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Covino & Rich are filling in for Dan Patrick and have fun on your Wednesday, talking random Willie Randolph stats and the strange who don't use coffee. Is it better to burn out or fade away? Plus, Covino has a deep thought, called the "Jim Edmonds Theory!" #FSRWeekends

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. All right, hey, let's wake it up. Feeling
good or what feeling great? Fat? I saved my first
sim my first sip of coffee for Fox Sports Radio
for everybody hanging with us right now, Look at you morning.

(00:25):
We're here, Cavino and rich In for Dan Patrick live
from the Mercedes Benz Studio. Ready to go. You're all
like unsituated. Huh, I'm wiping down the studio. You had
your headphones? Time know how to just move forward while
I'm enjoying my first sip and fixing my headphones. Good morning, everybody.

(00:48):
But if people always saw you had your headphones on
your head sees but Clarkes wipes on one arm a
coffee in the other. Well, I'm wiping down the studio.
There's a fun fact. You're into stats, right, Yeah, it's
Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, we all love stats. We all
sit on the ball and look up Pete Incavilia stats
every once in a while. Oh wow, great Erie, half

(01:10):
of the Rangers, Matt Noakes Hunt, what did he really do?
We all do? I do? You should yea every once
in a while, A random player, right, I saw a
meme the other day that said, a random player comes
to mind, and you could just go back and forth
with your buddy all the time. That's how people love
to talk about support. That's how guys in Yeah, guys interact,
they have fun doing that. Comine will hit me up

(01:30):
once in a a while and be like, Yo, lifetime batting average,
Willie Randolph, what do you think? And I'm like, oh,
that's a damn good question. You're gonna say two eighty three,
All right, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say because later
in the career two seventy seven, Ken Phelps, how many
career home runs? Every once and only just think of
a random guy baseball card you had, and you think
of their stats and you just go back and forth

(01:52):
with your buds. That's how guys have fun. That's how
we have fun. And that's the whole point of what
we do here, feeling in for Dan Patrick to have fun.
But back to the stats. There's there's a stat in
a study that says a radio studio might be the
most German bested workplace of all workplaces two seventy six.

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By the way, what did I say? I said two
eighty three? I know he was a solid two eighty hitter.
Willie Randolph, I don't know what you said. I said
two eighty three, But anyway, my point is, Rich is like,
what are you doing getting all situated wiping everything down?
I know we're moving forward, I know we're past the
pandemic at least we'd like to think so, right, Yeah,

(02:33):
but when you enter a radio studio, you gotta realize
people are passionately spitting on a microphone for hours at
a time, multiple people. So there's just spit remnants and
germs all over the place. If you really want to
know why, it takes a second to get situated. You
don't just sit down in today's world. You don't just
sit down and throw on a pair of headphones like you.
You're careless. Rich is the type of guy who never

(02:57):
wore protection in he early two thousand. Whoa, that's the
kind of guy. He is the careless. The top two
places to never bring a black light a bedroom and
a radio studio. No, I'm serious, a fact, Like I said,
two places, the top two that I pride myself. Dude,
read the studies. Read yeah for guy to take Ferrard

(03:17):
h read the stats. A radio studio, infamously infamous, more
than famous, known for being just dirty and german fested,
and people get sick because they share microphones. We share
microphones like eighties rock stars. So anyway, what about German Fest.
We're Cavino, not German Fest. Welcome to German Fest, germ Infested.

(03:39):
It's Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. Very happy
to be here. Had a fun show yesterday. We're in
for Dan Patrick. Now, we're in for Dan Patrick tomorrow.
But we're always on Fox Sports Sunday. Plus we do
our own thing, so it's always an honor to hang
out with you guys. But back to random stats, got
any more to throw at me, because that's what guys do.
Guys could do that and have fun for hours at

(04:01):
a time. Just name you could just I could just
say dick pot kiss and pull a beeves and butt
head sort of moment, and you just come back and
give me another random name from the past. Willie Randolph
by the way, Yeah, I don't know why he gets
our attention. Well, we're East Coast guys from New York.
Growing up, that's a name that stood out not only

(04:22):
as a Yankees fan, but a Mets manager, Mets player.
You know, Willie Randolph one of those guys who in
today's world would have been a Hall of Famer based
on how stats are viewed today. Willie Randolph was so
consistently batting two seventy or two eighty. Yeah that in
his long ass career eighteen years, almost twenty years for

(04:43):
Willie Randolph solid second base only batted over three hundred
one time for the Yankees every other year two seventy
two eighty, two seventy two eighty. Like that was where
Willie sat. Then he had one sick year late in
his career where he bat at three twenty seven and
then retired. He's like, you got a name for you head.
In my opinion, you know, quality, quality player. But I

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think of him as one of one of the most
well groomed guys of the late nineteen hundreds. Rick Aguilera
guy had a precision beer. Dude had stobble. Man dude
had stobble. So guys could just go back and forth
with random names all day long. And you know, if
you're from Minnesota, you're thinking random love recaculay, you know.

