The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R react to the NBA Cup being "mid" & lampoon the new All-Star game format! Covino & Danny G. explain why the new format is "not it." The crew has some ideas for more nasty dunks! Rich has info on "the Diddy Night" game in the NHL! The guys talk Brock Purdy's agent wanting 65 million per season. Where Purdy ranks & what the Niners should do. Plus, 'MID WEAK MAJOR' gets fired up & all Olivia's are hot!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
I want to talk about the NBA in my first reaction,
and who cares about my first reaction?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Right? Okay?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
But Kevin Durant's first reaction in all to smack talk
that's been surrounding basketball. It's a great conversation I have
today because yesterday was a big night.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Anyone tune in.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
I bet you more people watched Aaron Rodgers new documentary
on Netflix than watched the Emirates Cup last night. Oh,
when you were saying champions last night, I thought you
met my men's softball team. Champions by the way, congratulations. Yes,
bring it back to Rich.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Even there at the T Mobile Arena, my brother in
law went to the game because he was in Vegas
for the Raiders Monday night football game. He stayed in town,
went to the game, the Cup game last night. Lots
of empty seats.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
See that's sad, and I'll focus on the positive. The
positive is you gotta give into new ideas, right. I'm
not mad at the NBA for trying out new things,
but we discussed why are ratings down. There's so many
reasons why there was no excitement for this cup last
night when there should have been. I mean, we're at

(01:28):
the show that embraced the new ideas. In fact, who's
the idiot that said, oh, the golden at bat. I'm
not against it. That was me. I'm fine with Rob Manfred.
I was okay with it too.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm fine with innovation.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's just the NBA has hit this roadblock and I
think if I was saying, if you want to cue
up the Beastie Boys, sabotage, I feel like the NBA
is doing a little self sabotaging. Alex flight Well. They
also announced this week in the world of innovating right,

(02:05):
that they're going to do their first ever mini tournament
for the All Star Game, four teams competing in three games.
Teams will race to reach forty points to win each game,
culminating in a championship match, and each team is drafted
live on TNT by Charles Barkley, Shaq and Kenny Smith.

(02:26):
So the new All Star format is going to be
this little mini tournament.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
And look, I'm no.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
NBA guru or insider. I'm just a fan who grew
up watching just like you guys. I'm just a guy
who likes to shoot the basketball around and tune into
the big games. My first reaction and I'm opening new ideas.
I like the Golden Net bat. My first reaction was
this is terrible. Yeah, well I sounded too like convoluted

(02:52):
and complex.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's like, why not just a regular game?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, that's the word tedious. Yeah, I didn't like In America,
we like one big game.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
I didn't like the sound of this little mini tournament
drafted by Shack and get out of here with that.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I think what's what's going on in the NBA
is very clear. Listen now, you y'all, it's a sabotage.
The Beastie Boy said it best, like forty years ago. Sabotage.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
What do you mean sabotage? You think their self sabotage.
The NBA is just doing the NBA is doing nothing
to help their own cause. Let me explain, when you
think of other sports, you watch the NFL. Every announcer
stroking Mahomes, Josh Allen generational talent. I've never seen a

(03:42):
player like Jamar Chase Yo say, Kwam Barkley. He's hopping
over people doing you know, backwards flips, and they sweat
the players and they prop up the game.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, I always look at it this way.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
A broadcaster, which we dabble in Rich twenty years of this, right, yep,
is supposed to be honest, but you're supposed to hype
stuff up to get people excited about certain things. You're
giving them reason to tune in, reason to watch. That's
how I feel about it. If things suck, they suck.
You call it as you see it. But it's also
your job to enhance the good things. Otherwise, you, as

(04:19):
the listener, the viewer, you're like, why am I listening?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Why am I watching?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
If you're not making it exciting or you're not enticing
me to be involved or get involved, and.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
You're just boring me.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I mean, imagine if we were to do a live event,
and we're gonna do one in twenty twenty five to
celebrate twenty years together.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, big party in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I think, big party at the Spearmint Rhyano, who go.
I imagine we will hype this up. Imagine if we're like, yeah,
it's not gonna be that great, but uh, you know
if you want to go but a day, it won't
be that fun.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's like telling your buddy, hey, man, you want to
watch this movie with me? Is it any good? It's
I mean, it's all right. If that's your reaction to it,
then I don't want to watch it's the movie, you know,
I want to watch a movie with you. When you say, dude,
wait do you see this movie? Man, wait till you
watch it? Oh man, you can love it. I mean,
if you're downplaying it, then why are you wasting my time?

(05:13):
I have certain buddies that are really good at selling
me on a show or a movie, Like, dude, are
you watching this new show on Netflix?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Are you watching Yo Apple TV? You gotta be watching Silo.
It's all how someone sells it to you and who's
selling it that matters.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
And we've accused our video producer Spot of not being
the best salesman of shows like Spot. Damn, he just
said you were boring his heald Spot. I know, I
said sometimes probably, I think you should watch Yellow Storm.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean it's.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, Like sometimes you just don't do a good job
of selling it. And what you're saying is you think
some people are not doing a good job of also
selling the NBA.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
No comment.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I think that's what rich. I think spot's the NBA.
Let me explain. Oh okay, let me explain. All the
other sports said NFL, look at baseball, your pickleball, a
Rod Jeter, big Poppy, you know, rest in peace, Pete Rose,
Frank Thomas, all these guys we talk highly of the game,
Mark i KB, Kevin Burkhart. These guys elevate the sport.

(06:17):
They talk about the sport. They're essentially kind of working for.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Everything about the NBA is a self criticism. Exhibit A.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
This morning, I'm a Dan Patrick show, Charles Barkley is
talking about how the game stinks.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
I watched the worst played the Mavericks. It's one of
the worst games I've seen. They just went up and
down the court and shot threes and I was like, man,
this is awful to watch. If you just don't have
a three point shooting contest every night, your most important
thing of a game is the fan. And if they're
not watching you can't keep your head in the sand.

