December 10, 2025 • 41 mins
C&R react to a 2nd day of Mets losing a star player! In the midst of Rich's sad week, is there ever a good enough reason to jump ship & pick a new team to root for? They take calls from around the country. Plus, at least the Knicks are still alive to win the NBA Cup!
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What are you vomiting about? Peter Ross everything in baseball?
That's disgruntled Mets fan Rich Davis. I'm Covino. It's Covino
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Speaker 4 (00:39):
Welcome back Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I know how committed Danny G is to our show
and to radio, and he loves what he does. So
for him to have missed the last two shows, he
had to be really sick. So glad to see her
doing better. Danny G, iow Sam is here on the
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(01:04):
Great to see him, man, I'm sorry, Betty.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
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I heard Danny G's.
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rich Man, I really am sorry because it feels like
and this is outside looking in. I'm on the outside.
I'm looking in like Aaron Lewis of Stain. It feels
like your team is crumbling. It feels like your team
is falling apart.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I don't know why. That's the thing. Ca.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You know, it's like, you know they talk about all
One's he's the you know, best owner in baseball and
the culture there is great, and everyone loves it and
they're so good to the families listen, much like Dan
Campbell when he was talking about, Hey, we're gonna buite kneecaps,
and everyone's like, look at this dope, and then it
ended up working out. The Lions never won a Super Bowl,
(02:35):
and I don't think they're headed there.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
They shifted their culture though, for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But when you talk about Stearns, I don't think what
he's doing is rubbing anyone the right way.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Like, you're the guy, you're the president of Baseball Operations
and you know you're here with Steve Cohen.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You guys are both lifelong Mets fans.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't know how you let Diaz goo for a
couple million more to the one team you need to beat,
and then the next day, if that's not bad enough,
the face of your franchise, the home run leader, polar
Bear Pete. My kids have his shirt like it's it's
the worst Pete Alonzo going to the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, it's obvious as to why Alonzo left. Okay, Alonzo's
gone five year deal, one hundred and fifty five million
to the Orioles. He didn't go there the win I
don't believe they're contenders, but hell of a ballpark, he'll
be hitting bombs.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Hit.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
He's trying to hit five hundred home runs, is what
he's trying. And you know what he might at that park.
Great park, great vibe, cam the yards is great. But
they have a long way to go. But things changed quick.
I think this is clearly a situation of he was
disrespected last year, he bet out himself, put up big
numbers again. I don't feel the fans embraced them the
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way they should have. He's been a lifelong Met He's
always been clutch for you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Owners.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Only only guy that the fans relate to when he
does is like you know, LFGM and I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, but I feel like the fans didn't have his
back enough when he was fighting to stay right. Everyone
was looking forward seeing who they could get when Alonso
was there the whole time. I really think this is
a case of job security and the five years, and
I think that meant more to him than dealing with
the Mets again and with Diaz. You know, they had
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Devin Williams, but he had an opportunity with the Dodgers.
You can't blame him for that. So there's reasons, and
I understand. But what's gross about this, Rich is man
that the Dodgers keep getting better. But as far as
your team's concerned, you're still in it. You got Simmy
and you got Soto, you got Lindor. It's a matter
of who could you get in the bullpen. The Mets
are still looking good, but you lost some really really
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big pieces.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Do you try to get Tucker? Do you get Cody Bellinger?
Do you make a trade for schoobl I'm not gonna
Oh god, I so badly want to overreact, like every
New York Mets fan that's, you know, pulling their hair out,
losing their minds, like you, Alonzo's gone and Diaz is gone.
But I look at it this way, man, it's we
don't know what the roster looks like.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
If you told me you need some bait, you need
some bait. Because we said this yesterday, Rich, When you
lose Daz to the Dodgers for the chance to win
and play in LA and play with the greats, anyone
that was on the fence about staying or playing with
the Mets is gone. Pete Alonzo, He's like Daz is
out Oh, I play with this team all the pressure
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of New York and no one appreciates me anyway, I'm out.
Now that Daz and Alonzo are out, it's even a
tougher pull to want to go there. So if I'm
Cody Bellinger now, or if I'm a big time reliever,
I'm like, man, I'm not sure. So that's the only
tough part here, Like they're gonna really have to open
up the wallet. I don't think they have a problem
doing that, but it does send up a red flag
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a little bit to those guys, you know, weighing out
their options, that hey, maybe something is up with the Mets.
Maybe this isn't the place to be. Why are these
other people leaving now?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Steve Collen might be the best owner in baseball, but
what if Stearns is a guy that people really don't like.
So I heard Edwin Diaz, you know from my met sources,
that he was sort of mad, and a lot of
personnel was mad that they fired pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, who.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Was very well loved within the organization.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Those little things add up, and I don't know, I'm
not going to overreact until I see what the roster
looks like going into opening day because all of a sudden, listen,
if you get Tucker and you know Cody Bellinger and
you'd make a trade for school Bawl.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And there's still a lot to do.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But let me tell you the weakest start to the offseason,
as they call it, the hot stove. You lose Diaz
and Pete Alonso and all you have to show Ford
is oh, and you lost Nimo, who was a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I didn't care for Nimo, but you have three big
pieces gone.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But you know how you could look at it. You know,
those three guys didn't do Jack Diddley squad. They made
a one playoff run. And both of those guys have
been on the team for a while. So don't you
have to mix it up. When people say we're gonna
blow up the team right now, that's short of what
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Right It's odd because you still got some big names,
but there's some really really big names also jumping ship.
It's a matter of what sort of moves they make
moving forward. But based on this, guys, big news today
again is a tough week for Mets fans, a tough
week for rich based on this and rich In La.
(07:27):
Is there ever a reason? Is there ever a reason
for you rich as a fan to jump ship?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
If there ever was, now would be it? I'm really
testing my Mets fandom. Do I really bleed blue and Orange?
I guess that jump ship?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Your dad went from Yankees to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He did. My kids are like Dad, we like the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
He's been part of me to the Mets. Why would
you do that? That's like jumping from the water into
a ship. That doesn't make sense, the reverse jumping ship.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You know why.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
My mom's family were Mets fans, and I think my
dad just you know, oh, you know what it was.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
My dad blames the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
My dad went to Fordham University in the Bronx and
got his car stolen two times. And he's like if
the Bronx af the Yankees, and he's like, and he
lives in Queens.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Carjackers.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You got to remember, Iowa, Sam.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I I'm switching teams for this.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, keep in mind the Mets were a new franchise
in the sixties. Keep that moving fresh start, you know, Dodgers, Blue, Giants, Orange.
A lot of people don't know that's how the Mets
got their colors two teams that left for the West Coast.
The Mets are blue and orange because of the Dodgers
and the Giants. And you know, Kamina, I love your
question because I think that might be one of the
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answers when you say, is there any real reason to
ever ever leave a team? And I think franchises moving
might be one of the few exceptions. Like we have
buddies that are like, yeah, I used to be a
Rams fan, then they left another back and I'm like
f them, or you know, buddies we in Saint Louis,
Like I was a Rams fan, but then they left
(09:02):
Saint Louis. I'm not a Rams fan anymore. So maybe
that's a reason.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, we brought this up yesterday and we were talking
to Dan Bayer. You'll do anything for your kids, and
Rich is raising LA kids and they're growing up in
LA culture where sho Heyo Tani and Freddy Frehiman and
Mookie Bets and all these players are iconic and legendary.
All the kids in school are trading their cards and
wearing their jerseys, and his kids riches kids. They're all
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excited about the Dodgers. And I mentioned that even the
corneius things. If your kids love them, you'll appreciate them
as their parent. All their goofy shows, all their little cartoons,
all of their little kiddies songs, all the things they
like are near and dear to you because you're their parent.
So I think if your kid is really showing a
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lot of promise or a lot of fandom to a team,
I'm not saying it's okay. I'm just saying I could
see that being a catalyst for you to start embracing them.
And that is what's happening to you, whether you want
to admit it or not.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, I have a soft spot for the Dodgers, which
might be, you know, might be breaking like a man
sports rule or something. But I'm still a Mets fan.
