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C&R explain why should people stop crying about the Yankees torpedo bats! They talk Final Four, Betts grand slam, phone apps & get into an argument over blowouts & fandom! They talk basketbrawl & Rich says NO to blowouts. He has a garbage-time question/worst feeling in sports! 'LAST ONE STANDING' is a heated battle. Plus, Aaron Rodgers/Pittsburgh rumors & a Met celebration HANGS low!  

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:46):
Last One Standing we played every Monday. Is the game
that's sweeping the nation, so lots to get to so
pumped about this show. I'm just pumped Rich because the
Yankee scored one hundred and thirty runs this weekend. I
mean I felt like it, right, Yeah, we got to
talk about this torpedo bat. I know everyone else has,
but I feel like our opinions more fun and better. So,
first of all, as a Mets fan, Danny g as

(01:08):
a Dodgers fan, I was Sam Dodgers fan. I mean,
you're the Yankee guy here, Kavino. I would love to
hate on you. I would love to say cheating, bogus bs.
But they've done nothing wrong. Anyone that's opposing what the
Yankees are doing just a bunch of damn haters. It's
funny that you say, I would love to say cheating
and all that. That's what everybody's saying online. There's so

(01:31):
much misinformation and so many people who are so upset
by this, but I keep hearing the wrong rumors over
and over and over again. They're pretending and acting like
all the Yankees are using it. It was designed for
Anthony Volpi. That's why I said the volpedo bat. Because
he wasn't getting around on the ball. He kept hitting
the ball on the logo. So they said, let's make
the metior part of the bat where the logo is

(01:53):
closer to the handle. So essentially you're changing where the
girth is, yes, exactly, and girth could be distributed in
different places on everybody. Then you want to say girth
is worth. Yeah, So that's the only people that used
it for the Yankees this weekend and they hit nine
home runs in one game, like fourteen to fifteen home

(02:14):
runs over the weekend. Only Getsism and Vaultpee are using it.
So the thought that Aaron Judge and gold Schmidt and
all these gut no, that's fake. The fact that it's
illegal also false and fake. The rules are simple. Everyone's
throwing out these rules as if they're experts. Rule three
point zero two. According to the MLB, bats can't be

(02:39):
thicker than two point sixty one inches, right, two point
sixty one. That's what she said. And guess what, it's
not bigger than two point sixty one. That's the magic
number here. It's just distributed differently. Has to be made
of solid wood. Guess what, that's what it's made of,
solid wood, just distributed differently. Can't have a cut in
the hole the tip of the at deeper than one inch.

(03:01):
It does not forty two inches inches in length. That's
the limit. And those are the rules, and it just
goes by the rules. They were just innovative and changed
it up a little bit. That's surprising. What's more surprising,
which is that it took this long for someone to
try to innovate something. That's what happens when nerds and
jocks collaborate. Right, Yankees got an mit like scientists, nerds.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Nerds.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
When you get nerds and jocks work it together, look
what happens.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
How do you think you're gonna beat the alpha betas
any other way?

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Right? Do you know what get that javelin? Yeah, Lamar
latrelle Well, you are just looking for every advantage every edge.
Will not deny that, But I think it's smart. You know,
it's like, are you a mad that pictures are throwing
one hundred and eight miles per hour? Now? The game changes,
the game advances, equipment changes all the time, all the time.

(03:54):
And if it's in with the in the parameters of
the MLB rules, then what's the problem. Besides all the
law eyes that are being told on social media social media,
I haven't seen a story explode like this in social
media in a while.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Wait, you mean the story today about the Yankees big
new gloves that they're gloves.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I saw how they change the Yankees' logo to to
make it like a fat whiffleball bat because the K
and the Yankees, like traditional big red plastic bat that
all the kids have when they're toddlers, or that vourtex
bat that hit bombs like Mark McGuire. Look, we've seen
it all and it's hilarious, but people are so mad
about it, and I'm thinking, well, it's just a matter

(04:36):
of time before everybody gets them. They're already putting shipments
in your boiling door has already been on that. There's
other players that have them used it over the weekend. Yeah,
they've already been approved by the MLB. Now do they
have to go through some sort of reapproval per team
that I don't know, but the Yankees aren't the only

(04:56):
ones allowed to use it, and to me it makes
perfect sense. I'm more surprised than anything that it took
this long for them to figure something like that out.
The other part of the advantage, which that no one's
really talking about, is all right again, Volpi, he was
basically getting jammed, not getting around quick enough to get
the barrel on the ball right. So they said, well,
let's make the barrel closer to the hand, hove the

(05:16):
meat to the bat. But when you do that, it
also appears to be lighter, so think about it from
that perspective. Right, if you're using a thirty four ounce bat,
but you move the meat closer to the handle, it
feels like a thirty two ounce bat because the heavy
part isn't at the end wasted at the end. So
it's really just smarter than anything. And here's the other side.

(05:39):
Not everybody likes it. Not everybody's using it because it
feels weird to them. It feels it feels different, so
they're not It's like some of those slap hitters with
the axe handle. Right. Yes, it's not for everything. It's
a redesign. And dude, it's only a story because the
Yankees are doing it. If it was the White Sox,
no one would give a Diddley squat. Yeah, let's not

(06:00):
forget the Yankees played at home. They have a small
ballpark early on in the season, hard to not hit
one out, right, So Yankees are on fire, I'll give
you that. I think it is crazy how everyone thinks
the whole team's using it when it really is Vulpy
and Chisholm and Aaron Judge on fire. The guy is
not using one of these bats. But there's one thing

(06:21):
I want to make clear. If the rest of the
league starts using it, could the Yankee fans not do
this whole Oh your copycats? Because it's like if the
first team in the NFL that came up with a
cool face mask and everyone else uses it. No, I
just don't want to hear Yankee fans call people copycats.
I mean I already did on social media. But yeah, no,
I think it's fair. That's also fair. I don't see

(06:42):
any problem with this. I find it odd that people do.
To me, it just makes sense. Again, I'm more surprised
than anything that it took this long to happen, because
we see equipment innovation all the time. Why was the
bat the same way for so long? We need to
ask ourselves that. Like, I know it's not fore hitting,

(07:02):
but when gian Carlos Stanton got hit in the face,
remember he came back with that cool metal little flap.
Didn't that turn into every player having a little bit
of a flap extender on the helmet? No one said
during copying Junk Carlo, it's you know, you see a
cool innovation in die Man and as our buddy Jim
Ramsey are unofficial consultant of the show, Jim Ramsey hit

(07:24):
us up from North Carolina, and he said, the torpedo
bats are an example of a broader, relatable point. Sometimes
you need to challenge. That's the way we've always done it,
So that's the way it stays. That's the way we've
always done it. To see what's possible and what might
actually be better. And this might be better for some,
for some and for all the Like I said, the