(06:56):
You got to say, what are we doing wrong? And,
like I say, it's frustrated for me because Annaday is
now the three point shooting contests and a free throw contest.
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
If Charles Barkley doesn't like it, how are you supposed
to like it? If every HU who is the I heard.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Jason McIntyre talk about this a little bit on the Herd,
but I had already been thinking this myself. If every
night or a couple of days a week, you're tuning
into the NBA and everyone's fired up, people love to
say what's the best pregame postgame show? Barkley Shaq Kenny
when they're only talking negatively about the sport, trying to

(07:35):
elevate Barkley in Shack, just talking about how the game's
not as good as when they were there. You know,
it's not as tough, and you know players aren't as physical.
They're just shooting up threes. He is also being honest.
I don't want to pat ourselves on the back like
Barry Horowitz. But the minute the ratings came out in
the story of the ratings drop in twenty eight percent
came out we here on this show that they were saying, well,

(07:57):
let's figure out why. There's a multitude of reasons as
to why. But we're also saying, for as much as
Steph Curry has done for the game, essentially he's sort
of ruined the game because you got a bunch of
people throwing up three point shots and they're not Steph Curry,
So it's taken away from the game and the physicality
of it and the rivalry of it, not to mention,
maybe too many politics involved in the NBA, and people

(08:20):
were tired of all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
So we also speculated.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
So you can't expect Charles Barkley to get out there
and lie either. But there's also that sense of he
has to take a positive approach if he wants to
sell this sport to other people, because when he's talking
about it, and when they're talking about and they're talking
down about their own sport, it's just magnifying what everyone's
seeing already anyway.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, and it also felt like in the line of
questioning to Barkley, he's just basically giving his take on
what the hot topic is the past few days. Because
Adam Sandler, the Adam Sandler. That's what he has been.
A joke.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Can't leave it.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Out of Silver. He has kind of been a clown lately.
This European style tournament for the in season, which is
now the NBA Emirates Cup. We weren't we weren't too
fond of it last season, but we all said, hey,
we'll be open minded, we'll give it a chance, we'll
give it a shot. Then the Lakers wanted it, and
everybody made fun of him because there was a banner

(09:22):
and I was like, okay, well, this is not pointing
in the right direction. And now last night the Bucks
didn't really want to pop champagn because they were feeling
the same way, like, hey, this is great, but this
is not an NBA title. So we were all as Americans,
we're all kind of confused by that aspect of it
because we're into championships at the end of a full season,
not these in season tournaments. And now he makes that

(09:43):
Silver makes this announcement that the NBA All Star Game
is also going to be a soccer like tournament.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
And Danny j you nailed it, man. We have a
different way of thinking here in America. It's as simple
as that. And You're absolutely right. We just want that
one big game. When you start breaking it down to
these little tournaments, Americans are tuned out. That's not how.
We don't have the patience for it. We don't absorb
sports that way. We have an equation. The equation is

(10:10):
you play halfway.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Through the sport.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
There's like the best players play All Star game and
then at the end we got a champion. Yes we
are we simple. We consume and compute sports in that
special We want that with some burgers and beer.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Simple. Yeah, but that don't come.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
The old way went perfect with our beer, helmets and
face paint. You start adding all this other stuff, it
starts getting confusing. We're not into it. And I'll be honest.
I saw Kevin Durant's reaction to it, and again it's
the same line of thinking.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Rich.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
When Kevin Durant reacted to the new All Star proposal,
his reaction was my reaction. But I thought the same
thing you thought, meaning, well, that's not what you want
the faces of your league to be saying about your
new ideas. So if Barkley Shack and the main faces
of the broadcast are talking smack about this, this is

(11:00):
of the sport, and one of the faces of the
actual league, Kevin Durant, is saying this.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I hate it absolutely, I hate terrible.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
All Star Game four mass changing all the four mass terrible.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
In my opinion, you should just go back to East.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
West's play game. I think we can try and.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
To bring that flareback somehow with.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
The All Star weekend.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
But thing we just keep it traditional. But we'll see
how that's one works. You never know, I might be wrong.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I'm just another guy with another opinion.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
And listen, that's the opposite of getting me tuned in, right.
I only want to go watch a movie. When you
tell me how good that movie is, you're telling me
you hate it. Guess what you're making me hate it.
I don't care about the All Star Game. I didn't
care about the Cup last night. NBA is bad. They're
throwing up threes, ratings are down, you're not selling the sport.

(11:50):
I don't know how it's been getting such bad pr
but now it's become the narrative of the NBA and
they need to do something really major that's not European
style tournaments to fix the problem. Listen, you could admit
it or lie to yourself we are all influenced. I'm
not saying we're all influenced by influencers on social media,

(12:11):
but you you could try to ignore it. But friends, family, coworkers,
they do influence you. Example, I'm figuring out what holiday
movie to watch with the wife when the kids go
to sleep, and I had heard so many people say
Red One with the Rock, which is now on Amazon.
It was in the theater one too many people are like, yeah,
I don't know, dude, it's not of stinks. I started

(12:32):
watching it and in my head was like, like, just
noticing all this stink. You're jaded going into it. The
stinks is stinks, this stunks.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I hate it.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
So all we're saying is the NBA is not doing
themselves any favors by adding to the narrative of the
stink from the most prominent people in the sport, from
the shacks, from the Barkleys, from the Kevin Durant says,
you heard there, And if this dude doesn't like the format,

(13:03):
he does go on to say, hey, look that's my
first reaction to it. Maybe I'm wrong, He goes, maybe
maybe I'm just the guy, you know, Yeah, I'm just
the guy On opinion.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Maybe it's something that's gonna work. I'm just telling you
what I think.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
But that's exactly what you guys said when the nd
season Tournament came out last season. Yeah, and it was said, okay,
open minded to it, but maybe this is gonna stink.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
It was fun maybe because the Lakers were involved, were
here in LA, right, but there was no buzz this year.
And I really think that narrative of the ratings are down,
the NBA is boring. I think that narrative has really
gotten all of our psychees, all of our brains, and
that's what we're seeing now, like yeah, this sucks, Like
like the awareness is out there now the glass was broken.

(13:45):
There's a girl like, yeah, they stink. I'll make a
dumb analogy. If there's a girl and she's hot, she's
got a little bit of a big nose, and some
guy points out like, yeah, she's hopping, look at her nose,
and then someone else goes.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah she does.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
She is hoping on girl big nose. Now, eventually it's
like she went from the girl at the hot bod
to the girl at the big.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Nose, and the NBA has become the girl at the
big nose.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
So many people have pointed out the NBA went from
the hot chick to like, hey, she's top, we got
big nose.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Now everyone's like she's got big nose.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
It's it's a narrative they need to squash. But I
don't know how to look. I don't get paid the
big bucks to fix it.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
You know who doesn't care about big noses? The rest
of the world. Iphrom Salam was on the network yesterday
evening as a guest on The Odd Couple. He made
a great point. He said, you look at the past,
I think it's five or six NBA MVPs and the
MVP race last season European players, the league has softened
European style.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's part of the problem though, for as great as
they are danyg we don't care about them their names
and they don't want to be the face of the league.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Right. And the NBA marketing has gone worldwide and has
focused on other countries, not ours, because let's be honest,
they can't compete with the NFL. No professional sport really can.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
So.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
But the NBA was doing a great job of marketing
are stars and the storylines for such a long time,
all of these things happened, and it left a bad
taste in everybody's mouth. Colin Cowhard made a great point
too over the past few days. He said something about
how ratings dropped like fifty percent once Jordan retired, Right,
and we're seeing a drop off now that Lebron's on

(15:19):
the tail end of things. And the stars that they're
marketing aren't stars that necessarily want to be marketed and
stars that we gravitate toward, like like a Yannis or
a Yokich or anybody like that. They don't want to
be the face of the NBA. They're really not great
faces and ambassadors for the NBA.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, this has been going on now since twenty twelve,
because the TV ratings since twenty twelve are down forty
eight percent.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
That's ridiculous. And I'll tell you what to make this
one full conversation. The new rules for the NBA All
Star Game, this little mini tournament is not it. It's
not it. We don't like it. Kevin Durant doesn't like it.
I don't like it. And again, the faces of the
league when they're talking down about it, does nothing to help.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Hey, Bud, they really need to have I'm not saying
they need to lie, right, lie, but they need to
lift their sports Yeah, I mean right. It's uh.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
When you work for a company, it doesn't even need
to be a sports league. You are an ambassador to
that company. You are essentially speaking on behalf of them
many times publicly. Your job is to elevate, not you know,
put down exactly the company you work for. That's part
of good business. Like Derek Jeter, do I really believe

(16:38):
he drives what was it the Edge?

