December 23, 2024 • 41 mins
C&R in for Dan Patrick as they continue to air their grievances from 2024. They guys pay tribute to Rickey Henderson as the legend sadly passed away over the weekend. Callers weigh in with their favorite Rickey stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Two days till Christmas. Hopefully you're having some good time
with friends and family this week. You deserve it. I
always think it's nice of the Dan Patrick Show, Dan
and the Dan Netts to leave the glockenspield because Jay
Stu really rips on it. I don't know if you
guys could hear that, but Jay Stu fantastic, super producing,
and Jay, thank you for the gifts.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
He's a great guy. He's a great producer. R Pal
Jay Stue eight seven seven ninety nine out Fox. He's
on the phones. Mary's here. We got Spotty on the
videos at Covino and Rich and always a pleasure filling
in for DP. This is already the third hour. I mean,
time's flying, Am I right? Jay Man, time's a flying.
This is day one of the Dan Patrick Unnatural Holiday
(00:50):
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Oh can I complain about something? I mean, that's what
we're doing. I mean, we are complaining. It is festiv
us for you know, for goodness sake, for the rest
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of us. You can say it's jealousy, because it is.
I'm gonna say something, and I'll be honest, there's a
clear jealousy factor. I hate the fact that what we
do for a living. Kavino and I've been doing broadcasting
for twenty years. Jay stew you've been in the game
with Gottlieb, with Jim Rome. You've been how long You've
(01:33):
been doing radio and broadcasting since ninety six? Same since
ninety seven I started college radio. I'm a tad younger
than you guys, but we're all in our forties doing ray. Well,
you're a little older. We've all been doing radio for
quite some time. The fact that someone becomes the viral
sensation for a minute and then they have a podcast.
(01:55):
I don't know why it bothers me so much. The
fact at Hawk to a girl's like I have a podcast.
The fact that the fact that Jason Kelsey's wife because
she's the wife and she's likable, and she's the wife
of a Kelsey whose brother's dating Taylor Swift. When you
really track it, then she gets the number one podcast
of the week over Joe Rogan. Stuff like that makes
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it I'm even more petty about. It's like, what am
I even doing? On a more petty doing? What made
us unique? Like that was a bold decision to be
a college kid and say, you know what, I'm not
even going for it, telling your family like I think
I'm gonna do radio and they're like radio, you don't
even talk? What are you crazy?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Radio?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That was like a bold choice. So our bold choice
that made us unique, that we dove headfirst into is
something that people do for fun and their socks and
their basement. Everybody does what we do all of a
sudden grant granted, ninety percent of them fail. The number
one easy thing to buy online is used podcast equipment
because apparently they you look anywhere people buy micone the
(03:00):
setup they do a podcast, they realize they have a
no one listening and quicker. This takes time and effort,
doesn't it, and they sell.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It so well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
If we're gonnairk a grievances. I hate when people find
out that I'm a professional broadcaster that has a podcast
covin Or and Rich and then they want to tell
me about their weak ass podcast that they listen to
or they have like I don't want to hear about it,
and I don't care. I'm telling you about mine. I'm
on Fox Sports Radio. I'm in for the great Dan Patrick.
You want to tell me about some stupid podcast you like?
(03:28):
How about mine?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
That bothers me? I love you know why? I love
this speak. I rarely get you two in this mood
like you guys are in. This is more my mind.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I know we're usually like we usually uh, we're usually
like annoyingly positive. So you're right, this is good. Let's grieve, Jason.
We have built our lives around radio, which turn into podcasting. Right,
So if they find out, oh, you do a show
and then they have to tell you about some other
show they're into that I don't know or care about.
(03:59):
To me, that's disrespectful. If I find out you're a plumber,
I'm not gonna start talking about all these great plumbers.
I know it's annoying, right, It's just how I find
it to be annoying. Listen, since we're airing now, I'm
letting you know listen, it might sound like again a
little jealous. I don't know if it's that as much
as there is something irritating about our industry and well
(04:20):
audio entertainment is that it's all time high, which is
great for what we do. It's just there. I heard
some stat the other day that there's over four million
podcasts that debuted last year. Most of them gone, like
I said, but four million people launched a podcast, all right, well,
which appreciate it. I remember devoter our lives to this.
I remember you listen. We make a living on it,
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and we appreciate everyone listening. We're filling it for DP.
I'm not. I don't want to bitch and complain too much,
but one time I went out, what is the what
is this the complainer and bitch show?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, that's our.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But we are today. But one last thing and then
I'll be all positive again. I got what. I remember
going to a bar with Cavino this when he first
started dating his girlfriend, and his girlfriend brought out one
of her friends. She was like some hot chick in
her twenties and she's like, oh my god, my friend
does exactly what you do. She does like a weekly
like fashion podcast for fun. I'm like, your friends is
(05:16):
not due what I did?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like I think just a microphone in your room doesn't
mean we do the same thing. I'll give you a grievance.
In the world of sports, Okay, this next guy up
makes the most money thing drives me insane. I love
Rock Perty, I'm a Niners fan, but when people are saying, like, well,
his turn fifty sixty million, No, I don't get why
in sports it's become next guy up. Baseball, football, basketball,
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it really is like, your contract's up. Doesn't mean you
need to now be the highest paid individual in that sport.
And that is an odd thing that's going on. We'll
give you one because look at any sport, it's usually
not the best player that's the highest paid in that moment. Yeah,
bro it should end with rock Party because he needs
to be reasoning. If Brock Purdy got about forty five
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to fifty, I'd say, all right, the market's right. Yeah,
But if Brock Purty gets fifty five sixty million dollars,
then the market's not right just because he's the next guy.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
No.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, I'm with you on that. That's annoying. How about
this as a Yankees fan, you mentioned the facial hair rule.
I agree, there's a compromise. The fact that they didn't
have a City Connect jersey. That bothered me. It's like
every team was like, yeah, man, let's have a cool,
other alternative jersey. It's just a fun, fun merchandise to have.
Although I believe in the pinstrip pride, like you can't
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have an alter like they have a batting jersey. Why
couldn't you have a city connect the jersey. They're too
cool for, like you said, the tradition of no facial hair,
and they're too cool to go along with the cool
trend for their young fans a city Connect jersey. That's
why some of these young guys don't want to play
for a stuffy organization like that. You can say tradition,
but you got to compromise a little bit. So if
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you could have a navy blue batting jersey and you
can wear a stupid mockneck underneath, like there's other variations
of their merchandise, you couldn't have a City Connect. That
was weird to me. I got another one that's nonsports related.
We probably have brought it up for the past three
or four years, but it still bothers me when when
everybody just wants a tip, because it really is absurd.
(07:19):
It's like, how did this become the normal thing? I
just don't get that at all. You order a smoothie
and they turn your little screen around and they play,
here's what bothers me the most rich. I'm not gonna
give you the same spiel about everybody wants a tip?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Right? When they say it's gonna ask you a few questions?
I want to again karate chop that person. And they're
instructed to say that, but like, let's be really, what's
the question question? How much you get to tip me?
I said, you see the funny meme questions? You say, huh,
you see the funny memeent with someone at a Catholic
church and they were doing confession and the priest goes,
it's gonna ask you a question, and the priest turns around. Dude,
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I mean, it's ridiculous. It's cross. So what's your take
on this chase to because I last night I went
to go get takeout. Mendosino Farms was like a cool
little you know, sandwich spot out here in LA like
you overpriced fifteen twenty dollars sandwiches. I go to pickup
so no delivery. I make the order online on the
app go to pick up? The app says, what's your tip?
(08:13):
Are you tipping a pickup order? If you went to
go get you and your.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Short answer, short answer no. I For whatever reason, I
don't know why COVID keeps coming up today, but during COVID,
I became a very generous tipper. You know, that was
the thing people in service last than are tips. And
I'm still a generous tipper. I never stopped doing that.
But I'm not tipping for anything I didn't tip for
before COVID. That's my rule. We have to I'm not
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told guy that just made my sandwich.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We have to take the power back when it comes
to this. You feel like a grinch. You feel like
a scrooge when you don't tip, but it's like you
don't deserve it. And there was a mean to really
wrap that up, Bretch, there's a new rule. If I
order my food standing up, I'm not tipping.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's it's as simple as that, right, But you have
to abide by You have that guilt trip right and
you're like, do you know the exception is reset? The standard?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Man?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
If you order like a you know, like a fancy
your burger place where you bring a number to your
table on a runner brings your food, like the in
between type place do you put like two or three
bucks on? Then I'm like, why why? Because they walk
two feet with my food? I don't Yeah, it does
bother me. I'm sorry to bring it up again. It's
been going on for a few years now, but I
had to bring it up since we're aaron. Our grievance
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is it because it bothers me?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
All right, So your phone calls, we appreciate it. Let's
let's let's zip through all of them. The phones are hot,
as uh Scotti Farrell would say, light them up, So
shake gato. It's fun anything from you. You're the biggest
complainer right now, and you're pretty quiet. I mean, do
you really want me to let loose on the two
of you? Yeah, most of them have to do with us,
(09:50):
I'm sure. Oh, I know Spot's biggest complaint. We'll have
a really long We'll have a really nice com Let's
say we go on for a really fun twenty minutes.
