The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R joke about Grimace taking the pressure off the rookies at Citi Field! Our teams play with our emotions. Sideline reporter Jessica Blaylock was over-sprayed during a Marlins celebration.. fair or foul? There's a Willie Mays tribute & NFL teams whose fans pay the most for beer! Timberlake jokes, followed by a PSA! They have fun discussing the NFL teams whose fans pay the least for beer! A Yankees rookie was all smiles. Plus, 'MID WEAK MAJOR' gets kicked off by Ben Maller's Penny!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:22):
The gang is back together. What's up Cove? What's up? Going?
After the show, Danny G does a hell job putting
off that best of podcast. Danny G. I hear you.
I see what the work you do every day, each
hour and the best of follow rate and review. Yeah,
he talks just like that.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
First of all, I don't sound anything.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Like that you do. And we be rocking out. Let's
go later on the show midweek Major already there halfway
through the week. Gonna turn your hump day into a
hump night. I hate myself full hoo. Grien thisss. I
hate it, and you know I was Sam. You can
make fun of me, Danny G, Dan Bayer, Spotty's here.
I think there's some validity when your team sucks to

(01:08):
the High Heavens. They got no jukes, no momentum, and
then Grimace throws the first pitch and they've won seven
in a row. I think there's some fun to it,
like maybe it loosened them up. Maybe there is something
to it. Either way, stop something that's working. There's also
the best young catcher in all baseball, Alvarez, who has
something to do with it too, And I'm going Grimace, No,

(01:29):
it's not Alvarez, Grimace. How do you think Alvarez feels
about Grimace getting all the attention? Probably good because he
is just dominating. This guy's calling together games. Maybe stories
like that taking pressure off of young stars, young stars. Yeah,
I just want to say before we get into jazz
chisholm uh something he did in the world in baseball

(01:51):
and has to do it celebrating and reporters that people
are torn on. So we'll talk a little baseball, we'll
talk some NFL QBS, we'll talk about Covino's New York adventures.
A lot of fun on the show today. But I
do want to say that your relationship with your favorite
sports teams, if it were with a woman, you should

(02:12):
get out. Like the unhealthy relationship we have with our
sports teams should never exist in friendship, marriage, family. It
just it really is the most unhealthy of relationships. We
have the highs and lows, Like you don't need all
that fickles fleeting. It leaves you happy and sad. It's
it is unhealthy. But that is the fun and drama

(02:33):
of why we love sports. It's the fandom where like,
you know, I'm so aggravated by the Mets and under delivering,
just really stinking to the high heavens as your parents
would say, stinking to the high heavens. And then you
know all takes a stupid purple McDonald's mascot and now
the team is right back close to five hundred in
the wildcard mix. Like that is unhealthy because right now

(02:56):
you know what I'm thinking after the show five o'clock Mets.
Why should I hate to get swept into it? I mean,
just to see if they pull out eight in a row. Now,
you know, that's incredible, all since Grimace throughout the first pitch,
and we've been talking about it three days straight. Here
the Coveno and riche Rich is the resident Mets fan.

(03:18):
But it is kind of fun and kind of random,
and now everyone's sort of got the rye on it. Well,
let's see what they do. Let's see how long they
can keep this going. I was doing the stupid math
on how much money one would have made, because I'm
always thinking from the gambling standpoint, And there is a

(03:39):
party you that said, all right, what if the day Grimace?
Throughout the first pitch, I put one hundred bucks on
the Mets, and every day I just doubled my bet, like,
all right, you want two hundred, Next day, you bet
two hundred. All right, now you got four hundred, You
bet four hundred. Right now, you'd be up to twenty
five thousand dollars on the Mets because you're not. So

(03:59):
what money can that way when you keep rolling? So
I feel like we've talked about Grimace. Grimmace has lasted
longer than Scherzer and Verlander did last year for the Mets.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
That is true. Yeah, lot, he's brought more excitement than
they did last year, and this year it turned everything around.
So again, we don't expect everybody to care the way
we do, the way Rich does, especially, but there's something
to it. And my eyes will be watching the box
score throughout the night, Rich, just to see if they
can pull out eight in a row. You know, for
sure it doesn't even need to be the Mets. The

(04:30):
relationship I described could be Dan Byer with the Seahawks,
Danny g You with the Lakers or Raiders, or you know,
Iowa Sam with Caitlyn Clark, or any Iowa team for
that matter. You do get so oddly invested that it
really becomes an unhealthy relationship. The fact that a Monday,
Danny Geez either happy or sad depending on the Raiders joy.

(04:50):
Only one team wins every year, so people say, oh, Rich,
last year the Niners, they gave you so much joy.
But I'm like, yeah, but you know what, they also
gave me heartbreak in Las Vegas Super Bowl Sunday when
I'm there, like, you know, remember the story. A few
weeks of somber attitude because you invested so much into
that season and you have to deal with the fact

(05:11):
that not that it was a waste, because you did
get Like, for example, it's like a good movie. What
was that movie with Julie Roberts Rich my best friend's wedding?

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Pretty well, no, let's see, I know what he's talking about.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
What about the end of the world. Three weddings in
a funeral? That one not pretty woman, not any of
the Mystic Pizza, No, no, the one where was the
End of the World right on Netflix? There was so
much criticism because the ending sucked, But you're right. My
theory was, you know, if it held my attention for
two straight hours in a world where nothing holds my

(05:49):
attention because we all have pea brains, and it brought
me two hours of joy. But the ending was kind
of wag Larry Crown with Tom Hanks. Doesn't that take
precedents over the weekend ending? Think of all the joy
it brought. Yeah, that's my point, and that's how you
have to look at your sports. If it keeps you
entertained throughout the season even though your team doesn't win,

(06:09):
then I think you're on the plus side of that relationship,
which is in your Mets right now, they're sort of
evening out the season for which got it? Notting Hill?
It's notting Hill. That's what the Mexican Oh Mexican?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Great?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Are you talking about? Leave the World behind? Perhaps? Okay.
The criticism was, man, what a whack ass ending. I'm like, yeah,
but that movie was action packed from the start until
the very end. You could say the same about a
couple shows I've loved three. In fact, three of my
favorite shows have whack endings. Dexter, How I Met your Mother?