Speaker 2 (16:39):
What was that car? Jeter's got the Edge? Yeah? Ford Edge?

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Do you think I really think Jeter drives a Ford
Edge in his prime? Get the hell out of here.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
I wouldn't even drive a Ford Edge if they give
it to me for free, I would. Hey, if anyone,
if anyone from Ford's listening.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
Do you know what?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
He's a sellout?

Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'm not driving a Ford Edge, But Derek Jeter made
you think Jeter's got I got the edge?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Ford Edge?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Do I really think Shack drives in that little car
and has general insurance? No, it's a sale. It's a
It's like selling a call in sports. You got you
gotta sell this man. That's why the NBA is paying you.
Guys the big Bucks.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
And he does eat like ten Papa John Pizzas.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
I believe that, and I get it. You know, you
might not like how the game's being played right now.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
You have to.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Find a way to still be positive or focus on
the positives without putting down the sport.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Because as much as.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
We criticize the NFL at times, because you know, people
just love to criticize everything the NFL.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Every time there's a rule.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Change or a head injury or something that you could
very much construe as negative, they don't harp on it.
They try to move along quickly. And sometimes the criticism
is that a player could do some you know, something
bad and they move along too quickly because they the
NFL is like bro Unicorns, Rainbow Sunshine NFL.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
There.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Do you think any announcers in analysts Will would uh
would spend an extended period of time talking negatively about
the National Football League?

Speaker 2 (18:11):
No.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Meanwhile, Shack and plus Barkley Bell would put a kibosh
to it. Shack and Barkley, who I love watching is
they are entertaining. There are a couple old heads that
are fun as hell, but all they're doing really is
subconsciously telling you that it stinks now compared to when
they were playing right, watch this movie? It stinks? No thanks? No, hey,
want to taste a steak? It sucks?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
No? IM good?

Speaker 1 (18:34):
You know you're not selling me on it, so no thanks,
I don't want it. And that's what he goes.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh smell this?

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, Hey, this song stinks. You want to hear it? Nope,
that's really what we're getting from the NBA. Now, I
want to focus on your first reaction of this All
Star Mini tournament. Are we overreacting? Cause again we're saying
we're open to new ideas, but not like European ideas.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's not how it works for us.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
You want to americanize it though, some hot women in
there or something. I don't have free pizza for everybody.
You know, this little mini tournament not cutting it. Your
feedback Next at eight seven, seven, nine nine on Fox, What.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Does the NBA do?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
I like the new ideas you're thrown out there, but
that doesn't mean you have to stick with them.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
They're not all gonna work. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
I commend new ideas. But let's go to JD in
North Carolina. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Can you known rich?

Speaker 5 (19:26):
Hey, guys, I got two words.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
You're gonna have to repeat those. I got two words
and then your phone went out.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Say it again.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Phone is as bad as the new All Star format.
Hang on the line, JD. See if we get a
better connection.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Jo only don't call back. I really wonder what is
two words are?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Now?

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I know we're never going to know. TJ in Riverside, Hey,
how you doing?

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Love the show?

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Thanks man.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
Now, my my thing has always been I think the
college starts in their college. I don't know any of
those stars.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
No more WNBA stars that are in college right now.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
If you would have told me, if you would have
told me Cavino, Danny g Anyone that we would have
known more female collegiate players last year than male, I
would have told you you were on drugs. No like
the fact that you could name five to ten women
college basketball players that went to the WNBA and you
can name maybe a couple in the NBA. That's problematic.

(20:27):
That's high dramatic. Sound's got Eric and Cincy?

Speaker 2 (20:29):
What's up? Eric?

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Hey, how's it going guys? So you know, you guys
were talking a little bit. You know, the ratings have
dropped off since Jordan left, and I don't know if
Jordan would be interested, but why not do something similar
that they did a few years ago where they do
a draft Jordan and say like a Larry Bird or
a Magic Johnson or like the temporary head coaches. I

(20:51):
think everybody would be interested to see if Jordan was
like a coach, you know, first time coach. I know
I would tune in.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let me tell you, can I tell you this? There's
no one because I'm trying to think of music the
sports entertainment. No one is as universally like almost sickeningly
like sicking sickeningly is that a word?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Sickeningly loved more than Michael Jordan.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
He is invincible. Everyone thinks he was perfect. If Michael
Jordan somehow like wanted to give his love to the
NBA and come for it and be like, yeah, I'm
going to be part of the positive change.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Let's do Jordan versus Isaiah Thomas.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
But I'm saying Michael Jordan is so loved that if
he's like, even if it was smoking mirrors and Adam
Silver is like, you know what I've decided to do.
I've acquired the the Michael Jordan think tank, and he's
part of all the Even if you said this is
Michael Jordan's idea, they'd be.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Like idea, idea.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
How long will going on nostalgia? Like how long will
bringing back these guys from the past, the great years
like actually helped the NBA.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Michael Jordan can do no wrong?

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Okay, Like it's not a sustainable answer, like at some
point the stars at two need to be the guys
that are the most popular.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
That is true, but it's like, uh, you know, for
a while, what does wrestling do? They know when to
bring back Hulkgan or the Rock or starting calls Jesse
the body. They know when to do this, Michael Jordan,
it's time to me. No, you don't think it's time
to be like Mike, just come on. Mike saves the
NBA again. Seriously, she stays out of the limelight on purpose.

