July 4, 2025 • 40 mins
Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos, in for Covino & Rich, talk about Mets owner Steve Cohen's recent comments about the vibe at the ballpark between the Yankees and Mets and what the crew would prefer, which pitcher could come out of psuedo-retirement to try and reach 3,000 strikeouts, and more!
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we have that well. Iowa Sam is hanging out with
us as well. On this Independence Day. We watch watch
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been programmed to responds. I get it. Great to have
you with us. I'm Bo Benson is here, Happy fourth
Bow and Isaac Loancron is at the news desk. And
don't forget, guys, Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Friday, Friday, Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Friday, it feels like a Wednesday. I don't know about you, guys.
I thought for sure of like Hopday, and no it wasn't.
We're at the end of the week. We have made
it some of you have already some of you left
on Wednesday. You're like, I'm gonna take Thursday off. We're
gonna have a long weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Take Monday off because nobody wants to go to work Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
What is it about Mondays? I yeah, I take off
as many Mondays as I can.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I've said I don't like Tuesdays. I think Tuesdays are
are worse. And there's something also, we'll get this in
a couple of months. The Tuesdays on during football season,
Oh my goodness, because you've just had Thursday night football, Friday,
high school, however you want. But you're still in football
mode Saturday all day with college Sunday. Monday you go
(01:51):
back to work. But hey, there's Monday Night football. Maybe
your fantasy game is still up. You can maybe throw
some bets down on that Monday night game. On Tuesday.
I just I feel like Will Smith in the empty
Fresh Prince living room on Tuesday nights during the NFL season,
it is and Thursday just seems so far away for
the next week to start that it isn't. It flies by,
(02:14):
But those Tuesday nights are just they're lonely.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Since I played volleyball. Tuesdays are my busiest day.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
I tend to work all day and then I go
play and then I pass out.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's true. Yeah, but your I don't think that you
are like most people. Sure not everybody has a Tuesday
night indoor volleyball league.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
No, no, no, no. Where we won last season.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So thank you, no congratulations.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Yeah, we shouldn't have won. We were not the best.
We just did not make the mistakes.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It happens, Yes, it does. New York Yankees, they may
have been the best team last year. They didn't win.
They weren't the best.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
They weren't the best team.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
But right now they're leading the New York Mets five
to four, and I feel that it's only fitting here
on Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio to talk
about a topic that that involves not only Rich's favorite team,
but Cavino's favorite team, the Yankees and Mets playing the
subway series. Complete side note, his subway becomes so popular
(03:11):
to the think of the sandwich instead of the transportation
system now because it is like darn near like I
am almost to that point. I know you're still thinking
the subway series with New York, but subway has gotten
to be so prevalent that I almost think sandwich first
as opposed to the actual trains.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I think at one point maybe, but I do feel
like Subway the sandwich places has fallen off. I used
to go to Subway all the time. I have not
had a Subway sandwich in maybe ten years.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
They are everywhere, but they're they're expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And Okay, this isn't a rain on Subway's parade.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Well I'm gonna all right, Well, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I just am saying that I think the recognition. It's honestly,
when Staples Centers changed from Staples to Crypto, it made
sense because it became so synonymous with that arena that
I did not think of the store.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Oh yeah, you almost forgot that there was an office
store named Staples.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, yes. So when it changed to people like, oh,
we're gonna still call it Staples, Like imagine that, people
are like, no, we want to call it that other
corporate brand. But that's how ingrained it became. And and
and it's like that, I think in Houston, minute made
like you still would call it Mini. Made both said
earlier something else now, isn't that? Yeah? Yeah, talking about
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giants home stadium. I think they've had a bunch of
different It was pack Bell, then it was AT and T,
and now is it Oracle. Yeah, yes, but you still
reference either pack Bell or AT and T. Right, that
ends up happening, the point being, I'm not talking about
a subway is more popular than the actual subway system,
but the subway series is being played. And there was
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a conversation about what it's like to be a Yankees
fan and what it's like to be a Mets fan,
and how the Mets when you go to City Field
it's more of a party atmosphere, more of a let's
have a good time, where the Yankees are bringing out
this corporate atmosphere and the Mets trying to present their
games as a party. Was the message from Steve Cohen,
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the team's owner. You have two franchises here, one with
twenty seven championships, the other does not have twenty seven.
But it's a question of where would you rather go
as a sportsman. Would you rather go to the party
at city Field and watch the Mets play, or would
you rather go to the more corporate, stuffy feeling of
the new Yankee Stadium and watch the Bronx Bombers.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
That sounded like a dig against the Yankees there, even
though you're trying to sound like impartial, but.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
You're like or a stuffy corporate.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I know where i'd want to go. I know where
i'd want to go, and I'd rather go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I think I would.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
If it's one more opportunity and I have to pick
between the Mets and the Yankees.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I think it is Yankee Stadium, but I.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Think what's great is that obviously Crosstown rivals, Subway series,
the Mets leaning into the opposite makes total sense to me.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Even if you didn't want this, but.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You're like, we should, we should be exact opposite of
what they're doing. I think it's great, but I would
I think I would take.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
The Yankees the corporate stuffy.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The only reason I wouldn't go to the Yankees was
because it's the newer stadium. Sure, I haven't been to
the new stadium. I was only at the old Yankee
Stadium for the All Star festivities in two thousand and eight,
which was still pretty cool, but it was piece of history.
But I know not everybody loves the new Yankee Stadium,
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even though it was right next door. There's a lot
of that corporate stuffiness that comes with it, but it's
still Yankee Stadium whether it's new or not, and it's
not like City Field is this long standing ballpark. So
for the traditional guy in me, they're both newer ballparks.
I'll just go to the Yankees one that I feel
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has more cachet. If I'm bringing the family along and
we're going to a ballgame, if there's more opportunities for
my son, then maybe we're going to the Mets game
to have more of a more of a fun family time.
But I don't think that should be the ultimate I
think that should be an alternative to what is what
(07:27):
you're saying, And that's what I agree with to what
maybe the Yankees provide.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Absolutely, I think you I didn't think of that, but yes, like,
if I'm taking friends that maybe don't necessarily care about
the history of baseball or like who the Yankees are,
then yeah, you take them to what seems to be
a quote unquote a quote unquote more fun atmosphere. But
this is I think the reason they lean into this
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is because they are crosstown rivals.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
It's the same thing with the Clippers, the Clippers.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Moving away from Crypto, from Staples, wanting to have their
own identity and very different environment.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Even if you you know what, even while.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
The Clippers were still at Staple Center, there was drastic
differences when watching a Laker game and a Clipper game
at Staple Center.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
The Lake show is a real thing.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
They turned the lights off in the seats and it's
like the lights are on for the game. At the Clippers,
it was never like that. All the lights are on,
so like you can just kind of like hang out.
You have to lean into the opposite, especially when you're
so close with a team like this.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Would it be comparable? And I'm not trying to diminish,
but I'd been to I'd been to Clipper games at Staples,
that've been to Laker games at Staples. I don't know
what it's like at into a dome. But would you
compare it to a steakhouse versus Chuck E Cheese? Is
that too far of a sort of comparison considering the
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quality of food. But it feels like the Lakers. It's
it's a Hollywood production, but the lights are damned exactly,
all the spotlights on it where you go to a
Clippers game and it's just everything is everywhere and it's pandemonium.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Yes, and then now into it, we went from Chuck
E Cheese.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
To David Busters. Okay, you get like we leveled up
into it.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Home is awesome.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
It is incredible, the technological aspect of it. The seats
are a little bit bigger, so it's a little bit
more comfortable. It's a real thing. But yeah, like it's
still a very fun atmosphere. They're trying to, you know,
lean into maybe the college atmosphere also, you know, with
the wall and all of that, but it's always it's
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always leaned in that direction.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Compared to I don't Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I don't think anybody says I want to go
to a game and have a corporate feel. No, nobody
says that and I and that's why I think that
your Clippers Lakers comparison is even a lot better to this,
because nobody is choosing to be in a stuffy environment.