(06:43):
Game of Thrones? So do you throw away all that
joy because it ended bad? The point is in my
opinion now, I mean, no, it brought you so much joy.
But let me tell you after Super Bowl fifty eight
in Las Vegas? Was it fifty eight? Right? Was this
last super Bowl fifty eight? Okay? No, Spot, I could

(07:06):
tell you the game. I could tell you who won
and lost every Super Bowl? You know who lost this year?
I was gonna say they gave them seven. I was
gonna say, for some reason, though I'm bad at the numbers.
It was like LV three, did you give me the year?
I'll tell you who won and lost in the score,

(07:26):
but you tell me like super Bowl forty two? I'm like,
I don't know. So for some reason, I don't play
by the numbers. Anyway, Thank you Spot for reminding me. Yes,
seventeen weeks plus the playoffs of joy, but all to
be ripped away when I'm sitting there in Vegas. You
remember the story after the Super Bowl. I was so mad.
I rented a car and said, f and I'm driving

(07:47):
home to La, because sports play with your emotions. If
a woman and ladies, if a guy plays with your
emotions the way your sports team does, leave them. Sports
is the only thing you should allow to toy with
you that way, Dude Covino, if your daughter was dating
a boy in high school that toyed with her the
way a sports team toys with someone, you'd be like, Honey,

(08:09):
get rid of this piece of garbage. Been there, done that.
It's the truth, But don't play with my emotion, smoky.
Is it better to have loved than not loved at all? Rich,
I'll tell you what the Mets got, meme. Is winning
now better than winning now than not winning at all.
At least they got a streak going on. They're bringing
you joy. You might have eight straight days of joy

(08:31):
courtesy of your Mets. So if you have, you know,
one bad ending, it's not the worst, is my point.
As my you know, my Mets group text that they
used to say I was too positive. They kicked me out. Yeah,
I mean you are. They changed the name of the
group chat earlier in the season to hashtag Mets will
never ever win. So my group text Mets will never

(08:53):
ever win. The sentiment over the last couple of days,
it's like, damn it, they're pulling me back in damn
damn like like we're almost aggravated, Like you almost wanted
to chalk the season up. Like they stink, like the
Cleveland Indians in Major League, Like they still stink. They
I think that's on you, just being a fickle sports
fan when you know, damn, well, it's a long season,

(09:13):
so you're a piece of garbage. That's rude. I'm sorry
you're a you're such a jaded Yankees they win ninety
games every year most of your life fan. You don't
know what it's like. You really know, ninety wins of joy.
But guess what, rich they haven't won since two thousand
and nine for a Yankees fan. That's a long time.
I know. But I'm saying when you talk about, like
how do you not watch every day? Well, easy to

(09:36):
watch when you at least have postseason hopes. I feel
like in your lifetime since I've known you, let's think
about this, since I've known Steve Cavino in two thousand,
you can't compare it to a relationship because you still
have to show up in your relationship with sports. You
could tune out. Let's see what happens if you don't show,
if you don't come home one night in your relationship. Yeah,

(09:56):
if she's sleeping, you might get away with it. Exactly well,
it's not exactly the same. But speaking of baseball, there's
a story. Yeah, there's a story that we wanted to
get to and it has to do with the guy
with one of the coolest names in baseball, Jazz. I
mean yeah, kind of depending on how you look at it.
Jazz Chisholm. Jazz Chisholm's in the news. Get this, Okay.
There was a game last night between the Marlins and

(10:18):
the Cardinals and Breuhan Vidal Bruhan had a walk off single, right,
So the Marlins win nine to eight, and oh that
was a legit walk off, unlike the Dodgers, who had
second life on a bad call. Danny gar he went around, dude,
strike three. We'll go both ways. That's true, that's true.

(10:41):
But Danny sent us the clip and I'm like, dude,
I saw it. You got away with one.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Dodgers fans, they did score seven runs in that one, anyhow,
so that is true.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, major comeback for the Dodgers. But in this case,
this was a straight up walk off single, right, and
much like most games, the announcer broadcasters on the field
speaking to the here of the game, Vida Bruhan, and
you know they douse him in water. Jazz Chisholm is
the one that's dumped the cooler on them in celebration.

(11:13):
But I think it was a little overboard. Rich Well,
take a list of the clip the reporter Jessica la
Laylock was was covering the scene for the Marlins. Take
a listen. Oh my goodness, I feel like I just

(11:36):
maybe delivered the walk on it. All right, let's keep going. Okay,
So the question on social media, in tabloid news all
over social media, like I said, is was it fair
or foul the way that Jazz Chisholm handled this celebration. Now, look,
I don't want to stifle anybody's fun, anybody's moment. Like

(12:00):
we said, sports is something that makes it sad but
also gives a lot. This is a moment where you
want to celebrate because you just got some joy in
the moment, and walk off singles are always something you
want to celebrate. But I did feel like my first
instinct when I saw this is that they got Jessica
Blaylock just a little too much, like there was no

(12:20):
regard for her broadcasting whatsoever. She seemed to be the
primary focus of the dowsing in this situation. I think
she should be thrilled to be part of the moment.
When I see Steve Gelps for the Mets, or our
buddy Gary Streiski who is now on ESPN. He was

(12:40):
the Red Sox guy for Librial, the Mets don't win
as much. And now I'm just kidding, but Steve Gelps
is a gentleman. He's a man. I've never seen him
doused so aggressively in this way. This was a woman
who was blindsided from behind, and it was sort of
an aggressive dousing. And justism was there. He said from
with good intent, and he was he was smiling ear

(13:04):
to ear, but it seemed a little much. I'm not
saying it's completely wrong and he should be ashamed and
they should be embarrassed. None of that they were celebrating,
but I thought it was aggressive that well.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Listen, look like an elephant's trunk.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yet it was a lot. Let me tell you, it
was fun. It's in the moment. I feel like when
you take those sideline reporter gigs. Part of the fun is,
all right, let's go on a regular night. She's the
Marlins sideline reporter. I hit say sidelines because it's not
there's no sidelines in baseball. The on field reporter. When
the Marlins win twenty five games and they got fifty

(13:39):
losses and they're awful, there's not a lot of good
spirits going on dead in Miami. On the rare moment
when there's a walk off, I wonder how many walk
offs the Marlins had this year. That might be the
first one for all I know. When they're throwing sunflower seeds,
throwing water, those are the moments where you, as the reporter,
you're in on it. I feel like, if how was

(14:00):
that person, I'd be like, yeah, I'm part of this team.
They traveled together the you know, they're there every day.
So okay. It's one thing when you get caught up
in the crossfire. Crossfire. You get caught up in the crossfire,
that's fine, But you're describing when a reporter sort of
sees what's happening and he gets a little wet on

(14:21):
his shoulder, maybe a little bit of his hair gets wet.
This woman got completely doused and if the question today
is fair or foul? Again all over news outlets. And
I also thought that when I first saw it last night,
there's gotta be more to it. It's not your standard.
Oh yeah, he's just part of the moment. It wasn't

(14:42):
like that. It was it was next level. I feel
like you're painting a false picture. You're painting a picture
that we've seen a million times. Oh the reporter got
a little wet whoop, but he knew he was there.
It's part of the fun dash she did. It looked
like she said she hit the game winning walk off.
So you don't think there's a little disrespect there. I