(22:24):
Though they need to change. It's hard to get to
come to I know, if I were him, I wouldn't
want to.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
He's got money, he doesn't need, you know, given out.
It's like buying real estate or stock when it's a
little low.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Michael Jordan can come in now and be like, all right, listen,
I love this game too much to see it go
in the wrong direction. I'm here to help Adam Silver
change it. My goodness, thirty to sixty year old guys
eating out of there the palm of their hands. And
by the way, we're not here to dump on it, guys,
We're not here to do that at all. We're actually
calling out the people we're expecting to hype. I consider

(22:56):
myself a fan, Okay, I'm calling out guys like Baran
Durant whose job, in my mind is to hype things up,
like hype it up so that I could hype it up. Yeah,
get me excited about it, because no one was excited
about the game last night. No one was excited about
the Cup. Even Darvin Ham wasn't excited about it.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
No one was excited about.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
We pointed out last week that it's gonna be what
we're left with after the super Bowl, and we want
it to be a good product exactly.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
I want to make that clear too, like we want
to be pumped about it. And when we see, when
I see if I'm wrong about the Mini Tournament, All
Star Game tournament. My job, I view it as my job,
rich than is to get you hyped up listening. Hey, man,
you're missing out. This is great, this is cool. You're
missing out on the game. The big stars are doing

(23:43):
a bad job of selling it.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Now.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I want it to be great. We all do.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
I just want to make that clear. I don't want
people to think we're We're not hating, We're just stating.
And if anything, you could accuse me of being too positive. Yeah,
I'm a pretty like annoyingly positive guy, to the point
where like, I don't even think Rich wrapped his head
around the mini tournament until today, because it does it
sounds confusing. Wait, so Shaq, Barkley and Kenny they're gonna
they're all gonna pick teams and blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Is that it just sounds corny?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Dude, Eric, Yeah, one more thought and then we'll take
a few more phone calls.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
We'll go to Isaac for an update. What's up man?

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Yeah, So the guy one of the announcers was saying,
could Jordan bring it back? I mean, if you look
when like COVID hit in that DOCU series of Jordan Kane,
everybody was tuned in. I think it would be the
exact same way if he did a coaching debut like
versus Isaiah Thomas. I think that's a great idea. Maybe
they would shake hands after the game.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I just think I know it's You could say it's
a cheap trick. One of your favorite bands of the eighties.
You could say it's a chef. You could say it's
a cheap trick Robin Zanderson. But Danny, do you agree
with me that the fact that Michael Jordan could do
no wrong in the eyes of every man and woman,
like thirty to sixty, like just involving him, even if
it's smoking Mirrors as a solution, like we're bringing in
Michael Jordan to help with the process.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Well, we definitely need to bring back that good feeling
of the eighties and nineties at the NBA and US
as NBA fans had.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
The NBA really needs to find a way to say
I want you to want me. Cheap trick good.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm telling you he's right. Last dance got everyone fired up.
Smoking Mirrors, dude, Sean and Sacramento wrapped this up.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
Bud, Yeah, Yo, Radio bros Man. First of all, I
really wanted to get to my question, but real quick,
I've been dying to know Rich did you win your
softball game for the championship.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Brother, dude, I will let you know coming up, so
I know you're gonna listen, Sean, But uh, let's just
say I'm a happy guy.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
But I got I heard more.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
People tuned into that than the Bucks thunderlest Riches softball No.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Mercy beat majority dads last night. Wow, you're gonna hear
all about it. I'm gonna tell you. Are you as
you tell you?

Speaker 6 (25:50):
T is a radio listeners but real quick, man. I
got three quick solutions to the NBA problem. Number one,
go old school like the MLB. Make the winner of
the All Star game. Make it back easton West first
of all, but make the winner the proud owner of
home field advantage for the finals fours. These guys to
care because at this point it's just a terrible exhibition game.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
At this point.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
The other one, get rid of the stupid E Turney
whatever it's called, E Cup, whatever it is. Instead, after
playoff spots are decided, make the bottom sixteen teams have
a tournament for the number one pick. Whichever way you
fall in the bottom. If you finish first, then you
get the first pick, second second pick, and so on
all the way down to sixteen in the final fix.

(26:31):
Make make the ball red, white and blue like the
ABA days. Man, let's get back to having fun.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I like all your mandatory afros.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Mandatory afros.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
I like that too, Thank you, Sean Haan was saying,
Calherd was saying, take the three point line all the
way to the end, like no side shots, no side
three point shots, too easy.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
You know, the three point thing is a big part
of it. People are bored with that now.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, so we talked about that, but again it's fresh
on our minds with the new All Star rules and
this cup. Lad night, and we'll take the rest of
your feedback next plus midweek Major and more Rich's Softball tournament.
We got lots of guests, so much Isaac lohencros Let's
go to I Low, what's up buddy?

Speaker 8 (27:10):
All right, fellas, our top story continues to be as
it has been all day. Cavino and Red celebrate twenty
years on air together.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Thank you, I thank you, Isaac.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
Among the many congratulatory messages the duo has received today,
this one quote, congratulations on twenty years. Unfortunately, we have
found the twenty first year is the hardest. Sincerely, Bill
Belichick and Tom Brady, that was thoughtful. Speaking of quarterbacks,
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was a full participant

(27:42):
in practice today for the second straight day, despite injuring
his ankle and last Sunday's win at Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I really think there's so many reasons as to why
the NBA is getting dumped on.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
There's so many reasons.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
We know that.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
But when they announced this new All Star Mini Tournament,
the new format for twenty twenty five NBA All Star Game,
I started reading it rich, right, and like mini tournament,
four teams competing in three games words words, words, couple words, words, words, words.

(28:18):
And I'm not trying to downplay we're stupid Americans. No,
we're just preoccupied and we like things simple. And that's
the truth, right, You know what we want one awesome
game where maybe there's something on the line.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Right.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
We're okay with a rule change, We're okay with an
iPhone update, We're okay with some things. But when you
try to change what I call the American sports equation
season midway through the Best Players Play All Star Game,
End of the Year championship, that.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Is the blueprint.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
The twenty four All stars will be chosen through the
traditional voting process. It's led by honorary GM Candice Parker.
The teams are picked by Barkley, Shack and Kenny. He's like,
oh my god, there's so much involved. My reaction as
a fan was the same as Kevin Durantz.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Hate it.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
I hate it, but you gotta be open to new ideas.
I do commend them for trying. These are just not
the right ones the end.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
New ideas, but less how about less involved? How about quicker?
You know better, bigger better? Like what the MLB is
trying it has been trying to do the past few seasons.
Did they let the pictures take longer on the mound
or did they come up with a clock?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's it. And that's coming from Danny.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
G's our most hardcore resident NBA fan, right, So he's
acknowledging too that there's a problem.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
And I think we're really hitting on something.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Rich.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I give you the credit.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
You want the faces of the NBA to be ambassadors
to the sport. They're not doing a good job selling
this stuff and they're just not. And we're the fans
and to you, maybe we're the guy selling it. But
there's not a whole lot sell. There was an Emirates
Cup last night. No one cared, what do you want
from me? Congratulations to the Bucks. They didn't even celebrate rich.