(07:45):
Red Sox haters and the port noise out there saying
the Yankees are cheap and cheating, it's just a matter
of time before you're broke. Cast Raphael Devers has one too.
But the reality is not everyone's gonna want these. Not
everybody's gonna want them. Not everybod's gonna want There's innovations
with helmet designs in the NFL, there's innovations with I'm

(08:05):
sure compression sleeves and socks and everything. In the NBA.
It just might not be comfortable. It's not my style.
If you think every guy next week's gonna have a
torpedo bat, you're mistaken. Some guys are like no. The
way I like my bats distributed is this way. Everybody
has their own example of that, like there's a new
piece of equipment at the office, and you know, some

(08:25):
people are like, yeah, I like it, and then other
people like, no, man, I like the old way better.
I'm more comfortable with the old one. I'd be like
all these people, Like a couple of years back, do
you remember when everyone in corporate America decided to have
a standing desk desk and then some people would have
a treadmill, and they'd they'd be like working and doing
their emails while they're on their treadmill. I mean, there's
always an innovation. I mean, listen, when we came here

(08:47):
to Fox. I'm not saying we're the torpedo bats of
FSR oh. I'm tweeting that out right now, Covino and
Rich the torpedo bats of Fox Sports Radio. No. I
remember when heavy in the middle, light on top. I
remember more like the twerppedo bat, give me the red
show sticks at the bottom, big heads, h girthy and delivers.

(09:10):
The reason I say this is because when we first
got here, I remember one of the first interviews we
did was Henry Winkler because I'm the funds wowie zowie.
You remember it was right around the time when Winkler
had that funny interaction with Mahomes on the field and

(09:30):
he's like, yeah, come over for dinner, and he's like,
you're welcome at my dinner table. Anytime. You're welcome, Patrick.
I remember now we wanted to interview the funds because
we're pals with them. I remember some people around here
were like, yeah, I have them call up, and we said, well,
why don't we do a zoom call? That way we

(09:53):
could get video in better quality. And at first it
was like, wow, no one really does that around here.
And I remember us being like, why not. Oh, we
just don't do it that way. Well, says who. Sometimes
you have to question the well, we don't do it
around here that way, sticking within the rules that are written.
I mean, take it back to your earliest level of
Little League, hey Rich, when everyone had a ceramic bad

(10:15):
You were curious about it, But did you go out
and buy one and jump on it? Were we just
comfortable with yours? Some people love them, some people dead,
That's what I mean, Like it worked for some and
some people loved it. But I guess what I stuck
with my Eastern big barrel, you know, Dan Byer, my
black magic Dan Byer, who's a student of the game,
not just baseball football, and go to bring up I
think Colin stars insinuated it's BELICHICKI and I'll be honest,

(10:40):
I thought the same exact thing, because Dann wasn't there
a rule where Belichick fould the way to run the
clock out more? And it's like, ah, very tricky Belichick,
And he said we're going to change that rule.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, And Vrabel actually used it against Belichick in a
game as well, which ultimately led to the change. I
look at it as from the world of golf, to
be honest with you, of trying to get an advantage.
There's rules that your club needs to to fit in.
But as a guy who's not a professional, I need
a bigger club face because they don't always hit it

(11:11):
on the sweet spot when I don't.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I want it to go a little bit more straighter.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
So like a tour pro wouldn't use my clubs because
they would want their own in a certain way. It's
not an exact parallel, but that's kind of how I
looked at.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
It, Dan question because I don't know. I'm not the
PGA expert like you are, but when we were kids,
and you'd watch highlights of a Chi Chi Rodriguez doing
funny handshakes, and you'd be watching all the highlights on
with your dad. They had regular putters. Who is the
first to have the I hold the putter a funny
way and do all that because that I'm guessing at first,

(11:45):
whoever the first few golflers that did that, you don't
think they were like, well, hold on, what I doing
with this different type of putter?

Speaker 5 (11:51):
I can tell you Bernard Longer was one of the
first to do it.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
You don't think there was resistance by some like good
what is this guy doing?

Speaker 5 (11:58):
There was because it all also looked funky as well.
And then there's there's a whole different point to that
of an anchoring because of what they would do is
they'd put the club to the chest. But just the
point of it being different. I mean, there are golf
putters now that you guys see where you know, there's
a big white circle you know, around it or two
of them, which then lines up and they'll call them
like a two ball putter. And putters never looked like that,

(12:21):
you know, thirty forty years ago, and now they do.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Cavino, I know, you're a big bowling guy. There's you
see a bowler's bowl like now, oh with two hands.
They take two hands to do it. I remember the
first guy that I remember seeing it was a guy
I think his name was like, I'm not on one
of chili, and I would see him use two Well,
actually I started that when I was like five years old. Yeah,
I think I invented it, but then I saw a

(12:46):
bunch of other people doing it all the time. Just
became the way. So again, my confusion is more how
social media has run with this and people are mad
about it when it's going to be fair for everybody.
And why do you want to give so much advantage
to the picture but not the batter here, That's what
I don't get. The pictures always doing little something. Batters

(13:08):
can't change how the bat is shaped since when you know.
But again, we've never seen anything like this before, so
people are afraid of it, you know what it comes
down to people, And I think more people are just
mad about the fact that the Yankees were the ones
that thought of it first. That's really what you're imagine.
If the Dodgers came out, that's it. It would have
been even worse. I didn't think it could.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
That's all people are mad about. I do think it's bs.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
The Yankees are gonna wear graduation caps tomorrow night to
show how smart they are with an n Y on
the on the cardboard piece.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Tassel jokes are hilarious though, Like I've been entertained so
much by the torpedo bat that everybody's talking about. It
really is a great story.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
It's made for some great memes of the weekendious start.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
The hatred that everyone's throwing at the Yankees. I do
find to be as a Yankees fan, like ohilarious and entertaining.
I just don't understand all the lies about it. I'll
tell you why. It's well, I'll be honest, look yourself
in the mirror and I will as well. It's people
that love to read headlines. I guess, so not the story. Yeah,
And I have another example, like the same way. At first,

(14:17):
to be honest, if you want to know the truth.
At first, I also thought it was the whole Yankee team,
and then it's yeah, because that's how it seems until
you read the article and you're like, oh no, it's vulpe.
And by the way, I mean they hit nine home
runs in one game, a team record, so of course
that shines a huge light on the fact that they
have different shaped bats. I mean, remember, like a week ago,

(14:37):
all that stuff about what's underneath the pyramids, and if
you just read the headline you probably still think there's
stuff underneath the pyramids.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Is also why you need time to look underneath at
the comments too, because there were Yankee experts in there
immediately correcting all the boneheads saying I can't believe Judge
hit those three home runs with one of these bats,
and a Yankee expert like Cavino right underneath that saying, hey,
bone head, he wasn't even using that bad Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
It makes the idiot so dumber, you know. I'll give
you the example if you want to rewind the better
year ago Danny, because I think a lot of people
on their network were incorrect and saying, do you remember
the female boxer who everyone in media was like just
trans for everybody thought that's truth. Yeah, because the the