I can't abandon this miserable franchise. But I gotta ask
you this if you're me, because I'll think I'll give
you my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If you're me, and you hear that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Diaz gets an offer from the Mets, and they told
Diaz and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There's wiggle room.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He goes to the Dodgers, doesn't even come back to
see what the Mets counter is.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He's like the an s guggle room.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Was it next to the clubhouse somewhere?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, that's that comes to the contract access to the
wiggle room.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He had his own bathroom and his own wiggle room.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Hey, and then you know, by the way, Cavido, he's
gonna be at a chuckles in Burbank this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Thank you, Danny G. Hey, I don't see the Fox
Sports radio hosts making those uh making those jokers taking
those chances.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Danny G.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I even saw that the Dodgers already started breaking out
the organ for Edwin DS day later.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Listen to this, I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Feel like Danny G busted out the organ for DS.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Are you telling about the big triton cord?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Yeah, Manu Deeter rule the famous of course.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
He replaced the legendary organist at Dodger Stadium a decade
or so ago. And he's a friend of the show.
I know he listens to the network. Listen to how
he welcomed Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know what's interesting about that, Danny G.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm gonna vomit on myself.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Did the Mets sort of give him that intro? Or
is that something he came up with on his own?
Because how does he take that showmanship over to Dodger Stadium?
Is that his?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Or is that the Dodger sort of? It's his?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I wonder does he go with the timmy trumpets or
does he have the organ player do it? I he's
got to have the light show and everything. You guys,
Oh so disgusting. How the Dodgers get better? And that's
a problem. So let me let me go back to
my more.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Fun that what makes the Dodgers disgusting is that, well,
they have over a five hundred million dollar payroll, but
their superstars are likable, and this makes them even more
likable and even more fun, Like, not only do you
got to show here Tani and everything else, but you
got this showmanship and the theatrics of Edwin Diaz coming
in from the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's insane your thoughts, and again, I don't want to
make this about my Mets, So make it about your team.
What could your team do? What could your team do
to have you possibly jump ship? And I have one answer,
based on Steve Cavino that I'm gonna throw out there,
and it's it's a little bit of a juicy, dirty one.
I'll get to that in a second. But let me
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tell you about Edwin Diaz again. Back to your wiggle
room joke. Oh, he didn't even come back to the
Mets to see what that wiggle room was. He was
so quick to be like, all right, you know what,
I'm a dollar now, I'm a dodger. Pete Alonzo accepts
the five year, one point fifty five without even accepting
(13:19):
an offer from the Mets. What does that tell you
about what the Mets front office is doing right now?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
They're very put off this show.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It also goes to show you that New York doesn't
have this mystique that it once had, and that's slowly
dwindling every year that goes by without a championship and
without the luster of just New York City. Man, I mean,
we're from there. Keep that in mind. We're from the
East Coast. We worked and built our career in Manhattan,
in New York City. It's sort of a down time
to be there and to play there, It really is.
(13:47):
The expectations are high and for.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
What I just heard that Grimace signed with the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh man, it's tough week for the Mets fans.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Hey O, No, but I honestly, I might just have
to accept the fact that the Mets had a magical,
beautiful run two years ago with Timmy trumpets and Grimace
Hawk to a girl, Lindor and all the magic, and
that that might have just been a cool moment and
it might be another five to ten years when Steve
Cohen took over this team. Mets fans runder the illusion that, oh,
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we're gonna be like the Dodgers and Yankees and Phillies
and teams that make it every year. And already it
looks like ass. And so if Peter A Lonzo come
you know, says I don't even want to see the
Mets offer, I'm going to the Orioles, and Edwin Diaz says,
I'm good. I don't even need to see the wiggle room.
What does that tell you about David Stearns. What does
that tell you about how the front office is rubbing people, or.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
How maybe some of the other superstars are rubbing people,
or how they really feel about the organization. Like you said, Rich,
I'm getting a lot of feedback because based on this
Rich's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Day want a jerk and we just don't know it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Man, Maybe I'm getting feedback because the question is, well,
what would it take for you to jump ship from
your team and west from Vegas, west from Idaho? Says
if your team had a twenty year streak of suck,
I think you're allowed to jump ship. He's started giving
you the pass. Rich it's been a long time eighty six,
(15:16):
it's a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I'm not doing it. You know, I told you my
son is going to be six.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Who if you watch yesterday show, my son Ben got
to play a little game on the air with us.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Ben is six.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Just put in perspective, that's how old I was when
the Mets won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You're picking your nuts. Tell yeah, you were an under Russ.
Daniel Javier Fetz says, I was a Packers fan, and
when FARV left, I did too. I realized I was
more of a far fan than the actual Packers. And
if you're a kid and you feel that way, if
you're a kid like I kind of understand that. So
that was his reasoning for jumping ship. Let's see nature
(15:59):
boy Third says, DS probably got his own trumpet player
and he was like, yeah, I'm out, I got one.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
That a reason to leave a team. Now, since I'm
having a rough day, rough week. And in addition to this,
not that you need to feel sad for me, looks
like my dog's in our final stages, jeez, which is
like miserable for the family, miserable for me, miserable.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Make it through the holidays, please, I don't think it's
gonna happen, really, yeah, man, So like's.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's like a day to day thing.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So I'm like trying to explain to my kids, like,
you know, dogs don't live forever. And I'm like, on
top of that, my teams are falling apart. My wife's
out of town for a family emergency. Like it's been
an ass of a week, but I have a fun one.
So let me throw you under the bus for a second.
In the in the two thousands, when you and I
first became friends, you and a girlfriend dump you for
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a guy on the New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Nets True story, and then you had another girl dump
you for a New York Ranger.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
True story, back to back. And by the way, they
weren't just like girlfriends I was dating. I was with
them for three four years at a time, each girl
like long term relationships, and it was not good for
the ego or confidence when I was living at mom's
house trying to make it in radio.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So my question is when you talk about reasons to
stop your fandom if your team sucks for decades, if
your team moves, what if your girl starts sleeping with
a dude on the team you root for?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Can you root for that? God? Can you root for
the team? Like? Can we know God forbid your ex
instead of a ranger?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
What if all of a sudden she started banging Paul
O'Neal or something.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Oh my goodness, a warrior. There's no way I could
go back to What if all of a sudden you
found out your girl was having sleepover?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Was it Bernie Williams house.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'd say that would burn baby burn. I'd say that
would be a legitimate reason. I'll tell you this from experience, dude,
and thanks for rubbing it in rich what a palky
tell you. I think that my days of going to
Nets games, at that primo time of my life, when
I had the time to do so, ended abruptly. Guess
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who I stopped going to see? Guess whose team I
stopped watching? The New Jersey Nets. They are the New
Jersey Nets. At the time, it was just too tough.
So yeah, I think those are legitimate reasons. I do
if you happen to be in that weird situation that
I was in. I had a streak of bad luck.
And by the way, you could chime in not only
on the phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
(18:30):
but we are streaming live on YouTube, So there's a
live YouTube chat where you could chop it up with Lisa,
Neste Ban and Nathan Nathaniel Richards and then w Covino
and Rich FSR on YouTube. Covino and rich FSR. Who
do we got, Danny G.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Let's start with Matt in La Matt cal.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Matty, Matt, you're on the show, Covino and Rich Yo.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Covino and Rich natural content back by since your holiday, BS,
what up A couple of things to me? It's like
one like, I mean, I'm a nineties kid on here
in La trading a favorite player. I'm in the minority
here with the Lakers. I was huge.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Nicka, Oh wait say that again. You were a huge
What you were a huge?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Wen?
Speaker 8 (19:21):
I was flushed and I know they brought in shit
out and they brought a Kobe, but it also brought
in a bunch of new casual fans and I didn't
like that. And also just moving change of locations. I
mean all the La Ram fan as a kid with
jerown venice and everything, and when they up and moved
to Saint Louis, that just that was just crushing.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
I mean, granted they.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Moved back, but honestly, it's just.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Not the same.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Hey, if your team moves, yeah, they left you, and
maybe a new team comes into town and and maybe
you embraced them, like I get that. And I think
the real subtle, behind the scenes reason Rich poses this question,
because we've asked this before, is because he's had such
a tough week and he seriously to baiting jumping on
ship and having fun with his kids and enjoying Los
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Angeles to the state the city he lives in, and start
rooting for the Dodgers, and he's probably you're probably wondering,
that's what words in your mouth? How much flak will
give you as a lifelong Mets fan, buddy Ricky switching teams.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
There's there's two levels to this. Yes, you guys bust
on my balls. As a big deterrent, absolutely right, I
would be a I would be a fraud, as as
Rob Parker would say, fraud fo gayzy.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I would be the.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Worst if I if I left the Mets. But then haul,
you know what happened to a Hall.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know what happened.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
If I left the Mets, They'd win a World Series
in the next five years and I would not be
able to really cheer for it.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
No, Rich, come on, like, you will always just be
a Mets fan on the back burner. So if they
do ever get good, you could just go right back.
