August 18, 2025 • 40 mins
C&R have Monday fun, on FSR! What did Rich dare Lowenkron to do for free lunch all week? The guys discuss your favorite sports chair. Plus, MLB's commissioner is pressing baseball's luck!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yo. Hey, hope you on a nice weekend. It's good
to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hope you're on a UFC three to nineteen. Him, I
have sort of weekend a Mets win, the Little League
Classic sort of weekend. Hey, how about that? Hey at
Dodgers sort of weekend, got the brooms. Yeah, So, Covino
and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. It's good to be back.
This is like our first normal week I know where
we're here five to seven in the East, two to
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com slash at Covino and rich FSR. Now, can you
do something you said to me earlier this morning? Yeah,
that you might be wrong to quote Phonsie. You said, yeah,
I think it's about time the Brewers come back to reality.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I think.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
It all comes out in the wash, as my mom says,
it all evens out.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
The Brewers will brew. There are thirty four games over.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Five hundred, but you're gonna see these other teams like
the Mets and the Yankees turn it on, turn it
around right about now and again back to reality. It'll
all even out, trust me at it. But I know
they're great. I'm not rooting against them. It's cool to
see their chemistry and see them do well. But we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
They're having fun. The clubhouse, apparently, is contagious. Hittings contagious,
man so is slumping. They blank the Cubs today. They're
up what nine games and on July twenty sixth, which
is like less than a month ago they were tied
for first place. Now seventy nine and forty five, I
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believe nine games over the Cubs. Totally on fire. But
you know, we'll see if the moment them sticks around.
It was a nice weekend the Little League Classic. Like
I said, I feel like your Mets are turning things around,
so I feel like my Yankees are turning things around.
I hope your teams are playing well. I hope you
enjoyed some good fights. But before we get into the MLB,
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before we talk about MLB expansion and realignment, what a
lot of great football stories today. Who's your starting quarterback
on some of these teams that haven't made the announcement yet, Well,
we'll speculate. We'll have some fun before we play Last
One Standing. We do that every Monday, the most heated
game in all of sports radio, giving away prizes today
like we always do. Let's discuss a dare. If your
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bonehead buddy dares you to do something.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Do you do it? I double douggy dare you?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Does it have to be a triple dog there? Does
it have to be a double dare? And you go
down the Sunday slide?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I think the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Lesson learned here is when you dare one of your
buddies to do something.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
At the bar or at a ball game.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Anyway, like yo, I'll buy your lunch, er, I'll get
you a drink if you do blank, dude, Sometimes you
don't want that person to actually do it like you
were joking. I'll give you an example when I was
little as a nightmare. It's also a sports example, so
give me extra credit here tying this back to sports genius.
I had a ball game when I was a little kid,
and I had a belligerent uncle name Uncle Angel, belligerent
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crazy guy. I've heard big heart crazy Guy. And one
of my other uncles dared him to climb the foul pole,
and they're like, yeah, go Angel again. This is like
early eighties. It's like a real gloomy memory that I have,
like a hazy night old Yankee Stadium, Bonton potato chips
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advertisements in the background, the old Yankee Stadium that smells
like beer, and Yankee Stadium like New York, all New York.
So I'm there as a little kid and they all
start egging Uncle Angel to climb the foul pole. As
a little kid, I'm like, no, don't do it. That's embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Angel. No, no, no, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He's like a quarter of the way up the foul
pole and security's grabbing him by the pants and you
see him, you know, he's ass sticking out trying to
pull him down. They escored him out of the stadium,
but he took the there. I don't know what he
got out of it, but he's like, yeah, all right,
I'm uncle Angel, watch me. And I'm like, no, ahead,
so embarrassing as a little kid. It's funny that sometimes
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when you dare someone to do something again, like you said,
you don't expect them to do it, or part of
it is like, no.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I didn't really want you to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, So I got to get props to someone that
I owe lunch to for the rest of the week,
for the rest of the week. Isaac Low and Cron
Who Isaac doing the updates Isaac Low and Cron Isaac
and I couldn't believe he did it without hesitation. Outside
of Fox Sports Radio, there was a table of about
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eight we would you say, thirtys year old women having lunch,
little business lunch. Eight women yap yap, yapping outside But
it was a scene. You don't see that many women
at that table. It's there every day. We're sitting right
next to it. We're in the office. They're outside in
the courtyard. We could see them there and they're yapping
it up and I could hear them giggling and talking.
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I don't know what they're talking about. But I said
to Isaac Loancron when he popped out of the news
anchored room over there, I said, Isaac, I'll get you
lunch the rest of the week if you go outside,
pull up a chair and say, hey, ladies, what's the tea?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And would you believe this son of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Did it without hesitation, without hesitation, without hesitation. And I
have the picture, Isaac, do you mind if we post
the phone on our Instagram. I just sent it to
Danny G for proof. You got to see it, Danny J.
I almost died because I'm like, no.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, I didn't want to see failure. At first, he
walked out. We thought, we thought at first he just
walked out. He was gonna walk past them, like to
just oh. He went and grabbed the chair. He's the
only natural blonde sitting around the table. Dude, it was
so awkward and hilarious at the same time. And we
just saw all these girls staring at him. He's like, hey, ladies,
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and he sits down with him. Now rich owesim lunch
the rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You guys inspired me because I don't think if someone
would have asked me who I didn't like as much
and trust as much as you guys, I wouldn't have
done it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But not only did I do it, I really like
over sold it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I like pulled up and okay, ladies wants to team.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So you know what it was. So I'm going to
be a man of my word. So the rest of
the week, Isaac, text me what you want for lunch.
I will be your lunch boy the rest of the week.
That's what happens when you dare someone and you don't
know if they're gonna do, Like Sam, would you have
done that?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Or said?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I can't know, maybe, but I wasn't put in Isaac's shoes.
Isaac is you can't predict what I absolutely wouldn't have
done it. But you know what, I'm sure you get
a stak tomorrow. He was real spontaneous with it. Just
roll with it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I guess if you catch someone in a in a mood,
they'd be willing to do it. I would not have
done that. Props to Isaac for pulling that off. Do
you take the dare or not? Do you take that
free lunch? Do you take someone's money if you're so
confident on a bet, do you take their money on it?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Rich always asked that question. I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I mean, you don't make a bet and then back
out on the on the payoff. I owe Isaac lunch
and I will certainly pay up. I think what you're
saying is, if you're at the bar and your buddy's like, yo,
go talk to that girl, give you a hundred bucks.
If your body's like, okay, you gotta give him one
hundred bucks, you can't make and Rich always says, you're
soppering up. If you're so certain. If you're so certain,
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then why not bet on it? If you're so certain,
it's so obvious, Like Kavino will say bet, Covin will
be like yo tonight. I don't know he would name
me Yankee. I'm not saying this year, but there were
times there's money.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
This was easy lunch. This was less of a bet,
more of a there.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But still it's easy three free lunches for Isaac to
just and a good laugh and just sit up there
and say hello. If you're so sure, My question always
is well, then bet. Like there are times where Kavino
will say, tonight, yo, Vulpy is gonna go off. I
guarantee you Vulpy at least.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Gets a hit tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'm like, we'll bet it, yo, bet yo. The kids
say yo. All right, now, that was a fun way
to start the week. Absolutely, there was seriously eight young women.
It takes some iron juavos to pull that off. And
props to Isaac Lowan. So again we'll post that at
Covin Universus so you could see Isaac in his true glory,
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Isaac Iron Juavos, low and chron So before we get
into baseball, you did see the Little League Classic yesterday,
A good weekend of baseball football seventeen days away, which
is freaking awesome. So we got football before you know it.
Some teams still trying to figure out QB one. We
will get to all that, I promise you that. But
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I want to bring up something that Big Mic brought
up again. Not doesn't always have to be all about sports.
