event where they don't allow you in
because you don't have sneakers on, or you're not wearing
the jacket, or they don't like your face, or somebody
(10:44):
in your party forgot their ID.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I think it should be industry standard.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Or you're overweight like me and Luca.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh you're sorry, not allowed.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Sorry, yeah, they're not allowed in, whatever the reason may be.
I think it should be automatic, should be hydromatic that
the whole party says, well, then if you don't want
him in, then we're all not coming.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I have an exception.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay, let's hear it, because there's so many times I've
heard of people still going in that place and that
one person is left not able to get outside.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
If you're rolling with a crew, your boys, or maybe
even a couple couples, you know, if you're going somewhere,
it's all or nothing. We're all going or no one
with two exceptions. And I've had this firm rule my
whole life.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So pay attention, let's hear it. I'm right at them.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And listen closely. If it's an ass pursuit, no rules apply.
If we go to a club and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You're a single guy, there's a hotty inside, I gotta
go inside.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh, A true friend would understand.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Like if we were all in our twenties and let's
say Danny G's like, yeah, there's a girl a muting
at this club, and let's say Cavino couldn't get in. Dan,
you go meet that girl. I think I think there's
an exception you could bail if it's because of love.
And if one of your friends is a moron forgot
my ID, that's sort of on him.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I think you said I we're going to say the
next one would be a work related thing, Like, because
that was a work related event, we kind of had
to go and.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
At least show face and see what it was all about.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, we didn't even stay for the Chiefs. They were
coming out onto the field right when we were leaving.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We stayed there for about an hour and a half.
We did two laps around the stadium. Honestly, that was enough.
It was a great time, lots of excitement, and again
we wanted to meet up with our buddy Spot, who
was out at dinner anyway.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Rich house a piece of chicken in like five seconds.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Right, Yeah, we got some free food and drinks because
they were offering, but the reminders are food for the homeless.
By the way, there's two reasons as to why you
could ever diss anyone in your party. Potential love interest
and I think work related. If someone forgot their idea
that happens, there's other places down the block that I'm
(12:56):
sure would let that person in.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
If your buddy looks like he's fifty something.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, what I'm saying, rewind, someone's gonna be a stickler
because he doesn't have his ID.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You're a grown man now, so you don't care. But
rewind and put yourself in twenty five year old Cavino mindset.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Okay, I mean it's not that hard. I'm a grown man, boy,
that is true. You act like you're twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Go ahead, picture yourself, go into a you know, a bar, restaurant,
club back in your day, and one of your idiotic
friends like.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh for growing more wallet.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You're gonna turn around because he's an ass clarn here.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I think that's an exception.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I think it's Here's why I'm adamant about it, and
that's why rot.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And I'm not a guy that ditches my friends. I
just think that when it's so on.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Them like I have.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I have a younger brother right, and my daughter's and
her teens, she'll be at that ingrange before you know it,
where she's out and about with her friends. It rubs
me such the wrong way when someone isn't allowed into
the club for whatever reason and their friends distant there. Friends,
if you're a real friend, you don't leave your other
(13:56):
friend behind because they forgot ID because they.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Wore the wrong sh shoes. You say, screw that place then,
and you take your business somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I'm a firm believer on that, minus the two exceptions
that we gave you. And the moral of the story
is Spot wasn't allowed in, so we went in quickly
and came back out. But it was a great time,
lots of great energy. And my other observation, did you.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Feel guilty at all?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Really quick for a minute, you know when it first happened.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
But I felt more guilty than they did. They got in,
there were running around like Disneyland, and I was still
at the entrance, like no, I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
For I feel bad when your buddy you got denied
like that, right, and I think you should.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
But my other two observations were this.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The growth of beautiful women female sportscasters. Yep, we've noticed
that the past ten plus years. Yeah, that's still a thing.
Knowledgeable yet beautiful women in sports. That's such a thing,
no doubt. And it seemed to be again it's early
in the week. More Eagles fans, then Chiefs fans at
(15:02):
the stadium last night, and I think that's just again
first event.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's only there's a reasonable explanation from a you know,
explanation for that. I know some Chiefs fans that use
their like pass, meaning you know, if my team ever
makes it to the Super Bowl, I don't care what
the price is.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Those people went a couple of years ago. Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I think, like, if you were to like right now,
one of the storylines is that ticket prices are tumbling.
Like last year, the average ticket price was like almost
ten grand. Now it's like five grand, which is still exorbitant.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
But wouldn't you say more of the reason would be
Chiefs being like, yeah, I've gone.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
In the past three years, I might not be able
to go to this one let'sten. I have a buddy
who's a Patriots for two years.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, he's like, I went to the first couple and
then I was like, I'll watch the others on TV.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
If you're that lucky of a fan, I get it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
But if you told me that this super Bowl was
Bill's Lions, ticket price would be ten dollars. So it's
really just a matter of you're you're talking about two
franchises that have both won Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
In the last decade. I got another. If both teams
have won a super Bowl in the last decade, I
think we're good.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And when you look at another option again, lots of
Eagles fans there, lots of fun fans were allowed at
the stadium. Media was allowed on the field to interview
the players. You look around, you see a lot of
little kids in the stands right cheering on their favorite players, just.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Happy to be there.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
When you see all these big NFL events, isn't it
shocking to you that no one ever took you as
a kid. I mean, where these things not available or
not even have Like friend, like a friend's parent was like, hey,
why didn't you ask Steve to.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Her parents didn't take us anywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
But to deal with that, I'm like, look at only's
spoiled those picking kid that'd probably tell you was close, seriously,
but there was never a Super Bowl in Jersey where
you grew up.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Still, dude, I think all these kids are from the
local area. Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
But I do think that at all these NFL events,
I often wonder about that.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So anyway, well, hey, that was last night.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
A fun opening night, and we're only gonna have more stories,
more guests. In fact, we're gonna talk about of NFL today.
Reminisce a little bit. But coming up next a baseball legend,
a guy I can't wait to talk to you because
this guy is always controversial.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
She he's gigantic in personal He's a big dude.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, this guy should be in the Hall of Fame
talking about mister. Kurt Schilling joins us next right here
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Speaker 7 (18:23):
Good Read Guys pro pressure with you next to.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Read thank you, Thank you. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I want to boo this guy as a Yankees fan,
but he's such a baseball legend that I can't. Let's
welcome three to have no no, oh, I have, but
not here.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, not in real life.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
And that doesn't bother me because you never beat me
when at Matt.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I know you're such a big fellow. I would never
even go there. Let's welcome.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Three time World Series champion Kurt by.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The way, a guy that has been part of so
many big moments.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Yeah. Well, and that's what I say when I people
talk about my career. I've been blessed. I I you know,
the tinety three World Series suck. Joe Carter walked us off,
but everybody remembers it.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Oh one, nine to eleven Yankees die, unbelievable. Oh four?
You know, so, I was in three of the most
memorable postseason moments in the top ten.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Couldn't you let New York have the one one? Oh?
Come on, dude?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
And it was funny because it happened As an Arizona fan,
it happened perfectly. We beat we win the first two,
We go to New York in three games that energized
that city at a time when everybody was looking for it.
And then we come home and we beat the hell
out of Petit and then game seven we walked Marion off.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know what, man, You're right, every one of those
so memorable really is interesting. Now again, he played nine
seasons with the Phillies, So I got to ask you again,
Eagles are here. They're representing the fans around our Philadelphia
fans misunderstood or are they the best?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Like anybody knows what they are.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Really, they're not misunderstood. They are who they are.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Punch you in the face. They are their family. To me,
they were. I mean I spent nine years there and
probably wasn't booed as often as I should have been.