I don't know talking about uh Patrick Mahomes. Spot hates
at Cavino, and I think that it's easy for him
to make that a thirty second clip on social media
was stressful. Yeah, spot, make it like thirty seconds. It's like,
(10:12):
how do you expect me to make a twenty minute
conversation thirty second spot? Making thirty seconds? Tell me what
you want me to want me to have you say?
And then I'll be mad that he left out my
head And then we've had that home impression that really
like best point. He's like, what, oh, bro, you lift
up my putt put that in?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And I'm like, I you don't know how much stuff
I took out just to make it make sense.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
You cut out the part where I was like, I'm here,
I'm here. Why did you cut that out? It was
the best port That was the best part. But but
I can see that being one of your complaints because
I think a lot of people that edit stuff for
social media realize it's not It's not as easy as
you think, Jay Stude. Where do we want to go?
Who are we talking to?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I think I want to start with Jeffrey in West Virginia.
You've been holding the longest, Jeffrey, You're on the air.
What's up, jeff Hey, I.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Have a sports grievance and it may be old, but
I've just noticed it this year go ahead, a lot
of the inn FEL players don't seem to be wearing
their mouth guards. They leave them hanging off the front
of their face mask. And it's a safety professional that
bothers me. But it's not in the rules that they
have to wear them. But I think it's a bad
example because the kids usually end up mimicking what the
adults the NFL players do, and I think it's going
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to just trickle down to the little kids not wearing mouthpieces,
and I think that's a bad, bad thing.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I agree with that. And if you look closely, a
lot of them don't even wear their the proper protective
padding that they're supposed to be wearing. You know, they're
just wearing their pants with no pads in them. Sometimes,
but they put their mouthguard now. I don't know if
you notice, but not only do they not put it
in their mouth where it should be, it's not even bangling.
They put it on top of their helmet. It's like stuck.
(11:43):
They stick.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
There's a fluorescent mouthpiece hanging out of their helmet.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know why, but it's all for flair. Steph
Curry style.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
No, No, that's the thing. I think it's all started
with Steph Curry. Okay, so Steph Curry started this whole
thing where he's always just chewing on it, and I
think it's going to take like one unfortunate episode, like
something's gonna happen to stuff, and the doctor will have
a press conference will be like, you know what, if
he was just actually putting the mouth guard in his mouth,
we could have saved his tongue.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You know, it's gonna take it. It's gonna it's gonna
take Steph Curry getting his front tooth knocked out and
then he has terrible like veneers and they was like, Ah,
it's gonna happen. It really is. I actually appreciate that one.
Kids mimic this stuff. That's true. I love combat sports.
We talked about the Usik Fury fight. I love MMA.
How can we talk about safety in sports and then
(12:32):
in the same breath watch these slap fights. I watched
the dumb videos on TikTok and x and Instagram, But
I mean, how are we okay with these slap Isn't
that counteracting everything we talk about in sports, like safety, safety, vulnerable,
how's that a sport? I just can't power slap Dana
White letting you gotta give him credit for pushing that throw.
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And people be like, okay, yeah, sure.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Power slab you uh tickle fights and if you laugh,
then you're out.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I got one from this.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We can.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Speaking of fights, you can't allow. Tyson Fury comes in
weighing two eighty something, right, yeah, because it's a heavyweight fight.
Olexander Usik is two twenty six in shape. Tyson Fury
comes out there with his shorts pulled up to his
man boobs. It's like, come on, dude, you can can't
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look like that in the fight, those shorts pulled up
high way high like that. Nope, I'm gonna air my grievance.
J Still, who's next?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
T I want to say, ta in Georgia? What's up?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
T at at a n R?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What's up? Fella's shout out to y'all. Listen, y'all been
grieving a lot, and I ain't gonna lie to you. Man,
it's been so much I can't even I can't even
remember what I actually was gonna be grieving about. Well,
let's just say in the NBA in general, shout out
to the to them having their whole I guess Cup,
the second Annual Cup. Yeah, this whole them making a
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just trying to make a gimmick of things. Is just listen,
just let it fall into obscurity like he did back
in the mid two thousands, where there was maybe one
or two superstars and then and then all of a sudden,
something has to pop off where we start to look
at and realize that there are other stars out here.
You know, you're Pullow being Caroes and you're you know,
you're of the superstars. So, you know, just just let
it fall into obscurity. We don't have to change anything.
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Just let it be what it is.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, thank you. You're right on. And by the way,
speaking of basketball, I have a one more grievance on Festivus.
You know, I uh, I didn't downplay it, but I was.
I was. I gotta be honest when I'm wrong, I'll
admit it. I did not think the WNBA would flourish
the way it did. I thought people would lose interest
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quick but I was wrong. The w NBA gained a
lot of momentum. And my my grievance is and I
don't think it's I don't think it has to be
racial because people want to make it racial. I just
think it's amazing how other women and people refuse to
like elevate Caitlin Clark, the idea of like, you know,
embrace this is what you've been waiting for. To quote
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your favorite movie, Diehard Spot Bobby, I'm your white Knight.
Shit every time Kaitlyn Clark black white. I don't think
this is a race thing. I think Kaitlyn Clark is
a great thing for the WNBA and people should embrace it.
They should embrace the feud with her in Angel Reese
and and like there were people that were like, she
shouldn't have been athlete of the year. It should have
been the league. No, she should have been Athlete of
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the year. She delivered whatever gets on the sport, it's
it would be like and I'm not comparing their importance
to the sport, but it'd be like boxing fans not
saying that Jake Paul is good for boxing, like he
absolutely is. I'm not saying he's the greatest boxer, but
he's bringing attention to the sport. That's what the sport needs.
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Much like women's basketball, I mean my angel Angel resent
Kitlyn Clark. That's a great I like lean into this.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Fewd lean into I have a great counter grievance for
this point. Yeah, stop caring.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Let's start.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Stop pretending like you care about the WNB Just stop pretending,
you know, like stop you know like women' spot, do
you know, stop pretending you know your you know who.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You are spot you stop pretending you.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Care about the w n B A.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
For the first time, like you, I really was tuned
in because of because of the rivalry between Kaitlyn Clark
and Angel Rees.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
I'm really you really were tuned in. Rivalries were tuned
in to the w n B A. Then no one
was tuned into the w n B A this year.
Many paid attention to the hot stories, the hot topics,
the headlines tuned in.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I didn't really spot with those sex I think, what
a weird time to be sexist.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
But that was a part of the problem with the
w n B A. And I'll piggyback on on Richard,
this was my biggest grievance of the entire the entire
year because you were so tuned jealousy about Kaitlyn Clark. No,
but to piggyback on this. Part of it was that
a lot of people who knew nothing about the sport
or had zero opinions about it, all of a sudden
had opinion, and then that became a thing for the
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WNBA to get more pissed off about. So not only
were they pissed off about Caitlin Clark and all the
attention she was getting, they were also pissed off at
all the attention they were getting. It's like a league
that can never be happy, it can never be grateful.
I think that that's the biggest problem with it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, no doubt, I agree one hundred percent. It's like
any hot issue. Everyone thinks they're an expert overnight because
they get their rese there. Like everyone's a drone expert
now right, everyone's a drone expert or a COVID expert.
There's COVID again, you know whatever, the story is, all
of a sudden, overnight, I'm a vaccine expert. Sure you are, okay,
So we allow you to air your grievances on Festivus
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And it continues at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports
Radio hashtag. I got a problem with Rich and we
got to talk about Ricky Henderson. Yeah, the great Ricky
passed away over the weekend. And you know, was it you?
Someone hit me up early in the morning and it
(18:01):
was me because that Dave Winfield story, Yeah, one that
people we were talking about it. I got word and
I was playing softball Saturday morning early, just you know,
get a little exercise in while you sat around and
did nothing. And I got the message and I was
the guy that, you know, I don't want to be
that guy, but I was like, yo, hey, do it guys,
you're I think Ricky Henderson might have passed away. And
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it wasn't on TMZ, it wasn't on CNN or it
was nowhere. It was Dave Winfield's instagram. I was like, yes,
are It was like it's not very confirmed, but I
hope that's not true. And then slowly but surely, the
news started coming out and it just shows you man
sixty five years old. He was one of those dudes
we all thought this, not just me. I thought he'd
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lived to like one hundred and eighty five years old.
I mean, I guess, Ricky Henderson, I guess. You don't
know people's underlying health issues. But as a player, you
look at me and say, the guy that was that fast,
that powerful, that in shape, that ran he ran three
to five miles every other day. He was conditioning. He
was you know, remember he was on the nork Bears
and some other minor league teams. As he got older,
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he was he was still stealing like forty fifties stolen
bases a year at like forty six years old. So,
I mean, the guy was in great shape. He's just
one of those dudes that you thought for sure would
live a long time. Sixty five. Ricky Henderson, the Man
of Steel. So I want you to think about the
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favorite Ricky Henderson's story you have. I'm I'm not saying personally, hey,
but if you have one, that would be great. But
there are so many anecdotes and so many legendary baseball
tales about the guy that's spoken third person. Ricky Henderson
will share those stories. Pay a little tribute to the
great Ricky Henderson. Next right here Covino rich In for
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the Great Dan Patrick.