It's fine. You can't quit being a Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You can't be a wishy washing then.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Then be going from Mets to the Dodgers is wishy washy.
So just stay with the Mets, you know, for them.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I have a buddy, Rob, a Brooklyn dude that lives
out here in La one of my buddies I play
softball with. He's the late forties, so he never saw
the Jets win anything. He was not born and you know,
he was born after nineteen sixty nine and.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He's been a lifelong Jets fan.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Two years ago he made a choice, and I was like,
because he's not the type that would He's sort of
like a man's man.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He's like, Yo, this f the Jets. I'm done.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He's like, I live in LA I'm here for you know,
the last ten plus years. I'm a Chargers guy now,
and I'm like, for really goes. I like Jim Harbaugh,
you know, justin Herbert's cool fit. Yo, I'm done with
the Jets.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I go for Really, He's like, yep, is that just
a conscious decision? You could just start liking things because
you decided to. I don't know. There's gotta be more
to it, you know, I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Rich.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What could really make you jump ship to is your
love of certain players, Meaning like if you were young
enough to appreciate Jordan in the nineties, and let's say
you were a kid from New York, you could easily
went from the Knicks to the Bulls because of his
super stardom. Shoaho Tani, he's getting fancy.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
What about the people? What about the people that jump
on and they don't stay on? Like, for instance, I
jumped on the Niners as a kid because my dad
thought Joe Montana and probably still think Shoe Montana was
the coolest dude ever.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
He wasn't wrong. So as a kid, I can see
you saying, hell, yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So my dad's like, oh, I love Montana, so do you.
He bought me a little Montana jersey. So I was
never a front runner. Yeah they were good, but I
was a five year old kid. The same way my
son's like Freddie and Mookie, and.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You know, I love Montana.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You love Hannah Montana.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I love her too.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
My least celebrating twenty years of Hannah Montana next year. See,
I know all Montana told you so cove. Joe Montana
was the way that I got into the Niners, and
I've loved him through Steve Young, Jeff Garcia, Kaepernick, you know,
Jimmy G.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Brock Purty. You know, my dad doesn't love them as
much as I do. My dad likes the Niners.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But my dad's like, I love Montana now like he does,
he does not love him as much as I do.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I said, Joe Montagna because he caught you at a
very easily influential life.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I'm saying that's sort of how some people were like
I love Jordan the Bulls, and then when Jordan retired, like, yeah,
I guess I like the Bulls.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I suppose you.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Know, like you know, but I'm just trying to of
reasons that you would jump and a superstar that transcends
the game, could really you win could be the answer.
I don't get though.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I mean, maybe it's because I grew up a college
football fan where the turnovers every four years, But like,
I don't get this whole rooting for a player and
where he goes on the team, Like you.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Either root for the team or you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The whole rooting for players thing is a very gen
z thing to do.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
My brother, who's younger than me, was a little influential
kid when Mookie Wilson, Remember Mookie Wilson, he got from
the Mets of the blue Jays. My brother didn't become
a Blue Jays fan, but I remember there was a
year where he bought a blue Jay's hat and he's.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Like, oh with Mookie, And I was like, what do
you like the blue Jays Now? He's like, I love
Mookie Wilson, So listen, I get it. One last thing.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I know we're running late, but when I was watching
Monday night football Eagles, Chargers, Danny G it doesn't strike you,
being that you're a longtime LA guy. When I see
all those people like emphatically cheer for the Chargers. I
almost feel like their plants like that woman from a
couple of years ago, because I'm like, who really likes
the Chargers in LA?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Like, how do you just pick up a team? That's
what I get what Kevin I's saying that.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Rich, how did your buddy go from rooting for the
Jets and then rooting for a team who has never
won a Super Bowl in the Chargers? Like you actually
picked like a team that's like kind of on the
same level as the Jets in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
There's a lot of layers here, a lot of layers here.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I think it has to happen organically. I don't
think you could wake up one day and say, you
know what today's today, I decide to root for Chargers. Also,
that's weird to me.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Also, Covino, your boy CC Sabathia. A couple of months ago,
after a bad Raider loss, Don't ask me which one,
he posted on social media picture of him, his mom
and sister outside of the Oakland Coliseum back in the day,
and he said, I know that wins are really important
to all of us, but some things with our teams
are more important. Than wins and losses, like my family
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and our traditions and everything culture, all my memories of
my family and our team together.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, that's true, man. And when you have culture like that,
like the Raiders fans do, I don't think you could
ever jump ship. Look. Rich is prisoner of the moment.
It's a sad week. He's got a heavy heart. His
Doggie's sick, he's losing a player.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He's on it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
My Doggi's on our deathbed. And the Met's are getting
rid of all their players. What am I gonna do
with my Shaye Stadium snow globe around the holidays?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Is there ever a reason to leave your team? Petelazzo
leaving for five years, one hundred and fifty five million
to the Orioles. So we take your phone calls and
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Rich Davis is a very sad Mets fan who lives
in La surrounded by Dodgers fans. Even his kids are
Dodgers fans. So he's asking, hey, with the pee Alnzo news,
when is it okay to jump ship? And we're getting
lots of feedback, lots lots of phone calls. Let me
just say that nw Rich on our YouTube chat, Covino
and Rich FSR says, it's okay to have a backup team.
(28:55):
I'm not sure about that, but Scott Fermeyer says, you
just need to have a quote unquote side piece team
Rich and as a side piece a La Janie Rossi
apartment too. Are your gumud team? Do you have one
and just don't tell anybody about it? Is that how
it works? So you have some joy on the side,
But we got something.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Are you saying the Dodgers it's okay if they're like
my side booty.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's hey, I'm telling you what Scott said. He recommended that,
you know, keep it big in discreets.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You know we have by the way, I'm not leaving
the Mets for the record, that's not I'm not cut
from that cloth and being like, yeah, I'm out. I'll
stick with this stupid team forever. But I will say,
you know, we've seen I'll give you an example. There's
a guy that you and I know from Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
His name is Vinnie. Read this and we're gonna get
to tell the phone calls.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Vinnie, who you know, is the most abrasive Met fan
you know, goes what the f happened in the last
twenty four hours? It's really is it really worth watching
this f and dumpster fire for an s bag organization?
I'm a tap out like he this is like a lifer,
you know, Vini.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, he's hardcore Mets. I mean, it's disappointing, it really is.
It's a really bad week. You're losing your superstars, and
it's it's extra hurtful when you made all the other
moves to make it better, you know, again the big
Wan Soto deal for example. But let's go to the phones.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, Cavino and Rich Danny g who we.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Got another Matt This time in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Hey, Matt, Yo, what's up Georgia?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Matt?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Fellas?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Listen?
Speaker 11 (30:28):
I feel like if you got a side team or
a secondary team, you don't even have a team. And
this is coming from an Atlanta Falcons Atlanta Hawks fan.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Like I could have, I would.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I'm fifty years old. I would have traded him forty
years ago if I could. I just couldn't do it.
And I hate to.
Speaker 11 (30:45):
Mix two stories together, Cavino, but I would give.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Anybody on the team my girl for a championship for
one of those teams, y'all.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yo, he had all that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Over, he would tell White to go ahead with Michael
Pennick Junior for menta super Bowl Camino, crazy enough, our
buddy Donnie Pompadoor, who listens. He recently said, damn you,
Michael Vick for pulling me into this Falcons team, because
now I can't now, like all these years later, they suck,
like you can't leave.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Who else we got, Danny g Let's go to Vegas. Larry, Hey, Larry.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Larry, what's going on now?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Anybody?
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Yo?
Speaker 11 (31:24):
Hey, this is what I said. It's a lot of
people in Vegas. They're getting passes because we never had
a professional NFL team, no, a major league team coming,
so a lot of people had teams like the Giants
or whatever. But now that the Raiders here, they was
like they're giving them passes like and I'm like, I'm
fifty three, bro, I'm from the old school. I'm a
Buffalo Bills and it's to the cast gets dropped. But
you got people in Vegas that are literally think it's okay, here's.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
The difference to ever happen. Larry respect Larry dude, but
he's rooting for the Bills. The Bills are a great team.
