Covino & Rich - Lakers, Yankees, Clark/Ohtani & Ring Culture

C&R have a fun Wednesday, on FSR! Lakers suddenly having deeper pockets! The Yankees in the middle of the yips has the guys asking about rooting for failure. Caitlin Clark was roughed up & it's good for the WNBA! Ohtani was plunked, they celebrate the Panthers' Cup & talk Hali's NBA Finals status! Shadeur Sanders caught speeding & an update on Henry Ruggs. Plus, 'BIG MIKE'S WORDS OF WISDOM,' LeBron's ring culture, 'MID WEAK MAKOR,' & Lamar Jackson does something cool!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Before we dive into all the fun, we have to
congratulate the Florida Panthers.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, repeat, hard.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
To do they win the series, the Stanley Cup Final,
four to two, back, five to one game yep, back
to back in belly to belly. Congratulations to the Panthers,
and now Game six NBA Finals tomorrow, so you'll still
more to look forward to. I thought you were going
to say congratulations to Mark Walter. I was excited that

(00:52):
I bought this new can of coffee at the Delhi.
He bought the Lakers and the other big news that
people were cheering about here in the studio, Bo was
super pumped about it. The Guggenheim Group hunk gets ownership
of the Lakers. But where it is again, this just happened.
Jeanie Bus keeps her role, so she's still involved. That's
the word we got. We'll hear more from Dan Byer

(01:12):
with the updates. Danny g the Lakers fan, our resident fan.
He's super producing at eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox Iowa. Sam spots on. The videos were streaming live
on Fox Sports Radios YouTube page. Let's go any instinct,
Danny Jim. I mean, I feel like sometimes when people
don't really know much, they still have an instinct.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
You're like yeah, or like you don't care, you don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, you should care because you've seen what they've done
with the Dodgers. Obviously they have deep, deep pockets. So
look for the Lakers to go on a little bit
of a spending spree down the dah.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I don't worry, but.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's not about the rings anyway, Dude, who cares about
ring culture?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Culture, We're gonna talk about Lebron and ring culture.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I have a feeling they'll be spending money after Lebron
is retired fair enough.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I imagine that is true.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
And by the way ownership changes, sometimes it doesn't make
a big difference. Other times it is the of the
utmost like ridiculous changes, like for the Mets, the will
Ponds were cheap fans hated them like they was like
it was like almost embarrassing. Steve Cohen deep pockets, get Soto,

(02:19):
he's a Mets fan.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like sometimes, the change of ownership is a big deal.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Think about when Dallas got Mark Cuban back in the
day and how he sort of changed what an owner
looked like in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
And it's the difference between a wealthy group who makes
their money in a lot of different areas versus a
family that's made their money off of that sport.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, so big changes soon. We'll keep you posted on that.
And Rich is right, we will talk ring culture. Lebron
was talking about that, So we're going to talk about
that and before we get into Caitlin Clark and other
stuff we plan to fit in today's show. I'm the
resident Yankees fan, right yeah, And I know you don't

(02:57):
care about the Yankees, and that's fine and that's okay.
But what I do think people like is rooting for failure,
and the Yankees haven't scored. Now, amongst my circle of
Yankee friends and videos in social media, I thought it
was twenty eight straight innings. Mike, who runs this place,
is telling me is twenty nine So in twenty nine innings,

(03:18):
the Yankees haven't scored a run. Now think about their
stacked line up twenty twenty nine, because I've been running
around the hall way to saying, twenty eight innings, twenty
nine innings, you got Aaron Judge, you have Stanton back
John Carlos Stanton, you got Ben Rice, you got all
these guys hitting bombs, you got Cody Bellinger, all these

(03:39):
dudes capable of hitting home runs?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Or how about this, not even hitting home runs, scoring runs.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Even manufacturing one damn run, Michael Ball, just anything. For
twenty nine straight innings, three straight shutouts, they haven't scored
a run. It's almost like, Yo, what happened? Where's that chemistry?
Are they gripping the bat too height to tight? I
know that Aaron Judge called the player meeting today to
be like, yo, guys, seriously, we need to do something,

(04:06):
But he's also part of the problem.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
He's been whiffing.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So based on that and based on again, it's just
wild to see chemistry fizzle like that overnight.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
What happens to players and teams is so weird.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I always love these player called meetings, like what is
Aaron Judge and be like, all right, we've been sucking.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Let's not suck and go.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think he has to say, look, as captain, it
all starts with me, and I haven't been bringing You
have to take accountability first. He's been striking out. He's
not been playing well either, but also goes to show
you that when he's doing crappy and he's not hitting bombs,
we're not scoring runs at all. And none of these
dudes are scoring. There's no small ball at all. They're

(04:45):
swinging for the fences, they're swinging and missing. They're not
getting killed, but they're not scoring runs. It's pathetic. It's
been a minute since we've all had to rise.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
All rise, no rise, you know, Oh right.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
It does get you thinking, though, is it more fun
to root for failure than success? Well that was my point.
I'm the Yankee fan. We're from the East Coast. The
rest of the world loves to hate on the Yankees.
So if you don't care at all, or you hate
the Yankees, you might be intrigued to see how long
this streak goes. They play the Angels again tonight. They're

(05:23):
not playing great teams in the next two weeks. They
hate they should be annihilating the competition. So we'll see
if they're able to turn it around. But if you are,
I don't know, just the hating type, this is the
time to tune in, Dann Bayer.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
What a contrast in styles, considering how well the Rays
have played, and right now they're at the Yankee spring
training home and not like like when you like, I mean,
and there's news today, like aside from the Lakers deal, which,
by the way, they're saying the they're valuing the Lakers
at ten billion dollars to make this sale. That's what
the valuation is. He's not gonna have one hundred percent

(06:02):
of it, but that's what the number is off of.
But the Rays are being sold for one point seven
billion dollars today. But to your point, nobody's played better
baseball than the Rays have over the last month or so.
They're watch just a couple of games back and they're
playing in the spring training home of the Yankees right now.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Rays just swept my Mets over the weekend. The Rays are.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Looking good right now, like you it's it's it's really
crazy to just look at that. In the Al East,
I mean, it's it's one thing to play in Sacramento,
like the A's were the game you guys went up to.
But there's also an added layer that you're playing in
the spring training home of the Yankees right now, and
yeah and absolutely lightening it up while the Yankees can't
do anything right.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
That is a great contrast, Dan Byer, and also also
a reminder that it's a long season and there are
ups and downs and there's no need to panic. I
don't think there's any panic here. But it's so wild
to see how a team could catch the the Yippies.
It's the New York Yippies. Hippie catch the Yips or
cat's just sickness. And to see how chemistry could go

(07:04):
on and off like a light switch. It's like what happens.
No one could really ever put their finger on that.
And it's so crazy to see how it just all
disappears and then all of a sudden comes back. I mean,
it's it's life, right, I mean, it's you could say
the same about it all gone through. You could say
the same about everyone's performance at their job, in a relationship,
everything're on fire, and yeah, right, something.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
As simple as dude, something as simple as golf.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Dan Buyer's a golfer, Dan, how many times have you
or one of your golfing buddies felt like you were
in the zone. Then all of a sudden, you couple
rounds in a row, you stink.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Absolutely and in the same round like you're feeling it,
and then all of a sudden the whole seven of
it that you're like, where did it go? And then
hold eleven you're back on track. Yes, here's the only
the nature of sports and life.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Man, there's self accountability there, right, You're just it's just you.
In team sports, it's like everybody just forgot how to play,
everybody forgot how to score. Everything's going wrong at the scene.
No one's trying to suck. That's the funny part too,
Like I always find it funny when you're golfing or
playing rex sports and someone's like, come on, man, like,