(30:08):
Would you watch more if we got back to nasty dunks? Yes,
really good defense. Yeah, the world, Americans especially wants nasty dunks.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Don't fake the funk.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
On a nasty dunk as much slammin, jammin, recorn and ramon.
That's what we want.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
I love it. I love it when Anthony Edwards, a
young star in the NBA, goes to the hoop. I
was watching the Starting five special on Netflix. He looked
at the camera and he's like, to be honest, I
hate dunking really yeah, And he chucks up a lot
of threes right now. He's been working on his three
point game, like a lot of the league. I like
Dan Byer's idea to go inside out for the All

(30:48):
Star Game. So if you shoot from outside, it's not
worth three, it's a two. To get a three pointer,
you have to drive to the basket. And how about this,
any dunk four points to incur people, you.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Had to drive to the basket and you know who
else went on a rant about this credit to Dan Byer,
for sure, right, he was the first on our show
to bring that up. You know, because people are scrambling like,
what's the issue?

Speaker 3 (31:11):
We love the NBA?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
What happened? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Dame Cook went on a rant comedian Dane Cook, he's
like the fake. He basically was like, I got the resolution,
and he sort of you know, ad libd what Dan
Byer said on our show. Just changed a point system,
but give it a shot during the All Star Game,
Like you.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Said, I would love to see that if there was
incentive for the players to drive to the hoop. I
think all of us would be all about that.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I mean, you've seen all the things, like I heard
Colin or someone say, take away the three point line completely,
like just everything's two points.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Why did we all fall in love with Lebron's game
when he first came into the league. It was it
because he was a good three point shoot? Oh no,
he was.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
He was a bad three point She was aggressive, you're
ready blent to the basket.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
He still does in his twenty first season. He still
can put the team on us back at times and
drive of the hoop when they need a foul or
a bucket.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
You can't take away the value of a three pointer.
But what if you made a dunk three points?

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Well? Yeah, there, that's what I was saying.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, meaning meaning not a not a mid range jumper
or a layup.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm talking a dunk. Like a dunk is three points?
Oh that would be I get it. Yeah. So now
you're enticing people to get to the basketb not only
get to the basketball finish. I like it.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Something needs to be done and I gotta start. How
about this again, this is a positive conversation. We're not
dumping on the NBA before every game a round ball
rock sing along. Oh like live John Tesh basketball every day.
I think John Tesh always equals Rady.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Live John Tesh at the All Star Game. So come
on your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Celebrating twenty years and Rich at Cobino and Rich on
social media. Now next hour Spotty Thing. Rich is going
to talk about his forty nine ers in brock Prairie.
We're going to talk about Devin Williams of the Yankees,
and Midweek Major the biggest stories in the world of
sports and pop culture can wait, and a really interesting

(33:12):
NHL game that's coming up. There's a hockey game that's
worth noting, and I'll explain why I saw this on
social media, and maybe last i'll share with you there's
a game of note January fifteenth in the NHL. They're
calling it the Diddy Game. I think he did because
it's the it's Wild Oilers, it's the Minnesota Wild versus

(33:40):
the Edmonton Oils. And they're saying, oh, is that Diddy night?
And then someone else said, well, they haven't. They haven't,
they're not playing anymore this year. But what about the
Predators Oilers? Oh take note of that.

Speaker 7 (33:53):
All right, so dumb and finally NHL gets on the show.
But that's how my first hockey mention of the year.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
All right. So brock Purty, I've done nothing but defend
this guy.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
I've done nothing but give him a bro hug and
a cost him in a hallway at a VIP section.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Danny you were there.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, I feel Brock. I feel a butt coming.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I gave him a little bro hug. I met brock Purty,
nice guy.

Speaker 7 (34:21):
Can you like weird him out? Danny cost him. Danny
thinks that I think he loved me.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
He looks like a puppy dog anyway, and you probably
freaked him out. He had a nickname for Rich security.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
You know what, I'm gonna post a picture at coviing
on Rich and you tell me. I think it's the
face of a man that just met another, you know,
a new friend. So I've supported brock Purty. It tough
shoes to fill because I thought Jimmy g was a
solid dude, maybe not a great quarterback. You know me,
Niners fan. So this may not come as a surprise

(34:53):
or surprise that I think it is preposterous. It is insanity.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
It is like almost like.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Fools talk when I'm hearing the numbers being thrown around
for a brock Purty contract, Like, I don't know what
guy are you watching?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yo?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
He's quicker than you think of the pocket. He makes
good decisions, not all the time. His arm strength is
a little suspect. Little suss can't throw the ball downfield.
He doesn't have the cannon of a Josh Allen or
he lacks certain things probably shouldn't have been mister irrelevant.

(35:35):
I was saying you pointed that out. He had a
bad senior year, so his stock plummeted in the draft.
Very well could have been a second round the numbers.

Speaker 7 (35:41):
Were good, but the team lost a lot of close games,
and yeah, seven and six.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Something is he doesn't have any superstar qualities. That's what
really sets them back. But overall he's a solid quarter
the solid quarterback. And in fact, when we've done our
and we won't do it again, when we've said where
does he rank among the thirty two quarterbacks in the NFL,
we all agreed in the top third, you know, definitely
a top half, maybe the top third.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Right, even his TV commercials for Cowboy Boots our average.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
I mean, like, I mean, personality wise, he's average.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
But I would say of thirty two NFL teams, I
think we all agreed he's between ten and fifteen, right,
he's top.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, probably around twelve twelve.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
What about last year though, he was like people were
talking about MVP that whole listen, Brock party struggles are
just a microcosm of the struggles of the Niners.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
I mean that is true, and not everybody was talking MVP.
Remember all the stuff we saw on FS one right
in front of our faces.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Rich Nick young is salivates.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
At this because last season, last season, a lot of
the narrative was it's because of who's around him. It's
not because of him. So he wasn't getting enough credit
last season. It felt like Nick Wright was hating on
him every day. Yeah, but he's still forced to debate
brock Party because he does. He'll have games where he
has three touchdowns, three hundred and fift yards, no picks,
and like an almost perfect passer rating. I think brock

(37:04):
Party is a really good NFL quarterback, really good. He
does everything they ask him to do when they have
the guys.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
When when the team is healthy, and if they do
come back healthy next year, are you McCaffrey, Debo Kittle,
Trent Williams.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
They might be aged, it might be ill. You know,
everyone gets older.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
But I still think next year the forty nine ers
will be back to the playoff, super Bowl hunt like
they were the past five years. However, I see the
number sixty sixty five million dollars a year. Are you
on cocaine? Are you snorting lines? Are you are you
what are you doing? Are you shooting heroin in the hallway?

(37:43):
What is going on? You think brock Party deserves sixty
five million dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
There's a lot of older people. You gotta say quayludes,
what are you on? Kayluds on? Kuaylud what is it?
How valium?

Speaker 1 (37:56):
What on earth is going on? I love Brack Purdy,
I've supported him. I've backed him up through all the
hate and criticism over the years.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
But when you look at the highest paid quarterbacks, sixty
five million for party sets the team back.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
It not only sets the team back, but when you
look cave at the highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL,
Dak Prescott, I'm talking about average per year sixty mil.
Burrow fifty five, Jordan Love fifty five, Trevor Lawrence fifty five,
two of fifty three, GoF fifty three, Herbert fifty two.

