February 26, 2026 • 22 mins
Team USA's Jack Hughes expresses his love of all things New Jersey at the Devils game, but Dan Patrick mocks NJ. As east coast natives, Covino & Rich defend the Garden State with their favorite things about NJ, from the food to the landmarks. As big baseball fans, C&R are FIRED UP for the World Baseball Classic. Team USA looks stacked, but some of the other countries receive our "they might be ass" honor. And it's the 14th anniversary of one of the most iconic phrases in sports. We also take the all new "Cowherd AI" for a spin to get all the answers and hot takes
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome to our bonus pop buddies. I love over Promise because,
oh it gives us a chance to crustings off the
list things that we wanted to get to on our show,
Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio Monday through Friday
five to seven on the East, two to four on
the West. But we never have time for so check check,
(00:26):
check check, And there's always fun stuff that we got
to do here and only here. Welcome to over Promise.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We're gonna talk about pizza, ass, football, baseball, all.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
My favorite things and one of my favorite things New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I mean, is it anyone more New Jersey than you?
I don't know. Tell me I was born with chin
on bro in Newark, New Jersey. I know people know
that Cavino actually came out of his mother's womb with
a gold chain on.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Any earrings like this? Yeah, buddy, we're gonna talk about it.
Thank you guys for being here again. Hit us up
at Covino and Rich Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Let's go. Is it true? The doctor said, ma'am, can
you get your baby to stop pumping his fist? No,
we're trying to weigh him. Can't stop, won't stop. Well,
you know what, You're not the only one that loves
New Jersey. In fact, the guy that just won a
gold medal for the US, a guy with a missing
toof a guy that is I was gonna say banging,
(01:21):
that's rude making sweet love to Tate McCrae, who's like
a sexy pop star. This guy's living the life. I'm
talking about Jack Hughes. And at the Devil's Game he
gave props to New Jersey. He should.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You guys are making me emotional, but I'm so proud
to represent the New Jersey Devil's Organization. And I'm so
so proud to represent the great state in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So proud. Oh, come on, now, that's a guy who
gets it right. State. Not every state is the great state.
Jersey is one of them. Well, do you know what
you and Setan must be new best pals.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Seaton's my guy, Dan Patrick, come on, all the hat
tricks we filled in for he's gonna diss my home
state like that. And Rich, Yeah, you built a nice
life of partying in Jersey. I met Rich in Jersey
and Hoboken.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
In fact, a lot of people don't realize that Hoboken
is one of the most fun places ever. The birthplace
of Sinatra, the birthplace of baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The birthplace of Cavino and Rich at the Planet in Hoboken.
This is where we met partying. But to prove Dan
Patrick wrong, I made a list of why Jersey's so great.
I think you're listening to my list. They're gonna be
a little different, Okay, but Jersey the Jersey Shore obvious. Hello,
and I'm not talking Paully Day in this situation. I'm
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talking about the actual Jersey Shore. Beautiful place to take
the family. I still go every summer. I have so
many great memories growing up. Spottle backed me up. Nothing
better than the Jersey Shore. I think people have a
wrong idea about it. I think it's a beautiful place.
The shore is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The boardwalk, oh, it drinks, the games, yes, the food.
I mean Jersey Shore. If you grew up on Long Island, Jersey, Connecticut,
there's a good chance, like prom weekend, went down to
the shore.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Dude, growing up on the beach, like you said, playing
the games when you're a teenager, late at night, boardwalk,
meeting up with other teenage girls, going on the rides like.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It was a scene and it still is and it's
so much fun. It's what's Steve Covino's boardwalk game that
impressed all the teenagers? Ski ball bro I had a
sweet technique, Broke boy, I have a dumb memory. Tell
me if I'm wrong, thumb to nose, because like Pete
Weber there, you told me, and he's in the news today.
You told me that you had a skill, speaking of
pe Webber, of throwing the bowling ball over that hill
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and out letting it roll. Mac Combs only bro thumbs only. Yeah, dude,
I would win prizes all the time, for sure. But anyway,
I'm serious. I think people think it's weak. It's actually
a lot of fun. The Jersey Shore great place to
grow up, great place for the family. And I mean this,
it's close to the city, New Jersey, just as close
as it is to the shoreest is close to the city.
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So you got New York City right there, you got
the skyline, you got the view, you know, Manhattan. I'm
not born and bred New Jersey like you are. I'm
in New York, guy, But when I lived in Hoboken
in Jersey City with my wife then girlfriend, we used
to say, you know, it's pretty cool. The view of
New York, which is what you get when you're in
New Jersey. When you're in New York, you don't have
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the view. We have the view in New Jersey waterfront.