(15:22):
that's how the story, it's like a bad game, it becomes.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
We put the brakes on that on our show because
I was like, let's let the dust settle on this
before we you know, have a strong stance on it.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Bad game of telephone is strong. Careful if you don't
how many legitimate broadcasters were calling that female boxer trans
and listen. They were idiosyncrasies, they were they were, I
believe that, But but we were the ones that were
like a pump the brakes. We didn't roll with that
the way everyone else did. I mean that that was

(15:55):
the story though, too, So you're like, well, what am
I supposed to believe if that's the story. Let's just
get this clear right now. This is a legal bat.
The Yankees ran it by the MLB. It's not called
a torpedo bat. That just sort of organically happened. It's
more shaped like a bowling pin than anything. It's not

(16:16):
that big of a difference. It's just distributed in a
different way, and it's like wasted mass at the tip
of the bat. You don't want to hit the baseball
at the tip of the bat, so they just brought
it toward the logo. Raphael Devers is stepping into the
batter's box, by the way, I'll see if he strikes out.
You're expecting to strike out. And I heard the braves

(16:37):
and a bunch of other teams already put their orders
in for these new torpedo bats, which some people are
gonna like guys like Jazz Chishom who are open to like, yeah, man,
I like it. And then other people who are just
already feeling good about the bat that they use, that
are not gonna mess with whatever's not broke. Like I
said a few minutes ago, think of how many people

(16:58):
you know gave that axe handled that a chance, like yeah,
I'll take some swings, and some people like no, not
for me. And there's a few players that's stuck with
it so innovative die. I think it's cool, like you
Dan and Danny Gen everyone said, I promise you Rich,
I swear if it was another team, let's say it
was your Mets, right, Yeah, I would be more mad
that you guys came up with the idea first and
that we're we're now playing catch up to the Mets.

(17:21):
But I would not be mad that there was a
loophole that someone figured out that was a legal loophole
to make the game more exciting for more offense. Could
we know there was not be mad about that if
it was fair for everyone else to use it, there
was a company. The first There was a first company
that said, let me use social media to promote my business.

(17:41):
Now every single company does it, Like there's gonna be
one person that or how about like chat GPT people
who want to use chat GPT to their advantages and
other people are go, well, I don't know if that's okay.
It's like, well, we have the ability to do this,
why can't we.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
This also reminded me a little bit of the champions
during COVID, not First Bubblets, Mickey Mouse. Everybody had the
same chance.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, that's true. Everyone has the same opportunity here, you know,
unless you're a pitcher in the MLB. I don't know
what everyone's so mad about. All right, well, listen, we
have one more pitch because I want to see if
Dever strikes out full count. And they had a lot,
had a tough weekend. Now we'll take your feedback on
the torpedo bat. We'll talk about a new move the
Mets are doing. We've got some NBA, some NFL, but

(18:28):
the three two pitch. Let's see what happens here. And
Ever walks, all right, he has he's a good player.
He's just had a rough start turning round, Danny G's
super producing, getting ready for last one's standing.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Well, BET's kind of weekend. How about that walk off
on Friday night?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
That was why I was out at a bar when
that happened, dude. And that's always the best when you're
out and about. You're out in the mount and you know,
I'm in Los Angeles and everyone's there to watch the
Dodgers win and move bets. It's a walk off. And
you know what he went through was he weigh one
hundred and twenty five pounds. He looks so little at

(19:05):
and he hits a bomb like that. The place erupted.
It was so fun to be out at that night. Yeah. Sure,
he's just not on ozempic. I don't know. Maybe so No,
I'm glad he's better. Iowa Sam on the ones and twos.
DB's got your updates, Spotty's on the videos at Covino
and Rich. Look, it's a new innovation. Stop crying about
the torpedo bat. Don't buy into the lies. It's approved

(19:27):
by the MLB. It doesn't exceed the specifications that MLB
requires for a Major League Baseball bat. Again, it can't
be thicker than two point six one inches has to
be solid wood, it can't have a cut deeper than
one inch on the tip of the bat, and it
can't be over forty two inches in length. None of
these bats are not all the Yankees are using them.

(19:48):
Everybody's able to use them. Like I said, I don't
know what the approval is. Like Rich, if all of
a sudden the Mets want to throw a specified order in,
I don't know how long that takes. I don't know
what the rules are with that. But already teams are
putting their orders in. Players are gonna give it a try.
Either they're gonna like it or they're not. It's like
there's always an innovation that people jump on too, and

(20:09):
then some people don't like so not everyone's gonna use it,
and not all the Yankees are. For example, when it
comes to mind is a stupid one, but like lane
assistance on my car, some people love it. I is
all hated. Yeah, I feel that. I'm like, ah, I
don't like it, and other people swear by it. Right,
I had a car that had something you love and

(20:31):
I'm like, yeah, well that that heads up to splay
where on your windshield you see like the hologram of
your navigation. I'm like, yeah, no things someone need that.
I love that and I lean into it. That innovation
works for me. Not all new stuff is good for everybody.
That's why guys like Aaron Judge, I doubt Gean Carlos Stanton,
guys like that won't use the new bat, but younger
players might be open to it. Look at it like

(20:53):
anything in life. There's people that are reluctant and resistors,
and there's people that love to jump on a new
trend just to even give it a shot. For instance,
just recently, how long has the coffee company Starbucks been
around you? Ever heard of them? Coveno? Finally, well like
weeks ago? Like yeah, mobile water now weeks is a stretch,

(21:14):
but I would say I would say about a year. No, no, no, yeah,
I'll prove it to you. Sounds a fine, but you're right.
I was. I was way later. I was the guy
that would Cavino was the guy that would go to
Starbucks and wait in the line, the line, Like, who
does that? I like waiting in line? Another thing, we live,
we live. We live here at Fox Sports Radio. We

(21:34):
live here at Fox next to an l Po Loko,
which is a little you know chicken fast food place
up until recently, I don't. I don't have the a
for that. I don't. So you walk in order and
wait fifteen I don't go there every day. It's not
fifteen minutes. Yeah I don't. It's like a little kiosk,
And yeah, I don't go there enough to like want
to flood my phone up with you.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Save some of your hard earned dollars too, because you
can those as Yeah, yeah, I scan the code.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
The point is, what do you mean? It's the same
thing here said something boomerash, You said, clog up your
phone with an app? Yeah, I don't want it. I
don't want them. I don't need it, do you some
of us? Do you hate having to sign into everything?
I'm not there log into That proves your point. Some
guys like Jash chishm are like, yeah, give me the app.