But my god, ninety three we had a parade in
Philadelphia losing the World Series, one of the most beloved
teams that ever played in Philadelphia. There was a connection there,
(20:14):
and like Yankee fans, Philly fans don't boo players that suck.
They don't care about you, they don't acknowledge you. It's
like the worst as an athlete, Like they don't even
know I'm here.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Nothing whelse. I think when a woman is like apathetic.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Apathy is the worst thing in a lot of ways,
and that's one of them. But they are smart as
hell when it's sober. And like Yankee fans, they you know,
people after I've retired and said, you know things to
me and they're like, oh, you know, I hope I
didn't offend you. I'm like, dude, nine years in Philly,
five in Boston and like I was the red Sox
(20:50):
in the Yankee Stadium, so I heard things you can't
even fathom.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
So in a way, they prepared you for all these
big moments, right because you were sort of umpty.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
I loved I loved playing in the Yankee Stadium. I
love you.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hated me exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
And I was telling somebody earlier I had my favorite,
you know, given like the Yankee fans wouldn't go, oh,
your mother's a whore. They would go, dude, you got
a seventy r a in May you suck right right
like they were. Statistically they hit, they hit. Damn Yeah,
they offended me right and and and but but and
you you know, go back to uh oh four I
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you know, I come out and saying I can't think
of anything better than making fifty five thousand people from
New York shut up. Well, now I go out in
game one, get my butt handed to me, and they
were anything but quiet. Uh And I deserved it. But
then I come back six days later and we worked
them over a little bit, and but they were Since
I retired, I have not had a larger group of
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people reach out to me and say I hated you
like a mofo when you played. But man, I respect
the hell out of you, and and it was a
fan base that whose respect was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Absolutely, that's exactly how I feel talking to you, man,
because you're so many, so so much a part of
all my baseball memories as a fan.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
They were the barrier though, right, I mean, oh, one
was magical, but it was also the Yankees. You know,
four the World Series was Red Sox Yankees. It wasn't
Red Sox Cardinals. Right. It was a sweep, right, you
swept that. I'll tell you the magical story behind us win.
He eight in a row when if you ask for it,
But we went out and we swept the Cardinals, who
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were an unbelievable team. No disrespect, but the win was
the red was the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
That Comeback documentary on Netflix? Did you watch it accurate?
Because I felt that was a really that was.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
A really yes in a sense like there's a lot
of guys misremembering how much they how important they were,
things that they said or did. But for the most
part it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Was spot on.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
When do you enjoy them looking back though at all
the highlights you enjoy watching those.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
It's it's hard to explain to people that have never
been in a locker room. That's family. During the baseball season,
you spend more time with your teammates than you do
your family. You become close with these people and so
that's why when we get together after twenty years, it's
like we were the same room yesterday. And of all
the teams I played twenty two years of professional basebally
thousands of teammates, so there's twenty four hours in a day.
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You kind of pick who you're going to still talk
to or whatever. Doug Mirabelly is someone I talked to daily, weekly, whatever.
It's not a lot, but but once you're in the room,
it's a hug and oh my god, it's great to
see you. And that's why when they you know, Dave
McCarty passed recently and uh, he called me from the
reunion on the field, uh and was like, dude, this
(23:34):
is you should be able. This is great. And then
you know, I go with his funeral and unfortunately this
phase of life, you guys will someday understand the phone
ringing is not always a good thing. Oh yeah, you know, yeah,
it's hard. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Looking back at a for Kurk chilling hang with, could
you know Rich, how happy were you that the sock
was bloody?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It just added to the littory.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
If you go back and look at everything around that
you're not and to find quotes from me. I didn't
talk about it. It was it was the media made
it a sensational thing, and that's fine. But I wasn't
there talking about my ankle and my bloody sock and
all the things that went with that. It's just the
irony behind. I played for the Red Sox and my
sock was red and the camera zoomed great, right, And
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that's why if the priority for Game two of the
World Series wasn't the sock, I wrote on my on
my shoe strikeout als because I had realized what an
unbelievable thing that was, like the attention that was drawn
to it the only thing, and we were talking about
this earlier. The only thing I remember about Game six
was two things. One was my foot was bleeding so
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bad that the sock on the bottom was wet, like
when you walk in water.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Right, that's the worst feeling, wrote but that's one way
to ruin your day. I threw it away.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I threw the sock away like I took it off
after that, I wouldn't thinking about oh my god, my
sock's bloody. I was like, dude, I historical sock, right,
but yeah, and I'm not thinking like that. So I
threw it on the ground and somebody earlier was asked
about the original one, and I said, if it's out
there and somebody has it, it's one of the clubhouse
guys from New York, because I just threw it on
the ground and I want it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well, now, when you look back at that oh four
season when you're down three out, I know the right
thing to say is like, we're.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Not out of it yet. But was there, like, yes,
was there? You really felt seminal moment. And I always
tell the story when I talk about Terry Francona. So
we had close circuit television in the clubhouse, and so
in Boston there was a media room upstairs, and whoever's
being interviewed we could see it downstairs. And I was
standing downstairs and the first question out of one of
the butt clowns in the media was, you know, what
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do you what are you going to do tomorrow? And
Tito's like, what do you mean? He goes, well, what
are you gonna do? And he goes, we're gonna show
up and play our asses off. What else did we do?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
And it clicked. I'm watching this thinking, well, that's it.
We don't have to beat them for in a row.
We don't have to beat them tomorrow. We have to
beat them in the top of the first inning. And
so we have a team meeting, and I said, this
is not about four games. This is about if you
make it out, make it an out that you win.
You got twelve pitch at bat, every bat as a
pitcher win And for eight days we didn't get beat.
(26:11):
And it was It's what happens when twenty five supremely
talented people are hyper focused. And the story I was
gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Early least tell us I want to here at eighty.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
So oh, in two thousand and one, we're with the Diamondbacks,
we're in the World Series. My wife makes purple scarves
for all the wives, either a little bonding thing. Last
forward to two thousand and four, my wife makes these
scarves for the wives. Fast forward to nineteen thousand to two,
Game three loss, we're down three to zero. Johnny Damon's
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girlfriend Michelle walks into the wives on her My wife
weren't friends. And she throws the scarf on my wife's
lap and she goes, nice f and job these scarves did,
to which my wife stands up and says, well, maybe
if you wore your husband wouldn't be oh for twenty fists.
They had to be broken up way, dude, I get it.
So we just lost by seventeen runs. I hop in
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a car and that's the story I hear from my wife.
I'm like, oh my god, Johnny and I walk into
the clubhouse the next day we see each other like.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Bust out laughing.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Oh like, oh, we didn't lose a game there, and
so like I was like, that's that's why.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's so cool. Dude.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Here with Kurt Schilling, Cavino, and Rich can I talk
about Dave Roberts too, because he's a major turn point
of the series. Did you view him back then as
a guide that could be a leader of a clubhouse.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Absolutely, as a man always going to follow his career,
you know, as a manager with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Let's back up to the stolen base goes without one
of the things that I had a one moment in
my career like this, But when you're going to do
something and your opponent knows it, and everybody in the
world knows it, and you still do it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
That that's that's not talking about enough, every human, everybody.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
And he went in the game for one reason and everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He thought that was the turning point of this until
we found out about the fight.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Well, well, right, exactly right, well I and I said,
I had so two thousand and two, I'm at the
All Star Game and the day before the All Star Game,
I'm starty, and I walked up to Alex Rodriguez, American
Leagu's taking VP, and I said, hey, listen, dude, if
you come up tomorrow with nobody on, I'm throwing you
nothing but fastballs. He's like, what, I'm like, I want
to see if I can get the best hitter in
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the world out. When he knows what's coming, he's like, okay,
I had a mic on and I was for Fox actually,
And he comes up nobody on. Yeah, first pitch ninety seven,
paint away black heat, and he took it, and I
think he was thinking, is he lying? Was he right?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Right?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now you're in his head right right?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Next pitch ninety eight, black inside corner, untouchable, next pitch,
ninety nine away, three pitches, sit down. I was like,
I was feeling pretty sexy y y, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Always throwing heat like that, even when you were a.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
Little kid, like I don't know, that's just something I
developed he got older. It came honestly after I got hurt.
