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C&R are filling-in for DP! The guys take a deep dive into NBA All-Star weekend, as Rich is having trouble embracing the sport. What did Draymond Green say about the new All-Star format? They address the airplane aisle debate that people were discussing over the weekend. It's Michael Jordan's 62nd birthday & they ask if there will ever be another brand as huge & global as JORDAN? Plus, 'SHAQ DIESEL TRIVIA' sees Mike Who Runs This Place (WHO) spend 2-minutes in the studio, & Rich attempts to scold his own tee ball player!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Cavino and Rich and for the Great Dan Patrick. Day
one of the Dan Patrick Patrick Live from Mercedes Benz Studios.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm Steve Cavino. That is Rich Davis.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I hope you had a great Valent Times weekend, bop by.
Hope you enjoyed some Russell stovers. Hope you enjoyed the
NBA All Star Game? Was it SNL or Cobra kai
that overshadowed the everything NBA All Star Game. We're taking
your calls and your feedback now on Rich's NBA analogy.
He's basically saying that there's no blueprint on what works

(00:37):
and what doesn't work. But I hope you had a
nice weekend of Steph Curry sort of weekend. He got
the MVP, his second All Star Game MVP. The OG's
got the win. We'll play some Shack Diesel trivia. But
you want to explain again, Rich, Yeah, I mean it's
evident that.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
In generally we like to think that we could tell
people what they're interested in, what they like, what they
gravitate towards networks.

Speaker 6 (00:59):
Do it.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Podcasts, do it TV shows, movies, there's a sentiment that, oh,
we know what the public wants, But a lot of
times the public just tells you what they want. You
could try to push a new artist, a new athlete,
a new face of a company on the general public,
but they could very well just be like, now, we
don't like that, we like that. It's like the famous

(01:21):
story of Happy Days. Fansie wasn't supposed to be the
main character How I Met your Mother? It wasn't supposed
to be about Barney Stinson.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Did I do that?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Tory Nichols wasn't supposed to be anything more than a
quick cameo on Cobra Kai.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, that same category as Fansie.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's more relevant than Henry Winkler, even though I love him.
I'm just saying the season premiere just wrapped up Tory.
He's the main character of Cobra Kai.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
But it just shows you that, you know, like I said,
h rkle Phonsie, these are not design the public decided.
So you could say these are the new faces of
our sport. But if the public doesn't gravitate towards them,
if you, as the average NBA fan, what matchup you'd
want in the NBA most people would say, I don't know,

(02:17):
maybe like the Warriors are the Lakers because they're still
hung up on Steph and Lebron and those older faces.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think, you know, I think if you're asking why
is this because your point is valid. I think everybody
and everything goes through transitional ups and downs, like transitional phases.
We I think we were a little spoiled in the NFL,
Like when we got all these slew of new quarterbacks,

(02:45):
it made the transition easier. He's like, whoa, wait a second.
All these dudes are really good, I mean guys, and
you embrace the new guys immediately.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
We say goodbye to Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and you know,
Drew Brees and that crew of quarterbacks. But we also
welcomed in Burrow, Jackson, Josh Allen, like Jalen hurts that.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So it's like the holidays when you're grown up. Remember
when you were kid, how great the holidays seemed. Then
everybody grew up and no one had kids yet, so
the holiday seemed boring because you were going through that
transitional stage of life and family. All of a sudden,
your sister started having kids, and there was kids back
in the mix, and the holidays got exciting again. You're like, oh, wow,
their holidays are brack. I guess now we just got

(03:25):
through that transitional stage. And maybe the NBA, well, all
the changes they're making and all the changes they're forced
to make, and thinking about the way the game has
changed with three points and it's become boring, and Silver's
trying to for you out, well, how do we fix it?
And a new format for the All Star Game. All
these things are a little confusing to people. There's a
new slew of characters that not everybody's embracing yet. It's

(03:47):
just the transition all I said, they'll be a moment
in time where all of a sudden you're like, ah,
I have.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
An I have another reason.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Who's arguably the best Major League Baseball play that's never
sniffed the postseason for the most part, For the most part, Trout.
Mike Trout Right, you could argue, maybe not the most
personality plus guy. But you know what also takes a
star like Mike Trout from being next level star never
being relevant when it matters in the playoffs. Do you

(04:17):
think maybe if the Spurs were more of an elite
team and had had more weapons and more, you know,
more of a vibe around Wemby. Wemby to me, is
the most intriguing young star. But in a league where
twenty of the thirty teams make the playoffs, they're still
on the outside looking in. Is that a part of
it too, where Danny, the biggest young star that might

(04:40):
be the biggest quote attraction, isn't even on a playoff
caliber team.

Speaker 7 (04:44):
Well, one of my favorite players in the league right
now is de Aaron Fox, and the Kings traded him
to the Spurs. So the Spurs are trying to work
on what you're talking about right now.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
I mean you can't.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
We're coming off of crazy highs of a great MLB season,
first time in a long time, what I said, another
exciting NFL season, and then you're like NBA and you're
trying to play catch up now.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
But no, but it goes back to what I'm saying.
Otani is the biggest star. But guess what he also did.
The biggest star showed up on the biggest stage and
that team won the World Series.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I think once the I'm stating the obvious here, but
once the playoffs are kicking in and you're seeing Lebron
and Luca do their thing again. Big team, big national,
nationwide team, not just here in LA with superstars that
you recognize. When you see them competing with these younger
dudes that you really don't know that well, you start

(05:39):
kicking in and your fandom starts to kick in, and
you start getting excited about it.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Luke and Lebron, Stephen Draymond like the names that you
want to say.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, but you're tuning into the NBA right after the NFL,
right after Super Bowl. You all hyped up about super
Bowl and then you're tuning into the NBA because it's
all there is to tune into right as we approach
All Star break. So that's kind of boring as a
casual NBA fan.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Let's go to Andy and Rhode Island. Andy, What is it?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
And I don't want to talk about, Well, the NBA,
it's three pointers and.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
This and that.

