March 25, 2025 • 41 mins
C&R are excited about the countdown to MLB Opening Day! They talk all the teams to pay attention to & Paul Skenes. Plus, they have fun discussing neighborhood sports rules, as Cove & DB have some great stories!
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You know, Danny G I wanted to talk to you
about this off here, but I might as well ask
you now. I know we have one of our newer
affiliates and a lot of support up in Sacramento. Correct, right,
Cavino and I might be taking a little day trip.
Little quick flight. Mets are playing the A's in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
April thirteenth, I think right.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, So if that's the case, what's the chance of
this guy throwing out a first pitch?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Never done it. It's on my bucket list.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Never done it, like anyone thought you did bozos throughout
the first pitch.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Really, we have friends that work at local radio stations
around then. Really you know what eat anyway?
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Yeah, Rich is like the white fifty cent. I would
love to see this. We should make it happen. But hey,
all the affiliates, I'd love to visit. Let's make it happen.
I'd love to be there and broadcast live from your city.
We appreciate you airing our show. I want more affiliates.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I'm just saying, bro, I mean, you get one chance.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You're either Baba Booie fitty cent or you're like President
Bush who threw If anyone should get the first pitch
in Sacktown, it should be me the sack Man, because
before they called me Latino Cavino. They called me the
sack Man, not because of what you're thinking right now,
because my initials are Steven Anthony Covino.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
See, let's go. I liked you better when you were
phil A Pino Covino oh no, that was another one.
That was another phase in my life. So my first
name Phil, last name Peno. So as let's speak in
kids terms, Hey, Dan Buyer, what's up?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I was just gonna say, leave it to the A's
to allow a Mets fan to throw out the first
pitch at one of their home games, you know, like
that would be very excuse me, athletic, Yes, and.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Then rip it off like I'm a villain. Like god,
I have my met shirt underneath it, Dwight Goodin, let's
talk about Let's let's talk in terms that our kids
would know, Dan Bayer, Cavino, Danny j Two sleeps until
baseball And you know kids always say how many sleeps?
Two sleeps until the baseball season of life changes? Man,
(04:51):
life really changes, No, no doubt. Something to watch? What's
gonna be on every TV in here, all the games baseball?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Love it?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And speaking of something to watch, I hope you had
a Bronnie James sort of night last night, not a
Grant Ellis sort of night. You know. Grant Ellis's the
bachelor who picked well, I mean, he picked a sweet
young lady, but I think he blew it. He should
have picked the other girl. But Bronnie James lit it
up thirty nine points in the G League. Dude, he's
straight gangst playing big.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So. I hope you had a great Monday night. We're
gonna have a great Tuesday. And the show begins. And
being that we are two sleeps away from the baseball season,
can't wait. What are you most excited about besides your Yankees?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Are you excited to see there lines?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Just to see you know what the Yankees do? Is
Soto gonna deliver? Is show?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Just so many big names and big stars developing? Is
there there's always a surprise team that just rides on chemistry,
you know, surprise players that have breakout seasons.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is he's going to continue doing his thing?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
All the young players in the league, like the Bobby
Wit juniors in Yeah Henderson's are they going to De
la Cruz's De la Cruz gonna like eighty bases this year?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Lots to look forward to. Man, it's a big studs.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's interesting to bring up the name Paul Skeens because
we said the other day for a second year pitcher,
while to think that he is by far the favorite
to win the Cy Young in the National League, and
they're saying, if you thought his stuff was electric last year,
he's worked on additional pitches. The guys got work ethic
(06:25):
like you wouldn't believe. They're saying, the young pirates who
got some great players, should start trying to figure out
the next couple of years because who knows if he'll
be there forever. They're saying, Paul Skeens a lah Dwight
Gooden could be Rookie of the Year and then followed
up with a Cy Young. So Paul Skeens is gonna
be must watch baseball.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There's a lot of appointment watching with baseball that we
haven't had in a while. We already made this point.
I thought it was a sweet original thought of mine
for the first time in forever.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
How good of a.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Point was like a Shooter McGavin point, Like, it was
a pretty good point for the first time ever. Because
baseball is synonymous with your team, you're just watching your team.
You don't really watch the Rockies versus the Cardinals. You
just don't if they're not your team. But for the
first time, I'm watching more than one team, more than
(07:19):
just my team. Got my eye on the Dodgers. How
could you not got my eye on the Phillies. How
could you not Rice Harper, that whole team, and he's
just so likable on social media? Got my eye on
the Al East. How could you not got my eye
on your Mets?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
How could you not?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
For the first time, I'm actually tuning into other teams
that I would have never tuned into before. This is
good for the rivalry, not great for you. There's a
lot of people that think not only the Yankees fans
have to worry about the Orioles, who were good exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The Rays always.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Compete the Blue Jays, but they're saying the Red Sox
may have revamped quicker than you think. I know, Raphael
Devers is a beast, so you got to roll this Chapman.
I hate that guy breg on that squad. So, yeah,
they're rebuilding, they're looking to win this year, they're looking
to take the AL.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So there's a lot to watch and I'm very excited
for it, very excited. Now. I want to throw some
numbers at you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I want to want to throw the first pitch at
an Oakland game to not Oakland anymore. At an A's
they're just the A's guys. So, I mean, if you
can't throw a pitch at the A's game, might I
might as well call quits.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You're never gonna throw.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So I heard are pal mad Dog Russo, he's always
on MLB TV who he loves baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Man, Hey, it's me mad Dog Russo.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He gives Blue Steel sexy looks when he's listened listening
to Steven A. If you're new to the Covino and
Rich Show, just to give you a visual, Riches from
Long Island, right, I'm from New Jersey. Rich's dad is
a hardcore Long Island you know, New York kind of guy. Oh,
great to see you, guys. Rich's dad is a mixture
in my mind of mad Dog Route. They're all cut
(08:59):
from the same right, Rich's dad, George Jetson, Mad Dog,
and Mick Jagger. Rich's dad is a mixture of all
those guys. I could see all those things you just said.
So I'm hearing mad Dogress out talking about I do
look like George Jetson. He's talking about Paul Skins and
(09:23):
they throw it a number and I started, I did
the quick math on it, and I'm sure you're gonna
do the same quick math when I say it. He
was talking to some baseball insiders about how this year, Yeah,
you're gonna get a lot of innings out of Paul
Skins if healthy. They're saying, yo, he may throw one
hundred and eighty innings. He's one of those big, sturdy,
(09:43):
old school Nolan Ryan Clemen's sort of workhorse type of guys.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Sixty seven. Yeah, so I'm not surprised by that. But
he said one hundred and eighty innings, and.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Then I started to do but he said it like
Daffy Duck, because that's how he talks.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Ah any inning, but he looks like your dad. That's
why you like him.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
When I say one hundred and eighty innings, do you
immediately start doing the math that I did?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Where?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All right, so you look at a thirty starts six
innings a start.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He's pitching twenty complete games. I mean that's one.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Way, But did you start doing that math too, like,
all right, six innings times thirty starts.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
If he misses a couple, that's one eighty. Dude, he's
a big, young, strong guy.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I think that's that's a fair statement, but it's just
crazy in today's world. Where everybody's built with glass, you know,
like everyone's so fragile. Well, without boring you with too
many numbers, I just want to backtrack a little bit.
