June 5, 2025 • 21 mins
Tinder debuts a new height filter that allows you to sort out undesirable heights, so we decide to honor the Short Kings of Sports, proving height is just a number. And as the Knicks fire coach Tom Thibodeau, we look back at the days that he and other known bald guys in sports used to have a full head of hair
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Oh yeah, welcome to over promised our Bomapod episode ninety five.
Getting closer to the humdo Mark. I'm Steve Volcano, Man Covino.
That's Rich Bananahead Davis Volcano. Together, We're Covino and Rich
Monday through Friday, Fox Sports Radio. Here it is five
to seven on the East, two to four on the West.
(00:27):
Search Covino and Rich wherever you stream your podcast everything
at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. And we
have an action packed show today. Oh diggity, no doubt.
We're gonna talk about bald guys, Baldo Ronaldo's We're gonna
talk Tom Thibodeaux and bald guys. Stick around for that.
And we're gonna celebrate the short Kings. Let's well tell
you about a big party coming up. Man the opposite
(00:50):
of short Kings, quite the opposite your boy, Aaron Judge.
Guy's a goon. He looks like Herman Munster playing baseball.
He does Herman Munster and pinstripes. I love him. He
recently admitted something that he never publicly admitted. He did
an interview with USA Today and says he never leaves
his hotel room and the great and you're a Gary
(01:12):
Cohen got somebody would say hotel room in USA today
because I think that's the only place that paper exists,
like in a hotel. That is true. Oh, USA today,
they still print these things. Well check it out essay
because Michael Kay, the Great Michael Ka was talking about
it USA.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Interesting common USA today by Bomb Nightingale. He talked with Judge,
and I've never heard Judge admit this. He said on
the road he hardly ever leaves his hotel room because
when he goes out, he's just recognized because of his height.
He said, you give me six one six two. I
could get away with it. He said. The last time
he went out when they were on the road, they
(01:49):
were in Seattle. He wunch you to a Starbucks, I mean,
which you could walk into by accident in Seattle, and
he said, people just mop them. You know, the first
they think he's a basketball player, and then they realize
what he is.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh shit, it's Aaron Judge. Get a caramel macchiato. Yeah,
sort of sucks to be him in that way, right,
you're trapped on the road. And then Michael Kay went
on to say to the track to the wall, looking
up see yeah, because Judge probably hit a bomb because
that's my guy right here. See my guy's body, Aaron, juh,
my guy. There it is. But it got us thinking
(02:21):
about height and how heightest everybody is. Aaron, Judge is
too tall, this guy's too small. And now there's a
new filter. Tinder has introduced a new filter. Now you
stay filtered. It doesn't mean you can make a short
guy tall or tall guy short. You could actually in
your settings. Yes, it doesn't turn you into a bunny
or anything like that. Part of my language. That is
(02:43):
pretty fuck up. And I'll tell you why. Because women
are okay to say I don't want a short guy,
but if you said I don't want a fact girl,
you would be the worst guy ever. Right ooh preferences,
that's what we call this, right dating preferences. So I'm wondering,
can a guy have a weight for well, probably not.
You just follows women, Donald Reagan will women will are
(03:07):
allowed to have a high preference. I guess you're trying
to find your match, what you're attracted to. For whatever reason,
kicking down on a short guy is still accepted in
a world where we've been accepting to everybody. Yeah, being
short is still like, e, you're a loser. Have you
ever seen me all like you? Have you ever seen
those jerks on like a TikTok video where they'll ask
(03:28):
a girl do you prefer a tall guy? I'll never
date a short guy. And then he goes all right,
stand on the scale for a second, and they're like wow.
I mean, we're allowed their preferences. But ladies are very
harsh with height, and they lean into the sixes all
the time, six inches, six figures, six foot or enoughing.
And I gotta say I'm a little offended. I'm just
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under six foot. Guys, I'm five ten and three fourths.
But when a woman says that, I look at her
like you think I want to be with you anyway? Again,
who is the hightest? Well, well, I think, as the
kids say, I think it's time to pay tribute to
our short kings. In the world of sports. Oh, you
want to go through each sport and think of our
favorite short dude. Well, one of my favorite sports rich
(04:11):
is baseball, And I think the first person that comes
to everybody's mind is not that little person that took
one at bat, that famous that famous clip, yeah, famous clip.
It's the other little guy. Well, I can't stand because
I'm a Yankees fan, Jose the cheater Al Tuve. And
look how tiny he looks next to six foot seven
Aaron Judge. They are a better foot apart. Because he's
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five six, five six. I think he comes to mind
for everybody current day. He's the guy that gets honored
because it shows you that even if you're five to six.
I mean, he was an MVP playing with guys that big,
Oh my god, and hitting bombs. He's a great player
at bro hugs Aaron Judge, he's burying his face and
Aaron Judges belly button, motor boating Aaron Judge for sure.
(04:56):
So Al two we as much as I can't stand
the guy, I can't stand him because he's that great.