(22:22):
I'll use the new stuff. Sam's got a cordy keyboard.
Some people not open to it. But there's also debates
and those are fun too. On do you get more
of a sweet spot? So if you hit it outside
of the sweet spot, are you getting less of an
impact than you would have got before? Right? I know,

(22:44):
Mike was arguing. Wasn't Mike and dB arguing about that
off the ear runs this place? Yeah, because I've heard
several people talk about it because you're shortening or you're
you're compacting the sweet spot closer to the handle. Now,
if you hit it toward the end of the bat
maybe you would have got a little juice out of
it before, where you're actually maybe gonna get less juice
out of it now. I'm sort of getting that understanding too,

(23:08):
Like it's not all bombs that you're going to get
out of it. You really just have to hit that
sweet Think about it, where if you're taking toward meat,
the meat of the back, if you're taking the meat
from somewhere and you're putting it that you're losing meat
somewhere right, Like it's like, you know, squeezing the toothpaste tube.
That's like rookie, you take the meat out of somewhere
and it's you know, Spop made a great analogy there.

(23:31):
Picture a tube of toothpaste. The Yankees are just squeezing
the toothpaste a little more towards the middle of the tube,
the middle bottom, the middle bottom, middle bottom where you know, so.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
If I was the guy who invented this, though it
was his name. They call them Lenni, Lenny Aaron Liner. Yeah,
I would want it named after me, especially with other
teams copying it.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I'd want it to be.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Raping Lenny Liner.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
I was pushing for the volpedo back because they did
it for Anthony Volpi.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
They did it kind of, yeah, but Vulpey didn't invent
the actual back. If I'm Lenny, I'm like, I want
my name on it.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
And if I'm not mistaken, this guy was so innovative
and so instrumental in this change. Again, the Yankees hired
them just for that. I think the Marlins picked them
up as a got a batting coach job, which is wild, Yeah,
because there's so much analytics involved in how to improve
hitting and pitch get better field coordinator With the Marlins,

(24:22):
I've had enough hitting. I've said this last week. But
you know how your algorithm is really a reflection of
who you are. Now you look up one coaching hitting video, Cavino.
Do you know how many products there are? So I'm
not shocked by this. There are when i I'm not exactrink,
hundreds of different products. Like here's a bet but it's not.
It's a rope and if you can't hit off the

(24:43):
team with this rope, your your hand speeds not. They
have something for everything. So I'm not shocked, and I
feel like you're only going to see more and more
innovation with gloves, cleats, bats, It's it's science mixed with athleticism.
More than Everfese stays within the rules, Then what do
you complain and about? That's really what problem? Yeah, what's
your problem? Relax? So, yeah, my algorithm rich all weekend

(25:06):
was unfortunately that terrible earthquake in Thailand seven to seven
on the Andy Richter scale horrible. You see those people
in the pool on the Yeah, oh my god, that
was frightening. I know you're not a quitter. I'm not.

(25:26):
I know, it's what are we talking about. I know
that you're the type of guy that will watch a
Yankees game if they're losing big time. Well, that's because
it's like eating pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still
pretty good. Yeah, did the Mets are losing? If a grandlatter,
what's better than the Mets? It's putting something my kids
will watch, so they're not board. I don't know for me,

(25:49):
it's just a good background, even if they're losing it. No,
I don't want to say if the Mets are if
a Grand Slam can't tie the game and it's after
the sixth inning, I'm like, see you tomorrow. There's one
hundred and sixty two games last night, it's this week.
I don't even know, don't. I don't know how you
lean into that, especially on Fox Sports Radio a lot everyone. No,
but I think I think you should. I think you

(26:10):
should just be better than that. I don't think you
need to lie. Well. Better than that is actually saying,
all right, the game's over. There's one hundred and two games.
I'm gonna watch something. Do you have? Sports is watching
them come back and fight back. You're the guy that
would watch your team down by twenty five points in
the fourth quarter because you're in it. You're thick and thin.
Rich is only in it through through thin. I'm only
in it through torpedo, sickness and health, which is like, nope,

(26:31):
just health, see you later. It's a character flaw. I'm out.
I understand if your kids tugging on your leg because
he's dying to watch Blippy, I understand that, But he
can watch on his tablet character flaw. Because if if
your Cubs fan and there, if you've been nothing else
going on reruns, nothing else, losers, a rerun of Friends

(26:53):
is better than the actual live game. That's all right. Now,
let's take a walk around the block. Hey, kids, you
want to watch a movie that the movie night? Okay?
My point is.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Which episode of Friends?

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah? Yeah? I mean which is acting like he's not
watching every piece of trash on Netflix.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
This is the one where they compete to swap apartments.
That's a really funny.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
He's acting like he's he's doing a construction, something constructive. Well,
my point is if you're a Cubs fan and they're
losing twelve four and the seventh inning, can you knows
the guy that's like good? What would he not still watch?
I don't know because that's over. That's what most people
that you're talking to. Would you stay at that game
in person? Yes? Because I paid for that and I'm
a fan. God, your maniac. I think I think eighty

(27:29):
percent of the people listening would agree with me and not.
You know what, I'm pretty confident. No way, all they
can say, you mean the people tuned in to listen
to us banter about sports. When their team's losing, they
two now doesn't mean they're dumb sports fans. So you
know what, how how confident and certain you are, there
is your character flaw. I think you're gross in what

(27:52):
you're saying and how you're saying it. I think you
are jackass. To let me explain by hypothetical, Hey Danny,
when your team's losing, you still watch I do. Hey Sam,
if your team's losing and you still keep it on,
depends on how much they're losing by it, Say so,
what's the what about comebacks? You don't believe in them?
Iowa is down thirty five to seven Ohio State. I'm
turning it off. Yeah, if it's like midway through the

(28:14):
third quarter, why would I want to wat to watch it?
But you don't just keep it on. You can go
about your day and make yourself a sandwich. I mean
all the games on.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I kind of sided with Rich here, Like if they
read if your team roared back and made a historic comeback,
not gonna happen. I'm realistic.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
I know all of our teams have made big not
Iowa Football's off if they're making a big comeback. Guess
what I'm gonna get text messages with my friends like
you see you in this and that just means turn
on TV back on, because maybe they're like starting the
guy watching Modern Family again rather than the live game
that's rather watching Rich.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
You'll be halfway around the block walking with your kids,
so you're gonna have to run back to your house.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
I'm not one dimensional like some ass clowns in this room.
Not to mention, you can't have the game on, you know,
on the headphones or something and take a walk like
he's acting like you have to choose, but you think
I should be. I should be walking around the block
with my kids with a headphone in to make sure
the Mets, who are down nine to one, don't make
a comeback. You're giving every spare moment of your life
to your your child. They're very busy coloring. I have

(29:15):
a great hypothetical that clearly you're not gonna have anything
to do with next hang tight, last day in March Man,
one more night of madness, Rich, and remember tomorrow, April
Fool's Day. There's a couple of rules. No faking deaths,
no causing harm to anyone, no fake pregnancy, and the pregnancy.