This is a version of This is Our Life Baseball edition, HM,
(10:51):
because when you said one hundred and eighty innings from
a young dude like Skeins, that almost felt like you're
pushing it right, like cool.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
One hundred and eighty innings. That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I want to go back ten years at a time,
over the last fifty sixty years of baseball and just
give you the league leader in innings pitched, just to
show you how we have grown to just accept the
fact that pitchers go five or six.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
HM. Game changed this past year. Middle reliever became a
bigger deal. This past year.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The two league leaders in innings pitched, Logan Webb and
Gilbert on the Mariners just over two hundred, two oh
four and two oh eight. Last year could have been
the last year where the leaders were over two hundred innings.
Two hundred innings just to be three of your five starters.
Let's go back to twenty fifteen, ten years ago. Okay,
(11:46):
I'm giving you the league leaders Kershaw two thirty two,
Dallas Kaikeel two thirty two, ten years before that five
Levon Hernandez forty six, Mark Burley two thirty six. Let's
go back ten years before that, nineties Greg Greg Maddox
two sixty seven, Cal Eldridge, remember that guy, Yeah, two
(12:07):
fifty eight. Let's go back to eighty five good In
two seventy six, Burt blyleven two ninety three, Great Scott.
Now let's go back to nineteen seventy five, Wow Messerman,
don't know him three twenty one, Catfish Hunder three twenty eight.
And now let's go back to nineteen sixty five. Sandy
(12:28):
Kofex three thirty five, and it was a down year
for the NL. Melstottle I'm sorry in the al two
ninety one, so over three thirty to what was Kenes
projected this year we're talking about that's so funny, and
we're making a big deal about it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But I'm listen.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I know the game has changed, and I'm not an
old guy, so it's not like I was even alive
in the sixties. As so many things rich and We've
had these conversations over and over again. It's the middle reliever,
how the game has changed. Is also conditioning right, more
injuries than ever before, and investment reasons. You don't want
to push these guys to those limits. But conditioning is
something that is discussed but really isn't talked about enough.
(13:09):
I talk about it with my friends and family. You know,
these guys we grew up watching the slender built fellas
like Ron Gidrey. They weren't getting hurt the way players
are getting hurt today. You know, you got Cole He's
out for the season, Clark Schmidt has hurt. All these
Yankee pitchers are hurt. Yankee pitchers were not going down
(13:30):
like that. They didn't have the muscle. They didn't have
the same conditioning today that's really leading to all these injuries.
By the way, speaking of Paul Skeins, as we talk
about him, MLB and CBS Sports both have stories running
right now about Skins. I just saw the stat plus
two hundred to win the Cy Young on DraftKings and FanDuel.
So it's gonna be a lot of Skens talk this year,
(13:51):
a lot of show Hey talk. It's gonna be the
usual suspects, but it's superstars that baseball hasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Seen in a long time. Name recognition, Paul Schemes.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You're gonna be hearing that all season show, Halo Tani
all season, all season. You're gonna hear Aaron Judge all season,
and that's something that we haven't had. What you notice
I'm ignoring Wan Soto, I know, but again all season long,
Lin Door, I love that guy. These are big names,
big market teams. We have to embrace it because it's
(14:21):
been a minute. It's that baseball has been this excited.
It's gonna be so much fun to watch baseball this year.
Look at those names, dude, the the odds for a Tucker,
the odds to an MVP, the.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Sobody a junior. So many great names in baseball right now.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
As Nando Tatis, as Colin Cowhert said, stars.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He pointed out how baseball is peaking right now. Stars.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They're stars and stars and baseball should take advantage of
this moment because baseball's back in a big way.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I don't believe you've seen it like this since we
were kids, when every team had a standout sort of guy,
every dude. Every team had George Brett, their Paul Mallet
or they're Wade Bogs. You know, every team had their star.
We're starting to get back to that point right now,
and we need to notice it and embrace it. Social
media and the younger generation may be starting to embrace
(15:14):
baseball a little more as well. But I just wanted
to throw that innings stat out there, not because I'm
stat boy, and not because I think people are soft now,
just to show you how much the game has changed.
So if your parents are boomers, when your parents are
little kids, guys like Sandy Kofax, we're throwing close to double,
(15:35):
close to double the innings that cy young candidates are
projected to throw.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, that's why you heard a lot of rumors double.
You heard a lot of talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The criteria of what would be considered a win and
starting pitching and how they wanted to change that to
keep these pictures in there longer. Well, there was that
proposal right where it was six innings or one hundred
pitches exactly, and if not, there was some type of
bullpen penalty or something right like, It's it's a very
interesting game, and I think baseball's peaking now. I'm not complaining,
(16:09):
I'm just explaining. As you said, you point out the
most obvious thing, the importance of a bullpen if you
were a kid of the eighties or nineties, until the
bullpen really emerged in the nineties, and I think you
started to see that with I'll be on your Yankees.
I remember when Wetland and Marianna Rivera with a set
up closer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It was set up, the setup close, closing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And then another Yankee reference, which I hate that all
these are Yankees references, but when Jaba Chamberlain was coming
off an injury, the Jaba rules, which was one hundred
pitches five innings, and then everyone's like, yeah, the Joba
rules should apply to every young pitcher. It changed everything
because when you think of some of those great teams
we grew up with.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
In the age Jaba.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But you could say it's just the money changed it
because we were just protecting the money at that point.
But think about all those great Braves teams of the nineties,
those Yankees teams. I'll even think of my eighty six Mets,
think of the Royals and Twins and the Cardinals, all
those teams of the eighties. When we were little boys
collecting baseball cards. Yeah, good luck naming more than two
(17:10):
relievers on your own team. Not as an eighty six
Mets kid. That was my That was my team because
I was in kindergarten. That was my introduction.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Right, let's say you had your closer and maybe another game.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You know who the Mets relievers are, and you know
both Jesse Rosco and Franco No Franco is in the nineties.
Oh well, I'm thinking, oh in the eighties, and Jesse Rosco,
the other guy was better known for hot futs. Oh McDowell,
Roger McDowell. Roger McDowell, you can't eat. You lived in
New York your whole life. Until recently, you couldn't think
of another reliever because other than the Yankees, I remember
(17:41):
they had Wetland and Mariana. That was the nineties. So eighties,
what Rigedetti and who? I don't know because I watched
the look.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I couldn't tell.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You Pick a random game from let's say eighty seven, right,
there could be a starter that went seven or eight
and gave up seven runs.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Because they just like you're a game. Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So it's on full display. My prediction, it starts in
two days. My prediction. It's not the boldest, craziest prediction,
but I bet this is the first year where in
the AL or NL. It's gonna be the first season
ever other than the strikes shortened season for all the
stat boys out there, other than the strikes shortened season nine,
(18:21):
this will be the first time ever that the AL
and NL innings leader is under two hundred. I don't
think anyone's throwing two hundred innings this year, last year,
two oh four, and two eight. It's not trending up.