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Then you go Lamar Jackson Jalen hurts inflations more than
I thought it was. You know, if he's sixty five
and Burrow's fifty fifty five?

Speaker 2 (38:39):
What And then you've.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Talked about it endlessly Rich how it's always been the
next QB in line, the.

Speaker 7 (38:45):
Next guy in line that's going to stop. David, you
does need to stop.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
And Bill Barnwell, he's the one that was talking about
sixty five million a year, he wrote. I suggested over
the summer that a party deal would come in at
five years, three twenty five or sixty five million per year.
That's still the number that he and his agents are
likely targeting.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Well could it be?

Speaker 1 (39:04):
And I'm just playing Devil's advocate here, Okay, are people
smoking the crack rock? I'm just playing Devil's advocate. Do
you think do you think that there's a stigma that
still stands with him? Because if you take away mister
irrelevant and the surprise that brock Perty was and you
just focus on what he's actually done in the NFL

(39:27):
and where he actually ranks, like you said the ANAG twelve,
maybe it's really where he's at and it's the fact
that we think we have this idea that he should
be grateful to be on a team with these superstars.
He's mister irrelevant. Maybe he's earned that.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Could he know?

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Right?

Speaker 1 (39:45):
And maybe it's the stigma that comes with him that
makes you think that he's not worthy and he should
snap back to reality. Woopster goes Gravity could back. I'm
gonna give you three quarterbacks that I agree. He's not
better than Burrow or anyone you mentioned, but he's up
there with the best. And it's always that next guy.
I'm gonna give you three elite quarterbacks that signed deals

(40:07):
a couple of years ago, perhaps prematurely based on the market. Now, okay,
averaging forty MILLI year Matthew mother f and Stafford forty mili,
Josh Allen forty three million, Patrick Mahomes forty five million.

(40:28):
I understand Joe Burrow getting fifty five. I could even
argue Jordan Love at fifty five. The potential is there.
He has glimmers where you're like, yeah, this is the guy.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Here's you tell me that? What was Josh Allen at
forty three? Forty three?

Speaker 1 (40:44):
And he's a guy that could change, make a difference
and change a game. Right, He's a difference maker, a
game changer, as Cam Newton would say, Right, that's what
he was. That's what Josh Allen is. Brob Perdy, isn't
that So I get where you're coming from.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
I do.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
He's not that guy. He needs that team around him
to win.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
So it's not that it's a negotiation, right, So like
any negotiation, they have to go high and find a
middle ground.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
The of the deal.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
It's the art of the deal, right.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
So just like pawn Stars or any other goofy show
you're shooting high because you know, you know, Mike Wolfe
from American Pickers is always going to go somewhere in
the middle, So he's gonna say sixty five, and you
know he's probably gonna get somewhere around the Joe Burrow area.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Of fifty to fifty five. And then that seems fair,
isn't it.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
No, Well, a in a market that's always going up,
that's you think he's less than that?

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yes? Like how much?

Speaker 3 (41:45):
All right?

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Not? Everyone that you mentioned is a difference maker, not
asking And listen, this is all started by me saying
I admire, I respect, and I really enjoy watching Brock Party.
I'm not asking this dude to get on the breadline
like it's a Soviet union in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
What did Daniel Jones get to get?

Speaker 1 (42:05):
I'm talking about giving this guy forty five to fifty mil.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Seems fair for the team what he brings.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
And I'm gonna go back to something my grandfather always
taught me, Ah Richie, I'd be like Grandpa Ken Griffy
Junior card is worth eighty bucks, and my grandfather would say, well,
buddy worth eighty bucks. If I see someone tell you.
Here's eighty bucks. Give me the card. It's only worth
what someone's willing to give you. Someone said that you
don't know as from Shinola.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
That was his favorite phrase. Why is that old? People say?

Speaker 4 (42:37):
So?

Speaker 3 (42:37):
You know Daniel Jones got a signing bonus guaranteed thirty
six million and an average annual salary of forty milis.

Speaker 7 (42:44):
Okay, Yeah, so I thought it was forty Yeah, but
what I means quarterback inflation.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
I'll stop it. He got forty. He did did least
squat in the NFL. These broc parties won some games.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
I know.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
He hasn't won any you know, anything major that's gonna
make you cheer that hard. He's an nfcon.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
You're your star that you and Colin Cowherd sweat. Baker
Mayfield stars are star star stars. Baker makes what I
call the most reasonable, awesome salary. The fact that Baker
Mayfield makes roughly thirty five million year, to me, is
great for that team. It's great for the salary cap,
it's great for Baker. Let's not make it seem like

(43:21):
giving a guy thirty five million dollars a year chump change.
I'm telling you, brock perty in my estimation is a
forty five million dollar a year quarterback when guys like
Burrow were getting fifty five and guys that signed a
little too early before the QB inflation are getting in
the forties.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Brock Perty, if you said four year, one eight, five year.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Two, twenty, give this guy forty something, he'll be happy.
The team could keep winning. Tom Brady, Tom Brady would
always take a little less money. I think the other
layer of this to go back to the lesson my
grandfather taught me, only if someone's willing to give it. Right,

(44:08):
If the forty nine ers say, yo, Brock, we love
that you saved us from the Tree Lance disaster because
people forget about the Trey Lance fail because Brock Party
was a little gem at you know, the last pick
who exactly if they said, Brock forty five forty eight
a year, dude, we'll get you, like pretty practically two

(44:31):
hundred plus million dollars over five years. That's a mega
million's powerball jackpot.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
You'd have just enough to put food on the table.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
We mean, I think it sounds fair, but this is
not the business of fair, right, This is the business
of trying to get the most you can.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
It's the agents.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
They're trying to get the most they can for their client,
as any agent and all this you know, mediocre Toyota commercials,
whatever brock Party is doing. Probably, how would you feel,
you know, when it comes contract time for us, are
you gonna want what's fair or the most you're agent
could get for you?

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I hope our agent's listening. I hope for less.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
I'm telling my age right now. That's for the most anyway.
But so that's really what's going on. It's not like
Party's the bad guy and they make it about a
talk show host.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
It's pretty though.