I had solar surgery in ninety five, and I had
labor surgery, and I kind of got religion about my
arm after that. My doctor at the time kind of
showed me a cadaver an autopsy, showed me the inside
of his shoulder. I understood how everything worked. So I
(29:17):
became hyper focused on medicine in the sense that you
play one hundred and sixty two games a one hundred
and eighty one days, you're sore every day. You know,
I don't feel like I'm eighteen. You never feel like
you're eighteen the day after you're eighteen forever. But there's
aches and pains, excuse me. And there's a difference between
being storn being injured. Yeah, And so I always knew
when I was sore, why I was sore, where I
was sore, what I had to do, And so I
(29:37):
got religion and I came back the first start I
made coming off of my laborl surgery, everybody was like,
oh my god. I went seven innings, punched out ten,
gave up two hits, and I was throwing ninety six.
I was a ninety two to ninety three guy before,
and everybody was like, oh my god. And then it
just kind of took off everything click.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I was like, I'm coaching my kids and little leg Yeah,
at what age do you feel like you know that
someone's My dad told.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Me when I was thirteen, he said You're going to
get a chance to play something. And I'm like, okay, dude,
everybody's daddy, right whatever, you didn't believe. And he never
pushed me to play baseball, but he pushed me to
play the game hard and play the game right. And
you know, one of the things I would tell you
is until a kid, until a boy's hands stop growing,
you have no idea what they can do. Hands stop
growing at like nine, exactly right, little breaking ball at
(30:24):
nine was your breaking ball today? Yeah, And I tried
to explain that's one of the most important measurements on
the kid inside because of what I can do and
not do with the baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Gotta tell us this. We know when you're in the game,
you're in the zone. He told us that a rock story.
Just now, what are the days before, like, the night before, like,
especially in a World Series, so you know you got
to win.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
In two thousand and one. So I had a sports
psychologist and just and I'm not lying about this. The
night before I would always do a pregame pre night session,
and it would he would. It was not hypnotized, but
he would talk me through. The night before Game seven
of the two thousand the one World Series, I fell asleep
on the phone and woke up with the phone next
to me. I was so relaxed.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Wow, that is that a normal thing?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Because what was happening that day was no different than
what happened from the first day. I prepared every game
from the first day of spring training like it was
the Game seven of the World Series. So nothing on
the day I pitched was different except the game.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Do you credit that because you learned famously eleven and
two in the postseason or something like that, so you
just never really changed.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Well, I've stepped up my I became somebody else in October.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So then I got to ask you hear people say
things like this guy wants it more, this team is motivated.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Is that I always say that's not no, it is
because everyone wants it. Well, well everybody wants it. Some
people don't know how to get it. Like I always
looked at October, I knew I my first start in
the postseason, I struck out the first five guys I faced,
and no one had ever done that before. And I
was like, yeah, I'm feeling sick.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
It's sort of a damn Shane, the Hall of Fame nonsense,
Your your politics, your vibe.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Do people just hold it against you?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Yes, they've said it right they But the game owes
me nothing. The game owes me absolutely nothing. And one
of the reason I'm getting back into the game as
a coach, hopefully, I want to teach pitching and coach
or do color you know, I would love to do
like a Manning broadcast on a baseball game, because there's
some more downtime in baseball than anything, and I have
(32:26):
stories for years a personality. People don't want to hear
me talk about Otani's batting average. They know that, Hey,
what are they talking about on the mound right now?
And I'm like, ninety percent of conversations were about the
really hot blonde behind know Blake. They had nothing to
do with the game. It was the pitching trying to
make calm me down. And and so those are the
(32:47):
kind of things that I feel like I know pitching
as well as anybody's ever lived, and I can teach
it and I can talk it, and so, you know,
I kind of want to back into that. But the
whole you know, the political thing and the Hall of
Fame thing, my life's complete. I won't be more of
a person if I suddenly have a plaque in COOPERSOWND.
What that will do for me is call out all
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the people who got me there, and it's a chance
to recognize I was raised by an amazing man. My
father died eight months for I made my big league debut,
but I left the ticket every game I started in
the big leagues in his name, so there was always
an empty seat in the ballpark, and I ended up
getting the home seat from the vet that he's that
I allocated for him.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
After the vet, Oh you got the no way, that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
But so the game owes me nothing, and if it happens,
it's a way for me to make sure. But my
biggest if I had a problem with it, are the
people that have died since I retired who should be
here and it should have been here for me to
talk about what they meant to me Right now.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It's shouting at your teammate.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It's your family, family for the fans, and just as
baseball fans.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Man, you belong there.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Two hundred and sixteen wins, three thousand, one hundred and
sixteen strikeouts, six time All Star, three time champion, A
guy that did it all man, So thank you. Yeah,
we'll see you there, Kurt. We could talk to you
all day now. I feel like we could talk for
two hours. Yes, I'm a big baseball guy. Story and
you know what, I do it again?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Man again.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, by the way, real quick, I know you got
to tell us about what's doing here in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But I'm a big Mets fan. Peter a Lonzo sticking around?
You think I don't that that's gone weird weird?
Speaker 7 (34:18):
One gone weird on me, and apparently the Blue Jays
are out, but it's gone weird on me. I don't
see anybody.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You look up. What do you look like a chump?
Going back to the Mets.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
Now, first of all, no, right, I mean he's still
seventy millions. What He's not gonna look like a chump
going anywhere. His agent made a bet and was wrong. Yeah,
and that's what you uh. I didn't have an agent
for the last eleven years of my career. I did
all my own stuff. I had total no trade clauses
and all the things because I knew what my value was.
It's in the paper what everybody's making is right there.
(34:48):
I know, Hey, I'm better than him. I should make
more than it. I mean that was easy stuff. But
you have to have confidence to sit in the room
with people like that. And I I want him to
go back to New York. I mean, I don't know
that he's get him over the hump, but he's clearly
a fan favorite. He hits the ball with a lot
of force and having a forty home run guy. But
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they're not as rare as they used to be because
everybody's home running are striking out two hundred times, which
is the game has changed dramatically that way, and that's
not I don't think that's for the better, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Kurt, What are you doing here in New Orleans.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
So yeah, twenty five years ago the World War Two
Museum was found. I was on the original board of directors.