Speaker 8 (06:12):
Andy.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
To me, it's just saying you just can't force what works. Yeah,
you can't force you can't tell people what they like.

Speaker 9 (06:19):
No, absolutely, guys, And I feel that because you know,
a lot of it.

Speaker 10 (06:23):
Kind of just goes back to Revision's history, because you know,
we can't really see who's gonna be, you know, the
next breakout generational players ahead of time, so we kind
of just cling back to, you know, the guys that's
still in the league that have been doing it for
so long, because I feel like.

Speaker 9 (06:37):
A lot of it has to do with social media.
We have so much access to these guys that in
essen it's always on to the next with the current
society that we're living nowadays.

Speaker 10 (06:47):
And it's just so tricky because we want to embrace
the new guys, but then.

Speaker 9 (06:52):
I feel like a lot of these new guys they
don't have that superstar you know, that whole horizon energy
that we look forward to it just like you know,
you go back to Michael Jordan's he was so polarizing,
but it was so it was such a mystery because
we didn't have all the access to end So that
I feel like that's the biggest difference.

Speaker 10 (07:11):
And you know, like you guys said, it's.

Speaker 9 (07:13):
A transitional phase and we'll see where it goes.

Speaker 11 (07:16):
Right now is just up in the air.

Speaker 9 (07:17):
You know, we can only hope for the best for
the NBA, but it seems like where Grace and the
NFL stars a lot faster because the NFL is this case,
it really is.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
It is, and it's that that good of a product
where you're not really competing with anything. If you're a
casual NBA fan, you're oversaturated with other options. Like if
you asked me honestly over the weekend, yeah, would you
rather watch the NBA All Star Game or Cobra Kai.
I'm watching Cobra Kai. Sounds ridiculous, but we have. My

(07:50):
point is, you have options. As your mom would say,
up the wazoo. You have so many other things to watch.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Mom.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
It's competing with all the other things, you know. So
it's a mixture. It's a perfect storm of all of
these things, Richie. I can't force these things, the new formats,
the new stars, and you have all these other things
to watch.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
George and La, what's.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Up, Bud, what's up?

Speaker 12 (08:18):
Fellas?

Speaker 4 (08:19):
What's up?

Speaker 12 (08:19):
Man?

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Hey, buddy, Hey Man.

Speaker 13 (08:21):
Got to hear you guys this morning.

Speaker 14 (08:22):
It was a good surprise.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh nice, man, high surprise surprise.

Speaker 12 (08:26):
Sorry with your daughter, brother.

Speaker 14 (08:27):
I felt cool, man, that was real cool.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Hey, thanks man, It was all right. You know, it's
a weird.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's a weird moment to just sort of accept that
your daughter it's not her first boyfriend, but she's fifteen now,
so different right now.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, so it's on your mind, George.

Speaker 13 (08:43):
Hey, Bro, I'll tell you it wasn't cool that sprinky
dinky All Star game.

Speaker 12 (08:48):
Bro.

Speaker 13 (08:48):
It was pretty lame.

Speaker 14 (08:49):
It was non competitive.

Speaker 13 (08:51):
They need to come up with the better idea.

Speaker 12 (08:53):
Maybe, how about like something like, well.

Speaker 13 (08:55):
What hockey does?

Speaker 14 (08:56):
That hockey game was was beast, Bro, that was awesome. First.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, hockey sold weekend with their fights, I mean hockey fights.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
You know what it was. This weekend was hockey fights.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Saturday Night Live fifty and a couple other things that
all sort of overshadowed as a pick a ball tournament.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
There was some crazy crashes in the Daytona five hundred
and when that picked up after the weather delay.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Yeah, I don't want to I don't want to be
the guy that piles on I don't want to kick
the NBA walls.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
But if you weren't painting the narrative, then you wouldn't
be accurate either. And that was the narrative on. If
you took the temperature on social media and just the
buzz of of what people were saying about All Star Weekend,
that's exactly it. If you see it otherwise, feel free
to share. We're just painting a picture for you. As
I said to you, I don't want to.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
I just don't want to pile on and be like, yeah,
I MEA stinks, right, guys, because I just think there's
a they're trying. Adam Silver was striking. I'm just saying
you can't force people to like something.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I mean another thing though, just the show that You're
not rich is again, that's the overall sentiment of how
people are feeling. Right, So we're not gonna come here
and be like, dude, that was electric, are we would
sound ridiculous?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah? Right.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Draymond Green over the weekend was basically talking about how
flat it was, how weak it was, how you have
these you know, young players out there that don't deserve
to be out there, and that the format didn't work
like he made it no secret And that's been a
theory of ours too on this show. When you have
the analysts and former players and current players dumping on

(10:26):
the product, how do you expect the casual fan to
be excited about it?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
That's bad marketing.

Speaker 7 (10:33):
Yeah, there were twenty minute breaks in that bracket final
and a lot of the players spoke out afterwards saying
they didn't like it. They understand that it needs to
be kind of stretched out for TV, right, and they're
just being honest. But like Kevin Hart was doing stand
up and little skits and he was at Lebron's locker
putting his shoes on and you know, and Trey Young
said he was part of Chuck's Global Stars. I didn't

(10:55):
like the breaks. The games were so short. Obviously we
can score, so they're trying to, I feel like, extend
the game, you know, because they need breaks and things
like that. But the players want to play yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
And I think the silver lining here is they're trying
to figure it out or trying to give you something else.
Like we always say Rich Gary Vee, we quote him
innovator died or trying to innovate and trying to make
things exciting.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
So that's the positive.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
They're testing it on live TV, though is the the issues.
Like us, once in a while on our afternoon show,
we'll test a game, a new game that we're gonna play, yeah,
and it kind of evolves into the final product that
we put on the air every week, And that first
week or two we do it. We laugh, We have
fun with it. It's a little rough, but imagine millions and
millions of viewers watching something you're trying to figure out

(11:46):
in real time.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
You know, your final thoughts on the NBA All Star weekend.
We'll get to that. Plus a birthday of maybe the
most famous athlete of our lifetime and will there.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Ever be another?