(15:02):
honestly wouldn't do it. She took the brunt of it.
I don't think there's any disrespect. I think let's let's
also I do because she's a professional. Let's chee a woman.
She wasn't expecting that. I'll see the go I'm glad
you said that. Man or woman, it doesn't matter. You
put yourself in that matter. Well, I know that we're
supposed to live in an equal world rich and I
get that, but I do treat women with a little
more respect than some goofy guy on the field. See,

(15:25):
I think you're wrong that I think a reporter is
a reporter in that sense. I don't think you can't
say I'm wrong for treating women with more respect than
the guy. I'm not saying you're wrong with treating women
with respect. What I'm saying is, if someone's an on
field reporter, I don't think tiptoeing around someone is there
a woman is what she would want either to be
honest like that would be like I don't treat me different,
like I put it in perspective. Okay, it's a bucket

(15:47):
comes from behind, a bucket of water. Stop saying comes
from behind, and jazz chisholm. The whole thing sounds stop
it just move he does. The woman reporter is speaking
to Vidal Bruhan right, She doesn't see Jazz from behind,
so he dowas's Vidal through her. If he really wanted

(16:09):
to get just Vidal, he would have went behind Vidal,
not behind the woman. Either way, a celebration it out logical,
I am, but I'm saying either way, a celebration for
a celebration for the Marlins is far and few between
enjoy it. I think if you're a reporter in the crusshairs.
I'm gonna have to because it's me. I don't think

(16:30):
you're following. Let me ask you this then, okay, why
are the headlights reading? Was this okay? Was this a
little much? Was this fair or foul? Why in the
world would you think that? Why would anyone speculate? Because
it was so normal and everything. She took the major
brunt of it, That's why. Because it almost looked like
it hit her and not the guys. That means it's

(16:53):
not your standard typical Steve Beandames got a little wet Bedame.
Who's the who's the Yankee side on? Dai? Irokovitz? You
think Meredith Barakovitz would get mad? Krokovi, Aaron Brokovic, Aaron Brockovich.
If you think she would get mad? Yo? If John Carlow,
m Carlow. If John Carlow hits a walk off bomb

(17:16):
at Yankee Stadium and she gets doused with some water,
you think she's gonna be all but hurt or like yo,
I'm part of the Yankee celebration. Possibly not, but again,
from the outside looking in the public opinion, some of us,
myself included, saw another way and I did. I'm not
mad about it, but I can't say I'd be lying

(17:38):
to say I didn't notice it right when I noticed
the rest of social media and other people were commenting
on that, Are you team Steve, Steve, you team Primetime
or Tim McCarver. I thought we saw a classless move
from one of my heroes, Primetime, Deon Sanders. Back in

(17:59):
the day, it would let's take it back, let's go
way back on a Wednesday, the nineteen ninety two NLCS.
Do you know the backstory to this when Deon Sanders
doused Tim McCarver, who was a professional broadcaster at the time,
on National TV. You think he did that in fun
or did he do that to humiliate? Well, they they
had a little beef going on, but Tim McCarver was

(18:21):
a little bit of a cry baby. I lost respect
for Tim McCarver, and now I lost This is why
you're off your mark because I lost respect for Deon Sanders.
Here's what was going on. Tim mccarver's an old school
baseball player, as you guys know, and he criticized Deon
Sanders back then for leaving the playoffs to go play
for the Falcons and Deon Sanders didn't like the criticism

(18:44):
that he was getting from McCarver. So when the Braves
won that series and they were celebrating, he started dowsing
Tim McCarver live on TV. Right, so rightfully, so right, Clara,
that's a smoove. You're in the locker room during a
playoff celebration. Get over yourself, Tim McCarver. Now if you

(19:05):
forgot that moment, I was Sam who back in the day,
Dion primetime with Tim McCarver.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Where's it?

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Where's that? You know that? I say you're a real man, Dion?
That that was Tim mccarver's shamous line. Really sounds like
a celebration there.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
We're not saying that Jazz Chisholm had any any ill
feelings toward Jessica Blaylock. We don't know that. I doubt that,
but imtish Odd. You know what I I wonder if Cavino,
if you were offered the ability to cover a Yankees
playoff run for Fox Sports so that you wouldn't mess

(19:56):
up your hair, would you go in there in a
bubble What would you what would you?

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (20:00):
What would you do? Bubble boy? Bubble Boy. Yeah, bubble Boy. Seriously, Yeah,
bubble Boy is the biggest deal? Is it? No? But
is it a big story? Kind of? That's so fun. Hey,
listen on a day when there's nothing going on. I
think this is more fun than speculating over some other
nonsense to the word. Danny G. You're an NL guy.
I'm sure you saw this highlight throughout the night. Did

(20:21):
you notice it or did you think it was just hey, crossfire?
That's just the life of being an online I'm a
field reporter.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
I definitely noticed it because I've never seen a sideliner
get hit that hard with water.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
But it's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
When I went in the comment z and I don't
know if this is true or not, but somebody who's
a fan of the Marlins wrote that was funny. It's
not the first time she has got gatorade on her.
It's sort of like an inside joke with the team.
So I don't know why people are so upset by this.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Well that's why. So that pretty much explains everything. So
we don't know the whole story, right because we're not
in the locker room, we don't travel with the team.
And if that's the case, then it's none of our business.
Now have a real relationship, and that explains everything. When
do you wants to argue? Though her reaction shows that
she's a fun young reporter, Let's keep going.

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Speaker 1 (21:57):
Willie Mays arguably the best all around baslayer of all time.
I'm saying Roy Hobbs a close second after that. I
was gonna say Roger Dorn until he started doing that
o a Bs at third base. But there, you know,
there is a sentiment that baseball doesn't have a goat
at all. He could do it all. Guys like Babe Ruth, Yeah,

(22:17):
they changed the game, like you said, but Willie Mays
could do it all. And then they hate kid ninety
three years old, but in his prime had the five
tools that we talked about. When it comes to baseball,
you could argue the steroid era made it difficult also
to pick a goat because it might have been Barry Bonds.
But then baseball is also both sides of the ball,
the same way football you say Tom Brady, Well, then

(22:40):
who's the best defender of all time? Who's the best
defensive player? You could say. In baseball, it's like you
could say, well, this is a category for pitcher and
offensive player. That is it? Nolan Ryan, Cy Young? Is it?
Roger Clemens? Is it? You know, Greg Maddox, Randy Johnson.
It's very Don Drysdale. It's very tough to think of
a goat in baseball, and it's not a deep thought.