And now there's a lot of teams, Danny, your Dodgers.
Would you be shocked if they stugg with a six
man the whole season?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Not at all? Oh, I think they should. Yeah, I
think they should.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Why now would teams have a plethora of starting pitching
and they're like, what are we gonna waste this for?
And the Dodgers are gonna win one hundred plus games easy.
The Dodgers are never gonna throw a five minute rotation ever, Mark,
So we got more Cavin on rich. It's a little
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I'll start it off. Steve Cavino here from Union, New Jersey.
(22:30):
Why is that important because we all moved out here
as a show like ten years ago. I moved out
here fifteen years ago because I became a dad and
I'm the only one out here, me and my sister Grace.
My sister Grace moved out here to help me. So
long story short, I don't have a lot of family
out here on the West Side. It's just me and
(22:52):
all the Vatos locals. So my sister Jen came to visit.
Nobody ever visits Steve for whatever reason. There's an East
Coast mentality that if you moved away, you come visit.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
We're not gonna come visit you. Qut your daddy. You're
the one that left. He you're the one that left.
We am I gonna go there and keeps you and Dad,
I'm not gonna go there and keyss you and you
want to go, you come back see me?
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But Dad, I have two jobs and I'm a dad
and I got stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You're retired there, Yeah, but you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Know the weather out here is nice, sunshine day in La.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
All those La people. What does that mean? Dad? So anyway,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Nobody visits me, but my sister Jen did recently, right,
and she hadn't been here in a few years. She
hadn't seen my new place. I was so happy to
have my sister Jen here. And my sister Jen brought
her daughter, Scarlet. Why is this important? Because no one
visits me and it was nice, and I said, you
know what, funkl Steve's gonna have a pizza parties Saturday night,
(23:56):
Jen Scarlet. And then my sister who lives here, brought
her kids. So there's three little kids. Three little kids
at my place. Meanwhile, I hope they got jelly stains
on your cap Taste of that life.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I live like.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
A in like a sleeker sort of place, not very
kid friendly.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
But the point is I rarely, if ever have company.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I live in a condo complex with an hoa and
all that nonsense sounds fun, But I do own the place.
I own the place. This nice viral staircase. Yeah it's
a nice spot, scene Picks. But you haven't invite me
over yet. Oh I won't mean, I mean I will someday.
I've been Rich's house like eight times.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know that's called friendship, Peter. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The riches close to me live even closer, We'll have
like a fight night pizza in that maybe waiting till
you hear my story. I rarely have company over, but
my sister's in town. Funcle Steve's having a pizza party.
Kids are doing what kids do. Uncle Steve's doing flippy
dippies and spinning them around a little bit again, spinning
(24:57):
them around. Right, it's seven forty five, seven thirty seven.
I think, on a Saturday night, what do I get?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
And I'm like, huh.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
My sister turns down the music a little bit. I
go to the door and it's some younger girl that
lives beneath me with her robe on. She's like yeah.
She At first she was shocked it was me. She
thought I was like the cooler guy that lived in
the building.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I guess. She's like, oh, it's.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You all, but you're really loud, Like are you guys
like playing hide and secrets? I'm like yeah, cause my
nieces are here. It's seven thirty on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
She's a younger girl shows out of a robe. Could
have went way cooler. Hey, this is not a cool story.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is not like the movie Knock Knock with Keanu
Reeves where Anna de Armis shows up.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
No, this is like, what are you doing here? I'm like, yeah,
my shower's broken. Can I use yours? Vocking?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Steve is having a pizza party with my nieces. You're
not invited, sort of killing the vibe right now. My
dog goes running out the hallway, so she's like, yeah,
can you like tone it down? And I'm like yeah,
and I go and chase after the dog. And thankfully
I went to chase after the dog because I was
really gonna say something I regretted.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I'm like, you're a young woman. It's seven thirty on
a Saturday night. Get what it's not like past curfew
of ten. I never have company three hundred and sixty
four days of the year. It's quiet and not to
like flex. I own this place. You rent beat it
if you don't want to hear my flasks, don't live downstairs.
Can't damn at ee, dude. I bit my tongue so hard.
(26:38):
But you know what the truth is, The truth is
it killed the vibe. My sisters were like, is everything okay?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
We're like Katie, we.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Should go home now. I'm like, guys, pizza party, don't
let her ruin the fun.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Everything's good. We haven't even had dessert, and then my
girlfriend's like, well, we were kind of loud. I'm like,
they're little kids. Beat it, you complain. I never have
anyone here.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You lived here six you got the nerve to come here,
knock on my door and ruin the funt beat it.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I was so aggravated, dude.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You know, my sister probably was like, man, Steven, can't
even have company, never have people over, this happened.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Annoying neighbors.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Can't even play hide and secret, can't do anything, As
the Great George Lopez once.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Said, never do it nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's my story, but it leads into actually something worse,
and that's Dan Bayer's story.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Dv's got a tail, guys.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So about a month ago, a little more than a
month ago, I was kind of dozing off on the
couch at around ten thirty on a Thursday night, and
my phone is going off and it's my wife upstairs,
who's in bed next to her as our little boy
who's sleeping. He's got preschool in the morning. Zonked out
and she goes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Dan, come up. I cued up.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Love is blind, not exactly. She goes, can you check
what's going on outside?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
My ring?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The ring keeps going off, and so I'm kind of like,
wake up whatever, and I can hear them. Neighbor kids
are playing basketball outside at ten thirty at night on
a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That bounces loud on a silent could a secving a
cul de sac?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yes, and it is, and we are we are like
in the If it was a clock, we'd be at
five o'clock. Okay, if you're looking at the in the street,
would be noon like coming to it. But that's where
we would be, and that's where the hoop is. Hoop
is at four o'clock. So any mishot runs onto our yard,
the ball runs up. People are setting off the ring.
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I would imagine that the neighbors at nine o'clock probably
hear it, but they're not getting the basketball. So I
went out there and said, guys, what are you doing?
And it was our neighbor kid and his friend. His
friend kind of popped off a little, and I thought
it was nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Because dan byer Fox, what's radio? Yeah? Yeah, hey, hello,
come on guys, sportsnight. I love sports. Yeah, what are
we doing here?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Damn?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Kid goes, what we can't play basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
So then I'm like, all right, I don't even know
who you are, kid, So I'm going to talk to
the kid that I know those crocs.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I don't think you can.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So you wanted to Bart Simpson, this kid's so bad at.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The kid that was playing with is a great kid.