Nice all right, and a lot of people don't know
why it was built in New Orleans. You've seen Saving
Private Ryan of course, opening scene of Saving Private Ryan
when they're riding into the beach, they're riding on Higgins boats,
which were built in New Orleans, and that was a transcendental,
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amazingly important thing for the war effort. I was on
the board director. Half my collection resides in the museum,
and I would tell you that it is a true
bucket list thing to go over there. Met one hundred
year old vet yesterday. There's only sixty six thousand left
out of the sixteen and a half million, and they
are preserving the ural history of that generation, which has
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to happen. We have to be able to pass that
along to future generations because for all the warts this
country has had, and you know you can find anybody
willing to bring them up, the fact of the matter
is we are a direct result of good and bad
uh and this was the greatest generation and we need
to remember them, respect them, pay tribute to them, and
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keep that memory.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Live and see your collection too the National World War
Two Museum, Kurt Shilling.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Thanky fun Man, Thank you guys, no problem, we got more.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
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Speaker 3 (36:35):
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Speaker 1 (37:46):
Because charismatic guy.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, we could talk to that dude all day about
baseball in life.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
He was super cool.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Hope to have him back, And a quick reminder that
next hour, Page Sporanic, the former pro golfer turned star
social media influencer, will be on the show, so stick
around again. We're live from Radio Row, super Bowl fifty nine,
New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
And the crazy part is to think that, yeah, because
some may disagree with him politically or some of his stances,
he's honestly, who better to talk baseball with.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Honestly, that's trash because whether you like him as a guy,
he'd be the worst guy ever, right, just a terrible guy.
His numbers are ridiculous and his postseason dominance was ridiculous.
Three time World Series champion, and I think the biggest
takeaway is when you think about his postseason dominance and
the World Series he played in, they really were all
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super memorable and they gave me nightmares as a Yankees fan.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
But you know, he mentioned the Toronto.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Blue Jays Joe Carter walked off to like, man, he's
been part of such huge moments.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
So thanks again to Kurt Shilling.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
You know, when he walked off the stage, he told me,
I liked those guys.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I like Kurt Chilling. I liked him too.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Man, the first time I've ever heard a guest say that, though,
what a surprise not have to pull the curtain back
too much.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Well to the other day, Jim Lampley said he loves.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
All that obvious. You're right, this is the second you're.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Winning people over right, Yeah, slowly but surely. But yeah,
it was fun talking to him. And if you're new
to Covino and Rich, you know we're big baseball fans,
so we'll talk to that guy all day. Another reminder,
Rich tomorrow will be filling in for the Herd, in
for Colin Cowherd tomorrow. Still doing our regular show, so
more interviews, more fun. Never know who's gonna stop by
(39:30):
join us tomorrow as well. And if you're busy tomorrow,
because you have a life and everything, you can always
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tomorrow tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
There's one superstar quarterback who's going to show up on
the set tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Oh yeah, and his name is Al Bundy. I don't
even know who this is.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I do know tomorrow because I'm a big fan Fred Warner. Yeah,
I believe is on the agenda as a Niners fan
who cooler than Fred Warner.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
You're right, Richard, Niners. We're going to get here to
the super we'll stop it.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I was hoping we wouldn't have any Niners at the
race super Bowl Radio row, but hey, we'll be talking
to a bunch of stars tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I believe our Palpuk and Koua gonna stop by as well.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
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Speaker 1 (40:15):
Just follow us on social media. We're always posting fun clips.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Now, before Kurt Chilling stopped by, we were talking about
all that we've seen so far here in New Orleans.
The players, they're focused he got the Chiefs and the Eagles,
and what.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Are they thinking at this point?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Is always what we keep saying, right like, you're a
couple of days out from the biggest game of your life.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And I love that. Kurt Chilling did say there's no
such thing as they want it more.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
He also said that before the big game he'd be
on the phone with like a not a hypnotist, but
you know, something, to talk them through his mood.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
And yeah, yeah, pretty interesting. So that's coming up next.
Plus we are joined by Page Sporadics. Oh she'll be
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Speaker 1 (01:12):
Now, heyho are you youngsters?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Everybody got so old except for us. I'm not sure
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Speaker 3 (01:18):
But we've been doing this for a minute, and it's
interesting because wherever you work.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know, you don't see those people much anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
But the Super Bowl is one of those times where
serious x M, ESPN, NBC, Fox Sports, like everyone's in
the same place, so it's almost.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Like a reunion. It's a reunion.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And again, a lot of people in the media world
and sports world that you haven't seen in about a year.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So you're like, hey, looking good. Some people, Hey, not
so good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You don't say that, but you don't say that, you
think it and you talk about them behind their back.
That's how it goes, of course, especially when you hang
with Rich, the biggest hop knobber in the land.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now we have lots to get to today a pack show.
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the looker. If you don't know, and most people do.
She has over eleven million followers across all social media
plain arms. So Paige Sporanic will be here Kurt Shilling
as a Yankees fan. Yeah, but you know what, I'm
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such a baseball fan that I put all that aside
and I'm just intrigued to talk to the guy. A
true champion, a true legend in the game, one of
the greatest pictures of our time.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Kurt Shilling will be here.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
A polarizing guy though, a polarizing guy, so let's chop
it up with you exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So we'll be hanging out with him.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And of course you never know who's gonna stop by
a radio road. It's always a pleasure to be here.
We had a fun time yesterday. Super Bowl Week is
all about the events and all about the boozing and
schmoozing with your bosses and your friends.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And again, like you said, it's a reunion.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And last night was something called Opening Night, and they
do that every year. That's basically like a big media
night at the stadium, Caesar's super Dome. We went there,
we represented and we took some social observations, we took
some notes for you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
First off, stadium large, it really was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was massive. You walk in there. I can't tell
you the amount excitement you feel, you know, when you
walk in and you're like remember in the Bad News
Bears when the little kids were at the Astrodome.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And they're like, We're like, oh my god, we're in
the Astrodome.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Honestly, I still feel that way as an adult, because
if you told any of us as kids you'd be
on the field someday, Hey, you're not playing, but you're still.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Gonna get a chance to be on the field and
take it all in. I would have been like, no way.
And it's just such a thrill.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Guys, I gotta tell you, I'm living that thrill on
your behalf, and I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
A lot of fun to be on the field. If
you want to see.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Some fun videos of us on the field last night
at covin on Rich, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, where we posted
a bunch of stuff. Now, I don't think it's possible
that this dome is way bigger, but truthfully, we've been
to a lot of stadiums, arenas and domes, and for
some reason, you look up at that ceiling of the
Super Dome, it felt way bigger than Danny. Last year
(04:13):
we were in Vegas for Your Raiders Niners Chiefs, and
it didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It felt a little cozier.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Because some of the new arenas and new stadiums in sports,
they're going the intimate route right where they're you know,
they're shrinking it down a little bit, and this felt
like kind of old school. A bigger stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The super Dome was bigger than Rich's Dome, and that's
saying a lot since he has the biggest dome in
the last you know. So we're on the field, why
because again, it's a media night basically little mini press
conferences for all the players in the game. So each
little player has a little booth and everyone's going up
to them like their scoops callahan with their little microphone,
like hey, Jalen Hurts, tell me are you ready for
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the game on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And you're just seeing all the question answer stuff. I'm
sure you've seen the highlights.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
On social media or on already, but that's where we
were representing, just taking it all in.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I just like to observe those moments.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I don't want to be like Trump's Kelsey, Trump's Kelsey, but.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But people do.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And I think two of the takeaways did you see
this clown? And I gotta give them props for the courage.
I'm just not that rude. You see the guy that
went up to Patrick Mahomes and he's like, Patrick, who's
your favorite ref?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Which refs do you say? To Christmas cards? Too?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And I was like he tortured Travis Kelcey as well.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean that guy was a bit rough.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And I did see someone approach Mahomes with a pillow
to potograph.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Did you see that? And I was like, ah, yeah, right,
I'll sign it area.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And then they're like turn it around, and he turned
the pillow around. It was him with his dad Bod
and Patrick Mahomes is like, it was actually a funny comedy.
He's like, I just want to know what side of
the pillow you sleep on, you know, So it was
kind of funny. But yeah, there's a lot of funny
antics out there, a lot of funny questions, James.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, but all the superstars were out there.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All the superstars were out there last night, and it
is cool to see them and to see their excitement too.