(29:35):
One's rough for two reasons, because you could scare the
hell out of someone, and also it's insensitive to those
that might not be able to get pregnant. So don't
get canceled at your work places. Don't get canceled, but
also don't be so sensitive. My girlfriend just hit me up.
She's like, I posted a picture of me and Julio.
Says our Chavez the boxer, and I said, happy says
our Java's day. And she's like, you should probably delete it. Yeah,
she's like, he's in activist and you know to the

(29:58):
I'm like, well, who Elseesar Travis is also a hero
to the Mexican people have a legend.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, when it comes to the uf W United farm Workers,
you cannot joke.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
She's like, you probably should. The lead I was like,
it's a joke.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
You tracker supplies not laughing.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Here's why you can't be offended because it's a joke,
as Crystal La said, because it's a joke. It's not serious.
But anyway, happy csar Chava's day, not the box.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
About the basketbrawl yesterday in weekend hobnobbing one of the
two NBA games, I said to pay attention to on
Sunday was Pistons and the Wolves as Monty calls them wolves,
and that spilled into the front row of the crowd.
It was a bunch of it was a bunch of pushing,
but still to have seven players.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
He seen the slow motion in like still frames of
the pushing, like, it's pretty intense, man, It's it's gotta
be scary. Ask uh, ask Van Gundy how it feels
to be How about those Pistons, first team ever to
have three times as many wins season to season last
you are fourteen total this year, forty two incounting. So
you got to give Detroit props for turning their team

(31:05):
and their franchise around. I give prompts to the people
that tuned in last year even though they sucked, because
now they could appreciate it this year, like they sort
of earned the right to celebrates what it seems like
to be a fan. Team's not your wife, it's not
your kids, you say in the game takes presence. You
watch for leisure and love, and if your team's getting
their ass whooped. I'm not watching a blowout. I'm sorry.

(31:28):
It just we're cut from different cloths. I didn't say,
watch a blowout, you just keep it on. Well, there's
your goal about your night. You put on some music,
organize your closet. Uh, but you know, play fetch with
your dog while the game's on your mood. Though now
I read exactly Sam, I rather probably should talk to something.
I'd rather put on a rerun of Down because they

(31:49):
could you see other things that players might come in
that you don't know anything about. You learn a little
something about it. The guy that wants to watch a
game where like the middle infielder's pitching because it's such
a terrible game.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
I like rich err Boy Trip said, even when our
show is slow, he still listens.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
When is that? I'm thank you, Trip. But anyway, there's
lots to get to this hour. Last one standing, We're
gonna play the game that sweeping the nation, giving away prizes.
If you want to win again, keep the number on
standby eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll do
some trivia later on. This is a top hypothetical for
a guy like you who never gives up. What do
you think, John Cena, It's hard to be someone that

(32:26):
never gives up. Cavino, Oh, I rolled my eyes at
you and my rs. So here's my question last night.
Since i'm you know, Rich Davis, big hockey fan, I
was at the LA Kings game last night. A lot
of fun. Always good to catch a hockey game here
and there. I can't act like I'm, you know, the
guy that loves the NHL or hockey, but going to

(32:47):
a hockey game really is a great experience. And that's
what every hockey fan will say, go live and you'll
love it. And I learned the fun fact last night.
Danny j. This may become a knowledge for people out
here in LA but you know it makes sense. But
I connected the dots. Don't laugh at me if this
is common knowledge. When the Lakers and the Kings were
both playing in the early eighties out here together, they

(33:09):
were both gold and purple. Yeah, Doctor Buss. When Doctor
Muss sold the team, that's when the the La Kings
dropped the Lakers colors and went silver and black. And
the reason, from what I understand, is that raiders merchandise
sold off the shelves and it was that time of

(33:30):
starter jackets and all the merch in the eighties and nineties,
and they made a decision to say, hey, the King's
new ownership. We're going silver and black just based on
the popularity of the Raiders colors, and the rest is history.
So I'm at the King's game last night. You know,
hockey guy, I must be good luck because I've been

(33:51):
to a few Kings games and they're all blowouts. But
I went to the highest scoring Kings game of the year.
They won nine to one. So I ask you this
hypothetical based on blowouts and based on Cavino wa forget
to watch it watching to the end. You know you can,
like I said, clean off your kitchen counter. You need

(34:12):
to shut it off. Put on anything else, Rich needs
to watch smut Island, put on an episode of the
put on some property Brothers, anything but a terror clebrity.
I owe you. I love those guys. So I got
to ask as a player, they're still professionals, right, So
let's keep this in mind. But let me let me
let me play this out for you and then we'll
go around the room. Okay, I'm watching the San Jose Sharks,

(34:35):
who are the worst team in the NHL. They're losing
in the third period nine to one. As a player,
as a professional, what do you think the emptiest garbage
feeling is having to play out the third period where
there's no way on earth you're going to score eight goals.
Being an NFL player where your team's down like thirty
one seven in the fourth quarter and you're like, I'll

(34:58):
just take these snaps. I don't want to get hurt.
Baseball if your team's down like ten to one in
the sixth inning and you're like, oh, we got three
more grueling innings or we're down ten rounds or something.
Or basketball, if it's not your night and you're down
twenty five plus going into the fourth quarter. As a
player who gets paid as a pro, what do you
think is the most like, Oh, I would say, there's

(35:19):
an obvious answer, and it's none of which you said.
I don't know if those are my only options. Can
I would say it's getting your ass whooped in the
octagon or in the ring, and you just know that
it's not your night. Oh, it's a sixth round and
you're down probably six rounds though round you've lost every round,
and you know this dude's hurting you, and you just
you know, I've never been in that situation, But can

(35:39):
you imagine, like your heart's big enough that you don't
want to quit, but you know you're not gonna win.
So do you just tough it out the next six
rounds or you like you want to quit but you can't,
Like it's so that gotta be insane. I think I
think similar to that really quick.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
If you're an NFL player and your team's down by
thirty one points in the fourth court, you still have
to hustle, you still have to play hard, and you're
still getting crunched CTE style like with you know, so
many NFL players have told us it's like many car
crashes in each game and you still have to go
through all that.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
I think, man, I hated Cavino five minutes ago, but
that's the best answer. I think boxing what a great example.
Imagine it is the sixth round and you're like, and
you know, as a fighter, yeah, I'm probably down six
rounds to none. You know, it's like it's like going
on a vacation with a girl you know you're breaking
up with anyway, what's the positive outcome? This is Terry,
I hate you. You see all the other couples in love. No,

(36:36):
but you're right, Comino. I think boxing might be the
number one answer where you're down, I'm not winning this fight,
then you gotta hope maybe I'll get a lookie puncher shop.
But if you realize your punches aren't even doing damage,
and you're like, so no, but it's different than the
other ones because you are I'm gonna take abuse for
six more rounds. And we've talked to many fighters. They
know it's not their night. They just know it, like
you always have the puncher's chance. But hey man, sometimes

(36:59):
you know you're just surviving in there and you see it,
So that's gonna be the worst. Then I would have
to say football because of the physical demand that's involved
in Like Apollo, when Apollo knew, oh Drago's gonna he
killed them, he killed It's horrible. You know, it's really horrible.
I know, so I would say that, but you're nine
to one. Man. When I was at that thing, when