What if you root for the Jets and you're you're
in Vegas. Isn't this a perfect like pivot moment to
maybe say, you know, maybe it's time. There's some exceptions.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I feel the reason I'm staying with the Mets no
matter what is because I feel what Larry said. When
you see Vegas Raiders fans or like I said, Chargers
fans in LA, it's like, what did you do a
couple of years ago? Now, all of a sudden, you
go justin Herbert like it feels full gazy.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
You had out enough for a week ass team.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
You're happy.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But you know that is a unique situation that I'd
have to hear you out. I'm not a fan of
leaving your team, but I'd have to hear that one out.
Who else you got, dannyj.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Let's go to Charlotte and it's Tracy, Tracy, what's up?
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Hey? Hey, you guys love your showy caller, longtime listener,
and I think everybody's fan experience can be defined by them.
They just have to deal with whatever the consequences of
their decisions. So I changed teams. I grew up forty
nine Ers fan New York Man's fans, and I moved
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to Charlotte in nine ninety six, my first time I
ever lived in a city with a football team. I
grew up in a small town. Take the forty nine
Ers because of Joe Montana, because somebody gave me a
jersey when I was five years old, and I chose
conscious decision to embrace this team that was local. They
were brand new. I think it was the year after
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they started. And I have lived with those Panthers for
thirty years and it has been a lot of good
times and mostly miserable times.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Man, you know you remind us of our friend Drew
in Nashville. You guys know our bud, Drew mack Cavino.
He's a lifelong Colts fan, but he lives in Nashville
and he sort of runs things in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
His kids loved the Titans. Listen, not that they're good
this year, but he.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Had season tickets to the Titans, and he's like, I
know they're in the same division, so it's even more wonky,
but he has a soft spot for the Titans.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It happens, all right, So I do have a final thought,
Jerry Springer's style. We got one more phone call on this,
but first an update from the great Dan Byer.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
A huge news breaking within the last hour or so
is that the University of Michigan has fired at football
coach Sharon Moore after two seasons.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Michigan athletic director Ward Manual releasing a statement saying that
Moore was terminated with cause as there is credible evidence
that Moore had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
More went fifteen and eight during his two seasons at Michigan.
Biff Pogy is expected to take over as the interim
head coach, as Michigan will be playing in the Citrus
(34:31):
Bowl on New Year's Eve against Texas, but again Sharon
Moore out after two seasons at Michigan, with the school
saying it is with cause the Baltimore Orioles and former
Mets slugger Peede Alonzo agreeing on that five year deal
worth one hundred and fifty five million dollars, Colts officially
signed Philip Rivers today.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Was asked how the family was with the decision. They've
been very supportive, you know. I think my younger children
are most excited.
Speaker 11 (34:55):
They're excited because they don't remember dad playing.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You know.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
My six year old actually asked me, like four months ago, Dad.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Why don't you play anymore? And I'm like, God, I'm sorry.
The best you're gonna get his me coaching on the sideline,
you know. But I think share the same sentiment, a
little nervous like that. Do you think you can do
it now?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Riley Leonard was a full participant in practice today. No
word on if Rivers will play in Week fifteen against
the Seahawks. Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels out against the Giants.
Gino Smith of the Raiders likely to miss their game
with the Eagles because of a shoulder injury. Kenny Pickett
would be in line to start, and Buccaneers wide receiver
Mike Evans activated from my R. He's expected to play
tomorrow despite being listed as questionable as they face the Falcons.
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back to you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Thank you Dan BYERH Cavino.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Hearing Dan Buyer's update and just hearing Pee Alonso to
the Orioles, it just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
It seems sort of like not real.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
But you know what, what does it also say that,
like I said, the two big stars that left Diez
didn't come back for the counter offer, the quote wiggle
room and Pete Alonzo gets the offer from the Orioles
and doesn't even entertain like Scott Boris doesn't even sit
down with Cohen and Sterns, Like, what does that tell
you what's going on within the Mets.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That things ain't right? I mean it does. The writing's there,
and Rich, I'm hoping to get a little wiggle room
in our next Fox Sports Radio contract. It sounds fun,
all right. So, like I said, a Jerry Springer final
thought and the rest of your phone calls plus Midweek
Major and more right here on Fox Sports Radio, Covino
and Rich, Well, the holidays came early for the Dodgers.
(36:57):
Seems like the Dodgers had little more wiggle room.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And DS did even come back. He didn't even come
back to see what the wiggle room was.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
That's okay, because they're all dancing at Dodger Stadium to
two in a room. Wiggle it just a little bit
because they're going through the World Series again with Edwin
Diaz and of course Pete Alonso is also gone today.
So I'm Cavino. That is rich to said Mets fan
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Speaker 2 (38:08):
Man, there's some sad Nicks and Mets fan out there
being like, well, I guess at least the Knicks are
still in the Cup.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
The Cup embarrassing, well, rich, uh, you know the question
based on Alonso now leaving Diaz an Alonzo left the
Mets this week. It's tough. I think here's my prediction.
If the question is when's it okay to leave your team?
You're an old school sort of guy, and you have
an old school way of thinking, And I feel like
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our generation was a little more loyal. But today these
pros ain't loyal. These pros are not loyal. They jump
ship and they played for those teams. As this younger
generation comes up, you think they're going to be loyal
to teams. They're not loyal to their own relationships. They're
not loyal to their own marriages. How fickle are young
people in today's life? In today's world of dating, someone
(38:59):
gave you the ick because they jumped over a puddle
funny and you broke up with them. You think those
type of people care about loyalty. I think based on this,
based on the way sports is moving, we're gonna see
this happening more and more often. There's no loyalty when
it comes to this stuff moving forward.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Could I wrap it up by saying, just over the
last twenty years, I've seen that sentiment. Because your brother
who's thirty year old, dude younger, your younger brother significantly younger.
He'll wear like an a's hat because he's like, yo,
it's green and it matches my sneakers. Dude, I like
the aies. I guess he'll wear He'll wear other teams
apparel because it looks cool. You would never.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Never, never look Lisa even said loyalty is a dying
trait in general. So as these younger people come up
that means nothing to them. They're like, yeah, I like
the Yankees, but I also like this team, Or I
like the Yankees, but they govern my favorite players.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
So now I like the Mits.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Like I think, based on the mindset of younger people
on their come up, is gonna be more and more
common as time goes on.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Well, we're gonna get to a lot of NFL football
for the rest of the show. But Cavino final thought,
are you shocked at Pete Alonzo didn't even even even
for maybe even uh optics at least hear the Mets out.
Is that weird to you? I think it's odd that
he didn't even hear them out.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, that just goes to show you that his mind
was set, his mind was made up already. Danny g
we got one more call.
Speaker 7 (40:24):
Yeah, let's wrap it with Michael in Canada. He's calling
for Montreal jumping shiit, Mike, what's up?
Speaker 9 (40:29):
How you guys doing? A huge, huge, huge fan of
your show.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Love what you do, appreciate it due Thank you. Man.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I watched that Expos documentary and I'm sure you're probably
gonna talk a little expos right.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
No, believe it or not, I'm not. I'm not heartbroken
that the team's been gone. It's crazy that we even
had one here. Drive by the stadium all the time.
It's the probably the ugliest building in our in our
fair city. But I grew up my When I was
nine years old, my mom brought me to a sports
store and bought me a hat out of a discounted bin,
a corduroy purple hat with a minute to Vikings logo
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on it. And I have a Vikings fan for the
last forty five years because of it. And well, yeah,
you know, they break my heart every every year. It's
getting worse by the day here this year. And I
always joke with my buddies if ever you need Vikings
gear and you can't find it online, and call me
up because I've got it all. But I don't know
what to do now. You know, I'm stuck with this
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team forever. My kids have got the affliction and they
all make fun of me for it.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah, co Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I thought he was going to go expos Let's say
you are a dude in Montreal or woman in Montreal.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Leave, are you a Nationals fan or well?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
First, yeah that was reasonableave. Yeah, sometimes there's there's unique situations.
That's definitely a classic one. So next hour, Rich Midweek Major,
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rich Man, I really am sorry because it feels like
and this is outside looking in. I'm on the outside.