But I think this sort of ties in because never
heard of them. When you are sitting on your ass
at home, yeah, you're usually watching the game or one
of your shows, or your dad's sitting in his chair
watching Fox News or something like. There's every and I
say their chair, because do you have your chair? I
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have a spot, That's what I'm saying, a spot. Everybody
has a spot. A chair would be nice. Every king
deserves a throne. I don't mind that I want a
chair one day, like in a man cave somewhere like
Dan Patrick, when I have my own man cave, my
own thrown in my own chair. But now I just
have a spot on the couch. But if I'm visiting
my parents, I feel like I have a chair at
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the dinner table, like that's my chair.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Beat it scramble am and ding dong.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If someone's in my chair, I'm like, yo, Steve's back
in town, you're in my seat. It's in your house anymore,
I know, But I always sit there. So sees the
question if you have buddies over for fight. Now, let's
say you were watching UFC this past weekend, or baseball
playoffs are right around the corner again, in two weeks
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and a few days, we're gonna be watching Thursday night
football as the NFL season kicks off. If you have
people over your house or you go over someone else's house,
is there an understanding that you need to figure out
where the hosts usually sit?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That way, you don't take their.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Chair like the head of the table, like that's reserved
for whose ever house it is. Even in your relationships,
I'm sure your wife has a spot and you have
a spot. If you're in her spot, she's like, you're
in my spot. That's just how it is. You have
a designated spot, and you always you always are kind
about it. But there have been times where I've had
people over watching a game and they're sitting in my
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spot and they're like, oh, this is your spot, and
I'm like, yeah, you can stay there, and then myself
sitting on another part of the couch.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It just doesn't feel unless.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You really feel like standing and you're hosting and you're
like really just running around.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Otherwise, I don't think it really requires that much explanation.
So when we walked in today, Mike was sitting in
Rich's seat. We always plan the same way every day,
Rich is on the right. I'm in the middle, Danny
G's on the left. It's been that way since the beginning.
And then Michael park between me and Danny G. Right,
it's always that Mike comes in here, what's going on today?
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And it's usually between me and Danny G today. So
then today he's sitting in Rich's seat, and Rich is
standing around like what do I do? You kindly say,
he's my spot. You give him the thumbs like get
out of here, hey, scram Just a reminder. The other day,
my brother was visiting from the East Coast. He came
to visit us here at Fox Sports Radio. Before Danny
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got in, he was sitting in your chair, and I
got Jim, that's Danny given the old thumbs this way, hey,
beat it up, beat it buddy. So I think there's
not a lot required here. It's just a simple playful
that's my spot. And I think anyone who's a real friend,
they're just a regular fellow would understand like, oh my bad.
And that's as simple as that. But everybody has a spot.
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When you switch it up, that's when when it's weird.
It's like, what are you doing sitting there?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
It's off. What happens if spot is in your spot? Hey,
get out of my spot. Spot be like confused to
be like, who's on first?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So, I mean the show the Goldbergs is a great example.
Remember of the dad Jeff Garland Murray Goldberg had his recliner.
Did Granda's have a spot? Paps Paps dots it, paps
every paps had some sort of lazy boy that was there.
It smelled like Grandpa.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It just smelled like old man.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yes, it's just a quick reminder before you get into
the Grandma didn't sit in Grandpa's lazy boy before we
get into the meat of today's show and Isaac gets
to choose the meat because lunch is on me. Before
you get to the meat of the show. It's just
a reminder. When you go to someone's house to watch
the gamer fight, before you PLoP down with your chips
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and your drink, just ask the host, hey, where's your spot?
Because they might say, but believe where you're sitting. Then
you say, oh, I'm sorry, take your seat. Everyone's got
a spot. I constantly will tell my kids, like, move,
that's dad spot. I have like a visitor rule that
I live by. I usually find the standalone chair and
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sit on the chair. I don't like to like get
all come feed the couch because if there's like pet hair,
then I have pet hair all over me and I'm
allergic to it. Nothing against doggies, nothing against your house
rich either. I have a dog, but I'm not allergic
to my dog. You sit in someone else's seat, on
their couch, and you have like all his hair all
over you, like you're ruined for the night if you
suffer from allergies like me. So I just find some
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random ancillary chair and pull it up right by the TV.
That's my move, and then I turn it around like
like a c slater and I say, hey, what's up mama?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Quick? Lesson, it's been learned. We can move on.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Isaac gets lunch, have those shuavos, take the dare earn
some lunch, and don't sit in someone else's chair.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Take your seat. I think we could go home now.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The question is what do you do if someone's in
your seat? That's really the question. Politely tell them and
to tie it back. Even though I don't have to
be rich, so we'd love to banter and have fun
here on the show. Do you think people have a
spot in the dugout? Is it their spot? Do you think,
Jehan you even think Big g my guy on Carlos
Stanton is like, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
My spot, without a doubt. You don't think.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You don't think in the Dodgers dugout, Mookie or Freddy
or someone has like, oh, they like to sit in
this corner or they get they like they like to
lean on the rail over there.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Like yeah, they even have set spots where they lean
while they're standing.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You think it's standard, like for a veteran for the
key players.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, who do you picture, right?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I mean there's certain teams like I always picture Lindor
in the same spot with his arms on the railing,
like you know, watching the other you know, the other
guys at bat If some young guy goes there, you
wouldn't You don't think someone's like, no, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Francislan doors spot. Without a doubt. There's a pecking order,
there's a hierarchy.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
See, oh, we've seen in the NBA. We've seen young
guys be told sit on the floor even though Lebron's
not dressing today, you're in his seat.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We have seen that.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, NBA, definitely, NFL usually see Brady sitting there at Brady.
I know I picked him as an example, but I'm
picturing man with his with his tablet by the coaches
or whatever. I'm sure there's a hierarchy of like there's
got to be a spot for certain key players, the
quarterback especially, but I haven't really noticed it, but there
has to be.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, I think they kind of move around based on
where their position, coach is at and things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Here on our showgram program, I sit where I don't
normally sit, and I think I'm switching that soon because
I'm not comfortable with Rich on the left of me.
I've done twenty years of radio where he's to the
right of me. But we don't want to confuse who's
Covino and who's Rich. So that's why I'm sitting where
I'm sitting. Otherwise I hate it. It's not my spot,
so confuse everyone. Now that we have a new YouTube channel,
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I know pretty soon I'll be saying there if you
are watching, or if you've ever seen any of our
Instagram or TikTok or Facebook clips, we sit on Fox
Sports Radio, Covino on the left, Rich on the right.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Cavino and Rich that's not how he likes to sit.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, so years and years it was the opposite, and
I think I'm going back to that soon. So anyway,
what's your spot? How do you handle it when someone's
in it? Equally corny question, have you ever dated someone
or had a buddy or anyone for that matter, that
when taking a photo has to stand on a certain side.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It happens.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
That's Johnny Drama.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It does happen, though it happens.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
A lot Johnny Drama and Steve Katy that's my good side,
Oh my spot, Caveno. If someone uletsay we meet a
listener or doing something, hey, let's get a pick, Covino
will rotate because he feels like he has one better
side of his head. You know what it is, there's
certain angles. It's like you never saw Beavis head on, right,
you never saw Beavis head on. You always saw it
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from the side. Comparing yourself to Beavis.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Kate's great.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I rarely see me head on because I just don't
like posing that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
But what about butt head on?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, you would see butt head head on head on,
You would see butt head head on. You wouldn't see
Beavis head on. And when you did, because you did
once in a while, it looked weird when you see
me not like this, it looks weird. So anyway, what's
your spot? How do you handle it? And here's my
advice before we move on final thom to scram Hey
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beat it, give the thumb out, Hey beat it. A
normal person understands, Oh my bad, I'm in your spot.
The end is not that awkward. I've seen firsthand where
I remember this, and I remember loving every second of it.