It just shows you that as one of my favorite
golf instructors. Have you heard of Trubs Peterson? Yeah, of
course he tall you. In golf, much like baseball, it's
all in the hips. He's got such great movement in
the plate, quick to the ball. That's a power for
a guy that's five six now, and that's inspiring to
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a lot of the younger short kings out there. Can
I get just a shout out to just one more
baseball guy. Sure, not our generation, but when we were
growing up, we would hear the stories of Yogi Bearra.
But he win ten World Series, all the Yogiism's five
to seven Yogi Barra and he was on all those
Yankees teams. And I mean one of the most famous
baseball players of all time, five foot seven catcher and
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leader of the team. Little fella. So now football, who
do you think of? You know, here he is with
the babe. Oh babe wasn't that tall either. The babe
weighed two hundred and fifteen pounds. He was six to two,
that's what I say. But that's an older babe, so
he's probably a little hunched over there. You go, you
lose height as you get when you say football. I
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you know, there's there's running backs that are five eight,
five nine even like Sakuon Barkley is not that big.
Barry Sanders sick One's like five nine to five ten,
not that big, but the tiniest of them all. And
he was a pro bowler. Darren Sprolls. Darren Sproles was
a guy that could you know, cut quickly. He's hard
to tackle because he's little and so little. He's elicive, tiny,
rudy like rudy, like he's still running back. So sprolls
(06:29):
at five six with the eagles right there. Now you're
foot six again, inspiring. Put the little guys out there
who have other people saying they'll never make it. Ye, really,
some girls, some girls gonna filter these athletes out of
their out of their dating world. Come on, dude, that
is so annoying that they would even allow that option.
I think it's so wrong. How many times our guys
(06:51):
catfished because all they see is the girl's face or whatever,
and they show up and they're like, you know, that's
just wrong. I got sure, King's we celebrate you. You're
big boxing. Now there's divisions of guys that are you know,
quote unquote tiny compared to the average sized guy. Fly weights,
but my favorite weights, my favorite I mean, I know,
I know Mayweather short, I know a lot of these
Julioses are Chavez was like five eight, five nine, but
(07:15):
many pac Man Pokeyo Manny pac Man Pockyo's five six,
also five foot six. Again, he's climbed all sorts of
weight divisions. He's a little dude, he's fighting again at
the age of forty six. This summer he's fighting Mario
Marios and Marios isn't that tall? And he makes there
he is. Look how small he makes Pachyo Look it's crazy.
(07:37):
So many pac Man Pakio five foot six and a
great karaoke singer at that. Oh yeah, I love me
some Poka Yoki, I love you now, Aaron Judge, he's
too tall. People think he's an NBA player. Let's talk
about NBA. When you think of short people, the first
person actually comes to my mind. I guess just generational
(07:57):
is spud Web. But he wasn't the shortest, only because
he gets slam. He could slam dunk. If we had
the poster. You saw the highlights, you remember how great
he was, the Duncan. He had a great nickname, Spu
spud Web five foot six. But again in the NBA,
that's tiny in the NBA, and it makes it even
more impressive to think that while spud Weeb was five six,
(08:17):
look get him there, Bugsy Bogues five three, that's just ridiculous. Honestly,
five foot three Buggsy Bogues and any little guy on
the court or at the gym was forever Spudweb or
Muggsy Bogues if you were tiny playing the references now
like when we play pick up basketball, your your little
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buddy that was like five five five six, it's spud Web.
Is that forty yard reference steam? Yeah, I don't know.
That's the one soccer believe it or not. He's arguably
the greatest that ever was. But Bessie's five foot seven.
He's a small guy. Yeah, land On Messy is not
a big fella, but JJ Watt that you would think
(09:00):
you would be like, wait, that's one of the best
football players and the best soccer player and you know
it doesn't matter as much in soccer. Probably helps them
when it comes to soccer, right, A lot of running
around different sort of sport. And as far as martial
arts and mixed martial arts, there's a lot of dudes
like even Henry Suhudo is a tiny guy, mighty mouse,
super small. But I'm going Bruce Lee, little guy. Lots
(09:22):
of cringe, Yeah, lots of cringe when you see Bruce Lee.
You know how much asked this guy kicked there? He
is what kream Abdul Jabbar Kareem's huge for Luel sinder,
But Bruce Lee was only five foot seven, five foot seven,
but just such a larger than life sort of guy.
But the short guy said of ladies, said, it doesn't
matter when we're laying down, doesn't matter, doesn't matter when
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you're horizonal. It doesn't matter when you're a superstar either.
So I'd love to see these women who are filtering
out all these superstars with they what they have to
say about this. I can I throw a more short
athlete on the list because I recently watched Nacho Leebra. Yeah,
those little twin wrestlers, Oh yeah, what they remember? Like
Satan's Helpers. Oh yeah, those guys they effed up. Not
(10:06):
your leepery, pretty good, that's stay belong in this conversation.
And Jack blacknot that tall of a fella either, Satan's
Helpers my favorite tag team. Short Kings. The ladies might
not want you in the new tinderfilter, but we celebrate
you here. That's over promise. We respect you, and I
say that respectfully. So the big story this week, Rich
(10:29):
is Tom Tibodone. Why they fired him and they got
to have someone else in mind? Is it Mike Malone?