Nobody wants that. But the Yankees do have tradition, do
have Monument Park. If Morelos moved across the street, there's
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stuff there, and they're the Yankees. It's the pinstripes, it's
Yankee Stadium, it's the Bronx, it's the whole deal. I
get that, But if you are trying to make that decision,
nobody's ever going to pick the corporate aspect of it,
which shows why how the Lakers do it. And again
it's something that really the Lakers are the only team
that can do it. If another organization tried to do
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what the Lakers did, it wouldn't necessarily work. Unfortunately, I
think there are probably more teams ondoing what the Yankees
have done that are maybe corporate in stale, and I
don't think that that works. NFL stadiums, by and large,
for the most part, are pretty stale and boring. You
love football, your fans are there, but in terms of
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like anything different, it just completely and it may be unfair,
but it completely pales in comparison to what you would
get at a college football game. When you have marching bands,
when you have color guard, when you have all these
other things. It's just a completely different atmosphere. But then again,
you're have a different expectation when you come to an
NFL stadium. But even in the National Football League, there's
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a stark contrast.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
That word though, corporate, like Steve Cohen saying that he
knew what he was doing, because he didn't say, oh,
you know, we just want families to have a fun
time instead of it being just about baseball, because that's
really really You can also word it like that that
the Yankees are just about baseball.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
But he chose to.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Say corporate to make it sound more boring, to make
it you know what I mean, He chose that word
on purpose, good point, instead of saying another way of
they all they care about is baseball and they want
to win.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
We're over here trying to have a fun time.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But there is there is the corporate aspect to it.
When you see the Yankee seats behind home plate that
are enormous, and you know that they cost thousands.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Of dollars to totally and how finally, you can't have
facial hair like all of the things from that they've
been doing their entire history.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's great for you. You can grow that mustache and
go check out a Yankees game and maybe play for
the Yankees. I am curious though, because you have ties
to the Dodgers, who work for the Dodgers, and you're
always at the ballpark so you may not be the
best person to ask for this, but do you go
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to the ballpark for the game.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
A Dodger game specifically, because see, that's what.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I g that's what this is. I think at getting
at the heart of why your point about Cohen using
corporate is so important here, because I don't think everybody
goes to the ballpark for the game.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Right especially now.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yes, yeah, it's a social event.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It's a social event. Honestly, this is going to sound ridiculous.
It can be a culinary event, yes, considering on all
of the things in the ways that teams go to
prevent to present new food options. Look at this, you know,
Texas Dollar Dog. It's thirty bucks, but it's got you know,
(13:05):
so many things on a piled on and so you
go like, I got to go and get that. I
got to go to the ballgame. So you're paying basically
a cover charge to get into that restaurant that is
a ballpark, and you don't necessarily care how the Texas
Rangers do that night.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
You're so right, because especially now with social media, you
can see pictures of oh, this week, we're gonna have
this item to eat. Ryan Berschinger went to a game
at Dodger Stadium this year with his now wife and
wanted to get a specialty drink.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I didn't even know. I didn't even know what was
going on.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
And he said he waited in line, waited in line,
and never got it because they sold.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Out over a drink.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
And I can't remember what it is.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
We'll ask him during the break because he's not in
there anymore unless he's listening and comes running and tells us.
But that is a real thing. And with the pictures
social media. Dodgers have a stand. It's called Dueling Dogs,
and whatever team we're playing, there's a Dodger dog and
then a specialty hot dog based on the team we're playing.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Oh, and it's one of it.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I think it's our our busiest stand because every week,
every home stand, it changes.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yes, there's something new, something new. So if the Brewers
were in town, maybe a brot because.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Exactly exactly exactly. Yeah, that's a good yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But why do you go to you're a baseball fan.
You do the Sick podcast with Ryan Berschinger and Manzi here,
why do you go to baseball games?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I generally I'm going like for rather the pitching matchup
or the last time I went to a Dodger game
is like, oh, I want to go see O Tanigally. Yeah, Like,
I'm generally there for the game, but it depends on
who I'm with too. If I'm taking my dad or
something like that, like it's more for the game. But
if I'm going with friends or something like that, We're
going to have a few and go drink.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, Sam, We're just going for the whole experience. Like
maybe get to one or two Dodger games a year,
and so, you know, just going for the experience everything,
food and the game itself.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I think that there's it's more split down the lines.
I know Isaac has gone to many games as a
media member, but uh, it's tough to separate, to separate that,
but we did you take your kids more for fun
or to go to watch the actual game? Isaac?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I wouldn't knowing my kids, they destroy the whole ballpark
by the fifth inning. And just like you said, Dan,
just because I've done it so much from a media standpoint,
I just I'm not in that mindset to go to
the game. The interesting thing related to food and games.
I don't know if people out there know this, but
when I covered the team, the Dodgers gave free hot,
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free Dodger dogs to the media starting with the fifth inning,
and I was so excited, only to find out that
the media Dodger dogs.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Were boiled, not grilled. And there's a big different.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yes, I only get grilled Dodger dogs. Why would they
do that to you? Why short you liked that.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Those were the media, Why can't they just throw them
on the.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Grillsh But there is an enormous difference. I went to
a Dodger game, gosh, probably fifteen years ago. They were
out of it. The Diamondbacks are out of it. The
soul puris on October first, on a Friday night, was
to go and eat Dodger dogs. The game didn't matter.
My buddy had tickets that he got from work. All right,
(16:09):
let's go, and so I went. I drove essentially sat
in traffic so I could eat two Dodger hot dogs.
That was the most. That one is not enough, but
three is way too many. But so for the culinary
aspect of it, I went for the Dodger dog. I
think few and because there's so many games, and take
out September because September doesn't count. Because teams are in
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it and there are big games, but from from April
until August, it is about most of the time about
the experience, which is why when we had the Brewers
Pirates game a week and a half ago and Milwaukee
sold out American Family Field on a Wednesday afternoon for
Schemes against mis Aowski was such a breath of fresh
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air because people were going to watch the game. Yes, yes,
because because if your duties with the Dodgers, Monty's like,
I'm not going to be in on Friday because it's
shoeo Tani bobblehead night or whatever like like, there's there's
so many different ways to bring people. People go to
the ballpark for that. For the gift I want with
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Jason Stewart to the game on Jackie Robinson Day because
the guy that he usually goes with couldn't use his
ticket and the lines were crazy to get the free
Jackie Robinson jersey, and in fact, the ticket holder whose
ticket I took said, I just want the jersey, which
is fine. I don't absolutely but it also shows you
on why you would go to the ballpark, and it
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usually doesn't have anything to do with the actual game,
so Steve Cohen using that phrase to your point is
very very very very smart.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Yes, is it he knew what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Can we get back to the subject of the subject
of hot dogs? So hot dogs you can eat raw
like they're already cooked. Essentially is boiling them just to
heat them up? Essentially, like because they're you can what
is it really doing to them? It's just heating them up.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Yes, ruin them, but it doesn't does it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Really change them? All it does is heat them up. Right,
you're just eating. It's like eating them out of the package.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
With the war So you can get hot dog stock
for your soup later.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So I can make yes delicious chicken noodle hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
If I didn't want to throw up watching Joey Chestnut
eat seventy I'm not it. Yeah, eating cold hot dogs
just made me makes me wonder on how are those hot?
Those can't be hot on stage? They have to be
they've been sitting out in the sun. I don't know. Yeah,
it's like on a cooking show. You want to go
first because when they judge your food, it's the warmest,
not third, because your rack of ribs is gonna be cool.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
You know what's funny is I never even thought about that,
the cold hot dog thing. But like when I was
a kid, there were these things called gobble sticks, which
are basically just looking back cold hot dogs that you
give to kids as a snack.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, I think when I was a kid, I would
just eat a cold hot dog.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I think I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh, I definitely did something boiling. All it does is
just heat it up.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
That explains a lot about you, Sam.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But it is much better warm than oh.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So it's Isaac's point, the ultimate is grilled. But if
I had to choose, I don't think that it's you know,
they say six and one hand half dozen in the
other that's not a hotter cold hot dog. I still
would take the boiled one over sure over the cold one. Yeah, definitely,
What the heck is happening on this show? It just
can be under a here on Fox Sports Radio. I'd
(19:31):
never thought about that, And now there's a whole question.
They have to be cold the hot dog eating context.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They have to be cold, but after being cooked, not
cold like They're.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Not going to be cold like refrigerate. They're gonna be
like the temperature of the outside. You have somebody waking
up by Coney Island and getting there.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
That's a good point to boiled.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
They are boiled to boil, So five hundred hot dogs.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Google's AI overviews, So this could be wrong. Cautious hot
dogs using the hot dog Eating Contest are not served cold.