Speaker 7 (45:18):
If Party tells his agent I don't need to take
a max deal, then maybe they can.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
They can stop this quarterback in fusion. Let's let's bring
up one other layer and then we'll move on. I
think it's a it's a fair discussion, rich, but I
think there's some unfairness because brock Party doesn't come with
that superstar flair bat. Guess what I think you're holding
that against him? Guess what not? Everyone does and whatever
you do for a living. My final point, I think
is the best point of all. I should have maybe

(45:45):
led with it. No, save the best for last man.
You're like Vanessa Williams.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Danny G.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
I know, Dan Bayer gave me a couple of teams
the other day that would want brock Perty. But give
me an NFL team that would want brock Purty at
sixty five million dollars. There's teams that would take brock Purty.
You could answer that question say quickly, there are teams
that would take brock Purty, no diggity, no doubt. But

(46:14):
tell me a team that would take brock Purty with
a sixty five million dollar price. Take No, you would
take Purty at forty five if you're if you're the Giants,
or you know some of the teams seeing name the Saints.
There's teams that would take brock Party for the right price.
But no one, no one on God's Green Earth.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Well, I knew that was coming. I knew it.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Would pay brock Purty sixty five million dollars a year.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Yeah, you, and you've been arguing about forty five. You
could make an argument for fifty million a year. But
he is not worth resetting the market for the position.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Danny, what do you think, Danny G? Where where do
you put him? You're not basing him on the market.
You're basing him on the skill level compared to what
these other stars are making. And that's Jack Marjaction, Joe Burrow.
Some of the stars that sunconc exp recently are in
the fifties. You're right, we should not I love what
you said, Danny Gail, that we shouldn't be even continued.

(47:07):
We shouldn't continue to reset the quarterback market on rock party.
And that's coming from a forty nine ers all right now. Listen,
if he won the Super Bowl last year in Kansas City,
I'm sorry, in Vegas against Kansas City, and if party
was the reason fourth quarter big play, and this year
the Niners were playoff bound again. Now you're talking, but

(47:28):
he lost to Super Bowl without his star players around them.
There under five under five is down, so you can't,
I mean under under different circumstances. Had the Niners won
the World word thereous, geez, i'm'na losing my mind. Had
the Niners won the Super Bowl last year and the
forty nine Ers were twelve and two like the Vikings
are lines, and the Niners were headed back to the playoffs,

(47:50):
then you'd say, man party. But right now I'll dump
I'll take Sam Donald for forty. Sam Donald's playing for
ten right now, ten mill.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
I'll take Sam Darnald. That's a steal. Huh, I'll take
Sam Donald.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Guess what you had Sam Donald for five? Yeah, we
can move on broad party. Not worth sixty five million,
but a great guy, great quarterback, great role model for kids,
great everything.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
I think forty five is fine. Sixty five Are you
out of your mind?

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Twenty million off the off the mark? That's a lot,
so good luck. Negoti Isn't there in anything in life?
Isn't there like the point where it's like, well that's
too much. Like you're taking your daughter not to you know,
put your business out there, but you're taking your daughter
to a Broadway show when you go to New York, right, Yeah,
you paid a lot for tickets. It was a surprise
until you mentioned it on national radio. I think she

(48:38):
doesn't care about anything dead does She's not listening, But
you're going to take her to a nice Broadway show
in New York City.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Tickets were not cheap. No, if tickets were thousands, you
would have been like, yeah, sorry, we're not going. Because
everyone has a point where they're like, yeah, I'm just
not gonna pay that.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Everyone has a limit.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Everyone has a limit. I don't know how it's not
the limit five million? Get out here in the end.
What if the forty nine ers draft a quarterback, pick
up the end deal at a discount on Kirk Cousins,

(49:16):
and you have Cousins for a year or so with
a rookie quarterback in the Shanahan system, and you avoid
having to pay brock Party sixty five million dollars. I'm
convinced that Kirk Cousins in the right system is not
totally done. You know, you're not done like that, are you?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
No?

Speaker 3 (49:32):
But you would need for him to get his confidence back.
You're kicking the can down the range.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
But I'm just saying, like, what made the forty better
than Kirk Cousins?

Speaker 3 (49:41):
But what made but.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
What made the forty nine ers so competitive over the
last five plus years the fact that they have health
and they had to pay the quarterback next to nothing, right, right,
g Garoppolo was sort of on the cheap and Party
was on the cheap.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Right to mention, your coaching staff and your old line,
you run the ball very well.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
So with Kirk Cousins and a drafted quarterback, you're saving
twenty five to thirty million dollars just to thought.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Haven't heard anyone say it, Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
We saw that that memed ennyg Where the what dead
money the Falcons have to absorb whether he's traded or release.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
How quickly people forget that brock party took you to
the super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Dude? No, yeah, the Falcons forget if they release Cousins
sixty five million in dead money, if they trade Cousins
thirty eight millionaire.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
They're gonna be itch.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
They canna be itchin far trade. So hey, think about it.
Let's get to midweek Major, which Spotty moll.

Speaker 7 (50:34):
Thanks, Covino and Rich get you over the middle of
the week where mid.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Week Major Major.

Speaker 8 (50:43):
Oh, I love that we throw sports and pop culture
headlines and topics at the fellas and it's like the kids.

Speaker 9 (50:50):
Say, that's some man.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
We definitely seeing our scoring Midweek Major. I gotta go
quick here so he can get a full eight minutes.
All right, When you hear the horns, you know you've
made it to the middle of the week. And we'd
like to roll the big red Love dice over there
in the main studio to see who gets first.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Take the horns mean we're having a horny hump night.
And I just rolled in eight six again and yeah, no, hey,
it means I win.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Energ all right, Covenat, it's gonna go first in now,
ladies and gentlemen, the most famous person besides Judy Bloom
from Scotch Plains New Jersey Spotty Boy.

Speaker 9 (51:29):
Since Comito's going first, I'll leave with this story. Dodgers
fans had the joy of celebrating their world series we
win as they pumbled the Yankees and pumble the Yankees. Well,
the great city of Los Angeles decided to enjoy parade,
but it wasn't so good on their wallet. The numbers
have been released as to how much it costs, and

(51:52):
this is just in support of police and fire alone,
over two million dollars, So your tax dollars came out
of your tax dollars. But the Dodgers have to pay
that back to the city of l A. But I
just thought it was crazy that two million dollar price tag.
I'm just supporting the parade, not even the parade itself. Midweeker,
major men, thank you worth every penny.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I mean, given the fans a reason to celebrate celebrating
your heroes. Yo, it's just the moment you need to embrace.
It's so much fun. I went in ninety six when
the Yankees won it, and I'll never forget. I went,
you know, several times after that, but and again and
again no, and then.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
I went again, but no. Something.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
It's a way to thank the fans, and it just
puts La on the map. It's just great. So two
million to me, they got off cheap. What is two million?
One inning of otanic? Seriously, it's it's great.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Listen.

Speaker 6 (52:50):
You know.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
It's like when people say, are you mad? Are you mad?

Speaker 1 (52:53):
This is this is like me, this is me. It's
like when people say, are you mad the met's overpaid for?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
I'm like it.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Soto helps him win one World Series that pays for itself.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
It kind of was like two parades in one. Also
because they didn't get the COVID one.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
In other words, I don't think any Dodgers fans or
LA is sad or mad about paying two million dollars
for that big time, and also go over the spreadsheet
of what taxpayers pay for. I think a parade would
not be towards the top of their hatred list.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
All right.