(23:01):
But have you noticed, say I would say, Babe Ruth
gets that nod more so than not.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
Though I was gonna say, guys, I think what also
hit so many people is not only of of of
you know what today is and what tomorrow with the
baseball game. He's also the last one of that era, right,
Like when you think of like the greats of the
great there's there's no one's, no one's left. And that's
what I think made it really really difficult. And to

(23:27):
your point, and Cavito, as a Yankees fan, you may
have your feelings, Rich I know, slightly a little bit younger,
but like Reggie Jackson is the name, you know that
one of the names that pops up. I thought of
Mike Schmidt, like who are the old guys? Pete Rose
another of like now, where is that next level? Because
of the you know, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays no longer
with us, and and I think that's always you know

(23:50):
what was so you know what was just so sad.
Aside from all of the great accolades that you guys
just laid out about who Willy Mays was as a
person and as a player, we.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Lost some of them already, the Thurman Munson's and the
Clementes that some of them are already gone. So who
is that, Cavino, when you think post Willie May's era
post no, I think you know, Dan Byron nailed it
even in that latest Reggie Jackson documentary, they sort of
deem him the liaison of the era, like he was

(24:21):
the new crop of a lot of those superstar especially
black players of the previous era. Well, Kevino I unfortunately,
we said, you know, Roberto Clemente and even guys like
Kirby Puckett and Tony Gwinn. We've lost even some of
our childhood guys. So when you do think about who
are the quote living legends in baseball, that's a tricky

(24:45):
list because you might could you might only be able
to go back to the eighties, because before that it
might unfortunately might be over. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
And I'll also say this, guys, just for our ages,
and I think that if there are people listening that
you know, in our in our forties, if you will,
we grew up in an era where Ernie Banks was
still alive, Hank Aaron was still alive, Willie Mays was
still alive, Ted Williams was alive, Joe DiMaggio, all of
these great names. The only two names that really like
that we weren't alive for I feel, Babe Ruth and

(25:15):
uh Luke Garrick, you know, and Jackie Robinson is as well,
but still like in terms of like when we were
growing up, you would see Stan Musial like Cardinal Games, right,
you know how.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Many Yankee great days you know, Yogi?

Speaker 7 (25:28):
Yeah, all of those, Like we remember all of those
guys being alive, Yogi, And now they're all gone, and
every one of them is pretty you know, And that's
what's That's what I think was really startling for me.
Outside the greatness of Willie Mays was just of of
what we grew up.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
With and who we knew.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
All of the baseball greats, for the most part, we
remembered them being alive.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
And you know, I have to put it in like
I guess in perspective that generation was our grandparents. You
took the words right out of my mouth. I was
gonna say, now all of our grandparents. The commonality was
like a lot of people would share that sentiment that, oh,
my grandfather was in World War two in Germany. Oh
my grandfather fought in the war. Like that World War

(26:09):
two greatest generation coincides with a lot of the baseball
great So yeah, when you say who had the living legends,
Danny g guys like Oral Hersheiser have to come to mind,
because before that they're all gone. Unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now you guys nailed it. My grandfather's favorite player was
Joe Morgan, and we lost him. I think it was
twenty twenty. Johnny Bench was another one of his favorites.
He's probably one of the last of that big red
squad left.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, yeah, man, Yeah, we did lose Joe Morgan. His
daughter did our makeup at ESPN. Honestly side note, a
really wonderful woman. But yeah, I remember Joe Morgan. You're right,
these are the living legends that we all lost. So
think about that. Nolan Ryan's alive, right, I mean, we
got Nolan, we got already mentioned Pete Rose.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
It's obviously been on our mind, you know, since we
found out the news of Willie May's but we're all
doing our stuff. But guys, it freaked me out that
Mike Schmidt is seventy four going on seventy five years old,
Like I remember it, Yeah, you know, I remember the
five hundred, Remember him doing the high knees as he has,
you know, like like and you're thinking, not that that
was prime Mike Schmidt, but still you know it was

(27:17):
Mike Schmidt.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Is we're watching him cry was something that impacted me
because I'd never seen a guy like that that we
admired and looked up to cry at a vulnerable moment
the way he did as an adult. Now I get
what was going on. I understand who's saying goodbye to
the sport. But as a kid, you're like, damn, what
is Mike schmid crying? Holy know? You know again, we're

(27:39):
sort of like talking this through together right now, because
I'm thinking the sad reality is in the eighties, if
you were a kid of the eighties watching baseball, those
people were around your dad's age. And if you're you know,
if you are lucky enough to have your folks still
around there, if you're around our age, your folks are
probably seventy something like a Mike Schmidt. Like Dan Bayer said, So,

(28:00):
as you see our parents generation growing older, think of
an all star team in the eighties, they're they're either
no longer with us or in their seventies. Allah, the
Ozzie Smiths and Mike Schmidts and the Ryan Samberg's and
Paul Molitors. And you know, we lost Kirby Puckett, we
lost Wade. We didn't lose Wade Box. He's with us.

(28:22):
Tony gwyn Tony Gwynn. We lost. I was thinking a
batting champion owns. But yeah, so just unfortunately that's the reality.
All of our childhood heroes are now the legends Juneteenth,
getting ready for midweek major next, big stories in the
world of sports and pop culture. But are they mid
stories week or major headlines? We'll get to that spot.

(28:45):
He's working on it. You play along at home at
Covino and Rich right, call us up eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. Thanks for checking us out. I'm
Steve Covino. That is Rich Davis. Yo. I was saying,
what were you playing there? Man? That was beer in Mexico.
Kenny Chesney, nice, look at that that That song puts
you in the mood a little. They can put you
in that hawk tooy type of mood.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Right, Yeah, you spend a lot of time in Texas.
How do you not recognize Kenny Chesney's.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, well, hawk to Uh you know what I should
you know what? I listen for the country fans. I'm
going to embarrass myself right now because for real country folks,
my wife is from Texas. My wife's from New Bronfols,
which is in between San Antonio, and Austin. So when
I first met her, I wanted to like be like,
let me learn a little country music. Being in New Yorker,

(29:30):
Originally I didn't know any country. That's around the time
when you were telling us to call you hop along
Dickie right now, hop along Dickie right, I refuse to
call him. Then I gravitated towards what real country fans
would call, like cheesy pop country. So I like Zach Brown,
I like Brad Paisley, I like like Miranda Lambert, like
all the mainstream stuff. Is the stuff I know, so

(29:52):
cheesy country essentially. And speaking of beer, is it fat nings?
We will talk? Oh, Brad Paisley has a song called alcohol.
Oh there you go. We are talking beer on the
show today. And if you have time, I have a
story about Creed. You know, we gotta get to the
story about Creed and Midweek Major. But Danny, let's get

(30:12):
into this beer thing. Because Cavino, I know you and
I are always fascinated by the simple thought that you
go to a game, you go to a fight night
we're in Vegas, you go to those little kiosks, you
get a tall seltzer, and y'all grant me one too.
Two people in some places could be like by forty
bucks easily. I'm still trying to figure out how those