Of course, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
From my hometown of Union, you'd be able to see
the skyline. You'd be able to see the Twin Towers
back in the day Rest in Peace. From the turnpike,
you see the Statue of Liberty. Unbelievable. So anyway, the
city you're close, you say, unbelievable. You were Dice Club
in Jersey mode, unbelievable. Jesus and dude. We have great diversity,
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so great that the food's incredible, especially the I Dah food.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay, people don't realize that New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
it's all the same as far as good pizza, good pasta,
good everything, the whole tri state area.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Like Rich said, but especially in Jersey, you got pizza,
you got bagels, and you cannot forget and you can't
skip out on the world famous Taylor Ham saying weed.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That was number one on my list. In fact, I
don't know why this salty cured meat is somehow like
isolated to the state of New Jersey. I know some
people say pork rawl, No Taylor Ham, pork rowll same difference,
sort of the same thing. Best breakfast meat. I can't
understand how across the river Manhattan, Long Island, Connecticut. The
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tailor Ham good is what makes Jersey special. You know,
every time I go home, I hit the Mark Twain Diner.
Taylor Ham Sandwich salt pepper, cats up. That's how it's
done good. Yes, you can get it with egg and cheese.
Taylor Ham Sandwich invented by John Taylor in Trenton, New Jersey.
Hence the tailor Ham, not John Taylor that cut the
winning touchdown Super Bowl for the forty nine John Taylor,
(06:02):
the inventor of Taylor Ham great for real. I'm not
even joking.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The history is the third state to join the Union
in seventeen eighty seven, and it's one of the original
thirteen colonies.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Ye boy over here, here's right. He's number three after
Delaware and Pennsylvania. So aside from the fact that I'm
from New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Jersey, Union bro Union, New Jersey, I'm from Union, New Jersey.
Now we know we know, home of the world's tallest
water sphere, which is in New Jersey, Union, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So now you're going to start telling me like you
have the world's largest rubber band ball, oh like pee
wee herman or something.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And it's a shame because they're trying to knock this down.
This is a major landmark. You see from the turnpike
is in my hometown. Two hundred and twelve feet of awesome.
You pass my hometown, you see that thing, you know
you're in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Bro it's iconic.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's the Union Water Sphere, the world's tallest. And one
last reason and then I'll hand it over to you
because you've got some memories there. Oh of course in
New Jersey, consider me the inventor. Okay, the inventor. We
don't pump our gas in New Jersey. Pump our fist.
You hear that we don't pump up gas. We pump fist.
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We don't pump a gas. We pump fist Jersey. We're
one of two states that don't pump our gas. It's
a beautiful state. Stops sleeping on it. Is one of
the true I.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Said was the state can crush the individual. New Jersey
the government fun facts. Cavino wrote the song and it
played on The Jersey Shore Show. We don't pump, Yeah,
we don't. If you're with fine girls, you're on the list.
We don't. That's a lyric right here, right, we don't pump?
(07:43):
All right? So anyway, are there any other reasons that
come to mind? I mean, I was gonna say just
Taylor him, but no, there's I think you have the
most authentic widos. Well, well that down, I mean the
most authentic when people watch the Jersey Show. In the
two thousands, I remember being like, no, no, no, I
know people like that. I mean, I graduate I'm still
friends with people exactly like that, Like when people like
good guys like this Ronnie in the situation and snooky.
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I'm like, no, no, those are like Jersey people.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean, I'm not wearing my earrings today. But it's
a hard habit to break. It's a lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I was going to say, you know, people want to
deny it, but they have two NFL teams. Yes, met
Life is a beautiful stadium and it's you know right there.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm sorry, Jets and Giants play there as well. You
saw the Devils. I mean, there's lots of history's lots
of fun. I think it has the stigma. People say
it's smell.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I was gonna defended because where the Meadowlands is
now met Life. The rumor not the rumor. The reality
was it was like a little swampy swamp lands and
there was a little there's a little stank stank by
one of the exits, like one hard one little area
where it's like so I was like sulfur and ass.
But besides that, I'll back them up. I would love
to make fun of New Jersey, but it is a
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beautiful state. I agree with seating from DP. I agree
with Jack Hughes Gold Medal Award winner, So shout out
to the New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
In fact, you know what, don't we have Ai Colin
By the way, hot women in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
New Jersey girls. I don't want to get into it.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
No, you know how many Jessicas and Jennifers from the
nineties that this guy probably got wet for sure?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would you say, you know, they would say Hoboken has
the most bars per capita. Yeah, definitely most hair products sold, right,
Oh well, yeah, lots of hair gel in New Jersey. Yeah,
people care about how they look their appearance as very bad.
Thing is you at least have hooked up with one
girl from Jersey that had quote crunchy hair. Oh like that?
Like wet looking hair. I still love that. Well, you know,
you know, since we've been having fun with our new
(09:33):
pell Ai Colin today. Yeah, want to ask can what
he thinks? Sure, Ai Colin is sweeping the nation.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I mean, if you play every stat every storyline, I've
got it all. What do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Hey, Colin? What's the best thing about the state in
New Jersey?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
New Jersey's best thing is it's the ultimate utility player
state beach towns, diners, big city skyline views, and you
can be in New York or Philly fast. You want
a real Jersey pleck. Liberty State Park gives you that
Manhattan back draw up. And on a day like this,
you've even got rivers freezing over in places like Red Bank.
Jersey's always got a little chaos. And yes, the what
(10:08):
your exit culture is real. It's their love language. So
tell me, are you a sure person or a diner person?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh? Is you gonna have a conversation both?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Colin?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Hello, and by the way, I think you need to
explain what this is if people are not up on it.