(08:10):
do you think I wanted to pop up to the
short stuff? Do you think I wanted a whif? Do
you think that Bellinger wanted to swing through it? Another
one happens you start gripping the bat too tight, as
I referenced before, and you start trying too hard, and
then you're more prone to more injury, more errors, didn't

(08:30):
happen winning attitude?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Didn't that happen to you in the bedroom?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, it gets in your head, so you're trying too hard,
you're too conscious of it, right, and then you have
a failure performance as a result. It goes back to
what Jazz Chisholm said a few weeks back when I
pointed it out. He said the secret to his recent
success prior to these losses was playing at seventy percent,
because when you're trying to play at one hundred percent,
you're trying too hard, you're not playing naturally and just

(08:57):
sort of getting out there having fun and doing what
you do naturally. Seventy percent is the key to success.
You get to a point now where you start to
panic and you start to overcorrect, and now you start
playing bad.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
So that's where the Yankees are.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
So if you're one of those people that want to
see them fail, tune in tonight to see can they
surpass thirty innings without school. I wanted to make fifty,
and you're lucky that you're lucky that my mets are slumping,
or I'd be having a big edge on you in
this bet.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
We made exactly and you.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Know the Phillies. You could say the same for all
our friends in Philadelphia. The Phillies were as hot as
you could possibly be in baseball. Then they go drop
like eight out of ten and now they're getting back
on track. But dude, they're the Bronx Bombers. They can't
score one run. And I have friends that have gone
through these games. It's like, what a nightmare? You go
there and there they can't even score. So based on that,

(09:46):
because it is kind of fun to root for failure,
not for me in this particular case, but I could
see how anyone else would be intrigued or at least
to find some fun in that with that stacked lineup?
Do you find it fun to root for failure?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Failure?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Is that why you tune in sometimes? And what were
those moments for you? Because I can give you an example.
As a fight fan, I can't tell you how many
times I watched Floyd Mayweather just to see him fail
and guess what, he proved me wrong fifty times and

(10:23):
he was dominating the sport for all those years, so
he gets the last laugh and he wins. But that's
really why I was tuning in half the time. Millions
and millions of people watched solely for the reason of
wanting to see Mike Tyson knock Jake Paul in his ass.
No one was like rooting for Mike as much as
they think they were rooting to see Jake Paul get

(10:45):
caught to see him fail, right exactly.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
So it's the lore of the Paul Brothers. There's value
in that.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, you love to hate that guy, so he brings
a lot of value to these spectacles. He's definitely one
of those guys that you're watching just to see him.
I know he's a newly acquired San Francisco giant and
all is well now, But at the beginning of the season,
wasn't there something almost comically fun about Rafael Devers?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
H Let's see how far this guld go?

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Remember he started for eighteen and he was at fifteen strikeouts,
and you're like, what is going on?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
I also think about the NFL when a team has
been to the Promised Land too often and there's like
a little bit of overkill. Suddenly everybody's anti patriots, now
anti chiefs.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
It's you want to root against.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Like the Golden State Warriors were the quintessential like underdog
like way the Warriors haven't been in the mix in forever,
and then Steph Curry was all new and exciting, and
then you win a few championships.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
You stick around long enough, as the Batman quote, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
You have to be or you know, somewhere along the
line of greatness to get to the level of wanting
of people wanting to see you fan.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And not always.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
I'll give you a great example, someone that you had
to feel bad for, but it was fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Do you remember when we were a deaf little boys?
We were just little kids.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
And I know the story because I'm a Mets fan,
but I think everyone remembers the pitcher Anthony Young. Anthony
Young holds the Major League Baseball record. He lost twenty
seven straight decisions. And it got to a point where
people are like, today's the day. And then it got
to a point where it's like, go, is he gonna
lose again? And the crazy part is this guy holds

(12:27):
the record twenty seven straight decisions.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
He lost, but his.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Career era is three point eight nine. Said at all,
he really wasn't that bad. He just got the bad
decision over and over and over. Then you start tuning
in just to see well, how long could this last?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
This is so terrible.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Back in two thousand and eight when the Lions were
ohen fifteen, were you tuning in to see if they
were go if they would go oh and sixteen, which
they did obviously.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Sometimes Yeah, in that case, failure is fun to root for,
and I think for most of the country people are enjoying.
You know, what the Yankees are going through right now
at this moment, is how long is it going to last?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Another game for in a row?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Is there a sad part of you? Or is it
too sad to root for the Rockies to win like
thirty games this year?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Is watching a train wreck?

Speaker 6 (13:18):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (13:19):
But they're in my favorite team's division, and I would
think it was cool if they ripped off a whole
bunch of wins in a row.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
To me, I mean, there, we still know.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
They're not going to get to the playoffs, but it
would be nice to see them go on a long
win streak.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
If you were to tell me right now the Rockies
go twenty five and like one thirty seven, would that
upset you?

Speaker 2 (13:39):
You'd be like, Yo, that's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
We got to witness the suckiest of suck I've enjoyed
the first few months of the baseball season just watching
Wan Soto struggle a little bit.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
That was the fun for me watching him feel because
I know how great he is and what he could bring,
but also very salty as a Yankees fan. Of course,
he's turned it around with his new sassy stance. I
saw he's got a new batting stance. I don't have
just seen that, but believe me, a lot of the
fun was watching this guy struggle, watching him fail. So
I have a personal question based on that and again

(14:12):
examples eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Danny G's
on Standby Danny's a Raiders fan, Denny, there's got to
be a little uh tingling your diggle when you see
Mahomes throw like three picks in a game uncharacteristically.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
A couple of Christmases ago, that was the Christmas of
all Christmases for how's your present? Yeah, Like, I'm still
living off that Christmas gift. That's what Christmas Story three
is going to be about.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
That Raiders again.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yes, Now, if they could have a few more games
in their history, in their recent history like that, that
would be great.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
So you take great joy in watching blank or watching
who Fail?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Let me Know, Let us Know?

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox at Covino and
Rich on a personal note, like I said, yeah, does
it matter how it ended. But when you see x's
or people that did you dirty, or maybe a colleague,
when you see them struggling a little bit or not
not exactly slaying it, is it wrong to sort of
relish in that a little bit? Is that too devious

(15:08):
or is that understandable?

Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's understandable.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
I think it's one hundred percent understandable. And I will
also tell you something. You recognize growth in yourself if
someone that you had those feelings like that angst towards
succeeds and you don't have that bitterness towards it. I
realized that there was someone in my life that I

(15:31):
was just for years and years says, now you know
they just move, you know whatever. Then you find out
and I didn't have that anymore. I felt it was
a little bit of growth that look at myself, I'm
not holding this grudge that I'm happy for this person
for the success in their life.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
It's case by case, it's growth, it's all those things
I had that feeling recently.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Dan.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
It wasn't about an X, it was about an ex
colleague and Rich came through his land.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Don't you feel bad for him? I'm like, why he
was always a jerk.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
He's like, yeah, he posted a video how he's struggling
a little bit and everything, Like, the guy was always
a jerk, you know, And you gotta believe karma gets
you every once in a while. That shit was always
a jerk to me, a jerk to everybody. I knew
I was supposed to feel bad for him. So I
think it's it's case by case. But in relationships, if
you guys shared good times together, yeah, I would say

(16:22):
that's definite growth if you could look at it like, yeah, well,
you know, I'm glad they're doing good now.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
I like what dB said because I get joy out
of the Clippers losing. I think about Ben Maller crying
in his house and so in dB made me feel
right now like I've had no growth in my adult life.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, if someone really annoys you, that's a really I
think that's all hard to be.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
So he's so anti Lakers and he gets on the
air what he calls it, what is it? Shot in
Freud where he gets on the air and he takes
joy in other fans pain.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I think that's a harmless one that you could keep
because some people are so annoying that you kind of
want their team to live.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, I him have been jousting on the air about
Lakers Clippers for ten years now.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I think that's great. But I don't think you rub
it in his face. You just see that. I don't.
I don't say anything to him. I love it. There's
been a couple of.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Times where I sent him this picture of Clippers being
held over a toilet, like after they get ousted out
of the playoffs or something that. But no no words,
no context, no text, nothing, just the picture, and he
sends back a middle finger.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
So rooting for failure does it make you a bad person? Well,
if you're rooting for the Yankees to continue not scoring, yes,
But we'll go to your feedback now. Our buddy Michael Yo,
who's listening in Vegas. Yeah, hopefully we see Michael Yo
this weekend. I know he does shows in some in Vegas.
He's my favorite blazing.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Bro half black brother with a Korean mother. I know Michael.
I watched all his clips.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
He's the best, he said, I hate watch Connor McGregor.
Oh that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
I want to him get.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
You want to in the way he would walk out there,
of course, him or Vincemgren, who has the more cocky walk.
He was definitely one of those guys you wanted to
see fail and when they did, you're like good. I
hate him, I hate his face, but I personally see
both sides there. There have been times I rooted for him,
but I could totally see he's one of those polarizing guys.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
What about when you turn the tides on your own team?

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Our buddy Greg hit us up in Pittsburgh, he said, Guys,
the Pirates are so bad over the last decade or
so that I root for failure in hopes that the
owner will be pressured to sell to then hope someone
new puts the team in the right path. So like
rooting against your team, rooting for failure. Yeah, that makes sense,
hoping things turn around. Yeah, if anyone needs to be

(18:34):
bought out, it's teams like the Pirates. Yeah, guy, is
such a great history, right, and you just they would
be Baseball would be better if the Pirates were good.
So again, think of the Yankee stacked ass lineup of
judge and standing back. Like I said, all these dudes
that hit bombs, the Bronx bombers. They haven't scored in
three games straight, twenty nine straight innings, and they take

(18:54):
on the Angels again tonight. How far will this go?
What happened into that chemistry? And what are some other
things that are fun to root against? Fun to root for? Failure?
Eight seven, seven, ninety nine on five?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, what do they have? Twenty nine, twenty nine?

Speaker 7 (19:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Could we get to twenty get twenty eight? Can we
get to twenty more innings?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Because the Major League record for consecutive scoreless innings is
forty eight by the Chicago Cubbies in nineteen sixty eighth.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Wow, from June.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
To you give me something from Slappy Johnson in nineteen
oh two. Now the sixty eight Cubbies when he managed
the Orange Sucks and it was a right around this time.
It might be that June Gloom June fifteenth to June
twenty first, the Cubs were held scoreless for forty eight innings.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Do the math on that. That's like between five and
six games.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, what's going on? Like you have to imagine something's going.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
On, like we're talking, not even like a guy walks
and then guy hits a double, Like you're not getting anything.
You ever have a bad tree, I'll tell you. You
want to be personal here, you want to open up
a little bit, I'll take you behind the velvet rope.
Let's do let's hear it. I went four months with
no actually on four months, but it wasn't because this
guy's still sitting that that's gone four years. I was

(20:12):
in a hot and steamy news situation. I was just
so in my head that I was like, something's going on.
You see what I'm saying. I couldn't bring it for
four We actually made a parody month. We made a
parody songs. We made a parody called Broken Schween Too.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
So tay this broken sweet four months? Dang.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
My point is something was going on. You know, looking back,
I still don't know what was going on, but something's
going on with the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
You can't score a run. This is the game of
winning and scoring runs. Was she avoiding you for those
four months?

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Due my my junk was not cooperating.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't know how I put it on, putting it off,
he was the Yankees. Something's going on?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh man, that's the title of this hour. Covino is
the Yankees. This was years ago, dude, But years ago
Covino was the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, and and we've all been there. My point is
when things are not even a little dinger went, not
even nothing, not a little number or nothing. I know
each spin is individual, but you're like, it's it's gonna have,
it has to have. So I think the bet tonight
is Yankee scoring the first inning. I hate that because
I want to see the street continue. But I bet
you Yankees, I bet you they scored two in the

(21:29):
first inning. Time well more examples at Covino and Rich
at Fox Sports Radio. Other examples of where it was
fun to root for failure let us know. And one
phone call from Jeff eight seven to seven ninety nine
out Fox, What up?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Jeff is Cofino and Rich Fox Sports Radio? What's up? Hey?

Speaker 8 (21:47):
I just want to bring up the whole Jets Roger saga,
where you know he get in and got into the Jets,
didn't want to see him get hurt, but got hurt
the first year, got the whole team to hire all
his buddies, came back porch fired and still managed to suck.
I mean that was just that was just awesome.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
And by the way, Jeff, thanks for the call. I
appreciate the support from me. Aaricohnson Rogers.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Is he a guy that this year as a Steeler?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Is the sentiment more people are rooting to watch a
train wreck? Or do you think more people are saying,
come on, he's the old guy. Let's go, Aaron, you
got it?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Like I feel like most people will be hoping he failed.
It's case by case. Danny g wants to see him fail,
no doubt. No.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
You know what, after watching that docuseriies he did, I
humanized him a little bit, humanized him a little.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Bit happy about the Relationshipah.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
I don't necessarily want to see him fall in his face,
but I've never been a Steelers fan, so there's that.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
I'm definitely rooting for. Come on, dude, you got some juice,
let's go. I mean, you go out in a high note.
I'm root for that, But I can see how people
are done with that guy.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Again.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
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(23:13):
All of our videos are there. Thank you guys for
joining us. We got midweek major coming up. The biggest
stories in sports and pop culture are they midweek or major?
But we got to talk about the other biggest thing
going on in sports right now. Again, congratulations to the
Florida Panthers. But Caitlin Clark yesterday I was getting my
haircut while the game was on yesterday looks I was like, well,

(23:36):
thanks nice, But by default I was like, man, lit
is what's going on? And the whole vibe was we
blame the officials for allowing this to happen. This is terrible,
this is terror. Look at this, Look at all our
ruckis It looked like three it did it did?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Who was that? Stevenson and Dwight Howard? What's going on here?
Look at this?

Speaker 1 (23:58):
This is this is terrible, this is it's so bad
for the league and bad for basketball, and I blame
the officials. If the officials would have stopped this earlier,
we wouldn't be in this situation. And I'm practically out
of my barber's chair. I'm like, this is the only
thing that's intriguing me at this point. So I'm thinking
the exact opposite of everything I'm hearing on TV. I'm like,

(24:18):
what are they talking about? This is the most exciting
I've been about the WF. Do you know you stand
up with your little cape on. I'm like, come on,
this is great. Like everybody's watching, everyone's tuned in because
of the drama. So where in one breath they're saying
this is terrible. You got all the people, the sports
fans at the barbershop being like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (24:37):
This is great? We need more of this. I think
two ways to look at this.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Like you said right now, it happened to two superstars yesterday,
Caitlyn Clark getting roughed up, poked in the eyes, shoved
to the ground.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Why are you? And then you got the old three
stooges treatment. You change the channel. She's gotta do some
curly defense. There's your dude show.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Tani show Hey Oani plunked, And I love his reaction
when he's like, oh he actually reposted.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
A lyric at least.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, But you got to ask yourself, do you need
to protect Caitlin Clark and show hey Atani at all costs? Well,
they're the Golden Geese right in these particular situations, So
I think there's got to be some of that. But
this goes back to what Big Mike was saying in
our pre meeting Believe or not, we have on pre meetings.

