The Best Of Covino & Rich

C&R pay some respects & laugh about "Progressive Steve!" Is he always one step ahead of his beloved Yankees? What changes in sports or life did it take you a bit to come around on? Callers & the crew weigh-in! Rich was born to coach & tells a Nacho story.. again! Juan Soto gifts a 92k car to a teammate for number 22. Plus, 'LAST ONE STANDING' turns your sports brain on & causes some controversy! 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Flack passed away. Got that news today, eighty eight years old,
killing me softly. You guys remember the Fuji's version. She
had lots of hits. BURTA Flak eighty eight. You heard
dB say Larry Dolan Indians owner ninety four years old.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Damn he owned the.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Cleveland Indians since two thousand, now the Guardians, but it
is two thousand, ninety four years old. Larry Dolan and
Rich a guy that we grew up knowing. I watched
him all the time on MSG network. He covered the Yankees.
A legendary broadcaster growing up on the East Coast, being
a Yankees fan in New York sports fan Al Troutwig
broadcaster passed away at sixty eight from cancer, which sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I was sad to hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Coincidentally, the only other person of any note that went
to my high school one time, and I again watched
him my whole life. You know you really feel, yeah,
the only guy, Yeah, the only guy. Note the feeling
you have when you see something like that you sort
of grow up with. You're like, ah, man, it sucks.
You feel like you know people like that. And he

(01:29):
covered the Olympics, He covered lots of stuff. But I
remember pulling up at a traffic light in New York
City and he was there. Troutwill, like yo al Troutwig,
and he was like, super receptive to it and nice.
But I always thought he was a great broadcaster. I
was sad to hear that. Rest in peace. Yeah, rest
in peace to them. We rock out on their behalf.
But let's get into it. Man, Hope you had a

(01:49):
nice weekend. Hope you had a Lucas sort of weekend.
A Team Canada still celebrating on this Monday, a sort
of weekend. Who else had a big weekend? Oh, Dmitri
Bivel and new light heavyweight champ at one seventy five
undisputed beat Arthur better bev so Bivil won in the rematch.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Rich Henry Suhudo got poked in the eyeball.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Dude, he got like, yeah, you know what, it's like
a molarry and curly move.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
He got the three stooges move. He has to throw
the hand up like curly.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, why you get over. He got poked
in the eye by Song. Poked him in the eye
and he couldn't go back out, And at first for me,
I was like, come on, dude, but it turns out
his eye was really damaged and.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
You know, taken out.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
So I hope you had a let's just say bivil
not a suhudo sort of weekend. Hope you enjoyed your sports.
Hope we are all your teams won. And now let
the wild rump is start. I had a deep thought
to start today's seeing our experience, let's go the big
news that broke last week. And oddly enough, we must
be so synonymous with this stupid story that we're getting
hit up.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
You guys called it. You guys love talking about this.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Yankees who have decided to ease up their facial
hair policy. I can't believe I'm nerdy. Some people aren't
about at though, Like I don't know, man, that's with me.
The Yankees, The Yankees stupid, even you were like it's
about time. Yeah, even me, Like I believe in tradition,
but now was the time to make that change? Is

(03:25):
twenty twenty five. People are just rocking a different look.
I thought it was a corny sort of thing, to
a corny hill to die.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
On, Like, Nope, that's what the Yankees do. I think
they stand for stupid. Man, You and I talked about
Devin Williams, and apparently.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
He was the straw that broke the camel's back. Apparently,
young Latino player comes over to the Yankees, a closer
who talked openly about how, man, I haven't shaved my
face in years, I don't feel very confident. And there
were team meetings, and I believe from what I'm reading,
Devin Williams was the catalyst. Well paid him to be

(04:02):
an intimidation factor to close the game. Not very intimidating
when you make them look like a weenie, and he in.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Turn loses some confidence.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
So the Yankees have changed their facial hair policy, and
I think there is a golden opportunity now. Hear me out,
who wants an endorsement, Give me a Yankee that you
think would be a good spokesman, who's got some personality.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I would say, jazz Chism.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh yeah, okay, this is a good one, very colorful guy.
What if jazz Chislm pops up on the screens like,
hey everyone, jazz Chism here. As you might have heard,
we don't need to shave anymore. But that doesn't mean
I don't shave at all. And he's in new spokesman
for like Manscape the Yankees. How is someone not going

(04:52):
to cash in on some deal to be the face
of all those manscaping products who constantly say, oh no,
I think they should cash in on it. I'm all
for it. Progressive Steve is what they're calling me. I'm
willing to adjust to change. And maybe that's where we
kick this off because it wasn't the only change. I
think it's one of the greatest acquisitions that the Yankees

(05:15):
made in the off season. Facial hair, and the ladies
love it too. The ladies love it their facial hair.
I think it's good, but I am surprised, much like
most things in this world, were split down the middle.
Halftime was great, Halftime sucked. Kendrick Lamar is awesome. Who
the hell is that? Political views everything? I would say
it's about sixty forty sixty percent of my Yankees friends

(05:38):
and fans, and if you just go on social media
are like, yo, that's great, about time. I'll give you
another one. Forty percent are being nerdy about it. I'll
give you another one. If you've seen in some of
the spring training highlights so far, Danny G you know
what it means.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Now?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
What is tapping on your helmet mean? Review the pitch call? Yes, sir,
ball strikes?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Now?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Are you four or against that? Because my friends are
fifty to fifty on this, Danny, I like it.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I guess just got to get used to it.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, I mean I got they got to figure it
out doing right now. We're only all have to do
it a couple times a game. So I think the
simple fact that.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
So you're by your boy polar Bear Pete doing it
this week.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, I saw that and it was a strike three
and he's like, but ba ba tap tap tap.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
They said, no, that was Loan inside. You were right.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
He's back in the batters box now, I think because
you still get the umpire human element in there. Yeah,
and he can't challenge it all the time. It's I
believe two times a game, like I said, they're ironing
those things out, and they're not gonna do it this year.
But I think the fact that they're experimenting it just
proves your point that people are polarized on these these topics.