There's a there's a new feature on the Fox Sports
app where someone downloaded years of Colin shows. Yeah, so
now AI Colin. It's like a fun game you could
play with. It's all for fun, but you can ask
Colin questions and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Wow, this is gonna be a real futuristic episode of
over Problems.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Hold one second, let me if people miss this. Hey, Colin,
what do you think of Cavino and Rich?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Cobino and Rich work because they're not trying to win
a debate trophy, They're trying to win the car ride.
It's chemistry, it's pace. It's two guys who know when
to needle each other and when to get out of
the way of the joke. In a world of everybody
yelling take at you, they sound like actual humans talking
sports real quick. Do you like your sports talk more
(11:03):
comedy first or opinion first?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I like Covino and Rich. Thank you, coll Wow. Hold
on one more question for Colin. Colin, do you feel
bad that you stole Fernando Mendoza from Covino and Rich
at the Super Bowl? No?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I did.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I don't feel bad.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Radio Row is a street fight and the biggest stories
go to the biggest microphones. If Fernando Mendoza's people pivoted,
that's not stealing. That's the market working in real time.
And by the way, Covino and Rich are pros. They'll
turn it into content and win the week. Anyway, real quick,
do you think this was producer gamesmanship or just Mendoza's
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reps chasing the biggest spotlight?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I think you see big time in US, is what
I mean. I mean, anyway, that's insane, dude, Wow, that's incredible.
This was real.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By the way, it's not like a gimmick. This is
for real. And you know what, keep that on standby.
We'll go to him to wrap up each segment today.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Oh my good. Anyway, your thoughts on New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let us know at Covino and at Fox Sports Radio
hashtag over pro.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Every time you start and ask him a question, it
goes to that like I got stats, like in a
plurbus where it's like, Hi, Carol doude know we've gone away.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
All right, that's so wild, But all right, now where
do we go from here? World Baseball Classic? And I
feel like, yeah, there's buzz, but there's not the right
amount of buzz. There's not enough buzz. So we're here
Caveno and rich On over promise to get you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Fired up, right? Yeah all right, USA, what are we thinking?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I do want to give you a little history real quick. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There's been five World Baseball Classics, and I've been on
it so many years, for years.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But twenty twenty sort of mess things up. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So I've been on it since two thousand and six
is when it started. I just want you guys to
know that Japan has won three of the five. So
you know you're thinking this America's game and oh we
got this in the bag. Hey, Japan has won three
of the five. Baseball's huge Japan.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
There's the other only team that one back to back,
you know, six and oh nine, okay, and they won
in twenty twenty three. So they won the last one.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You remember Shohio Tani striking out Mike Trout to win
it all his former teamman at the time. So Japan
won three of five six nine twenty twenty three, USA
one in twenty seventeen, Dominican Republic one in twenty thirteen.
So dr US and Japan and Japan they're the only
three that have won.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But competition stacked.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But here's why I want to get you fired up,
because I think we're looking forward to a Team USA victory. Man,
because I don't even need to see the other rosters
to know that this Team USA is. I don't know
how anyone could beat him. I don't say unbeatable. I
can't see how anybody could beat this roster. As of
right now, Skeens is gonna have two starts. Schoo Ball
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is committed to one start, so right there, Skan's in
schoobl So that's.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Like a law firm. But no, they are. They're gonna
be the front end of the rotation. Who could beat
that spot? Just pull up the roster. Great pitching, but
great hitting, great defense. Superstars are showing up. That's the
best part of this.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So again, there's different projected lineups because of injuries, likes
Corbyn Carroll playing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And you know who's going to DH that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But as far as projected lineups, you got Byron Buxton
from the Twins leading off, Aaron Judge, my guy Wow,
New York Yankee, the team captain, Batton second again projected again,
Bobby Witt Junior.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Kyle Raley, Corbyn Carroll, Alex Bregman, Bryce Harper, Betton seventh.
That's how you know the team stacked Beton eighth, Gunner Henderson, PCA.
I do like how they mix it up. They got PCA,
Gunner and Bobby Wood Junior, three young superstars. So mix
that in with Judge and Cal Rowley, your MVP candidates
last year. So I just stacked and with scoobl and Skeins.
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You got to show me another team that comes close.
Did you see Kyle Schwarber is on standby as the
DH Wait, they just say Hi, Swarby just hitting bombs
like this team is. This is like the dream team
of baseball, you know what I mean? So you have
to imagine little kids are gonna be pumped to see
Aaron Judge. Imagine you're twelve years old in your prime
of collecting baseball cards right in these days. Check this
(15:17):
out show and tell you saw it. Right here you go,
You're collecting your cards and you got Aaron Judge, Cal
Ralely the guys that were going neck and it. That's
one hundred and thirteen home runs just right there, based
on twenty twenty five. You got them on the same
team with Harper and Schwarby like that PC the graphics
fonto's fault. Did I see? Will Smith is the other
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team catcher? So you got Cal Ray and Will Smith. Dude,
your team is stacked and jacked and I'm trying to
get you guys fired. Oh any we gotta, you know,
keep that USA men's hockey moment going USA and bring
it into baseball because I'm telling you, but they are
they the favorite or no?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
This is well? Hang there, I think they're the fait.