(25:29):
Big Mike. He looks like Rick from Pond Stars. Yeah,
Big Mike. You'll see him in Vegas this weekend. He's
coming with giveaway when you see the guy like what
happened to Stone Cold?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Oh? Wait, no, that's Big Mike, Big Mike. Yeah, can't
wait for party with Mike. He's the best, he was saying.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
And as LeVar Arrington was saying here on Fox Sports Radio,
we're seeing the old school Jordan treatment, like there's a
target on them no matter what those are, especially Caitlyn Clark.
Young cats don't realize jo Hey, he's more respected here.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Wait, I think I thought LeVar said he doesn't watch WNBA.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
I mean that is true.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
It does say that he has that, but he has
He says, dare I say it? You know, and he paused.
He's like, that's the Jordan treatment where he came in
everyone roughed them up and he had to pivot and
put some muscle on to let it be known that
he was going to be taken that you young, young kids,
young cats might not realize that when Michael Jordan came
into the league, it wasn't always the mid to late

(26:19):
nineties Jordan that was getting calls and was getting respect
and players were like, oh my god, it's Michael Jordan.
In the beginning, teams like those bad boys, the Pistons,
the Celtics, Yeah, they made his life hell would rough
him up, and you know what, essentially could say it
made him a better player, right because he had to
work harder and put on waight and be that guy
and overcome that. This is what Caitlin Clark is kind

(26:43):
of going through and it's going to continue happening unless
the officials step in and make it clear that they're
not gonna accept that sort of thing. And the reality though,
is I mean, we're talking about the WNBA on a
random Wednesday and her getting roughed up? So is it
bad for the league. There's the drama, great for the league,
that's really the question. I think drama is always good unfortunately,

(27:06):
and the league going after Caitlyn Clark. And you could
see that blonde girl on the other team, the one
that gave her the little.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Poe who Yeah, she gave me the mo what's her name?

Speaker 7 (27:19):
J C.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Sheldon? Jay z j poke in my eyes? See jay C.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Sheldon kind of whipped at her eye and got but
the look she gave was the look like my wife
gives me. I don't pay attention, Like it was like
a little mean bug.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
It was a it was a cold look. So and
then she got down pin ball. The pinball action after
that was worse.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, the point point, but it was it was exaggerated.
We have to acknowledge that too. If you don't think
that she was tossed to the ground, she played into it.
But if you don't think those other women are like, yo,
we're going after Kitlyn Clark. We It's it's like saying
a defense doesn't go after the star quarterback. Yeah, we're
gonna ruff them up. And by the way, going after
Caitlyn Clark also puts your name in the headlines, like

(28:01):
as a competitor, it's not necessarily like we don't like her,
so we're going after like you want to beat the
best as a competitor, So it's not all coming from
a malicious place, like don't you want to show that Hey,
that's just another person on the court.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah. You you were talking to me before.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
You said, when someone gets in the ring, if you
got in the ring with a champion, if you're a
little bit in awe, you lost a red.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, exactly, another competitor up in front of you at
that point.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
I mean, if you get in the ring with Canelo
and you're like, oh my god, it's Canelo lost, You're lost,
right Michael Michael Michael Tyson. I called Michael Mike Dythan.
He once said, the minute his opponent looked away during
the stare, doown, He's like, I won, he.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Won the fight.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
So these opponents in the opposing teams, they know she's
the best, so they're playing as hard as they can
to make a name for themselves as well.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
This is great opportunity for them. And I thought about it.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
If you're a middle reliever, you know out of the
bullpen for the padres and they say, yeah, we're gonna
need you to hit show hail time.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
There's apartment.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's like, oh, you want to take on that job,
but you know but you know what the answer is, yes,
but where's the protection when you know how much? And
when I say how much financially ratings everything she means
to that league. Covino and Rich live from the Fox
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Speaker 2 (29:37):
Waits of Steve. That's so good. You have to muffle
it has to sound muffled. Grades. I think I'd rather
get a life hack from Rich. Come on. My second
best impression is that that's good.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
No. I was gonna say, if you were to play
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Speaker 2 (30:54):
You should do that for Mike Tyson. You know what,
I mightn't even know him.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Maybe I'll do it live from our live broadcast Friday
from Vegas. Please don't, yeah, because there'll be a crowd
there cheering me out, hundreds of people. So anyway, we're
Covino in one hundreds of people swimming to the other
side of the pool exactly. You will be live from
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(31:18):
promise you that because he'll be as gazing the whole time.
I make sure to bring my sunglasses. Covino and Rich.
Everything at Covino and Rich. The question right now is
based on everything we saw yesterday. Yeah, Otani got hit
by pitch. Caitlin Clark's being tossed around. You got to
protect the superstars.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
This question one. But is it bad for the league?
Or is drama great for the league?

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Let's be real for us, that's the whole it's great
for any league, but especially the WNBA. That's the whole
center point of most reality television drama and nonsense. And
people could say they don't like drama and nonsense, but
they do. The only time anyone at the barbershop paid
attention to the doubt And I'm not coming from a
negative or sexist place. I'm just on you based on

(32:00):
what I saw. I was at the barbershop. You see
the sweet trim up I got. The only time everybody
stopped to watch the game is when all the drama happened.
That's the proof right there in the figgie pudding where'd
you go? Guys want to watch it for Steve Kake Sashop. Yeah,
but the whole play stopped. You know, everyone stopped the buzz,
the Clippers shut off, and everybody watches to see what
was happening in the game. Hey, protecting the stars, I

(32:22):
get it, But the drama's great. Caitlin Clark's flying. Even so,
if the drama is great, then it's a non star. No,
then they let these things sort of happen with that reason.
And you know what, even Dave Roberts, he was just
mad that he got ejected. It was done the right way.
They hit Otani in the leg by the Dodgers hit tattoos. Yeah,
you gotta hit him in the butter leg, you hit hunting.

(32:43):
And you know, even though Tani posted his reaction when
he's like oh.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
The announcers did point out Covino that the only intentional
throw seemed to be the one that hit Otani.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, no doubt that's true. Butday, that's baseball. But hey,
a really fun night of sports coming up. We're gonna
go over Mike's Wortz wisdom give away a swing? Is
it rich spots baseball? Yes, that's baseball. So we got
spots midweek, Major and a bunch coming up now before
we wrap up Caitlyn Clark, and we keep seeing the

(33:14):
highlights over and over again. Hey, if it wasn't good
for ratings, why do we keep seeing the highlights over
and over and over again?

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Exactly? The question is is it bad for the league
or is drama just straight up great for the league?

Speaker 1 (33:28):
What is your boy, Triple G say in the world
of boxing? He says Max, Max Max. Now he says,
I am champion Canelo is not. I'm real champing. Oh,
drama show, drama show that some people want. Trauma show,
trauma show, drama show. Rybody loves drama show. And I
do want to bring in one caveat that you may

(33:49):
have heard here on Fox Sports Radio, the Gottlieb was
saying that it's bad because what about the moms that
want to take their daughters to a w NBA game.
You're spending good money on bad sportsmanship, bad basketball. Sometimes, like,
is this the sort of example you want to show
young women and girls in sports fans?