(37:22):
I was at that Kings game, and I then that's beating.
I gotta be honest. I'm not a big hockey fan,
so I'm like, I know that the Sharks are not good,
but I looked it up and I'm like, oh, they're the
worst in the Western Conference in the NHL, And I
was like they're in the last place, no hopes of
the playoffs. They're terrible. They're down by eight goals. That
third line of players, I know they're getting minutes and
they're probably like, yo, I'm getting my minutes. How terrible

(37:45):
does that feel? Like, like, it's guys, it's gonna take
us eight goals to tie this up. Skating around, skating around, hoping,
you know, nothing bad happens. But then again, baseball, if
you're just if you're pitchers, don't have it. And I
know baseball there's no timing, so there's always a chance
of a comeback. But you know those games where, oh,

(38:06):
where you throw your infield onto the pitching game, like
when when you're middle relievers did it twice this week?
When you're you know, when your middle infielder off the
bench is the pitcher, and you know you're just thinking,
like he's throwing fifty miles an hour, let's get out
of here, and that at that point, I've been there
with Rex softball, where like you're either winning or losing

(38:27):
by twenty and you're like, we just could call mercy
here and go out with our knights here, like it's
it's a dog Fris did it two times. You know,
that's also reason to watch because interesting things might happen.
We were debating that before Paul O'Neil told the story
over the weekend where he went in there for the
Reds as a position player early in his career, said

(38:49):
he took it too serious because no one wants to
be embarrassed, no matter how far the game has gone away, Like,
nobody wants to be embarrassed individually in those moments, teams
already being embarrassed, right, So Paul o'no goes into pitch
and of course he's an outfielder and blows out his arm.

(39:09):
Took it way too serious, he said. For like the
next few seasons his arm was never same. But like
even though he was in outfielder and played, he felt
like he felt that pressure to throw trying to throw
some heat. So anyway, you see it happen all the time.
Rich was at the hockey game yesterday, not the biggest
hockey fans, but a live event. Live anything's always fun.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Do you remember when Jose Conseco hurt his arm when
he finally got to go in as I think it
was the Rangers first ever position player to throw innings,
and he had to undergo Tommy John surgery.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
You know what, I'll give you the analogy for regular
bozos like you and I, Danny and KIVI. No, he's
a bozo too. You know when you're at a carnival
and it takes all of you not to try to
throw the ball as hard as you can when they
have like the how many miles an hour can you pitch?
That's why I don't do it anymore. You do no
war marius your arm. Every time you're cold, you do

(40:02):
one quick little like rotation in your arm, like a
there we go work what to win a scooby? Dude? Yeah,
you have arthritis for a week to win a week
ass plastic snake whistle that sounds like this. Here you are, man,
you get tingles? Mean a whistle? You have tingles going
from your shoulder to your elbow. And you're like sixty

(40:23):
eight miles an hour and that's it. You're hitting seventy
two at the beast and they're like, meanwhile, he's falling off. Man,
I'm in high school. I knew I threw in the eighties.
Well what happened to me? But yeah, so just uh
and speaking of what did you see each you out
through eighty eight miles an hour? Oh you know, does
he or Kaepernick call the record? One of them do?

(40:43):
For like first pitches miles per hour? Jeez, one of
them do well? Hey, just uh, just a dumb hypothetical.
Courtesy of covinon Rich. What sport do you feel like
even as a pro I'm thinking it's fighting and then
and then football? What pro sport is the garbage time
the most brutal, And you're right, it's got to be
number one fights and then after that all contacts for

(41:04):
football or you know, technical rich, like they always say
some sort of decafla is probably the most taxing on
your body. Right, what if you're like really out of
the race, but you've already powered through so long and
so far, you still have to power through you like,
you know, there's no chance just finishing it the seventeenth place.

(41:25):
That's got to be torture, correct, that's gotta be. But
you know what getting your face pounded in? Yeah, I
would say I'll still go fighting there number one answer, right, Hey, listen,
convin on Rich. Monday, we'll get a little NFL NFL
action going up. We'll see if does an Aaron Rodgers update.
I want to dive into this a little bit. We have

(41:48):
a few phone calls that we'll move on. All right,
Let's say hi to John and send Fernando what's up John? Hey? John? Hey.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
The worst, in my opinion, is a NASCAR driver that
knows he has a car to beat, winds up, getting
crunched out, going behind the wall, comes back out twenty
laps later, down twenty laps, no sheet metal on the
front of the car, barely making minimum speed, and still
has to ride around further toenty laps or two hundred
laps watching everybody pass them.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah, humiliated. That's a good one. That's top tier. Thank
you brother, thank you. All right, Well, you know what's
time for a little Last one standing?

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Come on, you have five seconds to battle for your
sports trivia.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Look damn.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
It, put your electronic device this down and pick your
sports knowledge. It's CNRS Last one standing, Last one standing.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
All right, I have four categories ready to go, and
if needed, a tiebreaker. Each contestant gets five seconds to
stay alive in the round. If you run out of
time or you answer incorrectly, Iowa Sam takes you out
with this famous buzzer. We keep battling, and so you
are the last one standing. If you win two of
the rounds, you are the top dog. Here are the
contestants right over there. Six time winner, now, Steve Covino.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Let's go going for back to back, belly to belly
to his right.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Ten time winner Rich Davis, good luck catching me. Leader
in the clubhouse, good luck catching him. Twenty five time
winner Dan Byer.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, I mean look at you.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
And we're gonna go to the CNR studio lines right
now for a stainless steel swiggy.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
It is Craig in Pennsylvania. Oh, Craig, what's up in hey?
Are you now?

Speaker 4 (43:31):
I would ask Craig about you know, Aaron Rodgers and
the Steelers and all that, but he's a Panthers fan.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Oh yeah, how did that happen? Craig?

Speaker 2 (43:39):
I've been with Carolina since they started in ninety five
with Kerry Collins.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
All right, sorry to Oh that makes sense penn State.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah, and you know what, though it could be better year,
it could be better this year. That's not a great division.
Carolina can make strides.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
I wouldn't be too pessibist, Gary Collins, all right, spot
is the fact checker during this game.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
I hate it.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
Alright, he's got a lot of stress. When I say
your name, the clock is going to begin. Here's the
first category, Debit Cards and Dodger Dogs. You have five
seconds to name an MLB team who has the highest
median ticket prices according to the game time app All right,
we'll take the top fifteen. Coveno, You're up first. As
soon as the clock starts.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yankees have to be up there.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Yankees are number nine.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Rich the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
The Dodgers are number two. Buyer Cubs. The Cubs are
number six.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Craig Oriel.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
The Orioles are not on the list.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Not on the topic. Coveno the Giants.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
The Giants are right at the bottom of the top fifteen.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Yeah, buddy, number one five Rich.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Mets, Mets not on the list.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
All right, Between Coveno and Buyer Cardinals. Cardinals not on.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
List is the last one standing in that round. This
list is nonsense. Can I make me guess? Can I
make guess just for fun? I'm very confused. My next
guest was the Phillies. The Phillies are on the list
of a number seven.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
The number.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
It's because of the size of the stadium. They're playing
at Sacramento. That's the number.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
One is the Athletics, which throw you all no bs.
What is this category?