Because if you love drama show like I do, and
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tripleg Kannadi Gilofka loves.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Drama show, who doesn't love good drama. I remember I
was with an ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And her sibling was dating someone new and the new
dude sat in dad's chair at like a holiday dinner,
and I was like, oh, it's gonna be good, and
I I why an Italian family, that's that's called a
no no, a no no. So hey, hey, you got
your spot, you got your seat. In fact, there have
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been guys that have been sitting in the same seat
at stadiums and bars.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yo, I'll tell you this. It sounds ridiculous, it sounds.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Ridiculously territorial, But there's a great episode of Cheers.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'm I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Did you ever see that episode where somewhat like some
yuppie in the eighties was sitting in Norm's barstool and
he's like, yeah, that's my seat.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
He goes, who he goes? I'm Norm.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Like a matter of fact, Sunday football. When I lived
in Hoboken, New Jersey, I was such a regular every Sunday,
I'd be at that bar eight hours watching football from
start to finish.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I had a bar seat that if I got.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
There and someone else is there, sometimes a bartender would
be like, everyone scooted down, that's that's riches.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I would say.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
In that case, it's the bartender responsibility to be like, nah, nah,
he's a regular, He's that's his seat right there, cause
you can get in a fight there. I'm not going
to give you that advice. I'm not going to tell
you to pull a Norm and tell the guy to
scram uh not in that case.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
But let's take one phone call.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We'll move it on and we'll talk some MLB and
some NFL. Because Rob Manford said some interesting things at
the Literally Classic this weekend. Jeff and Indy you're on
the show, Covino and Rich. It's good to be back
on a Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Well's tough, fellas. I normally don't listen to sports shows,
and I totally dig your show. I listened to it
all the time.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Thanks man on this.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I think a cool guy kind of knows where you're
supposed to sit where you're not so so. For instance,
I'm in sales and a buddy mine will call me
on a Friday midday at about one hundred percent of
the time when he says, Hey, I'm going to my
leg house. You want to go, I'm already got a
go bag packed in the back of the car. So
I drive down there and to see him. And he
always takes his dog, Jacks. And when we get in
the golf cart to go down to the boat, Jackson
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is on the passenger seat of a golf cart. Golf cart.
Now I'm in one of the seats in the back.
I would never throw that off or or bum his
dog out, or bum him out. You just know, you
just know, I'm not even riding bitch. He's riding bitch,
and I'm like bitching back or something.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You know what I'll say, I like your move there,
don't disrupt the flow, Jeff, Jeff, that's an interesting point. Again,
we don't need to harp on seats the whole show,
but it was an interesting thought because, yeah, but some
people don't have a good self awareness when it comes
to this.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
But he said.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
He he said, a sales meeting if you don't think
it's strategery, if you don't think there's strategy of where
to sit at a business meeting or a sales meeting,
Like Danny, when we met with some of the MLB
people or some of the great salespeople at iHeart during
the Super Bowl or All Star Game, you almost got
a position yourself, like, all right, I'm gonna let the
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woman in charge of the guy in charge, let them
sit where they sit, and then we all sort of
you know, that's why we said Spot pulled the power
move because he sat at the head at one of
our big meetings, remember.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
That, Yeah, the All Star meeting with MLB. We had
a lunch with him. We all moved down once so
that the one of the MLB executives could sit at
you know, one of the heads of the table stop
was down at the other end.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's called showing respect, respect, respect the chair doing this,
touching his finger chaps together. Hey, you got to reserve
that seat for the man in char These are my terms.
And so sometimes sitting back and letting someone take that
seat is the move, that's the solid move to make.
So anyway, have some self awareness, have the wherewithal to
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know that you're disrupting the flow. Let people sit where
they're supposed to sit, and don't be the jerk.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
All right, Well, with that said, so much, you get
to today, right?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I mean MLB, I think a success Little League Classics
seem cool. Think of success. It's one of their biggest success.
Those kids are going to continue doing it. As you know,
MLB trying to find cooler destinations to play baseball, as
we saw at the Bristol Motor Speedway.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Not all of them go off without a hitch.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
But the Little League Classic has been super uber successful
for not only Little League but MLB because it's winning
over young fans when they're at their most influential. I
think watching the young kids ask questions for the big
leaguers as like my favorite part, Like there's some young
dude asking Mets pitcher seum and I like you're like
(23:01):
are when you were twelve? How tall were you?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Like? When did you get tall?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Like the questions that I'm like, you know what a
broadcaster would never ask. Yeah, they're in awe of this moment.
And Rob Manford actually said no, they're going to continue
doing this. It's just great for everybody, So win win
for everybody involved. Now, the big leaguers love bombing with
the kids. It makes them feel young again. That's a
great idea. Something else Rob Manford said, I don't think
is a great idea. So we're gonna get to a
(23:25):
couple of things he said during that broadcast yesterday, plus
of course diving into a lot of football, because we
are seventeen days away from the kickoff to the NFL
season officially, So football, little MLB all coming up right
here on Fox Sports Radio, Cavin and Rich sitting in
my angry chair, and I don't want anyone else sitting
(23:46):
in it my chair, My angry chair, Alison Chain style.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
What are you gonna do? Pull Victor Roblaze, send me
a throw a bat at me or something. What are
you doing? I might do that? That was wild? Huh?
It was. It was a wild weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
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good enough for you, it's fun. Give I was Sam
the one shot you could see what ioa Sam looks like? Yeah,
look at that fuzzy headed Ninny Muggins. See look at
that up Sam? YouTube pitch all right, baseball this weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
We keep saying it.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The overused phrase on our show over the last couple
months has probably been baseball's popping, And it's really just
quoting Dion Sanders right, who said Baseball's popping baby. It
seems like they're making all the right moves, kind of
like Tom Cruise in the eighties, making all the right moves, dude.
And this past weekend was another one, the Little League Classic.
Like you said, your Mets over the Mariners, little leaguers
(25:09):
got to see Juan Soto. Not all cared to see
Juan Soto. I don't know if you saw the viral clip.
There's a little Soto shuffle. They got him to do
the shuffle. That was awesome and he played up to
the crowd. I give him credit for that. But there's
a really funny viral clip. Another viral clip, I should say,
where there's a little Australian kid and they ask him who.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Would you love to meet, and he's like Juan Soto.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And then this Canadian little leaguer Misha Lee was like, ah,
he's kind of overrated.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I want to see cal Raley.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's got that's gone viral those second No, he's Canadian.
But again, MLB with little league kids, big stars, dude.
You know how many stars were at that game. A Rosarina,
cal Rawly, Juan Soto, Lynn, Door, stars, startars started. And
(26:01):
that's the other thing that MLB is doing right. They're
letting the players be themselves. They had the player Day,
cool bats, cool cleats, They're there with the little leaguers.
They promote their stars in a better way. It seems
like they're doing everything right.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Dare I say hold up?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Because it reminds me of a game show that I
loved as a kid. I remember sitting in Grandma and
Grandpa's house and we'd be watching a show call Oh
Sharks Or is that the show you're gonna host some
the NRD Sharks?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, it wasn't uh. I would have a fact.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
My grandfather watched Doctor Quinn Medicine woman like stupid random shows.
Her grandparents probably watched bowling for dollars. My mom was
on bowling for dollars. It's true story. In fact, Oh,
I love the Gong show. No, it was a show
called press Your Luck, and I always remember the people
would have their money, much like the modern example would
(27:03):
be dealer, no Deal, But I'm gonna go pressure luck.
You remember the old no Wammy, no Wammy.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Big Bucks big Bucks.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Like Dusty Wamy?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Would you ever hurd o Wammy? I's a plone cord.
And remember is pressure luck.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
A staple of staying home from school viewing during the
afternoon as a kid.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You loved the way was an animated little character that
came out, but he stole all your money. You didn't
want the whammy, you want a big buck. The wammy
was way creative for nineteen eighties graphics, right, the little
singing at you. Yeah, I used to love that, but
you would always remember you you press your luck, and
that's the name of the show. Do you keep your money?
(27:50):
Do you pressure luck? It's sort of like dealer, no
deal when Howie Mindel would call the banker, all right,
we're gonna off you two hundred and eighty thousand dollars
and the JIBBRONI would be like, no, no deal, and
then he would Danny would lose everything. I think right
now we're at a pressure luck moment with Major League Baseball,
slightly bigger bases, pitchclock World Baseball Classic has infiltrated the
(28:13):
Baseball World Little League Classic, the Tennessee what is it again?
The feeling like they pressed their luck with that one,
and that was the first misstep that we've seen with
changes and experiments.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You talked about it the other day.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The great jerseys they have now, the city connects all
the little things, Baseball's done, the bat flips, the everything's
relevant entrance music, eighth and ninth inning where the setup
men and closers. There's light shows at the stadium, Danny.