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here in for Dan Patrick. Hey, I could get used
to this. You mean we're done right after this? Damn?
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the East. But we're Covino and Rich at Covino and Rich.
As you hear run DMC Christmas in Hollis. There's a
hilarious clip if you watch the show Abbot Elementary, which
is one of the only good sitcoms left on network television.
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The teachers want to perform this at like the school
Christmas festival, and all the young kids like what is this? Meanwhile,
this used to be what would be considered the coolest
Christmas song when we were kids. You said Christmas song?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Right?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Funny that it was in the movie die Hard, which
is technically a Christmas movie, Am I right?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You know someone debated me on this because I said that.
I said that the die Hard Christmas debate is up
there for me with Lebron versus Jordan, a debate for nimrods.
But I will add this one thing. Someone hit me up.
Someone hit you up with the the best, I would say,
the best argument yet saw it on our Twitter. Actually,
(22:11):
I think someone hit me up saying that It's a
Wonderful Life and all these other Christmas movies were also
released in the summer, and I'm like, oh were they,
because yeah, It's Wonderful Life is undeniably a Christmas I agree,
So that's no debate. So that goes against thought.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Sports. I assume it's sports. Degen fifty eight says on
Twitter it has seven Christmas songs on its soundtrack.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
To me, that's a Christmas movie. That's more than most
Christmas movies.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But that was what was so funny about what Rich said.
He said, the nimrods who have this debate, and then
he ended debate by going with the unpopular answer. Of
course it's not. That's an unpopular answer, Rich, if you're
gonna call people nimrods and then pick the one that's
very controversial.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Jase dou you know it's interesting is that I'm talking
about something I said I hate talking about so in fact,
in the moment, I hate myself and I hate you,
Ricky Henderson. I hate myself right now because the more
I think about it, I realize why idiots including me
in this moment fight about this Diehard thing because the
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same I guess what I'm not watching randomly in the
spring or summer a Christmas movie, But I would watch
die Hard randomly if I if it was on TV
or something so.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Rich Derail's conversations. That's one of my grievances. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know what I'm talking about. Rickey Henderson, the late
great Ricky sixty five years old, complications from pneumonia. Is
there any update or is that where is That's where
we're at right, No, man, But it did start with
some speculation because Dave Winfield, former teammate, Hall of Famer
legend Dave Winfield, posted that he was truly upset, couldn't believe,
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still coldn't believe that he had to deal with the
passing of his longtime friend Ricky Henderson. And then that
put everyone on this search like what Ricky Henderson? And
it was nowhere to be seen. The family hadn't announced anything,
It wasn't on TMZ or any news outlet. I know
you did, and of course you went to X, you
went to tams that, you went everywhere, and then you
(24:18):
Google news Ricky and nothing comes up. And then later
that day it started to come out and you're like,
no way, man, Ricky Henderson. You know people throw around,
this is one one takeaway people throw around. Oh he
was one of a kind. Oh man, he was one
of the great ones. They throwed that stuff around way
(24:38):
too much, because then how do you describe a Ricky Henderson?
Give me a break. He's arguably the greatest, if not
all around greatest player we've ever seen, greatest leadoff hitter
of multy five years in the big leagues. And talk
about characters, right, so many takeaways, so many moments, And
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I have one of my favorite it quotes. The thing is,
sometimes the legend becomes fact. A lot of these stories
aren't true, but you want him to be true. Some
of them are true. But I'll never forget as a
Yankees fan just seeing Ricky Henderson knowing he was in
Oakland A. And there's no debate there. He's an Oakland A.
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He's a Bay Area legend. But he played five sweet
years with the Yankees, and in the prime time of
my fandom growing up, when I was a kid, when
he saw how this dude played, and he saw him
steel bases, you saw how he looked in a uniform.
One of my first takeaways was my goodness, he looks
like a running back in pinstripes, chiseled out of stone,
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chiseled out of stone, like you saw. This sounds corny,
but I'm sure Mary wouldn't recognize this or know this.
Mary's a little younger. Like you saw his quads through
the uniform, Like you saw how like built he Back
in the day when we were kids, people that played
baseball looked like Keith nandez An Ozzie Smith, like you
were like dad bod sort of. And Ricky Henderson was
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the one guy where you're like, he must work out.
You're like, this dude is chiseled and you saw his
leg muscles through the uniform, you really did. You saw
how he played the game he didn't know. And I
don't think a lot of people talk about this, but
I think everybody knows it. One of my first observations
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as a child, because we would mimic it was not
only his batting stance, but when he would snap a
fly ball a pop out, he would snap it to
the side of his glove. He would catch a routine
can of corn with flash and flare, and that's what
separated Ricky Henderson. When you see someone do that, you
know what you know in little league or rec league softball,
(26:47):
when someone has a lazy flyball and they catch it
a little snap down with their glove, that's the Ricky flash,
the only guy doing that.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Because he was actually he was the hot dog before
baseball allowed you to be a hot dog like today,
people that that pimped their home runs and Cadillac around
the base was the that happens every.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Day in their jersey when you paid for it. Yeah, Steve,
they kind of let it go. For Ricky, they absolutely did.
He was the exception. He was the only guy Jase did.
That's a great point. I'm because I picture Ricky because
another misconception. Oh fast, you know a lot of stone
bases and hits. I had a ton of home runs
for a leadof hitter, almost four hundred, I believe, right
(27:27):
like three ninety something three that like ninety seven or
ninety nine. Maybe give me a cross before Rickey Henderson
home run. I think it's like three ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Like in a lot of ways, like you always hear about,
oh that guy is that guy's old school, Ricky was
way ahead of his time in that nowadays, you put
all your power hitters at the top of the order.
Ricky Henderson was a power hitter you put at the
top of the order. He just happened to be fast.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But I mean he bat at two seventy nine. I
knew that just because I wanted him to be like
that two to eighty guy. But twenty five years into Bigies,
broke every stolen base record possible. Got a little criticism
when he said, you know today, I'm the greatest. Got
a little criticism back then, which is again because it
was back then. Now everybody showboats. Jay Stu made the
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best point that he was playing way ahead of his time.
The fact that we live in a world now, and
I'm all for it. We live in a world of
staring at your home run bat flips. I like the
world of Major League baseball, adding a little flash and
a little a little fun. I like a good bat flip.
I like an aggressive pitcher then pitching inside. That's part
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of the game.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I love.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Ricky Henderson is the first guy I could ever remember.
I'm picturing him in the batter's box, ripping a home
run and doing like that first hop step to first base.
Pimp and his shirt Yeah, the chain comes out a
little bit. Yet, you know, as he rounded the bases.
He had over three thousand hits. He was just a
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dominant personality for the world of baseball and one of
my favorite stories. Again, we all have our favorite moments.
I had my favorite baseball cards, my favorite pictures of him.
I have a picture that I kept. I used to
have it in the frame. What I did, Rich, I've
taken a lot of memorabilia down. I put him in books,
like in a plastic sleeve, right, and I have a picture.
Let you know the rule about memorabilia, Jason, he wasn't autographed.
(29:22):
It's not autographed. You just have a picture of a
man on your wall. Yeah, so this is a group
of men. But I had a picture of like it
was Ricky Henderson, Willie Randolph, Don Manningly, Dave Brughetti, Dave Winfield,
all in one one photo. And I always loved because
I mean, these were my heroes and Ricky Henderson front
and center, just smiling making everybody laugh. That was the
(29:44):
other thing with Ricky Henderson, Tuto Rich. He had all
this flair and all this flash. He backed it up
and he was likable. He was beloved, by all his teammates,
and even if he was playing against you, you sort
of respected him. No one hated Ricky Henderson the way
you could hate someone as dominant as he was with
that much flash. One of my favorite stories. It's one
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of one of the stories that I'm not sure it's true,
but I could see it happening, but it made me
laugh either way. One of my favorite stories. Rumor has it,
when Ricky Henderson played for the Mariners in two thousand,
he noticed first baseman John Olrud wore a helmet while
playing in the field instead of a cap. Ricky told him,
I used to play with a guy on the Mets
last year that did that too. Olrud replied, Yeah, that
(30:29):
was me, Ricky. We were teammates on the Mets last year,
if that's true. Like, I love that he was so
just Ricky Henderson. And he's played with so many different
people that maybe it didn't register, Like, you know, it's
interesting to know what made that guy tick. He was
such an old school ballplayer. You know, I'm sure he
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had great relationships, but I'm sure some of them were
just baseball relationships.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Well, what's crazy about the story you just told us?