(06:51):
I think if it's two times a game, if every
at bat you have the guy being like, hold on,
tap tap, tap of my head, two times a game
in key moments, because nothing's worse than you got a
guy up runners on base.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
You're like, he got called out on that pitch.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
That's the worst. But you gotta be right. You want
to be right tap tap. You don't want to slow
down the game. We've made some improvements by speeding it up,
but if we can make it better, I'm all for it.
And again that's why they're calling me progressive Steve. Everyone
it's really catch not everybody progressive Steve. He's usually well here, Danny,
I don't know anyone but about no, because everyone, usually,

(07:29):
you know, thinks I'm some sort of stick in the
mud that's sort of old school and doesn't like change.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
But man, I've been on a streak lately.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
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Speaker 2 (07:51):
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Speaker 1 (07:51):
I used to like to go to the tire shop
and pick him out, but not anymore. Progressive Steve goes
to tire rack dot Com. So what else makes you progressive, Steve?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
The fact that you would with flow. I would not
with flow speak for yourself projector pants. Maybe you would
projector what you're projecting on me flow a projector in
his pants. Yeah, maybe you got the hots for flow.
She's a good one. So why you progressive Steve?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
All right? Okay? With the Yankees' facial hair.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, but and there's more to this. Yankees made another
announcement over the weekend, and you.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Would think something else We've heard you.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, but you would think that me and other non
progressive people for the most part, would be mad about this.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
But not me.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
You would think that Cavino has the ear of Helsetye
read no joke, right, No, I'm all for this.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
I feel I feel like Steinbrenner is on the elliptical
during our show.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
So check this out. She's cal zones with him every day,
like George Cassande's listening to me.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
When I was a kid growing up, and i'd go
to some Yankee games the few times a year, my
dad would take me because he barely did. But when
I was a teenager and I started going my own,
there was a tradition.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
And the tradition was when the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Win, the Yankees will little Steve would celebrate and they
would play New York New York by Frank Sinatra, start
spreading the news and it just gave you that cool
New York vibe. You're walking out high five and strangers.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, nice win.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
And then when they lost. This is when I was
a kid. I don't know how long this lasted, but
I promise you this is what it was. They would
play The Lives of Minelly, the weak ass version of
New York New York. That'sion, It's not Frank Sinatra's not
all blue eyes. So if they lost, they would play
her Weekendsion. Yes, you know, I don't know how true
that is, but can you say enough that in my

(09:45):
mind I'm like, oh, yeah, of course when the Yankees lost,
they played true, yeah, that's true. It's a fact, making
it up. But somewhere along the lines, right years went on,
they would play, regardless winter loss, they would end it
with Blue Wives Frank Sinatra's New York New York. And
to me, that never vibe. I'm like, why are you

(10:05):
giving me the wh Blue Wives when we just lost.
It's not the same when the Yankees lose. The Yankees
lose and you're walking out and they're playing this grand
awesome song about New York. Hey, i would say, I'm
cue up the Sinatra New York New York because picture
you as a kid if you're a Yankees fan, which
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
He is, But if the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Win strike three, game over, then you know the legend
of John Sterling's saying.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
The Yankees win, it makes sense to hear.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
You hear those horns, horns kicking. You're like, yeah, starts
spreading the news. That's a good feeling. So that's synonymous
with winning. And all of a sudden, when the Yankees lose,
they also play that, but not anymore because they're changing it.
And progressive Steve is all about it. Guess what they're
doing now. Instead of playing Frank Sinatra when they lose, they're.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Gonna play fat show shit shout.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
That would be so good because it's synonymous with losing it. No,
but they're actually gonna play another Frank Sinatra song, Rich
said and other other articles they're gonna rotate it. But
the main headline is they're gonna play That's life. That's
what the people say, another Blue Eyes song. But that's
more fitting for Hey, they lost, Oh that's life, and

(11:22):
you know you walk out the stadium with your hands
in your pockets shrugging at people.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Hey, what are you gonna do? We'll get them tomorrow,
you know, pinstripes, Oh oh, I'll all for it.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
All.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
The Yankees lost to the Red Sox.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh, well that's live. Is this more fitting to a loss?
It's just what you What are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right? So you're telling me what are you gonna do?
We get in May, so you tell me.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
The Yankees are two for two when it comes to
progressive moves, the stiffest organization.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
And sports back on top. I still think lean back
would be better.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's really funny, Danny, But I think it's a solid
move and believe it or not, people are complaining about
that too. I'm like, you're still getting Sinatra, you dorks,
and why play New York New York when they lost?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's life.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Is a great way to walk out the stadium and
be like, ah, sucks, hey, I guess uh, I guess
s garat Cole had a bad one today.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Like the Yankees, that's just your team.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Think of other franchises, Danny g living out here in La,
you know, I'll go to a couple Dodgers games each year,
even if they're not playing the Mets, just to go
check out a ballgame.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
When the Dodgers win and they hit, we love La
feels good. Imagine the imagine they played that when the
Dodgers lost, it wouldn't feel right.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
No. Yeah, So to me, it was a perfect change.
Progressive Steve approves, What are your thoughts now? Based on that,
I started thinking about myself and I'm like, am I
am I changing? Man?

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Am I changing?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Am I?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Just like easy going progressive Steve now?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And then I started thinking about, well, you know what,
I've been progressive about a lot of things, not everything,
but you know, you pick and choose your battles. So
here's the question for the Covino on Rich Fox Sports
Radio Nation, What changes in sports and life have you
welcomed with open arms?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Can I give you one, bro, just to really kick
it off, because I'm really passionate about.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
This one, And can I just say, I know it
probably brings up bad memories for you, but I was Sam,
if you have the Randy Newman, I love LA.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I feel like the guy at the stadium hit that.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Song before Freddy Freeman even hit first base on that
Grand Slam in the World Series, because in my mind,
I'm like, the minute he hit it, this song turned on.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
This again it's about winning, right, So, yeah, you water
down the Yankees New York, New York when you're playing
it when they lose.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Remember it was like give me meat, Freddy, that great
call from Joe Davis.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, this is a winning song. You don't play it
when they lose. Do they play anything when the Dodgers lose, Danny?

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, just background music. I don't think it's any certain song.
It makes sense right after a loss. This is a joyful,
uplifting song, right right right? I double checked that Coveno.
I haven't been to the Dodgers Stadium since they raised
all the prices.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Wey, I was gonna say, eighty one home games with
the Dodgers roster this year, they'll they'll have to find
a losing song like nine times.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
So yeah, exactly, you don't have to play it all
that often.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Now, as far as other progressive things that you think
back on, you, you know what, that was a good change,
and I rolled with it. I'm glad I did. Could
be sports related, could be life related. Hit us now,
let's get involved. Get the week going at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox at Covino and Rich. This
may sound corny, but at first you were like, huh,
I don't know if I'm ready to make this change.

(14:36):
I sort of leaned into it and I never looked back.
I'm so glad I did. And you're gonna say, what,
that's corny, But it's not because I think you're corny.
If you're still holding on and that is stretchy material, genes,
stretchy jens stretched, you can't argue you, bro. At first,
I'm like, what is this like pajama jeans? No, no, no,

(14:57):
just stretching.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Them. I will not wear a pair of jeans now
they feel like cardboard.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
I would never wear a pair of like cardboard denim
Levi's anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Pure cotton denim is pure cotton. So am I working
in a coal mine somewhere? I don't need that?