I don't even care what the odds say. Okay, I'm
not a gambling fool, not a gambling man, but I
will tell you who might be asked and who's least
likely to win it all.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You could check that out if you want. Hold on,
I'm going to check out something else right now, Colin,
Who's going to win the World Baseball Classic?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Team USA is winning the World Baseball Classic? Too much
depth there?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You got too much depth? I mean, did you not
believe me?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I'm telling you this, robot, Colin, I'm this team is ridiculous,
bro ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Now on the flip side, something we do. Are you
excited at least now or no, I'm very pumped. It
starts a week from today, so leave from today. Let's
go team USA. Let's see you beat Japan.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Let's see you beat dr On the flip side, there's
something we do on over promise called.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
They might be asked.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh yes, and consider this your World Baseball Classic edition
of they might be asked. There's some teams that are
not as stacked. Okay, and the Brazil national team is
one of those teams.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
They win thes contest Brazil well, but not the baseball
right right. And I created a really nice graphic. This
is a very virtual.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Futuristic show because I went to chat GPT, not Colin
Ai chat GPT, and it says the Brazilian national team
might be ass Nicaagua national baseball team also extremely long
odds to win, Czech Republic, Australia's national team, the Israeli
national team, and Great Britain. You know why because they're
(17:30):
in tough pools and it's likely they're going to get
out of the early rounds.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well, do you know what?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Those are the teams most likely to be asked? And
you can see the odds there too. When it comes
to Brazil, seems most likely to bees. I said, Brazil
and teams with nice asses. We're girlfriends with nice asses Brazil.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You know what, I do love the Team USA roster,
but can I just throw this out there really sure,
because it seems like, how does it get better than that?
Real quick? Let me hit you with the Dominican Republic
because we know dr is known for great baseball, of course,
and Japan is going to be competitive, but you might
not know all the and Theese players because some of
them play there.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Dude, A lot of the Latin nations are going to
be competitive, from from Mexico and Rosa, NA and those
dudes right to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
There's gonna be some teams even though to quote Timmy
trump uh, Timmy Trumpet's to quote Timmy no breaks get
this team. Dominican Republic Vlattie Junior, Carlos Santanaktel Marte, Manny Machado,
Jeremy Pina, Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez and Tattis Junior on
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the bench, O'Neill Cruz and Junior Cameronero who we saw
hitting bombs last year. So tell me that's not a squad.
It's a squad. There's a lot of might be the
only al contra other than that, like Sevy, So I
don't know if they go deep pitching.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Dude, the USA is hitting defense and pitching is gonna
be tough to beat. But of course Dominicans are gonna
show up, and there's.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
A lot of pride on the line.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So just trying to get you fired up from a
week from March fourth through the seventeenth. Who you got
let us know at Covino and Rich All right, now,
we do this every year because I mean you have to.
It's time to pay tribute on the anniversary of possibly
the greatest sports celebration of all time.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
All right, I think it's one of the greatest sports
quotes of all time. You might think, oh, you talk
about Jesse Rosco throwing up his glove. No are you
talking about, you know, the miracle of nineteen eighty. No,
are you talking about uh Lebron coming back? No, the
greatest sports celebration in Winever has to be not Muhammad Ali. No,
will he be sunny liston? No, Pete Weber, Oh yeah,
(19:36):
on this day he was. On this day. Take a look,
let's reminisce with Pete Dubbs.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Strike claim it, let's strike claim it?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Not right? What is.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Fired up? You know what's great about it? Everything? First
of all, but just the pure raw emotion to the
point where that's not what he meant to say, but
it came out so perfectly and poetically, and he was
really just in your face to some teenage kid that
was heckling him the whole time. And he's like, oh,
(20:21):
do you think that's right? I did it. He's mad
because some teenage kid was heckling him. He pulled it
off with a big win, and it goes down in
mystery fourteen years ago today and.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Please, I love this. I love breaking down what he
said unintentionally. It's like, whoever you think you are, you're not.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You know why? Because I am You're nobody? Because that's
somebody is me?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Hold on now, every play, every stat, every storyline.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I've got it all.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Does Pete Webber have the best sports celebration of all time?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Pete Webbers? Who do you think you are? I Am
is on the mount rushmore of celebrations because it's raw,
it's weird, and it's unforgettable. Sports needs more of that.
The best part is it wasn't choreographed. It was a
guy winning by one pin and losing his mind on
live TV.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Thank you, thank you, Robot Collins trying to say, Robot Collins,
she lost his mind in that moment. Oh. On that note, well,
do you want to hear some other legendary ones? According
to tipt with Robots today, we gotta go with you robots.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So it's not Michael Jordan, it's not Vince Lombarni, it's
not Ali, it's not not Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
No, Pete Webbs, keep it at that. You missed one
hundred percent of the shots you don't take. Okay, youmever,
who do you think you are?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I am?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We salute you? All right, We'll see you guys later.