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But you gotta realize again, we're East coast guys from
New York, New Jersey out here in Los Angeles. You
just think of those random baseball cards you had. Of course,
I think that's how everyone grew up, right. We always
talk about how life. Life for me was about playing
sports baseball cards at like old school WWF wrestling until
I discovered women. Well, guess what, way back on a Wednesday,

(05:48):
that's pretty much it. That's pretty much it. And we're
gonna touch on all of that today again. So we're
here to have fun and I'm with you, Rich let's go.
We're live from this German fested studio, Guten Morgan. What's up,
spot Joel? Who I love? On the boards today? What's
up Joel? Yo? Joel? What's up? Joel? Loves you? You
know what? And you love Joel. I'm pretty sure. I

(06:10):
was certain it was Joel, but he came in like
a Mexican bandido. I thought he was holding up the place.
He had a bandana on his face. Yeah, he had
he had the mask on. But with the German fested, No,
it was the lawnmower. I couldn't get that bad boy started.
Then I saw the lions had I'm like, God's Joel.
It's Joel, Danny g in the house, It's up, Danny

(06:30):
j good morning, and Moncy on the updates in a
little bit, um. I want to start out before we
get into what we're gonna be calling wasted performances that
will drive you insane. I have to tell you this morning.
I'm driving here and I'm like, you know, what am
I thinking about? Because what I'm thinking about it's probably
what a lot of other people are thinking about. My

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first thought was I could really go for a nice,
big gass coffee right now. And then you get to
Starbucks or Heats or Coffee Bean or Dunkin Donuts wherever
the hell are you're going, and there's a long line,
because you know why a lot of people night, you know,
they like a little cup of coffee in the morning.
It made me realize for the people that don't drink coffee,

(07:13):
I feel like something's wrong with them, like I don't
trust them or something a little off. I mean, who
doesn't drink coffee? I hope we just went off on
a good foot with Joel. I hope Joel drinks coffee out.
We're not insulting anybody, I think, I said Joel making
a cup of coffee as soon as he walked in.
My point is, well, someone's driving around like, who is this?
Who was this nerd talking about weirdos? Don't drink coffee.

(07:35):
You just you fended a lot of people. You mightn't
care a lot of people on their way to work
right now. No. No, my thought is not saying, hey,
if you don't drink alcohol, I figure a weirdo. Because
people have their reason. Some people are recovering, some people
just never was their thing. That's not my point. My
point is coffee. If you if you wake up every
morning as a grown man with kids and a job

(07:57):
and life and all this stuff, and you could really
get by without having that little cup in the morning,
I think you're maybe you're just better than me. You
think you're being honest. You know. For people new to
Kevino and Rich Caveno, Rich Spotty, the whole Fox Sports
radio team, we disagree a lot, and that's just naturally.
We're all friends from nature of our friendship. It's the

(08:18):
nature of our friendship and just is what it is.
We're different people, but when we agree, it's fact. And
I agree with Rich. There's certain things that people say
you're due and you could have a good sort of
feeling about them if a grown adult at this stage
of the game, this stage, right, if you're in your

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early twenties, maybe you're not there yet. You're you're just
riding high on life. But at this stage of the game,
you're not having a coffee to start your day. I
think you're a little off. You're a little odd. Odd,
You're a little odd. You're peculiar, you know. It's it's
like the guy who puts his milk in before his cereal, Like, okay, psychopaths,

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that's a little weird. I'm not really judging, but I
can't help but notice that that's odd. So there's a
few things like that, you know, I do think. And
you could say, of course, you're on Fox Sports Radio,
and I think most of the people listening right now
are going to agree with me. But I think if

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you have no interest in sports at all, I think
you're a little odd. I really do, because I'm like,
I understand that there's other interests, but I says to me,
it says to me that you're so different from me.
You have no interest none. You ever go on a
double date and your girl brings a friend and her. Dude,

(09:45):
it's like, yeah, I don't really I'm on watch sports. Yeah,
like that's cool, but like at all, Yeah, dude, when
I tell you, like, I say that kindly. My dad
really doesn't have much interest in sports. But he coached
my teams, he supported me. He always was at my games.
But he doesn't live the hey who's playing tonight life

(10:06):
that we all or most of us live. Yeah, you know,
he had five kids. I think his life was consumed
with work, not like let me kick kick back, put
my feet. That's that's not true because it started earlier
and then he was an adult. It's not like dad
had me at twenty. I don't think he had that mindset.
But as a teenager and even as an adult, as
a teenager, yeah, he was like fishing, do another thing.

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So he's not a sports he's not a sports guy, right,
So yeah, there's something to me, like what is he
thinking about all day? Then? Because what distracts me is like, yeah,
how many home runs did Ken Phelp's hit in nineteen
eighty five? Yeah, you're like a little distracts. Little distracts
keep me going. Like when you said you woke up
today and you started thinking about your coffee. I wake
up today and I'm like, oh, the Yankees lost to

(10:50):
the Pirates yesterday. Up? No, I do I think of
two things? Is everybody alive? I look at my phone.
Everybody's live? Okay, No weird four in the morning text messages? No,
I really do? I think? Who bothered me yesterday? Again?
Who do I have to be man at today? I
have to like recap my previous day a little bit.
Who who? Yeah? No? Then I say to myself, what

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do I have to look forward to? One of the
first things I think about what I wake up is
who's pitching? Do you wake up at a cold sweat?
And then I think, yeah, I gotta get a coffee here, nasty,
nast No, I think about the Yankees on today. Oh, yeah,
I have something to look forward to at least, because
life is a drag sometimes. To quote my dad, yeah,

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and he doesn't expect you. So No, I'm not like
a crazy sports obsessed guy, right. So I I know
I love my sports for entertainment and and I sort
of need that outlet to relax and watch something. It's
like comfort food. It's it's like my pizza. I put
it on. I don't even have to be invested. It's
on in the background makes me feel good. So if

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someone says to me rich, yeah I don't like sports,
that's like saying, yeah, I don't drink coffee. Back to
your original point, you know what I don't trust? What's
that spot? People who don't own a TV? YO good one.
It was the one I had. It was in my
note spotty. Because when you meet someone that says I
don't have a TV, what do you do? Survey says