I'm looking in like Aaron Lewis of Stain. It feels
like your team is crumbling. It feels like your team
is falling apart.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I don't know why. That's the thing. Ca.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You know, it's like, you know they talk about all
One's he's the you know, best owner in baseball and
the culture there is great, and everyone loves it and
they're so good to the families listen, much like Dan
Campbell when he was talking about, Hey, we're gonna buite kneecaps,
and everyone's like, look at this dope, and then it
ended up working out. The Lions never won a Super Bowl,
(02:35):
and I don't think they're headed there.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
They shifted their culture though, for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But when you talk about Stearns, I don't think what
he's doing is rubbing anyone the right way.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Like, you're the guy, you're the president of Baseball Operations
and you know you're here with Steve Cohen.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You guys are both lifelong Mets fans.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't know how you let Diaz goo for a
couple million more to the one team you need to beat,
and then the next day, if that's not bad enough,
the face of your franchise, the home run leader, polar
Bear Pete. My kids have his shirt like it's it's
the worst Pete Alonzo going to the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, it's obvious as to why Alonzo left. Okay, Alonzo's
gone five year deal, one hundred and fifty five million
to the Orioles. He didn't go there the win I
don't believe they're contenders, but hell of a ballpark, he'll
be hitting bombs.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Hit.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
He's trying to hit five hundred home runs, is what
he's trying. And you know what he might at that park.
Great park, great vibe, cam the yards is great. But
they have a long way to go. But things changed quick.
I think this is clearly a situation of he was
disrespected last year, he bet out himself, put up big
numbers again. I don't feel the fans embraced them the
(03:54):
way they should have. He's been a lifelong Met He's
always been clutch for you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Owners.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Only only guy that the fans relate to when he
does is like you know, LFGM and I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, but I feel like the fans didn't have his
back enough when he was fighting to stay right. Everyone
was looking forward seeing who they could get when Alonso
was there the whole time. I really think this is
a case of job security and the five years, and
I think that meant more to him than dealing with
the Mets again and with Diaz. You know, they had
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Devin Williams, but he had an opportunity with the Dodgers.
You can't blame him for that. So there's reasons, and
I understand. But what's gross about this, Rich is man
that the Dodgers keep getting better. But as far as
your team's concerned, you're still in it. You got Simmy
and you got Soto, you got Lindor. It's a matter
of who could you get in the bullpen. The Mets
are still looking good, but you lost some really really
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big pieces.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Do you try to get Tucker? Do you get Cody Bellinger?
Do you make a trade for schoobl I'm not gonna
Oh god, I so badly want to overreact, like every
New York Mets fan that's, you know, pulling their hair out,
losing their minds, like you, Alonzo's gone and Diaz is gone.
But I look at it this way, man, it's we
don't know what the roster looks like.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
If you told me you need some bait, you need
some bait. Because we said this yesterday, Rich, When you
lose Daz to the Dodgers for the chance to win
and play in LA and play with the greats, anyone
that was on the fence about staying or playing with
the Mets is gone. Pete Alonzo, He's like Daz is
out Oh, I play with this team all the pressure
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of New York and no one appreciates me anyway, I'm out.
Now that Daz and Alonzo are out, it's even a
tougher pull to want to go there. So if I'm
Cody Bellinger now, or if I'm a big time reliever,
I'm like, man, I'm not sure. So that's the only
tough part here, Like they're gonna really have to open
up the wallet. I don't think they have a problem
doing that, but it does send up a red flag
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a little bit to those guys, you know, weighing out
their options, that hey, maybe something is up with the Mets.
Maybe this isn't the place to be. Why are these
other people leaving now?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Steve Collen might be the best owner in baseball, but
what if Stearns is a guy that people really don't like.
So I heard Edwin Diaz, you know from my met sources,
that he was sort of mad, and a lot of
personnel was mad that they fired pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, who.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Was very well loved within the organization.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Those little things add up, and I don't know, I'm
not going to overreact until I see what the roster
looks like going into opening day because all of a sudden, listen,
if you get Tucker and you know Cody Bellinger and
you'd make a trade for school Bawl.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And there's still a lot to do.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But let me tell you the weakest start to the offseason,
as they call it, the hot stove. You lose Diaz
and Pete Alonso and all you have to show Ford
is oh, and you lost Nimo, who was a fan favorite.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I didn't care for Nimo, but you have three big
pieces gone.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But you know how you could look at it. You know,
those three guys didn't do Jack Diddley squad. They made
a one playoff run. And both of those guys have
been on the team for a while. So don't you
have to mix it up. When people say we're gonna
blow up the team right now, that's short of what
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Right It's odd because you still got some big names,
but there's some really really big names also jumping ship.
It's a matter of what sort of moves they make
moving forward. But based on this, guys, big news today
again is a tough week for Mets fans, a tough
week for rich based on this and rich In La.
(07:27):
Is there ever a reason? Is there ever a reason
for you rich as a fan to jump ship?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
If there ever was, now would be it? I'm really
testing my Mets fandom. Do I really bleed blue and Orange?
I guess that jump ship?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Your dad went from Yankees to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He did. My kids are like Dad, we like the Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
He's been part of me to the Mets. Why would
you do that? That's like jumping from the water into
a ship. That doesn't make sense, the reverse jumping ship.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You know why.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
My mom's family were Mets fans, and I think my
dad just you know, oh, you know what it was.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
My dad blames the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
My dad went to Fordham University in the Bronx and
got his car stolen two times. And he's like if
the Bronx af the Yankees, and he's like, and he
lives in Queens.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Carjackers.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You got to remember, Iowa, Sam.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I I'm switching teams for this.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, keep in mind the Mets were a new franchise
in the sixties. Keep that moving fresh start, you know, Dodgers, Blue, Giants, Orange.
A lot of people don't know that's how the Mets
got their colors two teams that left for the West Coast.
The Mets are blue and orange because of the Dodgers
and the Giants. And you know, Kamina, I love your
question because I think that might be one of the
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answers when you say, is there any real reason to
ever ever leave a team? And I think franchises moving
might be one of the few exceptions. Like we have
buddies that are like, yeah, I used to be a
Rams fan, then they left another back and I'm like
f them, or you know, buddies we in Saint Louis,
Like I was a Rams fan, but then they left
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Saint Louis. I'm not a Rams fan anymore. So maybe
that's a reason.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, we brought this up yesterday and we were talking
to Dan Bayer. You'll do anything for your kids, and
Rich is raising LA kids and they're growing up in
LA culture where sho Heyo Tani and Freddy Frehiman and
Mookie Bets and all these players are iconic and legendary.
All the kids in school are trading their cards and
wearing their jerseys, and his kids riches kids. They're all
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excited about the Dodgers. And I mentioned that even the
corneius things. If your kids love them, you'll appreciate them
as their parent. All their goofy shows, all their little cartoons,
all of their little kiddies songs, all the things they
like are near and dear to you because you're their parent.
So I think if your kid is really showing a
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lot of promise or a lot of fandom to a team,
I'm not saying it's okay. I'm just saying I could
see that being a catalyst for you to start embracing them.
And that is what's happening to you, whether you want
to admit it or not.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, I have a soft spot for the Dodgers, which
might be, you know, might be breaking like a man
sports rule or something. But I'm still a Mets fan.
I can't abandon this miserable franchise. But I gotta ask
you this if you're me, because I'll think I'll give
you my thoughts.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If you're me, and you hear that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Diaz gets an offer from the Mets, and they told
Diaz and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There's wiggle room.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
He goes to the Dodgers, doesn't even come back to
see what the Mets counter is.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He's like the an s guggle room.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Was it next to the clubhouse somewhere?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, that's that comes to the contract access to the
wiggle room.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
He had his own bathroom and his own wiggle room.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Hey, and then you know, by the way, Cavido, he's
gonna be at a chuckles in Burbank this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Thank you, Danny G. Hey, I don't see the Fox
Sports radio hosts making those uh making those jokers taking
those chances.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Danny G.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I even saw that the Dodgers already started breaking out
the organ for Edwin DS day later.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Listen to this, I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Feel like Danny G busted out the organ for DS.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Are you telling about the big triton cord?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Yeah, Manu Deeter rule the famous of course.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
He replaced the legendary organist at Dodger Stadium a decade
or so ago. And he's a friend of the show.
I know he listens to the network. Listen to how
he welcomed Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know what's interesting about that, Danny G.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm gonna vomit on myself.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Did the Mets sort of give him that intro? Or
is that something he came up with on his own?