Speaker 5 (11:58):
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Speaker 3 (13:31):
George Bush to do a perfect strike? Was he the
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Speaker 7 (13:34):
It was Taft because he was hanging out with Babe
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Speaker 4 (13:38):
Bro very good.

Speaker 14 (13:39):
Danny G.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Taft was the first president to start the tradition.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I thought he was the first to eat hot dogs
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gets sticking to batt of the fat Ass a lot
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Speaker 3 (13:51):
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Speaker 5 (13:53):
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Speaker 2 (13:58):
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(14:23):
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Speaker 3 (14:24):
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Speaker 2 (14:26):
We appreciate that, Rich to wrap up the first hour
of trying to figure out why don't I care? Because
you never want to feel like something's wrong with you.
I think that's where it first starts, like is it me?
Why don't I care? The way other people seem to care?
Does everybody not care? And then you go to social media,
you run the X to see what other people are saying,

(14:46):
and you realize, well it seems like everybody's saying it sucked,
even the players, and Trey Young and Dreymond Green are
saying the All Star weekend sucked. I think it comes
down to again transitional stage. They're figuring it out. The
game has changed. We have lots of options, but we
also don't really invest in anything that feels like an exhibition.
So when the players feel like they're not playing and

(15:08):
they don't care, it's like the Pro Bowl, Like the
NFL is still a great product, Did you care about
the Pro Bowl? No, because they don't care. They're playing
patty Cake. And that's kind of what happened with the
NBA All Star Game. They don't seem to care really
that much, even though Trey Young is like, yo, we
want to play. Yeah, But that's starting to happen with
the NBA regular season, right And when it starts to

(15:29):
feel like an exhibition, like, hey, do they even care,
then it's hard.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
For you to care. You know, not not just All
Star weekend.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
But you know, again, if if you didn't hear Draymond
when you got one of the stars of the game
talking about how he doesn't care, then.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Then what are we doing here? They listen you work.

Speaker 15 (15:47):
All year to be an All Star and you get
to play up to forty and then you're done. This
is so unfair to Victor Winbyama, who just took this
game really seriously, Shay Gilles Alexander, who just took this
game really seriously. When you talk about not for the points, wreckers,
mellow with Kobe and all these guys who've had great
scaring nights, they don't get the opportunity to do that
with this game. Also, we can watch some rising stars.

(16:10):
We're about to watch the Olympic team. Now we get
to treat of watching the Olympic team play against the
U nineteen team.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Come on, what are we doing all of one to ten?
Your thoughts of the format.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Ten being the best? Yes, A zero sucks. Zero sucks.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Thanks to Draymond for endorsing your own product.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
And Trey Young even said that. To be honest, I
didn't like it at all as far as how it
all panned out and worked over the weekend, And that's fine.
You got to take chances, got to figure it out.
We're just again not complaining explaining.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Ye I mean everyone everyone has been trying to, you know,
figure this out. Adam Silvers you know, has a tough
job of all the answers sort of being things that
mean less money, meaning less games, maybe less playoff teams,
But no, think those things will never happen because that
just means less revenue. And then I asked you, do

(17:06):
we just need some NBA start to do something we've
never seen, meaning the way Michael Jordan flew through the
air or the way Steph Curry was hitting, you know,
half court threes. Does a young player need to do
something different in the game that no one's ever done before?

Speaker 3 (17:22):
But what's left?

Speaker 5 (17:25):
What's left? What could someone do that no one's ever
done before? Think about that, right, NBA? By the way,
Danny G, what were your thoughts? You're the resident Laker
but hardcore NBA fans supporter.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Did you call me a Lakers? But yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:42):
What did you li? Lakers? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (17:45):
But yes, yeah, I mean I'm you guys are casual
NBA fans, so I'm more of a basketball fan than
you guys are.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
I thought it was okay.

Speaker 7 (17:54):
I mean I would give it a five out of
ten right now because they still got to work the
kinks out. So I'm curious to see how it is
laid out for next season and if some stars get
their butts into the slam Dunk contest, because that would
change that. That's what initially as a little kid, drew
me to the league. For All Star weekend. I wanted
to see high flying action. I wanted to see Dominique

(18:17):
and Jordan and spud Web and then a little bit later,
you're New York, Nick or Bocker, you know who I'm
talking about with the windmill in the high top fade.
There were so many great stars and then guys who
turned out to be borderline stars because they were in
some of these competitions. So I understand what Raymond's saying.

(18:39):
But at the same time, Rich you've been ranting on
we need to know who these youngsters are and so
they are getting some exposure. So we got to find
a compromise here or something in the middle.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
I wonder if it's all ego based. I mean, and
you're gonna be like, yeah, of course it is, like
why aren't the stars participating in these contests?

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, Yannis, the story was Jiannis and Sean Morant were
chirping on social media like, Yo, we gotta do this
next year.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
I'm in if you're in.

Speaker 7 (19:05):
But it takes Mac McClung winning a third time for
them to react and for them to get into this competition.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, and if you're super casual, he's a G League
star who the stat was kind of interesting over the weekend.
He's made one hundred and thirty two thousand in his
NBA career, in his full NBA career since like twenty
twenty one, one hundred and thirty two thousand. In his
slam dunk earnings three hundred and ten thousand.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
That's insane that a guy that you know is a
non factor in the NBA is the guy that you're
three time dunk champion.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
It just seems it seems silly to me. That's all
part of it, though, Yeah, it is.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
Yeah, he should at least get to come off the
magic bench. You know, I was talking about that high
top fade. Rich, you had one of those back when
you lived in New York, like Kenny Skywalker.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
That was the haircut, the two lines in it.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
It's just it's wild to think that ego would keep
all these guys out of it. Well, anyway, Cavin on
Rich Fox Sports Radio. Now, before we get to Danny
J's boy, Lebron started that before we get to a
big birthday today in the world of sports and some
baseball baseball starting up, baseball, seat up, people are reporting
to camp. I have a question, and it's more of

(20:19):
a random hypothetical. I saw people debating this on social media.
Do you find it acceptable? Well, you know, if everyone
does their traveling, it's a holiday weekend. Is it acceptable
to climb over someone in the middle seat on a plane?