(12:14):
number three answer on the bo That might be the
number one answer on the board. Do you do it?
All depends. It's generational. I'll tell you why. Ween Eels
of today like the weenies, they don't necessarily live the
TV life that we live. Yeah, but that's because they
watch on their MacBook on their phone. The spot's talking
about the person that I've been there. I'm on a
date with a girl. I don't watch TV. Like if

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you're if you're a younger person you live in a
small apartment like a studio, and you're watching everything on
a computer, that's okay, I'll let it slide. But if
you're in a home or a bigger space where you
can fit a television I take it one step further.
Spot I that guy. I think you're you're You're like
so on a different page to me. You're not watching sports,

(12:56):
you're not watching stranger things, You're not you're watching anything.
You're not watching anything, You're watching the wall. Yeah, so
it's like, what, Like, I'll give Rich an example. Rich.
You know Rich, You've said this before. It's a quote Rich.
He thinks, Rich is such a weirdo, Rich Cavino and
Rich Rich is such a weirdo. He thinks if you
use a different kind of phone, your brain is operating

(13:18):
on an Android operating system. Like you just think Android,
you think different fee. Yeah, he said that before. When
I when I when I say green text pop up,
I'm like, oh, you are operating in it. You're like,
you're thinking differently than me. Right, So along those lines,
if you don't have a TV, I assume your brain
is a functioning in a different way that I find odd.

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I went on a date with a girl once back
in my single days, and she pulled what Spota said.
She's like, I don't have a TV. I don't watch TV.
And I'm like, I don't I'm not quite sure we
could hang beyond tonight. In my mind, that's all I
can't think. I was like, what what are we gonna
talk about? What do you read? That's delightful? I'm sure,
but no TV? Huh. And we'll open up the phones too.

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Things that make you not trust someone, that make you
say I don't trust you, you don't drink coffee, you
say you know? Are there other examples we could agree
or disagree. You could share on social media at Covino
and Rich, but it's eight seven seven ninety nine Fox,
and you know, Spotty chime in, Danny g chime in,

(14:26):
Monsey feel free. I hope Monse's like, Yeah, I don't
have a TV and I hate coffee. I want Monter
to chime in and want to hear from Joel. So
we'll get to your feedback. Okay. The weird things that
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Nice comin on rich Joel playing Kylie Minogue in the background.
What song did she sing in the late eighties that

(16:38):
you don't even realize it's her? You're asking me, I'm
asking you. Don't ask me, ask the collective you. I
asked the collective you. Why do you know? Is it
a locomotion? It is the locomotion she did the locomotion
in the overs. Yeah, um coven on rich In for
Dan Patrick. A lot of people hitting us up with

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not only wasted performances in the world of sports, but
we've got more great feedback on the types of people
you don't trust. Yeah, and I think those are great.
People who drink hot chocolate in the summer. That's a
good one. I'll trust that person. I drink hot coffee
and hundred agree with her. Yeah, this morning, I asked
the crew and by the way, Joel, if you hear
tom tomorrow, coffee for you too. But I got coffee

(17:22):
for everyone and spots the one guy that got a
hot coffee. It's always gotta be hot. Coffee's meant to
be a hot even if it's one hundred degrees out,
even if that is weird. Hugh hit us up with
I can't trust or stand people that take multiple pictures
of their food before they eat it at a restaurant,
Like they don't dig right in, like they they're focus

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more on the photo. Yeah, unfortunately we see a lot
of that. That's true. Let's see. The biggest wasted performance
was the cast on the Game of Thrones finale. People
still say they didn't love the finale of that. Huh,
last season was kind of kind of weak. Yeah, but
you know what, then write your own. That's how I
feel about it. I know it's known for not being

(18:06):
that great, but that's their creative liberties, it's their story.
Max hit us up with a good I don't trust
because I don't trust Tom Brady Deniers. People that's still
are like, yeah, he's not great, me too, Are you
a Tom Brady denyer? Joel? I love to all right.
I respect him and love Tom Brady too. He's not

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he won me over. I mean, yea, how could you
not just appreciate the greatness, like for you to, like
you said, rich to double down on like he's not
that great or what like you have this weird stance.
It's like, dude, get over yourself. Yeah he's Tom Brady.
The far and few between that are still like, yeah,
he's like a system guy. It's like that many times,
multiple teams. When he went to Tampa. I feel like
there's a lot of people when he won Year one

(18:50):
in Tampa, there had to be people that are all right,
I'm wrong, but I have to double down and can't admit.
And we talked about Max Scherzer's performance a wasted performance.
Would you rather perform m well and lose like he did,
or performed bad and win? Does depend on the game
and personal accolades because he had a great game. Do
they matter? I think they do. You know, you're a
competitive guy. He took it to that level. I think

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a lot of players lie about it because they have
to play the humble card. But you know, even Steph
when he won, he's won everything, but he never won
that finals MVP. When he won it, it mattered. You know,
people like to pretend now before we talk about because
I have this Jim Edmonds theory that everybody slow down

(19:33):
the sports world. Everybody's on the edge of their seat, like,
d I'm going way back on a Wednesday before we
get into that. I am shocked. I don't know how
I missed this, but Danny G has a very special
type of car. Huh yeah, mister bean car. Yeah. I

(19:57):
saw Danny J. Pollen in this morning and before where
I realized it was him, Like, who's this hot shot
showing up at Fox Sports like five in the morning,
some guy named Sergio? That's who you thought. I'm like,
it's gotta be uh, gotta be a guy coming straight
from the club or something, right, Danny J. Tell everyone

(20:17):
what type of car you have? It is a nineteen
ninety seven Mitsubishi Eclipse, but it's not. I'm kidding. It's
not a ninety seven Eclipse though that that is probably
something I think one of my ex girlfriends drove. It's
at three seventies z. Yeah. Now in funny you say,
coming from the club, I bought that car with club money. Say,
I bet your license plates a sonic boom on it.