Because how does he take that showmanship over to Dodger Stadium?
Is that his?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Or is that the Dodger sort of? It's his?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I wonder does he go with the timmy trumpets or
does he have the organ player do it? I he's
got to have the light show and everything. You guys,
Oh so disgusting. How the Dodgers get better? And that's
a problem. So let me let me go back to
my more.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Fun that what makes the Dodgers disgusting is that, well,
they have over a five hundred million dollar payroll, but
their superstars are likable, and this makes them even more
likable and even more fun, Like, not only do you
got to show here Tani and everything else, but you
got this showmanship and the theatrics of Edwin Diaz coming
in from the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's insane your thoughts, and again, I don't want to
make this about my Mets, So make it about your team.
What could your team do? What could your team do
to have you possibly jump ship? And I have one answer,
based on Steve Cavino that I'm gonna throw out there,
and it's it's a little bit of a juicy, dirty one.
I'll get to that in a second. But let me
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tell you about Edwin Diaz again. Back to your wiggle
room joke. Oh, he didn't even come back to the
Mets to see what that wiggle room was. He was
so quick to be like, all right, you know what,
I'm a dollar now, I'm a dodger. Pete Alonzo accepts
the five year, one point fifty five without even accepting
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an offer from the Mets. What does that tell you
about what the Mets front office is doing right now?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
They're very put off this show.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It also goes to show you that New York doesn't
have this mystique that it once had, and that's slowly
dwindling every year that goes by without a championship and
without the luster of just New York City. Man, I mean,
we're from there. Keep that in mind. We're from the
East Coast. We worked and built our career in Manhattan,
in New York City. It's sort of a down time
to be there and to play there, It really is.
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The expectations are high and for.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
What I just heard that Grimace signed with the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh man, it's tough week for the Mets fans.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Hey O, No, but I honestly, I might just have
to accept the fact that the Mets had a magical,
beautiful run two years ago with Timmy trumpets and Grimace
Hawk to a girl, Lindor and all the magic, and
that that might have just been a cool moment and
it might be another five to ten years when Steve
Cohen took over this team. Mets fans runder the illusion that, oh,
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we're gonna be like the Dodgers and Yankees and Phillies
and teams that make it every year. And already it
looks like ass. And so if Peter A Lonzo come
you know, says I don't even want to see the
Mets offer, I'm going to the Orioles, and Edwin Diaz says,
I'm good. I don't even need to see the wiggle room.
What does that tell you about David Stearns. What does
that tell you about how the front office is rubbing people, or.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
How maybe some of the other superstars are rubbing people,
or how they really feel about the organization. Like you said, Rich,
I'm getting a lot of feedback because based on this
Rich's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Day want a jerk and we just don't know it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Man, Maybe I'm getting feedback because the question is, well,
what would it take for you to jump ship from
your team and west from Vegas, west from Idaho? Says
if your team had a twenty year streak of suck,
I think you're allowed to jump ship. He's started giving
you the pass. Rich it's been a long time eighty six,
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it's a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I'm not doing it. You know, I told you my
son is going to be six.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Who if you watch yesterday show, my son Ben got
to play a little game on the air with us.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Ben is six.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Just put in perspective, that's how old I was when
the Mets won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You're picking your nuts. Tell yeah, you were an under Russ.
Daniel Javier Fetz says, I was a Packers fan, and
when FARV left, I did too. I realized I was
more of a far fan than the actual Packers. And
if you're a kid and you feel that way, if
you're a kid like I kind of understand that. So
that was his reasoning for jumping ship. Let's see nature
(15:59):
boy Third says, DS probably got his own trumpet player
and he was like, yeah, I'm out, I got one.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
That a reason to leave a team. Now, since I'm
having a rough day, rough week. And in addition to this,
not that you need to feel sad for me, looks
like my dog's in our final stages, jeez, which is
like miserable for the family, miserable for me, miserable.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Make it through the holidays, please, I don't think it's
gonna happen, really, yeah, man, So like's.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's like a day to day thing.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So I'm like trying to explain to my kids, like,
you know, dogs don't live forever. And I'm like, on
top of that, my teams are falling apart. My wife's
out of town for a family emergency. Like it's been
an ass of a week, but I have a fun one.
So let me throw you under the bus for a second.
In the in the two thousands, when you and I
first became friends, you and a girlfriend dump you for
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a guy on the New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Nets True story, and then you had another girl dump
you for a New York Ranger.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
True story, back to back. And by the way, they
weren't just like girlfriends I was dating. I was with
them for three four years at a time, each girl
like long term relationships, and it was not good for
the ego or confidence when I was living at mom's
house trying to make it in radio.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So my question is when you talk about reasons to
stop your fandom if your team sucks for decades, if
your team moves, what if your girl starts sleeping with
a dude on the team you root for?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Can you root for that? God? Can you root for
the team? Like? Can we know God forbid your ex
instead of a ranger?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
What if all of a sudden she started banging Paul
O'Neal or something.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Oh my goodness, a warrior. There's no way I could
go back to What if all of a sudden you
found out your girl was having sleepover?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Was it Bernie Williams house.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'd say that would burn baby burn. I'd say that
would be a legitimate reason. I'll tell you this from experience, dude,
and thanks for rubbing it in rich what a palky
tell you. I think that my days of going to
Nets games, at that primo time of my life, when
I had the time to do so, ended abruptly. Guess
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who I stopped going to see? Guess whose team I
stopped watching? The New Jersey Nets. They are the New
Jersey Nets. At the time, it was just too tough.
So yeah, I think those are legitimate reasons. I do
if you happen to be in that weird situation that
I was in. I had a streak of bad luck.
And by the way, you could chime in not only
on the phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
(18:30):
but we are streaming live on YouTube, So there's a
live YouTube chat where you could chop it up with Lisa,
Neste Ban and Nathan Nathaniel Richards and then w Covino
and Rich FSR on YouTube. Covino and rich FSR. Who
do we got, Danny G.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Let's start with Matt in La Matt cal.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Matty, Matt, you're on the show, Covino and Rich Yo.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Covino and Rich natural content back by since your holiday, BS,
what up A couple of things to me? It's like
one like, I mean, I'm a nineties kid on here
in La trading a favorite player. I'm in the minority
here with the Lakers. I was huge.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Nicka, Oh wait say that again. You were a huge
What you were a huge?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Wen?
Speaker 8 (19:21):
I was flushed and I know they brought in shit
out and they brought a Kobe, but it also brought
in a bunch of new casual fans and I didn't
like that. And also just moving change of locations. I
mean all the La Ram fan as a kid with
jerown venice and everything, and when they up and moved
to Saint Louis, that just that was just crushing.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
I mean, granted they.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Moved back, but honestly, it's just.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Not the same.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Hey, if your team moves, yeah, they left you, and
maybe a new team comes into town and and maybe
you embraced them, like I get that. And I think
the real subtle, behind the scenes reason Rich poses this question,
because we've asked this before, is because he's had such
a tough week and he seriously to baiting jumping on
ship and having fun with his kids and enjoying Los
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Angeles to the state the city he lives in, and start
rooting for the Dodgers, and he's probably you're probably wondering,
that's what words in your mouth? How much flak will
give you as a lifelong Mets fan, buddy Ricky switching teams.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
There's there's two levels to this. Yes, you guys bust
on my balls. As a big deterrent, absolutely right, I
would be a I would be a fraud, as as
Rob Parker would say, fraud fo gayzy.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I would be the.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Worst if I if I left the Mets. But then haul,
you know what happened to a Hall.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know what happened.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
If I left the Mets, They'd win a World Series
in the next five years and I would not be
able to really cheer for it.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
No, Rich, come on, like, you will always just be
a Mets fan on the back burner. So if they
do ever get good, you could just go right back.
It's fine. You can't quit being a Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You can't be a wishy washing then.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Then be going from Mets to the Dodgers is wishy washy.