They're typically grilled and allowed to cool slightly to prevent
mouth burns before being eaten.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Okay, yes they're definitely not cold.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
But I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Don't see the grill. I don't see the grill marks
on them. Tho when they're eating them so.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Well they're scarfing them down, how can you really see?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
True, you see they go over the film like the
tape and see find the grill marks.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Good thing is sometimes you can see what they're like
coming on the way out as well. She's Monzi Blago,
so I'm dan Byer. Look, there were bets on people
vomiting today, like there were like there were there were
lines on of somebody who's gonna throw up at the
hot dog eating Contest. We'll just keep it at that.
Iowa Sam's here, So it was both Bentson and Isaac
Low and Cron hanging out for Covino and Rich here
on a Friday in Independence Day Friday on the fourth
(20:45):
of July. Coming up next to where it's from hot
Dogs to Pizza we Go a pizza dilemma that Cavino
and Rich always will like to dive into. And Clayton
Kershaw joined the history this week. What could someone else
have the opportunity to do the same? That's all next here,
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Speaker 6 (21:58):
They were off all day.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, I believe so so I believe that was the case.
Iowa Sam's giving the thumbs up. They got stuff to do.
They got a Mets Yankees game to watch, where Isaac
will give us an update. Another change in that store,
no one. I want to just say one thing from
what we were talking about with the with the stadiums
(22:23):
in Major League Baseball, because I mentioned the NFL being
stale compared to college football, and I actually think that
the best atmosphere is a college basketball game. And it's
not every college basketball game because sometimes the arena's half empty.
But if you get a team a school that is good,
(22:45):
and you get it in that compact, you know feel
where it's not it's neat. Trust me, we all get
goosebumps with one hundred thousand people doing the same thing.
But there's also something about having it in an intimate
sort of setting of college basketball, which is why like
the Cameron crazies in Duke and I've never been and
would love to go to a game there. Why it
(23:06):
draws so much attention, But I have been to other
basketball venues where it has been exciting, and it's just
it's it's different and it feels better, and there's there's
no corporate stuff with college sports, although now it seems
like it's becoming very corporate with everything that's going on,
but there's something natural about it. And we went through
(23:28):
this phase where all these schools got new arenas and
they were moving out of their old gyms and you
lost a lot of it. But it makes a place
like Duke in a place like Kansas and other places
Polly Pavilion just down the road from US If UCLA
is winning, what a place to watch a game like?
To me, that's like, that's my favorite spot to be
at would be at a college basketball game because there
(23:50):
is just a different energy.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I believe that.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
I mean my college basketball experience has been Polly Pavilion, Ucla.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I think I've maybe.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Seen a us SEE basketball game, But you're right, the
intimacy is probably what sells it in comparison to a
college football game. The excitement is still there, but when
you're in a smaller arena.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I took my wife is was not not a
sports fan at all, and the first college football game
that she had ever been to. I took her to
a Rose Bowl when Ohio State was playing Washington a
few years back, and she loved it. But she loved
it because it's Ohio State fans and then there were
Washington fans, and then there's the band. Yeah, and then
you have a flyover and so there was everything that
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came with it. What I want to tell her is
this doesn't happen every game. However, the games that you
go to will be awesome for other reasons because there
still will be a band, there will still be like
so there's there's that sort of atmosphere as well. But
I'll take it at some point. But so she's starting
at a Rose Bowl.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Now her expectations are real high.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Was that the Jackson Smith and Jigba game where he
had like no, that was against Utah?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So yeah, the late Dwayne Haskins okay, yeah, took a
lead against Washington Huskies, almost came all the way back
in the second half. Ended up being Urban Myers Final
was Urban Meyers final game as that coach. But yeah,
so that's where her bar is set.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Well, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I know right? Yes, yeah, absolutely, nowhere to go but down. Yeah, sorry, babe,
you know sorry. This is such a letdown that, you know,
the the flyover didn't happen and they didn't drape the
you know US flag across the entire field.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I should have gone to a Serritos College.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Football game first, yes, and then moved up to that.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
At least.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
We could have watched COEC College of the Canyons. Yes,
let's go check out a game. All right, she's Monty Belanos,
I'm Dan Byer give you know, Rich like to talk
about pizza. We did have pizza here for lunch today.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Yeah, danz real MVP.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Eight slices of pepperoni and sausage, eight slices of cheese.
At last check, there were eleven slices gone, five remaining.
All five were cheese. So when we talk about the
order this is you think you're doing the right thing
by doing all cheese, and then you realize that outside
(26:14):
of Manzi, no one really wants all cheese. But no
one wants all the toppings either, and so Canvino and
Rich always talk about the perfect pizza order, which is
something that you would been. We've had controversies here at
Fox Sports Radio and ordering pizzas and nobody getting it right.
I'm not saying we got it wrong today, but there
were five pieces of cheese still left with all the
(26:35):
other good stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
That's Kevin McAllister over from home alone.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Everyone can have a cheese, even if you wanted pepperoni.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Everyone could have a cheese.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
You're eating a cheese at this point, Dan and enjoying it,
so it's better still to have leftover cheese. But I
will say this is the first time where I feel
that cheese has been the one left over all the
other times.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Is the first one gone all the other times.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
There was a time to Lent where we ordered like
six pizzas and burshing or ordered half cheese, not half
of pizza. Three of the pizzas were cheese. He said
it was four. I'm pretty sure it was six. It
was it was, and there was enormous There were like
twenty two slices of cheese pizza left and three slices
of pepperoni left. There is a balance. The tricky part
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is is if we were to order two pizzas. We're
not going to order a whole pepperoni and a half
sausage and half cheese because the sausage may get on
the cheese, which would make you know, wouldn't make it
a veggie. But so it was just easier to go
all cheese and half pepperoni and.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Half sausag And it is easier I mentioned to take
pepperoni off. I don't mind taking meat off of my pizza.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
It doesn't bother me one bit. It's just some meat
like is crumbled or like smaller pieces. Pepperoni is easier,
you know, I won't It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
No.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Anything such as pickles, I'm throwing it back. I'm with
you on the pickles, on anything, on anything.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
That's a pizza topic. Now, I don't care pickles. Yeah,
I've seen it.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Like and it's pickle. By the way, Mary pro pickle.
So we got a bunch of anti pickle people here.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah. Popeye's just did a big pickle thing like with
some of their stuff lately. To Sam's point, it is
in I just it wouldn't be on my pizza. That' done.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Monce, you've done. Pickle juice as a chaser, Absolutely not.
It gets the job done.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I'm good, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Pass on the chaser more for me. Yes, you can
have it all tonight during the fireworks. To just make
sure you get home safely. Let's go over safely to
the news desk, guys, Glowing Crown is here to give
us the latest of what's happening on this Independence Day.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh fireworks at a Wriglear Field. Because in the cubs
eleven to three win over the Cardinals, they had a
franchise record eight home runs, including three by Michael Bushy
now has seventeen this season, two by Pete crow Armstrong,
He's got twenty three. The Cubs head back to back
home runs in three different innings.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
The eight home.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Runs ties the record for the most home runs ever
hit by it on the fourth of July. The other
team to do it the Boston Red Sox in nineteen
seventy seven on the fourth of July. Right now, the
New York Mets up six to five over the Yankees
in the top of the eighth inning at City Field,
as the Mets went back out in front on a
two run home run by Jeff McNeil, is ninth of
the season. The Mets won Soto a two run home
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run earlier against his former team. He now has twenty three.
Jason Dominguez two home runs for the Yankees, He's got eight.
Aaron Judge also hit his thirty second home run of
the season, and Seattle the Mariners up three to nothing
over the Pirates in the top half of the sixth inning.
A two run home run by cal Raley in the
bottom of the first gave him thirty four to lead
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the Majors. Their other run came on a home run
by Randy Arozarena, his fifth home run in the last
five games, accounting for the Mariners three to nothing lead
over Pittsburgh. And what I'm about to tell you seems
absolutely impossible to lead to believe, but I swear it's
the absolute truth regarding the Mariner's Pirates game picture.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It so.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
The roof of T Mobile Park in Seattle is open today.