(20:40):
He's the guy like, did you hear the car rattling?
Because his system's going so loud? You know, and it's
not just any three seventies z. It looks like he's
driving like like a bumblebee, like the Transformer bumblebee. It's
like this bright yellow sports car. And I don't know
how I missed it. I still haven't seen it. I'm like,
wait a second, he drive what and just telling me

(21:01):
he pulled it right behind me. I'm like, oh my god, wait,
bright yellow sucks. It's a muted gold. It's a Laker's
alternate jersey with the black. It looks from the picture.
I still haven't seen it. You know, I saw the picture.
It's got a Lakers sports car. That's you know, that's dedication, though,
that really is. That's dedication. And by the way, you
have to be able to pull that off, Danny G.

(21:22):
Just listen, listen to his voice. He's got to swag
and pull that off, like to pull off a bright
yellow sports car. Like just to remind this is just
a reminder. I'm like tiptoe around. Can I pull off red?
I don't know? You just guy, just remind old car
that you need to have the huevos of one. Danny G.
You need be you, yeah, you you can't be some

(21:46):
weenie driving around some you known for elaborate sports car,
but own that just a reminder something like a vehicle
really does say a lot about you and Danny g.
You pull it off, you're Lakers three seventies Z. I
don't know if a lot of people could pull that off. Though, No,
it's a super dope car. Like I said, I don't

(22:07):
even think I could buy a red sports car. I
don't think I can. I've wanted to. I like them,
if I just don't know if I could be that guy,
you feel like it's time's gone on, we'd become way
more boring with our car colors. It's like sneakers, just like,
but don't you feel like I like and admire people
who wear flashy kicks, like our buddy Bobo, but I

(22:28):
can't rock them, you know what I mean? Like, you've
got to be able to own that. I just feel
like when we were younger, you saw more different color cars.
I feel like, look out the window right now, white car,
black car, silver car, silver car, white truck, silver car.
Like every most car pretty boring right for the most part. Yeah,
Like my next car, I'm thinking I want to get
a silver car, right, that's boring and boring, and then

(22:51):
my girlfriend said something that's stuck in my head and
I can't get past it. She's like, yeah, it looks
like a rental car. It does. And I'm like silver,
silver cars do so like now like every time I
see silver, I'm like, rental if you got the least
stop by police though, that is true. Yeah, I need
that Danny. I feel like Danny g is looking to
get pulled over customize Lakers sports car. Now, you gotta

(23:15):
know when and where to speed all right on the
way in this morning. I was careful because I knew
not that many cars coming in that early on the
West coast here, I gotta be careful. Um So Yeah,
in the four years I've had this car, I have
not got a speeding ticket. I got pulled over once,
got a warning. Havn't had a ticket that I until
he's pulled over by a Clippers fan. Yeah, I was

(23:35):
gonna say he's out here in LA. I mean, the
officer might say, oh, I like your Lakers car, young man.
Thank god most of the HPR Laker fans. But my
thing is that I drive. My wife and I share
a car right now because I work from home most
of the time. So when my car lease was up,
I've yet to get a new car, and her car's white,

(23:59):
and I feel that is a woman's color car. It's
kind of in our head. Yeah, I agree with you.
To be honest, you could say sexist. Yeah. Do you
know many dude? Do you know many dudes that drive
a white car? I always feel like I have to
be like, that's my wife. Your wife have the white sunglasses.
She does not, but Camino did in the two thousand.
I did not get the white glass. It was my

(24:21):
Kanye phase. Yeah. Uh, Danny g was sort of head
turns d get. It was sort of reaction do you
get from people gay missed me? Baby, I'm in the
bright yellow I'll tell you why. I remember, like, I
was dead set on getting a I think it was
like a black car at the time, right, And the
salesman was pulling the salesman tactics. He was like, yeah,

(24:42):
we don't have it in black, but we got it
in blue. And I'm like, yeah, but I don't want blue.
And then he pulled I love the line. He get
you remember you remember the stuff. He's like, trust me,
my friend. He goes, Ladies love blue and I'm like,
he tried, he tried to pull man, the women love
a blue car? Get at here? You know it made
me hate that guy. I'm I get out of here

(25:02):
where your sales time? Really? Salesman, you don't safe? Sign
me up. I'll take it right now. Wait did you
say women like the blue You say? Wow? What a guy.
I guess I'm gonna have to get it. Get out
of here. Like when you're driving around in a yellow
car like that, Danny, Like, do do you get like
stairs at People want to see to their Lakers hat
in their car and stuff like that. Usually it's like

(25:24):
the Starbucks drive through where it'll be a younger dude
or girl work in the window and they'll be like, man,
that looks fast, and they're just kind of, you know,
looking at it while I'm waiting for the drink to
come to the window. Well, just know what type of
person you need to bait to pull off some of
these things. And Danny G you pull it off, just
like you know, Danny G pulls it off. So he's

(25:45):
on the phones at eighty seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
I have I have a thought and as to do
with sports and music and I want to know two
things we love. Yeah, I want to know what you
think is a harder pill to swallow? What is a
harder pill to swallow? Is it those big Osteo biflex ones. No,

(26:07):
if you're joints, those because like, yeah, it's hard because
it makes me feel like an old guy, and I'm like,
but then they're just giant so now, but they work.
Hey for the guys out there with rickety rackety knees
Osteo biflex it actually does, it does. Yeah, I'll back
you up. It's like w D forty for your joints.