You know, sometimes we forget that they're young men out there,
so they're just riding on nerves and energy and excitement,
just like anyone would be. They're young men, just excited
about playing in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And think about it, there are a lot of NFL
players that their season ended like months ago, like it
was a long long time ago. Then the teams that
are eliminated the last couple of weeks. But you know
what it's like, Cave, You know, when we were watching
the baseball playoffs, you get into like the end of
October and.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You realize some other guys had been off for like months.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What was the last time you felt like you were
caring about your Raiders, Danny, like a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Now there's teams that aret.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
For Pete Carroll and the coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, so it's crazy to think that these guys are
still preparing for the biggest game of their lives in
a few days. And you do look at their faces, like, yo,
what are they thinking that they got some nerves right now?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The veterans like is this just old hat? For Patrick Mahomes?
And I can't state this enough.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean you see it after the game, the press
conferences and everything, but I really think it's an understated, underrated,
overwhelming part of their life. They have a game to
focus on, they have to practice, they have to mentally prepare.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But part of that is dealing with so much press.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Honestly, I think that we do take that for granted,
and I think we undermine how much of their job
has to do with dealing with question and answer and
that sort of thing that must be so mentally draining. Honestly,
I would be like I would tell my superstars, like,
if you want to dip out, just dip out.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But I know that's part of the game. They can't.
I know the game, but it's a training draining part
of the game. If you are.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The likes of Mahomes, Jalen Hurts Travis Kelcey, especially if
you're an a lister like that, not just sports like
you're just a popular figure. Your Travis Kelsey has to
go into that mentally prepared, like I don't want to
say anything stupid. I can't say something inappropriate about their
Taylor Swift, or if I seem too confident, then they'll
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be like, oh, Kelsey's not focused on the super Bowl,
Like he's probably in the toughest spot of anyone right straining.
It really is, but again, so exciting, and oh we
didn't learn We did learn the Travis Kelsey loves that
Taylor Swift makes homemade pop tarts.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
He said, she can take her ass off.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, and I imagine that's going to be the next
viral craze, how to make your own pop tarts because
Taylor Shift Swift does it.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Speaking to her. How about your boy Dallas Goddard saying
that his favorite Taylor Swift song was Waterfalls? But did
you say that? Yeah, They're like, you mean TLC. Yeah.
I kind of think he was doing it on purpose,
but on NFL network they were roasting his music knowledge
water Falls.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Either that or it's really good sneak dis Yeah, exactly,
Like I don't really know, I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It beats me. But here's one other thing that we
took away from this event. Again, huge event. Everybody was
there for us. We're just walking around taking it all in,
feeling the excitement.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Except for Spot You're bearing the lead.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well that's exactly what I'm getting at. So we roll
up and security here is next level for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right, we got all these IDs.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
And letters and badges, exactly, we.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Got all the cages and codes.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So we pull up to the stadium for opening night
and it checks and scans our IDs and our picture
pops up, like, yep, that's your mister Cavino, come on in.
We get in and our buddy Spot didn't have access
for whatever reason, he didn't have the proper letter on
his ID that allowed him access to Opening Night, and
it was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's not that Spot's not cool enough or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You know, we all thought we were getting in for
whatever reason he didn't have that letter.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I'm gonna go with that. I don't think he's calling on.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, i'd like to say that and think that too,
But because it was work related, we were like, we
gotta go in there just so we could paint the
picture and have something to talk about. We don't know
what we might miss if we don't go. So we're like, hey, Spot,
I'm only going in there for an hour or two.
We'll meet up with you later for dinner. Sorry about that,
(10:14):
And he was very cool, like, of course, let down,
but like, guys, go in, have a good time.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The reminder here, though, is oh the.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Charter bus back. I heard he tore up the seats.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh, it was freaking You'm probably mad about it. He's
probably breaking things like Paul O'Neil. So the moral of
the story is, how many times in your real life, though,
do you pull up at a club or a restaurant
or just an event where they don't allow you in
because you don't have sneakers on, or you're not wearing
the jacket, or they don't like your face, or somebody
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in your party forgot their ID.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I think it should be industry standard.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Or you're overweight like me and Luca.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh you're sorry, not allowed.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Sorry, yeah, they're not allowed in, whatever the reason may be.
I think it should be automatic, should be hydromatic that
the whole party says, well, then if you don't want
him in, then we're all not coming.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I have an exception.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay, let's hear it, because there's so many times I've
heard of people still going in that place and that
one person is left not able to get outside.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
If you're rolling with a crew, your boys, or maybe
even a couple couples, you know, if you're going somewhere,
it's all or nothing. We're all going or no one
with two exceptions. And I've had this firm rule my
whole life.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So pay attention, let's hear it. I'm right at them.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And listen closely. If it's an ass pursuit, no rules apply.
If we go to a club and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You're a single guy, there's a hotty inside, I gotta
go inside.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh, A true friend would understand.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Like if we were all in our twenties and let's
say Danny G's like, yeah, there's a girl a muting
at this club, and let's say Cavino couldn't get in. Dan,
you go meet that girl. I think I think there's
an exception you could bail if it's because of love.
And if one of your friends is a moron forgot
my ID, that's sort of on him.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I think you said I we're going to say the
next one would be a work related thing, Like, because
that was a work related event, we kind of had
to go and.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
At least show face and see what it was all about.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, we didn't even stay for the Chiefs. They were
coming out onto the field right when we were leaving.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We stayed there for about an hour and a half.
We did two laps around the stadium. Honestly, that was enough.
It was a great time, lots of excitement, and again
we wanted to meet up with our buddy Spot, who
was out at dinner anyway.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Rich house a piece of chicken in like five seconds.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Right, Yeah, we got some free food and drinks because
they were offering, but the reminders are food for the homeless.
By the way, there's two reasons as to why you
could ever diss anyone in your party. Potential love interest
and I think work related. If someone forgot their idea
that happens, there's other places down the block that I'm
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sure would let that person in.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
If your buddy looks like he's fifty something.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, what I'm saying, rewind, someone's gonna be a stickler
because he doesn't have his ID.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You're a grown man now, so you don't care. But
rewind and put yourself in twenty five year old Cavino mindset.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Okay, I mean it's not that hard. I'm a grown man, boy,
that is true. You act like you're twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Go ahead, picture yourself, go into a you know, a bar, restaurant,
club back in your day, and one of your idiotic
friends like.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh for growing more wallet.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You're gonna turn around because he's an ass clarn here.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I think that's an exception.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I think it's Here's why I'm adamant about it, and
that's why rot.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And I'm not a guy that ditches my friends. I
just think that when it's so on.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Them like I have.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I have a younger brother right, and my daughter's and
her teens, she'll be at that ingrange before you know it,
where she's out and about with her friends. It rubs
me such the wrong way when someone isn't allowed into
the club for whatever reason and their friends distant there. Friends,
if you're a real friend, you don't leave your other
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friend behind because they forgot ID because they.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Wore the wrong sh shoes. You say, screw that place then,
and you take your business somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I'm a firm believer on that, minus the two exceptions
that we gave you. And the moral of the story
is Spot wasn't allowed in, so we went in quickly
and came back out. But it was a great time,
lots of great energy. And my other observation, did you.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Feel guilty at all?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Really quick for a minute, you know when it first happened.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
But I felt more guilty than they did. They got in,
there were running around like Disneyland, and I was still
at the entrance, like no, I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
For I feel bad when your buddy you got denied
like that, right, and I think you should.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
But my other two observations were this.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The growth of beautiful women female sportscasters. Yep, we've noticed
that the past ten plus years. Yeah, that's still a thing.