(30:35):
little kiosks work at these big concert venues or fights arenas,
because what is there a little camera or something? You know,
what you take out of the fridge. It's kind of
you're just taking what you want, but then you're getting
charged at the same time. I'm not sure how they
work robots ai. I don't know what the hell it is,
but I know is this cost me forty bucks a pop?
If I'm buying two drinks all.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Right now, I don't want you because we'll do over under.
I don't want you to go over This is just
a sixteen ounce beer, the small ones they pour at
the stadium so sometimes flat.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
If someone does know the explanation, I would love to know,
because honestly, I know Kavina's talking about baffles me. You
scan your credit card to get into the little area. Yeah,
you grab whatever drinks you want, you leave, and somehow,
mysteriously you get a little update on your like you know,
Apple pay like forty dollars. How did they know?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Sports and business guru Tyler M. Webb would have the
answer to that, he's the one who compiled this list
all thirty two teams. All right, so who do you
guys think is at the very top. Let's go with
the most expensive beer at an NFL stadium for next season.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Come the twenty twenty four twenty five NFL season, who
has the most expensive beer? I hate to play it
like just big city wise, but I bet you the
Rams out here in LA got to be a top
five right. In that case, I'll go to New York then,
because it's not cheap on the East Coast.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Buyer, any thoughts on the most expensive stadium.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
I'm gonna say it's probably pricey in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
And when I saw by the way, I mean New Jersey.
But San Francisco's a great guests.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
The Philadelphia Eagles. Wow, most expensive fourteen dollars and sixty
seven cents for a little sixteen ounce. Let's stick with
Wood in second place.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Hold on, now, we're not talking the big ones. That's
like the small regular beers, like the regular cup. Like
if you are at Starbucks and you guys for like, awe,
you're talking twelve each?

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, like a paint is sixteen ounces? Oh yeah, sixteen.
There used to be specials at stadiums where you can
get those for like five bucks. Oh all right, So
second place, who guessed Rams Rich Boom? They are tied
with the Chargers, no surprise both so far thirteen dollars
and seventy five cents.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
I ain't paying. All right, go ahead with some guesses
in third place here, I'll go with dB. That would
be what the Niners Santa Clara. Santa Clara is like
forty minutes of you we should have.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
The Niners are tied for fourth place with this Saints
and the Jags eleven dollars and fifty cents. Coming in
third place at twelve dollars. Even the Las Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
You can't serve. You can't get a cheap beer at
the Golden Nugget in Vegas. I yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
And then the Dolphins, the Giants, the Jets, and the
Commanders are all tied for eleven dollars.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
I was gonna say Commanders if Dan Snyder was still
the owner, you know a little bit super expense.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Money at ten dollars and fifty cents. It's the Titans, Seahawks,
and Panthers. Now let's do the cheapest, the sixth cheapest
in the league, and I guesses.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Under ten bucks. H some some stadiums are still I'm
gonna guess ones that are like Brewer Brewery, Green Bay.
That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, this is gonna be a professional radio teas because
coming up on the other side, we will have the
six cheapest stadiums in the NFL to get a sixteen
ounce beer.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Well, the good teams, bad teams, the city, let's think
about that. Plus we'll get to mid week major Rich.
I don't know if you saw this, I'll tell you
what I did see Sweep. He'd say, you're eating in
New Jersey. I rest, Yeah, doesn't make it going out
on a high note. Rich, nothing but pizza and bagels
before I head back West. Yeah, you're gonna come back
here looking like exactly. Yeah. But no, if I ever

(34:15):
send you the justin Timberlake mug shot, there's a silver
lining to this, to that story about j T getting arrested.
I heard he's bringing sexy back BAC blood alcohol content.
Oh geez, I don't know. But if I what people
are doing now is saving that image of his mugshot
on their phone. And if I ever send it to you.
That just means, hey, I need a ride. That's what

(34:36):
people are doing. So there you go, that's actually productive.
You know what, Hey, I want to that idea?

Speaker 7 (34:41):
Right, it's part of a marketing ploy and any of
you guys knew it. He's starting a new group. It's
called in jail. That's what it's called.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Stupid. But again, it's now the the bat signal for hey,
I need you to come pick me up. I heard,
I heard he asked the judge when when could I
drive it again? And he said it's gonna be May
and jail.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
He's now a member of the Backdoor Boys bringing Tipsy back.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Right, All right, we're done here, have a good night
everyone all week. I'm not a joking matter, but there
is some silver lining and funny stuff involved story. No
one was hurt. It was a bonehead decision, but consider
a learning less Yeah, if people could take away and
say listen, Uber and Lyft make it so easy for

(35:29):
the average person. And if you're rich, why are you
not have a driver? Anyway, I never understood that get
Maybe maybe they want the freedom, the freedoms of it.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yes, I would think in the Hampton's where they're like
removed from kind of you know, mainstream society. It's all
party out there. I think they just want to like
live a normal life for a little bit. But because
everyone's wealthy out there. Everyone if you're rich, though, I
never understood that. But then again, I'm not rich, so
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
But when you see a lot of rich, when you
see a lot of as get popped for this or
or celebrities get pop for a Didwi, I'm always shocked
because with that income.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Not just your income, the teams that a lot of
athletes pay for provide car service.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Doesn't the NFL have an ongoing if you need a ride,
the Players Association has as a the ability.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
You could have called Taylor Swift to swing by with
her jet to drive drive him down the street.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
He could have done that, could have done anything. Well again,
just send the picture to whoever your designated driver is
and they'll get the idea. Hey, Rich, I want to
bring something up before we get into other stuff in
midweek Major and Chris Simms, Actually, you know what, I'll
keep you on that cliffhanger because there was something I
noticed at the Yankee game yesterday and I want to
bring it up but Danny g has to tell us

(36:43):
the six cheapest sixteen ounce beers in baseball in football,
that's right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Coming up for this new NFL season, a compiled list
Here compiled list a sixteen ounce bear the price at
every NFL stadium in front of me. We did the top,
the most expensive, now the cheapest. Where you like to
be on the bottom of the list here for I
fans sake.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
I think these might be teams that have some good,
blue collar, gritty fans. Maybe smaller market teams spelt.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, And who do you think is coming in at
eight dollars and forty cents?

Speaker 1 (37:17):
You know, I bet you're a work in class town
like Detroit's on the bottom of this list.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
I'm going to say, I'm gonna say Denver because I
feel like Denver's a.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Brew town buyer. Give me Cincinnati. I like that. That's
what I was gonna take.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Covino.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
I somebody mentioned Green Bay. I'm going with that one.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Iow, Sam, I'll just go Cleveland just because Dan took
Cincinnati eight dollars and forty cents. If you are a
Patriots fan, what yeah, wow, it was like Sam Adams
partnership and maybe did somebody guess Cleveland I did, coming
in next at eight dollars and thirteen cents, tied with
the Cardinals and the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Fund.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Three teams are tied at eight dollars. Even, who do
you think?