Is it an age thing? Is this agents were going
from Heitus to Ages because he took them to the
Eastern finals, the furthest. They've been the Knicks since what
ninety nine, since the turn of the century, four out
of five years in the playoffs. He's sixty seven years old,
(10:51):
and I think he had a lot more to give
to the New York Knickerbockers. Malone is fifty one years old.
There's some rumors about that current analyst for ESPN. He
took the Nuggets to the Promised Land. How could they
just get rid of the guy? That's the debate, Like,
what's the deal with that?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Done?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're saying, how could they get rid of him? It's
about give me that picture again? How could he not
get rid of that little petra hair?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
What is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You know, that's the picture that I've seen floating around
a lot. So that implies to me that maybe although
he did well, maybe he wasn't relating to the locker room.
And I don't think it's the hair. But I will
say though, like I don't want to sound like a dick,
is everyone's hair. It's not something you could choose. You
don't choose to go bald. But when you're Tom Thibodeau.
(11:38):
There's so many looks now, guys shaved the head and
they got the beard going like, I think we're beyond
the stage of someone rocking the George Costanzo or George
Jefferson or the doctor Phil Tom Thibodeau, the Tom Thibadeau like,
why are you holding onto those couple of strands?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Man?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Take it home? You look fine.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Brunson defended everyone's scratching their dome trying to figure out
why they got rid of him. He has done too much.
A lot of people though, coming to his defense, right.
I know some of the moves off the bench were
questionable in the last series, but he's gone. He's fired,
and people like, why now I did some research because
(12:18):
I'm like, yeah, sixty seven, he needs to shave that
thing off his head, get some respect back. Could he
just started by researching his basketball prowess, but then it
went right to his hair and I'm like, what does
this guy look like with hair? And I found a picture.
I'm like, oh, Tom Thibodeau had a mullet. He had
a mullet. Check it out. Look at that mullet. He
(12:41):
had negative burns. He had the negative hide burns right there.
He went to the barber and said, give me the hose.
CANSEEKO seriously, look at that mullet, nice and fluffy in
the back. That mullet commanded respect Dix wouldn't have got
rid of that guy. Check that out. Ho litally changes
this whole it does right again. He's sixty seven. Now
(13:03):
maybe they're shooting a little younger. That's not that old
sixty seven, but maybe they need something different, and the
coach is the easy move to make because they're invested
in a lot of high profile players in New York.
So it got us thinking here on over promised. It
looks like if you asked AI to generate like an
eighties New York douche. I know, so funny right to
(13:24):
see what it would come up with. Man, if you're
just listening to over promise, and this is what you got, Yeah,
you gotta see the video on Fox Sports Radios YouTube page.
You gotta watch the show. And that's the beauty of overpromise.
Got us thinking about other athletes at toush them out
there who we only really know, or some people only
know is bald and what they look like with hair.
Some of us forgot what they used to look at.
(13:44):
I mean a lot of these guys, I'd imagine that.
You think of our bald athletes, you do remember what
they look like with hair, Like Michael Jordan at UNC.
You remember when he had the tiny little thing, which
is generational. Some of us remember, some of us don't.
But there are ones like I'll give you and that's
not sports related. Yeah, I totally forgot that Howie Mandel
(14:06):
had hair when we were kidding. It's like Jerry Kurk.
I picture Hawery Mandel with the shaved hair like Jeff Goldbloom.
He looked like Jeff Golblum to me when I was
a kid. That's you know, that's a guy that's not
sports related, but Jeff Goldbloom. Howie Mandel, I can't tell
him apart in the eighties. Yeah, there he is, look
like that's him. Famous comedian Howie Mandel the left had
(14:26):
hair in the eighties. A left picture there, that's what
he was doing Bobby's World, and shit, people don't remember that.
Younger people only know the Baldo Rinaldo version. Let me
hit you with one that. Yeah, it's hard to beat
this one. Okay, when stone Cold Steve Austin was stunning
Steve Austin. He that's what made him famous stone Cold.
Remember he was stunning Steve. I do. Wasn't that one
(14:49):
of your nicknames too? That's my old Now I'm Steve
Volcano man Covino, I mean, stunning Steve. Now they call
me Steve LOMBERI Maswappo Covino. But yeah, that's a great one.
Look at that hair. He started thinning out and he
took it home. Yeah, I mean he was like he
could have been one of the rockers, but he decided to, uh,
you know right, go that direction. Not even known for that.
(15:10):
And I get mad about this one. I defend this
one because Jeter's my guy. I'm a Yankees fan, Derek
Jeter one of my heroes, and people like Rich always
saying he looks goofy with the Baldo rinaldo and I'm like,
get out of here, dude, all right, he looks a
little like Kyu. But you remember he had the flat
top back in the nineties and now he has no hair,
(15:30):
so he's got to do the ball dough Ronaldo he had.
That's him now obviously doing a great job as an analysts,
A handsome guy. He turned two foundations. But when I'm
talking to someone younger, they're like, yeah, I mean he's
all right. I'm like, nah, he was the coolest. What
are you talking about? Look at Cheter in ninety six,
that that you say, that's cool. It's just that a
lot of younger people now know him as the bald guy.