Knowledgeable yet beautiful women in sports. That's such a thing,
no doubt. And it seemed to be again it's early
in the week. More Eagles fans, then Chiefs fans at
(15:02):
the stadium last night, and I think that's just again
first event.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's only there's a reasonable explanation from a you know,
explanation for that. I know some Chiefs fans that use
their like pass, meaning you know, if my team ever
makes it to the Super Bowl, I don't care what
the price is.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Those people went a couple of years ago. Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I think, like, if you were to like right now,
one of the storylines is that ticket prices are tumbling.
Like last year, the average ticket price was like almost
ten grand. Now it's like five grand, which is still exorbitant.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
But wouldn't you say more of the reason would be
Chiefs being like, yeah, I've gone.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
In the past three years, I might not be able
to go to this one let'sten. I have a buddy
who's a Patriots for two years.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, he's like, I went to the first couple and
then I was like, I'll watch the others on TV.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
If you're that lucky of a fan, I get it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
But if you told me that this super Bowl was
Bill's Lions, ticket price would be ten dollars. So it's
really just a matter of you're you're talking about two
franchises that have both won Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
In the last decade. I got another. If both teams
have won a super Bowl in the last decade, I
think we're good.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And when you look at another option again, lots of
Eagles fans there, lots of fun fans were allowed at
the stadium. Media was allowed on the field to interview
the players. You look around, you see a lot of
little kids in the stands right cheering on their favorite players, just.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Happy to be there.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
When you see all these big NFL events, isn't it
shocking to you that no one ever took you as
a kid. I mean, where these things not available or
not even have Like friend, like a friend's parent was like, hey,
why didn't you ask Steve to.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Her parents didn't take us anywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
But to deal with that, I'm like, look at only's
spoiled those picking kid that'd probably tell you was close, seriously,
but there was never a Super Bowl in Jersey where
you grew up.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Still, dude, I think all these kids are from the
local area. Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
But I do think that at all these NFL events,
I often wonder about that.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So anyway, well, hey, that was last night.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
A fun opening night, and we're only gonna have more stories,
more guests. In fact, we're gonna talk about of NFL today.
Reminisce a little bit. But coming up next a baseball legend,
a guy I can't wait to talk to you because
this guy is always controversial.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
She he's gigantic in personal He's a big dude.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, this guy should be in the Hall of Fame
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Speaker 7 (18:23):
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Speaker 1 (18:28):
Read thank you, Thank you. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I want to boo this guy as a Yankees fan,
but he's such a baseball legend that I can't. Let's
welcome three to have no no, oh, I have, but
not here.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, not in real life.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
And that doesn't bother me because you never beat me
when at Matt.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I know you're such a big fellow. I would never
even go there. Let's welcome.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Three time World Series champion Kurt by.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The way, a guy that has been part of so
many big moments.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Yeah. Well, and that's what I say when I people
talk about my career. I've been blessed. I I you know,
the tinety three World Series suck. Joe Carter walked us off,
but everybody remembers it.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Oh one, nine to eleven Yankees die, unbelievable. Oh four?
You know, so, I was in three of the most
memorable postseason moments in the top ten.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Couldn't you let New York have the one one? Oh?
Come on, dude?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
And it was funny because it happened As an Arizona fan,
it happened perfectly. We beat we win the first two,
We go to New York in three games that energized
that city at a time when everybody was looking for it.
And then we come home and we beat the hell
out of Petit and then game seven we walked Marion off.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know what, man, You're right, every one of those
so memorable really is interesting. Now again, he played nine
seasons with the Phillies, So I got to ask you again,
Eagles are here. They're representing the fans around our Philadelphia
fans misunderstood or are they the best?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Like anybody knows what they are.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Really, they're not misunderstood. They are who they are.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Punch you in the face. They are their family. To me,
they were. I mean I spent nine years there and
probably wasn't booed as often as I should have been.
But my god, ninety three we had a parade in
Philadelphia losing the World Series, one of the most beloved
teams that ever played in Philadelphia. There was a connection there,
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and like Yankee fans, Philly fans don't boo players that suck.
They don't care about you, they don't acknowledge you. It's
like the worst as an athlete, Like they don't even
know I'm here.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Nothing whelse. I think when a woman is like apathetic.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Apathy is the worst thing in a lot of ways,
and that's one of them. But they are smart as
hell when it's sober. And like Yankee fans, they you know,
people after I've retired and said, you know things to
me and they're like, oh, you know, I hope I
didn't offend you. I'm like, dude, nine years in Philly,
five in Boston and like I was the red Sox
(20:50):
in the Yankee Stadium, so I heard things you can't
even fathom.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
So in a way, they prepared you for all these
big moments, right because you were sort of umpty.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
I loved I loved playing in the Yankee Stadium. I
love you.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hated me exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
And I was telling somebody earlier I had my favorite,
you know, given like the Yankee fans wouldn't go, oh,
your mother's a whore. They would go, dude, you got
a seventy r a in May you suck right right
like they were. Statistically they hit, they hit. Damn Yeah,
they offended me right and and and but but and
you you know, go back to uh oh four I
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you know, I come out and saying I can't think
of anything better than making fifty five thousand people from
New York shut up. Well, now I go out in
game one, get my butt handed to me, and they
were anything but quiet. Uh And I deserved it. But
then I come back six days later and we worked
them over a little bit, and but they were Since
I retired, I have not had a larger group of
(21:47):
people reach out to me and say I hated you
like a mofo when you played. But man, I respect
the hell out of you, and and it was a
fan base that whose respect was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Absolutely, that's exactly how I feel talking to you, man,
because you're so many, so so much a part of
all my baseball memories as a fan.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
They were the barrier though, right, I mean, oh, one
was magical, but it was also the Yankees. You know,
four the World Series was Red Sox Yankees. It wasn't
Red Sox Cardinals. Right. It was a sweep, right, you
swept that. I'll tell you the magical story behind us win.
He eight in a row when if you ask for it,
But we went out and we swept the Cardinals, who
(22:29):
were an unbelievable team. No disrespect, but the win was
the red was the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
That Comeback documentary on Netflix? Did you watch it accurate?
Because I felt that was a really that was.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
A really yes in a sense like there's a lot
of guys misremembering how much they how important they were,
things that they said or did. But for the most
part it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Was spot on.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
When do you enjoy them looking back though at all
the highlights you enjoy watching those.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
It's it's hard to explain to people that have never
been in a locker room. That's family. During the baseball season,
you spend more time with your teammates than you do
your family. You become close with these people and so
that's why when we get together after twenty years, it's
like we were the same room yesterday. And of all
the teams I played twenty two years of professional basebally
thousands of teammates, so there's twenty four hours in a day.
(23:14):
You kind of pick who you're going to still talk
to or whatever. Doug Mirabelly is someone I talked to daily, weekly, whatever.