Before today's game, a salmon fell out of the sky
and landed in the stands behind the first base dugout.
It turned out that multiple witnesses saw a falcon dropped
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the salmon while the falcon was being chased by an eagle,
the most Fourth of July thing ever, an eagle chasing
a falcon who drops the salmon onto a baseball field.
There's actually security video of the salmon falling behind the
first base dugout and almost hitting a guy.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
And that's the audio of it back to you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
All right, right now? Yeah, yeah, I didn't know what
the search, so I did salmon t mobile. That's that's
what I did.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I did salmon falcon, and it showed. If you do
salmon falcon, it shows the video of the salmon falling
from two different angles from the security camera. It happened
before the game. All the stands were empty.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I have no doubt that the salmon may have come
from a talent of a bird.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I just have a hard time believing that the falcon
was being chased by the eagles.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
That's what that's what witness to say.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Other people theorized it was a plant from the Pike's
Place market down the block.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So you're telling me that the Eagles are going to
be better than the falcons, but the falcons are going
to be better than the Seahawks? Is that what we're
trying to say? I do it.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
I'm trying to say. It seems like Mother Nature is
trying to say it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I I believe this story is true.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Apparently Mariner's broadcaster Rick Riz, legendary Mariners broadcaster up in Seattle,
was one of the witnesses of this.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I don't I the eagle stuff on the fourth of
July has I'm gonna I don't want to sound stupid,
but I'm going to for would an eagle even eat
a falcon? I don't think. I don't think that it
was going after the fish.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, I want to steal it exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, Now I really do sound so I sound dumber
than I thought I even would by saying that, let's
go live.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
To Fox Sports Radio or anthology analyst Dan Byer with
the latest.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I Hey, gosh, now I feel like I'm moron. I
feel it never dawned on me that that I still
don't believe. By the way, I still don't believe it.
There's it's too good to be true. For the fourth
of July. There's no way. Yeah, there's no way, no way.
The eagle's probably you know, you could get eight salmon.
(32:48):
There's water right there. They can dive in and get it.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
That one was already out of the water.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Pick on the pick on the hawk. All right, all right,
we've seen that before. I'm swimming upstream here pun intended.
All right, she's Monty Blos. I'm Dan Byer. Some baseball
purists think we're gonna have an upstream battle to get
another three thousand strikeout pitcher in the near future. Oh,
(33:15):
somebody could change that with an ultimate decision. Who is
that person? What is that decision? She's Moncey. I'm Dan
someone who could change history. Will tell you who it
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
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Speaker 9 (33:38):
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Speaker 1 (33:38):
On Fox Sports Radio, I'm Dan Bayer. She's Monty Blagos.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Is this song because of the salmon? I just started
something flying?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
That is actually you're connecting, uh the seattle to Soundgarden.
This is Soundguarden's fourth of July. That's very good job
on your partner, That's what I heard.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
I was like, Oh, I get Sam here, I heard it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Did you know that was Chris Cornell and Soundgarden? No,
you thought, where'd you think of with the Salmon.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Then the story that that it just that's what that's
just what I thought of.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Okay, weird.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Oh yeah, but I did not Good job.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh you, good job. Good job to you. You've made
Iowa Sam's day, that you've recognized the tie in, right, Yeah,
that's all you ask for Sam for people. Yeah, actively listen,
don't passively listen, actively listen. Great job. Yeah, that's all
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You can find me at Dan byeron Fox. A lot
of discussion this week after Clayton Kershaw got his three
thousandth strikeout of his career, was Who's next? And when
(34:57):
you looked at the list of players like Chris and
others that could have an opportunity with someone like Sale
who's injured may seem a bit further off than you
would realize. Yesterday on Covino and Rich I pushed back
at the thought that it's going to be forever for
somebody to reach that three thousand mark. I feel that
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there are other marks that are more unattainable. But also
in the same breath, Manzi realized that we shouldn't have
people always having three thousand strikeouts since there are only
twenty players in the history to have accomplished the feat.
So no, duh that it may be a while for players,
but you're not going to have, you know, seventeen players
(35:37):
coming in and accomplishing that feat. That's just not what
the record is. But we may have more than just
Clayton Kershaw possibly setting a record if one player did
the unthinkable. And I bring in our executive producer Bo Benson,
because Bo and Manzi do the Sick podcast covering the
(36:01):
Dodgers with Ryan Berschinger and Bo, you brought up the
point that one former player has the ability to do
something pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Yeah, he hasn't pitched since twenty twenty three, but he's
sitting on nine and seventy nine strikeouts, so he's twenty
one shy that is Zach Granki of the Kansas City Royals,
last team he pitched for, which when he did he
had a six point one strikeouts per nine, So realistically
they could do it just in four or five starts.
(36:31):
He could totally do it. I think Rich Hill recently,
he's like fifty years old and he signed a minor
league deal with somebody. So there's really no reason for
Granky not to try to to get to three thousand.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It would be amazing, and I'll tell you what I know,
it would seem cheap, and the whole point of like
of Zach Granki's career has been talked about how he
doesn't love the spotlight, likes to be by himself and
do his own things. So this would be one and
eighty degrees opposite of who Zach Greenky is to come
back to try to get a record, to be popular.
(37:07):
So it's never going to happen.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
But it's not because like you said, but because of
his well.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
We assume that.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Yeah, I don't think he's like the spotlight. I think
that's why he left the Dodgers. I truly think he
just likes to live a simple life. If he did
come back, I don't think it would be considered cheap
because of who he is. Like, we know that if
it was someone else that had been gunning for the spotlight,
gunning for these moments, then we would call it cheap.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
But because it's Zach Greenky, who truly like he doesn't care,
but he if he can do.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
It, he's not gonna, but he should it would it
would totally be awesome. Well huh, it would totally be
for the attention and the record.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Yeah, but but you know he doesn't want the attention.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
It would be for the record.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
It would be to be able to be like I
am the twenty first player.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yes, if you wanted to say, hey, Kansas City Royals
for your organization, you're gonna have a three thousand strikeout guy,
considering that's where he started and ended his career, that
could be a solid for them. But I think it
would be a very selfish mark. By the way, there
has been zero talk of this happening. Yeah, but it's
(38:20):
just the point of Bow bringing it up that do
we realize how close Zach Cranky actually came, which I
think brings his career into even more into focus on
how different he was than what we think of the
big time pitchers in Major League Baseball that he'd be
willing to just walk away. It's very Barry Sanders esque
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in a way of like becoming so close to something
and then walking away from it. That's what it feels like.
Was Zach Cranky. But to your point, another name that
was closer within this era, and why I just don't think.
I don't think that it's unheard of that we're going
to get another twenty or a thirty excuse me, three
(39:03):
thousand strikeout pitcher in the next I know, fifteen to
twenty years.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
Yeah, you're really not thinking that the way we utilize
pitchers today makes a difference. Like this is already a
rare achievement, So not pitching a full game anymore, you
don't think that's gonna be a big factor?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
And I do?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You do?
Speaker 6 (39:22):
I do.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
That's the only reason why I am not agreeing with
you completely. But you're right, it was already a difficult
thing to achieve. So it's not I get that whole
side of it. But it's true, Like yesterday the Dodgers,
Dustin May was on the mound and he went what
eight innings, almost bo but the minute he started giving
up those hits, they took him out and after the
game they were like, he thought, I may actually pitch.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
A complete game.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
He'd never done that in his career.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah, but he's Dustin May and he's not hate always
bringing up Paul's schemes in this, but he's not to
that level where you're not pulling him. I'by ray at
a complete game for the Giants last night. So we're
seeing complete games. We're seeing pitchers do this. This isn't
just every pitcher is being taken out in the sixth inning.
(40:09):
And in fact, if you look at some of the
horses that you have in Major League Baseball, they're pitching
their fair share, just like Skeens hasn't pitched, has pitched
more than six or more innings in every start of
thinking except one this year. So it's still there if
you get that. I don't want to say one of
one because it's not one of one. But I still
think that we treat those top level aces differently.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
You're not wrong about that, And yes, you're right, we're
going to see these complete games, but like scattered throughout
random pictures, Yes, not the way.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Maybe not that we've seen with Verlander and shirt Yeah kersha,
She's Monty Belanos. I'm Dan Byer in the neighborhood. Next
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I happy for the July Everybody, Let's go America USA
Happy two forty nine. We've gotten some tweets already there
it is us. Say do I say that's right? Merca,
we have that well. Iowa Sam is hanging out with
us as well. On this Independence Day. We watch watch
(00:44):
I met, Yeah, we're still on the watch. I just
was saying happy Organic. I just responded that it's just
been programmed to responds. I get it. Great to have
you with us. I'm Bo Benson is here, Happy fourth
Bow and Isaac Loancron is at the news desk. And
don't forget, guys, Friday.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Friday, Friday, Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Friday, it feels like a Wednesday. I don't know about you, guys.