Speaker 3 (20:39):
What do you mean if.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
You are supposed to use no If you're in the
window seat and a stranger is next to you in
the middle seat, yeah, and they're sleeping in the middle seat,
do you give them a little nudge like I'm waking up?
Or do you try to do the I'm gonna climb over.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
A stranger while they're sleeping.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Well, yeah, you could do that. I try you try
to squeeze by without waking them up.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
That's when you hide with your jacket and you urinate
into a big gold cup.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Is that what you did, Daddy?

Speaker 15 (21:11):
No.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
I but there was a big debate on social media.
I mean that's how this weekend was. You know, it
was all NBA All Star at SNL fifty. But I
did see people debating this, and I did wonder can
you climb over a stranger?

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Because think about that.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Your options are either to wake the person up you're
you're saying, assuming they're sleeping, right, Yeah, of course if
they're the person up, or try to like shimmy by them.
I think you're a school boy if you're like standing
on the seat trying to like hurdle them.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, you try to shimmy buy them.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Or or wake them up. Those are your only options.
Play it accordingly, man, Is it intrusive to that? Game?

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Must have been really boring if this is what people
were debating.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
It, Is it intrusive to like hover your body over
a stranger that if they wake up and you're right.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Over them, I mean, take your Danny in the window seat, right,
they're doing what you gotta do.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
In that situation.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
If you in the middle sea, would you appreciate someone
trying to climb over you or wake you up?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Hey, dude, that's why you got the middle seat. That's
why nobody wants it. That's like the price you pay
snooze you lose. Nobody wants the middle seat because of
those reasons. Thought I throw it out there. Something I
saw over the weekend, because people, it's also matter how
limber and agile is that person trying to hurtle over you?

(22:34):
You know, is it some some big hairy fella breathe my.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
Friends, Bartolo Cologne?

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Exactly?

Speaker 12 (22:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Is it some hot little chippy and yoga pants? You know,
give me the scenario. Give you I was like, straddle
over me. Then yeah, if it's Bartolo Cologne, I'm a
little like annoyed by throwing it out there.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Now today the big birthday, the big birthday in the
world of sports. I want you to feel too old.
But Michael Jordan turned sixty two today. Mj is sixty two.
And there's two layers to this question. Layer one, is

(23:13):
he the most popular forget athlete? Is he the most
popular guy in the last fifty years on planet Earth?
And then part two of the question, is it possible
that in all sports baseball, basketball, football, tennis, hockey, you
name it, will there ever be a brand bigger than

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the one created by Michael Jordan?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Okay, you said in the last fifty years, that's nineteen
seventy four, So the answer is gonna have to be
seventy five. The answer is gonna have to be no
to that because I'm not talking about just sports, I'm
talking about talking worldwide, right, So you have to pick
an international sport that would probably be like a Ronaldo

(24:07):
or even fighting, you know, a Mike Tyson or Muhammad
Ali because it was at least international. NBA was not international.
The brand is now international and we all love it.
But think of the movie with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
What was it called Air? Yeah, I mean that was
in the eighties, so.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
By the time it became an international monster, it was
long past fifty years ago or before fifty years.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying I think if you said,
if you were to say nineteen seventy five to twenty
twenty five, I'm not even talking with sports. I'm saying
on planet Earth, is.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
There a more popular guy who said in the past
fifty years, past fifty years, Muhammad Ali was passed his prime, No,
in seventy five, in late seventies. He was just fighting
in the eighties, So you think, so you think Muhammad
Ali is the answer theent I'm saying Jordan has surpassed
all of that, But there has been other people internationally

(25:13):
that were superstars are maybe just as big now with
the sneaker brand, which I didn't have my first Jordan's
until like eighty five, right was in like fifth sixth
grade or something like that. Then it became an international thing.
So there's been other people's my point, but you know,
fast forward now, Yeah, your answer is dead on, spot on,

(25:34):
And it seems like no one will ever be as
big because the Jordan brand is so huge. But there
has to be someone or something that comes along again
and he's that next Jordan's. He's a lifetime, once in
a lifetime kind of guy. But you know, once our
lifetime is over, there'll be someone else.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
And I say that because other athletes have had successful
sneak you know, lebron Kadi, steph is Shak had his
sneaker brand and still does. All these guys have successfully
done it, but they all pale in comparison to the
billion dollar industry. Is the Jordan branch of Nike and everything.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
So seven billion dollars. By the way, you got to.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Ask yourself, is there a baseball player, if Otani or
who's the face of baseball?

Speaker 7 (26:21):
You know, you think it would have to be an
international star like our grandkid's gonna say, oh, I got
my Otani's on.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
The world's a bigger place or a smaller place, I
should say now, And it'll be a guy like Otani.
I'm not saying it is Otani, but it'll be a
guy like Otaniani.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
If the new babe Ruth, there's gonna be a new Jordan.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Yeah, but Otani if he came out with his own
line of cleats and batting gloves and all baseball gear,
I don't think every little boy and girl will be like,
I need my Otani's.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
They also have to be fired too. It's a perfect storm.
The Jordan's for kids. I know the famous clip of
David Letterman talking about how ugly they were, Are you
serious about these things? Kids loved them. They were fire
and they're legendary. Still we still wear the same ones
from eighty four eighty five.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yeah, all lettermen in that generation we're used to were boring.
Basic converse right.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Your white tennis sneaker, right, your basic converse shoe.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
It's almost because Michael Jordan. And much like anything in
all businesses, it's the person that takes the big chance
that has the biggest payoff him going with Nike, which
at the time was like a you know, like a
not a failing but a pretty mid level running shoe company.
By him doing that, maybe that's the perfect storm because