I love them to death, but just said, come on, guys,
let's be a little smarter. Fast forward to this past
Saturday night. Next door to us is the same neighbor
and their patio furniture outdoor patio is smack dab up
against the border wall, and our house is separated by
(29:28):
three feet, so when you're sitting there, you're closer to
us in the living room than you are to their
own house. They've been smoking cigars. Twenty two year old,
you know, working, still living at home and at his
friend's over. No big deal out smoking their cigars. Yeah,
and I can smell the smoke, so I let it
go for a while. But at eleven o'clock, I'm like,
(29:49):
all right, I need the windows open. It's kind of cool.
I went over there and Cavino. I did what that
neighbor did. I totally killed their vibe because I said, guys,
can we just chill with the cigar smunk?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah? But that is like intrusive.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
When you're chilling, you want to open up the window
and you can't home.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But while these stories are from both perspectives, you know,
your neighbor seems to be a stick in the mud
where dan Byer seems reasonable.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Deb's original question to me was, what do you think's
a reasonable time to tell the neighborhood kids that they
can't play basketball anymore? Because I got a little kid
who's trying to go to bed, and we live in
a cul de sac.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I think that's an important part of the story. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He goes, what do you think is a reasonable time?
I'm like, I don't know. When the street lights come on,
I'd say that's a fair time. You said you were
giving these kids till ten pm.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, I said I thought ten pm was good. And
that leads up to this point because the next day
the dad came over let's talk man to man, and
I just posed the question to him. I said, what
do you think is a reasonable time to stop playing
basketball on a week night? And he started to give
me the well, you know it's and I said, no,
(30:59):
what time? Because I need us to know if we
are on the same page. Here he goes eleven eleven.
I thought he was out of this. I thought he
was on Mars. I had no I thought eleven on
a week if it's summer on a Saturday, maybe baby.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, I'm party fun time with Davis, and I am
telling you you are. You are one hundred percent right
Saturday night friends are over all right? You make an
exception in July? Yeah, whatever, Thursday weekday. Kids have school tomorrow.
Little kids in the neighborhood. A quiet called the sack
like we said, dude, if I were.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You got there, kicked the basketball and said you're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Be Lebron, Like hey, but now we get it gets
sticky yicky because this is Dan's neighbor.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I realized why why his wife hasn't talked to talk
to me really for the last month. Wow, it's because
of that. I kind of always felt that there was
something wrong. But that's the point. Now I'm like, am
I here if he's saying eleven o'clock and I'm saying
it should be ten? But Iowa, Sam, I felt was
what time did you think, Sam.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
For a wind to stop? Yeah, I'd say, don't. On
the weekends, don't do anything before eight am, like mowing
the lawn, and on weekdays like nine pm. After nine pm,
you're kind of bothering people. Yeah, I looked at nine
to nine to ten. Ask yourself that. I love what
you said. Yeah, my building curf he was ten pm.
Just for workers in the area, like neighbors out of
a courtesy. You're not gonna have a landscaper or construction
(32:30):
person come before a certain time, just resp you're not
gonna do that later at night. In fact, I remember
Caveno got fined by his HOA when he moved in
later than ten. They were like, yeah, that you you're moving,
you have moving trucks. It wasn't his fault, but sure,
really getting things off to a great start with the
well you're a fine for you, welcome to the neighborhood again,
it's it's a common courtesy, and it brings up something bigger.
(32:51):
It's neighborhood sports rules. And what do you think of
Dan Byer's story, because I think he's in a sticky situation.
I want to hear everyone's neighborhood sports rules. We're gonna
go to dB for his update, but I think you
could almost equate it to when you talk about the
late hour, Dan ten, nine eleven, how late would you
feel comfortable? Here's a good question calling not a good friend,
Like I'll call Kavino or Spotter you guys anytime, But
(33:13):
if I already been, like call a coworker because you
had some work question, you wouldn't call our boss or
like Cirius the engineer or someone after what nine ten?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Even if yeah, I feel bad sending a text, Yeah,
like we have before, but it's only an emergency, Like
I'm like, I have to call Curious because there's something
going heyway, I see.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Something pertinent about it, and I'll hit our boss up
nine nine thirty?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Sound after ten? I don't know, all right, dB, let's
get an update.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
What's going on, guys. News developing in the National Football
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talks involving Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson are practically dead
and the Bengals are now hoping that they can resign
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(34:02):
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fan Dual TV after yesterday's Pro Day in Miami. The
Titans have scheduled a private workout with cam Ward. That's
according to ESPN, and The Washington Post is saying that
the NFL Competition Committee is likely to propose moving this
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the transfer portal. Josh Passner, the new head coach at UNLV.
Steph Curry remains questionable for the Warriors against the Heat,
and the Mariners gave catcher cal Raley a six yer
extension worth one hundred and five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Guys, back to you, thank you, dB.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Now I want everyone to start thinking of those neighborhood
sports rules. What comes to mind for you think to
your childhood, even something as simple if the ball goes
in someone's yard, do you go get it? Would you
want some kid in your yard? You know, like there's
a lot of layers to this. Yeah, what's that fair?
Time to call it a night. We'll get to that
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we're going over rules neighborhood sports rules here on the show,
based on Dan Byer's controversial story.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Dan Byer is a real nice.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Guy, not a confrontational guy to my knowledge, and I
think he has every right to be. Like, you know,
my little kid's trying to sleep. You're playing neighborhood basketball
in the cul de sac.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
That loud.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Of the and you know all the bricks like double dribble.
Remember in double Dribble when you would hit the brick i'part.
You're hearing this throughout the night, the kids trying to sleep.
Dan said, Look, it's a Thursday night and it's after
ten pm. I think he has ever every reason to say,
(38:24):
all right, maybe like you stop at like at a
reasonable time.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
What are the rules here?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Am I leaving anything out? dB No?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
And I think that the combination of Saturday's cigar disruption,
combined with the month, led up to the conversation that
happened on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
How heated did it get? By the way, not at
all very cordial, just awkward.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
But he was also giving us a fore warning that hey,
there could be more of this in the summer because
they have a bunch of teenage kids.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And so it's no, you should have done you should
have took the cigar and put it off on his head.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
But.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
You don't cross them up.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
But I love the kids, just yeah, and they had
been out there smoking cigars for a while just courtesy.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, you know, neighborhood curtisy.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
But I think the basketball one is the one that
we can relate to the most. Right, how can you
be outside?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Should you be outside?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
For you, if you live in a neighborhood where someone
has that neighborhood basketball net right the adjustable rim right there,
and they're not around, can you play in their driveway?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
We had a role my buddy Paul grown up. He
had the basketball hoop on the garage, you know how
like a lot of people have it on the garage.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Mounted.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, if he was on vacation or his family was
out of town or whatever, we played with the rule
of if he broke a window, which had happened, you
gotta fess up, like there's no like, they can't come
home and be like, does a brooken window or something happen.