(15:53):
I don't know him as the guy with the hair.
Get number two? Number two? Well, here's my number two.
I mean, I thought it's hard to beat Stone Cold.
Can't you save your number two for later? Bro, we're
doing a show right now. I got a guy. You
hate this guy because true story. Covino was once on
a date at a nice steakhouse with a girlfriend and
this guy sent over a drink to Cavino's girlfriend on
(16:16):
behalf of one of his teammates on the New York Rangers.
You love this story so much you have to tell
him you got dumped and that guy that was a
great wingman, Yeah, Mark Messier. True story. I looked over
at the table and I saw his big bald head,
and I waved, and I thought he was doing something nice.
A legend in the NHL. But you remember a wingman
to his buddy, do you remember Mark Messier with hair? Yeah,
(16:40):
see exactly. He's a guy I only know before he
was a ranger when he was on Edmonton back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
The hair.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I got a fun fact about another celebrity athlete we
all know, Andre Agassi, and what he looks like now. Yeah,
he has the bald of renould. Of course he looks
like Ed Kowaltchik from the band Live I Lone Love You.
He looks like that dude a little bit. Right back
in the day, he had rock star hair, and that's
(17:10):
what he was sort of known for. He was like
the rock star pluck a seagulls or something. Yeah, rockstar headband.
He was making tennis cool back in the eighties. He
did for tennis what Tiger Woods did on a much
bigger level. I forgot way cool. Here's what I never
knew until recently about Andre Agassi, And this apparently was
in his book and everything. Yeah, he admits this. That
(17:31):
was a wig the whole time. What he was so
insecure about losing his hair, Like he didn't have full
ball dover at all though then, but he was so
insecure about how he looked and his hair and his
image that he would wear a wig, and he feared
that it would fall off all the time he's playing
sports at a high level. It was a wig, dude.
How crazy? You ever see the hair in between? Oh see, No,
(17:55):
I don't think I've seen that, but it's like a
frat boy from ninety five Pete Sampers back of the
day just went over and pulled it off his head. Dude,
it was a wig, so agacy wig baldough. People forget
that he had that rock star thing going on. It's fine.
I never saw that. That's wild, the in between stage.
I'm gonna hate you with one more. A guy that
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we know as an NBA player, we know him as
an NBA coach, like he's been part of basketball most
of our lives. Okay. One of my brother's favorite players
played for the Nets when you were going to a
bunch of games, when you dated one of the Nets dancers,
Jason Kidd. I think if Jason Kidd as a slick
point guard with the moves and everything, I don't remember
(18:39):
Jason Kidd with hair. I couldn't think of it until
I looked it up. It was funny. I could picture
Jason Kidd were here, really yeah, look at that. Yeah,
I forgot the highlight when he had the blonde Hara,
the blonde hair. It was that the Timberlake special. Yeah,
so I see the blonde hair here, but I remember
when his hair was brown. And again it's it's generational
(18:59):
because there's a whole generation that never knew or forgot
what that person looked like. So again, these are bald
guys when they had hair, and I think Chasing Kidd
props to him. I think with the beard and the
shaved head now is like a coach. I think he
looks cooler and more handsome. He looks like a pal
of ours actor Chris Williams in that photo from Dodgeball
(19:20):
Man and Cannageball the movie Done Ball. So I'm gonna
end it with a guy who I think till this day,
I don't know what he looks like with hair. Doctor
Phil Well, that's a good one too. Carlos beltad On
Carlos again former met for me Yankee Cardinal. Everyone had
like a like something going on, like yeah, yeah, you know,
(19:43):
see that's how we know Carlos Beltran. He used to
glide through the outfields, a great player out there. He
had all the tools. This is the best I could find, guys,
Beltran with hair. Shazam ah par it has got to
zee him in, zoom out. And of course this is
when he sharpied in his hair. For you guys, remember
(20:05):
that when he was sharpie, he painted his head. He
painted his head. That's the best. That's the only thing
I could get you, guys, Carlos bat with hair when
he used the sharpie on his head, don't you use
the sharpie of filling sometimes? Yeah, sometimes when they miss
a spot or I get a bad fade. Wh knows
the guy that uses a sharpie for a sneakers his head?
You you you get a good use out of a sharpie?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I don't have any here, but yeah, man, yeah, absolutely,
there's plenty of you swing cone black hair if you
want to chime in, or or if you want to
add anything to the baldy list or yeah, bald guys
shortcing with hair. Just a reminder again before we say farewell.
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A right, so we hope to see you there, and
thanks for hanging out with us on over Promise. We'll
see you guys next time. Marivendcci baby, see you in
the over promising Goodbye
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Lad you guys,
Oh yeah, welcome to over promised our Bomapod episode ninety five.
Getting closer to the humdo Mark. I'm Steve Volcano, Man Covino.
That's Rich Bananahead Davis Volcano. Together, We're Covino and Rich
Monday through Friday, Fox Sports Radio. Here it is five
to seven on the East, two to four on the West.