Have a great throwback Thursday until tomorrow. Agreement there you baby,
see you in the over Promised Land. Come back later, guys.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah,
Yay.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome to our bonus pop buddies. I love over Promise because,
oh it gives us a chance to crustings off the
list things that we wanted to get to on our show,
Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio Monday through Friday
five to seven on the East, two to four on
the West. But we never have time for so check check,
(00:26):
check check, And there's always fun stuff that we got
to do here and only here. Welcome to over Promise.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We're gonna talk about pizza, ass, football, baseball, all.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
My favorite things and one of my favorite things New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I mean, is it anyone more New Jersey than you?
I don't know. Tell me I was born with chin
on bro in Newark, New Jersey. I know people know
that Cavino actually came out of his mother's womb with
a gold chain on.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Any earrings like this? Yeah, buddy, we're gonna talk about it.
Thank you guys for being here again. Hit us up
at Covino and Rich Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Let's go. Is it true? The doctor said, ma'am, can
you get your baby to stop pumping his fist? No,
we're trying to weigh him. Can't stop, won't stop. Well,
you know what, You're not the only one that loves
New Jersey. In fact, the guy that just won a
gold medal for the US, a guy with a missing
toof a guy that is I was gonna say banging,
(01:21):
that's rude making sweet love to Tate McCrae, who's like
a sexy pop star. This guy's living the life. I'm
talking about Jack Hughes. And at the Devil's Game he
gave props to New Jersey. He should.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You guys are making me emotional, but I'm so proud
to represent the New Jersey Devil's Organization. And I'm so
so proud to represent the great state in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So proud. Oh, come on, now, that's a guy who
gets it right. State. Not every state is the great state.
Jersey is one of them. Well, do you know what
you and Setan must be new best pals.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Seaton's my guy, Dan Patrick, come on, all the hat
tricks we filled in for he's gonna diss my home
state like that. And Rich, Yeah, you built a nice
life of partying in Jersey. I met Rich in Jersey
and Hoboken.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
In fact, a lot of people don't realize that Hoboken
is one of the most fun places ever. The birthplace
of Sinatra, the birthplace of baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The birthplace of Cavino and Rich at the Planet in Hoboken.
This is where we met partying. But to prove Dan
Patrick wrong, I made a list of why Jersey's so great.
I think you're listening to my list. They're gonna be
a little different, Okay, but Jersey the Jersey Shore obvious. Hello,
and I'm not talking Paully Day in this situation. I'm
(02:45):
talking about the actual Jersey Shore. Beautiful place to take
the family. I still go every summer. I have so
many great memories growing up. Spottle backed me up. Nothing
better than the Jersey Shore. I think people have a
wrong idea about it. I think it's a beautiful place.
The shore is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The boardwalk, oh, it drinks, the games, yes, the food.
I mean Jersey Shore. If you grew up on Long Island, Jersey, Connecticut,
there's a good chance, like prom weekend, went down to
the shore.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Dude, growing up on the beach, like you said, playing
the games when you're a teenager, late at night, boardwalk,
meeting up with other teenage girls, going on the rides like.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It was a scene and it still is and it's
so much fun. It's what's Steve Covino's boardwalk game that
impressed all the teenagers? Ski ball bro I had a
sweet technique, Broke boy, I have a dumb memory. Tell
me if I'm wrong, thumb to nose, because like Pete
Weber there, you told me, and he's in the news today.
You told me that you had a skill, speaking of
pe Webber, of throwing the bowling ball over that hill
(03:48):
and out letting it roll. Mac Combs only bro thumbs only. Yeah, dude,
I would win prizes all the time, for sure. But anyway,
I'm serious. I think people think it's weak. It's actually
a lot of fun. The Jersey Shore great place to
grow up, great place for the family. And I mean this,
it's close to the city, New Jersey, just as close
as it is to the shoreest is close to the city.
(04:09):
So you got New York City right there, you got
the skyline, you got the view, you know, Manhattan. I'm
not born and bred New Jersey like you are. I'm
in New York, guy, But when I lived in Hoboken
in Jersey City with my wife then girlfriend, we used
to say, you know, it's pretty cool. The view of
New York, which is what you get when you're in
New Jersey. When you're in New York, you don't have
(04:29):
the view. We have the view in New Jersey waterfront.
Of course, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
From my hometown of Union, you'd be able to see
the skyline. You'd be able to see the Twin Towers
back in the day Rest in Peace. From the turnpike,
you see the Statue of Liberty. Unbelievable. So anyway, the
city you're close, you say, unbelievable. You were Dice Club
in Jersey mode, unbelievable. Jesus and dude. We have great diversity,
(04:55):
so great that the food's incredible, especially the I Dah food.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Okay, people don't realize that New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
it's all the same as far as good pizza, good pasta,
good everything, the whole tri state area.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Like Rich said, but especially in Jersey, you got pizza,
you got bagels, and you cannot forget and you can't
skip out on the world famous Taylor Ham saying weed.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That was number one on my list. In fact, I
don't know why this salty cured meat is somehow like
isolated to the state of New Jersey. I know some
people say pork rawl, No Taylor Ham, pork rowll same difference,
sort of the same thing. Best breakfast meat. I can't
understand how across the river Manhattan, Long Island, Connecticut. The
(05:39):
tailor Ham good is what makes Jersey special. You know,
every time I go home, I hit the Mark Twain Diner.