I thought for sure of like Hopday, and no it wasn't.
We're at the end of the week. We have made
it some of you have already some of you left
on Wednesday. You're like, I'm gonna take Thursday off. We're
gonna have a long weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Take Monday off because nobody wants to go to work Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
What is it about Mondays? I yeah, I take off
as many Mondays as I can.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I've said I don't like Tuesdays. I think Tuesdays are
are worse. And there's something also, we'll get this in
a couple of months. The Tuesdays on during football season,
Oh my goodness, because you've just had Thursday night football, Friday,
high school, however you want. But you're still in football
mode Saturday all day with college Sunday. Monday you go
(01:51):
back to work. But hey, there's Monday Night football. Maybe
your fantasy game is still up. You can maybe throw
some bets down on that Monday night game. On Tuesday.
I just I feel like Will Smith in the empty
Fresh Prince living room on Tuesday nights during the NFL season,
it is and Thursday just seems so far away for
the next week to start that it isn't. It flies by,
(02:14):
But those Tuesday nights are just they're lonely.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Since I played volleyball. Tuesdays are my busiest day.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
I tend to work all day and then I go
play and then I pass out.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's true. Yeah, but your I don't think that you
are like most people. Sure not everybody has a Tuesday
night indoor volleyball league.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
No, no, no, no. Where we won last season.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So thank you, no congratulations.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Yeah, we shouldn't have won. We were not the best.
We just did not make the mistakes.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It happens, Yes, it does. New York Yankees, they may
have been the best team last year. They didn't win.
They weren't the best.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
They weren't the best team.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
But right now they're leading the New York Mets five
to four, and I feel that it's only fitting here
on Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio to talk
about a topic that that involves not only Rich's favorite team,
but Cavino's favorite team, the Yankees and Mets playing the
subway series. Complete side note, his subway becomes so popular
(03:11):
to the think of the sandwich instead of the transportation
system now because it is like darn near like I
am almost to that point. I know you're still thinking
the subway series with New York, but subway has gotten
to be so prevalent that I almost think sandwich first
as opposed to the actual trains.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I think at one point maybe, but I do feel
like Subway the sandwich places has fallen off. I used
to go to Subway all the time. I have not
had a Subway sandwich in maybe ten years.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
They are everywhere, but they're they're expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And Okay, this isn't a rain on Subway's parade.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Well I'm gonna all right, Well, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I just am saying that I think the recognition. It's honestly,
when Staples Centers changed from Staples to Crypto, it made
sense because it became so synonymous with that arena that
I did not think of the store.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Oh yeah, you almost forgot that there was an office
store named Staples.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yes, yes. So when it changed to people like, oh,
we're gonna still call it Staples, Like imagine that, people
are like, no, we want to call it that other
corporate brand. But that's how ingrained it became. And and
and it's like that, I think in Houston, minute made
like you still would call it Mini. Made both said
earlier something else now, isn't that? Yeah? Yeah, talking about
(04:36):
giants home stadium. I think they've had a bunch of
different It was pack Bell, then it was AT and T,
and now is it Oracle. Yeah, yes, but you still
reference either pack Bell or AT and T. Right, that
ends up happening, the point being, I'm not talking about
a subway is more popular than the actual subway system,
but the subway series is being played. And there was
(04:58):
a conversation about what it's like to be a Yankees
fan and what it's like to be a Mets fan,
and how the Mets when you go to City Field
it's more of a party atmosphere, more of a let's
have a good time, where the Yankees are bringing out
this corporate atmosphere and the Mets trying to present their
games as a party. Was the message from Steve Cohen,
(05:21):
the team's owner. You have two franchises here, one with
twenty seven championships, the other does not have twenty seven.
But it's a question of where would you rather go
as a sportsman. Would you rather go to the party
at city Field and watch the Mets play, or would
you rather go to the more corporate, stuffy feeling of
the new Yankee Stadium and watch the Bronx Bombers.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
That sounded like a dig against the Yankees there, even
though you're trying to sound like impartial, but.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
You're like or a stuffy corporate.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I know where i'd want to go. I know where
i'd want to go, and I'd rather go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I think I would.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
If it's one more opportunity and I have to pick
between the Mets and the Yankees.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I think it is Yankee Stadium, but I.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Think what's great is that obviously Crosstown rivals, Subway series,
the Mets leaning into the opposite makes total sense to me.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Even if you didn't want this, but.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You're like, we should, we should be exact opposite of
what they're doing. I think it's great, but I would
I think I would take.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
The Yankees the corporate stuffy.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The only reason I wouldn't go to the Yankees was
because it's the newer stadium. Sure, I haven't been to
the new stadium. I was only at the old Yankee
Stadium for the All Star festivities in two thousand and eight,
which was still pretty cool, but it was piece of history.
But I know not everybody loves the new Yankee Stadium,
(06:44):
even though it was right next door. There's a lot
of that corporate stuffiness that comes with it, but it's
still Yankee Stadium whether it's new or not, and it's
not like City Field is this long standing ballpark. So
for the traditional guy in me, they're both newer ballparks.
I'll just go to the Yankees one that I feel
(07:05):
has more cachet. If I'm bringing the family along and
we're going to a ballgame, if there's more opportunities for
my son, then maybe we're going to the Mets game
to have more of a more of a fun family time.
But I don't think that should be the ultimate I
think that should be an alternative to what is what
(07:27):
you're saying, And that's what I agree with to what
maybe the Yankees provide.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Absolutely, I think you I didn't think of that, but yes, like,
if I'm taking friends that maybe don't necessarily care about
the history of baseball or like who the Yankees are,
then yeah, you take them to what seems to be
a quote unquote a quote unquote more fun atmosphere. But
this is I think the reason they lean into this
(07:53):
is because they are crosstown rivals.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
It's the same thing with the Clippers, the Clippers.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Moving away from Crypto, from Staples, wanting to have their
own identity and very different environment.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Even if you you know what, even while.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
The Clippers were still at Staple Center, there was drastic
differences when watching a Laker game and a Clipper game
at Staple Center.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
The Lake show is a real thing.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
They turned the lights off in the seats and it's
like the lights are on for the game. At the Clippers,
it was never like that. All the lights are on,
so like you can just kind of like hang out.
You have to lean into the opposite, especially when you're
so close with a team like this.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Would it be comparable? And I'm not trying to diminish,
but I'd been to I'd been to Clipper games at Staples,
that've been to Laker games at Staples. I don't know
what it's like at into a dome. But would you
compare it to a steakhouse versus Chuck E Cheese? Is
that too far of a sort of comparison considering the
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quality of food. But it feels like the Lakers. It's
it's a Hollywood production, but the lights are damned exactly,
all the spotlights on it where you go to a
Clippers game and it's just everything is everywhere and it's pandemonium.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Yes, and then now into it, we went from Chuck
E Cheese.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
To David Busters. Okay, you get like we leveled up
into it.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Home is awesome.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
It is incredible, the technological aspect of it. The seats
are a little bit bigger, so it's a little bit
more comfortable. It's a real thing. But yeah, like it's
still a very fun atmosphere. They're trying to, you know,
lean into maybe the college atmosphere also, you know, with
the wall and all of that, but it's always it's
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always leaned in that direction.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Compared to I don't Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I don't think anybody says I want to go
to a game and have a corporate feel. No, nobody
says that and I and that's why I think that
your Clippers Lakers comparison is even a lot better to this,
because nobody is choosing to be in a stuffy environment.