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Period? I mean, do you like it when all these
girls are pulling each other's hair? I mean, either my
teenage daughter sees worse on her school camp. I mean exactly, Daddy.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I mean it's just something to keep in mind to
have a you know, full conversation here. I happen to
agree that the drama is great for the league. And no, Rich,
I don't like when they're pulling on each other's hair.
I don't know if you're talking to me either. I'm
just saying, I mean creep. Oh, I I'm just saying,
what's up, Dann Bayer.

Speaker 7 (34:34):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
I know that you're getting ready for your huge weekend
in Vegas, which also includes the Sam and Big Mike
road trip, and we're gonna hear from Big Mic in
a little bit stories. But when you guys are driving,
please don't pull ash your door. Sanders, what happened?

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Uh oh?

Speaker 4 (34:51):
The Browns rookie quarterback cited for going forty one miles
per hour over the speed limits on Tuesday morning, going
on one on one in a sixty mile per hour zone,
according to police records in Strongsville, Ohio.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I won't do that, door. I do the opposite, Dan,
I go forty one in like a sixty five.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, pans Cavino.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
On the one on one here in La and be like,
who's going forty in the right hand lanes. I'm old lady,
and it's Steve Cavino.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, I drive like mister Magoo one oh one in
a sixty four sedor sud oh.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
I don't don't make foolish moves at that.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
I'm never one of those need for speed kind of guys,
especially a guy with such a great life and future
ahead of him. It's like, why take any risks at all?
And you know it's speaking of which a terrible story.
But you saw Henry Ruggs, yeah, yesterday speaking about regret.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
And he wished he could turn back the clock.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
And yeah, he got to speak to a group of
prisoners and and it's sad. We We recently saw Max Crosby,
his former teammate, say that he was supposed to be
out at top Golf with Rugs that night, wasn't able
to go. And he said, Rugs never made any big
mistakes in his young life before. It wasn't wasn't a
troublemaker any that was a really good young kid and

(36:07):
just made one dumb mistake that night by driving fast
after he drank.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
We were working at ESPN not too long before this happened.
We interviewed him, and I can't say you can make
a full assessment of someone in one silly interview, but
he seemed like such a night. I mean, wed with
the guy for a half hour, and he was a
cool young kid and I'm sure still is.

Speaker 10 (36:26):
But one terrible, terrible mistake. Young men, young men especially,
do really stupid things. I keep up with Iowa news,
and I saw that a nineteen year old man in
Iowa was on a motorcycle. He got pulled over at
one hundred and seventy seven miles per hour. Wow, one
hundred and seventy seven. He had someboddy shooting video of
him doing like you know what do they call wheelies

(36:46):
and stuff? Yeah, and this guy got to one seventy seven.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
That's insane. How do you pull him over? Well, he
caught gone. He got caught by a plane.

Speaker 10 (36:55):
Helicopters. Yeah, thanks for noticing. Patrol had a plane that
they spotted him with. And then eventually he did play.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
If you have one hundred eight or two hundred thousand
dollars sports car and you want to see what it
can do, rent a racetrack. You have that sort of
money where you could rent a track for yourself.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
No doubt, I agree. So, hey, be safe out there,
don't pull say take it to thunder Road or something.
You know, he's putting people's lives in jeopardy.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
I hate that man.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Well, you know what, in a few minutes, we're gonna
go over Mike's words of wisdom. So get ready to
be dialing eight seven seventy nine to nine. On Fox
Big Mic runs his place. Drop some words of wisdom.
If you repeat it, verb made him word for word,
you walk away with a caveno. On Rich Fox Sports Radio,
stainless steel, Swiggy, it's the sweetest.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Water bottle known to mass.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Speaking of Mike who runs his place, Hey, Sam dan
Byer mentioned the road trip. Are you prepared to share
a queen size bed with Mike and Vegas?

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Oh? We forgot to tell you are a combinations, we said, up.

Speaker 10 (37:51):
So from what I've been told, we only have one
cot and we'll be sharing a cot in a boiler room.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, it's circa and so I said, nuts to bus.
That's right, that's right. It's going to be like old
times wreck. You know what?

Speaker 1 (38:04):
This is, the like the secondary reason that we have
these big events. Of course, we want to connect and
have fun with our listeners and make new friends and
all that and broadcast live. But the stories that come
of it are always the best part. So I can't
wait to hear That's sort of that side of the story.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
I also don't think it should be neglected that Sam
is doing this to take advantage of Mike's handicap parking,
So that is.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Like, let's be real, let's be real here. It's definitely
the work, all right, So Rich we have to talk
about Lebron and ring culture. I just want to keep
people in the loop of what's going on. He's talking
about people need to drop ring culture. But isn't he
the guy that's sort of well, I don't want to

(38:51):
say started it. I mean we leaned into it at least.
I'm going to discuss that. But you know what, let's
not keep this waiting any longer. It's time for the
guy who runs his place to drop his words of wisdom.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
It's time for the guy that runs this place.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Just for clarification, guys, Big Mic does not run this place.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
He is not in charge of everything. He has no
power over really anybody here. He does not run this place.
It's big Mike's words of wisdom on a Wednesday. Life
is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe
at midnight, you're just wasted, which actually happened Rich.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know, we called Rich barefoot Jones for years because
he was so drunk at a party. One time I
saw him in a circle of girls like hamming it up.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Hey, Rich, what's going on? And I'm just hanging out
all these beautiful women, high ladies, and.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
I'm like, dude, where's your shoes? He was so drunk,
didn't realize he had no shoes on. Swear to God,
true story. That is a true story. They called me
barefoot Jones for years. Barefoot Jones for you because somebody
I lost my foot fops. Somebody ended up discovering these
shoes in a room and like, whose shoes are these?

Speaker 2 (40:07):
But they were riches. Hey, listen, it was spring break
in the two thousands. What do you want to tell
you legend of Barefoot Jones.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
We have a beautiful swiggy waiting to be won right
now in the studio lines.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Now, while we wait for that winner to call in,
I do want to share something I did yesterday. That
number really quick the number again eight, seven, seven, nine
to nine on Fox. Repeat Mike's words verbatim, and you win.
I feel like I did. I feel like I did
something that needed to be done for the younger generation.
As you know, I've talked about it quite a bit.
I'll say, what you trimmed your back hair for Vegas?

(40:36):
Now I'm gonna do that tonight. My kid, I coach
both my kids, my son Ben is five. I get
so much joy teaching these little five and six year
olds baseball. It's honestly, it's what I get, what I
get the most joy out of other than, you know,
just being a dad and doing the show with you guys. Like,

(40:57):
I'm pretty blessed, and I do love coaching. I could
see why I got, like Doug gott Lee bluss to
doing on a professional level right, because it really is
teaching and watching rewarding. It's rewarding, right. And yesterday it's
one hundred degrees Danny g in the valley. Can you
back me up that it's like one hundred degrees in
gross in the valley?

Speaker 2 (41:15):
It is like it's it's in the like mid nineties
and Sherman.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Outside, Like I saw the forecast, there was sunny sunny,
sweaty ass today and then sweaty asses sway yeah, swasty
weather swasty put in the valley d West Hills, Calabasas
Woodland Hills. It's like a hundred yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Even last night we weren't able to open up the
windows or the sliding glass door because it's it's to
you don't get any breeze right now.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
So these little kids, we're doing baseball practice for this
week's tournament, and I could see they're like irritable. Even
brought the little missing fan I have that I bought
a home deeply on those cooling rags that we have
these kids. My wife bought those for the kids.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Is that missing thing? Is that what Kovino uses on
his hair that have mercy?