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Oh, did one of the ones we mentioned Lions right here? Now?

Speaker 2 (38:05):
No, all three? We didn't mention no way it bears no.
I'm gonna go Saints.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Now, Saints were part of the top. Yeah, they were
eleven fifty. Yeah, Jacksonville, Minnesota. Maybe Rich was talking. I'll
give you a clue.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Rich was talking about, Oh, Minnesota is one of them,
and you were talking about a state your wife is from.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
You think Cowboys got a cheat?

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Oh jeez, Okay, Jerry's probably got I was just naming
teams and I was gonna say Texans are Saints.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
He just said Saints. By the way, a thirty.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Right, Cowboys are up towards the top at nine dollars
and fifty cents. The Colts, So the Colts, Vikings, Texans
all at eight dollars.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Is there a correlation as to how much they pay
their quarterbacks?

Speaker 2 (38:50):
There might be.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Uh, let's be honest.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
At Colts games, they should be forty five bucks right,
forty five perfectly or four dollars.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
And fifty cents all right? Who said Broncos? I did
seven dollars and fifty cents for the Broncos in Denver. Yeah,
not a bad price high there, wow? And then I
think buyer, You guess Cinci right I did. They are
one of the cheapest down second to last. Six dollars
and fifty nine cents.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Under seven bucks for a sixteen ounce beer, and two
are tied for the cheapest drink sixteen ounce beer in
the NFL. Somebody guessed the Lions. Yeah, Lions are there?
And who else? Anybody? The final team Titans. No, I'll
give you a clue. This team is known for their

(39:39):
inexpensive concessions. It's like one of their marketing. Oh Falcons,
well yes, oh because of Augusta. Yeah, the Lions and
the Falcon six dollars and twenty five cents.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay, so hold on, let's put this again in perspective.
The cheapest beer Lions in the Falcons six twenty five
for sixteen ounce. What's the most expensive again?

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Up at the top, fourteen dollars and sixty seven cents
for the Eagles fans more than double.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
That's a big price difference for the same beer. Yeah,
you know, it's like it's like movie theater prices at
some of these stadiums right where it's like unless one's
serving PBR and one's serving like yeah again from fourteen
sixty craft.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Oh you know they're not though. Wow.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
So those are the prices for sixteen ounce beers this
coming season in the NFL and back to the MLB
real quick. I'm pretty pumped because Dan Byer mentioned Garrett
Cole makes his debut for the season tonight for the Yankees.
I don't expect anybody to care about the Yankees, but
something cool happened. I think we can all relate. Oh good,

(40:46):
because I don't care about the Yankees. Hear me out,
you bozo, you think anyone cares about Grimace? And I'm
entertaining your stupid story. They bring out the King from
Burger King, No, what do you think they should.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
It?

Speaker 1 (40:58):
They're bringing out Garrett Cole. They brought up the Jack
in the box guy brown Head. And I just wanted
to say, because again, so many things happen. No one
cares about the Yankees. This went under the radar, but
as a Yankees fan. I just want to bring it
to light. Anytime some young kid gets called up to
the big leagues and they get their first hit. You
only get one first hit or a first home run,

(41:21):
it's always a beautiful moment. You see the family there
in the crowd cheering their kid. On yesterday, Ben Rice
got called up because Anthony Rizzo's injured and he's out
in definitely, I think like ten weeks or something. I'm
not even sure yet with a wrist injury. So Ben
Rice comes up and the Yankees give him the roll

(41:41):
call and he turns around, he eats a ball of rice,
and everyone goes wild because he's trying to do something
fun and different. Right. Then he comes up against Albert
Suarez of the Orioles and gets his first hit in
his first game as a professional baseball player. But dude,
I've never seen a guy smiling from ear to ear

(42:04):
from home plate all the way running through first base.
I've never seen such glee from a grown man. I
mean a young man, but a grown man. He's twenty
five in his debut this way, and it was so
noticeable that they were commenting on it, like he can't
even hide his smile because most dudes got that aggressive,
determined sort of look as they're running toward first. Then

(42:27):
he gets on first and it was like a little
leaguer getting their first hit. He dude smiling ear to
ear and it was so great to see and his
family's going nuts, and again it's what sports is really about.
These are great moments. And because you're not a Yankees fan,
you missed it, but I think you can all relate
to this. And then the weakest part of the story
was he's so pumped. He goes to high five first

(42:49):
base coach Travis Chapman, and Travis Chapman's not looking at
him and leaves him hanging.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
So it's like it was like a roller coaster of
is like the happiest guy on the planet, and he's
telling everybody how surreal this was. It was magical, he said,
you know, making his major league debut was the was
better than the dream could ever be. The reality just
was Trump's the dream. But he went from hitting his

(43:17):
single and feeling all this glee and joy, to me,
the most empty feeling of all being left hanging when
you're trying to give someone a high five or shake
their hand. So just wanted to throw that out there.
If you see the highlight, I'm telling you, or if
you need a smile, watching this kid get his first
big league hit is one of the best moments I've
seen that There's only one that I can think that

(43:40):
matches what you're describing, because what you're describing is great
because there is a sense of like, yo, I'm gonna
play it cool. I like it. I like it was
none of it. I like when they showed the emotions.
And you know, when you're a young player getting that
first hit, this it's twofold. It's a wow, I got
a hit in the bigs. But once you get your
first hit, you could then settle in and play your game,

(44:01):
you know, because if you start out for three, oh
for four, then you start getting your own head, like
I gotta get my first hit, like getting one for
getting that first hit out of the way is so
important for a young player. But do you remember this?
I don't if spot if you or I was saying,
I want to look it up. Who is the guy?
It might have been a Florida Marlin, Miami Marlin. They
were interviewing his dad in the stands while he while

(44:25):
he hit a home run and the pure emotion you
saw from his dad, it gets you emotional, show I got.
I mean, dude, like, you don't need to hate the
Yankees to appreciate this moment. And that's a great the
one you speak of. I forget who it was. That's
an incredible moment for just you. And I have been
watching baseball since we were a little pumpkin pie haircutted kids.
His reaction is one of the best I've ever seen.