Nobody wants that. But the Yankees do have tradition, do
have Monument Park. If Morelos moved across the street, there's
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stuff there, and they're the Yankees. It's the pinstripes, it's
Yankee Stadium, it's the Bronx, it's the whole deal. I
get that, But if you are trying to make that decision,
nobody's ever going to pick the corporate aspect of it,
which shows why how the Lakers do it. And again
it's something that really the Lakers are the only team
that can do it. If another organization tried to do
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what the Lakers did, it wouldn't necessarily work. Unfortunately, I
think there are probably more teams ondoing what the Yankees
have done that are maybe corporate in stale, and I
don't think that that works. NFL stadiums, by and large,
for the most part, are pretty stale and boring. You
love football, your fans are there, but in terms of
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like anything different, it just completely and it may be unfair,
but it completely pales in comparison to what you would
get at a college football game. When you have marching bands,
when you have color guard, when you have all these
other things. It's just a completely different atmosphere. But then again,
you're have a different expectation when you come to an
NFL stadium. But even in the National Football League, there's
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a stark contrast.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
That word though, corporate, like Steve Cohen saying that he
knew what he was doing, because he didn't say, oh,
you know, we just want families to have a fun
time instead of it being just about baseball, because that's
really really You can also word it like that that
the Yankees are just about baseball.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
But he chose to.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Say corporate to make it sound more boring, to make
it you know what I mean, He chose that word
on purpose, good point, instead of saying another way of
they all they care about is baseball and they want
to win.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
We're over here trying to have a fun time.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But there is there is the corporate aspect to it.
When you see the Yankee seats behind home plate that
are enormous, and you know that they cost thousands.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Of dollars to totally and how finally, you can't have
facial hair like all of the things from that they've
been doing their entire history.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's great for you. You can grow that mustache and
go check out a Yankees game and maybe play for
the Yankees. I am curious though, because you have ties
to the Dodgers, who work for the Dodgers, and you're
always at the ballpark so you may not be the
best person to ask for this, but do you go
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to the ballpark for the game.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
A Dodger game specifically, because see, that's what.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I g that's what this is. I think at getting
at the heart of why your point about Cohen using
corporate is so important here, because I don't think everybody
goes to the ballpark for the game.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Right especially now.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yes, yeah, it's a social event.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It's a social event. Honestly, this is going to sound ridiculous.
It can be a culinary event, yes, considering on all
of the things in the ways that teams go to
prevent to present new food options. Look at this, you know,
Texas Dollar Dog. It's thirty bucks, but it's got you know,
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so many things on a piled on and so you
go like, I got to go and get that. I
got to go to the ballgame. So you're paying basically
a cover charge to get into that restaurant that is
a ballpark, and you don't necessarily care how the Texas
Rangers do that night.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
You're so right, because especially now with social media, you
can see pictures of oh, this week, we're gonna have
this item to eat. Ryan Berschinger went to a game
at Dodger Stadium this year with his now wife and
wanted to get a specialty drink.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I didn't even know. I didn't even know what was
going on.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
And he said he waited in line, waited in line,
and never got it because they sold.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Out over a drink.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
And I can't remember what it is.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
We'll ask him during the break because he's not in
there anymore unless he's listening and comes running and tells us.
But that is a real thing. And with the pictures
social media. Dodgers have a stand. It's called Dueling Dogs,
and whatever team we're playing, there's a Dodger dog and
then a specialty hot dog based on the team we're playing.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Oh, and it's one of it.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I think it's our our busiest stand because every week,
every home stand, it changes.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yes, there's something new, something new. So if the Brewers
were in town, maybe a brot because.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Exactly exactly exactly. Yeah, that's a good yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But why do you go to you're a baseball fan.
You do the Sick podcast with Ryan Berschinger and Manzi here,
why do you go to baseball games?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I generally I'm going like for rather the pitching matchup
or the last time I went to a Dodger game
is like, oh, I want to go see O Tanigally. Yeah, Like,
I'm generally there for the game, but it depends on
who I'm with too. If I'm taking my dad or
something like that, like it's more for the game. But
if I'm going with friends or something like that, We're
going to have a few and go drink.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, Sam, We're just going for the whole experience. Like
maybe get to one or two Dodger games a year,
and so, you know, just going for the experience everything,
food and the game itself.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I think that there's it's more split down the lines.
I know Isaac has gone to many games as a
media member, but uh, it's tough to separate, to separate that,
but we did you take your kids more for fun
or to go to watch the actual game? Isaac?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I wouldn't knowing my kids, they destroy the whole ballpark
by the fifth inning. And just like you said, Dan,
just because I've done it so much from a media standpoint,
I just I'm not in that mindset to go to
the game. The interesting thing related to food and games.
I don't know if people out there know this, but
when I covered the team, the Dodgers gave free hot,
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free Dodger dogs to the media starting with the fifth inning,
and I was so excited, only to find out that
the media Dodger dogs.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Were boiled, not grilled. And there's a big different.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yes, I only get grilled Dodger dogs. Why would they
do that to you? Why short you liked that.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Those were the media, Why can't they just throw them
on the.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Grillsh But there is an enormous difference. I went to
a Dodger game, gosh, probably fifteen years ago. They were
out of it. The Diamondbacks are out of it. The
soul puris on October first, on a Friday night, was
to go and eat Dodger dogs. The game didn't matter.
My buddy had tickets that he got from work. All right,
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let's go, and so I went. I drove essentially sat
in traffic so I could eat two Dodger hot dogs.
That was the most. That one is not enough, but
three is way too many. But so for the culinary
aspect of it, I went for the Dodger dog. I
think few and because there's so many games, and take
out September because September doesn't count. Because teams are in
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it and there are big games, but from from April
until August, it is about most of the time about
the experience, which is why when we had the Brewers
Pirates game a week and a half ago and Milwaukee
sold out American Family Field on a Wednesday afternoon for
Schemes against mis Aowski was such a breath of fresh
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air because people were going to watch the game. Yes, yes,
because because if your duties with the Dodgers, Monty's like,
I'm not going to be in on Friday because it's
shoeo Tani bobblehead night or whatever like like, there's there's
so many different ways to bring people. People go to
the ballpark for that. For the gift I want with
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Jason Stewart to the game on Jackie Robinson Day because
the guy that he usually goes with couldn't use his
ticket and the lines were crazy to get the free
Jackie Robinson jersey, and in fact, the ticket holder whose
ticket I took said, I just want the jersey, which
is fine. I don't absolutely but it also shows you
on why you would go to the ballpark, and it
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usually doesn't have anything to do with the actual game,
so Steve Cohen using that phrase to your point is
very very very very smart.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Yes, is it he knew what he was doing.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Can we get back to the subject of the subject
of hot dogs? So hot dogs you can eat raw
like they're already cooked. Essentially is boiling them just to
heat them up? Essentially, like because they're you can what
is it really doing to them? It's just heating them up.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Yes, ruin them, but it doesn't does it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Really change them? All it does is heat them up. Right,
you're just eating. It's like eating them out of the package.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
With the war So you can get hot dog stock
for your soup later.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So I can make yes delicious chicken noodle hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
If I didn't want to throw up watching Joey Chestnut
eat seventy I'm not it. Yeah, eating cold hot dogs
just made me makes me wonder on how are those hot?
Those can't be hot on stage? They have to be
they've been sitting out in the sun. I don't know. Yeah,
it's like on a cooking show. You want to go
first because when they judge your food, it's the warmest,
not third, because your rack of ribs is gonna be cool.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
You know what's funny is I never even thought about that,
the cold hot dog thing. But like when I was
a kid, there were these things called gobble sticks, which
are basically just looking back cold hot dogs that you
give to kids as a snack.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, I think when I was a kid, I would
just eat a cold hot dog.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I think I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh, I definitely did something boiling. All it does is
just heat it up.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
That explains a lot about you, Sam.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But it is much better warm than oh.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So it's Isaac's point, the ultimate is grilled. But if
I had to choose, I don't think that it's you know,
they say six and one hand half dozen in the
other that's not a hotter cold hot dog. I still
would take the boiled one over sure over the cold one. Yeah, definitely,
What the heck is happening on this show? It just
can be under a here on Fox Sports Radio. I'd
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never thought about that, And now there's a whole question.
They have to be cold the hot dog eating context.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They have to be cold, but after being cooked, not
cold like They're.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Not going to be cold like refrigerate. They're gonna be
like the temperature of the outside. You have somebody waking
up by Coney Island and getting there.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
That's a good point to boiled.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
They are boiled to boil, So five hundred hot dogs.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Google's AI overviews, So this could be wrong. Cautious hot
dogs using the hot dog Eating Contest are not served cold.