Speaker 1 (42:02):
So you'll love this because it's a move that these
kids probably would never do. In between infield practice and batting,
I'm like, kids, come with me because I know why
the snackshack there is a hose and I was like,
all right, let's go, and I sprayed all these kids
down with the hose.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
And then is it true you also spray to mom
with a white T shirt on?

Speaker 1 (42:24):
But I mean that is accidentally creepo and then my
son goes, I want to drink of water, and all
the kids, one at a time, took a simple water.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Hey, that's generation X is bragging round school, dandy. Some
of the parents made eye contact with with me.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Like taste like rabbit, like well done, like because these
little kids are freaking spoiling panper.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Right by the time they see what it's like to
have rust in their mouths. This tastes calcified. Let's taste
like coins.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
It's it's yeah, it tastes a little different. Coach Rich, Hey, kids,
are you sureing this? That's the l pump you'll live.
Now you're going to have a reputation. You poison the kids.
I poison all the kids in the alley. But but
bodies can't handle that. But I will say I think
it was one of those cool little memories. I'll remember
these little kids all drink it out of the hose
like we did in the eighties and nineties. Now every

(43:18):
kid has our own little water bottle and Stanley cup
and all the different thing So exactly all right, let's
get a contestant. I have given you time to think
about this. Mike's words of wisdom, if you can repeat
it verbatim. You win that prize again. Let's get a
contestant and do this.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Who we got there? All right, Mike and Mississippi. Mike,
you think you got this?

Speaker 8 (43:39):
Oh man, I think so.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
We'll give it a shot.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
All right, take a beat. Let that music simmer.

Speaker 7 (43:44):
Okay, life is not a fairy tale. If you lose
a shoe at midnight.

Speaker 10 (43:51):
Oh no, I don't missed, Mike, divulge what he missed?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
You know what, here's the beauty of it, Mike. You
get to redeem yourself next week. All right, thanks, thanks
for playing, Thanks for playing. We appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Man, he lost it. I thought he had it is
one word, ship up on one word. It's got to
be verbatim. We can't just be handing out swiggies.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
This is like the Stanley Cup of the Covino and
Rich show Larfer's not a third I think is that
Part's right? Okay, Hey, let's get someone else. We got
to get a winner here from Mike's words of wisdom
spots midweek majors on deck.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
All right, let's go to North Cacilaca, North Carolina. Will Hello, Will, hey, Will?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
What's up?

Speaker 9 (44:33):
What's going on?

Speaker 6 (44:34):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Thanks for calling. Man, you ready to win a swigy
or what? Absolutely, sir, let's hear it.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Life is not a fairy tale.

Speaker 6 (44:42):
If you lose your shoe, you are just wasted. Then no,
really man, he said that with a lot of confidence.
I think he kind of summarized a little bit. Yeah, Yo,
well I thought you had it man, he missed a
part of the day. Well you know what again, play
again next week. Thanks for calling.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
I know it's a lot of pressure to call on
the radio, but you get to win this prize and
you learn a little something. Some words of wisdom the
numbers eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, if you
could repeat it verbatim, eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox Mike's Wednesday Words of Wisdom. We're gonna get more
phone calls. But let's dive into this Lebron James thing.

(45:22):
Uh yeah, this is wildly funny to me because when
when someone's uh, you know you guys jokingly call me
double talking David she which I never double talk.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I try not to.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
When people say something Anna Box Davis and then people
say the complete opposite, it makes me laugh. Lebron James, Well,
hold on, you're allowed to change your mind. You're allowed
to evolve. Yeah, Because our famous example is, before we
became dads, we used to say, I'm never gonna have
a toy castle in my living room.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Ever, get your toys out of my living Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
And of course life takes over and you realize the
kids take over, and you realize that you just want
to have a fun family. Yeah, and what you used
to say changed, and that's okay. I remember when Cavino
was a dad and I had not become a dad.
Jet we all went out to a Japanese restaurant, big
group of people, and Covino's daughter left her little toy

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chopsticks at home and Cavino lived like two blocks away.
Kevin I was like, yea, oh, bro, let me just
turn around. I gotta get he chopsticks. And in my mind,
I'm like, your kid will just deal. Everyone judged me, like, man,
what a weeny daddy is? Just tell your daughter to
deal with it. And now I realize that if my
kid left something they wanted behind and I was a
block away, you damn well know I'm turning around because

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it's just saving me the hassle. So I tried to
prevent a meltdown, and it was sort of my fall.
I was really the ones that forgot them.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah, and I remember saying I remember saying Cavino, I'm sorry, Bud.
You were right back then.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
How about this one, right, I just didn't know you evolve,
you changed, You're allowed to change, change your mind. I'm
just saying, for the sake of conversation, to keep that
in mind here and then tell me how you feel
about all this.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
I used to say.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
I used to have a rule, guys that you would
I could never travel more than twenty minutes for booty.
That was the rule back in our twenties. Remember that,
I said, I'll never travel and win twenty minutes for booty.
And then I met someone else traveling across the country
every weekend like an idiot.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yeah, so you change your mind. It happens.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Lebron James slams the NBA's obsession with ring culture.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
It's just weird to me. Yeah, Lebron on ring culture.
This is what he said. I don't know why it's
discussed so much in our sport.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
You're telling me iverson Barclay Nash, weren't e fing unbelievable?
They can't be talked about with these guys because they
didn't win rings. It's like saying Peyton Manning camp be
in the same room as Brady or Mahomes because he
only has one ring. Yeah, yeah, Peyton has two. So
Lebron's wrong with the quote. First of all, Barry Bond's

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never won a World's Series. You can't sit here and
tell me he's not the greatest player to ever touch
a bat. So when you hear that quote, you got
to say to yourself, I mean, we are obsessed with
ring culture, but hold on, is Lebron the guy that's like,
how many were gonna win? Not three, no four, not five,
not six, not seven, Like, and he was also the
guy that sort of started the trend three not full,

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not five, not six, seven, not seven. I mean, he's
the guy that he's the guy that had that left
his hometown team to go play and start and create
a super team for the ring. So that's the interesting
part of the story. It's like, dude, you're the guy
that created that culture. He built a super team to

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win a couple, then he went back to his hometown
to win a ring, which was glorious for Cleveland, and
then he went to the Lakers to win for the
biggest dynasty maybe other than the Celtics and NBA history.
So when you hear everything laid out, is he allowed
to change his mind? Does he make a point or
is he the biggest double talker? Sort of hedging what

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he put out there, because guess what, he doesn't want
to be compared as the guy who has less rings
than Jordan. He's basically saying without saying, I'm still the
greatest that has ever played the game, despite who has
more rings than me. Now you can say, yeah, Robert,
or he has more rings than him. Does that mean
he's a better player?

Speaker 6 (49:24):
No?