(44:46):
It wasn't for a first hit in the bigs. Was
it Bobby Witt Junior. Maybe it happened to him, but
I remember it was a National League guy and I
and I do remember his dad being interviewed while the
home run is hit, and you see the pure emotion
enjoy and you think of all the hours that dad
and mom put into him, and you know, think of
all the baseball practices and catches in the yard and everything,

(45:06):
and like you're there on live TV and your kid
hits a home run in his first game. That's that
you know. Until you're a parent, I you know, you
and I are both self centered type of guys. When
you have a kid and you realize, like, wow, I
actually care about someone more than myself. Yeah, I can
only imagine what those parents feel like when you see

(45:27):
your kid make his NFL debut or get drafted in
the NBA. These things must be almost like it might
mean more to the parent than the kid in a
weird way. It's possible this kid was not hiding his emotions.
So instead of scrolling past that Yankee clip like you
always do when you see some goofy looking young kids
smiling on first base, be sure to watch that clip

(45:49):
because it's one. It's one of the ones that stood
out to me. Well, hey, I'll watch that. You watch
the Mets win eight in a row tonight, let's hope,
and we'll go to your phone calls, your feedback. I
do want to bring up something though. We talked about
Grimace and we joked about oh the burger king or uh,
you know, bring out the big head from jacket a box.
There's a there's a viral trend. There's two trends that

(46:11):
have to do with food. Number one is have you
seen this trend where women are trying to keep up
with the pace their man eats at No, I haven't
seen that. Like a woman and a god, they'll have
the same entree and the woman's whole joke as she
sets up her phone like in a hidden way and
she tries to keep the pace, and it just shows
how gross we are as good dues and how fast

(46:31):
we eat. Like these women are like struggling to keep up.
I struggle to keep up with you. I can only
imagine what you're white, but you don't realize, like whether
it's pizza, burger or anything. Guys eat fast and they're
gross and women are more pick pick pick little pieces.
So that's a funny trend. And the other trend is
we forget you bringing up mascots for fast food. If

(46:53):
I were to say to you another grown ass man,
grown ass man, oh yr Kiato, Yeah, Taco Bell, the chihuahua,
the chiwei Wei I was sam yo kiero Taco Bell.
I know you love Taco Bell. There's a trend on
social media where people are asking teens and twenty somethings

(47:16):
and they're like, you'll care, I want. I don't know,
because we forget that ad campaign is from the late nineties.
So when you think of that little chihuahua Yo Kiatto
Taco Bell, you'll go thataco y know, that crab is
over twenty five years old, so you got to bring
him back. I know. So it's been a minute. Like
the same way we forget that Wendy's isn't yellow anymore, right, Yeah,

(47:39):
old way, old yellow Wendy's was the best old yellow Wendies.
But yeah, no, Yo Kieto Taco Bell. That's that's that's
old guy stuff. Oh Man, sound sucks eight seven, seven
ninety nine On Fox is Cavino and Rich Who do
you want to say a loa to? Real quick before
we move on, Let's say how to John in Paradise, California.
I think you want to chime in on the death

(48:00):
of Willie Mays and how baseball legends is not many
old school guys left. What's up, John?

Speaker 4 (48:07):
How are you doing the same today?

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Anybody? What's up?

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (48:10):
Well, you know, I was listening to you, and I
was thinking about that, and I'm god, I remember when
I was a kid kind of chose my age, just
as when I come home to the afternoon paper, that
tells you how long ago that's been. They don't have
those anymore. Let's those papers at all. And now I
as a kid, I'd come home and I'd tear through
to the sports page and just to see if Reggie
Jackson had hit a home run. You know, I mean

(48:31):
just every day. I mean just I tear through to that.
And that's kind of tying those two eras together. When Reggie,
you know, when Reggie and Willie was still right at
the end of his career, when Reggie was coming up
with the eight yep and there's just not many of
them left. And you know, I don't know what happened.
I blinked on went from thirteen to sixty all of
a sudden, and you know, and it's sad that we're

(48:53):
losing all those players. And I was talking to Dan
when I answered the phone, and he answered the phone.
I didn't remember Reggie was still a lot. You know,
we're so stuck in all this other crud. You don't
nobody read the paper anymore?

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, listen, I mean, no one's read no one's read
the paper unless you get a USA Today under your
hotel door. You know, I don't even know they if
they make papers, but I have a you know, based
on what you said, I had a random thought in
question And thanks for the call. John, Just criding journalism
Covino let me ask you the same way when you
take your kids bowling, and they would have no clue

(49:28):
how to keep score because it's all automatic. Now, Like
if you're an old school you know how to keep
bowling score. Spare ten plus your next throw a strike
plus your next two throws. Like you and I know
how to keep score. You know how to keep baseball score.
Do you think a kid knows how to read a
box score? I watched the clip you sent me of

(49:50):
Ben Rice. Yeah, the Yankee, the young Yankee, the kids
gleaming ear to ear, and even Michael Kay points out
like he's not hiring a smile. Look at this kid. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
And you guys were thinking of and Diaz of the
Marlins in your previous conversation.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Jannie, do you have that click? Diaz Kabino. He was
at City Field facing Jacob de Gram and they're interviewingan
Diaz's dad while the kids in the batter's box take
a listen to this great moment. Waita, we're extremely happy
for him. Is this an emotional day for you?

Speaker 8 (50:24):
Very very emotionate, so awesome, But that's really what it's
all about.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
That in the hokey pokey so cool, the Dad's losing it.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Watch he apologizes to the reporter.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
That's the best.

Speaker 9 (51:03):
Wow, all right, wow, no apology need it.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
I'm sorry. And if you watch that Ben Rice clip
when he's you know, floating and gleaming from ear to ear,
smiling and his first big lead lead hit yesterday, they
if you watched a whole clip, you do see his
family too, going wild. So that was awesome. Well, listen,
that's that's that's a big part of it. When you
see the moms and dads and the crowd cheering on

(51:37):
their kids. Always, always a very special moment. You saw
it all season with with Brock Party over the last year,
so right, you saw a lot of Brock Party Dad
every game. All right, let's do this mid Week Major.
Who do.

Speaker 5 (51:51):
Covino and Rich get you over the middle of the
week when mid Week Major? I love that we throw
sports and pop culture head lines and topics at the
fellas and it's like the kids.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Say, that's sm We definitely major.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
See it our score Midweek Major.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Oh when you hear the horns, hey, you know you
have made it to the middle of the week before
I pass things over to the number one and only
hosted a segment. We usually roll the big Red Love Dice,

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but since covenos all the way in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
I'm gonna flip the pizza.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Oh no, I have from NBC Sports the penny from
Ben Mallor's TV show, Benny Versus the Penny.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Wash your hand as Penny I used.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Can't sanitizer on this before I here's some wipes.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
All right, we're gonna get a microphone on the penny.
Hold on all right? Ready? Oh and you got to
call it first, Riches please?

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Ok here we got no it is heads.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Oh that means Rich gets first take.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
I'll receive. Is that a sound effect? Or was that real?