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on his sixty second birthday it is.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
And it also built to the allure and mystique and
legend of Air Jordan.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
That there were other basketball players that endorse sneakers, converse
or and stuff like that. But is it just simply
Michael Jordan was the first guy to really brand his
own shoe to that level and no one will ever compare,
whether it's Steph or why Lebron's career could compare.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
People debate that till this day. Think about the sneaker.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Think of all the sneakers that have debuted in the NBA,
all the stars of the league. They have millions of
kids buying their sneaker, but nothing compares to a Jordan.
And like even in baseball, I've recently been buying a
lot of equipment. My kids are getting more involved in
their little league and stuff.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Not to him Jordan's career, but the shoe was fire,
so that helped, right, It definitely helped, and it changed
the game, and he marketed the hell out of it.
The dude had gatorade, jingles and everything else. So I
mean Lebron's career rivals, Jordan's his sneaker doesn't.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
Was Was Michael Jordan just the perfect guy at the
perfect time and everything lined up like the fact that
he was the most talented winner while at the same
time also happened to be alive at a time where
they took a chance on. Hey, maybe a basketball play
with his own sneaker is a good idea. Was it
just the perfect storm that no one will ever compete? Yeah,

(29:16):
he also delivered.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
He was slamming from the foul line with the sneaker on.
You know, so that also helps. Like think about it.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
You think that Facebook and Instagram and TikTok, you think
those are the only social media attempts. There's clearly other
companies that were like, oh no, will be the next
social media. Everything's got to line up perfectly, And I
think Michael Jordan on his sixty second birthday, you could argue,
in the last fifty years might be the most popular
human on earth and no one will ever have a

(29:46):
bigger sports brand. Think about it, Tennis, bowling, hockey, baseball, basketball,
Is there ever gonna be a guy who sells billions
of dollars of their logo.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
You know, it just sounds possible, right, We're a blip
on the radar the timeline of life. You don't think
there is going to be some guy in thirty twenty
five where again he surpasses this. I mean, you know,
maybe in our lifetime for sure. Ever, no, most popular

(30:19):
in the last fifty years. Yeah, you know what, that's
a great debate. I would say you're probably right because
of the brand at this point. I mean, Tom Brady's
a huge brand with TB twelve and everything he represents.
Shack does a Shack does a million endorsements. Everybody knows
the Jumpman logo, everybody knows the shoe internationally, you know,

(30:40):
not everybody got to see him play, so the legacy
still lives on.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
It's crazy perspective community. That would be like.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Joe Montana, right, having a branded cleat or football equipment
that till this day people are still talking like, oh,
Mahomes is wearing the Montanas. Like you know what I'm saying.
It just seems ridiculous that these young stars, the Marinos,
they their stars in their own regard, yet they're still
wearing Jordan branded stuff.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
I just think he is. He's that one guy.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
And yeah, maybe our grandparents would say what Babe Ruth
did for baseball and the fact that he was like
a larger than life, almost cartoon character, the type of guy,
the way they describe him, I think.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Most popular in the past fifty years.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
I'll give you that one, right, I was just throwing
out other names in the past fifty Years'll.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Say one hundred.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Maybe Muhammad Ali is the only one that rivals them. No,
because again we're thinking America based. It eventually became international
with the shoe brand NBA. No one cared about internationally
at that time, right, can anyone compete?

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I'd have to say yeah, probably because.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Of international celebrity now and superstars in the soccer game
and and even baseball, So I will say yeah, And
I mean, obviously NBA it's an international sport now, So
the opportunity for this to happen is there on a
much larger scale, I would say eventually. But again, it

(32:10):
was a if you were trying to dissect, well, how
did that happen? It was a perfect store of Austin.
He delivered, he won, he was great, and no shoes were.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Dope you needed, and they marketed it perfectly, like so everything.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
You could argue the same about a lot of things,
like something as silly as Kelly Clarkson.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Right.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
I saw a meme that said, we got American Idol
right the first time. We didn't need the twenty five
more seasons. Like to think about how she was the
first winner of a singing reality show and you know,
she's as big a star now as ever before. Sometimes
it's the perfect storm of talent and timing and everything

(32:52):
that I think it's hard to argue that anyone.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Can anyone compete if Ronaldo had some fire sneakers that
translated internationally for everybody in casual use and where, but
those guys all had their primary and it didn't happen.
I meant that type of guy look at his social
media following. You don't think someone with international fame like
that could compete in the future. I do, But it would.

(33:15):
They would be an Otani type and it would need
he just needs a shoe.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
COVID would need to be a sport though that translates
in the United States. Not that we dictate everything, but
you can't call something the biggest in the world pop
culture wise, if it's not popular in the US and
soccer football just doesn't translate on that grand of scale
where the NBA internationally is only getting bigger and bigger.
So I think if Jordan's not the answer, I would
love to hear who you think it is? At eight seven, seven,

(33:40):
nine to nine on Fox on his sixty second birthday?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Is Michael Jordan one of one?

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Essentially?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, if you have little kids in your life, they
still want Jordan's, They still talk about I bought my
nephew pair of Jordan's for Christmas that he wanted. I mean,
you obviously know how popular the brand is.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Cool Uncle Steve buying an eight year old Jordan's and
he appreciates it.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
He's eight, right, They know that jump man logo.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
So the question is is he the most popular in
the past fifty years? Because he's sixty two and we're
still buying his shoes and talking about the guy. And
can anyone ever compete with that sort of fame and fortune?

Speaker 5 (34:15):
What would it have to be like? Describe the scenario.
Would it have to be like such an elite guy
like Mahomes almost three repeated, You know was, you know,
one bad game away from winning four of the last
what five?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
And he doesn't have a fire shoe.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
He doesn't have a shoe or a brand of anything
where you like kids like I need the mahomes.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
He's investing in ketchup, you know. And again it was
it was not pushing the the mystique of this guy,
you know, Air Jordan.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
I mean all these things added to it. Rich.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
It's like, you know, who had that sort of mystique
about them, Mike Tyson invincible. He was invincible at one point.
If he had a fire shoe, we might be rocking it.