All these stadiums have great food now and options. Baseball
has done so many great moves that it's almost like, stop,
(28:53):
take the deal, Howie Mandel's given you, don't try to
don't hit a whammy. And I heard Rob Manford talking
about real alignment when there's expansion.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
How about a window into the future, expansion realignments off
the die off?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I mean, yeah, can you see that down the road?
I can you know?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I think that I think the first two topics are
related in my mind. I think if we expand, it
provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign. I think
we could save a lot of wear and tear on
our players in terms of travel. And I think our
postseason format would be even more appealing for you know,
(29:33):
entities like ESPN.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I don't want to hear what.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I don't want to hear anymore, and I'll tell you why,
because right now, Baseball with that extra wildcard is just enough,
right the third wildcard. Some even said, oh that's too much,
but it keeps all these fan bases interested. Three wildcards
three division winners in each league. I don't mind if they,
(29:55):
you know, branch out at a couple teams Nashville, Portland,
there's a couple of that may be worthy of a team.
So again, expansion and realignment. I think expansion is great.
I think everything they've done up to this point is acceptable.
Even the runner starting on second base at first in
extra innings, people are like, oh, I don't know, it's
working out. There comes a point where you press your luck.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I hate to say that.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Another analogy'd be like some guy that cheats on his wife,
he never gets caught. You keep doing it, you will
get caught eventually. With your pants down, you think, unfortunately,
some of these athletes that keep getting rubbin tugs, you
think they what happens is eventually, Oh what it is.
It's quoted in your favorite show Ozark. It's not the
first time they did is the first time they got caught.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And you just press your luck and push it and
push it and push it.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I think baseball right now is in such a good
spot that, Yeah, expansion's great.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Nashville team, Portland team. Who would say no to that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
But realigning The reason I say no to re aligning
realign god Smack style not for baseball. The reason I
say it is because when you look at what the
proposed this is not a but what they called the
proposed imaginary new divisions. Well again they said geographically realigned
for better games and better TV. I think they would
(31:11):
they would call a division. I believe that the speculation
was the Northeast and it would have the Mets, Yankees,
Red Sox, and Phillies for easier travel in one division.
And my first thought is, I don't. That's like you're
you're not spreading out the wealth. And then what are
you gonna have a South team where it's like the
Marlins Rays. I just feel like the divisions are so ingrained.
(31:34):
You got to keep some type of tradition. What are
you gonna do? It's America's pastime. Oh you're the first
to say this. Sometimes tradition is making the same mistake
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Would you be down for baseball realignment?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I say no, Danny g don't you sort of like
the NL West with the Dodgers Poda? But everybody hates
change period, Like, no one likes any sort of expansion
or realignment change.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And then we get used to it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
It's like Johnny Lawrence said, you couldn't leave well enough alone,
could you, you little punk? Or whatever he says to
Daniel Son. You remember in the classic Karate Kid you
could your little twerp. Come on, Manford, leave it alone
town feeling, you know, but that's how we feel.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You think younger generations. Give a Diddley squat. I don't
you know what?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Imb down for the feedback. Let's go eight seven, seven,
nine nine on Fox. As we go to Isaac for
an update, Let's get the phones going. Your thoughts. Would
you want baseball realignment and a different postseason.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Because I think it's perfect expansion.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, I say, fine, just don't mess it up in
another sport. The Cleveland Browns, Well, we don't want to
make any analogies. There are too easy, folks. They officially
named their starting quarterback today, going to be Joe Flacco,
entering his eighteenth NFL season. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Rams quarterback
Matthew Stafford practiced today for the first time since it
started training camp as he recovers from a back injury.
(32:55):
Tennessee Titans number one overall draft pick cam Ward got
into a scuffle with Titans defensive lineman Jeffrey Simmons at
practice today after a touchdown pass. It started when Ward
shoved Simmons, and then Simmons retaliated with a two handed
push towards face mac mask Yeah, and then the entire
offensive line came running to cam Ward's defense. ATFL Media
(33:18):
reports Washington Commander's running back Brian Robinson will not play
in tonight's preseason game against the Bengals by mutual decision,
raising the possibility of him being traded or released. Baseball,
the Phillies that outs pitchers Zach Wheeler underrun successful surgery
today to remove a blood clot in his arm on
the field. The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cup seven and
nothing in the first game of a doubleheader, and finally
(33:40):
also beginning to trend a fresh video of Lebron James
and his evident growing passion for the game of golf,
as former teammate Kevin Love posted a video a few
hours ago of James celebrating a successful shot while exclaiming, quote,
broun got to hit again. Unquote Listen, Oh my, Lebron
(34:06):
James living it up on the links back to you guys.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
That was him saying that it was I hate the
third person thing I doing.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
By the way, something else caught on the mic. I
can't say the South Fox Sports, but did you see
the Marlins had a bench coach, rookie Eric Wagerman hit
a home run and as you know, when they go
the dugout and they see the guy running down the dugout,
high five and everyone yeah, very clear. On the mic,
one of the coaches goes, great job you ginger f
(34:36):
Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I didn't very funny, so did Thank you, Isaac? You
de man.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And by the way, I think the Joe Flacco announcement
is a good one for football only because it keeps
the Gabriel Sanders drama going on longer. I feel like
if you gave the starting job to one of them,
then it's I don't know, I feel like flat because
you know Fla is not going to be their long
term so I think it keeps the storyline going. It's
a safe bet for now. It's Kevin Stefan. Now, I
think you you squash some of the storyline. I think
(35:04):
you say he's the starter and then you just let
them compete behind this, so then the young guys continue
to develop but I think it's the safe Why.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Guys are underestimating the media, they're going to stay all
over this, Samplers, Gabriel, you know what it's.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
True, but I think that it is the same. Would
you agree the safe bet though? For Stefanski and the Browns. Yeah,
we knew that Flacco was going to be the starter.
It's just how the rest of the dominoes are going
to fall.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's the boring answer, but it's the obvious one.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
He is a super Bowl champion. Yeah, but you know,
more exciting to hear something exactly. Thank you, Danny, Thank
you guys. We got more Covine on rich and I
do want to hear from from you guys. As far
as your feedback on baseball, we'll talk some football, but
baseball realignment is this where Rob Manford would make his
first bad decision. We'll take your feedback next.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
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(36:18):
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the way tire buying should be now. I looked at
week one of the NFL, which I'm almost hesitant to
look because how many days are we like eighteen seventeen, seventeen,
I'm teen days away, hesitant to dive in Danny because
you know that once the NFL season starts, it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Be like all we really talk about. Yeah, So I'm
like trying to.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Like eighty percent of the conversation, eighty.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Percent of conversations once football starts are about the NFL
and college football. So I'm trying to like, you know,
the calm before the storm a little bit because I'm
still loving baseball and everything else. It's one of the
doubleheader games on the first Monday night. Bears are hosting
the Vikings, and I think with JJ McCarthy and Caleb
Williams that's gonna be because we've talked about that division
(37:54):
and how people assume the Lions will be a contender. Again,
there's some people that the Packers are a top five
team or so, so that leaves well, the Vikings were
a postseason team last year and they fell.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Remember Sam Darnold pooped the bed in the playoffs and
it's like, oh man, they were thirteen and four and bah,
now where the.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Poop to bed.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's called a grumpy grumpy, a grumpy thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Johnny Depp grumpy, that is what he called it. He
called it a grumpy.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Is it time for the Bears fans to actually have
high hopes? Remember last year that was a crazy sentiment
that Bears fans like, we're making the postseason.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
It's like, oh, it's so fast.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Exactly one year ago on the Covino and Rich show,
you two were talking about Caleb Williams and the Bears
fans being so excited.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I think they opened the season like four and two. Well,
do you remember what the turning point was? I remember, oh,
the Hail Mary. The hail Mary where against the Commanders
correct and the defender gave up on the play, almost
celebrating they lose the game.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
And then that was like the wheels fell off, celebrated
prior to the hail Mary.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Now it was horrible, and that was like a turningquoe
because up until that point, the Bears are hanging in
that division. And then again it all went south. But hey,
we'll see that's gonna be a great double header on
Monday night. Well I'm sorry, not double header on Monday night.