So one time we did break a window and he
came back from vacation and we were like, we'll pay
for it, And then all these neighbors like, who were
(39:57):
these kids in the driveway?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
So that gets our cord too. So what are the rules,
because they do change from when you were a kid
to now you're the homeowner rich. You don't have the
patience you probably should, dude. When I was a kid,
I would cut through everyone's yard playing hide and seek
in your hand, and then you know you whiffle ball
would go into someone's yard. You'd climb their fence. I'm
just getting my ball. You'd step in their flower bed.
(40:21):
If some kid went near my roses or Lantana's, I
would slap them.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I feel so bad for my neighbors of forty years ago,
Like I wanted to send them a I'm sorry note,
but I'm.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Going to say, all my old neighbors, they're probably dead now,
but edible arrangements. Well, that's why your understanding in this case, Dan,
because it wasn't that long ago. You were that kid, Like,
there's an understanding we all have. They're just trying to
play some basketball and live their teenagers to the kids
I remember, but you gotta do it respectfully. I remember
playing tackle football on my neighbor's lawn and then would
(40:55):
get mad when he would say, kids don't go my lawn.
Imagine if random kids started playing on your law now
you'd again, you'd slap em
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Yeah, So if that's the case, what's the chance of
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the first pitch.
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Really, we have friends that work at local radio stations
around then. Really you know what eat anyway?
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phil A Pino Covino oh no, that was another one.
That was another phase in my life. So my first
name Phil, last name Peno. So as let's speak in
kids terms, Hey, Dan Buyer, what's up?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I was just gonna say, leave it to the A's
to allow a Mets fan to throw out the first
pitch at one of their home games, you know, like
that would be very excuse me, athletic, Yes, and.
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Then rip it off like I'm a villain. Like god,
I have my met shirt underneath it, Dwight Goodin, let's
talk about Let's let's talk in terms that our kids
would know, Dan Bayer, Cavino, Danny j Two sleeps until
baseball And you know kids always say how many sleeps?
Two sleeps until the baseball season of life changes? Man,
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Grant Ellis sort of night. You know. Grant Ellis's the
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up thirty nine points in the G League. Dude, he's
straight gangst playing big.
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So. I hope you had a great Monday night. We're
gonna have a great Tuesday. And the show begins. And
being that we are two sleeps away from the baseball season,
can't wait. What are you most excited about besides your Yankees?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Are you excited to see there lines?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Just to see you know what the Yankees do? Is
Soto gonna deliver? Is show?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Just so many big names and big stars developing? Is
there there's always a surprise team that just rides on chemistry,
you know, surprise players that have breakout seasons.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is he's going to continue doing his thing?
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All the young players in the league, like the Bobby
Wit juniors in Yeah Henderson's are they going to De
la Cruz's De la Cruz gonna like eighty bases this year?
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It's interesting to bring up the name Paul Skeens because
we said the other day for a second year pitcher,
while to think that he is by far the favorite
to win the Cy Young in the National League, and
they're saying, if you thought his stuff was electric last year,
he's worked on additional pitches. The guys got work ethic
(06:25):
like you wouldn't believe. They're saying, the young pirates who
got some great players, should start trying to figure out
the next couple of years because who knows if he'll
be there forever. They're saying, Paul Skeens a lah Dwight
Gooden could be Rookie of the Year and then followed
up with a Cy Young. So Paul Skeens is gonna
be must watch baseball.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
There's a lot of appointment watching with baseball that we
haven't had in a while. We already made this point.
I thought it was a sweet original thought of mine
for the first time in forever.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
How good of a.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Point was like a Shooter McGavin point, Like, it was
a pretty good point for the first time ever. Because
baseball is synonymous with your team, you're just watching your team.
You don't really watch the Rockies versus the Cardinals. You
just don't if they're not your team. But for the
first time, I'm watching more than one team, more than
(07:19):
just my team. Got my eye on the Dodgers. How
could you not got my eye on the Phillies. How
could you not Rice Harper, that whole team, and he's
just so likable on social media? Got my eye on
the Al East. How could you not got my eye
on your Mets?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
How could you not?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
For the first time, I'm actually tuning into other teams
that I would have never tuned into before. This is
good for the rivalry, not great for you. There's a
lot of people that think not only the Yankees fans
have to worry about the Orioles, who were good exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The Rays always.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Compete the Blue Jays, but they're saying the Red Sox
may have revamped quicker than you think. I know, Raphael
Devers is a beast, so you got to roll this Chapman.
I hate that guy breg on that squad. So, yeah,
they're rebuilding, they're looking to win this year, they're looking
to take the AL.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So there's a lot to watch and I'm very excited
for it, very excited. Now. I want to throw some
numbers at you.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I want to want to throw the first pitch at
an Oakland game to not Oakland anymore. At an A's
they're just the A's guys. So, I mean, if you
can't throw a pitch at the A's game, might I
might as well call quits.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You're never gonna throw.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So I heard are pal mad Dog Russo, he's always
on MLB TV who he loves baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Man, Hey, it's me mad Dog Russo.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He gives Blue Steel sexy looks when he's listened listening
to Steven A. If you're new to the Covino and
Rich Show, just to give you a visual, Riches from
Long Island, right, I'm from New Jersey. Rich's dad is
a hardcore Long Island you know, New York kind of guy. Oh,
great to see you, guys. Rich's dad is a mixture
in my mind of mad Dog Route. They're all cut
(08:59):
from the same right, Rich's dad, George Jetson, Mad Dog,
and Mick Jagger. Rich's dad is a mixture of all
those guys. I could see all those things you just said.
So I'm hearing mad Dogress out talking about I do
look like George Jetson. He's talking about Paul Skins and
(09:23):
they throw it a number and I started, I did
the quick math on it, and I'm sure you're gonna
do the same quick math when I say it. He
was talking to some baseball insiders about how this year, Yeah,
you're gonna get a lot of innings out of Paul
Skins if healthy. They're saying, yo, he may throw one
hundred and eighty innings. He's one of those big, sturdy,
(09:43):
old school Nolan Ryan Clemen's sort of workhorse type of guys.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Sixty seven. Yeah, so I'm not surprised by that. But
he said one hundred and eighty innings, and.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Then I started to do but he said it like
Daffy Duck, because that's how he talks.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Ah any inning, but he looks like your dad. That's
why you like him.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
When I say one hundred and eighty innings, do you
immediately start doing the math that I did?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Where?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All right, so you look at a thirty starts six
innings a start.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He's pitching twenty complete games. I mean that's one.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Way, But did you start doing that math too, like,
all right, six innings times thirty starts.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
If he misses a couple, that's one eighty. Dude, he's
a big, young, strong guy.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I think that's that's a fair statement, but it's just
crazy in today's world. Where everybody's built with glass, you know,
like everyone's so fragile. Well, without boring you with too
many numbers, I just want to backtrack a little bit.