It's not a lot, but but once you're in the room,
it's a hug and oh my god, it's great to
see you. And that's why when they you know, Dave
McCarty passed recently and uh, he called me from the
reunion on the field, uh and was like, dude, this
(23:34):
is you should be able. This is great. And then
you know, I go with his funeral and unfortunately this
phase of life, you guys will someday understand the phone
ringing is not always a good thing. Oh yeah, you know, yeah,
it's hard. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Looking back at a for Kurk chilling hang with, could
you know Rich, how happy were you that the sock
was bloody?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It just added to the littory.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
If you go back and look at everything around that
you're not and to find quotes from me. I didn't
talk about it. It was it was the media made
it a sensational thing, and that's fine. But I wasn't
there talking about my ankle and my bloody sock and
all the things that went with that. It's just the
irony behind. I played for the Red Sox and my
sock was red and the camera zoomed great, right, And
(24:18):
that's why if the priority for Game two of the
World Series wasn't the sock, I wrote on my on
my shoe strikeout als because I had realized what an
unbelievable thing that was, like the attention that was drawn
to it the only thing, and we were talking about
this earlier. The only thing I remember about Game six
was two things. One was my foot was bleeding so
(24:39):
bad that the sock on the bottom was wet, like
when you walk in water.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Right, that's the worst feeling, wrote but that's one way
to ruin your day. I threw it away.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I threw the sock away like I took it off
after that, I wouldn't thinking about oh my god, my
sock's bloody. I was like, dude, I historical sock, right,
but yeah, and I'm not thinking like that. So I
threw it on the ground and somebody earlier was asked
about the original one, and I said, if it's out
there and somebody has it, it's one of the clubhouse
guys from New York, because I just threw it on
the ground and I want it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well, now, when you look back at that oh four
season when you're down three out, I know the right
thing to say is like, we're.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Not out of it yet. But was there, like, yes,
was there? You really felt seminal moment. And I always
tell the story when I talk about Terry Francona. So
we had close circuit television in the clubhouse, and so
in Boston there was a media room upstairs, and whoever's
being interviewed we could see it downstairs. And I was
standing downstairs and the first question out of one of
the butt clowns in the media was, you know, what
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do you what are you going to do tomorrow? And
Tito's like, what do you mean? He goes, well, what
are you gonna do? And he goes, we're gonna show
up and play our asses off. What else did we do?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
And it clicked. I'm watching this thinking, well, that's it.
We don't have to beat them for in a row.
We don't have to beat them tomorrow. We have to
beat them in the top of the first inning. And
so we have a team meeting, and I said, this
is not about four games. This is about if you
make it out, make it an out that you win.
You got twelve pitch at bat, every bat as a
pitcher win And for eight days we didn't get beat.
(26:11):
And it was It's what happens when twenty five supremely
talented people are hyper focused. And the story I was
gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Early least tell us I want to here at eighty.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
So oh, in two thousand and one, we're with the Diamondbacks,
we're in the World Series. My wife makes purple scarves
for all the wives, either a little bonding thing. Last
forward to two thousand and four, my wife makes these
scarves for the wives. Fast forward to nineteen thousand to two,
Game three loss, we're down three to zero. Johnny Damon's
(26:39):
girlfriend Michelle walks into the wives on her My wife
weren't friends. And she throws the scarf on my wife's
lap and she goes, nice f and job these scarves did,
to which my wife stands up and says, well, maybe
if you wore your husband wouldn't be oh for twenty fists.
They had to be broken up way, dude, I get it.
So we just lost by seventeen runs. I hop in
(27:00):
a car and that's the story I hear from my wife.
I'm like, oh my god, Johnny and I walk into
the clubhouse the next day we see each other like.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Bust out laughing.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Oh like, oh, we didn't lose a game there, and
so like I was like, that's that's why.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's so cool. Dude.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Here with Kurt Schilling, Cavino, and Rich can I talk
about Dave Roberts too, because he's a major turn point
of the series. Did you view him back then as
a guide that could be a leader of a clubhouse.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Absolutely, as a man always going to follow his career,
you know, as a manager with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Let's back up to the stolen base goes without one
of the things that I had a one moment in
my career like this, But when you're going to do
something and your opponent knows it, and everybody in the
world knows it, and you still do it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
That that's that's not talking about enough, every human, everybody.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
And he went in the game for one reason and everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He thought that was the turning point of this until
we found out about the fight.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Well, well, right, exactly right, well I and I said,
I had so two thousand and two, I'm at the
All Star Game and the day before the All Star Game,
I'm starty, and I walked up to Alex Rodriguez, American
Leagu's taking VP, and I said, hey, listen, dude, if
you come up tomorrow with nobody on, I'm throwing you
nothing but fastballs. He's like, what, I'm like, I want
to see if I can get the best hitter in
(28:24):
the world out. When he knows what's coming, he's like, okay,
I had a mic on and I was for Fox actually,
And he comes up nobody on. Yeah, first pitch ninety seven,
paint away black heat, and he took it, and I
think he was thinking, is he lying? Was he right?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Right?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now you're in his head right right?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Next pitch ninety eight, black inside corner, untouchable, next pitch,
ninety nine away, three pitches, sit down. I was like,
I was feeling pretty sexy y y, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Always throwing heat like that, even when you were a.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
Little kid, like I don't know, that's just something I
developed he got older. It came honestly after I got hurt.
I had solar surgery in ninety five, and I had
labor surgery, and I kind of got religion about my
arm after that. My doctor at the time kind of
showed me a cadaver an autopsy, showed me the inside
of his shoulder. I understood how everything worked. So I
(29:17):
became hyper focused on medicine in the sense that you
play one hundred and sixty two games a one hundred
and eighty one days, you're sore every day. You know,
I don't feel like I'm eighteen. You never feel like
you're eighteen the day after you're eighteen forever. But there's
aches and pains, excuse me. And there's a difference between
being storn being injured. Yeah, And so I always knew
when I was sore, why I was sore, where I
was sore, what I had to do, And so I
(29:37):
got religion and I came back the first start I
made coming off of my laborl surgery, everybody was like,
oh my god. I went seven innings, punched out ten,
gave up two hits, and I was throwing ninety six.
I was a ninety two to ninety three guy before,
and everybody was like, oh my god. And then it
just kind of took off everything click.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I was like, I'm coaching my kids and little leg Yeah,
at what age do you feel like you know that
someone's My dad told.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Me when I was thirteen, he said You're going to
get a chance to play something. And I'm like, okay, dude,
everybody's daddy, right whatever, you didn't believe. And he never
pushed me to play baseball, but he pushed me to
play the game hard and play the game right. And
you know, one of the things I would tell you
is until a kid, until a boy's hands stop growing,
you have no idea what they can do. Hands stop
growing at like nine, exactly right, little breaking ball at
(30:24):
nine was your breaking ball today? Yeah, And I tried
to explain that's one of the most important measurements on
the kid inside because of what I can do and
not do with the baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Gotta tell us this. We know when you're in the game,
you're in the zone. He told us that a rock story.
Just now, what are the days before, like, the night before, like,
especially in a World Series, so you know you got
to win.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
In two thousand and one. So I had a sports
psychologist and just and I'm not lying about this. The
night before I would always do a pregame pre night session,
and it would he would. It was not hypnotized, but
he would talk me through. The night before Game seven
of the two thousand the one World Series, I fell asleep
on the phone and woke up with the phone next
to me. I was so relaxed.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Wow, that is that a normal thing?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Because what was happening that day was no different than
what happened from the first day. I prepared every game
from the first day of spring training like it was
the Game seven of the World Series. So nothing on
the day I pitched was different except the game.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Do you credit that because you learned famously eleven and
two in the postseason or something like that, so you
just never really changed.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Well, I've stepped up my I became somebody else in October.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
So then I got to ask you hear people say
things like this guy wants it more, this team is motivated.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Is that I always say that's not no, it is
because everyone wants it. Well, well everybody wants it. Some
people don't know how to get it. Like I always
looked at October, I knew I my first start in
the postseason, I struck out the first five guys I faced,
and no one had ever done that before. And I
was like, yeah, I'm feeling sick.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
It's sort of a damn Shane, the Hall of Fame nonsense,
Your your politics, your vibe.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Do people just hold it against you?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Yes, they've said it right they But the game owes
me nothing. The game owes me absolutely nothing. And one
of the reason I'm getting back into the game as
a coach, hopefully, I want to teach pitching and coach
or do color you know, I would love to do
like a Manning broadcast on a baseball game, because there's
some more downtime in baseball than anything, and I have
(32:26):
stories for years a personality. People don't want to hear
me talk about Otani's batting average. They know that, Hey,
what are they talking about on the mound right now?