That's your Monday night game. Sunday night, the first Sunday
Night game, Ravens at the Bills. You could argue and
(39:19):
say that might be an AFC Championship preview in Week
one of the NFL. So a hell of a lot
of things to look forward to. But to wrap up
the last conversation, Coveyah of Major League Baseball perhaps pressing
their luck and it just leave things the way they are.
I feel the same way about when the NCAA talks
(39:40):
about having like one hundred teams in March madness. It's like, no,
we're good, we don't need one hundred teams. And when football,
I think football would be wise to cap it at
eighteen games and that would be it.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
No more.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
They're gonna go to eighteen nothing else. And then you
start pressing your luck, pushing your luck. And I think
you could say that about every sport, right.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Dan, if you missed it. During the Little League Classic.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Rob Manfred said there will be MLB expansion and realignment
in the future.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
You don't want the mess and Yankees in the same division,
do you?
Speaker 7 (40:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I don't save we agree
Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino and Rich podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yo. Hey, hope you on a nice weekend. It's good
to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hope you're on a UFC three to nineteen. Him, I
have sort of weekend a Mets win, the Little League
Classic sort of weekend. Hey, how about that? Hey at
Dodgers sort of weekend, got the brooms. Yeah, So, Covino
and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. It's good to be back.
This is like our first normal week I know where
we're here five to seven in the East, two to
(00:45):
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Speaker 1 (00:58):
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(01:19):
com slash at Covino and rich FSR. Now, can you
do something you said to me earlier this morning? Yeah,
that you might be wrong to quote Phonsie. You said, yeah,
I think it's about time the Brewers come back to reality.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I think.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
It all comes out in the wash, as my mom says,
it all evens out.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
The Brewers will brew. There are thirty four games over.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Five hundred, but you're gonna see these other teams like
the Mets and the Yankees turn it on, turn it
around right about now and again back to reality. It'll
all even out, trust me at it. But I know
they're great. I'm not rooting against them. It's cool to
see their chemistry and see them do well. But we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
They're having fun. The clubhouse, apparently, is contagious. Hittings contagious,
man so is slumping. They blank the Cubs today. They're
up what nine games and on July twenty sixth, which
is like less than a month ago they were tied
for first place. Now seventy nine and forty five, I
(02:28):
believe nine games over the Cubs. Totally on fire. But
you know, we'll see if the moment them sticks around.
It was a nice weekend the Little League Classic. Like
I said, I feel like your Mets are turning things around,
so I feel like my Yankees are turning things around.
I hope your teams are playing well. I hope you
enjoyed some good fights. But before we get into the MLB,
(02:49):
before we talk about MLB expansion and realignment, what a
lot of great football stories today. Who's your starting quarterback
on some of these teams that haven't made the announcement yet, Well,
we'll speculate. We'll have some fun before we play Last
One Standing. We do that every Monday, the most heated
game in all of sports radio, giving away prizes today
like we always do. Let's discuss a dare. If your
(03:13):
bonehead buddy dares you to do something.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Do you do it? I double douggy dare you?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Does it have to be a triple dog there? Does
it have to be a double dare? And you go
down the Sunday slide?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I think the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Lesson learned here is when you dare one of your
buddies to do something.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
At the bar or at a ball game.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Anyway, like yo, I'll buy your lunch, er, I'll get
you a drink if you do blank, dude, Sometimes you
don't want that person to actually do it like you
were joking. I'll give you an example when I was
little as a nightmare. It's also a sports example, so
give me extra credit here tying this back to sports genius.
I had a ball game when I was a little kid,
and I had a belligerent uncle name Uncle Angel, belligerent
(04:00):
crazy guy. I've heard big heart crazy Guy. And one
of my other uncles dared him to climb the foul pole,
and they're like, yeah, go Angel again. This is like
early eighties. It's like a real gloomy memory that I have,
like a hazy night old Yankee Stadium, Bonton potato chips
(04:22):
advertisements in the background, the old Yankee Stadium that smells
like beer, and Yankee Stadium like New York, all New York.
So I'm there as a little kid and they all
start egging Uncle Angel to climb the foul pole. As
a little kid, I'm like, no, don't do it. That's embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Angel. No, no, no, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He's like a quarter of the way up the foul
pole and security's grabbing him by the pants and you
see him, you know, he's ass sticking out trying to
pull him down. They escored him out of the stadium,
but he took the there. I don't know what he
got out of it, but he's like, yeah, all right,
I'm uncle Angel, watch me. And I'm like, no, ahead,
so embarrassing as a little kid. It's funny that sometimes
(05:04):
when you dare someone to do something again, like you said,
you don't expect them to do it, or part of
it is like, no.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I didn't really want you to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, So I got to get props to someone that
I owe lunch to for the rest of the week,
for the rest of the week. Isaac Low and Cron
Who Isaac doing the updates Isaac Low and Cron Isaac
and I couldn't believe he did it without hesitation. Outside
of Fox Sports Radio, there was a table of about
(05:35):
eight we would you say, thirtys year old women having lunch,
little business lunch. Eight women yap yap, yapping outside But
it was a scene. You don't see that many women
at that table. It's there every day. We're sitting right
next to it. We're in the office. They're outside in
the courtyard. We could see them there and they're yapping
it up and I could hear them giggling and talking.
(05:59):
I don't know what they're talking about. But I said
to Isaac Loancron when he popped out of the news
anchored room over there, I said, Isaac, I'll get you
lunch the rest of the week if you go outside,
pull up a chair and say, hey, ladies, what's the tea?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And would you believe this son of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Did it without hesitation, without hesitation, without hesitation. And I
have the picture, Isaac, do you mind if we post
the phone on our Instagram. I just sent it to
Danny G for proof. You got to see it, Danny J.
I almost died because I'm like, no.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, I didn't want to see failure. At first, he
walked out. We thought, we thought at first he just
walked out. He was gonna walk past them, like to
just oh. He went and grabbed the chair. He's the
only natural blonde sitting around the table. Dude, it was
so awkward and hilarious at the same time. And we
just saw all these girls staring at him. He's like, hey, ladies,
(06:51):
and he sits down with him. Now rich owesim lunch
the rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You guys inspired me because I don't think if someone
would have asked me who I didn't like as much
and trust as much as you guys, I wouldn't have
done it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But not only did I do it, I really like
over sold it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I like pulled up and okay, ladies wants to team.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So you know what it was. So I'm going to
be a man of my word. So the rest of
the week, Isaac, text me what you want for lunch.
I will be your lunch boy the rest of the week.
That's what happens when you dare someone and you don't
know if they're gonna do, Like Sam, would you have
done that?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Or said?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I can't know, maybe, but I wasn't put in Isaac's shoes.
Isaac is you can't predict what I absolutely wouldn't have
done it. But you know what, I'm sure you get
a stak tomorrow. He was real spontaneous with it. Just
roll with it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I guess if you catch someone in a in a mood,
they'd be willing to do it. I would not have
done that. Props to Isaac for pulling that off. Do
you take the dare or not? Do you take that
free lunch? Do you take someone's money if you're so
confident on a bet, do you take their money on it?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Rich always asked that question. I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I mean, you don't make a bet and then back
out on the on the payoff. I owe Isaac lunch
and I will certainly pay up. I think what you're
saying is, if you're at the bar and your buddy's like, yo,
go talk to that girl, give you a hundred bucks.
If your body's like, okay, you gotta give him one
hundred bucks, you can't make and Rich always says, you're
soppering up. If you're so certain. If you're so certain,
(08:20):
then why not bet on it? If you're so certain,
it's so obvious, Like Kavino will say bet, Covin will
be like yo tonight. I don't know he would name
me Yankee. I'm not saying this year, but there were
times there's money.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
This was easy lunch. This was less of a bet,
more of a there.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But still it's easy three free lunches for Isaac to
just and a good laugh and just sit up there
and say hello. If you're so sure, My question always
is well, then bet. Like there are times where Kavino
will say, tonight, yo, Vulpy is gonna go off. I
guarantee you Vulpy at least.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Gets a hit tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'm like, we'll bet it, yo, bet yo. The kids
say yo. All right, now, that was a fun way
to start the week. Absolutely, there was seriously eight young women.