Speaker 2 (49:25):
But how many great players out there don't have rings?
Think about it? Not that many. I mean it's the
ultimate rationale, right. We all do this in life.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
If something works out in our favor, then it's the
most important thing. But if it doesn't, you'll say to
yourself like that, it doesn't really matter anyway. And it's
also the source. It's Lebron. He's the poster boy for
rings mattering. In my opinion, that's what makes it interesting.
If we were up for an award for I don't know,
the dopiest radio show, right, if we won, you'd be like, dude,

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awards matter, look at this.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
If we didn't win, you'd be like this, but award anyway.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
And I think that's what Lebron's doing now, because while
he is way accomplished more than most people in any
sport in the history of athletics, he still is shy
of of the other greats. And I think it's easy
for him to now say the rings matter. Come also
on the Lakers for that same reason. I mean, you're

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in the game of wins and losses, and you're in
the game of championships. If Lebron had six and he
championships mattering. If Lebron had six and he was tied
with Jordan, or had seven one more than Jordan and
had the same as Brady had in the NFC matter,
he'd say, your baby ring culture. That's what it's about.

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For about winning, your narrative goes along with how you do.
That's just a fact. All right, Let's get a winner
for the swegy. More people are saying they could nail this.
Mike's words of wisdom.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
We have three contestants left to play, because remember we
agreed five tries at this.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Okay, yeah, you get five chances. If not, you just lose.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Yeah, we're on the third try right now. It's cruise
in San Diego, of.

Speaker 7 (51:07):
Cruise about those locals forever? What's going on business cruise?
So I think I'm speaking with Niklo and uh, that's right.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
That's me.

Speaker 7 (51:19):
Hey, looking looking forward to the Padres Dodgers tonight. Really
need one. I'll tell you what. If the game gets
out of hand, there's gonna be another plunkin. So it's
either gonna be Mooki Freeman or Otani.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Just heads up, Yo, Danny, he's called out. What Dodger
he's gonna hit tonight. He's sports of wisdom.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
They can have a parade in San Diego with a
big sign that says we plunked the Dodgers's you got
the words wisdom?

Speaker 2 (51:46):
I sure do it.

Speaker 7 (51:47):
But also head to a big mic who runs a place.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Big like that. He's giving Mike shout outs. Let's let's
hear the words of wisdom. Cruise all right.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your
shoe at midnight, you're dis wasted.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Yeah, I make you right on the outside.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Finally the inside finals win something nice. Cruisito, all right, Cruise,
hang on the line and get your info and we're
gonna mail a C and R swiggy tea there in
San Diego.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Thanks Cruise, he's got there, he's got the Sweigee. Thank you, buddy,
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Congrats. That's great.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
So we got a winner. And again, guys, don't feel
bad if you lost. It's not about winning. It's not
about winning. We do this every Wednesday. We call it
mid Week Major.

Speaker 9 (52:46):
Covino and Rich get you over the middle of the week.
When mid Week Major we throw sports and pop culture
headlines and topics at the fellas and it's, like the
kids say.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
We definitely meager to see it our scoring Midweek Major.
I gotta go really quick here to give Spotty a
full eight minute run. All right, you hear the horns.
You know you've made it to the middle of the week.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Before we hand things over to the number one and
only host of this segment, we roll the two big
red Love Dice over there in the main studio.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
I rolled the seven.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Oh is that a good precursor you give me in
Vegas in less than twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Ooh, I'm not a big gambling man. I'm there to
schmooze and booze. All right, I'm in a rich roll.
I win, I win. All right.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
That meets Covino gets first take. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
the most famous person besides Judy Bloom from Scotch Plains
New Jersey Spotty BOYA.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Hi, guys, let's do this.

Speaker 6 (53:47):
Let's come right in. So leading with the La Sparks.
I know you guys are all about the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Well, you know it's drama.

Speaker 6 (53:55):
When there's drama. Here's a little bit of social media
drama for you. The La Sparks social media team getting
flat for their choice of a game day graphic that's
now gone viral amongst their fans, who thinks it attracts
all the wrong attention. So ahead of last night's game
against this Seattle Storm, the team released to graphic with
game day info where to watch the game, and rather
than like one of the players wearing a jersey or
an action shot, it actually featured Sparks rookie Ashley Barker

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sporting a black top bikini. Oo 's spitting a basketball
at our bigger fans calling out the team in the
comments for posting thirst traps standing against what the NBA
players stand for or have been trying to avoid for
their entire career, also calling out comparison, saying, you know
they would never have Austin Reeves on the Lakers page shirtless,

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so you know, just to promote the game. So as
of now, the post is still up, has plenty of
comments if you want to go read them, but Midweek.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Or me, no, I gotta see the picture, but base
only say is it really that risque?

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Or is it just a bikini shot? It's provocative?

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Hot, lean into that zip zippy, I get first take. Sorry,
she looks hot, lean into it. You're trying to attract fans.
It's not over the top. It's not x Ratus's not
r rated. She's good looking. Why is that a bad thing?

Speaker 2 (55:11):
I don't get it. I smell jealousy here and.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Be if guys are going to tune in because they
think they're who cares as long as they're tuning in,
and then you provide a great product and some good
basketball to win, win for everybody. In fact, on the
show Power Moves right Now with Shaquille O'Neal, the story
about him and promoting Reebok on Netflix, he's taking all
these sexy pictures of Angel Reese?

Speaker 2 (55:34):
So what lean into it?

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Some of these girls are good looking, that's a that's
a bonus. I say this story itself is weak. Week
it's a good story, but the whole, like premise of
the story is weak. That yeah, the premise of like
why are they doing it?

Speaker 2 (55:51):
That's weak.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
I think the story's making because it's a good idea.
You're right, what's wrong.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
With being hot? Did? When?

Speaker 6 (55:58):
Did?

Speaker 2 (55:58):
When?

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Did looking good go out of style? I look at
it this way. How many straight men are watching the
w NBA?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Not many.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
You try to lure some straight men to watch women's basketball,
you have other demographics already watching.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
You want straight men.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
I don't know why you would say a good looking
photo of someone that she voluntarily took, that the organization posted.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Lean into it, and don't tell me men never pose
quote sexy.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
It was okay when Jeter and a Remember a ron
looking at himself in the mirror would kissed himself in
the mirror? Yes, I remember that weird SI photo shoot
where all those rookie shortstops had no shirt on to
I remember it's the wallpaper on your laptop, right, So
you know what actually Rich I started to take back
what I said.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
The story's weak, but it is major.

Speaker 10 (56:40):
Yeah, it's a major sty I'm looking at this and
it's you know, it's a bikini that has a lot
of cloth on it.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
I'll just say that. So it's it's fine. It's clothe
Is that what you're wearing to the pool on Friday?

Speaker 10 (56:50):
Yes, clothee bikini, cloffee bikini, a lot of materials.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
All right, you guys good, I'm good. Right. I think
the w NBA sometimes is its worst enemy.

Speaker 7 (56:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Really, they don't embrace their stars. They push away from
positive promotion.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
I don't get it. WWA is like they try to
sync themselves all right, to fight.

Speaker 6 (57:08):
What you think of his son's performance, Lebron has definitely
made history playing with LEBRONI playing with the son Bronni
on the court. But his other son Bryce also following
in dad's footsteps, recently accepting a scholarship offer from Arizona.
So could Lebron be playing with his two sons at once?
What do you think, Lebron?

Speaker 2 (57:27):
What do you think? No?