(26:29):
So two things. Two types of people that are admired
athletes and rock stars not even rocks a pop stars
like musicians and athletes two of the most admired looked
up to people right there, fans, Do you think it
sucks more to be an athlete that just ages out?

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You can't do it anymore? Out? So follow my thinking.
You're an athlete, you're done. The fans still want you,
but you just can't physically do it anymore. Okay, father
time beat you? Or would you want to be a
rock star where you could where you could still do

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it but your fans just don't want the old version
of you. Rock star still does it the athlete the
fans wish they could fans weren't younger, right, Like the
fans the fans wish that Michael Jordan could still play,
you know, fans wish that Mike Tyson could still box,

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but they just can't do it. I'm gonna have to
say rock star, but the fans would love it now
a rock star because you see, like there's something about like,
think of Michael Jordan, right, he's the greatest of all time,
and even he seems to have a chip on his
shoulder like he's bitter about being the old Michael Jordan
now right, Like there's something also weird in the NBA

(27:59):
where the old guard hates the young guard. It seems
like all the time the professional sports, the NBA is
the league leader in different generations trash talking to each other.
They trash talk a lot, but it seems like he's
even though he's the greatest, there's something about him. And
of course a lot of those retired athletes that are
like they hate that they can't do it anymore the

(28:20):
way that they used to. Now a rock star could
very well still do it. Though, yeah, so so to
me that's important. The fans are like, yeah, but you're
old now, yeah, but I don't care. Did you see
Dave Matthews recently. He looks ridiculous just dancing on stage
doing his old Dave Matthews white moves, white dude moves.
But it looks like you know, and I'm looking at

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him like, man, stop doing that. But he's having the
time of his life because he still can. But you
know what a rock star when they meet, when they
make new music, imagine this mentality. You could make new
music but everyone's like yeah, yeah, like your new stuff stinks.
Play the stuff when you were younger, and you're like, yeah,
but I'm still creative. See a rock star. The downfall

(29:05):
is that you could still do it and no one cares.
They want the old jew An athlete. The fans still
want you. You just can't physically do it. So what's
more or like that's a tougher pill to swallow. In
my opinion, I thought it out. I would rather be
the rock star that could still do it, even though
the fans want the younger. Yeah. The fans are like, yeah,

(29:26):
play your old hits, yeah, but I have a new
album and we've all been there, Like I saw the
Chili Peppers recently. People want to hear Under the Bridge,
people want to hear Scars, people want to hear the
whole time. I'm like, oh, actually, I was real nervous
in the beginning of the show because I was like, Oh,
if dare we're gonna play just their new album. Oh yeah,
I was so mad about it. And then when I

(29:47):
heard give it a Win now, I'm like, yeah, you know,
so I'd rather be the rock star that could still
do even though the fans want, you know, the old stuff,
because you could still I mean, to actually be honest
about it. I like some of the new Whlie Pepper's
songs Jolie, rather being an aged musician where people only
want you for the stuff when you were younger, or

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you want to be an athlete that the fans wish
could still do it but you still couldn't physically. No,
I wouldn't want to be the athlete because the fans
are right there on top of you and they could
just didnt. Poor number thirty two. When you when you
age in sports, it's probably more hurtful. It is painful.

(30:28):
It's probably it's probably more hurtful that I used to
be able to dominate this game and now I just can't,
and the fans know it. Remember Mike Tyson what he
said unless his last fight, Oh yeah, it's I think
for me anymore, I just don't have the fighting guts.
I just don't said guts he did. He said, I
just don't have the stomach for this anymore. I'm just
I'm just in it for the money. I just don't
have the fighting guts. And it's like, oh my god,

(30:51):
my hero has fallen. Like what happened? There's something really tragic.
It's to oh, he just lost the step. He was
like watching Serena william the other day, even though she's
the greatest. Yeah, when you see father Time winning, you're like, ah,
many that we are face. Yeah, that's tough for them

(31:12):
saying a bit. But even legendary bands, right, imagine making
an album after album and everyone loves it, and then
there comes a point where people, the fans just decide
anything new from you. Yeah, we just really don't want
But but those rock stars feel creative. They want to
put out new stuff. But the reality of yeah, like no,
we don't want your old guy stuff. Play your stuff

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from the nineties. Well, when you go see a band
and they come out with and they play a lot
of the hits, you know, you sit back and like, well,
what are they gonna do now, because you know it's
only one cut left and when that comes on, it's
time to go right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, they're gonna
play the new stuff. No one You're right, no one
ever really wants to hear the new stuff, which is deflating.
Danny J. What's what's uh, it's deflating. But the toughest

(31:56):
pilled us. I was the athlete who just doesn't have
it anymore. Yeah, what's a harder Is that the athlete
who lost the step? Or is it the musician who
no one wants any of their new music? I agree
with what you guys have been saying. I'd rather be
the musician because at least you're still wanted with the
older material. Yeah. As an athlete who's ailing and doesn't

(32:17):
have it anymore, you're a shell of yourself. You don't
want to be remembered that way. Like even athletes that
were so dominant in our lifetime, to watch them age
hurt your feelings. And I know a lot of people
I feel like you and I Caveno. Well, yeah, because
it's a reminder to you. Yeah, you know, you can't
avoid father time. And if the greatests the greats we