I remember hearing a totally different story, and that's that's
what kind of makes these Ricky Henderson's stories weird, as
you don't know which ones have been exaggerated or not right.
I heard that ol Rud played with him and won
a World series with him in the ninety three Blue Jays. Yeah,
that's true that Allud said. Yeah, we were also teammates
in Toronto. Like there was a there was an addition
(31:13):
to the punchline in the story that I heard.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
So again, you're right, that adds to the legend. Yeah,
that makes more sense. Yeah, it does make more sense.
And I was reading that one off of the internet,
but because I didn't want to like misquote it, I
like your version, Jay Stu better. But when the legend
becomes fact print the legend and he was a legend
Ricky Henderson. We all know the Ricky story where probably
(31:35):
in the clubhouse, people are talking about who's batt and
what and batting average, and someone was also talking and
said John John three sixteen, and they quoted the Bible,
and Ricky Henderson said, yeah, I don't want to hear
about John hitting three sixteen Ricky hitting three thirty. That's
when I find hard to believe. But I love that
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story too. I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And Ricky Henderson and also talked in third person and
got away with it. Anyone else under the moon talking
third person, you're like, who's this guy? Because they're not
Ricky Henderson.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And speaking of by the way, so Seaton O'Connor, who
is a longtime Danette as you've been listening to him
every morning on the show forever, he had a personal
Ricky Henderson's story. This is Seaton's Twitter account from Saturday.
I spoke to Ricky Henderson once. It was after he
did an interview on the show, after Dan said goodbye
to him. I picked up the phone and said, hey, Ricky,
(32:30):
this is Seaton. Seaton just wanted to say thank you
until you Seaton is a huge fan, and he said back,
tell Seaton. I said, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
That's so funny. It's funny, I said, did you see
the one that's going around? Harold Reynolds shared the story
is a true one because it's coming from Harold Reynolds.
The year was nineteen eighty seven. Ricky Henderson was dealing
with injuries on the Yankees that year, so it was
the one year where the like the one year Ricky
didn't lead the league in stolen bases, he was banged up.
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Harold Reynolds ended the season with sixty stolen bases, the
only season between eighty and ninety one that Ricky didn't
win the stolen based title. He called the Harold Reynolds
this phone rings. He goes, yeah, what's up, rick Man?
You ought to be a shamed saying that sixty was
not enough. What are you talking about, Ricky? Sixty stolen bases?
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You ought to be a shame. Ricky had sixty at
the break and hangs up his phone.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Our producer Monday through Friday, producer Danny g you know
the superstar. He hit me up with a meme that
went viral today. He says led Daylon Cruz led MLB
in twenty twenty four with sixty seven steals and was
caught sixteen times at the age of twenty two. So
sixty seven steals, caught sixteen times at twenty two. The
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Ricky Henderson led MLB in ninety eight with sixty six
steals and was caught thirteen times. He was thirty nine
years old. Man like you know another another term and
expression that we throw around way too much. Built different. No, Ricky,
You're not built different. That guy, that living Ricky Henderson
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was built different. You know, he really was that guy
everybody else people pretend to be or want to be,
or we claim to be, they're really not. Maybe they
are for the moment, for that day, for that game.
Ricky Henderson was that guy for every team he played for.
And you speaking of which, yeah, he played for a
(34:34):
lot of teams. Not thirteen teams, thirteen team changes. That's
a hell of a lot of advice. It is like
four times. Right, there's no way there's a player in
Major League Baseball history. I'm not even need to look
it up. There's no player that has gone to the
same team as many times as Ricky Henderson found his
(34:55):
way back to Oakland. Right, there's no way, dude. I
saw over the weekend a highlight of him in a
Dodger outfit. Yeah, he played his last career home last base.
That was his last year.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I don't even remember him being a Dodger Like that's
how he was just like on one team a year,
half a year. He was a rental player. It was crazy.
He bounce around.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Let me he had some big moment random teams, Padres.
I believe he hit his uh three thousandth if I'm
not mistaken. Let me. Let me go through real quick
the teams and tell me if we all remember, because
I feel like you're gonna be like I remember that,
all right? We start with Oakland old school Ricky Oakland
of course, yeah, eighties with the Yankees, we of course
remember that. Then back to the Oakland A's that's when
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he's part of that team with McGuire and won World
Series and they did not McGuire and you know Conseko,
I do remember. After that he went to Toronto. I
remember that, by the way, before you skip, I saw
Dave Stewart said, like, by the way, his teammates legends,
like so many legends have come out to say how
much he meant to them, and Dave Stewart being one
(35:54):
of them. Yeah, of that eighty nine A's squad and
Jose Cansecos known for being a jerk. Look what he
I'm gonna find what jose can say? Save it for next.
So then we went to Toronto. Then we went to
Oakland again. This is where it starts to get a
little dicey where he's jumping around the lot San Diego,
but I do remember him as a Padre Angels for
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a second, then back to Oakland. Then he went to
the Mets for a couple of coffee, you know, a
year or so, then Seattle, then San Diego again. The
one that would I would if you gave me trivia,
j su, I would miss this one. Boston for a second,
and Seattle to me, those are Seattle I might be
(36:36):
able to visually place. And then he went to the Dodgers.
I remember how it ended, but Boston would be the one.
If we played on the road again, I would never
have remembered. But then he played in the miners like
he was still grind in as a ballplayer, because that's
who he was. Jose Can Sakea. I'm heartbroken and devastated.
Ricky Henderson was an incredibly talented player, but an even
better human. I'll never forget the incredible memories we created together,
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memories I'll never forget. Rest easy, my friend again. Everybody
loved this guy. He led by example.
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don everybody coming on Rich two days till Christmas. I
think we're at the point now where if you think
you're relying on like Amazon to get a package to you,
it might be out of luck, dude, that it might
be the Walmart Target mall struggle for the next forty
eight hours. I went to them all yesterday. It was
a nightmare. It was my nephew's birthday. I wanted to
get him something I wasn't trying to do, Like last
(37:56):
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I and O and Rich and enjoy our show because maybe,
yeah you're busy when we're on normally Monday. I give
it a shot. You know what's take three quick phone
calls about Ricky I mean Ricky Henderson sixty five. It
was sort of a dude, way too young for anybody,
but especially Ricky Henderson's. That's what I thought, right, Like,
(39:03):
you know there's people that are unhealthy that hit ailments
and yeah, sixty sucks. You know, it's very young. You
know a clip I saw that that warm my heart.
I thought a guy like Ricky Between you and I
I was saying, I thought a guy like Gricky would
live like ninety. But then again, you didn't know that
he had asthmen all these other issues, which is wild.
I don't remember this clip. It's just do you see
a lot of these things surface because he passed away.
(39:26):
When his daughter threw out a first pitch to him,
that was cool, really really cool. Some go to highlights
some of the stories. Which ones stand out to you?
Who do we got ja?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Stu Anthony? Anthony's in California?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
What's up it?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Hey, gentlemen? How are you happy Holidays?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
That guy man? What what's your Ricky thought?
Speaker 5 (39:44):
My first Ricky impression was I'm growing born and raised
the Bay Area, number thirty five, Ricky Henderson, Billy ball.
But maybe you guys know the story about the time
he's a rookie he got his first paycheck. I don't
know if you guys heard that.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's the million dollar teck. Please share the
story gets the have this one for you?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Yeah, it's a million dollar check. So those people that
know about the million dollar check he gets his first check,
it's all on dudes. He puts it at home, he
framed it, puts it at the house, frames it shows
it off a month later into the month payroll. Someone
from the a's called Ricky, the million dollar check, the bonus,
just signing.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
But what'd you do it?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Did you lose it? No? Ricky has it on his wall.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Do you mean you got on your wall framed? No, Ricky,
you got to cash that check. We have we have
a roll where our numbers are off. Oh Ricky, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
I love that story because that's that's a fact. That
one's true. He shared it. He was just so proud
of the million dollar check. He framed it and hung
it in his home. And it turns out like their
books were off and they were trying to figure out
what's going out? Well, how are we a million dollars off?
He never catched a check.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Well let's take it one more. Jason, your tries? Where
do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Uh? Ken, Ken, You're in Texas?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Right, that's up?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Ken?
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Hey, guys, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
What's hey?
Speaker 6 (40:59):
So when I was a kid, I was eleven years old,
my buddies and I got into collecting baseball cards for
about three days and we went out and bought up.
We rode our bikes to the Stop and Go, bought
a bunch of packed cards, opened them up, threw them
in a shoe box didn't looked at them again until
about twelve years later. I'm broke, I'm out of college.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Hey maybe quick man. I don't think we have time
for your story. This it's supposed to be anecdote. It's
not a yeah, hits up at COVID Rich. We'll take
your feedback tomorrow. We appreciate your call, though, and we'll
see you back here tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
That was quick.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Thank you Jay, Stu, Thank you Mary. Until then, at
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Oh can I complain about something? I mean, that's what
we're doing. I mean, we are complaining. It is festiv
us for you know, for goodness sake, for the rest
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of us. You can say it's jealousy, because it is.