Speaker 6 (57:28):
Lebron spoke out saying it's absolutely unrealistic, acknowledges how insane
it will be played to play his twenty third season
at forty two years old. Hasn't given a specific timetable
or date on the end of his career. I know
he's been talking about it for years now at this point,
currently n nursing a knee injury ready for getting trying
to get ready for training camp in September, but said
that it is very unlikely that he will play with

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his two sons on the same team Midweeker Major. It's
a mid story. Let Bryce do his own thing.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
Let's not rush him and make the same mistakes just
to get some ratings and to create a story. Because
it's not about a family affair here. It really is
about rings. Whether he wants to say it's not, it is.
It's about winning. So we're not trying to just fit
his son into the team just for the story. They
got to fit the right players in there to win.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Yeah, this is weak.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
It would be pretty cool for a dat to play
with his two sons, but that just now we're pushing it.
How you rush, Yeah, it's unrealistic, but hey, a cool thought, right,
And by the way, I looked up that picture, she's
it's not even like a bikini.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
It's a coffee bikini. It's almost like a top, Sam said,
and it's like a handkerchief made into a bikini. And
she's like, she's attractive, and and it says game danger.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Has a basketball. Everyone's such a loser. I'm so aggridate.
Who would be mad at that?

Speaker 2 (58:49):
I love? I love your passion? All right.

Speaker 6 (58:51):
Well, the twenty twenty five Club World Cup, that's soccer
rich is currently underway with games playing all over the
US several stadiums so after several games in one huge
factor has fans very concerned, and that is the heat.
So eighty thousand fans were at the Rose Bowl this
week got a preview of that heat. As you know,
it's you open the door out here, it's sweltering. But

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it also has fans actually looking ahead more concerned about
next year's Feefle World Cup, which will take place, as
you know, across three countries, the US, Canada, and Mexico,
with eleven of those stadiums in the US, so five
of them have roofs with the rest being open air.
Seven of them likely to experience extreme humidity and tempts
at least in the nineties. They're actually looking at some

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of the games coming up, and a lot of the
players are saying they're not used to playing in heat
like this, so looking ahead to next year, maybe they'll
have to make some accommodations for the Feefle World Cup
actually takes place around this time.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
The dates line up next year.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
So midweek or major well, as parents say, right, every
dad says, it's not about the heat, it's the humidity.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Hega, it's not the heat to get you as I
time my Nike Monarchs and pull my pants up real high.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
That's the truth. But it's a mid story, dude. I
would say week, but I understand the importance of soccer.
I think it's kind of mid Listen, just hire coach Rich.
I'll spraining down with water and have them drink out
of a host. They'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Good spuck. Oh god, I'm fine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Okay, now let's go to Dan Buyer for an update.
Spot is already on the flight to Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
I feel like you hate it all my stories so
I got more, but that's fine. I love them.

Speaker 9 (01:00:30):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Sam thinking about his drive with Big Mike to Vegas tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
I'm thinking about their drive to Vegas. Don't be speeding
like shandor Sanders.

Speaker 10 (01:00:42):
Now, I don't think Mike's truck can get over sixty
five should old truck.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
We're actually throwing a whole slew of Swiggies for giveaways,
t shirts, prizes, koozies.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
People love coozies, man. Yeah, that's why we ordered them.
So listen. If you go to Mike, if you go
to Cavino and Co. Which is old school.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
I get it's a website, but if you go to
our social media, it's gonna direct you there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
All the events for Friday and Saturday, let me just
give you the quick rundown. Everyone's invited. Friday, we're doing
our show live at Circa Stadium Swim. It's a big
pool party. We're doing our show live. Come join us.
It'll be a lot of fun. Friday Night is a
big party the rooftop Lounge at Circa. Come hang with

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the show. We're fireworks and everything, fireworks, drinks, all the fun.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Friday night. Saturday, you could buy tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
We're doing a big event at Atomic Golf Saturday afternoon,
a little brunch where we rented out a bunch of bays.
There's a brunch buffet and drinking Man Moses Drink tickets.
So that's a big event. That's at Covin and Rich
and then I'll be wearing some Travis Matthew and then
Saturday night is our big Kavin on Rich dinner. We

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rented out the whole area by the sports book.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
And party, dinner, party with food. Yeah what I'm saying,
we have, you know, tons and tons of food.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Right, but it's not gonna be like hey Rich, past
pass the mashed potatoes. No, no yet, of course of course, right,
but all the details again, like Rich said, at Covino
and Rich or just Covino and Rich dot com. And
you'll see some of your favorite friends here from Fox
Sports Radio. We hope to see you there. If not,
you'll hear it on Friday right here on Fox Sports

(01:02:24):
Radio pool Side. Now, I got to ask have you
gotten friends jobs before? I think we all have, right,
I mean or put in the good word good word, definitely,
But it's really on them and their qualifications. Right you
could you could give someone the recommendation? Yeah, do you
see what happened in the NFL. This is a pretty
cool story, Lamar Jackson told Ravens GM, Eric DaCosta, go

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get JAYI, Alexander that's my boy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Go get them, yo. We got to play together.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
They were teammates in college and Da Cosca DaCosta delivered.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
You got to think about some of those old camaraderies
people had in college. I always think about how there's
such an understated vibe that Burrow and Jamar Chase played together.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Like people forget that. There takes a.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Minute to get that chemistry. They had it at LSU
and it just translated right to the NFL. Imagine if
he also had Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
My point is.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Also looking out for your boy and built in chemistry
and just goes to show you the poll that Lamar
Jackson has and keeping your quarterback happy. All these factors matter.
They're not often discussed, but I think it's great. And
it also shows how when it's Aaron Rodgers we make
fun of it. When it's Lamar Jackson, like that's cool, right.
I think it's It almost felt like Aaron Rodgers demanded

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and they weren't athletes in their prime anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Where Lamar's like, Yo, this guy is my guy. Let's go. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
It feels like, hey, what do you think? Like, absolutely,
get them, that's great. I'd love to play with him.
Who wouldn't you know?

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Rich? You often say that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
We've craftily, you especially, have positioned yourself in a situation
where you're working with friends, and it makes it that
much better. I feel that way genuinely, Like I enjoy
Danny G's a friend, I with Sam dan byer MONSI
who's here? I feel like if you work with people
you consider friends, the people that you actually enjoy to

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be around, you're going to be better at your job.
I think a clubhouse, in a locker room where teammates
that genuinely like each other, the team's going to be better.
I think he would you just stick your neck out
for when it came to actually getting hired. As far
as interns, the ones that we felt like they were
great people, they were friends. They worked hard, but they
were friends. They became friends, and you want to work

(01:04:42):
with those people. It feels less like work when you're
going through the hallway and YO, what's up man? Or
your buds? Feels less like work, like I love that,
Like Ia, Sam will text to something stupid at like
ten pm, like the Funny Game or something. You know,
how many people we have in this business that we've
crossed paths with us that are really just friends of
ours because we worked with them or we helped them
get a job along the way, they were our pals.

(01:05:04):
I like this Lamar Jackson story because I feel like, honestly,
the product at any company, any sports team, is going
to be better when you surround yourself with people that
are just fun to be around.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Spot.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
I mean he knows this, but when Spot used to
interview all our intern and producer candidates, the number one
qualification isn't oh where'd you go to college? When me
see your resume? Was do you want to hang out
with this person every day? And do they are they
a good person? We would have interns sit in the
studio with us for a full show, and can you

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be around bad jokes?

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
If they laughed at our bad jokes, yes, Or if
they acted like they got a kick out of what
we did and they got it, we like them. If
they sat there with a resting beeface the whole time,
you know, smug and board. Who wants to be surrounded
by that guy?

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Oh yeah, I don't want to hang with you. There's
some people around here. I'm sure you don't want to
hang with. No, but it's true.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Fortunately not at our network. Like honestly, if there was
a list, it would be a very short list.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
It's a short I mean it's a short one. There's
always a list NYG.