So just stay with the Mets, you know, for them.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I have a buddy, Rob, a Brooklyn dude that lives
out here in La one of my buddies I play
softball with. He's the late forties, so he never saw
the Jets win anything. He was not born and you know,
he was born after nineteen sixty nine and.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He's been a lifelong Jets fan.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Two years ago he made a choice, and I was like,
because he's not the type that would He's sort of
like a man's man.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He's like, Yo, this f the Jets. I'm done.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He's like, I live in LA I'm here for you know,
the last ten plus years. I'm a Chargers guy now,
and I'm like, for really goes. I like Jim Harbaugh,
you know, justin Herbert's cool fit. Yo, I'm done with
the Jets.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I go for Really, He's like, yep, is that just
a conscious decision? You could just start liking things because
you decided to. I don't know. There's gotta be more
to it, you know, I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Rich.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What could really make you jump ship to is your
love of certain players, Meaning like if you were young
enough to appreciate Jordan in the nineties, and let's say
you were a kid from New York, you could easily
went from the Knicks to the Bulls because of his
super stardom. Shoaho Tani, he's getting fancy.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
What about the people? What about the people that jump
on and they don't stay on? Like, for instance, I
jumped on the Niners as a kid because my dad
thought Joe Montana and probably still think Shoe Montana was
the coolest dude ever.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
He wasn't wrong. So as a kid, I can see
you saying, hell, yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So my dad's like, oh, I love Montana, so do you.
He bought me a little Montana jersey. So I was
never a front runner. Yeah they were good, but I
was a five year old kid. The same way my
son's like Freddie and Mookie, and.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You know, I love Montana.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You love Hannah Montana.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I love her too.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
My least celebrating twenty years of Hannah Montana next year. See,
I know all Montana told you so cove. Joe Montana
was the way that I got into the Niners, and
I've loved him through Steve Young, Jeff Garcia, Kaepernick, you know,
Jimmy G.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Brock Purty. You know, my dad doesn't love them as
much as I do. My dad likes the Niners.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But my dad's like, I love Montana now like he does,
he does not love him as much as I do.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I said, Joe Montagna because he caught you at a
very easily influential life.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I'm saying that's sort of how some people were like
I love Jordan the Bulls, and then when Jordan retired, like, yeah,
I guess I like the Bulls.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I suppose you.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Know, like you know, but I'm just trying to of
reasons that you would jump and a superstar that transcends
the game, could really you win could be the answer.
I don't get though.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I mean, maybe it's because I grew up a college
football fan where the turnovers every four years, But like,
I don't get this whole rooting for a player and
where he goes on the team, Like you.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Either root for the team or you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
The whole rooting for players thing is a very gen
z thing to do.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
My brother, who's younger than me, was a little influential
kid when Mookie Wilson, Remember Mookie Wilson, he got from
the Mets of the blue Jays. My brother didn't become
a Blue Jays fan, but I remember there was a
year where he bought a blue Jay's hat and he's.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Like, oh with Mookie, And I was like, what do
you like the blue Jays Now? He's like, I love
Mookie Wilson, So listen, I get it. One last thing.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I know we're running late, but when I was watching
Monday night football Eagles, Chargers, Danny G it doesn't strike you,
being that you're a longtime LA guy. When I see
all those people like emphatically cheer for the Chargers. I
almost feel like their plants like that woman from a
couple of years ago, because I'm like, who really likes
the Chargers in LA?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Like, how do you just pick up a team? That's
what I get what Kevin I's saying that.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Rich, how did your buddy go from rooting for the
Jets and then rooting for a team who has never
won a Super Bowl in the Chargers? Like you actually
picked like a team that's like kind of on the
same level as the Jets in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
There's a lot of layers here, a lot of layers here.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, I think it has to happen organically. I don't
think you could wake up one day and say, you
know what today's today, I decide to root for Chargers. Also,
that's weird to me.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Also, Covino, your boy CC Sabathia. A couple of months ago,
after a bad Raider loss, Don't ask me which one,
he posted on social media picture of him, his mom
and sister outside of the Oakland Coliseum back in the day,
and he said, I know that wins are really important
to all of us, but some things with our teams
are more important. Than wins and losses, like my family
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and our traditions and everything culture, all my memories of
my family and our team together.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, that's true, man. And when you have culture like that,
like the Raiders fans do, I don't think you could
ever jump ship. Look. Rich is prisoner of the moment.
It's a sad week. He's got a heavy heart. His
Doggie's sick, he's losing a player.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He's on it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
My Doggi's on our deathbed. And the Met's are getting
rid of all their players. What am I gonna do
with my Shaye Stadium snow globe around the holidays?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Is there ever a reason to leave your team? Petelazzo
leaving for five years, one hundred and fifty five million
to the Orioles. So we take your phone calls and
your feedback. Next, Rich hold the snow globe and make
a wish. Maybe it's like the escape clause, you know,
like Santa Claus three.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Oh, you know, let me do that while I tell
you guys all about TCLTVS. Can I wish for a
sweet TCLTV for the holidays? Listen, you got that layme
mass TV When people are coming over to watch the game,
when people are coming over to watch all the Bowl
games coming up, all the NFL games we're entering week fifteen,
you need a TCL no weakss tvnly that.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Too rich, I bet you, like all your buddies are
calling you out, like, yeah, Rob's got a weak TV
and you don't even realize it. But that's why no
one's showing up.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
The q M eight K QD Mini LED's the real MVP,
ultimate brightness, ultimate black levels for the ultimate experience.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Picture so clear you could taste the turf.
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Rich Davis is a very sad Mets fan who lives
in La surrounded by Dodgers fans. Even his kids are
Dodgers fans. So he's asking, hey, with the pee Alnzo news,
when is it okay to jump ship? And we're getting
lots of feedback, lots lots of phone calls. Let me
just say that nw Rich on our YouTube chat, Covino
and Rich FSR says, it's okay to have a backup team.
(28:55):
I'm not sure about that, but Scott Fermeyer says, you
just need to have a quote unquote side piece team
Rich and as a side piece a La Janie Rossi
apartment too. Are your gumud team? Do you have one
and just don't tell anybody about it? Is that how
it works? So you have some joy on the side,
But we got something.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Are you saying the Dodgers it's okay if they're like
my side booty.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's hey, I'm telling you what Scott said. He recommended that,
you know, keep it big in discreets.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You know we have by the way, I'm not leaving
the Mets for the record, that's not I'm not cut
from that cloth and being like, yeah, I'm out. I'll
stick with this stupid team forever. But I will say,
you know, we've seen I'll give you an example. There's
a guy that you and I know from Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
His name is Vinnie. Read this and we're gonna get
to tell the phone calls.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Vinnie, who you know, is the most abrasive Met fan
you know, goes what the f happened in the last
twenty four hours? It's really is it really worth watching
this f and dumpster fire for an s bag organization?
I'm a tap out like he this is like a lifer,
you know, Vini.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, he's hardcore Mets. I mean, it's disappointing, it really is.
It's a really bad week. You're losing your superstars, and
it's it's extra hurtful when you made all the other
moves to make it better, you know, again the big
Wan Soto deal for example. But let's go to the phones.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, Cavino and Rich Danny g who we.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Got another Matt This time in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Hey, Matt, Yo, what's up Georgia?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Matt?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Fellas?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Listen?
Speaker 11 (30:28):
I feel like if you got a side team or
a secondary team, you don't even have a team. And
this is coming from an Atlanta Falcons Atlanta Hawks fan.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Like I could have, I would.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I'm fifty years old. I would have traded him forty
years ago if I could. I just couldn't do it.
And I hate to.
Speaker 11 (30:45):
Mix two stories together, Cavino, but I would give.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Anybody on the team my girl for a championship for
one of those teams, y'all.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yo, he had all that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Over, he would tell White to go ahead with Michael
Pennick Junior for menta super Bowl Camino, crazy enough, our
buddy Donnie Pompadoor, who listens. He recently said, damn you,
Michael Vick for pulling me into this Falcons team, because
now I can't now, like all these years later, they suck,
like you can't leave.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Who else we got, Danny g Let's go to Vegas. Larry, Hey, Larry.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Larry, what's going on now?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Anybody?
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Yo?
Speaker 11 (31:24):
Hey, this is what I said. It's a lot of
people in Vegas. They're getting passes because we never had
a professional NFL team, no, a major league team coming,
so a lot of people had teams like the Giants
or whatever. But now that the Raiders here, they was
like they're giving them passes like and I'm like, I'm
fifty three, bro, I'm from the old school. I'm a
Buffalo Bills and it's to the cast gets dropped. But
you got people in Vegas that are literally think it's okay, here's.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
The difference to ever happen. Larry respect Larry dude, but
he's rooting for the Bills. The Bills are a great team.