It takes some iron juavos to pull that off. And
props to Isaac Lowan. So again we'll post that at
Covin Universus so you could see Isaac in his true glory,
(09:10):
Isaac Iron Juavos, low and chron So before we get
into baseball, you did see the Little League Classic yesterday,
A good weekend of baseball football seventeen days away, which
is freaking awesome. So we got football before you know it.
Some teams still trying to figure out QB one. We
will get to all that, I promise you that. But
(09:30):
I want to bring up something that Big Mic brought
up again. Not doesn't always have to be all about sports.
But I think this sort of ties in because never
heard of them. When you are sitting on your ass
at home, yeah, you're usually watching the game or one
of your shows, or your dad's sitting in his chair
watching Fox News or something like. There's every and I
say their chair, because do you have your chair? I
(09:55):
have a spot, That's what I'm saying, a spot. Everybody
has a spot. A chair would be nice. Every king
deserves a throne. I don't mind that I want a
chair one day, like in a man cave somewhere like
Dan Patrick, when I have my own man cave, my
own thrown in my own chair. But now I just
have a spot on the couch. But if I'm visiting
my parents, I feel like I have a chair at
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the dinner table, like that's my chair.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Beat it scramble am and ding dong.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If someone's in my chair, I'm like, yo, Steve's back
in town, you're in my seat. It's in your house anymore,
I know, But I always sit there. So sees the
question if you have buddies over for fight. Now, let's
say you were watching UFC this past weekend, or baseball
playoffs are right around the corner again, in two weeks
(10:43):
and a few days, we're gonna be watching Thursday night
football as the NFL season kicks off. If you have
people over your house or you go over someone else's house,
is there an understanding that you need to figure out
where the hosts usually sit?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That way, you don't take their.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Chair like the head of the table, like that's reserved
for whose ever house it is. Even in your relationships,
I'm sure your wife has a spot and you have
a spot. If you're in her spot, she's like, you're
in my spot. That's just how it is. You have
a designated spot, and you always you always are kind
about it. But there have been times where I've had
people over watching a game and they're sitting in my
(11:21):
spot and they're like, oh, this is your spot, and
I'm like, yeah, you can stay there, and then myself
sitting on another part of the couch.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It just doesn't feel unless.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You really feel like standing and you're hosting and you're
like really just running around.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Otherwise, I don't think it really requires that much explanation.
So when we walked in today, Mike was sitting in
Rich's seat. We always plan the same way every day,
Rich is on the right. I'm in the middle, Danny
G's on the left. It's been that way since the beginning.
And then Michael park between me and Danny G. Right,
it's always that Mike comes in here, what's going on today?
(11:56):
And it's usually between me and Danny G today. So
then today he's sitting in Rich's seat, and Rich is
standing around like what do I do? You kindly say,
he's my spot. You give him the thumbs like get
out of here, hey, scram Just a reminder. The other day,
my brother was visiting from the East Coast. He came
to visit us here at Fox Sports Radio. Before Danny
(12:18):
got in, he was sitting in your chair, and I
got Jim, that's Danny given the old thumbs this way, hey,
beat it up, beat it buddy. So I think there's
not a lot required here. It's just a simple playful
that's my spot. And I think anyone who's a real friend,
they're just a regular fellow would understand like, oh my bad.
And that's as simple as that. But everybody has a spot.
(12:41):
When you switch it up, that's when when it's weird.
It's like, what are you doing sitting there?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
It's off. What happens if spot is in your spot? Hey,
get out of my spot. Spot be like confused to
be like, who's on first?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So, I mean the show the Goldbergs is a great example.
Remember of the dad Jeff Garland Murray Goldberg had his recliner.
Did Granda's have a spot? Paps Paps dots it, paps
every paps had some sort of lazy boy that was there.
It smelled like Grandpa.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It just smelled like old man.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yes, it's just a quick reminder before you get into
the Grandma didn't sit in Grandpa's lazy boy before we
get into the meat of today's show and Isaac gets
to choose the meat because lunch is on me. Before
you get to the meat of the show. It's just
a reminder. When you go to someone's house to watch
the gamer fight, before you PLoP down with your chips
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and your drink, just ask the host, hey, where's your spot?
Because they might say, but believe where you're sitting. Then
you say, oh, I'm sorry, take your seat. Everyone's got
a spot. I constantly will tell my kids, like, move,
that's dad spot. I have like a visitor rule that
I live by. I usually find the standalone chair and
(13:57):
sit on the chair. I don't like to like get
all come feed the couch because if there's like pet hair,
then I have pet hair all over me and I'm
allergic to it. Nothing against doggies, nothing against your house
rich either. I have a dog, but I'm not allergic
to my dog. You sit in someone else's seat, on
their couch, and you have like all his hair all
over you, like you're ruined for the night if you
suffer from allergies like me. So I just find some
(14:19):
random ancillary chair and pull it up right by the TV.
That's my move, and then I turn it around like
like a c slater and I say, hey, what's up mama?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Quick? Lesson, it's been learned. We can move on.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Isaac gets lunch, have those shuavos, take the dare earn
some lunch, and don't sit in someone else's chair.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Take your seat. I think we could go home now.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The question is what do you do if someone's in
your seat? That's really the question. Politely tell them and
to tie it back. Even though I don't have to
be rich, so we'd love to banter and have fun
here on the show. Do you think people have a
spot in the dugout? Is it their spot? Do you think,
Jehan you even think Big g my guy on Carlos
Stanton is like, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
My spot, without a doubt. You don't think.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You don't think in the Dodgers dugout, Mookie or Freddy
or someone has like, oh, they like to sit in
this corner or they get they like they like to
lean on the rail over there.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Like yeah, they even have set spots where they lean
while they're standing.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You think it's standard, like for a veteran for the
key players.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, who do you picture, right?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I mean there's certain teams like I always picture Lindor
in the same spot with his arms on the railing,
like you know, watching the other you know, the other
guys at bat If some young guy goes there, you
wouldn't You don't think someone's like, no, that's.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Francislan doors spot. Without a doubt. There's a pecking order,
there's a hierarchy.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
See, oh, we've seen in the NBA. We've seen young
guys be told sit on the floor even though Lebron's
not dressing today, you're in his seat.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We have seen that.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, NBA, definitely, NFL usually see Brady sitting there at Brady.
I know I picked him as an example, but I'm
picturing man with his with his tablet by the coaches
or whatever. I'm sure there's a hierarchy of like there's
got to be a spot for certain key players, the
quarterback especially, but I haven't really noticed it, but there
has to be.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, I think they kind of move around based on
where their position, coach is at and things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Here on our showgram program, I sit where I don't
normally sit, and I think I'm switching that soon because
I'm not comfortable with Rich on the left of me.
I've done twenty years of radio where he's to the
right of me. But we don't want to confuse who's
Covino and who's Rich. So that's why I'm sitting where
I'm sitting. Otherwise I hate it. It's not my spot,
so confuse everyone. Now that we have a new YouTube channel,
(16:40):
I know pretty soon I'll be saying there if you
are watching, or if you've ever seen any of our
Instagram or TikTok or Facebook clips, we sit on Fox
Sports Radio, Covino on the left, Rich on the right.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Cavino and Rich that's not how he likes to sit.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, so years and years it was the opposite, and
I think I'm going back to that soon. So anyway,
what's your spot? How do you handle it when someone's
in it? Equally corny question, have you ever dated someone
or had a buddy or anyone for that matter, that
when taking a photo has to stand on a certain side.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It happens.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
That's Johnny Drama.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It does happen, though it happens.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
A lot Johnny Drama and Steve Katy that's my good side,
Oh my spot, Caveno. If someone uletsay we meet a
listener or doing something, hey, let's get a pick, Covino
will rotate because he feels like he has one better
side of his head. You know what it is, there's
certain angles. It's like you never saw Beavis head on, right,
you never saw Beavis head on. You always saw it
(17:41):
from the side. Comparing yourself to Beavis.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Kate's great.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I rarely see me head on because I just don't
like posing that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
But what about butt head on?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, you would see butt head head on head on,
You would see butt head head on. You wouldn't see
Beavis head on. And when you did, because you did
once in a while, it looked weird when you see
me not like this, it looks weird. So anyway, what's
your spot? How do you handle it? And here's my
advice before we move on final thom to scram Hey
(18:11):
beat it, give the thumb out, Hey beat it. A
normal person understands, Oh my bad, I'm in your spot.