Speaker 4 (45:23):
This is median ticket prices for all thirty teams according
to the game time.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
At Yards and Dodger Dogs pay attention bands. But you
could probably go to an A's game in Sacramento for
two dollars.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
Okay, this is the average price according to the game time.
I think all right. Second category is sideline heroes. You
have five seconds to name an NFL head coach who
leads the league and all time wins. We'll take the
top twenty. Could I also request first the last name
things and Craig, You're up first, as soon as the
timer goes now.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Sure, Shula, yes, number one.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
No.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Buyer, Andy Reid, Andy Reid, number four, Rich, Bill Belichick,
Bill Belichick.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Number three, Bill Parcells, number sixteen, Craig, Bill Cower.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
We say Bill Cower not on the list.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Buyer Tom Landry, Tom Landry, number five, Rich Mike Tomlin,
Mike Tomlin, number twelve, Covino, Don shul Don Sula was
said already number one. Vince Lombardi, Vince Lombardi, none of us,
all right, buyer.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
Did somebody say Tomlin, Yeah, yeah, Okay, Sean Payton, Sean Payton, Yes,
number nineteen, rich Bill Walsh, Bill Walsh not on the list.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Buyer, it's the last standing in that round. Carol did
he make Pete Carroll is on the list? Number seventeen.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
All right, Covino and Buyer both on the board. As
we moved to the third category.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Hold on, hold on, can you give me a couple more?

Speaker 3 (47:00):
I'm just curious, ok, georch Allie has got to be George? Yeah, yeah,
number two. Let's see, let me go in the order,
let me rank it by order.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Hang on that second, give me second, yeah, because I
feel like Bill Walsh. I didn't think it would be high.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Paul Brown, Marty Schottenheimer.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Okay, that's going to go on.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Mike Shanahan, Mike Shanahan, No, yeah, Number twenty all right,
Third category, Y two, k bug, you have five seconds
to name an NBA team with the most losses since
the year two thousand.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
We'll take the top seventeen most losses by an NBA
team since the year two thousand. Coveno, you're gonna be up.
First timer goes.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Now, let's go with the Knicks Knicks number two good
both Rich since two thousand, Hornets Hornets, yes, number seven.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Buyer Kings, Kings number nine, Craig, Clippers number fifteen, Cono, Yeah,
we're taking the top seventeen.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Grizzlies, yes, top seventeen eleven. All right, it's up Riches.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Uh, they were good in the early two thousands, but
not good for nets. The nets are in the list, right.
They were good for a minute, Jason Kidd, but after that.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Buyer Wizards Wizards number one, nice, thirty.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Eight losses, Craig.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
How about the.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Hawk Hawks, Yes, number five?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Good poll Coveno.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Magic Magic number five six sorry, Rich three two, Denver Nuggets,
Nuggies not on the list.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Buyer timber Wolves.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Kimber Wolves Wolves, yes, number.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Four, Craig. How about the Jazz, the Jazz not on
the list? Covino got this condo, The Bucks, the Bucks.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
So I'm gonna say the bus final answer, Yes, all right, Bucks,
yes on the sixteen.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Buyer seventy six ers, yes, number twelve. Back to Covino,
you wish he gave me more time. There's five more?
Come on, oh, An, you want to say the Clippers? Yeah? Yeah,
Oh the bulls bulls, Yes, not very.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Just wrote down bull Buyer Raptors, Raptors yep, number thirteen
a battle Coveno God God three two Oh no, yeah,
you got it. Three more left on the board, Bire

(49:40):
there's two more more, two more Blazers.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Trail Blazers.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Yeah, yeah to.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Bat Blazers are seventeen.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
This is one Coveno Pacers. Is that it? Final answer?
Now you're out? Do you want to get spire Pelicans?

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Now the calves have that's up. But Bayer is at
number fourteen. You never would have guessed the Calves. Yeah,
Bayer is the last one.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Yeah, what's interesting, Dan byre Lebron without the it would
have probably been number one if not for the Lebron
years in the last two years.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Right, Yeah, they were fourteen with one fifty four long
what a good battle today. And Craig did well in Pennsylvania. Buyer,
you want to send your swiggy over there?

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Yes, absolutely, plus with his loyalty to the Carolina Panthers,
he deserves a swiggie.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Oh, Craig, We're sending you a CNR stainless steal.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Swig Oh, Craig, ip. I hope people in your life.
Realize how loyal you must be to be Carolina Panthers fan.
Thank you, my friend. All right, let's go to Dan
Byer for an update. What's up, dB?

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Remember remember there's second year in existence.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Them and the Jaguars make it to the conference championship
games and Panthers have had more success than Jacksonville. But
still it hasn't been an easy going despite their couple
of Super Bowl appearances.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Remember the spy from Billy Madison that investigated yeahs yeah,
Billy likes to drink soda. Yeah, Miss Slippy's car is green?
Like I hired that guy. You love that guy to
investigate what's going on with Aaron Rodgers? And did you
see that he had a throwing session with DK Metcalf.

(51:28):
Now here's the question, Thank you, Sadburns. Do you think
the outcome of that session like Aaron Rodgers like, let
me see if I mesh with this guy, because that
could be a pretty great combo. If Rogers still has
guests in the tank, do you think do you think
that is more of a formality or do you think

(51:48):
he's like somehow sizing it up? Like, okay, do you
k Metcalf? Let's see if you got what it takes
to be Aaron Rodgers number one in Pittsburgh. Because I
think that team, which has a great defense, how did
I think it's part of the process. He's not doing
it to waste his time. How I can guarantee you that.
How am I doing it just for fun? How? Now,

(52:08):
brown Cow? How did Peyton Manning win his last Super Bowl?
A great defensive team that carried a legendary quarterback past
his prime. That seems awfully similar to what could happen
in Pittsburgh with a great defense. If Aaron Rodgers and
DK Metcalf and that offense could put up enough, they

(52:29):
don't need to be the focal point for Pittsburgh. That
team such a big dream in Faerry team just too
many good teams in the NFL. Yeah, but you don'ink
that the Steelers with Aaron Rodgers are going to be
the team? I know? I is that the fun of
the off season. There is big dream in bro Like.
I mean, it's just too far, no way, especially when
he played so bad.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
If you're a Steelers fan, you had to suffer through
the end of last season with Russell Wilson fading, and
you know, do you want another older quarterback.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
No foes, I'd be like, hell no, hell to the now,
I'd be so no, no, I would I would be
super upset. That's not to take anything away from Aaron Rodgers,
but man, call it a day. You know, tomorrow we
might talk about retirement. You call me crazy, but I
think a healthy Aaron Rodgers, refocused, with a defense that's

(53:22):
dominant and some weapons, and a coach like Mike Tomlin
on a team that continuously is slightly above five hundred,
makes the playoffs, just can't get to the next step.
What makes you think adding DK Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers
and having a pretty decent offense, who's to say that
team can't compete? Hey, I never root against him, Man,

(53:44):
prove me wrong. I'd be great. What do you think?
What do you think this is the year where all
of a sudden Aaron Rodgers turns What happens every year
in the NFC? I don't know, man, when you start
getting older, that's just the fact. I don't see people
like all of a sudden turning around and they're like
better than ever. And he would need to be better
than ever to win a Super Bowl? Do you think

(54:06):
this is the year because I know our buddy Brandon
who works in the newsroom. I saw him on social
media earlier saying, is this the year where what traditionally
happens in the AFC North, the Bengals dig such a
deep hole and then it feels like they spend the
rest of the season trying to dig out of that
hole and play catch up. What if Burrow now they
signed his targets, T Higgins, Jamar Chase, They're locked in.