I'm gonna say something, and I'll be honest, there's a
clear jealousy factor. I hate the fact that what we
do for a living. Kavino and I've been doing broadcasting
for twenty years. Jay stew you've been in the game
with Gottlieb, with Jim Rome. You've been how long You've
(01:33):
been doing radio and broadcasting since ninety six? Same since
ninety seven I started college radio. I'm a tad younger
than you guys, but we're all in our forties doing ray. Well,
you're a little older. We've all been doing radio for
quite some time. The fact that someone becomes the viral
sensation for a minute and then they have a podcast.
(01:55):
I don't know why it bothers me so much. The
fact at Hawk to a girl's like I have a podcast.
The fact that the fact that Jason Kelsey's wife because
she's the wife and she's likable, and she's the wife
of a Kelsey whose brother's dating Taylor Swift. When you
really track it, then she gets the number one podcast
of the week over Joe Rogan. Stuff like that makes
(02:17):
it I'm even more petty about. It's like, what am
I even doing? On a more petty doing? What made
us unique? Like that was a bold decision to be
a college kid and say, you know what, I'm not
even going for it, telling your family like I think
I'm gonna do radio and they're like radio, you don't
even talk? What are you crazy?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Radio?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
That was like a bold choice. So our bold choice
that made us unique, that we dove headfirst into is
something that people do for fun and their socks and
their basement. Everybody does what we do all of a
sudden grant granted, ninety percent of them fail. The number
one easy thing to buy online is used podcast equipment
because apparently they you look anywhere people buy micone the
(03:00):
setup they do a podcast, they realize they have a
no one listening and quicker. This takes time and effort,
doesn't it, and they sell.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It so well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
If we're gonnairk a grievances. I hate when people find
out that I'm a professional broadcaster that has a podcast
covin Or and Rich and then they want to tell
me about their weak ass podcast that they listen to
or they have like I don't want to hear about it,
and I don't care. I'm telling you about mine. I'm
on Fox Sports Radio. I'm in for the great Dan Patrick.
You want to tell me about some stupid podcast you like?
(03:28):
How about mine?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
That bothers me? I love you know why? I love
this speak. I rarely get you two in this mood
like you guys are in. This is more my mind.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I know we're usually like we usually uh, we're usually
like annoyingly positive. So you're right, this is good. Let's grieve, Jason.
We have built our lives around radio, which turn into podcasting. Right,
So if they find out, oh, you do a show
and then they have to tell you about some other
show they're into that I don't know or care about.
(03:59):
To me, that's disrespectful. If I find out you're a plumber,
I'm not gonna start talking about all these great plumbers.
I know it's annoying, right, It's just how I find
it to be annoying. Listen, since we're airing now, I'm
letting you know listen, it might sound like again a
little jealous. I don't know if it's that as much
as there is something irritating about our industry and well
(04:20):
audio entertainment is that it's all time high, which is
great for what we do. It's just there. I heard
some stat the other day that there's over four million
podcasts that debuted last year. Most of them gone, like
I said, but four million people launched a podcast, all right, well,
which appreciate it. I remember devoter our lives to this.
I remember you listen. We make a living on it,
(04:41):
and we appreciate everyone listening. We're filling it for DP.
I'm not. I don't want to bitch and complain too much,
but one time I went out, what is the what
is this the complainer and bitch show?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, that's our.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But we are today. But one last thing and then
I'll be all positive again. I got what. I remember
going to a bar with Cavino this when he first
started dating his girlfriend, and his girlfriend brought out one
of her friends. She was like some hot chick in
her twenties and she's like, oh my god, my friend
does exactly what you do. She does like a weekly
like fashion podcast for fun. I'm like, your friends is
(05:16):
not due what I did?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like I think just a microphone in your room doesn't
mean we do the same thing. I'll give you a grievance.
In the world of sports, Okay, this next guy up
makes the most money thing drives me insane. I love
Rock Perty, I'm a Niners fan, but when people are saying, like, well,
his turn fifty sixty million, No, I don't get why
in sports it's become next guy up. Baseball, football, basketball,
(05:45):
it really is like, your contract's up. Doesn't mean you
need to now be the highest paid individual in that sport.
And that is an odd thing that's going on. We'll
give you one because look at any sport, it's usually
not the best player that's the highest paid in that moment. Yeah,
bro it should end with rock Party because he needs
to be reasoning. If Brock Purdy got about forty five
(06:07):
to fifty, I'd say, all right, the market's right. Yeah,
But if Brock Purty gets fifty five sixty million dollars,
then the market's not right just because he's the next guy.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
No.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, I'm with you on that. That's annoying. How about
this as a Yankees fan, you mentioned the facial hair rule.
I agree, there's a compromise. The fact that they didn't
have a City Connect jersey. That bothered me. It's like
every team was like, yeah, man, let's have a cool,
other alternative jersey. It's just a fun, fun merchandise to have.
Although I believe in the pinstrip pride, like you can't
(06:39):
have an alter like they have a batting jersey. Why
couldn't you have a city connect the jersey. They're too
cool for, like you said, the tradition of no facial hair,
and they're too cool to go along with the cool
trend for their young fans a city Connect jersey. That's
why some of these young guys don't want to play
for a stuffy organization like that. You can say tradition,
but you got to compromise a little bit. So if
(06:59):
you could have a navy blue batting jersey and you
can wear a stupid mockneck underneath, like there's other variations
of their merchandise, you couldn't have a City Connect. That
was weird to me. I got another one that's nonsports related.
We probably have brought it up for the past three
or four years, but it still bothers me when when
everybody just wants a tip, because it really is absurd.
(07:19):
It's like, how did this become the normal thing? I
just don't get that at all. You order a smoothie
and they turn your little screen around and they play,
here's what bothers me the most rich. I'm not gonna
give you the same spiel about everybody wants a tip?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Right? When they say it's gonna ask you a few questions?
I want to again karate chop that person. And they're
instructed to say that, but like, let's be really, what's
the question question? How much you get to tip me?
I said, you see the funny meme questions? You say, huh,
you see the funny memeent with someone at a Catholic
church and they were doing confession and the priest goes,
it's gonna ask you a question, and the priest turns around. Dude,
(07:52):
I mean, it's ridiculous. It's cross. So what's your take
on this chase to because I last night I went
to go get takeout. Mendosino Farms was like a cool
little you know, sandwich spot out here in LA like
you overpriced fifteen twenty dollars sandwiches. I go to pickup
so no delivery. I make the order online on the
app go to pick up? The app says, what's your tip?
(08:13):
Are you tipping a pickup order? If you went to
go get you and your.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Short answer, short answer no. I For whatever reason, I
don't know why COVID keeps coming up today, but during COVID,
I became a very generous tipper. You know, that was
the thing people in service last than are tips. And
I'm still a generous tipper. I never stopped doing that.
But I'm not tipping for anything I didn't tip for
before COVID. That's my rule. We have to I'm not
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told guy that just made my sandwich.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We have to take the power back when it comes
to this. You feel like a grinch. You feel like
a scrooge when you don't tip, but it's like you
don't deserve it. And there was a mean to really
wrap that up, Bretch, there's a new rule. If I
order my food standing up, I'm not tipping.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's it's as simple as that, right, But you have
to abide by You have that guilt trip right and
you're like, do you know the exception is reset? The standard?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Man?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
If you order like a you know, like a fancy
your burger place where you bring a number to your
table on a runner brings your food, like the in
between type place do you put like two or three
bucks on? Then I'm like, why why? Because they walk
two feet with my food? I don't Yeah, it does
bother me. I'm sorry to bring it up again. It's
been going on for a few years now, but I
had to bring it up since we're aaron. Our grievance
(09:28):
is it because it bothers me?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
All right, So your phone calls, we appreciate it. Let's
let's let's zip through all of them. The phones are hot,
as uh Scotti Farrell would say, light them up, So
shake gato. It's fun anything from you. You're the biggest
complainer right now, and you're pretty quiet. I mean, do
you really want me to let loose on the two
of you? Yeah, most of them have to do with us,
(09:50):
I'm sure. Oh, I know Spot's biggest complaint. We'll have
a really long We'll have a really nice com Let's
say we go on for a really fun twenty minutes.
I don't know talking about uh Patrick Mahomes. Spot hates
at Cavino, and I think that it's easy for him
to make that a thirty second clip on social media
was stressful. Yeah, spot, make it like thirty seconds. It's like,
(10:12):
how do you expect me to make a twenty minute
conversation thirty second spot? Making thirty seconds? Tell me what
you want me to want me to have you say?
And then I'll be mad that he left out my
head And then we've had that home impression that really
like best point. He's like, what, oh, bro, you lift
up my putt put that in?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And I'm like, I you don't know how much stuff
I took out just to make it make sense.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
You cut out the part where I was like, I'm here,
I'm here. Why did you cut that out? It was
the best port That was the best part. But but
I can see that being one of your complaints because
I think a lot of people that edit stuff for
social media realize it's not It's not as easy as
you think, Jay Stude. Where do we want to go?