(00:27):
Search Covino and Rich wherever you stream your podcast everything
at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. And we
have an action packed show today. Oh diggity, no doubt.
We're gonna talk about bald guys, Baldo Ronaldo's We're gonna
talk Tom Thibodeaux and bald guys. Stick around for that.
And we're gonna celebrate the short Kings. Let's well tell
you about a big party coming up. Man the opposite
(00:50):
of short Kings, quite the opposite your boy, Aaron Judge.
Guy's a goon. He looks like Herman Munster playing baseball.
He does Herman Munster and pinstripes. I love him. He
recently admitted something that he never publicly admitted. He did
an interview with USA Today and says he never leaves
his hotel room and the great and you're a Gary
(01:12):
Cohen got somebody would say hotel room in USA today
because I think that's the only place that paper exists,
like in a hotel. That is true. Oh, USA today,
they still print these things. Well check it out essay
because Michael Kay, the Great Michael Ka was talking about
it USA.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Interesting common USA today by Bomb Nightingale. He talked with Judge,
and I've never heard Judge admit this. He said on
the road he hardly ever leaves his hotel room because
when he goes out, he's just recognized because of his height.
He said, you give me six one six two. I
could get away with it. He said. The last time
he went out when they were on the road, they
(01:49):
were in Seattle. He wunch you to a Starbucks, I mean,
which you could walk into by accident in Seattle, and
he said, people just mop them. You know, the first
they think he's a basketball player, and then they realize
what he is.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh shit, it's Aaron Judge. Get a caramel macchiato. Yeah,
sort of sucks to be him in that way, right,
you're trapped on the road. And then Michael Kay went
on to say to the track to the wall, looking
up see yeah, because Judge probably hit a bomb because
that's my guy right here. See my guy's body, Aaron, juh,
my guy. There it is. But it got us thinking
(02:21):
about height and how heightest everybody is. Aaron, Judge is
too tall, this guy's too small. And now there's a
new filter. Tinder has introduced a new filter. Now you
stay filtered. It doesn't mean you can make a short
guy tall or tall guy short. You could actually in
your settings. Yes, it doesn't turn you into a bunny
or anything like that. Part of my language. That is
(02:43):
pretty fuck up. And I'll tell you why. Because women
are okay to say I don't want a short guy,
but if you said I don't want a fact girl,
you would be the worst guy ever. Right ooh preferences,
that's what we call this, right dating preferences. So I'm wondering,
can a guy have a weight for well, probably not.
You just follows women, Donald Reagan will women will are
(03:07):
allowed to have a high preference. I guess you're trying
to find your match, what you're attracted to. For whatever reason,
kicking down on a short guy is still accepted in
a world where we've been accepting to everybody. Yeah, being
short is still like, e, you're a loser. Have you
ever seen me all like you? Have you ever seen
those jerks on like a TikTok video where they'll ask
(03:28):
a girl do you prefer a tall guy? I'll never
date a short guy. And then he goes all right,
stand on the scale for a second, and they're like wow.
I mean, we're allowed their preferences. But ladies are very
harsh with height, and they lean into the sixes all
the time, six inches, six figures, six foot or enoughing.
And I gotta say I'm a little offended. I'm just
(03:49):
under six foot. Guys, I'm five ten and three fourths.
But when a woman says that, I look at her
like you think I want to be with you anyway? Again,
who is the hightest? Well, well, I think, as the
kids say, I think it's time to pay tribute to
our short kings. In the world of sports. Oh, you
want to go through each sport and think of our
favorite short dude. Well, one of my favorite sports rich
(04:11):
is baseball, And I think the first person that comes
to everybody's mind is not that little person that took
one at bat, that famous that famous clip, yeah, famous clip.
It's the other little guy. Well, I can't stand because
I'm a Yankees fan, Jose the cheater Al Tuve. And
look how tiny he looks next to six foot seven
Aaron Judge. They are a better foot apart. Because he's
(04:33):
five six, five six. I think he comes to mind
for everybody current day. He's the guy that gets honored
because it shows you that even if you're five to six.
I mean, he was an MVP playing with guys that big,
Oh my god, and hitting bombs. He's a great player
at bro hugs Aaron Judge, he's burying his face and
Aaron Judges belly button, motor boating Aaron Judge for sure.
(04:56):
So Al two we as much as I can't stand
the guy, I can't stand him because he's that great.
It just shows you that as one of my favorite
golf instructors. Have you heard of Trubs Peterson? Yeah, of
course he tall you. In golf, much like baseball, it's
all in the hips. He's got such great movement in
the plate, quick to the ball. That's a power for
a guy that's five six now, and that's inspiring to
(05:20):
a lot of the younger short kings out there. Can
I get just a shout out to just one more
baseball guy. Sure, not our generation, but when we were
growing up, we would hear the stories of Yogi Bearra.