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Going back to the original Levi's right exactly, I'm not
painting for gold somewhere. It doesn't breathe very well. I
prefer there's gold in them in our hills. Well, you
know what, It's funny because they find old Levi's in
all these old old mine right right, And yeah they're
worth a lot of money, but it's the original denim
and as stiff as a board. I really enjoy stretchy

(15:32):
denim is the best. I wear them all the time.
I love the polyesters in the progressive Steve is it
two thumbs up? Aggressive polyester Steve.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I love that. That is the first. I love that.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's the first example you think of. Who doesn't it
like to be comfortable? You're kidding me. The first thing
you'd want to do when you got home from work
or anywhere is take off those horrible cardboard jeans you
would wear. I can't disagree with Cavino. If you were
someone that wears jeans. The minute you go to that Matie,
that's a little stretchy. You're not wearing old cardboard, hard
ass denim. Get a little stretch, that's all, Just a

(16:06):
little not pajama stretch, just a little denim stretch. But
any other things that come to mind. At progressive side
of you said, you know what, that was a good change, man.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
As far as rules go, I've always been one to
embrace rules. And when the pitch clock when when Yeah,
when Baseball said hey, we're gonna speed up the game
a little bit, old old heads were like, yeah, you're
rooting the game, and it's like, no, I'll be honest.
You have a manageable two and a half hour game.
That's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
It was good.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
I was all for again, like at least seeing how
it worked out, and let's see how it works out,
because that's what's really dragging the game on. As Michael
k would say, an unmanageable three and a half hour game, like,
come on, I took up your whole day. So other
things in life that you're glad you accepted because it

(16:56):
made things better.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
What are those to you?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Eight seven, seven, nine nine On Fox, we've got a
lot to get to today. So NFL Baseball's right around
the corner.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Which are you?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Are you a QR code guy or do you want
to full on menu? That's a good question. I'm okay
with it now.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
But I'll tell you this.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
In the beginning, I was together, give me your damn menu,
you But now I'm like, I could scroll much. Can
I tell you one that I finally made the change?
And I'm so glad I did. Dude, I was so
reluctant with like ordering on the apps. Like let's say Starbucks,
he'd wait in line.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'd rather. I'm like, I'm not ordering on an app.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Now it's like the progressive Steve says, you know what,
I'm gonna give it a try.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
So glad I did change my life.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
If there's a Starbucks that for some reason like yeah,
we have no mobile ordering today, I'm like, well, I
guess I'm not going there.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
The idea of waiting in line for food.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Now that's for the birds and for old guys. Will
we work next to an l Poyoloko? I would order
go pick it up. I'd see Cavino standing there.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Waiting like, what do you what?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Are you doing, Sam, I feel like you're old stick
in the I do wait, I don't. It doesn't take
very long ago, that's guess, will take zero time. Sam,
But I like an old soul, got a swinger matched
that band and nickel lay in my pocket.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Later do I like to order at the kiosk? And
then I sit and I read my phone? But for
what reason? Because I really wanted from the kiosk?

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Sam waits in line while listening to big band music
by Glenn Mills.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Remember that time you were trying to mix your own
drink at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I was so yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
They were like certain the drink venues on the QR
code and I had to construct like a Moscow mule.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
I'm like, this is not my job. Ctomized customized add
on at all one part beer, one part titos. I'm like,
what am I doing here?

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Times, which was a digital bartender.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
No thanks, I'll give you one. The team, you know,
the manager coach of my daughter's team, and you know
you have to do expenses like shacked, you know, snackshock
tickets and team expenses. I had a parent the other
day hand me like forty bucks or something. I'm like,
what are you doing, dude, serious moment, doing a drug deal?

(19:13):
Like now, I'm like, now, I got forty dollars in
my pocket.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
What do we bro I got a Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
If you don't have Venmo, I don't want to be
your friend even Yeah, Like that's so key and so clutch.
That's been one of the best progressive moves. He'll take
PayPal daddy, Like we put out a message to the parents, like,
you know, for opening day, the girl's little extra uniforms
and sunglasses and all their little dude gives you forty
bucks out of his sock. Oh, crumbled up. I see
the venmos coming in, Like, oh, the parents are giving

(19:40):
me the forty bucks. One parent's like, here's forty bucks,
A twenty, A ten, A five and five singles crumpled up.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm like, here's one hundred and sixty quarters. No, that's
that's the guy. I can do launder for months.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's a good one, though, Rich, That's one of my
favorite ones for sure. Surprisingly, I'm all about Like I'm
seeing a lot of my friends bicker about a shaving rule.
Yankees should shave. We don't want to be like other organizations.
That's what separates us. It's like, now, how about you
just win and shut up and let them do what
they want. And it's well groomed beards. I keep meeting

(20:12):
to remind all my friends well groomed beards. It's gonna
be interesting to see how they monitor that, like what's that?

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Is that a two clip?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Like?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (20:21):
But you just can't look like a slob like the
twenty thirteen Fear of the Beard Red Sox. And then
they just announce it over the weekend that they're not
gonna play New York, New York Frank Sinatra when they lose.
They're gonna play That's Life and maybe a rotation of
other songs when they lose. And again you would think
I didn't like that, but I do like that. I
think that's a great move. So that got us thinking

(20:42):
about other progressive things or things you were progressive on
and you like the move at first, Maybe you didn't
at first, you were afraid, you were petrified, but then
you realized that you like the move.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
For me, another one rich before we get into the
phone calls.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Aside from stretchy jeens, that's your number one answer because
in life, I'll never go back man, because at first
I felt like I felt.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Like a weenie, Like, what am I wearing yoga pants?
What are these that?

Speaker 1 (21:08):
They're height as much as they're just they have a
little give all. Then if you wear old school jeans,
you're like these are on call.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
So again, I'm glad I took that chance. But another
one is when a first came out, I'm like, that's corny,
and that's city connect Jerseys. The City connects because old school,
traditional Yankee guy, I'm like, ah, oh, I get and
now I as a Yankees fan, I wish they would
make that move. Give the fans another option. You're not

(21:37):
messing with the pinch stripes or their tradition. It's just
an alternate that everybody's doing. It's for the fans, it's
for fun. The city connects. I love your Mets ones, Rich,
I think they're great, and uh, you know, I think
the reminder is you got to be a little more
open to things. Not everything's gonna work out, but you
gotta be a little more open. Sometimes I'm too open
to change because a lot of times I feel like

(21:58):
we need to freshen things up. I'm an impatient type
of guy. For instance, there are people that I remember
they would beach it and complaining when.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
They started doing Thursday Night football.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
And anytime the NFL adds a game like the Black
Friday Game or oh we're gonna add another playoff team,
I'm I've always been pretty receptive to those. But in baseball,
I think the best change, and I know people resisted it,
but when you have one hundred and sixty two game schedule,
keep in mind we're going to start within a month baseball,
and that goes until October when they didn't have wildcards

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and it was like.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Division winners and that's it.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Your fan bases would be checked out by the All
Star Game. The fact that I know it prolongs the
playoffs and not always the best team moves along, but
the fact that they have multiple wildcards and it keeps
fan bases interested, I feel like Baseball's made more wise
decision than week ones. Absolutely, it keeps people invested way longer.
So any other changes that come to mind, where at

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first you were unsure about it, but it worked out
for the better in sports, in life, let's wrap it up.
What your calls at eight seven seven ninety nine M
Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We got
Tom and Portland. What's up Tom? A?

Speaker 5 (23:13):
What's up? My boys? How goes it?