This is a version of This is Our Life Baseball edition, HM,
(10:51):
because when you said one hundred and eighty innings from
a young dude like Skeins, that almost felt like you're
pushing it right, like cool.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
One hundred and eighty innings. That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I want to go back ten years at a time,
over the last fifty sixty years of baseball and just
give you the league leader in innings pitched, just to
show you how we have grown to just accept the
fact that pitchers go five or six.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
HM. Game changed this past year. Middle reliever became a
bigger deal. This past year.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The two league leaders in innings pitched, Logan Webb and
Gilbert on the Mariners just over two hundred, two oh
four and two oh eight. Last year could have been
the last year where the leaders were over two hundred innings.
Two hundred innings just to be three of your five starters.
Let's go back to twenty fifteen, ten years ago. Okay,
(11:46):
I'm giving you the league leaders Kershaw two thirty two,
Dallas Kaikeel two thirty two, ten years before that five
Levon Hernandez forty six, Mark Burley two thirty six. Let's
go back ten years before that, nineties Greg Greg Maddox
two sixty seven, Cal Eldridge, remember that guy, Yeah, two
(12:07):
fifty eight. Let's go back to eighty five good In
two seventy six, Burt blyleven two ninety three, Great Scott.
Now let's go back to nineteen seventy five, Wow Messerman,
don't know him three twenty one, Catfish Hunder three twenty eight.
And now let's go back to nineteen sixty five. Sandy
(12:28):
Kofex three thirty five, and it was a down year
for the NL. Melstottle I'm sorry in the al two
ninety one, so over three thirty to what was Kenes
projected this year we're talking about that's so funny, and
we're making a big deal about it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But I'm listen.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I know the game has changed, and I'm not an
old guy, so it's not like I was even alive
in the sixties. As so many things rich and We've
had these conversations over and over again. It's the middle reliever,
how the game has changed. Is also conditioning right, more
injuries than ever before, and investment reasons. You don't want
to push these guys to those limits. But conditioning is
something that is discussed but really isn't talked about enough.
(13:09):
I talk about it with my friends and family. You know,
these guys we grew up watching the slender built fellas
like Ron Gidrey. They weren't getting hurt the way players
are getting hurt today. You know, you got Cole He's
out for the season, Clark Schmidt has hurt. All these
Yankee pitchers are hurt. Yankee pitchers were not going down
(13:30):
like that. They didn't have the muscle. They didn't have
the same conditioning today that's really leading to all these injuries.
By the way, speaking of Paul Skeins, as we talk
about him, MLB and CBS Sports both have stories running
right now about Skins. I just saw the stat plus
two hundred to win the Cy Young on DraftKings and FanDuel.
So it's gonna be a lot of Skens talk this year,
(13:51):
a lot of show Hey talk. It's gonna be the
usual suspects, but it's superstars that baseball hasn't.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Seen in a long time. Name recognition, Paul Schemes.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You're gonna be hearing that all season show, Halo Tani
all season, all season. You're gonna hear Aaron Judge all season,
and that's something that we haven't had. What you notice
I'm ignoring Wan Soto, I know, but again all season long,
Lin Door, I love that guy. These are big names,
big market teams. We have to embrace it because it's
(14:21):
been a minute. It's that baseball has been this excited.
It's gonna be so much fun to watch baseball this year.
Look at those names, dude, the the odds for a Tucker,
the odds to an MVP, the.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Sobody a junior. So many great names in baseball right now.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
As Nando Tatis, as Colin Cowhert said, stars.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He pointed out how baseball is peaking right now. Stars.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They're stars and stars and baseball should take advantage of
this moment because baseball's back in a big way.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I don't believe you've seen it like this since we
were kids, when every team had a standout sort of guy,
every dude. Every team had George Brett, their Paul Mallet
or they're Wade Bogs. You know, every team had their star.
We're starting to get back to that point right now,
and we need to notice it and embrace it. Social
media and the younger generation may be starting to embrace
(15:14):
baseball a little more as well. But I just wanted
to throw that innings stat out there, not because I'm
stat boy, and not because I think people are soft now,
just to show you how much the game has changed.
So if your parents are boomers, when your parents are
little kids, guys like Sandy Kofax, we're throwing close to double,
(15:35):
close to double the innings that cy young candidates are
projected to throw.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, that's why you heard a lot of rumors double.
You heard a lot of talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The criteria of what would be considered a win and
starting pitching and how they wanted to change that to
keep these pictures in there longer. Well, there was that
proposal right where it was six innings or one hundred
pitches exactly, and if not, there was some type of
bullpen penalty or something right like, It's it's a very
interesting game, and I think baseball's peaking now. I'm not complaining,
(16:09):
I'm just explaining. As you said, you point out the
most obvious thing, the importance of a bullpen if you
were a kid of the eighties or nineties, until the
bullpen really emerged in the nineties, and I think you
started to see that with I'll be on your Yankees.
I remember when Wetland and Marianna Rivera with a set
up closer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It was set up, the setup close, closing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And then another Yankee reference, which I hate that all
these are Yankees references, but when Jaba Chamberlain was coming
off an injury, the Jaba rules, which was one hundred
pitches five innings, and then everyone's like, yeah, the Joba
rules should apply to every young pitcher. It changed everything
because when you think of some of those great teams
we grew up with.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
In the age Jaba.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But you could say it's just the money changed it
because we were just protecting the money at that point.
But think about all those great Braves teams of the nineties,
those Yankees teams. I'll even think of my eighty six Mets,
think of the Royals and Twins and the Cardinals, all
those teams of the eighties. When we were little boys
collecting baseball cards. Yeah, good luck naming more than two
(17:10):
relievers on your own team. Not as an eighty six
Mets kid. That was my That was my team because
I was in kindergarten. That was my introduction.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Right, let's say you had your closer and maybe another game.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You know who the Mets relievers are, and you know
both Jesse Rosco and Franco No Franco is in the nineties.
Oh well, I'm thinking, oh in the eighties, and Jesse Rosco,
the other guy was better known for hot futs. Oh McDowell,
Roger McDowell. Roger McDowell, you can't eat. You lived in
New York your whole life. Until recently, you couldn't think
of another reliever because other than the Yankees, I remember
(17:41):
they had Wetland and Mariana. That was the nineties. So eighties,
what Rigedetti and who? I don't know because I watched
the look.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I couldn't tell.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You Pick a random game from let's say eighty seven, right,
there could be a starter that went seven or eight
and gave up seven runs.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Because they just like you're a game. Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So it's on full display. My prediction, it starts in
two days. My prediction. It's not the boldest, craziest prediction,
but I bet this is the first year where in
the AL or NL. It's gonna be the first season
ever other than the strikes shortened season for all the
stat boys out there, other than the strikes shortened season nine,
(18:21):
this will be the first time ever that the AL
and NL innings leader is under two hundred. I don't
think anyone's throwing two hundred innings this year, last year,
two oh four, and two eight. It's not trending up.
And now there's a lot of teams, Danny, your Dodgers.
Would you be shocked if they stugg with a six
man the whole season?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Not at all? Oh, I think they should. Yeah, I
think they should.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Why now would teams have a plethora of starting pitching
and they're like, what are we gonna waste this for?