But he win ten World Series, all the Yogiism's five
to seven Yogi Barra and he was on all those
Yankees teams. And I mean one of the most famous
baseball players of all time, five foot seven catcher and
(05:42):
leader of the team. Little fella. So now football, who
do you think of? You know, here he is with
the babe. Oh babe wasn't that tall either. The babe
weighed two hundred and fifteen pounds. He was six to two,
that's what I say. But that's an older babe, so
he's probably a little hunched over there. You go, you
lose height as you get when you say football. I
(06:04):
you know, there's there's running backs that are five eight,
five nine even like Sakuon Barkley is not that big.
Barry Sanders sick One's like five nine to five ten,
not that big, but the tiniest of them all. And
he was a pro bowler. Darren Sprolls. Darren Sproles was
a guy that could you know, cut quickly. He's hard
to tackle because he's little and so little. He's elicive, tiny,
rudy like rudy, like he's still running back. So sprolls
(06:29):
at five six with the eagles right there. Now you're
foot six again, inspiring. Put the little guys out there
who have other people saying they'll never make it. Ye, really,
some girls, some girls gonna filter these athletes out of
their out of their dating world. Come on, dude, that
is so annoying that they would even allow that option.
I think it's so wrong. How many times our guys
(06:51):
catfished because all they see is the girl's face or whatever,
and they show up and they're like, you know, that's
just wrong. I got sure, King's we celebrate you. You're
big boxing. Now there's divisions of guys that are you know,
quote unquote tiny compared to the average sized guy. Fly weights,
but my favorite weights, my favorite I mean, I know,
I know Mayweather short, I know a lot of these
Julioses are Chavez was like five eight, five nine, but
(07:15):
many pac Man Pokeyo Manny pac Man Pockyo's five six,
also five foot six. Again, he's climbed all sorts of
weight divisions. He's a little dude, he's fighting again at
the age of forty six. This summer he's fighting Mario
Marios and Marios isn't that tall? And he makes there
he is. Look how small he makes Pachyo Look it's crazy.
(07:37):
So many pac Man Pakio five foot six and a
great karaoke singer at that. Oh yeah, I love me
some Poka Yoki, I love you now, Aaron Judge, he's
too tall. People think he's an NBA player. Let's talk
about NBA. When you think of short people, the first
person actually comes to my mind. I guess just generational
(07:57):
is spud Web. But he wasn't the shortest, only because
he gets slam. He could slam dunk. If we had
the poster. You saw the highlights, you remember how great
he was, the Duncan. He had a great nickname, Spu
spud Web five foot six. But again in the NBA,
that's tiny in the NBA, and it makes it even
more impressive to think that while spud Weeb was five six,
(08:17):
look get him there, Bugsy Bogues five three, that's just ridiculous. Honestly,
five foot three Buggsy Bogues and any little guy on
the court or at the gym was forever Spudweb or
Muggsy Bogues if you were tiny playing the references now
like when we play pick up basketball, your your little
(08:38):
buddy that was like five five five six, it's spud Web.
Is that forty yard reference steam? Yeah, I don't know.
That's the one soccer believe it or not. He's arguably
the greatest that ever was. But Bessie's five foot seven.
He's a small guy. Yeah, land On Messy is not
a big fella, but JJ Watt that you would think
(09:00):
you would be like, wait, that's one of the best
football players and the best soccer player and you know
it doesn't matter as much in soccer. Probably helps them
when it comes to soccer, right, A lot of running
around different sort of sport. And as far as martial
arts and mixed martial arts, there's a lot of dudes
like even Henry Suhudo is a tiny guy, mighty mouse,
super small. But I'm going Bruce Lee, little guy. Lots
(09:22):
of cringe, Yeah, lots of cringe when you see Bruce Lee.
You know how much asked this guy kicked there? He
is what kream Abdul Jabbar Kareem's huge for Luel sinder,
But Bruce Lee was only five foot seven, five foot seven,
but just such a larger than life sort of guy.
But the short guy said of ladies, said, it doesn't
matter when we're laying down, doesn't matter, doesn't matter when
(09:45):
you're horizonal. It doesn't matter when you're a superstar either.
So I'd love to see these women who are filtering
out all these superstars with they what they have to
say about this. I can I throw a more short
athlete on the list because I recently watched Nacho Leebra. Yeah,
those little twin wrestlers, Oh yeah, what they remember? Like
Satan's Helpers. Oh yeah, those guys they effed up. Not
(10:06):
your leepery, pretty good, that's stay belong in this conversation.
And Jack blacknot that tall of a fella either, Satan's
Helpers my favorite tag team. Short Kings. The ladies might
not want you in the new tinderfilter, but we celebrate
you here. That's over promise. We respect you, and I
say that respectfully. So the big story this week, Rich
(10:29):
is Tom Tibodone. Why they fired him and they got
to have someone else in mind? Is it Mike Malone?
Is it an age thing? Is this agents were going
from Heitus to Ages because he took them to the
Eastern finals, the furthest. They've been the Knicks since what
ninety nine, since the turn of the century, four out
of five years in the playoffs. He's sixty seven years old,
(10:51):
and I think he had a lot more to give
to the New York Knickerbockers. Malone is fifty one years old.