They're typically grilled and allowed to cool slightly to prevent
mouth burns before being eaten.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Okay, yes they're definitely not cold.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
But I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Don't see the grill. I don't see the grill marks
on them. Tho when they're eating them so.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Well they're scarfing them down, how can you really see?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
True, you see they go over the film like the
tape and see find the grill marks.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Good thing is sometimes you can see what they're like
coming on the way out as well. She's Monzi Blago,
so I'm dan Byer. Look, there were bets on people
vomiting today, like there were like there were there were
lines on of somebody who's gonna throw up at the
hot dog eating Contest. We'll just keep it at that.
Iowa Sam's here, So it was both Bentson and Isaac
Low and Cron hanging out for Covino and Rich here
on a Friday in Independence Day Friday on the fourth
(20:45):
of July. Coming up next to where it's from hot
Dogs to Pizza we Go a pizza dilemma that Cavino
and Rich always will like to dive into. And Clayton
Kershaw joined the history this week. What could someone else
have the opportunity to do the same? That's all next here,
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Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's Covino and Ritch on Fox Sports Radio on a
fourth of July. Guys off on the holiday. Mancy Belanos
is here. I'm Dan Pyre.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
They were off all day.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, I believe so so I believe that was the case.
Iowa Sam's giving the thumbs up. They got stuff to do.
They got a Mets Yankees game to watch, where Isaac
will give us an update. Another change in that store,
no one. I want to just say one thing from
what we were talking about with the with the stadiums
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in Major League Baseball, because I mentioned the NFL being
stale compared to college football, and I actually think that
the best atmosphere is a college basketball game. And it's
not every college basketball game because sometimes the arena's half empty.
But if you get a team a school that is good,
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and you get it in that compact, you know feel
where it's not it's neat. Trust me, we all get
goosebumps with one hundred thousand people doing the same thing.
But there's also something about having it in an intimate
sort of setting of college basketball, which is why like
the Cameron crazies in Duke and I've never been and
would love to go to a game there. Why it
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draws so much attention, But I have been to other
basketball venues where it has been exciting, and it's just
it's it's different and it feels better, and there's there's
no corporate stuff with college sports, although now it seems
like it's becoming very corporate with everything that's going on,
but there's something natural about it. And we went through
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this phase where all these schools got new arenas and
they were moving out of their old gyms and you
lost a lot of it. But it makes a place
like Duke in a place like Kansas and other places
Polly Pavilion just down the road from US If UCLA
is winning, what a place to watch a game like?
To me, that's like, that's my favorite spot to be
at would be at a college basketball game because there
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is just a different energy.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I believe that.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
I mean my college basketball experience has been Polly Pavilion, Ucla.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I think I've maybe.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Seen a us SEE basketball game, But you're right, the
intimacy is probably what sells it in comparison to a
college football game. The excitement is still there, but when
you're in a smaller arena.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I took my wife is was not not a
sports fan at all, and the first college football game
that she had ever been to. I took her to
a Rose Bowl when Ohio State was playing Washington a
few years back, and she loved it. But she loved
it because it's Ohio State fans and then there were
Washington fans, and then there's the band. Yeah, and then
you have a flyover and so there was everything that
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came with it. What I want to tell her is
this doesn't happen every game. However, the games that you
go to will be awesome for other reasons because there
still will be a band, there will still be like
so there's there's that sort of atmosphere as well. But
I'll take it at some point. But so she's starting
at a Rose Bowl.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Now her expectations are real high.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Was that the Jackson Smith and Jigba game where he
had like no, that was against Utah?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So yeah, the late Dwayne Haskins okay, yeah, took a
lead against Washington Huskies, almost came all the way back
in the second half. Ended up being Urban Myers Final
was Urban Meyers final game as that coach. But yeah,
so that's where her bar is set.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Well, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I know right? Yes, yeah, absolutely, nowhere to go but down. Yeah, sorry, babe,
you know sorry. This is such a letdown that, you know,
the the flyover didn't happen and they didn't drape the
you know US flag across the entire field.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I should have gone to a Serritos College.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Football game first, yes, and then moved up to that.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
At least.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
We could have watched COEC College of the Canyons. Yes,
let's go check out a game. All right, she's Monty Belanos,
I'm Dan Byer give you know, Rich like to talk
about pizza. We did have pizza here for lunch today.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Yeah, danz real MVP.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Eight slices of pepperoni and sausage, eight slices of cheese.
At last check, there were eleven slices gone, five remaining.
All five were cheese. So when we talk about the
order this is you think you're doing the right thing
by doing all cheese, and then you realize that outside
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of Manzi, no one really wants all cheese. But no
one wants all the toppings either, and so Canvino and
Rich always talk about the perfect pizza order, which is
something that you would been. We've had controversies here at
Fox Sports Radio and ordering pizzas and nobody getting it right.
I'm not saying we got it wrong today, but there
were five pieces of cheese still left with all the
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other good stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
That's Kevin McAllister over from home alone.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Everyone can have a cheese, even if you wanted pepperoni.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Everyone could have a cheese.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
You're eating a cheese at this point, Dan and enjoying it,
so it's better still to have leftover cheese. But I
will say this is the first time where I feel
that cheese has been the one left over all the
other times.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Is the first one gone all the other times.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
There was a time to Lent where we ordered like
six pizzas and burshing or ordered half cheese, not half
of pizza. Three of the pizzas were cheese. He said
it was four. I'm pretty sure it was six. It
was it was, and there was enormous There were like
twenty two slices of cheese pizza left and three slices
of pepperoni left. There is a balance. The tricky part
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is is if we were to order two pizzas. We're
not going to order a whole pepperoni and a half
sausage and half cheese because the sausage may get on
the cheese, which would make you know, wouldn't make it
a veggie. But so it was just easier to go
all cheese and half pepperoni and.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Half sausag And it is easier I mentioned to take
pepperoni off. I don't mind taking meat off of my pizza.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
It doesn't bother me one bit. It's just some meat
like is crumbled or like smaller pieces. Pepperoni is easier,
you know, I won't It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
No.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Anything such as pickles, I'm throwing it back. I'm with
you on the pickles, on anything, on anything.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
That's a pizza topic. Now, I don't care pickles. Yeah,
I've seen it.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Like and it's pickle. By the way, Mary pro pickle.
So we got a bunch of anti pickle people here.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah. Popeye's just did a big pickle thing like with
some of their stuff lately. To Sam's point, it is
in I just it wouldn't be on my pizza. That' done.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Monce, you've done. Pickle juice as a chaser, Absolutely not.
It gets the job done.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I'm good, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Pass on the chaser more for me. Yes, you can
have it all tonight during the fireworks. To just make
sure you get home safely. Let's go over safely to
the news desk, guys, Glowing Crown is here to give
us the latest of what's happening on this Independence Day.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh fireworks at a Wriglear Field. Because in the cubs
eleven to three win over the Cardinals, they had a
franchise record eight home runs, including three by Michael Bushy
now has seventeen this season, two by Pete crow Armstrong,
He's got twenty three. The Cubs head back to back
home runs in three different innings.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
The eight home.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Runs ties the record for the most home runs ever
hit by it on the fourth of July. The other
team to do it the Boston Red Sox in nineteen
seventy seven on the fourth of July. Right now, the
New York Mets up six to five over the Yankees
in the top of the eighth inning at City Field,
as the Mets went back out in front on a
two run home run by Jeff McNeil, is ninth of
the season. The Mets won Soto a two run home
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run earlier against his former team. He now has twenty three.
Jason Dominguez two home runs for the Yankees, He's got eight.
Aaron Judge also hit his thirty second home run of
the season, and Seattle the Mariners up three to nothing
over the Pirates in the top half of the sixth inning.
A two run home run by cal Raley in the
bottom of the first gave him thirty four to lead
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the Majors. Their other run came on a home run
by Randy Arozarena, his fifth home run in the last
five games, accounting for the Mariners three to nothing lead
over Pittsburgh. And what I'm about to tell you seems
absolutely impossible to lead to believe, but I swear it's
the absolute truth regarding the Mariner's Pirates game picture.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It so.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
The roof of T Mobile Park in Seattle is open today.