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Speaker 2 (35:06):
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Speaker 3 (35:43):
Get a free estimate today. Uh oh, better get Miko.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Let's take a few more phone calls on this first pitch.
Not necessarily about the first pitch. It is today's President's day.
Taft first president to throw out a first pitch. And
I said, it's very easy to assess another grown man,
another grown man.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Okay, how he throws a ball? How about this?

Speaker 2 (36:06):
It's not an accurate assessment because plenty of pro athletes
get out there and he embarrassed themselves.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Right, but you do make a judgment. I think that's
safe to say.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
It might be the judgest I yet, right, right, It
might not be accurate, but you're judging.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
For instance, for sure, Mike, who runs this place? What's up, Mike?

Speaker 6 (36:26):
Party people in the house.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Mike.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
The first time you came in the studio, when we
first met you a couple of years ago, and you
threw me the football that was.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Sitting in here.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
My instinct was, oh, Mike played sports as a kid, right,
you could assess.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Another grown man by how he throws the ball.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
I went to you guys one hundred percent. And in fact,
you know, Steve likes to call himself the King Spiral
over there.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
I mean, in all fairness, people call me that.

Speaker 6 (36:52):
So here's the deal. When when I first heard that,
I'm like, you guys are ridiculous. There's no way. So
we throw the football around a little bit, and you
know what, King Spiral Brod Marino Spiral X me.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Hey, I was a gym class hero. I could throw
football for sure. I mean because I played in the
streets as a kid growing up. Let's uh, let's go
to Sean and York PA. What's up Sean Convi on
ritching for DP.

Speaker 14 (37:19):
I'm good. I agree with that one hundred percent. Actually,
I say it goes a lot sooner than that, because, like,
I'm a coach for my kids, and that was my
biggest thing was giving kids high five. You can walk
up to a kid and you put your hand up
giving high five, and you smack your hand like you
know hard. You're like, oh, I want you on my
baseball team.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
That's you. You are so right.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
There are times I'm starting to coach a little kids.
Some buddy, some kids like what a lot be high five?

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Little guy?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
What is your dad not teach you at high five?

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Bringing in pal? Uh, let's say hi to Jerry and Tampa. Jerry,
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 11 (37:54):
Hey, you guys know what it is.

Speaker 5 (37:56):
Jerry, do you agree that you can assess someone by
how they throw a ball?

Speaker 12 (38:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (38:00):
I believe so because I've had You know, I grew
up playing baseball, and every when I was little, uh
and uh, you could pretty much tell yeah, some of
the guys that were hanging out playing music and the
guys that were playing the ball. So yeah, I could
tell you.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Jerry, Jerry.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
It's the guy doesn't need to be piled on because
he's had a rough enough month after the Super Bowl
halftime show. But Drake, he was in that video where
Drake's like I played ball as a kid, Yes, I have,
and zen and then he like swings a bat and
throws a ball and You're like, no, Drake, you did
not play ball as a kid.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
Who did not? You did?

Speaker 5 (38:36):
Team Ketchri Go marn Now Uh, Jerome and South Carolina
what's up man?

Speaker 3 (38:44):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Drum?

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Hold on, Danny's on the phones, man, I hope Jerome's okay?

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Phones?

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Draw hot?

Speaker 3 (38:50):
What's up, drum? Where do you go?

Speaker 12 (38:52):
The young generation just a bunch of dor too anymore?
Better go play soccer. They didn't even want to play
football anymore. He shock looked gumbin and a half too.
He looked quality cub his way to look so dumb
and sound dump. He wanted to give this Carter one
two hundred grandpa from him. Recreators. Dump. Come on, man,

(39:12):
I don't want see anymore dunks. Learned how to play basketball,
how to shoot a basketball?

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Thank you jove. Jim in La. What's up?

Speaker 11 (39:19):
Jim yo yo yo?

Speaker 13 (39:23):
You got to hear me? Okay, yeah, you're on.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
What's up? Man?

Speaker 11 (39:26):
Okay? I got it?

Speaker 13 (39:27):
You guys ready, yes, sir, this is out. I grew
up South La Long Beach, Laquid Area, a little great town.
They had a great parks and rec program. And when
we played sports, guess what they did, fellas what's that?
You got it?

Speaker 11 (39:40):
You're right on the topic.

Speaker 13 (39:42):
So that sports you would play, you would get on
a team, and you would last all three sports through
the year.

Speaker 11 (39:47):
So you can start with.

Speaker 13 (39:48):
Baseball, go to flag football, and go to basketball, all
on the same team. And the one metric they used
they gave you a baseball, you were at the white line,
and you threw it for distance. The first Frank got
through the farthest. The coaches gathered a week later and
they drafted the kids based on how far they through

(40:08):
the baseball.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
It's it's basic, and we will wrap it with Alex
in North Dakota. Then we'll play a little shack diesel trivia,
give you some prizes. Alex wrapped us up. Man.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Oh there he is. Oh hey, what's up? Buddy's worried
about him? What's up?

Speaker 4 (40:25):
Budd?

Speaker 16 (40:26):
I totally agree with the you know, judging a man
by how you can throw it, but also if you
go back to like little League when you're playing. He
also judged the team by how they were warming up,
how they were throwing. Were they throwing all over the place,
and yeah, they're horrible.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
You know. It's so funny.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
And Covino and I didn't grow up together, Alex, but
we have the same memory that I think every kid had,
which was when you went to an opposing high school.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
The minute you got off the bus.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
When you watch the other team warm up, if their
uniforms look cool, if their field is manicured picture, if
the picture was popping the glove on the side, you're like, oh,
no adation factor, Yeah doubt.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
When they would do their infield drill, you know, could
the short stop play with sort of arms?

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Did they have?