(54:28):
He's locked in. What if that team gets to a
hot start, then the teams in that division have had
a chance to The Steelers and the Browns are awful,
and Baltimore, I mean, they're getting better too. It's gonna
be a lot of fun. But I would say they
have a chance to make the playoffs if that would happen,
a chance. I just think that do they have a

(54:49):
chance to really win at all? For the fun of football,
Cabino and for the people that hate Aaron Rodgers. A
matter of Aaron Rodgers just going out on a higher
note and there's no shame in that. And yeah, I
guess you could do that. But you think the Steelers
fans are excited about that? What if the Steelers go
eleven What if they go eleven and six or twelve
and five make the postseason, Aaron Rodgers makes it the

(55:11):
Divisional round and losers to like Kansas City or Buffalo.
Is that considered a oh cool high note to go
out on. Yeah, look, if you're if you're okay, which
is playing for just slightly above five hundred football, and
you had a fun playoff and you made a million
several million dollars doing it. Yeah, that's that's great, But

(55:31):
that's not really what the fans want to see. We
live in the world that we want super Bowls and
we want to believe that as possible. All right, Well,
as we watch baseball in the background, here Mets and
the Marlins. In the first inning, zero zero Peterson starts
this season with three straight balls, finally throws a strike. There,

(55:52):
the Mets have a celebration that I got to be
careful about what I say. I guess I know there's
rules on terrestrial radio. Let's just say when the Mets
get to say com bation. You how the Dodgers do
their little like dance where they wave their hands and stuff.
The Mets have this thing which was homage to their trainer, right, yeah,
the hip flexer. Yeah, it will hip flexer little. I mean,

(56:13):
I so corny, but it worked. I mean corny for
a team that's gonna want to hunt. I know. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
When Freddy Freeven first started doing it, I was like,
I'm not sure, But now it's funny because all the
guys like overdo that, like almost making fun of it.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Yeah, you know, I guess, Hey, you're winning. That's all
it means as to me. You know, you love to
point out a lot of times something started out if
it's your team. A lot of times something starts out
as like a corny joke you're repeating, and then you
do it so much that it's like, man, I it's
not a corny joke anymore. We all do it exactly.
That's what happened. What the Dodgers do. I know other
teams have their own little like Riven a motorcycle or what.

(56:45):
You know, every every team has something when they get
to second base, a little slapping motion or something. The
Mets they beat a new one. And I just wonder
if even Steve Cohen, who agreed on it, if even
if Steve Cohen is one of the coolest owners in sports.
Do you think he's gonna be like, yeah, let me
tell you something. We gotta oh Man solo home run,

(57:05):
Marlin's up one, nothing, just like that. Do you think
Mets ownership is like, let's stop this, because what I'm
talking about is what we're gonna call here on Fox
Sports Radio the junk drop. Yeah, but a lot of
these are are questionable, like the like the salt and
pepper shaker, the pepper shaker kind of thing that's also questionable.

(57:28):
You know, I've seen that done a few times. But
when the guy uses when the guy uses his forearm
to replicate a dangle, a dangle of you know, I
just wonder if even that because you know, there's Met
fans that don't like when Pete Alonzo throws out the
let's f and go Mets. They're like, he's the leader

(57:49):
in a role model. What's wrong with that? The fing part? Yeah,
I guess there are times in the stadiums or in
a big win he'd be like f GM, let's and
he'll stay f and go Mets. I don't know, Man,
kids are exposed to today on social media, that's like
child's play. And keep in mind these guys, you know
a lot of them in their twenties. So do you
think vulging Bobby McMillan is saying worse in the playground? No,

(58:11):
of course he is. You think their parents don't drop
the F bomb once in a while. I'm not saying
it's okay, but it's not that bad. I'm just saying,
do you how do you feel about the Mets new
quote junk drop where they get to second base and
they use their and they're funny. But I'm an adult,
I'm a grown man boy, whatever you want to call me.

(58:31):
For kids, I think it's horrible. All right, Let's say,
let's say because kids emulate big league players, they have
little leaguers doing that. That's what I was gonna say.
Let's say your kids are on the East Coast out
here in LA. I promise you I see it at
the little league feld. The kid gets on second base,
they do they imitate their Dodgers heroes. A kid in
a kid in the pony ball or little league will
get to second base and do his little Dodger hiplexer,

(58:53):
which is expected some kid playing on Long Island or
Jersey if he gets a second base and he's twelve
and like, and he's like, hey, a double But we
all did it when it came to wrestling, though, But
wrestling is entertainment, Like we're doing it. Hey, you know
what I mean pointing out are junk and everything else
guys would get out there and do that. It's really
graphic the way they do it, Like you can't watch

(59:14):
this little celebration and not immediately understand what they're well
all dying to do here. If you're gonna tell me
it's something else, I'm gonna say you're lying. Let's rewind
to when the Cubs were in the World Series in
the twenty teens. There was some junk bumping and did
it didn't the Dodger sits right, yeah, yep, because we're

(59:35):
all in theature dudes at the end of the day,
So I can't. I just wonder if KEK and the
guys like that are doing a Danny, is it funny
and we have to lighten up. It's sports and it's
fun or it's like, hey, guys, there's kids, and even
if that's the matter, it doesn't even matter. There's a line.
I think that one crosses the line.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
It does cross the line a little bit because they
still market baseball as a family game.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Yeah, and the other ones that we described. You you
could say, there's something else, what you know, pepper grinder,
Yeah we are, we like it spicy. Yeah, give me
a break this one, like, give me what could what
else could it possibly be? If you don't know, if

(01:00:16):
you don't know what we're talking about, just go on
social media. Look up Mark Ventos to the Mets over
the weekend. He gets truck gets a second base junk
drop thing and it's.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
An elephant tusk. Yeah. The word they really use it
rhymes with long.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Yeah. Yeah. But so check it out and tell me,
you know, because you brought to lucky elephants. Yeah, or
you know, we want to look on our side. There
you go, all right, there you go. Now, I'm into
it perfectly. I will see you guys manyana. Until then,
even there you may see you in the promise this
drop