What if you root for the Jets and you're you're
in Vegas. Isn't this a perfect like pivot moment to
maybe say, you know, maybe it's time. There's some exceptions.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I feel the reason I'm staying with the Mets no
matter what is because I feel what Larry said. When
you see Vegas Raiders fans or like I said, Chargers
fans in LA, it's like, what did you do a
couple of years ago? Now, all of a sudden, you
go justin Herbert like it feels full gazy.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
You had out enough for a week ass team.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
You're happy.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But you know that is a unique situation that I'd
have to hear you out. I'm not a fan of
leaving your team, but I'd have to hear that one out.
Who else you got, dannyj.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Let's go to Charlotte and it's Tracy, Tracy, what's up?
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Hey? Hey, you guys love your showy caller, longtime listener,
and I think everybody's fan experience can be defined by them.
They just have to deal with whatever the consequences of
their decisions. So I changed teams. I grew up forty
nine Ers fan New York Man's fans, and I moved
(32:59):
to Charlotte in nine ninety six, my first time I
ever lived in a city with a football team. I
grew up in a small town. Take the forty nine
Ers because of Joe Montana, because somebody gave me a
jersey when I was five years old, and I chose
conscious decision to embrace this team that was local. They
were brand new. I think it was the year after
(33:20):
they started. And I have lived with those Panthers for
thirty years and it has been a lot of good
times and mostly miserable times.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Man, you know you remind us of our friend Drew
in Nashville. You guys know our bud, Drew mack Cavino.
He's a lifelong Colts fan, but he lives in Nashville
and he sort of runs things in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
His kids loved the Titans. Listen, not that they're good
this year, but he.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Had season tickets to the Titans, and he's like, I
know they're in the same division, so it's even more wonky,
but he has a soft spot for the Titans.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It happens, all right, So I do have a final thought,
Jerry Springer's style. We got one more phone call on this,
but first an update from the great Dan Byer.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
A huge news breaking within the last hour or so
is that the University of Michigan has fired at football
coach Sharon Moore after two seasons.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Michigan athletic director Ward Manual releasing a statement saying that
Moore was terminated with cause as there is credible evidence
that Moore had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
More went fifteen and eight during his two seasons at Michigan.
Biff Pogy is expected to take over as the interim
head coach, as Michigan will be playing in the Citrus
(34:31):
Bowl on New Year's Eve against Texas, but again Sharon
Moore out after two seasons at Michigan, with the school
saying it is with cause the Baltimore Orioles and former
Mets slugger Peede Alonzo agreeing on that five year deal
worth one hundred and fifty five million dollars, Colts officially
signed Philip Rivers today.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Was asked how the family was with the decision. They've
been very supportive, you know. I think my younger children
are most excited.
Speaker 11 (34:55):
They're excited because they don't remember dad playing.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You know.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
My six year old actually asked me, like four months ago, Dad.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Why don't you play anymore? And I'm like, God, I'm sorry.
The best you're gonna get his me coaching on the sideline,
you know. But I think share the same sentiment, a
little nervous like that. Do you think you can do
it now?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Riley Leonard was a full participant in practice today. No
word on if Rivers will play in Week fifteen against
the Seahawks. Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels out against the Giants.
Gino Smith of the Raiders likely to miss their game
with the Eagles because of a shoulder injury. Kenny Pickett
would be in line to start, and Buccaneers wide receiver
Mike Evans activated from my R. He's expected to play
tomorrow despite being listed as questionable as they face the Falcons.
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back to you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Thank you Dan BYERH Cavino.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Hearing Dan Buyer's update and just hearing Pee Alonso to
the Orioles, it just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
It seems sort of like not real.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
But you know what, what does it also say that,
like I said, the two big stars that left Diez
didn't come back for the counter offer, the quote wiggle
room and Pete Alonzo gets the offer from the Orioles
and doesn't even entertain like Scott Boris doesn't even sit
down with Cohen and Sterns, Like, what does that tell
you what's going on within the Mets.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That things ain't right? I mean it does. The writing's there,
and Rich, I'm hoping to get a little wiggle room
in our next Fox Sports Radio contract. It sounds fun,
all right. So, like I said, a Jerry Springer final
thought and the rest of your phone calls plus Midweek
Major and more right here on Fox Sports Radio, Covino
and Rich, Well, the holidays came early for the Dodgers.
(36:57):
Seems like the Dodgers had little more wiggle room.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And DS did even come back. He didn't even come
back to see what the wiggle room was.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
That's okay, because they're all dancing at Dodger Stadium to
two in a room. Wiggle it just a little bit
because they're going through the World Series again with Edwin
Diaz and of course Pete Alonso is also gone today.
So I'm Cavino. That is rich to said Mets fan
Danny g. Sam Spotty's getting ready for Midweek Major. Dan
Byers here in his time for our tire rack play
(37:29):
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Speaker 4 (37:36):
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Speaker 10 (37:41):
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Speaker 1 (37:46):
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Speaker 2 (38:08):
Man, there's some sad Nicks and Mets fan out there
being like, well, I guess at least the Knicks are
still in the Cup.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
The Cup embarrassing, well, rich, uh, you know the question
based on Alonso now leaving Diaz an Alonzo left the
Mets this week. It's tough. I think here's my prediction.
If the question is when's it okay to leave your team?
You're an old school sort of guy, and you have
an old school way of thinking, And I feel like
(38:36):
our generation was a little more loyal. But today these
pros ain't loyal. These pros are not loyal. They jump
ship and they played for those teams. As this younger
generation comes up, you think they're going to be loyal
to teams. They're not loyal to their own relationships. They're
not loyal to their own marriages. How fickle are young
people in today's life? In today's world of dating, someone
(38:59):
gave you the ick because they jumped over a puddle
funny and you broke up with them. You think those
type of people care about loyalty. I think based on this,
based on the way sports is moving, we're gonna see
this happening more and more often. There's no loyalty when
it comes to this stuff moving forward.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Could I wrap it up by saying, just over the
last twenty years, I've seen that sentiment. Because your brother
who's thirty year old, dude younger, your younger brother significantly younger.
He'll wear like an a's hat because he's like, yo,
it's green and it matches my sneakers. Dude, I like
the aies. I guess he'll wear He'll wear other teams
apparel because it looks cool. You would never.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Never, never look Lisa even said loyalty is a dying
trait in general. So as these younger people come up
that means nothing to them. They're like, yeah, I like
the Yankees, but I also like this team, Or I
like the Yankees, but they govern my favorite players.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
So now I like the Mits.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Like I think, based on the mindset of younger people
on their come up, is gonna be more and more
common as time goes on.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Well, we're gonna get to a lot of NFL football
for the rest of the show. But Cavino final thought,
are you shocked at Pete Alonzo didn't even even even
for maybe even uh optics at least hear the Mets out.
Is that weird to you? I think it's odd that
he didn't even hear them out.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, that just goes to show you that his mind
was set, his mind was made up already. Danny g
we got one more call.
Speaker 7 (40:24):
Yeah, let's wrap it with Michael in Canada. He's calling
for Montreal jumping shiit, Mike, what's up?
Speaker 9 (40:29):
How you guys doing? A huge, huge, huge fan of
your show.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Love what you do, appreciate it due Thank you. Man.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I watched that Expos documentary and I'm sure you're probably
gonna talk a little expos right.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
No, believe it or not, I'm not. I'm not heartbroken
that the team's been gone. It's crazy that we even
had one here. Drive by the stadium all the time.
It's the probably the ugliest building in our in our
fair city. But I grew up my When I was
nine years old, my mom brought me to a sports
store and bought me a hat out of a discounted bin,
a corduroy purple hat with a minute to Vikings logo
(41:01):
on it. And I have a Vikings fan for the
last forty five years because of it. And well, yeah,
you know, they break my heart every every year. It's
getting worse by the day here this year. And I
always joke with my buddies if ever you need Vikings
gear and you can't find it online, and call me
up because I've got it all. But I don't know
what to do now. You know, I'm stuck with this
(41:22):
team forever. My kids have got the affliction and they
all make fun of me for it.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah, co Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I thought he was going to go expos Let's say
you are a dude in Montreal or woman in Montreal.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Leave, are you a Nationals fan or well?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
First, yeah that was reasonableave. Yeah, sometimes there's there's unique situations.
That's definitely a classic one. So next hour, Rich Midweek Major,
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Speaker 2 (41:51):
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