Speaker 9 (53:22):
Speaking of celebrations, Continuing with the conversation we had at
the top of the show, Danny, you alluded to this
as well. As the Bucks won their Emirates Cup championship.
After the win to the Thunder, they decided to forego
the traditional locker room celebration of spraying beer and champagne,
which they actually had laid out on ice. Apparently, Doc

(53:42):
Rivers said after speaking with former Lakers coach Darvin Ham
and his experience after last season, they decided to forego
the celebration of drinking and going crazy to focus on
the rest.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Of the season. So that's why they delayed it.

Speaker 9 (53:56):
They're actually back at it this Friday against the CASM
midwek or maybe.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Everything about this is mid. The tournament was mid, the
cup was mid, the game was mid, the game was
what ninety seven eighty one? Thunderscored eighty one points in
a big game. Everything about it they didn't celebrate, I
think super mid. But then again they did mention last year,
didn't trying to win this take some steam out of

(54:24):
the Lakers last year? Wasn't that part of the reasoning?
They said they ran out of gas.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Yeah, there was some arguing about whether or not that's
what affected Lebron's longevity for the season, as far as
his legs and everything.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
And even the story of Darvin Hamby in two and
zero with the Cup, everything about it.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
It was mid Unfortunately. I love how we're.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Talking about a silly tournament in December affect Lebron's may
playoff runs anyway.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
But he didn't rest like, he didn't load managed like
all the other players.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
But I think this is the weakest story ever.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Listen, if you're gonna have a tournament and you're trying
to make anyone care about it, if you're trying to
give the fans like this again goes to everything that's
wrong with the NBA. You try to give the fans
a reason to celebrate and the players aren't even gonna
pop a bottle of champagne, then who cares?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
If they don't.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Care, why should we care. I'm with Rich, I'll pop
the celebratory champagne.

Speaker 7 (55:14):
Hey, guys, Yes, Dame got his championship. Okay, he got
his championship finally.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
All right, right, if that's what he walks away with
at the end, also said that would suck fresh off
her time Athlete of the year honor.

Speaker 9 (55:29):
University of Iowa's announce it will be retiring Caitlyn Clark's
number twenty two in honor of her amazing career with
the college. The Hawkeyes made the announcement today. Ceremony will
take place on February second, Groundhog Day.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
As the Hawkeyes take on USC.

Speaker 9 (55:44):
Clark comment and how it means the world to receive
this honor and celebrate with our friends, family in alumni
midweek or major.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
I think it's major, But I think she needs to
embrace this and say, hey, I've earned this, and everybody
that doesn't like you, this is my victory.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Here retire number. I'm proud of it. The end. I
think I think this is major major.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
She is the face of a sport, and I find
it eye rolling when like Angel Reese tries to dig
in for a little credit like we did we we
You're not French, everybody Clark stop it. And she she's
a recipient of so much jealousy in women's sports.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Wasn't sick who said this?

Speaker 1 (56:21):
It wasn't a snoop dog When he won an award,
He's like, I wanted to I want to.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Thank me, I want to thank me. She needs a
moment where she just thanks herself.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Oh, Connor McGregor, Remember Connor McGregor said I want to
apologize to absolutely nobody.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
That's what he said. What about Snoop Dogg won an
award and said, I'd like to thank thank me? What
about the who do you think you are?

Speaker 3 (56:41):
I love that?

Speaker 1 (56:42):
So I'm just saying, like, listen, you know me, I'm
not a huge w n B A guy, but Kitlyn Clark.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Has done something miraculous in college.

Speaker 4 (56:49):
Though.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Come on, man, who is a bigger name than her?
She needs to embrace this moment?

Speaker 3 (56:54):
All right? All right, uh we excuse one word you.

Speaker 9 (56:56):
UFC star Colby Covington suffered a loss to Joaquin Buckley
this past weekend, and the reason he cites was that
he was too busy campaigning for now president elect Donald Trump.
Saturday's fight in Tampa was stopped in the third round
to do a cut over Covington's eye. While he disagreed
with the decision, he admitted he wasn't at his best,
saying that his training suffered, making him ill prepared for

(57:19):
the fight. He said he came off the couch with
a two and a half weeks notice, so looking forward
to his next fight, which hasn't been announced yet.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Midweeker Major. I think this is mid. Everything about it
was mid.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
He said.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
He thought it was an even fight until the cut happened.
But he was getting pummeled the whole time.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
But it was.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
The fanfare in the hoop while leading up to his entrance.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
He had the hulks through there, right.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Paul Cogan's there, He's the real American, He's Covington.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Then he gets his ass whooped. So yeah, I think
it's mid. The whole thing.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
It's very mid. In fact, maybe it might be major.
I'll tell you what, what a real American? He sacrificed
his own career for the betterment of his support of
Donald Trump. What a real American. Let's say China.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
One more Quickie's fun guys.

Speaker 9 (58:10):
Sure, a few more details have emerged over the Joe
Burrow burglary saga. It's actually been confirmed, according to well
confirmed quin quotes to an inside source, that Olivia Putt
and the woman who called in the burglary they've actually
been hooking up for months and it's now been announced. Yeah,
and we have no updates on his actual longtime girlfriend.

(58:32):
But apparently she's kind of faded into the background. Seems
like they're no longer together. It was also Olivia Olivia.
That just quite confusion.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Oh yeah, you know Olivia.

Speaker 9 (58:41):
So yeah, apparently it's we speculated, but apparently it has
been a thing that.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
They were hooking up for months. Midwicre Major. You know.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
I asked Joe Burrow, you're still hooking up with Olivia
and he said, yeah, see, so now it makes sense.
It's a different Olivia Newton John. I think every Olivia
out there is hot to be done. Yeah, it's a
mid story because we sort of all knew. And did
he actually say hooking up for months?

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Is that the quote?

Speaker 9 (59:09):
That's so hooking up for months? Okay, so yeah, it's
it's sort of me that was so obvious. We all
we all knew that she wasn't working for him.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Yeah, I mean it's it's you know, it's mid because
I think we also knew this.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
But good confirmation and great Midweek major Spotty.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Thank you Spotty boys.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
It was pretty Major's gonna's god, Isaac for a date?

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Isaac? What's doing buddy? All right?

Speaker 8 (59:35):
Fellas Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was a full
participant in practice today for the second straight day despite
entering his ankle and last Sundays.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Win at Cleveland.

Speaker 8 (59:44):
One other note, by the way, today Mahomes presented the
following Christmas gifts to each of his offensive linemen, a
Rolex watch, cowboy boots, sunglasses, and air compression pants.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Wait they all got all of them, got all those things? Wow,
that's a lot.

Speaker 8 (01:00:03):
Among the comments, Brian responded, quote and they gave him
a bum ankle, and at Empire eighteen seventy two commented, quote,
what did he get for the refs anyway too,