There's some rumors about that current analyst for ESPN. He
took the Nuggets to the Promised Land. How could they
just get rid of the guy? That's the debate, Like,
what's the deal with that?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Done?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're saying, how could they get rid of him? It's
about give me that picture again? How could he not
get rid of that little petra hair?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
What is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You know, that's the picture that I've seen floating around
a lot. So that implies to me that maybe although
he did well, maybe he wasn't relating to the locker room.
And I don't think it's the hair. But I will
say though, like I don't want to sound like a dick,
is everyone's hair. It's not something you could choose. You
don't choose to go bald. But when you're Tom Thibodeau.
(11:38):
There's so many looks now, guys shaved the head and
they got the beard going like, I think we're beyond
the stage of someone rocking the George Costanzo or George
Jefferson or the doctor Phil Tom Thibodeau, the Tom Thibadeau like,
why are you holding onto those couple of strands?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Man?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Take it home? You look fine.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Brunson defended everyone's scratching their dome trying to figure out
why they got rid of him. He has done too much.
A lot of people though, coming to his defense, right.
I know some of the moves off the bench were
questionable in the last series, but he's gone. He's fired,
and people like, why now I did some research because
(12:18):
I'm like, yeah, sixty seven, he needs to shave that
thing off his head, get some respect back. Could he
just started by researching his basketball prowess, but then it
went right to his hair and I'm like, what does
this guy look like with hair? And I found a picture.
I'm like, oh, Tom Thibodeau had a mullet. He had
a mullet. Check it out. Look at that mullet. He
(12:41):
had negative burns. He had the negative hide burns right there.
He went to the barber and said, give me the hose.
CANSEEKO seriously, look at that mullet, nice and fluffy in
the back. That mullet commanded respect Dix wouldn't have got
rid of that guy. Check that out. Ho litally changes
this whole it does right again. He's sixty seven. Now
(13:03):
maybe they're shooting a little younger. That's not that old
sixty seven, but maybe they need something different, and the
coach is the easy move to make because they're invested
in a lot of high profile players in New York.
So it got us thinking here on over promised. It
looks like if you asked AI to generate like an
eighties New York douche. I know, so funny right to
(13:24):
see what it would come up with. Man, if you're
just listening to over promise, and this is what you got, Yeah,
you gotta see the video on Fox Sports Radios YouTube page.
You gotta watch the show. And that's the beauty of overpromise.
Got us thinking about other athletes at toush them out
there who we only really know, or some people only
know is bald and what they look like with hair.
Some of us forgot what they used to look at.
(13:44):
I mean a lot of these guys, I'd imagine that.
You think of our bald athletes, you do remember what
they look like with hair, Like Michael Jordan at UNC.
You remember when he had the tiny little thing, which
is generational. Some of us remember, some of us don't.
But there are ones like I'll give you and that's
not sports related. Yeah, I totally forgot that Howie Mandel
(14:06):
had hair when we were kidding. It's like Jerry Kurk.
I picture Hawery Mandel with the shaved hair like Jeff Goldbloom.
He looked like Jeff Golblum to me when I was
a kid. That's you know, that's a guy that's not
sports related, but Jeff Goldbloom. Howie Mandel, I can't tell
him apart in the eighties. Yeah, there he is, look
like that's him. Famous comedian Howie Mandel the left had
(14:26):
hair in the eighties. A left picture there, that's what
he was doing Bobby's World, and shit, people don't remember that.
Younger people only know the Baldo Rinaldo version. Let me
hit you with one that. Yeah, it's hard to beat
this one. Okay, when stone Cold Steve Austin was stunning
Steve Austin. He that's what made him famous stone Cold.
Remember he was stunning Steve. I do. Wasn't that one
(14:49):
of your nicknames too? That's my old Now I'm Steve
Volcano man Covino, I mean, stunning Steve. Now they call
me Steve LOMBERI Maswappo Covino. But yeah, that's a great one.
Look at that hair. He started thinning out and he
took it home. Yeah, I mean he was like he
could have been one of the rockers, but he decided to, uh,
you know right, go that direction. Not even known for that.
(15:10):
And I get mad about this one. I defend this
one because Jeter's my guy. I'm a Yankees fan, Derek
Jeter one of my heroes, and people like Rich always
saying he looks goofy with the Baldo rinaldo and I'm like,
get out of here, dude, all right, he looks a
little like Kyu. But you remember he had the flat
top back in the nineties and now he has no hair,
(15:30):
so he's got to do the ball dough Ronaldo he had.
That's him now obviously doing a great job as an analysts,
A handsome guy. He turned two foundations. But when I'm
talking to someone younger, they're like, yeah, I mean he's
all right. I'm like, nah, he was the coolest. What
are you talking about? Look at Cheter in ninety six,
that that you say, that's cool. It's just that a
lot of younger people now know him as the bald guy.
(15:53):
I don't know him as the guy with the hair.
Get number two? Number two? Well, here's my number two.
I mean, I thought it's hard to beat Stone Cold.
Can't you save your number two for later? Bro, we're
doing a show right now. I got a guy. You
hate this guy because true story. Covino was once on
a date at a nice steakhouse with a girlfriend and
this guy sent over a drink to Cavino's girlfriend on
(16:16):
behalf of one of his teammates on the New York Rangers.