Speaker 2 (23:14):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (23:16):
Hey? So some of I resisted really really bad crocs.
You know, you think that they look ugly, they're horrendous,
they can't be comfortable, they're just rubber whatever. I put
off wearing crocs until this year. I just bought pears.
You know.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
You shouldn't be rocking them everywhere, but I I will.
The problem with crocs. Can't do it, Tom, here's the problem.
The problem is crocs are comfortable, and you start out
by saying, you know, I'll wear them when I do
yard work, I'll wear them when I'm in the you know,
the tinker of my car or something, and then it's
all right, I'll wear them to the coffee shop.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Before yard work.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
That's dangerous until you drop a garden weel on your
toe or you know, you hedge clip your big toe
because you're wearing stupid rubber shoes.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
They're the gateway drug to slobbiness. That's the best way,
But the crocs of the gateway drug to lazy sloppiness.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
They're the gateway to wearing pajama pants when you're out
and about.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
I know they're comfortable, and I know that everybody's on them,
and I know that people wear them, love them. I
wear them for my kids drop off at school this morning.
And then you're like, hey, I'm wearing crocs to school
drop off. I don't know. I'm still reluctant. I know
how comfortable they are. Of course I've tried them on.
But it's still a great answer because I know that
so many people love them. Just I just can't get

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behind it. What thank you, Tom?

Speaker 2 (24:36):
What were you.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Reluctant to accept? But you adjusted and you said, you
know what, I'm okay with it. Now I got one
for you. You're not even thinking about it. But when
I first met Cavino, this guy would mock me when
I talked about how whoever I was dating at the time, like, yeah,
we watched The United I would name like a reality show.
He would bust Mike Hoivos NonStop. And this is the

(24:59):
guy with his girlfriend watches everything from vander Pump to
The Bachelor to Love is Blind to anything.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I mean, she watches it. Okay, you just steered that
for the right hand. Just then, reality TV.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, but they didn't change anything and make me like it.
I just was always reluctant. I guess I just made
the change. That's just part of me. If you change progressive, Steve.
Let's go to Randy in Pennsylvania. What's up, Randy?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Hey doing well? How you guys doing?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
How you doing?

Speaker 6 (25:25):
How you doing?

Speaker 3 (25:26):
I am? I was for the longest time, I was
afraid to do like the face ID on my phone
because I was thinking, big brother is going to now
have my face ID track me everywhere. But you know what,
He's already doing that. So it was just like just
just accept it and go along with it. And now
I can't even get into my Uh. I can't even

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get into my bank unless I have the face I
D because I forgot my long pass for it.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Hey, Randy, you gotta have you ever have like a
really hungover or ugly day or you're just looking really
shaggy and I it's not recognizing you, so you start
feeling bad about it. Your phone's like you look like garbage? Acknowledge,
way did I gain in one night? How many beers
did I have loaded? I know it's the worst. I'm like,
it's me Jessica, it's me phone.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Well I am all for the new Yankee moves and
that got us thinking. But what it does is it
reminds you in sports, in life, there's gonna be changes.
It's whether or not you want to embrace it if
you want to be resistant.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
A lot of it is app related.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Rich for me, like I now make my haircut appointments
via the app, where I was not into doing that.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
I want to show up and get a haircut. You
don't want to.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Stop going to our barber who's really good. We used
to go to the same barber, scandal scandal. Now our
buddy Addison Addie who works in the valley. He's popular.
And I bring that up because if you want a
haircut about a week and a half out, you gotta
go on his.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
App and reserve time.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
And you have to you have to do it like
two weeks ahead of time. I still make mine, but
like for the next day, right or like two days later.
Not easy, man, Just so be progressive. Well, we have
a few more vocals on, right, let's got about this.
Let's go to Dan Bayer. Yeah, we'll get an update.
We'll come back and wrap up these calls and roove along.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
What's up? D be good to see you, guys, goodness
see you.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
I have warmed to the Guardian's nickname as opposed to
the previous one. Not as much with the Commanders and
what they've changed. I don't know how many people love commanders,
but that's sticking around. But the fact that Guardians, and
as you mentioned earlier, Indians, it's Dean's at the end.
It's just changing the first part.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
So it's true.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I'll be honest with God, be honest. That Guardians one
feels more natural. I still have an instinct to be
at Washington risk. I'm sorry, come here, Guardians. I feel
like I'm already adjusted. Tell us I'm watching Major League
with wild Thing Rick vaughand the Guardians already.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (27:48):
Green Bay Packers submitted a proposal to ban the tush
push play. That's according to our report from the Athletic.
There were some mysteries surrounding on what team it was
that submitted this proposal, as the NFL network broke the
news in an unnamed team was the one who wanted
to do away with.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
The tush push.

Speaker 7 (28:03):
It then was revealed by the Athletic that it's the
Packers Competition Committee will discuss it.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
They could send it to the.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
League for full review in the at the league owners
meetings coming up at the end of March.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I think someone that doesn't get enough credit. I want
to pay tribute to someone today who Lebron James. Well,
according to Wemby, he doesn't get enough credit, right web
Anma says he's underrated. Well, it's a bummer that we
lose Wemby for the rest of the year, But I
think that's just a reflection of us being We've had
Lebron for so long that we don't think we appreciate him,
to be honest. Quickie story of the weekend. It was

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a great dad weekend for me. My kids both started
baseball and softball, and I think I speak on behalf
of a lot of parents out there. There's no more
joy than watching your kids play sports, especially if you
coach like I actually feel like sounds corny, I feel
like I was meant to coach.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
I really do.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I feel like when I'm teaching those kids and you know,
you just there's something about it that's just so much fun.
And if you want a great show to watch with
your kids, on Disney Plus safe.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Or how is that what? It's called No Win or Lose,
Win or Lose.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
It's an animated series from the creators of inside Out.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
We've been watching this with Coch. Dude, it's so good, Dude,
it's so good.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's called winneror Lose creators of Inside Out, and it's
eight episodes.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
They only have three out as of this week.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
But each episode is from a different person's perspective, like
the kid playing little League.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Episode two is about the umpire.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, and it's uh, you know, dealing with emotions and
winning and losing.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
As a kid in sports. So it's a series.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
It's a series, pretty cool man, great family watch about
I'll say that, a great family watch. Rich.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
We used to say that the University of Iowa Winner Lose,
but then we'd follow it up with winner lose.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
We still booze. Do you know what I think? I
think that's also a good feel life. I think that's the.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Model of a lot of grown men's softball team still sure.
So I'm coaching my kids this weekend and just a
funny moment because we all have those stories we were little.
My son plays his first t ball game, Pony League
out here in La I do Jeff Soupon, former big
league pitcher. He's the commission of the league. He runs everything.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Great guy. My son's first at bat, Danny j No
kid has hit off the pitching machine. They get three
swings off the pitching machine. And then they bring out
the tea for tea ball And this is not like
underhand to the kids. This is from the mound like
pitching machine. Like they want to start them.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Is it the George Michaels pitching machine, something like slingshot thing? Actually, no,
I know that. That's as they do when the kids
are little to get him used to everything. So on
the second swing, my son's the first one to make
contact and he's like a good ground ball to the
left side. Everyone cheers so loud for him, like oh