The end is not that awkward. I've seen firsthand where
I remember this, and I remember loving every second of it.
Because if you love drama show like I do, and
(18:31):
tripleg Kannadi Gilofka loves.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Drama show, who doesn't love good drama. I remember I
was with an ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And her sibling was dating someone new and the new
dude sat in dad's chair at like a holiday dinner,
and I was like, oh, it's gonna be good, and
I I why an Italian family, that's that's called a
no no, a no no. So hey, hey, you got
your spot, you got your seat. In fact, there have
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been guys that have been sitting in the same seat
at stadiums and bars.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yo, I'll tell you this. It sounds ridiculous, it sounds.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Ridiculously territorial, But there's a great episode of Cheers.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'm I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Did you ever see that episode where somewhat like some
yuppie in the eighties was sitting in Norm's barstool and
he's like, yeah, that's my seat.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
He goes, who he goes? I'm Norm.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Like a matter of fact, Sunday football. When I lived
in Hoboken, New Jersey, I was such a regular every Sunday,
I'd be at that bar eight hours watching football from
start to finish.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I had a bar seat that if I got.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
There and someone else is there, sometimes a bartender would
be like, everyone scooted down, that's that's riches.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I would say.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
In that case, it's the bartender responsibility to be like, nah, nah,
he's a regular, He's that's his seat right there, cause
you can get in a fight there. I'm not going
to give you that advice. I'm not going to tell
you to pull a Norm and tell the guy to
scram uh not in that case.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
But let's take one phone call.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We'll move it on and we'll talk some MLB and
some NFL. Because Rob Manford said some interesting things at
the Literally Classic this weekend. Jeff and Indy you're on
the show, Covino and Rich. It's good to be back
on a Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Well's tough, fellas. I normally don't listen to sports shows,
and I totally dig your show. I listened to it
all the time.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Thanks man on this.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I think a cool guy kind of knows where you're
supposed to sit where you're not so so. For instance,
I'm in sales and a buddy mine will call me
on a Friday midday at about one hundred percent of
the time when he says, Hey, I'm going to my
leg house. You want to go, I'm already got a
go bag packed in the back of the car. So
I drive down there and to see him. And he
always takes his dog, Jacks. And when we get in
the golf cart to go down to the boat, Jackson
(20:37):
is on the passenger seat of a golf cart. Golf cart.
Now I'm in one of the seats in the back.
I would never throw that off or or bum his
dog out, or bum him out. You just know, you
just know, I'm not even riding bitch. He's riding bitch,
and I'm like bitching back or something.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You know what I'll say, I like your move there,
don't disrupt the flow, Jeff, Jeff, that's an interesting point. Again,
we don't need to harp on seats the whole show,
but it was an interesting thought because, yeah, but some
people don't have a good self awareness when it comes
to this.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
But he said.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
He he said, a sales meeting if you don't think
it's strategery, if you don't think there's strategy of where
to sit at a business meeting or a sales meeting,
Like Danny, when we met with some of the MLB
people or some of the great salespeople at iHeart during
the Super Bowl or All Star Game, you almost got
a position yourself, like, all right, I'm gonna let the
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woman in charge of the guy in charge, let them
sit where they sit, and then we all sort of
you know, that's why we said Spot pulled the power
move because he sat at the head at one of
our big meetings, remember.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
That, Yeah, the All Star meeting with MLB. We had
a lunch with him. We all moved down once so
that the one of the MLB executives could sit at
you know, one of the heads of the table stop
was down at the other end.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's called showing respect, respect, respect the chair doing this,
touching his finger chaps together. Hey, you got to reserve
that seat for the man in char These are my terms.
And so sometimes sitting back and letting someone take that
seat is the move, that's the solid move to make.
So anyway, have some self awareness, have the wherewithal to
(22:10):
know that you're disrupting the flow. Let people sit where
they're supposed to sit, and don't be the jerk.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
All right, Well, with that said, so much, you get
to today, right?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I mean MLB, I think a success Little League Classics
seem cool. Think of success. It's one of their biggest success.
Those kids are going to continue doing it. As you know,
MLB trying to find cooler destinations to play baseball, as
we saw at the Bristol Motor Speedway.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Not all of them go off without a hitch.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
But the Little League Classic has been super uber successful
for not only Little League but MLB because it's winning
over young fans when they're at their most influential. I
think watching the young kids ask questions for the big
leaguers as like my favorite part, Like there's some young
dude asking Mets pitcher seum and I like you're like
(23:01):
are when you were twelve? How tall were you?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Like? When did you get tall?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Like the questions that I'm like, you know what a
broadcaster would never ask. Yeah, they're in awe of this moment.
And Rob Manford actually said no, they're going to continue
doing this. It's just great for everybody, So win win
for everybody involved. Now, the big leaguers love bombing with
the kids. It makes them feel young again. That's a
great idea. Something else Rob Manford said, I don't think
is a great idea. So we're gonna get to a
(23:25):
couple of things he said during that broadcast yesterday, plus
of course diving into a lot of football, because we
are seventeen days away from the kickoff to the NFL
season officially, So football, little MLB all coming up right
here on Fox Sports Radio, Cavin and Rich sitting in
my angry chair, and I don't want anyone else sitting
(23:46):
in it my chair, My angry chair, Alison Chain style.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
What are you gonna do? Pull Victor Roblaze, send me
a throw a bat at me or something. What are
you doing? I might do that? That was wild? Huh?
It was. It was a wild weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And I want Dylan ga real to know that Covino
and Rich are entertainers and competitors so competitive. We want
to have the most follows on YouTube, so check our
new page out Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube. We're
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(24:20):
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Danny g puts up everything. If you search Covino and
Rich wherever you stream your podcast, and if we're not
good enough for you, it's fun. Give I was Sam
the one shot you could see what ioa Sam looks like? Yeah,
look at that fuzzy headed Ninny Muggins. See look at
that up Sam? YouTube pitch all right, baseball this weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
We keep saying it.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The overused phrase on our show over the last couple
months has probably been baseball's popping, And it's really just
quoting Dion Sanders right, who said Baseball's popping baby. It
seems like they're making all the right moves, kind of
like Tom Cruise in the eighties, making all the right moves, dude.
And this past weekend was another one, the Little League Classic.
Like you said, your Mets over the Mariners, little leaguers
(25:09):
got to see Juan Soto. Not all cared to see
Juan Soto. I don't know if you saw the viral clip.
There's a little Soto shuffle. They got him to do
the shuffle. That was awesome and he played up to
the crowd. I give him credit for that. But there's
a really funny viral clip. Another viral clip, I should say,
where there's a little Australian kid and they ask him who.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Would you love to meet, and he's like Juan Soto.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And then this Canadian little leaguer Misha Lee was like, ah,
he's kind of overrated.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I want to see cal Raley.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's got that's gone viral those second No, he's Canadian.
But again, MLB with little league kids, big stars, dude.
You know how many stars were at that game. A Rosarina,
cal Rawly, Juan Soto, Lynn, Door, stars, startars started. And
(26:01):
that's the other thing that MLB is doing right. They're
letting the players be themselves. They had the player Day,
cool bats, cool cleats, They're there with the little leaguers.
They promote their stars in a better way. It seems
like they're doing everything right.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Dare I say hold up?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Because it reminds me of a game show that I
loved as a kid. I remember sitting in Grandma and
Grandpa's house and we'd be watching a show call Oh
Sharks Or is that the show you're gonna host some
the NRD Sharks?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, it wasn't uh. I would have a fact.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
My grandfather watched Doctor Quinn Medicine woman like stupid random shows.