(32:39):
hate as I mean, obviously, no one likes aging. No
one's like, yeah, I really want to become an old guy.
I saw Vladdie Guerrero with his son the other day.
He threw out the first pitch. They had their expos
and blue jays representing Canada their jerseys. Vladie Senior, who
is one of the most athletic, freak of nature type
of athlete's he's just like an you know, like an

(33:02):
old grandpa though, and it hurts my wo'se my hero.
He's on a neary. He's just an ordinary old guy. Yeah. Well,
just just a deep thought what's a what's a harder pelt?
As well? Because when you're looked up to your whole life,
what's what's what's what's tougher? And you know what, you
guys are probably right. It's probably the athlete who ages

(33:23):
out ages atte because like you see an athlete, tell
the true, don't you tell the Cavino tell the true?
You see an athlete and he's three hundred and eighty
pounds heavier than when he played Don't you feel good?
You're like a nah reality. When I see when I
see uh, like a rod looking soft, I'm like, that's
a rod. He's he's got a dad gut. Do you
ever see Ken Griffey Junior. Ken Grify Junior was the

(33:45):
kid we grew up like backwards had ripped Kate King.
Grify Junior was the best. Now he wears like mock
turtle next and has a belly and he's hiding Marshmellows
in his cheeks? Are you describing Carlos pelted On felt
in the bruth? Carlos Beltron would be able to glide
through the outfield like a gazelle. I've never seen a
guy move with a smoother's first step to a flyball.

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Now Beltron's wearing tight sweaters and the Yankees, yeah they're
tight now that it didn't used to be tight. He's
he's wondering food in between every Yeah, man, that's life.
It is, that's life and it sucks. That's the tougher
pill to Swama. Once Sean Kemp's physique started to match ours,
but like, oh you can't dunk now, either Sean Kemp
was a specimen. It's it's uh. I'm waiting for the

(34:31):
day when Floyd Mayweather Junior has a belly because that
guy I don't I can't picture of Mayweather. That's not
like a ripped little dude. Would he hurry up? Come on?
There will be a day be so again. Think about
it when you're on the bowl later, when you're just
sitting around talking to your buds. Would you rather be
an athlete or tougher pill to swama, an athlete who

(34:53):
ages out father time got you, or the rock star
who still does it. You're still able to make music,
but no one cares cares about your new music. They
want the old stuff. We have more Cavino and Rich
and for Dan Patrick next on Fox Sports Radio. Hey,
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it feels like a Tuesday right with a short work week.
That's what I'm saying. We're halfway there. We're living on
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John Morantz story that might have you roll your eyes,

(35:57):
but it's a feel good story. Before we get to
your Gym Edmonds theory. It is July sixth, the sixth
of July. Gotta say, what's up to my buddy Rob
who's checking us out down in Florida. He's one of
the optimistic fans. You know. I have two types of
fan friends. The ones that are optimistic until the team

(36:18):
lets you down. And then there's the other type of guy,
which is my team stinks and they're negative, negative, negative
until something good happens. Bullpen stinks. Whole team stinks. Yeah,
they're in first place, stay stink. He's the positive guys.
So what's up? Robb? Couple birthdays today July six that

(36:41):
I think you're noteworthy. Kevin Hart's birthdays today turns forty three.
What I love Kevin. All right, Bay, I know you're
a big fan of Tian Tamara. It's their birthday today.
Fifty cent turns forty seven today, feel old and one more.

(37:03):
You're like Rocky balboas birthday stallone. Happy birthday in meet
is seventy six today. It'd be cool if he had
a robot to wish him happy birthday. Yeah, but they
got rid of that and the Rocky fort I don't
like the robot, yo, yo, it's mainly you know, so
happy birthday Slice stallone. All right, Well, if you share

(37:24):
a birthday with them, happy birthday to you. I hope
you had a great Tuesday night. And Max Scherzer eleven
strike counts in a losing performance sort of Tuesday night,
even though the Mets lost, he was great. And by
the way, he surpassed John Smaltz as far as Smike days.
And I think he's about to catch up to CC Sabathia.

(37:48):
So Scherzer making history breaking records. He's back. It's great
for baseball. You know what's you know, it's wild about
the strikeout record. They talked about this last night on
the Mets Red's broadcast. When you know Schirtzer like you said,
keeps moving up the board. I just like it just
puts things in perspective, you know, when you hear about

(38:08):
I don't know, just Lebron's scoring right and he's chasing
cream abdul jabbar, It's like it just puts things in perspective.
Two active pitchers that are neck and neck. I think
Maxwell end up on top because he's a couple of
years younger, but Verlander has three thousand and eighty five
strikeouts and Max has I'm sorry no very Lander's got

(38:35):
thirty one oh three. Max has three thousand and ninety
Sabathia riding between them. But when you look at that list,
they were talking about how everyone's sort of in reach
except Randy Johnson, who just Randy Johnson and Clemens both
have over forty five hundred. But then on a different
playing field like Nolan Ryan's fifty seven fourteen, he's like

(38:58):
the Joey chessnunt of psion. That's the way I've always
thought about it. He just leaps and boundst Nolan Ryan
like doing Gero talk commercials before he retired. Yes, yes,
he was one hundred and forty I think when he retired.
But it's like it's such an unbelievable number. When you
think about guys like Vernland or Sabbathia he wore Rockport cleats.