And the Dodgers are gonna win one hundred plus games easy.
The Dodgers are never gonna throw a five minute rotation ever, Mark,
So we got more Cavin on rich. It's a little
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I have a story about an annoying neighbor. I have
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packed show. DB's got your update and a story, so
I'll start it off. Steve Cavino here from Union, New Jersey.
(22:30):
Why is that important because we all moved out here
as a show like ten years ago. I moved out
here fifteen years ago because I became a dad and
I'm the only one out here, me and my sister Grace.
My sister Grace moved out here to help me. So
long story short, I don't have a lot of family
out here on the West Side. It's just me and
(22:52):
all the Vatos locals. So my sister Jen came to visit.
Nobody ever visits Steve for whatever reason. There's an East
Coast mentality that if you moved away, you come visit.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
We're not gonna come visit you. Qut your daddy. You're
the one that left. He you're the one that left.
We am I gonna go there and keeps you and Dad,
I'm not gonna go there and keyss you and you
want to go, you come back see me?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
But Dad, I have two jobs and I'm a dad
and I got stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You're retired there, Yeah, but you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Know the weather out here is nice, sunshine day in La.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
All those La people. What does that mean? Dad? So anyway,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Nobody visits me, but my sister Jen did recently, right,
and she hadn't been here in a few years. She
hadn't seen my new place. I was so happy to
have my sister Jen here. And my sister Jen brought
her daughter, Scarlet. Why is this important? Because no one
visits me and it was nice, and I said, you
know what, funkl Steve's gonna have a pizza parties Saturday night,
(23:56):
Jen Scarlet. And then my sister who lives here, brought
her kids. So there's three little kids. Three little kids
at my place. Meanwhile, I hope they got jelly stains
on your cap Taste of that life.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I live like.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
A in like a sleeker sort of place, not very
kid friendly.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
But the point is I rarely, if ever have company.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I live in a condo complex with an hoa and
all that nonsense sounds fun, But I do own the place.
I own the place. This nice viral staircase. Yeah it's
a nice spot, scene Picks. But you haven't invite me
over yet. Oh I won't mean, I mean I will someday.
I've been Rich's house like eight times.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You know that's called friendship, Peter. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
The riches close to me live even closer, We'll have
like a fight night pizza in that maybe waiting till
you hear my story. I rarely have company over, but
my sister's in town. Funcle Steve's having a pizza party.
Kids are doing what kids do. Uncle Steve's doing flippy
dippies and spinning them around a little bit again, spinning
(24:57):
them around. Right, it's seven forty five, seven thirty seven.
I think, on a Saturday night, what do I get?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
And I'm like, huh.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
My sister turns down the music a little bit. I
go to the door and it's some younger girl that
lives beneath me with her robe on. She's like yeah.
She At first she was shocked it was me. She
thought I was like the cooler guy that lived in
the building.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I guess. She's like, oh, it's.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You all, but you're really loud, Like are you guys
like playing hide and secrets? I'm like yeah, cause my
nieces are here. It's seven thirty on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
She's a younger girl shows out of a robe. Could
have went way cooler. Hey, this is not a cool story.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is not like the movie Knock Knock with Keanu
Reeves where Anna de Armis shows up.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
No, this is like, what are you doing here? I'm like, yeah,
my shower's broken. Can I use yours? Vocking?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Steve is having a pizza party with my nieces. You're
not invited, sort of killing the vibe right now. My
dog goes running out the hallway, so she's like, yeah,
can you like tone it down? And I'm like yeah,
and I go and chase after the dog. And thankfully
I went to chase after the dog because I was
really gonna say something I regretted.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I'm like, you're a young woman. It's seven thirty on
a Saturday night. Get what it's not like past curfew
of ten. I never have company three hundred and sixty
four days of the year. It's quiet and not to
like flex. I own this place. You rent beat it
if you don't want to hear my flasks, don't live downstairs.
Can't damn at ee, dude. I bit my tongue so hard.
(26:38):
But you know what the truth is, The truth is
it killed the vibe. My sisters were like, is everything okay?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
We're like Katie, we.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Should go home now. I'm like, guys, pizza party, don't
let her ruin the fun.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Everything's good. We haven't even had dessert, and then my
girlfriend's like, well, we were kind of loud. I'm like,
they're little kids. Beat it, you complain. I never have
anyone here.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You lived here six you got the nerve to come here,
knock on my door and ruin the funt beat it.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I was so aggravated, dude.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
You know, my sister probably was like, man, Steven, can't
even have company, never have people over, this happened.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Annoying neighbors.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Can't even play hide and secret, can't do anything, As
the Great George Lopez once.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Said, never do it nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's my story, but it leads into actually something worse,
and that's Dan Bayer's story.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Dv's got a tail, guys.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So about a month ago, a little more than a
month ago, I was kind of dozing off on the
couch at around ten thirty on a Thursday night, and
my phone is going off and it's my wife upstairs,
who's in bed next to her as our little boy
who's sleeping. He's got preschool in the morning. Zonked out
and she goes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Dan, come up. I cued up.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Love is blind, not exactly. She goes, can you check
what's going on outside?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
My ring?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The ring keeps going off, and so I'm kind of like,
wake up whatever, and I can hear them. Neighbor kids
are playing basketball outside at ten thirty at night on
a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That bounces loud on a silent could a secving a
cul de sac?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yes, and it is, and we are we are like
in the If it was a clock, we'd be at
five o'clock. Okay, if you're looking at the in the street,
would be noon like coming to it. But that's where
we would be, and that's where the hoop is. Hoop
is at four o'clock. So any mishot runs onto our yard,
the ball runs up. People are setting off the ring.
(28:35):
I would imagine that the neighbors at nine o'clock probably
hear it, but they're not getting the basketball. So I
went out there and said, guys, what are you doing?
And it was our neighbor kid and his friend. His
friend kind of popped off a little, and I thought
it was nothing.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Because dan byer Fox, what's radio? Yeah? Yeah, hey, hello,
come on guys, sportsnight. I love sports. Yeah, what are
we doing here?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Damn?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Kid goes, what we can't play basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
So then I'm like, all right, I don't even know
who you are, kid, So I'm going to talk to
the kid that I know those crocs.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I don't think you can.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So you wanted to Bart Simpson, this kid's so bad at.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The kid that was playing with is a great kid.
I love them to death, but just said, come on, guys,
let's be a little smarter. Fast forward to this past
Saturday night. Next door to us is the same neighbor
and their patio furniture outdoor patio is smack dab up
against the border wall, and our house is separated by
(29:28):
three feet, so when you're sitting there, you're closer to
us in the living room than you are to their
own house. They've been smoking cigars. Twenty two year old,
you know, working, still living at home and at his
friend's over. No big deal out smoking their cigars. Yeah,
and I can smell the smoke, so I let it
go for a while. But at eleven o'clock, I'm like,
(29:49):
all right, I need the windows open. It's kind of cool.