Who are we talking to?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I think I want to start with Jeffrey in West Virginia.
You've been holding the longest, Jeffrey, You're on the air.
What's up, jeff Hey, I.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Have a sports grievance and it may be old, but
I've just noticed it this year go ahead, a lot
of the inn FEL players don't seem to be wearing
their mouth guards. They leave them hanging off the front
of their face mask. And it's a safety professional that
bothers me. But it's not in the rules that they
have to wear them. But I think it's a bad
example because the kids usually end up mimicking what the
adults the NFL players do, and I think it's going
(11:17):
to just trickle down to the little kids not wearing mouthpieces,
and I think that's a bad, bad thing.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I agree with that. And if you look closely, a
lot of them don't even wear their the proper protective
padding that they're supposed to be wearing. You know, they're
just wearing their pants with no pads in them. Sometimes,
but they put their mouthguard now. I don't know if
you notice, but not only do they not put it
in their mouth where it should be, it's not even bangling.
They put it on top of their helmet. It's like stuck.
(11:43):
They stick.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
There's a fluorescent mouthpiece hanging out of their helmet.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know why, but it's all for flair. Steph
Curry style.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
No, No, that's the thing. I think it's all started
with Steph Curry. Okay, so Steph Curry started this whole
thing where he's always just chewing on it, and I
think it's going to take like one unfortunate episode, like
something's gonna happen to stuff, and the doctor will have
a press conference will be like, you know what, if
he was just actually putting the mouth guard in his mouth,
we could have saved his tongue.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You know, it's gonna take it. It's gonna it's gonna
take Steph Curry getting his front tooth knocked out and
then he has terrible like veneers and they was like, Ah,
it's gonna happen. It really is. I actually appreciate that one.
Kids mimic this stuff. That's true. I love combat sports.
We talked about the Usik Fury fight. I love MMA.
How can we talk about safety in sports and then
(12:32):
in the same breath watch these slap fights. I watched
the dumb videos on TikTok and x and Instagram, But
I mean, how are we okay with these slap Isn't
that counteracting everything we talk about in sports, like safety, safety, vulnerable,
how's that a sport? I just can't power slap Dana
White letting you gotta give him credit for pushing that throw.
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And people be like, okay, yeah, sure.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Power slab you uh tickle fights and if you laugh,
then you're out.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I got one from this.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We can.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Speaking of fights, you can't allow. Tyson Fury comes in
weighing two eighty something, right, yeah, because it's a heavyweight fight.
Olexander Usik is two twenty six in shape. Tyson Fury
comes out there with his shorts pulled up to his
man boobs. It's like, come on, dude, you can can't
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look like that in the fight, those shorts pulled up
high way high like that. Nope, I'm gonna air my grievance.
J Still, who's next?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
T I want to say, ta in Georgia? What's up?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
T at at a n R?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What's up? Fella's shout out to y'all. Listen, y'all been
grieving a lot, and I ain't gonna lie to you. Man,
it's been so much I can't even I can't even
remember what I actually was gonna be grieving about. Well,
let's just say in the NBA in general, shout out
to the to them having their whole I guess Cup,
the second Annual Cup. Yeah, this whole them making a
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just trying to make a gimmick of things. Is just listen,
just let it fall into obscurity like he did back
in the mid two thousands, where there was maybe one
or two superstars and then and then all of a sudden,
something has to pop off where we start to look
at and realize that there are other stars out here.
You know, you're Pullow being Caroes and you're you know,
you're of the superstars. So, you know, just just let
it fall into obscurity. We don't have to change anything.
(14:17):
Just let it be what it is.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, thank you. You're right on. And by the way,
speaking of basketball, I have a one more grievance on Festivus.
You know, I uh, I didn't downplay it, but I was.
I was. I gotta be honest when I'm wrong, I'll
admit it. I did not think the WNBA would flourish
the way it did. I thought people would lose interest
(14:40):
quick but I was wrong. The w NBA gained a
lot of momentum. And my my grievance is and I
don't think it's I don't think it has to be
racial because people want to make it racial. I just
think it's amazing how other women and people refuse to
like elevate Caitlin Clark, the idea of like, you know,
embrace this is what you've been waiting for. To quote
(15:02):
your favorite movie, Diehard Spot Bobby, I'm your white Knight.
Shit every time Kaitlyn Clark black white. I don't think
this is a race thing. I think Kaitlyn Clark is
a great thing for the WNBA and people should embrace it.
They should embrace the feud with her in Angel Reese
and and like there were people that were like, she
shouldn't have been athlete of the year. It should have
been the league. No, she should have been Athlete of
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the year. She delivered whatever gets on the sport, it's
it would be like and I'm not comparing their importance
to the sport, but it'd be like boxing fans not
saying that Jake Paul is good for boxing, like he
absolutely is. I'm not saying he's the greatest boxer, but
he's bringing attention to the sport. That's what the sport needs.
(15:45):
Much like women's basketball, I mean my angel Angel resent
Kitlyn Clark. That's a great I like lean into this.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Fewd lean into I have a great counter grievance for
this point. Yeah, stop caring.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Let's start.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Stop pretending like you care about the WNB Just stop pretending,
you know, like stop you know like women' spot, do
you know, stop pretending you know your you know who.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You are spot you stop pretending you.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Care about the w n B A.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
For the first time, like you, I really was tuned
in because of because of the rivalry between Kaitlyn Clark
and Angel Rees.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
I'm really you really were tuned in. Rivalries were tuned
in to the w n B A. Then no one
was tuned into the w n B A this year.
Many paid attention to the hot stories, the hot topics,
the headlines tuned in.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I didn't really spot with those sex I think, what
a weird time to be sexist.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
But that was a part of the problem with the
w n B A. And I'll piggyback on on Richard,
this was my biggest grievance of the entire the entire
year because you were so tuned jealousy about Kaitlyn Clark. No,
but to piggyback on this. Part of it was that
a lot of people who knew nothing about the sport
or had zero opinions about it, all of a sudden
had opinion, and then that became a thing for the
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WNBA to get more pissed off about. So not only
were they pissed off about Caitlin Clark and all the
attention she was getting, they were also pissed off at
all the attention they were getting. It's like a league
that can never be happy, it can never be grateful.
I think that that's the biggest problem with it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, no doubt, I agree one hundred percent. It's like
any hot issue. Everyone thinks they're an expert overnight because
they get their rese there. Like everyone's a drone expert
now right, everyone's a drone expert or a COVID expert.
There's COVID again, you know whatever, the story is, all
of a sudden, overnight, I'm a vaccine expert. Sure you are, okay,
So we allow you to air your grievances on Festivus
(17:41):
And it continues at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports
Radio hashtag. I got a problem with Rich and we
got to talk about Ricky Henderson. Yeah, the great Ricky
passed away over the weekend. And you know, was it you?
Someone hit me up early in the morning and it
(18:01):
was me because that Dave Winfield story, Yeah, one that
people we were talking about it. I got word and
I was playing softball Saturday morning early, just you know,
get a little exercise in while you sat around and
did nothing. And I got the message and I was
the guy that, you know, I don't want to be
that guy, but I was like, yo, hey, do it guys,
you're I think Ricky Henderson might have passed away. And
(18:23):
it wasn't on TMZ, it wasn't on CNN or it
was nowhere. It was Dave Winfield's instagram. I was like, yes,
are It was like it's not very confirmed, but I
hope that's not true. And then slowly but surely, the
news started coming out and it just shows you man
sixty five years old. He was one of those dudes
we all thought this, not just me. I thought he'd
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lived to like one hundred and eighty five years old.
I mean, I guess, Ricky Henderson, I guess. You don't
know people's underlying health issues. But as a player, you
look at me and say, the guy that was that fast,
that powerful, that in shape, that ran he ran three
to five miles every other day. He was conditioning. He
was you know, remember he was on the nork Bears
and some other minor league teams. As he got older,
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he was he was still stealing like forty fifties stolen
bases a year at like forty six years old. So,
I mean, the guy was in great shape. He's just
one of those dudes that you thought for sure would
live a long time. Sixty five. Ricky Henderson, the Man
of Steel. So I want you to think about the
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favorite Ricky Henderson's story you have. I'm I'm not saying personally, hey,
but if you have one, that would be great. But
there are so many anecdotes and so many legendary baseball
tales about the guy that's spoken third person. Ricky Henderson
will share those stories. Pay a little tribute to the
great Ricky Henderson. Next right here Covino rich In for
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to this. You mean we're done right after this? Damn?
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the East. But we're Covino and Rich at Covino and Rich.
As you hear run DMC Christmas in Hollis. There's a
hilarious clip if you watch the show Abbot Elementary, which
is one of the only good sitcoms left on network television.
(21:29):
The teachers want to perform this at like the school
Christmas festival, and all the young kids like what is this? Meanwhile,
this used to be what would be considered the coolest
Christmas song when we were kids. You said Christmas song?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Right?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Funny that it was in the movie die Hard, which
is technically a Christmas movie, Am I right?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You know someone debated me on this because I said that.