You love this story so much you have to tell
him you got dumped and that guy that was a
great wingman, Yeah, Mark Messier. True story. I looked over
at the table and I saw his big bald head,
and I waved, and I thought he was doing something nice.
A legend in the NHL. But you remember a wingman
to his buddy, do you remember Mark Messier with hair? Yeah,
(16:40):
see exactly. He's a guy I only know before he
was a ranger when he was on Edmonton back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
The hair.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I got a fun fact about another celebrity athlete we
all know, Andre Agassi, and what he looks like now. Yeah,
he has the bald of renould. Of course he looks
like Ed Kowaltchik from the band Live I Lone Love You.
He looks like that dude a little bit. Right back
in the day, he had rock star hair, and that's
(17:10):
what he was sort of known for. He was like
the rock star pluck a seagulls or something. Yeah, rockstar headband.
He was making tennis cool back in the eighties. He
did for tennis what Tiger Woods did on a much
bigger level. I forgot way cool. Here's what I never
knew until recently about Andre Agassi, And this apparently was
in his book and everything. Yeah, he admits this. That
(17:31):
was a wig the whole time. What he was so
insecure about losing his hair, Like he didn't have full
ball dover at all though then, but he was so
insecure about how he looked and his hair and his
image that he would wear a wig, and he feared
that it would fall off all the time he's playing
sports at a high level. It was a wig, dude.
How crazy? You ever see the hair in between? Oh see, No,
(17:55):
I don't think I've seen that, but it's like a
frat boy from ninety five Pete Sampers back of the
day just went over and pulled it off his head. Dude,
it was a wig, so agacy wig baldough. People forget
that he had that rock star thing going on. It's fine.
I never saw that. That's wild, the in between stage.
I'm gonna hate you with one more. A guy that
(18:18):
we know as an NBA player, we know him as
an NBA coach, like he's been part of basketball most
of our lives. Okay. One of my brother's favorite players
played for the Nets when you were going to a
bunch of games, when you dated one of the Nets dancers,
Jason Kidd. I think if Jason Kidd as a slick
point guard with the moves and everything, I don't remember
(18:39):
Jason Kidd with hair. I couldn't think of it until
I looked it up. It was funny. I could picture
Jason Kidd were here, really yeah, look at that. Yeah,
I forgot the highlight when he had the blonde Hara,
the blonde hair. It was that the Timberlake special. Yeah,
so I see the blonde hair here, but I remember
when his hair was brown. And again it's it's generational
(18:59):
because there's a whole generation that never knew or forgot
what that person looked like. So again, these are bald
guys when they had hair, and I think Chasing Kidd
props to him. I think with the beard and the
shaved head now is like a coach. I think he
looks cooler and more handsome. He looks like a pal
of ours actor Chris Williams in that photo from Dodgeball
(19:20):
Man and Cannageball the movie Done Ball. So I'm gonna
end it with a guy who I think till this day,
I don't know what he looks like with hair. Doctor
Phil Well, that's a good one too. Carlos beltad On
Carlos again former met for me Yankee Cardinal. Everyone had
like a like something going on, like yeah, yeah, you know,
(19:43):
see that's how we know Carlos Beltran. He used to
glide through the outfields, a great player out there. He
had all the tools. This is the best I could find, guys,
Beltran with hair. Shazam ah par it has got to
zee him in, zoom out. And of course this is
when he sharpied in his hair. For you guys, remember
(20:05):
that when he was sharpie, he painted his head. He
painted his head. That's the best. That's the only thing
I could get you, guys, Carlos bat with hair when
he used the sharpie on his head, don't you use
the sharpie of filling sometimes? Yeah, sometimes when they miss
a spot or I get a bad fade. Wh knows
the guy that uses a sharpie for a sneakers his head?
You you you get a good use out of a sharpie?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I don't have any here, but yeah, man, yeah, absolutely,
there's plenty of you swing cone black hair if you
want to chime in, or or if you want to
add anything to the baldy list or yeah, bald guys
shortcing with hair. Just a reminder again before we say farewell.
June twentieth, twenty first and twenty second Friday and Saturday,
we got big parties going on circa in Vegas. All
(20:48):
the details just go to any of our socials and
you'll find a link to r s VP RSVP, so
we can make sure you get some comedian Rich Fox
sports swag and some goodies. But again the twentieth we're
having a whole party live broadcast Friday night, a nice
lounge events with fireworks and everything, and then Saturday atomic
golf and then a nice dinner Saturday night. So all
(21:10):
the events details on how to dress, what to do,
how to RSVP, all at coven On Rich at coven
On Rich RSVP, and again don't worry, just look your best.
You don't have to go overboard, just look nice. Because
it's at Circa the CRC at Circa CRC uh huh
we wee. We hope to see you there. Party in Vegas,
(21:30):
see what we do live CRC. We we I don't
know what that means either, And you gotta be twenty
one years old to come party with us at Circa
A right, so we hope to see you there, and
thanks for hanging out with us on over Promise. We'll
see you guys next time. Marivendcci baby, see you in
the over promising Goodbye
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Lad you guys,
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Steve Covino
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