(39:19):
I think Didney Pedro, he was so old still striking
people out, Maddox, Walter Johnson, Gaylord, Perry Tom sever these
guys all having the three thousand to thirty five thirty
six hundred range, and then to think Nolan Ryan fifty
seven hundred just seems like fake, right, It's incredible. Yeah.
As again, Scharzer climbs to list passing big names as

(39:43):
of yesterday. You ever did the math on that where
you see a guy and you're like, oh, if he
has three or four more years and he does this,
where will he end up? I think Scherzer could be
he's got three more years and five hundred strikeouts left,
he could end up top ten over Maddox, who's got
thirty three hundred, Johnson's got thirty five. I say definitely, yeah, yeah,

(40:05):
I mean he would say the best puts in perspective
how some of these guys are more legendary than you
think because we glorify the past. And there's an article
today I saw, I didn't read it, saw that I
saw it. You know, starting pitching is a dying breed.
These guys go five six innings. Now, yeah, I think
the average pitch counter something is ten pitches lower than

(40:27):
it used to be, Like it's eighty four pitches per game.
So when you got starters pitching less and guys like
Shirts are still moving up, you know, you gotta remember
guys like Nolan Ryan, guys like Randy Johnson Clemens, they
pitched complete games if they could. Now you're seeing less
and less of that. So for these guys to even

(40:48):
be in the conversation is even more impressive. They were saying,
how Shares is one of the only old school guys
where he wants to go all nine. He wanted to go,
and the pitching coach knows not to talk to Max
unless it's we're taking him out because the visit to
the mound. Max shuts are gotten no time for that, right,
Like he doesn't want to visit to the mound. Then

(41:08):
they're saying, the only comparable person that had that type
of intensity when our parents were younger, little before our time,
the man Hungarian. No, but apparently Bob Gibson. Oh yeah,
of course, they said, if you tried to go. If
a coach tried to go to the mound and talk
to him where he would be like, are you at here?
He'd put fear into everybody. Yeah it coaches and opponents,

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you name it. And then you look at Bob Gibson
stats all the complete games he had. Those guys didn't
come out of game. So that article is true. The
starting pitching, we've talked about it for years, but more
so than ever, Like you're right now, it's like eighty
to ninety pitches eighty four I think again, the average
has gone down and continues to go down as far
as starting pitching. So we started starting pitching. Go in

(41:54):
the future. One last Nolan Ryan shout out. Since we
brought him up. Have you seen that memelating around where
there's there were games where before they actually technically counted pitches.
You'd be like, Nolan Ryan threw two forty Like how
different game? I know, different game, But you know what
ties in perfectly to my Jim Edmonds theory speaking of baseball,

(42:17):
It really does. We've been waiting speaking of baseball because
we've been waiting glorify the past. We do it all
the time. Man, I tell you what shus is great.
But let me tell you about Nolan Ryan. Let me
tell you about Bob Gibson. Yep, let me tell you
about some some old pitcher in black and white. You know, oh,
because it's in black and white, it's the greatest. Are

(42:37):
you telling you about Lefty grow No? Seriously? Yeah, give
you some old you know, some old, old timey times
sounding name. He was the best. It's just part of
our nature, part of our culture to glorify the past.
Oh yeah, what about the greats today? For some reason,
we could notice it, but we don't acknowledge it the
same way. It takes a lot of time to really

(42:59):
settle in. We always give we have a classic Cavino
and Rich example that we always go to go. It's
a good go through though, and please explain. People love
to always talk about I mean, listen, he's great. But
people love to talk about Sandy Koufax and some of
the great postseason moments in baseball history. But no one

(43:19):
loves to put Madison Bumgardner in that conversation. Don Drysdale, Oh,
Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, this guy, oh, we'll get his postseason.
Why not throw Madison Bumgardner? Like what five six years ago,
actually longer eight years. It seemed to us that he
single handedly won that World Series in twenty fourteen, right

(43:40):
like put the team on his back. He's like, bum
Gardner got it. Yet we still talk about Don Drysdale
and we talk about you know it black and white.
Not to take away from the greatness of yesteryear, but
we glorify the past. Meanwhile, bum Gardner should be in
that conversation. No, that performance is yeah, okay, that goes

(44:02):
along with my Jim Edmonds theory. And I'll give you
my train track of thought. Okay, yesterday, I'm watching the
Yankees because that's what I do. They lost it to Pirates.
I won't hold it against it. John Carlos Stanton HiT's
a frozen rope that stays up just a little too long.
But this guy, Brian Reynolds on the Pirates makes a

(44:23):
really great catch. Yeah, but it was a good catch.
It wasn't like tremendous, but it got me thinking. That's
just my train track of thought. It got me thinking
because I saw this highlight recently and I feel like
it's gone viral for some reason. Maybe there's an anniversary
of it that I don't know about, but I've seen
it on social media. I've seen it recently. And I'm

(44:45):
talking about that Jim Edmonds catch when he was on
the Angels he robbed some royal? Who was that? Who
did he rob? That's a trivia question in himself. That's
next level. Dawned on me that this is the greatest
catch of all time. And we still go back because
we glorify the past and we talk about Willie Mays.

(45:06):
And I know that Willie May's catch was great, and
the moment matter too, The moment matters, And is that
really the defining factor because in that case, what about
Andy Chavez? Like we said before, like that was a
big moment, but no one really talks about that catch
regardless of the moment. And I know that is a factor.

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But regardless of the moment, that Jim Edmonds catch might
be the greatest catch of all time. And I'm here
to tell you that I thought about it, like I
really thought about it, and it is it's better than
that I've watched it. I watched back and forth that like,
let me see this, William may be the greatest catch
of all time. Watch not only over the shoulder, over
the shoulders over the shoulder, bringing out leaps toward the fence.