Taylor Ham Sandwich salt pepper, cats up. That's how it's
done good. Yes, you can get it with egg and cheese.
Taylor Ham Sandwich invented by John Taylor in Trenton, New Jersey.
Hence the tailor Ham, not John Taylor that cut the
winning touchdown Super Bowl for the forty nine John Taylor,
(06:02):
the inventor of Taylor Ham great for real. I'm not
even joking.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The history is the third state to join the Union
in seventeen eighty seven, and it's one of the original
thirteen colonies.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Ye boy over here, here's right. He's number three after
Delaware and Pennsylvania. So aside from the fact that I'm
from New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Jersey, Union bro Union, New Jersey, I'm from Union, New Jersey.
Now we know we know, home of the world's tallest
water sphere, which is in New Jersey, Union, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So now you're going to start telling me like you
have the world's largest rubber band ball, oh like pee
wee herman or something.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And it's a shame because they're trying to knock this down.
This is a major landmark. You see from the turnpike
is in my hometown. Two hundred and twelve feet of awesome.
You pass my hometown, you see that thing, you know
you're in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Bro it's iconic.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's the Union Water Sphere, the world's tallest. And one
last reason and then I'll hand it over to you
because you've got some memories there. Oh of course in
New Jersey, consider me the inventor. Okay, the inventor. We
don't pump our gas in New Jersey. Pump our fist.
You hear that we don't pump up gas. We pump fist.
(07:08):
We don't pump a gas. We pump fist Jersey. We're
one of two states that don't pump our gas. It's
a beautiful state. Stops sleeping on it. Is one of
the true I.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Said was the state can crush the individual. New Jersey
the government fun facts. Cavino wrote the song and it
played on The Jersey Shore Show. We don't pump, Yeah,
we don't. If you're with fine girls, you're on the list.
We don't. That's a lyric right here, right, we don't pump?
(07:43):
All right? So anyway, are there any other reasons that
come to mind? I mean, I was gonna say just
Taylor him, but no, there's I think you have the
most authentic widos. Well, well that down, I mean the
most authentic when people watch the Jersey Show. In the
two thousands, I remember being like, no, no, no, I
know people like that. I mean, I graduate I'm still
friends with people exactly like that, Like when people like
good guys like this Ronnie in the situation and snooky.
(08:06):
I'm like, no, no, those are like Jersey people.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean, I'm not wearing my earrings today. But it's
a hard habit to break. It's a lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I was going to say, you know, people want to
deny it, but they have two NFL teams. Yes, met
Life is a beautiful stadium and it's you know right there.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm sorry, Jets and Giants play there as well. You
saw the Devils. I mean, there's lots of history's lots
of fun. I think it has the stigma. People say
it's smell.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I was gonna defended because where the Meadowlands is
now met Life. The rumor not the rumor. The reality
was it was like a little swampy swamp lands and
there was a little there's a little stank stank by
one of the exits, like one hard one little area
where it's like so I was like sulfur and ass.
But besides that, I'll back them up. I would love
to make fun of New Jersey, but it is a
(08:51):
beautiful state. I agree with seating from DP. I agree
with Jack Hughes Gold Medal Award winner, So shout out
to the New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
In fact, you know what, don't we have Ai Colin
By the way, hot women in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
New Jersey girls. I don't want to get into it.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
No, you know how many Jessicas and Jennifers from the
nineties that this guy probably got wet for sure?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would you say, you know, they would say Hoboken has
the most bars per capita. Yeah, definitely most hair products sold, right,
Oh well, yeah, lots of hair gel in New Jersey. Yeah,
people care about how they look their appearance as very bad.
Thing is you at least have hooked up with one
girl from Jersey that had quote crunchy hair. Oh like that?
Like wet looking hair. I still love that. Well, you know,
you know, since we've been having fun with our new
(09:33):
pell Ai Colin today. Yeah, want to ask can what
he thinks? Sure, Ai Colin is sweeping the nation.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I mean, if you play every stat every storyline, I've
got it all. What do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Hey, Colin? What's the best thing about the state in
New Jersey?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
New Jersey's best thing is it's the ultimate utility player
state beach towns, diners, big city skyline views, and you
can be in New York or Philly fast. You want
a real Jersey pleck. Liberty State Park gives you that
Manhattan back draw up. And on a day like this,
you've even got rivers freezing over in places like Red Bank.
Jersey's always got a little chaos. And yes, the what
(10:08):
your exit culture is real. It's their love language. So
tell me, are you a sure person or a diner person?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh? Is you gonna have a conversation both?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Colin?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Hello, and by the way, I think you need to
explain what this is if people are not up on it.