(30:48):
my god. Halfway down the first baseline, I'm like, run, buddy, run,
he just stops in place and starts crying because he's
so overwhelmed by everyone.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
You know, everyone cheering so like got too hot.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
I was like, dude, it's also a reminder of how
little these kids are and you're like trying to yell
at them to run. Then the funny part is the
first kid of the game, hit a soul kid, Come on,
first kid of the game, hits off the tee, runs
to third base instead of first. So when you're that age,
it's just so much fun. So hopefully other people are
enjoying this mom and dad life of culture. But you're right,
you nailed it. It's gonna be one of those things

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no matter how old. Benny boy is, Benny the Jet
they call him, right, Yeah, little Benny Soto, your bombs,
your first at bat, yeah, first the first step bat,
hitting bombs.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
You got to tell the story at his wedding, Remember
his first time.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
He was the first kid and he stopped midway at
first and wouldn't run and cried.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
He cried.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
We had to carry him to first And that's our
Benny boy. And look at him now getting married. They
go a little dad life thrown in there. It's like
those stories that your mom tells a million times. Every
parent has their go to stories. And I feel like
I'm fl one, you know, my mom says still to
this day, Steven used to love Rick Astley like I
never loved Got.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I mean, maybe she's like remembory.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
You were about twelve and you were singing it, Like,
do you mean the one time you heard me sing it?

Speaker 4 (32:07):
And she still tells that story. I thought you were
going to say, she still says in or out.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
But like when it comes to stories about me, yeah,
she always You know, they bring up the same ones,
and that's one Rich will bring out for the rest
of his son's life. So enjoy your spring sports starting.
Nothing more exciting than the start of baseball. When basketball
and hockey you're heating up. And of course you think
the NFL should be in the rear view. But now
we're getting ready for where some of these quarterbacks are
go in the NFL draft, find the combine, the draft.

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All this is ahead of us. So the world of
sports never stops. Now, while you're watching sports, let me
give you a question old trivia, and I'll give you
the answer when we come back. I want you to
tell me if we're going to the bar, if we
go to Buffalo Wild Wings Public School across the street,
the bar down the bock, give me give me your
favorite appetizers.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
What are we ordering? Me?

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, boneless wings, Danny J. What do we got onion rings?
I was sam Manzi sticks? Damn here what's your app
of choice? What are we going cheese curds, loaded tots.
You guys, there's an app that we got to pay
tribute to.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Next.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Today's a very special day. It was the day this
snack was created. I'll tell you next. Right here, we
went over all the appetizers, buffalo wings, onion rings, cheese curds,
spring rolls, spin art, SpinART, debb now nowadays like egg rolls,
Brussels sprouts, egg rolls, and we were leaving off possibly

(33:36):
the most popular nachos, Nacho. Today's the day that you
have to pay tribute to a man by the name
of Ignasio Anaya. And I learned this oddly enough, not
that long ago. The nickname for Ignacio nacho. If you

(33:58):
never met an Ignasio and you the nickname for Ignacio
is Nacho. I remember working at ESPN and everyone called
this dude Nacho, And like, why are they called him Nacho?

Speaker 2 (34:08):
His name is Ignacio. Jeez, Louise, I didn't grow up
live in a Mexican family like you. You don't have
to grow up in a Mexican family to know that.
I was saying, did you know the nickname for Ignacio
is Nacho? Yes?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Because I believe we talked about this on the show,
maybe like three or four months ago.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Richard loves this. It's a fun fact. He yea, it's
a great story.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
He was a man by the name of Ignacio Anaya.
He's a chef who omar manya no. Ignasio Anaya the
inventor of something very important. Now the story goes like this.
It's World War two. A bunch of military wives down

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in El Paso, Texas.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Did you know translation for El Paso is at the Passa.
I do know this. If you knew that he didn't
grow up in Mexico. I am El Nino. On an
excursion Neino. Some of the.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Military wives went to a restaurant to get a bite
to eat. The main chef had dipped away, and Ignacio
and Naya found himself in a dilemma. These ladies want
to eat, chef's not here.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
What do I do?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
He goes, don't worry, I'll cook you ve something. He
couldn't locate the chef, so I'm not wanting to turn
away these women. He put on his chef's hat, went
in the kitchen, found the tortoise, the tortilla, the big
tortillas broke them up, sprinkled some cheese. He's like, there's

(35:37):
some halopanos. Put those on, little tomato, crushed it up,
put it in, melted the cheese. Served it to these women,
and it was called the nacho especiale, the nacho special.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
The women loved it. I was an old bedroom move
of mine in the early two thousands. Special. Yeah, it
makes no sense, but give me the old nacho specially mean. Yeah.
So it turns out it was such a hit.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Words spread of the nacho especiales to the point where
other people are like, oh, we could do that. Break
up the tortilla, cheese, jalapeno, some dipping, some toppings, some
some fixens. Hence the creator of nachos on this day
in nineteen forty three, Ignasio Anaya.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
And if that blows your mind, let me blow Rich's mind.
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Nacho Libre's his real name was in the movie, his
name is the Nazio Libras.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yes, his friends called him nachos.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
All right, I don't believe I'm sorry, I don't believe you. Yeah,
I remember he had the hotspit an Karnas. He So
they go a little fun fact on a random Monday.
A guy in nineteen forty three invented nachos. His name
was Nacho. You got a nasty girl, and it was

(37:06):
on this day. I believe that that's why today is
National Tortilla Chip Day. And now I got an excuse me.
It's not the invention of nachos. So when you go
to over told the same story on National Nacho's Day,
I will tell.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
That story every time.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
I want to bring up Nazi merge Tortilla Chip Day
and Nacho Day in one save us a day. All
I'm saying I thought I heard this is that in
in food lore, this guy gets no props. How often
some people call them like ghetto nachos. I call them
what I have like once a week. You don't never
take nacho chips. You never take like tostedos. Put them