I said that the die Hard Christmas debate is up
there for me with Lebron versus Jordan, a debate for nimrods.
But I will add this one thing. Someone hit me up.
Someone hit you up with the the best, I would say,
the best argument yet saw it on our Twitter. Actually,
(22:11):
I think someone hit me up saying that It's a
Wonderful Life and all these other Christmas movies were also
released in the summer, and I'm like, oh were they,
because yeah, It's Wonderful Life is undeniably a Christmas I agree,
So that's no debate. So that goes against thought.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Sports. I assume it's sports. Degen fifty eight says on
Twitter it has seven Christmas songs on its soundtrack.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
To me, that's a Christmas movie. That's more than most
Christmas movies.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But that was what was so funny about what Rich said.
He said, the nimrods who have this debate, and then
he ended debate by going with the unpopular answer. Of
course it's not. That's an unpopular answer, Rich, if you're
gonna call people nimrods and then pick the one that's
very controversial.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Jase dou you know it's interesting is that I'm talking
about something I said I hate talking about so in fact,
in the moment, I hate myself and I hate you,
Ricky Henderson. I hate myself right now because the more
I think about it, I realize why idiots including me
in this moment fight about this Diehard thing because the
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same I guess what I'm not watching randomly in the
spring or summer a Christmas movie, But I would watch
die Hard randomly if I if it was on TV
or something so.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Rich Derail's conversations. That's one of my grievances. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know what I'm talking about. Rickey Henderson, the late
great Ricky sixty five years old, complications from pneumonia. Is
there any update or is that where is That's where
we're at right, No, man, But it did start with
some speculation because Dave Winfield, former teammate, Hall of Famer
legend Dave Winfield, posted that he was truly upset, couldn't believe,
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still coldn't believe that he had to deal with the
passing of his longtime friend Ricky Henderson. And then that
put everyone on this search like what Ricky Henderson? And
it was nowhere to be seen. The family hadn't announced anything,
It wasn't on TMZ or any news outlet. I know
you did, and of course you went to X, you
went to tams that, you went everywhere, and then you
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Google news Ricky and nothing comes up. And then later
that day it started to come out and you're like,
no way, man, Ricky Henderson. You know people throw around,
this is one one takeaway people throw around. Oh he
was one of a kind. Oh man, he was one
of the great ones. They throwed that stuff around way
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too much, because then how do you describe a Ricky Henderson?
Give me a break. He's arguably the greatest, if not
all around greatest player we've ever seen, greatest leadoff hitter
of multy five years in the big leagues. And talk
about characters, right, so many takeaways, so many moments, And
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I have one of my favorite it quotes. The thing is,
sometimes the legend becomes fact. A lot of these stories
aren't true, but you want him to be true. Some
of them are true. But I'll never forget as a
Yankees fan just seeing Ricky Henderson knowing he was in
Oakland A. And there's no debate there. He's an Oakland A.
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He's a Bay Area legend. But he played five sweet
years with the Yankees, and in the prime time of
my fandom growing up, when I was a kid, when
he saw how this dude played, and he saw him
steel bases, you saw how he looked in a uniform.
One of my first takeaways was my goodness, he looks
like a running back in pinstripes, chiseled out of stone,
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chiseled out of stone, like you saw. This sounds corny,
but I'm sure Mary wouldn't recognize this or know this.
Mary's a little younger. Like you saw his quads through
the uniform, Like you saw how like built he Back
in the day when we were kids, people that played
baseball looked like Keith nandez An Ozzie Smith, like you
were like dad bod sort of. And Ricky Henderson was
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the one guy where you're like, he must work out.
You're like, this dude is chiseled and you saw his
leg muscles through the uniform, you really did. You saw
how he played the game he didn't know. And I
don't think a lot of people talk about this, but
I think everybody knows it. One of my first observations
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as a child, because we would mimic it was not
only his batting stance, but when he would snap a
fly ball a pop out, he would snap it to
the side of his glove. He would catch a routine
can of corn with flash and flare, and that's what
separated Ricky Henderson. When you see someone do that, you
know what you know in little league or rec league softball,
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when someone has a lazy flyball and they catch it
a little snap down with their glove, that's the Ricky flash,
the only guy doing that.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Because he was actually he was the hot dog before
baseball allowed you to be a hot dog like today,
people that that pimped their home runs and Cadillac around
the base was the that happens every.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Day in their jersey when you paid for it. Yeah, Steve,
they kind of let it go. For Ricky, they absolutely did.
He was the exception. He was the only guy Jase did.
That's a great point. I'm because I picture Ricky because
another misconception. Oh fast, you know a lot of stone
bases and hits. I had a ton of home runs
for a leadof hitter, almost four hundred, I believe, right
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like three ninety something three that like ninety seven or
ninety nine. Maybe give me a cross before Rickey Henderson
home run. I think it's like three ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Like in a lot of ways, like you always hear about,
oh that guy is that guy's old school, Ricky was
way ahead of his time in that nowadays, you put
all your power hitters at the top of the order.
Ricky Henderson was a power hitter you put at the
top of the order. He just happened to be fast.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But I mean he bat at two seventy nine. I
knew that just because I wanted him to be like
that two to eighty guy. But twenty five years into Bigies,
broke every stolen base record possible. Got a little criticism
when he said, you know today, I'm the greatest. Got
a little criticism back then, which is again because it
was back then. Now everybody showboats. Jay Stu made the
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best point that he was playing way ahead of his time.
The fact that we live in a world now, and
I'm all for it. We live in a world of
staring at your home run bat flips. I like the
world of Major League baseball, adding a little flash and
a little a little fun. I like a good bat flip.
I like an aggressive pitcher then pitching inside. That's part
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of the game.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I love.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Ricky Henderson is the first guy I could ever remember.
I'm picturing him in the batter's box, ripping a home
run and doing like that first hop step to first base.
Pimp and his shirt Yeah, the chain comes out a
little bit. Yet, you know, as he rounded the bases.
He had over three thousand hits. He was just a
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dominant personality for the world of baseball and one of
my favorite stories. Again, we all have our favorite moments.
I had my favorite baseball cards, my favorite pictures of him.
I have a picture that I kept. I used to
have it in the frame. What I did, Rich, I've
taken a lot of memorabilia down. I put him in books,
like in a plastic sleeve, right, and I have a picture.
Let you know the rule about memorabilia, Jason, he wasn't autographed.
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It's not autographed. You just have a picture of a
man on your wall. Yeah, so this is a group
of men. But I had a picture of like it
was Ricky Henderson, Willie Randolph, Don Manningly, Dave Brughetti, Dave Winfield,
all in one one photo. And I always loved because
I mean, these were my heroes and Ricky Henderson front
and center, just smiling making everybody laugh. That was the
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other thing with Ricky Henderson, Tuto Rich. He had all
this flair and all this flash. He backed it up
and he was likable. He was beloved, by all his teammates,
and even if he was playing against you, you sort
of respected him. No one hated Ricky Henderson the way
you could hate someone as dominant as he was with
that much flash. One of my favorite stories. It's one
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of one of the stories that I'm not sure it's true,
but I could see it happening, but it made me
laugh either way. One of my favorite stories. Rumor has it,
when Ricky Henderson played for the Mariners in two thousand,
he noticed first baseman John Olrud wore a helmet while
playing in the field instead of a cap. Ricky told him,
I used to play with a guy on the Mets
last year that did that too. Olrud replied, Yeah, that
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was me, Ricky. We were teammates on the Mets last year,
if that's true. Like, I love that he was so
just Ricky Henderson. And he's played with so many different
people that maybe it didn't register, Like, you know, it's
interesting to know what made that guy tick. He was
such an old school ballplayer. You know, I'm sure he
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had great relationships, but I'm sure some of them were
just baseball relationships.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Well, what's crazy about the story you just told us?
I remember hearing a totally different story, and that's that's
what kind of makes these Ricky Henderson's stories weird, as
you don't know which ones have been exaggerated or not right.
I heard that ol Rud played with him and won
a World series with him in the ninety three Blue Jays. Yeah,
that's true that Allud said. Yeah, we were also teammates
in Toronto. Like there was a there was an addition
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to the punchline in the story that I heard.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
So again, you're right, that adds to the legend. Yeah,
that makes more sense. Yeah, it does make more sense.
And I was reading that one off of the internet,
but because I didn't want to like misquote it, I
like your version, Jay Stu better. But when the legend
becomes fact print the legend and he was a legend
Ricky Henderson. We all know the Ricky story where probably
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in the clubhouse, people are talking about who's batt and
what and batting average, and someone was also talking and
said John John three sixteen, and they quoted the Bible,
and Ricky Henderson said, yeah, I don't want to hear
about John hitting three sixteen Ricky hitting three thirty. That's
when I find hard to believe. But I love that
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story too. I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And Ricky Henderson and also talked in third person and
got away with it. Anyone else under the moon talking
third person, you're like, who's this guy? Because they're not
Ricky Henderson.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And speaking of by the way, so Seaton O'Connor, who
is a longtime Danette as you've been listening to him
every morning on the show forever, he had a personal
Ricky Henderson's story. This is Seaton's Twitter account from Saturday.