There's a there's a new feature on the Fox Sports
app where someone downloaded years of Colin shows. Yeah, so
now AI Colin. It's like a fun game you could
play with. It's all for fun, but you can ask
Colin questions and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Wow, this is gonna be a real futuristic episode of
over Problems.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Hold one second, let me if people miss this. Hey, Colin,
what do you think of Cavino and Rich?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Cobino and Rich work because they're not trying to win
a debate trophy, They're trying to win the car ride.
It's chemistry, it's pace. It's two guys who know when
to needle each other and when to get out of
the way of the joke. In a world of everybody
yelling take at you, they sound like actual humans talking
sports real quick. Do you like your sports talk more
(11:03):
comedy first or opinion first?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I like Covino and Rich. Thank you, coll Wow. Hold
on one more question for Colin. Colin, do you feel
bad that you stole Fernando Mendoza from Covino and Rich
at the Super Bowl? No?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I did.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I don't feel bad.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Radio Row is a street fight and the biggest stories
go to the biggest microphones. If Fernando Mendoza's people pivoted,
that's not stealing. That's the market working in real time.
And by the way, Covino and Rich are pros. They'll
turn it into content and win the week. Anyway, real quick,
do you think this was producer gamesmanship or just Mendoza's
(11:38):
reps chasing the biggest spotlight?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I think you see big time in US, is what
I mean. I mean, anyway, that's insane, dude, Wow, that's incredible.
This was real.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By the way, it's not like a gimmick. This is
for real. And you know what, keep that on standby.
We'll go to him to wrap up each segment today.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Oh my good. Anyway, your thoughts on New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let us know at Covino and at Fox Sports Radio
hashtag over pro.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Every time you start and ask him a question, it
goes to that like I got stats, like in a
plurbus where it's like, Hi, Carol doude know we've gone away.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
All right, that's so wild, But all right, now where
do we go from here? World Baseball Classic? And I
feel like, yeah, there's buzz, but there's not the right
amount of buzz. There's not enough buzz. So we're here
Caveno and rich On over promise to get you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Fired up, right? Yeah all right, USA, what are we thinking?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I do want to give you a little history real quick. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There's been five World Baseball Classics, and I've been on
it so many years, for years.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But twenty twenty sort of mess things up. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So I've been on it since two thousand and six
is when it started. I just want you guys to
know that Japan has won three of the five. So
you know you're thinking this America's game and oh we
got this in the bag. Hey, Japan has won three
of the five. Baseball's huge Japan.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
There's the other only team that one back to back,
you know, six and oh nine, okay, and they won
in twenty twenty three. So they won the last one.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You remember Shohio Tani striking out Mike Trout to win
it all his former teamman at the time. So Japan
won three of five six nine twenty twenty three, USA
one in twenty seventeen, Dominican Republic one in twenty thirteen.
So dr US and Japan and Japan they're the only
three that have won.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But competition stacked.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But here's why I want to get you fired up,
because I think we're looking forward to a Team USA victory. Man,
because I don't even need to see the other rosters
to know that this Team USA is. I don't know
how anyone could beat him. I don't say unbeatable. I
can't see how anybody could beat this roster. As of
right now, Skeens is gonna have two starts. Schoo Ball
(13:49):
is committed to one start, so right there, Skan's in
schoobl So that's.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Like a law firm. But no, they are. They're gonna
be the front end of the rotation. Who could beat
that spot? Just pull up the roster. Great pitching, but
great hitting, great defense. Superstars are showing up. That's the
best part of this.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So again, there's different projected lineups because of injuries, likes
Corbyn Carroll playing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And you know who's going to DH that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But as far as projected lineups, you got Byron Buxton
from the Twins leading off, Aaron Judge, my guy Wow,
New York Yankee, the team captain, Batton second again projected again,
Bobby Witt Junior.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Kyle Raley, Corbyn Carroll, Alex Bregman, Bryce Harper, Betton seventh.
That's how you know the team stacked Beton eighth, Gunner Henderson, PCA.
I do like how they mix it up. They got PCA,
Gunner and Bobby Wood Junior, three young superstars. So mix
that in with Judge and Cal Rowley, your MVP candidates
last year. So I just stacked and with scoobl and Skeins.
(14:53):
You got to show me another team that comes close.
Did you see Kyle Schwarber is on standby as the
DH Wait, they just say Hi, Swarby just hitting bombs
like this team is. This is like the dream team
of baseball, you know what I mean? So you have
to imagine little kids are gonna be pumped to see
Aaron Judge. Imagine you're twelve years old in your prime
of collecting baseball cards right in these days. Check this
(15:17):
out show and tell you saw it. Right here you go,
You're collecting your cards and you got Aaron Judge, Cal
Ralely the guys that were going neck and it. That's
one hundred and thirteen home runs just right there, based
on twenty twenty five. You got them on the same
team with Harper and Schwarby like that PC the graphics
fonto's fault. Did I see? Will Smith is the other
(15:38):
team catcher? So you got Cal Ray and Will Smith. Dude,
your team is stacked and jacked and I'm trying to
get you guys fired. Oh any we gotta, you know,
keep that USA men's hockey moment going USA and bring
it into baseball because I'm telling you, but they are
they the favorite or no?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
This is well? Hang there, I think they're the fait.