(37:42):
on a paper plate, sprinkle some cheese on it, the
Mexican blen cheese. I take some of the jalapenos in
the jar, throw those on, and I get some tuckoble
hot sauce sprinkled out on and put in the microwave
for one minute.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
That's like a late night snack after I.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Had an edible maybe one day someone will tell the
story of rich Davis and how he invented the that someday,
so hey, I love you, rest in peace long ago,
Ignacio andaya if I'm the one guy that gives him props,
I hope somewhere in that choe heaven he hears me.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Maybe maybe they'll make a movie about it, like the
Flaming Hot Cheeto Guy.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Spot didn't believe that story.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
That's great, and he wanted to know because there's like
public knowledge that he lied about that story. Yeah, you
pooh pooed that. No, I didn't you know what Richard poo.
Richard Montagne is all right, he invented the flame. Actual
facts of people who work at the company who said you.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Didn't work guy way he did so anyway.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Great story, rich the same way Spot poop poo. Like
a lot of people did the Hot Cheeto documentary. We
all watch right, that was great. Richard Montagne is Montagne
is Montaigne. Is There are people that are like, he
wasn't really the guy. Just love the story. It's like
when Joe Montana ruined Rudy and he's like, well it
was more of a joke, Like we didn't really love Rudy.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Shut up, Joe Montanga, I'll give you another one. Do
you see who recently ruined some fun? Screw you, John Oliarud.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
John Olivard recently talked about how that Rickey Henderson story
wasn't true.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Really he made that up.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
The story where Ricky Henderson apparently was like I used
to play with a guy that wore a helmet.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Tun He's like, yeah, it was me. He said that
never happened. He's like, yeah, it's fun to joke about,
but that's not true. Ah. I know people ruined legendary myths.
We wanted full story. Yeah, we wanted to think that
he didn't remember you. John. Yeah. Spot.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
You know that Spot right now is probably feverishly doing
research to try to I don't have to you probably
trying to take away credit from Ignacio and Naya.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
No. Sorry, well it really was another guy that you
know what to think? Oh, let me cut up to
It is sports related.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I mean, how many great football games have you watched
over a nice plate of nachos?

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Or, as we call him, Mega Dope Chose.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
We've been on a quest for years to find the
most greatest shows of all time.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
How do you listen, it's kind of meat you put
on your chose.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Thank you, Sam. So, since we're talk about nachos and listen,
mega dope chose. It's February. Does anyone is there any
sports right now? They're to tickling your butt.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Not really. Let's talk about nachos a second.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
If I would have, say, master craft the ultimate nachos
at a sports bar right now, I'm pretty simplistic. I'm
going cheese jullapagos, a scoop of guak in the middle.
I'm gonna leave the sour cream on the side. I
don't need all you gotta have sour cream. I don't
mind if you do it. So I'll throw sour cream
and guac cheese nachos jullapagos.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
I know Camino and your tomato. Guys like some some
black beans say that to me? It all you start
hitting beans and meats and stuff. Can we agree on anything, Guys,
you wanted to go vegetarian geese, we all just get along.
Are you going heavy on the meats on your nachos
or what? Hey man, I'm not having some friesel like
if they're there eating them.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
I don't like it. I don't like sharing nachos with
people as an appetizer because people mess up.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Do you think you're better than us? No? I don't.
I don't.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Like somebody will take the chip that has all the
sour cream on it.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Oh oh wait, there's there's a comedian that does a bit.
Where's it a show where there's one? Was it was?

Speaker 2 (41:09):
It? Was it a TV show? It might have been.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Well, last time we talked about Chef and Aya, I
played for you this small clip from A Saving Silverman
where it's Jack Black. Steve's on and they're arguing about nachos,
and he's like, you took the one with all that.
He's like, that's one nacho.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
That's the nucleus. Yes, that's up.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Dan Byers, Doug Heffernan called it the nucleus on that's right, Yes, King.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Of Queens, the Queen's the nucleus, Kevin James, Because there's
gonna be one nacho chip in the middle that has
the biggest glove of Melta cheese, squawk and everything. That's
just a solid move. You get the nucleus, you're the
main No, but I feel like everyone, why you steal
your your kid's French fry? You got to get the
biggest waffle fry in there. But every every group of friends,
if you're respectable, it's just what men do. You sort

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of eat around the nucleus because you don't want to
be the a hole that takes the nucleus chip.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
In the beginning, I go for it. You should break
up that wealth with it.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
I go for it, and I stare at everybody right
in the eye, and I wait for him to say something.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
No, I got the naked chip with nothing on it.
Here's my move. I'll share it. And I don't normally
share my tips.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
But if you grab the nucleus like a man and
you you give eye contact everybody, no one's gonna say anything.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Are you sending the tone that like I'm the alphabet? Yeah?
Here you're like what you're you're daring anyway? Like what
it's like, what are you gonna do about it?

Speaker 6 (42:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:18):
It's like something ritual.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Pour half of the spinach artichoke dip onto his plate,
and I respect it.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
I'm like, I'm like, man, he took half of it.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
There's also a lot of respect for the guy will
just take the last one without offering it to anybody else.
It's in Saman like do you guys want it? He
just grabs it and it's like done, decisive.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
There's a politeness that we all sort of have where
if there is one buffalo wing left, if there's one
big globby Nacho left, you like, I was a slab
the whole time, but I'll last ones for you, Danny,
And you're like, no for you. I think the minutes
of it goes no you, It's like, okay, take Covino
would ask how many globs have you had?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yes, you try to figure out. Okay, he had three.
I had too, so this is mine. Well, now we
have a reason to slob out tonight.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
By the way, for those that didn't get Sam's reference,
Caveno will always ask everyone else just to make sure
he's not the biggest sublic how many wings you have,
how many natchos you have?

Speaker 2 (43:15):
How how many slashes?

Speaker 1 (43:17):
And we were at Covino's parents when we did the
show from the East Coast last week. We ordered two pizzas,
one big Grandma Pizza and one regular no doubt Kavino's.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Like, bro, how many we had about six? Seven? I
had like six?

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah, we were so anyway, celebrate and enjoy your nachos today.
Brought up your boy Juan Soto and looks like andred
some nachos in the off season. But you know what,
I think he had won too many.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
I like.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Bloto.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
He pulled a solid move, but I actually think he
was a little overly generous in my opinion. I mean,
when you got that kind of flow, it's not that
big of a deal. I get it, that's a that's
a a small expense for a Juan Soto who's getting paid.
But Brett Batty of the New York Mets had Batty

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had one number, young Buck, young Buck, and he is
He started three years ago in twenty twenty two. Last
year he had a two twenty nine and had four
home runs. So he's not like a superstar by any means.
He's a young third baseman. If you followed the National League,
the Mets were sort of thinking Baty Viento's one of
these guys would work out. Baby had a good start

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but then cooled down and just never got his rhythm.
He has a baby face. Have you If you followed baseball,
you'd be like Brett Batty. He's the met that looks
like he's sixteen years old.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
He's got a baby face. He's got a.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Baby faced, good one to me play the room shot
on yourself face, Brett Batty, who hasn't been in the
league for a long time at all. Career let's see
career average two fifteen whooping a new war number twenty
two for the New York Mets. But guess who else
wanted number twenty two?

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Wan Soto?

Speaker 1 (45:02):
So you know the story happens all the time in sports.
Want Soto bought this dude a ninety two thousand dollars
Tahoe Oh who he walks out like whoa? Wan Soto
gifted him a car for giving over the Jersey cool move, unnecessary,
best gift ever either way. It was like his dream

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car was a car he always wanted, and I guess
Soto did that investigation and put it in his name,
got it registered, and to his surprise, he got his
dream car ninety two thousand dollars gift from Wan Sodo.
Is it the story that Wan Soto asked him for
his insurance or registration the day before the day before
he asked or Edgar? I don't know who's Edgar on

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the Mets because Baty references Edgar like Edgar asked me
the day before about my insurance and everything, so that
was a little fishy. But to his surprise, he still
got the twenty two jersey in exchange for a ninety
two thousand dollars car gifted to Baty had to put
a perspective. Baby's a young dude. He you know he had.