And I'm like, ninety percent of conversations were about the
really hot blonde behind know Blake. They had nothing to
do with the game. It was the pitching trying to
make calm me down. And and so those are the
(32:47):
kind of things that I feel like I know pitching
as well as anybody's ever lived, and I can teach
it and I can talk it, and so, you know,
I kind of want to back into that. But the
whole you know, the political thing and the Hall of
Fame thing, my life's complete. I won't be more of
a person if I suddenly have a plaque in COOPERSOWND.
What that will do for me is call out all
(33:08):
the people who got me there, and it's a chance
to recognize I was raised by an amazing man. My
father died eight months for I made my big league debut,
but I left the ticket every game I started in
the big leagues in his name, so there was always
an empty seat in the ballpark, and I ended up
getting the home seat from the vet that he's that
I allocated for him.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
After the vet, Oh you got the no way, that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
But so the game owes me nothing, and if it happens,
it's a way for me to make sure. But my
biggest if I had a problem with it, are the
people that have died since I retired who should be
here and it should have been here for me to
talk about what they meant to me Right now.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It's shouting at your teammate.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It's your family, family for the fans, and just as
baseball fans.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Man, you belong there.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Two hundred and sixteen wins, three thousand, one hundred and
sixteen strikeouts, six time All Star, three time champion, A
guy that did it all man, So thank you. Yeah,
we'll see you there, Kurt. We could talk to you
all day now. I feel like we could talk for
two hours. Yes, I'm a big baseball guy. Story and
you know what, I do it again?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Man again.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, by the way, real quick, I know you got
to tell us about what's doing here in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But I'm a big Mets fan. Peter a Lonzo sticking around?
You think I don't that that's gone weird weird?
Speaker 7 (34:18):
One gone weird on me, and apparently the Blue Jays
are out, but it's gone weird on me. I don't
see anybody.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You look up. What do you look like a chump?
Going back to the Mets.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
Now, first of all, no, right, I mean he's still
seventy millions. What He's not gonna look like a chump
going anywhere. His agent made a bet and was wrong. Yeah,
and that's what you uh. I didn't have an agent
for the last eleven years of my career. I did
all my own stuff. I had total no trade clauses
and all the things because I knew what my value was.
It's in the paper what everybody's making is right there.
(34:48):
I know, Hey, I'm better than him. I should make
more than it. I mean that was easy stuff. But
you have to have confidence to sit in the room
with people like that. And I I want him to
go back to New York. I mean, I don't know
that he's get him over the hump, but he's clearly
a fan favorite. He hits the ball with a lot
of force and having a forty home run guy. But
(35:09):
they're not as rare as they used to be because
everybody's home running are striking out two hundred times, which
is the game has changed dramatically that way, and that's
not I don't think that's for the better, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Kurt, What are you doing here in New Orleans.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
So yeah, twenty five years ago the World War Two
Museum was found. I was on the original board of directors.
Nice all right, and a lot of people don't know
why it was built in New Orleans. You've seen Saving
Private Ryan of course, opening scene of Saving Private Ryan
when they're riding into the beach, they're riding on Higgins boats,
which were built in New Orleans, and that was a transcendental,
(35:42):
amazingly important thing for the war effort. I was on
the board director. Half my collection resides in the museum,
and I would tell you that it is a true
bucket list thing to go over there. Met one hundred
year old vet yesterday. There's only sixty six thousand left
out of the sixteen and a half million, and they
are preserving the ural history of that generation, which has
(36:03):
to happen. We have to be able to pass that
along to future generations because for all the warts this
country has had, and you know you can find anybody
willing to bring them up, the fact of the matter
is we are a direct result of good and bad
uh and this was the greatest generation and we need
to remember them, respect them, pay tribute to them, and
(36:23):
keep that memory.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Live and see your collection too the National World War
Two Museum, Kurt Shilling.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Thanky fun Man, Thank you guys, no problem, we got more.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Conveni on Rich next right here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Radio and uh Dan Bier, we'll get an update and
all that coming up right here.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
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thanks to Kurt Shilling.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Because charismatic guy.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, we could talk to that dude all day about
baseball in life.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
He was super cool.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Hope to have him back, And a quick reminder that
next hour, Page Sporanic, the former pro golfer turned star
social media influencer, will be on the show, so stick
around again. We're live from Radio Row, super Bowl fifty nine,
New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
And the crazy part is to think that, yeah, because
some may disagree with him politically or some of his stances,
he's honestly, who better to talk baseball with.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Honestly, that's trash because whether you like him as a guy,
he'd be the worst guy ever, right, just a terrible guy.
His numbers are ridiculous and his postseason dominance was ridiculous.
Three time World Series champion, and I think the biggest
takeaway is when you think about his postseason dominance and
the World Series he played in, they really were all
(38:40):
super memorable and they gave me nightmares as a Yankees fan.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
But you know, he mentioned the Toronto.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Blue Jays Joe Carter walked off to like, man, he's
been part of such huge moments.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
So thanks again to Kurt Shilling.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
You know, when he walked off the stage, he told me,
I liked those guys.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I like Kurt Chilling. I liked him too.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Man, the first time I've ever heard a guest say that, though,
what a surprise not have to pull the curtain back
too much.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Well to the other day, Jim Lampley said he loves.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
All that obvious. You're right, this is the second you're.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Winning people over right, Yeah, slowly but surely. But yeah,
it was fun talking to him. And if you're new
to Covino and Rich, you know we're big baseball fans,
so we'll talk to that guy all day. Another reminder,
Rich tomorrow will be filling in for the Herd, in
for Colin Cowherd tomorrow. Still doing our regular show, so
more interviews, more fun. Never know who's gonna stop by
(39:30):
join us tomorrow as well. And if you're busy tomorrow,
because you have a life and everything, you can always
catch the podcast. Just search Covino and Rich wherever you
stream your podcast. Are you saying five hours five Rich
tomorrow tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
There's one superstar quarterback who's going to show up on
the set tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Oh yeah, and his name is Al Bundy. I don't
even know who this is.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I do know tomorrow because I'm a big fan Fred Warner. Yeah,
I believe is on the agenda as a Niners fan
who cooler than Fred Warner.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
You're right, Richard, Niners. We're going to get here to
the super we'll stop it.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I was hoping we wouldn't have any Niners at the
race super Bowl Radio row, but hey, we'll be talking
to a bunch of stars tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I believe our Palpuk and Koua gonna stop by as well.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
So always hang with Kavin on Rich and if you
miss anything, like you said on the podcast, and.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Just follow us on social media. We're always posting fun clips.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Now, before Kurt Chilling stopped by, we were talking about
all that we've seen so far here in New Orleans.
The players, they're focused he got the Chiefs and the Eagles,
and what.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Are they thinking at this point?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Is always what we keep saying, right like, you're a
couple of days out from the biggest game of your life.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And I love that. Kurt Chilling did say there's no
such thing as they want it more.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
He also said that before the big game he'd be
on the phone with like a not a hypnotist, but
you know, something, to talk them through his mood.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
And yeah, yeah, pretty interesting. So that's coming up next.
Plus we are joined by Page Sporadics. Oh she'll be
here next, Hank ty More Covino on Ritch Red Here
on Fox Sports Radio Live from the war Lens Media role.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
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