I spoke to Ricky Henderson once. It was after he
did an interview on the show, after Dan said goodbye
to him. I picked up the phone and said, hey, Ricky,
(32:30):
this is Seaton. Seaton just wanted to say thank you
until you Seaton is a huge fan, and he said back,
tell Seaton. I said, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
That's so funny. It's funny, I said, did you see
the one that's going around? Harold Reynolds shared the story
is a true one because it's coming from Harold Reynolds.
The year was nineteen eighty seven. Ricky Henderson was dealing
with injuries on the Yankees that year, so it was
the one year where the like the one year Ricky
didn't lead the league in stolen bases, he was banged up.
(33:03):
Harold Reynolds ended the season with sixty stolen bases, the
only season between eighty and ninety one that Ricky didn't
win the stolen based title. He called the Harold Reynolds
this phone rings. He goes, yeah, what's up, rick Man?
You ought to be a shamed saying that sixty was
not enough. What are you talking about, Ricky? Sixty stolen bases?
(33:24):
You ought to be a shame. Ricky had sixty at
the break and hangs up his phone.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Our producer Monday through Friday, producer Danny g you know
the superstar. He hit me up with a meme that
went viral today. He says led Daylon Cruz led MLB
in twenty twenty four with sixty seven steals and was
caught sixteen times at the age of twenty two. So
sixty seven steals, caught sixteen times at twenty two. The
(33:52):
Ricky Henderson led MLB in ninety eight with sixty six
steals and was caught thirteen times. He was thirty nine
years old. Man like you know another another term and
expression that we throw around way too much. Built different. No, Ricky,
You're not built different. That guy, that living Ricky Henderson
(34:12):
was built different. You know, he really was that guy
everybody else people pretend to be or want to be,
or we claim to be, they're really not. Maybe they
are for the moment, for that day, for that game.
Ricky Henderson was that guy for every team he played for.
And you speaking of which, yeah, he played for a
(34:34):
lot of teams. Not thirteen teams, thirteen team changes. That's
a hell of a lot of advice. It is like
four times. Right, there's no way there's a player in
Major League Baseball history. I'm not even need to look
it up. There's no player that has gone to the
same team as many times as Ricky Henderson found his
(34:55):
way back to Oakland. Right, there's no way, dude. I
saw over the weekend a highlight of him in a
Dodger outfit. Yeah, he played his last career home last base.
That was his last year.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I don't even remember him being a Dodger Like that's
how he was just like on one team a year,
half a year. He was a rental player. It was crazy.
He bounce around.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Let me he had some big moment random teams, Padres.
I believe he hit his uh three thousandth if I'm
not mistaken. Let me. Let me go through real quick
the teams and tell me if we all remember, because
I feel like you're gonna be like I remember that,
all right? We start with Oakland old school Ricky Oakland
of course, yeah, eighties with the Yankees, we of course
remember that. Then back to the Oakland A's that's when
(35:33):
he's part of that team with McGuire and won World
Series and they did not McGuire and you know Conseko,
I do remember. After that he went to Toronto. I
remember that, by the way, before you skip, I saw
Dave Stewart said, like, by the way, his teammates legends,
like so many legends have come out to say how
much he meant to them, and Dave Stewart being one
(35:54):
of them. Yeah, of that eighty nine A's squad and
Jose Cansecos known for being a jerk. Look what he
I'm gonna find what jose can say? Save it for next.
So then we went to Toronto. Then we went to
Oakland again. This is where it starts to get a
little dicey where he's jumping around the lot San Diego,
but I do remember him as a Padre Angels for
(36:15):
a second, then back to Oakland. Then he went to
the Mets for a couple of coffee, you know, a
year or so, then Seattle, then San Diego again. The
one that would I would if you gave me trivia,
j su, I would miss this one. Boston for a second,
and Seattle to me, those are Seattle I might be
(36:36):
able to visually place. And then he went to the Dodgers.
I remember how it ended, but Boston would be the one.
If we played on the road again, I would never
have remembered. But then he played in the miners like
he was still grind in as a ballplayer, because that's
who he was. Jose Can Sakea. I'm heartbroken and devastated.
Ricky Henderson was an incredibly talented player, but an even
better human. I'll never forget the incredible memories we created together,
(36:57):
memories I'll never forget. Rest easy, my friend again. Everybody
loved this guy. He led by example.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
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Speaker 2 (37:13):
Police Nabi Dog. This is a top ten Christmas song,
though I love all the Spanish leaning ones, bring me
back to my roots. Rich Mamasita adondesta, Sante Claus good
one too. Where is Santa Claus? That's the translation for
Jase two. It's christmass E. Well, hey, Felice, no me
(37:35):
don everybody coming on Rich two days till Christmas. I
think we're at the point now where if you think
you're relying on like Amazon to get a package to you,
it might be out of luck, dude, that it might
be the Walmart Target mall struggle for the next forty
eight hours. I went to them all yesterday. It was
a nightmare. It was my nephew's birthday. I wanted to
get him something I wasn't trying to do, Like last
(37:56):
Minut Christmas Show. I'm like, gel my god, hard get
him a Turboman doll. Yeah, you had one turboman left anyway,
I'm Covino. That is Rich. Happy Holidays. We got Jay
Stu on the phones. It's a pleasure working with Jay Stu.
Great team here at Fox Sports Radio. It's always fun
to fill in for the Dan Patrick Show, Day one
of the DP hat Trick. We'll be back tomorrow and
(38:19):
of course Thursday. But again, happy holidays, thanks to Mary,
Thanks to you guys, Thank you. You know what we
want for Christmas? Besides Turbo Man, besides tackle me out
a puppy, No, I want my pitt Monster. And I
want you to follow, rate and review our podcast. Really
that simples free search Covino and Rich. That's that's all
(38:41):
we want. Wherever you stream your podcast, search Covino, coov
I and O and Rich and enjoy our show because maybe,
yeah you're busy when we're on normally Monday. I give
it a shot. You know what's take three quick phone
calls about Ricky I mean Ricky Henderson sixty five. It
was sort of a dude, way too young for anybody,
but especially Ricky Henderson's. That's what I thought, right, Like,
(39:03):
you know there's people that are unhealthy that hit ailments
and yeah, sixty sucks. You know, it's very young. You
know a clip I saw that that warm my heart.
I thought a guy like Ricky Between you and I
I was saying, I thought a guy like Gricky would
live like ninety. But then again, you didn't know that
he had asthmen all these other issues, which is wild.
I don't remember this clip. It's just do you see
a lot of these things surface because he passed away.
(39:26):
When his daughter threw out a first pitch to him,
that was cool, really really cool. Some go to highlights
some of the stories. Which ones stand out to you?
Who do we got ja?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Stu Anthony? Anthony's in California?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
What's up it?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Hey, gentlemen? How are you happy Holidays?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
That guy man? What what's your Ricky thought?
Speaker 5 (39:44):
My first Ricky impression was I'm growing born and raised
the Bay Area, number thirty five, Ricky Henderson, Billy ball.
But maybe you guys know the story about the time
he's a rookie he got his first paycheck. I don't
know if you guys heard that.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's the million dollar teck. Please share the
story gets the have this one for you?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Yeah, it's a million dollar check. So those people that
know about the million dollar check he gets his first check,
it's all on dudes. He puts it at home, he
framed it, puts it at the house, frames it shows
it off a month later into the month payroll. Someone
from the a's called Ricky, the million dollar check, the bonus,
just signing.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
But what'd you do it?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Did you lose it? No? Ricky has it on his wall.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Do you mean you got on your wall framed? No, Ricky,
you got to cash that check. We have we have
a roll where our numbers are off. Oh Ricky, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
I love that story because that's that's a fact. That
one's true. He shared it. He was just so proud
of the million dollar check. He framed it and hung
it in his home. And it turns out like their
books were off and they were trying to figure out
what's going out? Well, how are we a million dollars off?
He never catched a check.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Well let's take it one more. Jason, your tries? Where
do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Uh? Ken, Ken, You're in Texas?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Right, that's up?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Ken?
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Hey, guys, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
What's hey?
Speaker 6 (40:59):
So when I was a kid, I was eleven years old,
my buddies and I got into collecting baseball cards for
about three days and we went out and bought up.
We rode our bikes to the Stop and Go, bought
a bunch of packed cards, opened them up, threw them
in a shoe box didn't looked at them again until
about twelve years later. I'm broke, I'm out of college.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Hey maybe quick man. I don't think we have time
for your story. This it's supposed to be anecdote. It's
not a yeah, hits up at COVID Rich. We'll take
your feedback tomorrow. We appreciate your call, though, and we'll
see you back here tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
That was quick.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Thank you Jay, Stu, Thank you Mary. Until then, at
coviing on Rich are we there at you baby? See
you have a good day yet.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
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