Before today's game, a salmon fell out of the sky
and landed in the stands behind the first base dugout.
It turned out that multiple witnesses saw a falcon dropped
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the salmon while the falcon was being chased by an eagle,
the most Fourth of July thing ever, an eagle chasing
a falcon who drops the salmon onto a baseball field.
There's actually security video of the salmon falling behind the
first base dugout and almost hitting a guy.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
And that's the audio of it back to you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
All right, right now? Yeah, yeah, I didn't know what
the search, so I did salmon t mobile. That's that's
what I did.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I did salmon falcon, and it showed. If you do
salmon falcon, it shows the video of the salmon falling
from two different angles from the security camera. It happened
before the game. All the stands were empty.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I have no doubt that the salmon may have come
from a talent of a bird.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I just have a hard time believing that the falcon
was being chased by the eagles.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
That's what that's what witness to say.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Other people theorized it was a plant from the Pike's
Place market down the block.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So you're telling me that the Eagles are going to
be better than the falcons, but the falcons are going
to be better than the Seahawks? Is that what we're
trying to say? I do it.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
I'm trying to say. It seems like Mother Nature is
trying to say it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I I believe this story is true.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Apparently Mariner's broadcaster Rick Riz, legendary Mariners broadcaster up in Seattle,
was one of the witnesses of this.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I don't I the eagle stuff on the fourth of
July has I'm gonna I don't want to sound stupid,
but I'm going to for would an eagle even eat
a falcon? I don't think. I don't think that it
was going after the fish.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, I want to steal it exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, Now I really do sound so I sound dumber
than I thought I even would by saying that, let's
go live.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
To Fox Sports Radio or anthology analyst Dan Byer with
the latest.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I Hey, gosh, now I feel like I'm moron. I
feel it never dawned on me that that I still
don't believe. By the way, I still don't believe it.
There's it's too good to be true. For the fourth
of July. There's no way. Yeah, there's no way, no way.
The eagle's probably you know, you could get eight salmon.
(32:48):
There's water right there. They can dive in and get it.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
That one was already out of the water.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Pick on the pick on the hawk. All right, all right,
we've seen that before. I'm swimming upstream here pun intended.
All right, she's Monty Blos. I'm Dan Byer. Some baseball
purists think we're gonna have an upstream battle to get
another three thousand strikeout pitcher in the near future. Oh,
(33:15):
somebody could change that with an ultimate decision. Who is
that person? What is that decision? She's Moncey. I'm Dan
someone who could change history. Will tell you who it
is next. On Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
Can you know? And Rich?
Speaker 9 (33:38):
Here?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
On Fox Sports Radio, I'm Dan Bayer. She's Monty Blagos.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Is this song because of the salmon? I just started
something flying?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
That is actually you're connecting, uh the seattle to Soundgarden.
This is Soundguarden's fourth of July. That's very good job
on your partner, That's what I heard.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
I was like, Oh, I get Sam here, I heard it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Did you know that was Chris Cornell and Soundgarden? No,
you thought, where'd you think of with the Salmon.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Then the story that that it just that's what that's
just what I thought of.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Okay, weird.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Oh yeah, but I did not Good job.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh you, good job. Good job to you. You've made
Iowa Sam's day, that you've recognized the tie in, right, Yeah,
that's all you ask for Sam for people. Yeah, actively listen,
don't passively listen, actively listen. Great job. Yeah, that's all
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You can find me at Dan byeron Fox. A lot
of discussion this week after Clayton Kershaw got his three
thousandth strikeout of his career, was Who's next? And when
(34:57):
you looked at the list of players like Chris and
others that could have an opportunity with someone like Sale
who's injured may seem a bit further off than you
would realize. Yesterday on Covino and Rich I pushed back
at the thought that it's going to be forever for
somebody to reach that three thousand mark. I feel that
(35:17):
there are other marks that are more unattainable. But also
in the same breath, Manzi realized that we shouldn't have
people always having three thousand strikeouts since there are only
twenty players in the history to have accomplished the feat.
So no, duh that it may be a while for players,
but you're not going to have, you know, seventeen players
(35:37):
coming in and accomplishing that feat. That's just not what
the record is. But we may have more than just
Clayton Kershaw possibly setting a record if one player did
the unthinkable. And I bring in our executive producer Bo Benson,
because Bo and Manzi do the Sick podcast covering the
(36:01):
Dodgers with Ryan Berschinger and Bo, you brought up the
point that one former player has the ability to do
something pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Yeah, he hasn't pitched since twenty twenty three, but he's
sitting on nine and seventy nine strikeouts, so he's twenty
one shy that is Zach Granki of the Kansas City Royals,
last team he pitched for, which when he did he
had a six point one strikeouts per nine, So realistically
they could do it just in four or five starts.
(36:31):
He could totally do it. I think Rich Hill recently,
he's like fifty years old and he signed a minor
league deal with somebody. So there's really no reason for
Granky not to try to to get to three thousand.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It would be amazing, and I'll tell you what I know,
it would seem cheap, and the whole point of like
of Zach Granki's career has been talked about how he
doesn't love the spotlight, likes to be by himself and
do his own things. So this would be one and
eighty degrees opposite of who Zach Greenky is to come
back to try to get a record, to be popular.
(37:07):
So it's never going to happen.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
But it's not because like you said, but because of
his well.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
We assume that.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Yeah, I don't think he's like the spotlight. I think
that's why he left the Dodgers. I truly think he
just likes to live a simple life. If he did
come back, I don't think it would be considered cheap
because of who he is. Like, we know that if
it was someone else that had been gunning for the spotlight,
gunning for these moments, then we would call it cheap.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
But because it's Zach Greenky, who truly like he doesn't care,
but he if he can do.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
It, he's not gonna, but he should it would it
would totally be awesome. Well huh, it would totally be
for the attention and the record.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Yeah, but but you know he doesn't want the attention.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
It would be for the record.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
It would be to be able to be like I
am the twenty first player.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yes, if you wanted to say, hey, Kansas City Royals
for your organization, you're gonna have a three thousand strikeout guy,
considering that's where he started and ended his career, that
could be a solid for them. But I think it
would be a very selfish mark. By the way, there
has been zero talk of this happening. Yeah, but it's
(38:20):
just the point of Bow bringing it up that do
we realize how close Zach Cranky actually came, which I
think brings his career into even more into focus on
how different he was than what we think of the
big time pitchers in Major League Baseball that he'd be
willing to just walk away. It's very Barry Sanders esque
(38:42):
in a way of like becoming so close to something
and then walking away from it. That's what it feels like.
Was Zach Cranky. But to your point, another name that
was closer within this era, and why I just don't think.
I don't think that it's unheard of that we're going
to get another twenty or a thirty excuse me, three
(39:03):
thousand strikeout pitcher in the next I know, fifteen to
twenty years.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
Yeah, you're really not thinking that the way we utilize
pitchers today makes a difference. Like this is already a
rare achievement, So not pitching a full game anymore, you
don't think that's gonna be a big factor?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
And I do?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You do?
Speaker 6 (39:22):
I do.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
That's the only reason why I am not agreeing with
you completely. But you're right, it was already a difficult
thing to achieve. So it's not I get that whole
side of it. But it's true, Like yesterday the Dodgers,
Dustin May was on the mound and he went what
eight innings, almost bo but the minute he started giving
up those hits, they took him out and after the
game they were like, he thought, I may actually pitch.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
A complete game.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
He'd never done that in his career.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah, but he's Dustin May and he's not hate always
bringing up Paul's schemes in this, but he's not to
that level where you're not pulling him. I'by ray at
a complete game for the Giants last night. So we're
seeing complete games. We're seeing pitchers do this. This isn't
just every pitcher is being taken out in the sixth inning.
(40:09):
And in fact, if you look at some of the
horses that you have in Major League Baseball, they're pitching
their fair share, just like Skeens hasn't pitched, has pitched
more than six or more innings in every start of
thinking except one this year. So it's still there if
you get that. I don't want to say one of
one because it's not one of one. But I still
think that we treat those top level aces differently.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
You're not wrong about that, And yes, you're right, we're
going to see these complete games, but like scattered throughout
random pictures, Yes, not the way.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Maybe not that we've seen with Verlander and shirt Yeah kersha,
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