Speaker 2 (41:07):
You make those assessments, You make those judgments. It's just
how it is, whether it's right or wrong. Rich is right,
all right, Well he.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Props the taft he had he clocked in at ninety seven.
Back then they said that, Yeah, yeah, ninety seven mop
hour heater.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
You know what it's time let's give away some prizes
with some Shack Diesel trivit.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Whenever we say not to name drop, that means we're
about to name drop drop.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Not only our CNR friends with Tyson and Mahomes, hey man,
they're also buddies with a big Aristotle.

Speaker 8 (41:40):
What's up, Big Shot Diesel aka Shackfou aka Shack Daddy Oka,
the Big Aristotle.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Here's what it's don some c O product.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Time for some basketball trivia.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Diesel basketball trivia. What he said, I used to great
bat boards now breaking records for Refisolt Radio.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Shack Desel basket Ball trivia.

Speaker 7 (42:01):
All right, FSR security walking broke Shack into the main studio.

Speaker 8 (42:05):
Good morning fellas, Good morning fellas. You guys trip loud.
He talking about throwing. I can throw a baseball, I
throw you throw a wall though, team to throw you.
I can throw you across the room.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
That great job over the All Star weekend.

Speaker 8 (42:16):
Judging people based on how they throw. I judge you
on your wallet size, how much you make? I made
fifteen million a year. Now it's mt fifteen million years
inside the NBA.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
What are you making? Judging people?

Speaker 7 (42:28):
Thank you shocking Shack with his usual bravado this morning.
Here are the rules for Shack Diesel trivia.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Either way, no congratulations, Team Shack.

Speaker 7 (42:35):
The o gez nah that four game for fourteen game
to decide things with.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
I enjoyed it.

Speaker 7 (42:41):
We won, all right, yeah wimpy scoring four Team Chuck.
The first contestant with two correct answers is the champion.
If there's a tie, we have a tie breaker question.
Your name is your buzzer, but you do have to
wait until all three possible answers are read. If there's
two wrong answers in a row. We move on to
the next question, and Sean and Sacramento is playing for
a sweet There was up sewn, Hey.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Sean, Yo, my dad Patrick going off? There was he man,
good morning, what's up?

Speaker 4 (43:07):
All right? Sean?

Speaker 7 (43:08):
You know how to play? And here we go with
round one. Let's hear that bell? Hey, there we go, Shack,
it's time for you. Where are we fighting? Who's going on?
And by the way, who's this guy right here? It
looks like that's big Big Spikes. Yeah, Big Mike, by
the way is sitting in for Spotty boy. There was
a big Mike, Big Mike who runs his He's not
that big. It's gonna be one of our contestants ten
times win a Rich Davis overs up and let's get this.

Speaker 8 (43:31):
On all right, Rowan, let the big Aristontal party start.
Who's the first NBA game? The first NBA game was
played between New York Knicks and the Toronto Huskies in
what year A nineteen forty six, b nineteen thirty seven
or CEE nineteen twenty.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Sean Sean Shaun nineteen Yes, damn Sean man far he's
quick on the Google's who they played that they played
the who the Toronto played the Huskies.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Huskies.

Speaker 7 (44:00):
Yeah, all right, and Sean is halfway to a stain
of steel water bottle as we go around round two.
Give us that boxing bell again.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
Round two.

Speaker 8 (44:08):
I'm a big part of bringing big diesel oc ratings
back to the NBA, which team isn't helping to cause
though they have the worst record in the league right now?
Is it a the Wizards be the Hornets? We'll see
the Pelicans.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Sean, Oh my goodness, MN Sean here quick? Yeah, Sean,
quick on the draw? What's your answer?

Speaker 12 (44:26):
I'm gonna thro at this man, going for my third
win the NBA.

Speaker 11 (44:30):
Fizz AIA Washington DC.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
The Wizards. You are correct?

Speaker 3 (44:35):
So they are nine and forty five are terrible? Hey,
Big Mic, like.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
That was brutal. Good thing I was here.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Yeah, Sean's a good player. Thanks to see you though.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (44:47):
Congrat Sean. So like he's like Mac McClung, he's a
three time winner. I know, geez is that it's shah,
We're done. I came all the way here for this.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
You were, Big Mike for no reason.

Speaker 8 (44:59):
Se I just killed her after All Star weekend and
make me wake up to come here for two minutes.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Two minutes. That's it. You're set, all right, I take
a Covino rich doing you're doing a great.

Speaker 8 (45:08):
Job, and uh, I.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Wish you guys the best. So I'm out of broth.
See Covino looking through the windows ready to come back.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
All right, I got money to make play a shack
bye guys. Man.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Yeah, I mean I knew he was quick. He was
good at the games and Sean.

Speaker 7 (45:26):
When Sean called, He's like, I don't have the new
Midnight Black Sweegey. I want to play really bad. And
I'm like, all right, we'll let you go. I didn't
know he was going to sweep you guys.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Yeah, he's pretty damn good. Thank you Sean for playing. Uh,
Coveno and rich In for Dan Patrick. Now, and that
was quick. Let me you know that that one's so quick.
Let me throw a little subthing that extraly I wasn't
going to bring up today. But this is more one
of those what do you do? I have a almost
a John Kinonic, you know, the big head of guy
in ABC.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Yeah, what would you do? You're the big head of
guy on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
So, by the way, thanks to thanks again to Big
Mike for Stu up and In and Sean, congrats on
the big win.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
Enjoy your swiggy.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
If anyone else wants a CNR on FSR stainless Swiggy
just like our podcast, even if you don't like it,
search Covino and Rich on Apple Podcasts. Leave a nice
review and you qualify for a prize. But we're always
playing games. We'll do more this sweet and by the way.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
I if you enjoy our style and you just like
hanging in, chopping it up like we do. If we're
not on in your market, yeah, he goes. Dan Patrick's
on in more places than any other radio show.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
So you don't like your style, You're wearing sweatpants and crocs.
I'm not wearing crocs. By the way, what do you wear?
I'm wearing Jordan's. We're in Jordan's sweat pan. It's more.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
Do you think I'm gonna put on legitimate pants at
six a m. Yeah, I'm comfy, dude, It's comfy, cozy.
Who am I trying to impress?