(45:52):
It is the most amazing catch our eyes have ever seen,
but no one gives it yet. Yeah, I'm here to
say that. It is not to take away from Willie
Mays or the moment if we're gonna talk the greatest
catch ever and the guy did it all the time.
Jim Edmonds used the catchiman in his back pocket. He

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made that stuff look easy. That catch he made against
the Royals. I don't know who. It was, some bald royal.
Who was it? Steve Balboni? He didn't have a mustache.
It was some I could picture the guy who was it?
The Sightser, Yes, Kevin Sightzer. But Jim Edmonds lays out

(46:33):
everybody knows what I'm talking about again, those pinstripe ugly
Angels uniforms. He lays out and makes the most miraculous
catch of all time. Telling you here my mild take
on Fox Sports Radio. As of today, July six, twenty
twenty two, is Sli's birthday, Slides birthday. Yeah, absolutely, that

(46:56):
was the greatest catch. It's only outfielders that can qualify. No,
no about the pictures. I think there's been a lot
of great What about the pitcher caught the direct ball
right at him behind his bat. There's been some great catches.
I done a lot, though, there was one last night.
Who was it? I think someone on the Braves did
it yesterday, like when they do that behind the back kid. Yeah,

(47:18):
that reaction. Look, they're all great, but I gotta stay
in my ground, Joel, you know that I got a
double dead Jim. This Jim Edmonds catch is by far,
I think the best catch ever, and I don't think
it gets enough love, Like I don't I don't see
enough Jim Edmonds in the highlights. Yeah, well, you know
what it is. We've talked about this before, so I

(47:38):
don't want to and again on a way back Wednesday,
it's just something that's been on my mind. I don't
want to be a broken record because we've talked about this.
But then again, new audience. Stan Patrick Love hanging Love
hanging in for him Here in Fox Sports, the past
is glorified. I don't know if it's because it's the
highlights and the reels of old footage we watch when
we were kids, Like they would always have the same

(48:00):
blooper videos and the same highlight video, so maybe they're
ingrained in our head. But I will say there is
a current highlight that does get the credit it deserves,
because I would say nine out of ten times they
there is a way that the past is glorified more
than the current day. But that Odell Beckham Junior catch

(48:20):
m did get the props that deserved. In fact, you
could argue that Odell Beckham Junior until his performance for
the Rams last year, he was living off that catch
for a while, living off of it, I agree with
like doing the pregame, made that catch and had some
average performances for a couple of years. But everyone's like,

(48:41):
that's being nice average. Yeah, but Odell Beckham Jr. That's
that might be the best football catch of all time.
But as far as baseball catches, could you know the
gym enmids one? Maybe is it? Is it an anniversary
of it or no? I think in June. Maybe that's
why you know, I'm doing a little catch up here

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because I was trying to figure out which royal he robbed?
Who was that royal he robbed? And I think it
was twenty five years ago last month, And that's why
I've been seeing it more and more again. But look
at this still image. Twenty five years ago. Jim Edmonds
made one of the greatest catches. I'm here to say, no,
not one of If I had a vote on the

(49:22):
greatest catch of all time, the dude is full on,
laid out, going backwards, going toward the wall. No less,
made the greatest catch I think in baseball history when
it comes to the pastor versus the president and letting
it breathe, right, like they always say with with presidents
and politicians, he can't really judge the work of a

(49:45):
manner woman until they're older, right in the moment. It's
really tough. Like it's hard to really assess presidents until
decades later. Right, Yeah, you need perspective their policies to
have worked or failed. You need time. And I think
maybe in sports we need time to really digest like
what did they do telling you it's time? It's time?
Jim Edmonds twenty five years later, It's time, guys. If

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it gives us any credibility, I think it does that
we're on Fox Sports Radio and we're lifelong fans. That's
the greatest catch. And you know what, you know what
else doesn't get enough love? I saw this on a
highlight recently too. I'm not saying it's the greatest catch
of all time, but doesn't get enough love. When Kenny
Lofton climbs defense and he stepped, he steps on the
little ledge, times it out perfectly to catch. Yo. That

(50:33):
catch is insane. The timing involved on that Kenny Lofton
when he climbs and stands on the wall, he stands
on that padding. Oh yeah, and then cad like that
was amazing. But again, we glorify and white. I'll tell
you how I know we glorify the past. I'm on
a couple corny like baseball Facebook pages and groups and stuff,

(50:56):
just t you know, talk crap with people every time.
It's like make your all times starting lineup. Everyone on
everyone's all time starting lineup. It's like old old players
all the time. Again, Ted Williams, look at Gary you're naming.
You're trying to tell me no one's been better in
the last fifty to one hundred years. Yeah, exactly. And uh,

(51:20):
since I'm talking about Jim Edmonds way back on a Wednesday,
he did make a legendary catch when he was a
cardinal two thousand and four NLCS game seven. So it's
not like he just made meaningless amazing catches. This dude
was an artist at it is. Honestly, is this your
way of just letting the world know you're a huge
Jim Edmands? Gup, No, dude, Honestly, it's just that I

(51:43):
just say it. Tell everyone you love Jim Medmans. You
know what, Sometimes you hear names and you're like, no
one talks about this guy enough, and you're here to
give him. I'm here to say, you know what, way
back on a Wednesday, he deserves the credit. That dude
made insane catch. Just follow He just followed you on Twitter. Alight,
we had more comedo rich In for Dan Patrick next
right here on Fox Sports Radio