Speaker 3 (53:08):
I can't tell you it's real. It's really good, really,
I can't tell Thank you.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the most famous person from
Scotch Plains New Jersey besides.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Judy Blue Ah Man, Spotty boy. Ah you doing? Guys,
who's going first? I'm going first? Oh? That's you know what?
I have stories for you? Rich? Okay, you've had hair
plugs right the chitattie, But I would if I were,
if I were going bald, they would. I can't tonight,
So this one's for you.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Pay attention to former La Galaxy star Landon Donovan was
broadcasting with Fox Sports our team that's part of the
Euro twenty twenty four coverage, and while covering the France
versus Austria game, he appeared on camera and people took
note of his odd hairstyle on the side of his head.
Immediately went viral, people speculating what was going on, and

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he his teammate Mike McGee had a posted a text
exchange between the two of them where Donovan revealed that
he actually two weeks early and had hair transplants and
they was assured that it wouldn't show up on camera,
but it did so if you look at it, it looks
like it's like a split in his hair. Yeah, you
can see little dots underneath like he had hair plugs
going on. But he poked fun out and he had

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fun with it. Midweek or major listen.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
I think it's men. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
I will because because you have hair pugs, I feel
as though it's such a it's such a thing that.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Guys should have investigate more. If you lose in your hair.
I I you know, I know it costs money, but
you see Portnoy's hair before and after, We'll trade a
lot of people. Let does everyone go Turkey? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Rich just doesn't have hair plugs. He just has a
round trip ticket to Turkey on our next vacation.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
But I will also say, you know what, I'll say
this is major because when it comes to body positivity,
women go all out and they support all these things,
and guys just make fun of each other. And we
need to normalize these things a little more. You know,
losing your hair could be dramatic for a lot of people.
Some people roll with it and that's cool. Some people

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own it. Some people look good when they lose their hair,
but not everybody does. And Landon Donovan was one of
those guys who was not really that stoked about losing
his hair. And I think they really misled him by
saying they wouldn't notice this really noticeable, right, And you know,
for him to just own it and put it out there,
it just makes it easier for other men to feel

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comfortable about it. And so many people are going to
Turkey for these procedures, and I think there's no shame
in that. I think Sebastia Maniscalco, the comedian got some done.
Jerry Seinfeld has a fresh hair new I think there's
though shame in it. You're right, Kevino made a great
point women, you know they It's one of the few
things women got each other's back on, Like, look at
my new bub look at my moves, Look at this.

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I got botox, I got this, I got at Guys
should be able to do stuff without getting their hueyvos busted.
So hey, you know what doing wade bogs? You ever
see that guy's hair before? After? Incredible? Great? All right,
all right.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Travis Kelce has finally commented it on the infamous Super
Bowl ring Typo. As you know, they received their rings
last week, five and twenty nine diamonds, thirty eight rubies,
and one big Typo. On the list of the inside
their road to the Championship, it listed the seed wrong,
big deal, who cares?

Speaker 1 (56:14):
It's a number?

Speaker 10 (56:15):
It said the Dolphins were the seventh seventy seeds instead
of the sixth right, and so Kelsey commented by saying,
I don't give an s He said, I like, it
makes it seem like we didn't even give an f
about what seed the Miami Dolphins were.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
So who cares, and he also said it makes it
more unique and exclusive, so he's excited about it having
fun with him.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Midweker Major, I think this is like a non story
because honestly, is anyone gonna remember what seed they were?
It's an inaccuracy, but they won the Super Bowl? Who cares?
I'm saying this is the skippity Ohio Riz, I think
we'd have to change the name of the show this segment.
I think this is a mid story, but I think

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it's really weak spot that you have one job right
far too often when it comes to sculptures a statue
recently exactly like this is your job. It didn't go
through a process where people checked it and double checked
it and spell checked it, like you didn't get it right,
Like who's dropping the ball on this? It's it's not

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that big of a deal. I get it, but this
is their super Bowl ring. They couldn't get it right.
Come on, come on, it's weak.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
All right, Rich Another one for you. You don't really
like this one? Your favorite minor league team, the Portland Pickles.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
I love the point. You follow them very religiously.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
They're making history Kerkins all day right by becoming the
first listen to this the first American sports team to
offer THHC based libations inside its venue. The Pickles are
their wooden Back Collegiate Summer League founded in twenty fifteen,
and in order to entice fans to come to their game,
they partnered with Cycling Frog Light Seltzer to sell THHD

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seltzers at their game. The drinks contained two milligrams of
THHD I know, you know the levels, and four milligrams
of CBD, so not too much, but another.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
To just have a little little happy buzz.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
That's like not As you know, Oregon is on the
list of where it's legal to sell marijuana growing list.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
So is this midweek or major? This is major because
we're headed in the right direction where alcohol I think
is more dangerous than weed. There's a brand of THCHD
in feud Seltzers, perhaps Blue Ribbon PBR has a brand
ten milligrams each. I'd rather have like one or two
of those called a day than loading up on booze.
So hey, I think we're heading in the right direction.
I'm a fan. I'm a fan of the THHD drinks.

(58:28):
I actually agree with Rich this one, and he's right. Man.
Two like, that's really that's light light, but in the
right direction. I'm cool with it. Portland Pickles, let's go
all right. By the way, if you play for the
Portland Pickles, if you don't have a green baseball bat,
then I mean even playing fuck all right. Have you

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ever wondered what it takes to make it or not
make it in the big leagues?

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Well, according to Buck Showalter, he has a specific list
of carteristics that he looks for when drafting players. Apparently,
the two main ones that he said he looks for
are whether or not they have facial hair and whether
or not they have flat butts. Let me, let me explain.
He said, he's looking at how high their butt is.
I don't know why. Maybe if they do have good

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strong legs and do squats. Well, there's so much of
a baseball swing that has to do with your your
your core. So and a full beard, and this I
found interesting. He said, the full beard is they're usually
fully grown. So if you see a guy with a
full beard, you have to like what you see because
you're not going to get much more out of them
because they pretty much fully matured. And he also said,

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you don't really see many guys playing with pancake asses.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Can I say that? Sorry? Yeah, yeah, but so that
was he's midweeker. Major. I think it's major. Buck Showalter
a great mind in baseball, and those are two silly things,
but they both make sense. If a prospect has a
full beard, he's not going to grow anymore. That's it.
And yeah, well look at it. Maybe that's why the
Mets got Starling Marte when he was there. Maybe he's like, yo,
look at that booty, some juicy butts. So I get it.

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Julio Franco must have been his favorite prospect. I heard
he's drafting. Uh, he's drafting. Uh, Summer rais million. Yeah,
Summer Ray is gonna be on the next days. Oh boy, seriously,
this is a mid story. It's an interesting story, but
it's a mid story. It's like, what does Buck show

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Walter and a young woman on the prow have in common?
They're both looking for dudes with facial hair and big
but juicy butts. Yeah I didn't know that, but you
know what, the bigger the butt, the more you could
play slap ass in the locker room. So yeah, all right, well,
you know, spot, I think we're running out of time.
You know, I think that's a great story ed well
Damn Bayer. But let's go to dann Byer Damn Byer,

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which got facial hair and booty