Speaker 4 (46:42):
It is cold?

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Who trying to impress? Big Mic or Danny k or
Mark them?

Speaker 4 (46:47):
All right?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
So give me the what would you do? This is
my what would you do.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
I feel like, uh, I feel like I'm clearly and
definitely not alone. And it's that time of year where
kids sport for the for the spring, or starting up right.
My daughter's got her softball, my son starts t ball,
and I get wrangled to being a coach, and I
can jokingly complain about it, but I'll be honest, I

(47:13):
do love it. I do love teaching these little kids
the sport of baseball and softball.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
It brings me joy.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
I know a lot of.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
Feel like a lot of people can feel that way
about any whatever their sport is, soccer, basketball, flag football,
tackle football. When you could pass your love of a
sport onto the kids, it really is a good feeling.
So while I jokingly complain about it, I love it,
I don't love the fact that, you know, my new car,
the car my wife and I got, has now become

(47:42):
just storage for tees and catchers, equipment and bags.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
And you know, I mean, isn't that why you got
that giant truck SUV whatever the hell and a big
giant it's you know, we.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
Got that third row, Yeah, just so we could throw
down the chairs and just have teas and a quick
in bats and barrels and band it is what it is.
You know what happens when you have two little nose pictures.
You become sports parents. And I love it again, who
doesn't love sports? We're here on Fox Sports Radio. I
am the coach from my daughter's softball team and my

(48:17):
son's t ball team so far, Like I said, I
love the joy of passing down.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Whatever little knowledge I have.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
I feel like I know baseball pretty well and I
feel like I'm like fun time coach.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
I bring out the bluetooth speaker. I bring them a
little treats.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
I try to be like until we get competitive, which
my daughter is now becoming competitive against it's eight years.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
You want them to feel good about the sport, and
you want them to have fun. You want to have
them associate the sport with fun, now with negative few.

Speaker 5 (48:49):
I put the message out there of that listen first
and first mostly listen parents, I want your kids to
have fun. This is sports. Sports are fun. Some of
my best memories playing sports as a kid fun even
and four. So it's not like, yeah, you're that competitive,
So I was like, and secondly, though, I do want
to teach your kids some discipline, and I want.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Them to put the fun and fundamentals, and I.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Want them to learn the game but also learn how
to win the right way and lose the right way,
you know, trying to teach them all the right things.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Here's my John Kones. What would you do? What do
you do.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
When your kid is the pain in the ass on
your team and you're the coach, Cause you know, when
you want to like like you're inside, like good over here.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
You know what's embarrassing about that? The other kids will
never forget that. Like I could still picture my coach's
son crying because you know, he got hit by a
pitch or he was the brat, Like I remember him saying,
like you sual.

Speaker 17 (49:51):
You're gonna give me a Nintendo game for going out yet,
you know, like crying and kicking his feet at home
plate like in this is you know, years ago, and
I still remember that.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
I remember the kids a crowd when they got hit
hit by a pitch. I remember the kid that was
a little beotch. I remember all this stuff. Listen, that's
when you were a little older. My son, he turned
five this past weekend. He's don't forget those He literally
just turned five two days ago.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
That said. One of the first things I did at
the first baseball practice.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
All right, kids, we got ten little boys here, we're
gonna make two groups of five.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
We're gonna stretch out, and then we're gonna do a
relay race.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
My son was the one kid that's like, I don't
want to and I'm like, all right, kids, get over here.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
I don't want to. Hey Ben, listen. I'm not only
your dad, but when we're here, I'm the coach, so
you gotta listen. Nope.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
How do you react when your kid is the non
listener and you're the coach? Is it because you're his
I can't stop down the practice and be like so yeah,
like when he do that for another coach, or it
is just because you're his dad.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Don't know? And I'm like, didn't being the coach?

Speaker 5 (51:04):
Am I distinct now that my kid's not going to
get the discipline because he thinks he can get away
with it.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, Like, maybe your assistant coach is the guy that
tells him, Hey Ben, you know, because he's not listening
to you because you're his father and he doesn't listened to.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
You at home, so why would he listen now?

Speaker 5 (51:21):
And by the way, just just for the record, coaching
the girls and boys wait to see wear.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Pants to practice because every time I see Rich's son,
kid's not wearing pants, I just his little under rus
all the time.

Speaker 5 (51:32):
I do want to point this out with the little boys.
You know, we act like everyone's the same. Little boys
and girls act different.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
I coach.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
You know, the girls are starting to become more competitive now,
but these five year old little boys are maniacs. They
are hard to wrangle. And all the parents gave me
a me Every parent like pulled me aside, like, hey,
it's okay if you yelled my kid and discipline him.
He's a little maniac boy. So how do you discipline
your own kid when you're coach. We don't need to
harp on it. But if you want to hit me
up at Rich Davis, I'm old ears because I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
My suggestion is you have an assistant coach, right, yeah,
he has the guy to enforce like, hey, cause I imagine
has a level of respect for his teachers and other
parents and adults that he doesn't for whatever reason for
you and I get that that's just how kids are sometimes.
So maybe it's the assistant shop to tell your kid. Hey, hey,

(52:28):
Benny boy, do a lap or whatever. And obviously the
other kids are giving that respect to you, so you're
covered though what I wanted to do so badly, but
I didn't give him a wedgie, Yeah, give him a
little I did want to do that, yeah, but I didn't.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
I know you.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
I wanted to decide to give him a little slapping
that and the helmet. Know what else I wanted to do.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
I went to Starbucks afterwards, and I want to be like, Ben,
you want that cake popping?

Speaker 4 (52:52):
And I was.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
I wanted to buy one and eat it in front
of him, but that I didn't.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Honestly, I think that's a great idea. You know, Yeah,
he doesn't get a gain raider or slopey on the
way home.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Whatever you're doing.