I don't even care what the odds say. Okay, I'm
not a gambling fool, not a gambling man, but I
will tell you who might be asked and who's least
likely to win it all.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You could check that out if you want. Hold on,
I'm going to check out something else right now, Colin,
Who's going to win the World Baseball Classic?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Team USA is winning the World Baseball Classic? Too much
depth there?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You got too much depth? I mean, did you not
believe me?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I'm telling you this, robot, Colin, I'm this team is ridiculous,
bro ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Now on the flip side, something we do. Are you
excited at least now or no, I'm very pumped. It
starts a week from today, so leave from today. Let's
go team USA. Let's see you beat Japan.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Let's see you beat dr On the flip side, there's
something we do on over promise called.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
They might be asked.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh yes, and consider this your World Baseball Classic edition
of they might be asked. There's some teams that are
not as stacked. Okay, and the Brazil national team is
one of those teams.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
They win thes contest Brazil well, but not the baseball
right right. And I created a really nice graphic. This
is a very virtual.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Futuristic show because I went to chat GPT, not Colin
Ai chat GPT, and it says the Brazilian national team
might be ass Nicaagua national baseball team also extremely long
odds to win, Czech Republic, Australia's national team, the Israeli
national team, and Great Britain. You know why because they're
(17:30):
in tough pools and it's likely they're going to get
out of the early rounds.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Well, do you know what?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Those are the teams most likely to be asked? And
you can see the odds there too. When it comes
to Brazil, seems most likely to bees. I said, Brazil
and teams with nice asses. We're girlfriends with nice asses Brazil.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You know what, I do love the Team USA roster,
but can I just throw this out there really sure,
because it seems like, how does it get better than that?
Real quick? Let me hit you with the Dominican Republic
because we know dr is known for great baseball, of course,
and Japan is going to be competitive, but you might
not know all the and Theese players because some of
them play there.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Dude, A lot of the Latin nations are going to
be competitive, from from Mexico and Rosa, NA and those
dudes right to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
There's gonna be some teams even though to quote Timmy
trump uh, Timmy Trumpet's to quote Timmy no breaks get
this team. Dominican Republic Vlattie Junior, Carlos Santanaktel Marte, Manny Machado,
Jeremy Pina, Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez and Tattis Junior on
(18:33):
the bench, O'Neill Cruz and Junior Cameronero who we saw
hitting bombs last year. So tell me that's not a squad.
It's a squad. There's a lot of might be the
only al contra other than that, like Sevy, So I
don't know if they go deep pitching.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Dude, the USA is hitting defense and pitching is gonna
be tough to beat. But of course Dominicans are gonna
show up, and there's.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
A lot of pride on the line.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So just trying to get you fired up from a
week from March fourth through the seventeenth. Who you got
let us know at Covino and Rich All right, now,
we do this every year because I mean you have to.
It's time to pay tribute on the anniversary of possibly
the greatest sports celebration of all time.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
All right, I think it's one of the greatest sports
quotes of all time. You might think, oh, you talk
about Jesse Rosco throwing up his glove. No are you
talking about, you know, the miracle of nineteen eighty. No,
are you talking about uh Lebron coming back? No, the
greatest sports celebration in Winever has to be not Muhammad Ali. No,
will he be sunny liston? No, Pete Weber, Oh yeah,
(19:36):
on this day he was. On this day. Take a look,
let's reminisce with Pete Dubbs.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Strike claim it, let's strike claim it?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Not right? What is.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Fired up? You know what's great about it? Everything? First
of all, but just the pure raw emotion to the
point where that's not what he meant to say, but
it came out so perfectly and poetically, and he was
really just in your face to some teenage kid that
was heckling him the whole time. And he's like, oh,
(20:21):
do you think that's right? I did it. He's mad
because some teenage kid was heckling him. He pulled it
off with a big win, and it goes down in
mystery fourteen years ago today and.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Please, I love this. I love breaking down what he
said unintentionally. It's like, whoever you think you are, you're not.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You know why? Because I am You're nobody? Because that's
somebody is me?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Hold on now, every play, every stat, every storyline.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I've got it all.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
What do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Does Pete Webber have the best sports celebration of all time?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Pete Webbers? Who do you think you are? I Am
is on the mount rushmore of celebrations because it's raw,
it's weird, and it's unforgettable. Sports needs more of that.
The best part is it wasn't choreographed. It was a
guy winning by one pin and losing his mind on
live TV.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Thank you, thank you, Robot Collins trying to say, Robot Collins,
she lost his mind in that moment. Oh. On that note, well,
do you want to hear some other legendary ones? According
to tipt with Robots today, we gotta go with you robots.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So it's not Michael Jordan, it's not Vince Lombarni, it's
not Ali, it's not not Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
No, Pete Webbs, keep it at that. You missed one
hundred percent of the shots you don't take. Okay, youmever,
who do you think you are?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I am?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We salute you? All right, We'll see you guys later.
Have a great throwback Thursday until tomorrow. Agreement there you baby,
see you in the over Promised Land. Come back later, guys.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah,
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