I went over there and Cavino. I did what that
neighbor did. I totally killed their vibe because I said, guys,
can we just chill with the cigar smunk?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah? But that is like intrusive.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Man.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
When you're chilling, you want to open up the window
and you can't home.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But while these stories are from both perspectives, you know,
your neighbor seems to be a stick in the mud
where dan Byer seems reasonable.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Deb's original question to me was, what do you think's
a reasonable time to tell the neighborhood kids that they
can't play basketball anymore? Because I got a little kid
who's trying to go to bed, and we live in
a cul de sac.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I think that's an important part of the story. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He goes, what do you think is a reasonable time?
I'm like, I don't know. When the street lights come on,
I'd say that's a fair time. You said you were
giving these kids till ten pm.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, I said I thought ten pm was good. And
that leads up to this point because the next day
the dad came over let's talk man to man, and
I just posed the question to him. I said, what
do you think is a reasonable time to stop playing
basketball on a week night? And he started to give
me the well, you know it's and I said, no,
(30:59):
what time? Because I need us to know if we
are on the same page. Here he goes eleven eleven.
I thought he was out of this. I thought he
was on Mars. I had no I thought eleven on
a week if it's summer on a Saturday, maybe baby.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, I'm party fun time with Davis, and I am
telling you you are. You are one hundred percent right
Saturday night friends are over all right? You make an
exception in July? Yeah, whatever, Thursday weekday. Kids have school tomorrow.
Little kids in the neighborhood. A quiet called the sack
like we said, dude, if I were.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You got there, kicked the basketball and said you're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Be Lebron, Like hey, but now we get it gets
sticky yicky because this is Dan's neighbor.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I realized why why his wife hasn't talked to talk
to me really for the last month. Wow, it's because
of that. I kind of always felt that there was
something wrong. But that's the point. Now I'm like, am
I here if he's saying eleven o'clock and I'm saying
it should be ten? But Iowa, Sam, I felt was
what time did you think, Sam.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
For a wind to stop? Yeah, I'd say, don't. On
the weekends, don't do anything before eight am, like mowing
the lawn, and on weekdays like nine pm. After nine pm,
you're kind of bothering people. Yeah, I looked at nine
to nine to ten. Ask yourself that. I love what
you said. Yeah, my building curf he was ten pm.
Just for workers in the area, like neighbors out of
a courtesy. You're not gonna have a landscaper or construction
(32:30):
person come before a certain time, just resp you're not
gonna do that later at night. In fact, I remember
Caveno got fined by his HOA when he moved in
later than ten. They were like, yeah, that you you're moving,
you have moving trucks. It wasn't his fault, but sure,
really getting things off to a great start with the
well you're a fine for you, welcome to the neighborhood again,
it's it's a common courtesy, and it brings up something bigger.
(32:51):
It's neighborhood sports rules. And what do you think of
Dan Byer's story, because I think he's in a sticky situation.
I want to hear everyone's neighborhood sports rules. We're gonna
go to dB for his update, but I think you
could almost equate it to when you talk about the
late hour, Dan ten, nine eleven, how late would you
feel comfortable? Here's a good question calling not a good friend,
Like I'll call Kavino or Spotter you guys anytime, But
(33:13):
if I already been, like call a coworker because you
had some work question, you wouldn't call our boss or
like Cirius the engineer or someone after what nine ten?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Even if yeah, I feel bad sending a text, Yeah,
like we have before, but it's only an emergency, Like
I'm like, I have to call Curious because there's something
going heyway, I see.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Something pertinent about it, and I'll hit our boss up
nine nine thirty?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Sound after ten? I don't know, all right, dB, let's
get an update.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
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Speaker 2 (34:55):
Guys, back to you, thank you, dB.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Now I want everyone to start thinking of those neighborhood
sports rules. What comes to mind for you think to
your childhood, even something as simple if the ball goes
in someone's yard, do you go get it? Would you
want some kid in your yard? You know, like there's
a lot of layers to this. Yeah, what's that fair?
Time to call it a night. We'll get to that
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we're going over rules neighborhood sports rules here on the show,
based on Dan Byer's controversial story.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Dan Byer is a real nice.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Guy, not a confrontational guy to my knowledge, and I
think he has every right to be. Like, you know,
my little kid's trying to sleep. You're playing neighborhood basketball
in the cul de sac.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
That loud.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Of the and you know all the bricks like double dribble.
Remember in double Dribble when you would hit the brick i'part.
You're hearing this throughout the night, the kids trying to sleep.
Dan said, Look, it's a Thursday night and it's after
ten pm. I think he has ever every reason to say,
(38:24):
all right, maybe like you stop at like at a
reasonable time.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
What are the rules here?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Am I leaving anything out? dB No?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
And I think that the combination of Saturday's cigar disruption,
combined with the month, led up to the conversation that
happened on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
How heated did it get? By the way, not at
all very cordial, just awkward.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
But he was also giving us a fore warning that hey,
there could be more of this in the summer because
they have a bunch of teenage kids.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And so it's no, you should have done you should
have took the cigar and put it off on his head.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
But.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
You don't cross them up.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
But I love the kids, just yeah, and they had
been out there smoking cigars for a while just courtesy.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, you know, neighborhood curtisy.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
But I think the basketball one is the one that
we can relate to the most. Right, how can you
be outside?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Should you be outside?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
For you, if you live in a neighborhood where someone
has that neighborhood basketball net right the adjustable rim right there,
and they're not around, can you play in their driveway?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
We had a role my buddy Paul grown up. He
had the basketball hoop on the garage, you know how
like a lot of people have it on the garage.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Mounted.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, if he was on vacation or his family was
out of town or whatever, we played with the rule
of if he broke a window, which had happened, you
gotta fess up, like there's no like, they can't come
home and be like, does a brooken window or something happen.
So one time we did break a window and he
came back from vacation and we were like, we'll pay
for it, And then all these neighbors like, who were
(39:57):
these kids in the driveway?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
So that gets our cord too. So what are the rules,
because they do change from when you were a kid
to now you're the homeowner rich. You don't have the
patience you probably should, dude. When I was a kid,
I would cut through everyone's yard playing hide and seek
in your hand, and then you know you whiffle ball
would go into someone's yard. You'd climb their fence. I'm
just getting my ball. You'd step in their flower bed.
(40:21):
If some kid went near my roses or Lantana's, I
would slap them.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I feel so bad for my neighbors of forty years ago,
Like I wanted to send them a I'm sorry note,
but I'm.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Going to say, all my old neighbors, they're probably dead now,
but edible arrangements. Well, that's why your understanding in this case, Dan,
because it wasn't that long ago. You were that kid, Like,
there's an understanding we all have. They're just trying to
play some basketball and live their teenagers to the kids
I remember, but you gotta do it respectfully. I remember
playing tackle football on my neighbor's lawn and then would
(40:55):
get mad when he would say, kids don't go my lawn.
Imagine if random kids started playing on your law now
you'd again, you'd slap em
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