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He hasn't lived up to expectation yet. He was one
of the Mets' top prospects. He will be on the
roster this year likely, and he just agreed. He did
a pre arbitration deal with to Mets. He's making eight
hundred thousand dollars. I think it's cool that A he
got that car. B it's from Juan Soto. For a ballplayer,
that's got to be like a bit of a feather
in your catch. Juan Soto gave me a ninety two

(46:30):
thousand dollars car. But again, Wan Soto could have that
number regardless. I don't think that guy earned any sort
of debate whatsoever to keep number twenty two at that point.
So I think it's overly generous, even though his pocket
change for this guy. I mean, if you remember fan
favorite of the Dodgers, Joe Kelly war number seventeen, and

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if you remember correctly, him and his wife, like, while
the Dodgers still hadn't signed Otana yet, they joked about like, hey,
please take seventeen come to the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
And remember when that's right.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
They made a video when Otani did sign and he
officially gave him number seventeen. I believe Otani bought Joe
Kelly's wife a sports car, Yeah, Porsche.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
So yeah, it's a solid move.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Wan Soto did the right thing obviously, but probably didn't
have to if he didn't want to.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
It was won Soto.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Yeah, but you know what Juan Soto's thinking, and I
want him to think big. If you're Wan Soto, aren't
you thinking? I'm number twenty two? And at the end
of this fifteen year contract, long ass contract with the Mets,
he would hope that that number hangs in the rafters
of city Field one day if he gets the Mets
all World Series when the Mets have been Thurston like

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Thurston Howell, like the Mets have been thirsty for a
World Series since Gary Carter's perm and Keith Hernander's mustache.
We're the talk of the town. Who's Thurston hell Thurston
for Lovey oh lovery he had to beston Marianne.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Yeah, that's what. But you know what, Cove, It's you
know what does it makes you think of this?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
I don't think Brett Baty could deny that this is
the greatest gift that he's ever been given, A ninety
two thousand dream car that he always wanted. Right, it's
almost lucky, right, Like can you can you put your
finger on that? Though, like the greatest gift you were
ever given? Like I don't know what it would be
like when you were little and you really wanted something
and you were so surprised that Santa brought it. Like,

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because this is the answer right here for him, it
makes me think, well, what was my greatest gift ever?
I don't know, So I posed that question for you
at home. Greatest gift but also like moment of just
pure luck. I'm not saying the times you are hit
the jackpot in Atlantic City, but the simple fact that
Brett Baty's like, I'll take number twenty two and a
year later, oh yeah, the seven hundred and sixty five
million dollar Man's like, oh, that's my number. Or unless

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he had the foresight to think want Soto might want
to play here. Someday, I'll take number twenty two. It
was almost like the early days of the internet, like
buying a domain that'll be valuable, like Wan so number
twenty too. You say, that's kind of interesting. That's an
interesting way to think about it. Though right he looked
out more popular might want that number one day. It's
a great investment. So you saw that Wan Derek Cheeter

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ended up with number two. I do I think I know? Sorry,
let me say if I'm right, because think about it,
every other number, every other single digit number, was retired,
so number two was like a coveted number.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Could I guess? I think I know the answer.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
And by the way, you saw Wan Soto hit a
dinger first at bat, and Bregman in his first game as.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
A Red Sox also had a home run.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
So so far the big free agents are looking pretty good.
I think from what I understand, it worked out five
times World Series Champion Hall of Famer Derek Cheter.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
The the hopes.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
For his success were so high that I heard that
they put aside that number for the guy, like almost
like wu waiting for this. Tony Fernandez wore it before
Jeter if I'm not mistaken, double check that I'm almost
positive shortstop Tony Fernandez. And then when Derek Jeter came around,
the story, as I know, is that the clubhouse guy

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who watches all the uniforms, the uniform guy, what's it called,
the guy in the clubhouse who does all the equipment
manager or whatever, the equipment manager just gave it to
him and that was it. Oh to be the Yankees
laundry dude, I thought it was more to it. I
thought like the Yankees specifically were, like there were high hopes,
for sure, but it was a matter of just the
equipment manager being like, here's number two, but he was

(50:28):
such a highly touted prospect for the Yankees back in
the mid nineties that I thought it was by design.
Like I went to Syracuse for college, number forty four
is a tradition there. Jim Brown, Derek Coleman like, if
you're given number forty four, it's Syracuse's way of saying,
we believe in basketball.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Or football that you're the guy.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
And I thought that because there were no single digits left,
I always thought the Yankees gave Jeter number two at
the high hopes of like you're.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
It COVID looks like Mike Diego. Was it Lego Goes? Yeah,
it was the last to wear number two before Jeter.
I think it.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Fernandez, No, it's a great novel for six. Maybe no, No,
it's a great Steve Sacks number six. Tony Fernandez did
wear number six.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
You know what's funny is that?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (51:12):
I know the Yankees don't have their names on their jersey,
but how funny would it be to have a number
two Diego Yankee shirt?

Speaker 2 (51:19):
That a fun novelty?

Speaker 1 (51:21):
It was Diego, But yeah, it wasn't like he was
the only guy to wear it. The equipment guy gave
it to him. But my point in bringing that up was,
you pick if you were able to pick that number,
because a lot of players don't have the luxury of
picking it.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
They're just sort of giving it. Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
You pick the number that might be highly touted by
a bigger star when he comes along, because you may
reap the benefits. Allah Brett Batty, who got his ninety
two thousand Chevy Tahoe gifted from one.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
So it says when Diego was in Oakland A he
wore number nine. He of course couldn't wear Roger Merris's
number in New York, so he got two and he
wore it through nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Hey, Danny, did uh did Luca have to play some
pay some G league guy for number seventy seven? Who
would wear a number seventy seven? That's a that's a
number you always know is available. So props to him.
He did the right thing. But again, it does make
you think the greatest gift you were ever given.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
It's a really it's a really nice coincidence for Brett baby.
Now here's what we got going on. By the way,
you think you'll buy your kid a car one day,
like the whole bow, the whole deal.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Have you ever bought your wife a car with a
bow on it like a guy in a commercial?

Speaker 2 (52:28):
And I can barely afford the bow?

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Yeah, I know, because honestly, that's like the most generous
gift you can give somebody.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Right as far as like as a gift that you
could buy, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
It depends on my contract here, That depends. You know
what I always told my kids, I said, I'm you know,
Dad's putting away Dad and mom are putting away money
for you for college. And all those things. But if
you get a full scholarship to college, that money you
could buy a car, down payment on an apartment or
something like. I'm saving the money. If you want it,
get a scholarship. We gotta get this game in. Let's go,

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Iowa Sam.

Speaker 6 (53:06):
Don't you have five seconds to battle for your sports
trivia love n Put your electronic devices down and pick
your sports knowledge. It's CNRS Last.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
One standing, Last one standing.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
Yeah, all right, I have four categories ready to go
if you needed a tiebreaker. Each contestant gets five seconds
to stay alive.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
In the round.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
If you run out of time or you answer incorrectly,
Iowa Sam will take you out with this famous buzzer.
We keep battling until you are the last one standing.
If you win two of the rounds, you are the
top dog. Here are the contestants. Five time winner Steve Covino, yay,
let's go to the.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Right of him.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Eight time winner Rich Davis, how are you, buddy? And
the leader in the clubhouse, twenty four time winner Dan
Byer me all right, We're gonna go to the Student
Alliance to see who's playing for a CNR stainless steel
swiki Buyer, I'll use you for this. Would you love
to travel to beautiful Idaho Falls, Idaho, o Spokane, Washington,
Goodyear Arizona or Wacos Waco, Texas, Texas?

Speaker 7 (54:15):
What kind of in a spring training kind of mood?
Let's go to Goodyear Arizona. There we go, all right, Aaron?

Speaker 3 (54:22):
How right?

Speaker 2 (54:23):
What do you do for a living there in Goodyear? Blimp?

Speaker 5 (54:25):
I am a environmental inspector for the county.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
It's got a real job. You think you're better than us?
All right?

Speaker 4 (54:34):
By the way, spot is the fact checking during this game.
Lots of anxiety.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
All right.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
When I say your name, the clock is going to begin.
Here's the first category, way too early. You have five
seconds to name an NFL team who ESPN already has
ranked as the bottom twelve for next season twenty one
through thirty two in their two early power rankings. Caven
know we're gonna start with you as soon as the
clock goes now.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
The Jaguars.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Jaguars is at number twenty six, Yes, Rich the New
York Football Giant, the Giants at thirty one. Buyer Danny's Raiders,
the Raiders at twenty eight. Aaron Aaron three two one Aaron,

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you got a team, Darren.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Man, he's out of that round. Good coo.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
No one said the Jets yet, right, I have all right,
hold on a man, I'll say it, okay, twenty.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Nine Rich the Panthers, the.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Panthers, number twenty five, No Buyer, Saints, Saints number twenty seven.
Coveno the Browns, the Browns number thirty Rich, Patriots, the
Patriots number twenty four.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Buyer, I was gonna Patriots too. Jeez, you know what.
Let's roll the dice.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Cowboys, Cowboys not on the al right, coven Titans. Titans
last on the list, number thirty two. Rich three to
go three two Arizona Cardinals, Yes, number twenty one.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Good right at the top of the bottom. Back to Coveno.
Wow wow wow uh the Colts, Yes, there's one last Ritch.

Speaker 7 (56:37):
Come on, I'm gonna call him Colts. Vino to the Bears. Yes, wow,
we have a tie there. We'll give both Covino.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
And Rich for six seventeen seconds. It was a long time.
That was the longest. Those are movie seconds, right, you
want to just throw that round out. That was it.
That was a tie.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
I'll give you guys the point. All right, we go
to the second category.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Exciting.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Oh, by the way, let's see if Aaron and Goodyear
Arizona is still alive. Aaron, Yeah, okay, all right, just
checking your name.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
What you want? Here we go?

Speaker 5 (57:12):
I trying to answer.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
Okay, all right, yeah, your phoney cricket wire. Let's throw
it out. Fifty thousand daggers is the name of this category.
You have five seconds to name an NBA player who
is top twenty all time for three pointers made. By
the way, nine of the twenty are still active players.
All right, We're going to start with you, Aaron in

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Arizona as soon as as soon as the timer goes now.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Steph Curry, Steph Curry, Yes, Er one one Buyer, Let's go.
Klay Thompson, Klay.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Thompson number five, Rich, Reggie Miller, Reggie Miller, number six,
Hall of Fame, Coveno, Realen, Rey Allen, number three.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Back to Aaron, Bence, Carter.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
Vince Carter, number ten.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Buyer, James Harden, James Harden number two two.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Yeah, Rich, God give you the category again with most
top twenty all time three pointers made.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Most Yes, Lebron, James Lebron, James number seven. Coveno Larry Bird,
Larry Bird, none of the US.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Yeah, he didn't play long enough. I guess dang Aaron
Dirk Newitskyrk on the list. Number nine, Buyer, Damian Lillard,
number four, Rich.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Mark Price, Okay Aaron? Uh three two? One out of there.
Buyer wins that round.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
You have a guess, any kid?

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Jason Kidd Yes on the list number eighteen. Uh, you
got most of the top ones. Paul George, paulge.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Yeah, Jason Terry is on the list.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Anyone say?

Speaker 4 (59:10):
Kevin Durant's okay, Buddy healed Joe Johnson at the end
of the list at number twenty. All right, here we
go to the third category. Covino, Rich, Buyer, all on
the board. Where's the third category? Hit is above three thirteen.
You have five seconds to name an MLB player who
led the American or National League in batting average on

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that list since twenty ten. By the way, every player
on this list finished with an average above three thirteen,
which ironically just came last season. All right, so once again,
al or NL batting champ since twenty ten.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Covino, You're up first. Go dj Le Mayhew, dj Le Mayhew. Yeah, Yes,
And to Rich Ariahs Yes, yes, twice, three times, three times,
three times. Yeah, alright, buyer no Taani.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Show. Hey, yeah, I'm looking forward wards it I don't
believe now. Yeah, not the leader, Aaron in Arizona. I
don't even know what the question is, to be honest
with you, so dark confusing.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
MLB player who led the American International League in batting average?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
The leader?

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
One leader there was, but it was above three, the highest,
the highest each year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Yeah. I just said everyone on the list batted above three. Yeah.
I was just explaining the title of the category. Aaron.
You've got plenty of time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Good yep.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Mike Trout, Mike Trout, Nope, mm hmmm. Co three's on
this list?

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Uh, the.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
All the time?

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
No, no, no, I answer for the win please, Rich
Jeff McNeil, Jeff McNeil, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
You made fun of the ticket. Fortunity was on the list.
There are a lot of excuse a slot. Wow. I
feel we can do this, honestly, I feel like we
can redo this next week. Miguel Cabrera. Miguel Cabrera, I
had a few ideas, had a few in the bank. Rich.
You have won your ninth That is your ninth win,
all right, pay well, I don't think they should each

(01:01:27):
get wins. I think that should just be a draw
and you get zero. I don't know. Category.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Yeah, Dvre, now you're only twenty ahead of me. What
are you gonna I'm a little I'm a little sour
over this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Yeah. I mean, if you guys are gonna have rules,
have rules.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
I don't think this is the first time we ever
had a tie in a category.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Geez, what is this? It's anarchy in this Wow. I
love it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:51):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
I love it. And by the way, Aaron and goodyear Arizona.
Thank you for playing the game.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
I appreciate you. Guys, Hey, thank you, by We appreciate
you too. Man. All right, great job, great win. Rich