Her grandparents probably watched bowling for dollars. My mom was
on bowling for dollars. It's true story. In fact, Oh,
I love the Gong show. No, it was a show
called press Your Luck, and I always remember the people
would have their money, much like the modern example would
(27:03):
be dealer, no Deal, But I'm gonna go pressure luck.
You remember the old no Wammy, no Wammy.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Big Bucks big Bucks.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Like Dusty Wamy?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Would you ever hurd o Wammy? I's a plone cord.
And remember is pressure luck.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
A staple of staying home from school viewing during the
afternoon as a kid.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You loved the way was an animated little character that
came out, but he stole all your money. You didn't
want the whammy, you want a big buck. The wammy
was way creative for nineteen eighties graphics, right, the little
singing at you. Yeah, I used to love that, but
you would always remember you you press your luck, and
that's the name of the show. Do you keep your money?
(27:50):
Do you pressure luck? It's sort of like dealer, no
deal when Howie Mindel would call the banker, all right,
we're gonna off you two hundred and eighty thousand dollars
and the JIBBRONI would be like, no, no deal, and
then he would Danny would lose everything. I think right
now we're at a pressure luck moment with Major League Baseball,
slightly bigger bases, pitchclock World Baseball Classic has infiltrated the
(28:13):
Baseball World Little League Classic, the Tennessee what is it again?
The feeling like they pressed their luck with that one,
and that was the first misstep that we've seen with
changes and experiments.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You talked about it the other day.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The great jerseys they have now, the city connects all
the little things, Baseball's done, the bat flips, the everything's
relevant entrance music, eighth and ninth inning where the setup
men and closers. There's light shows at the stadium, Danny.
All these stadiums have great food now and options. Baseball
has done so many great moves that it's almost like, stop,
(28:53):
take the deal, Howie Mandel's given you, don't try to
don't hit a whammy. And I heard Rob Manford talking
about real alignment when there's expansion.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
How about a window into the future, expansion realignments off
the die off?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I mean, yeah, can you see that down the road?
I can you know?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I think that I think the first two topics are
related in my mind. I think if we expand, it
provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign. I think
we could save a lot of wear and tear on
our players in terms of travel. And I think our
postseason format would be even more appealing for you know,
(29:33):
entities like ESPN.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I don't want to hear what.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I don't want to hear anymore, and I'll tell you why,
because right now, Baseball with that extra wildcard is just enough,
right the third wildcard. Some even said, oh that's too much,
but it keeps all these fan bases interested. Three wildcards
three division winners in each league. I don't mind if they,
(29:55):
you know, branch out at a couple teams Nashville, Portland,
there's a couple of that may be worthy of a team.
So again, expansion and realignment. I think expansion is great.
I think everything they've done up to this point is acceptable.
Even the runner starting on second base at first in
extra innings, people are like, oh, I don't know, it's
working out. There comes a point where you press your luck.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I hate to say that.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Another analogy'd be like some guy that cheats on his wife,
he never gets caught. You keep doing it, you will
get caught eventually. With your pants down, you think, unfortunately,
some of these athletes that keep getting rubbin tugs, you
think they what happens is eventually, Oh what it is.
It's quoted in your favorite show Ozark. It's not the
first time they did is the first time they got caught.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And you just press your luck and push it and
push it and push it.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I think baseball right now is in such a good
spot that, Yeah, expansion's great.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Nashville team, Portland team. Who would say no to that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
But realigning The reason I say no to re aligning
realign god Smack style not for baseball. The reason I
say it is because when you look at what the
proposed this is not a but what they called the
proposed imaginary new divisions. Well again they said geographically realigned
for better games and better TV. I think they would
(31:11):
they would call a division. I believe that the speculation
was the Northeast and it would have the Mets, Yankees,
Red Sox, and Phillies for easier travel in one division.
And my first thought is, I don't. That's like you're
you're not spreading out the wealth. And then what are
you gonna have a South team where it's like the
Marlins Rays. I just feel like the divisions are so ingrained.
(31:34):
You got to keep some type of tradition. What are
you gonna do? It's America's pastime. Oh you're the first
to say this. Sometimes tradition is making the same mistake
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Would you be down for baseball realignment?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I say no, Danny g don't you sort of like
the NL West with the Dodgers Poda? But everybody hates
change period, Like, no one likes any sort of expansion
or realignment change.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And then we get used to it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
It's like Johnny Lawrence said, you couldn't leave well enough alone,
could you, you little punk? Or whatever he says to
Daniel Son. You remember in the classic Karate Kid you
could your little twerp. Come on, Manford, leave it alone
town feeling, you know, but that's how we feel.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You think younger generations. Give a Diddley squat. I don't
you know what?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Imb down for the feedback. Let's go eight seven, seven,
nine nine on Fox. As we go to Isaac for
an update, Let's get the phones going. Your thoughts. Would
you want baseball realignment and a different postseason.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Because I think it's perfect expansion.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Well, I say, fine, just don't mess it up in
another sport. The Cleveland Browns, Well, we don't want to
make any analogies. There are too easy, folks. They officially
named their starting quarterback today, going to be Joe Flacco,
entering his eighteenth NFL season. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Rams quarterback
Matthew Stafford practiced today for the first time since it
started training camp as he recovers from a back injury.
(32:55):
Tennessee Titans number one overall draft pick cam Ward got
into a scuffle with Titans defensive lineman Jeffrey Simmons at
practice today after a touchdown pass. It started when Ward
shoved Simmons, and then Simmons retaliated with a two handed
push towards face mac mask Yeah, and then the entire
offensive line came running to cam Ward's defense. ATFL Media
(33:18):
reports Washington Commander's running back Brian Robinson will not play
in tonight's preseason game against the Bengals by mutual decision,
raising the possibility of him being traded or released. Baseball,
the Phillies that outs pitchers Zach Wheeler underrun successful surgery
today to remove a blood clot in his arm on
the field. The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cup seven and
nothing in the first game of a doubleheader, and finally
(33:40):
also beginning to trend a fresh video of Lebron James
and his evident growing passion for the game of golf,
as former teammate Kevin Love posted a video a few
hours ago of James celebrating a successful shot while exclaiming, quote,
broun got to hit again. Unquote Listen, Oh my, Lebron
(34:06):
James living it up on the links back to you guys.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
That was him saying that it was I hate the
third person thing I doing.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
By the way, something else caught on the mic. I
can't say the South Fox Sports, but did you see
the Marlins had a bench coach, rookie Eric Wagerman hit
a home run and as you know, when they go
the dugout and they see the guy running down the dugout,
high five and everyone yeah, very clear. On the mic,
one of the coaches goes, great job you ginger f
(34:36):
Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I didn't very funny, so did Thank you, Isaac? You
de man.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And by the way, I think the Joe Flacco announcement
is a good one for football only because it keeps
the Gabriel Sanders drama going on longer. I feel like
if you gave the starting job to one of them,
then it's I don't know, I feel like flat because
you know Fla is not going to be their long
term so I think it keeps the storyline going. It's
a safe bet for now. It's Kevin Stefan. Now, I
think you you squash some of the storyline. I think
(35:04):
you say he's the starter and then you just let
them compete behind this, so then the young guys continue
to develop but I think it's the safe Why.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Guys are underestimating the media, they're going to stay all
over this, Samplers, Gabriel, you know what it's.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
True, but I think that it is the same. Would
you agree the safe bet though? For Stefanski and the Browns. Yeah,
we knew that Flacco was going to be the starter.
It's just how the rest of the dominoes are going
to fall.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's the boring answer, but it's the obvious one.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
He is a super Bowl champion. Yeah, but you know,
more exciting to hear something exactly. Thank you, Danny, Thank
you guys. We got more Covine on rich and I
do want to hear from from you guys. As far
as your feedback on baseball, we'll talk some football, but
baseball realignment is this where Rob Manford would make his
first bad decision. We'll take your feedback next.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
The show at the new YouTube page at Covino and
rich FSR, CoV I n O and Andy Rich FSR
on YouTube, streaming live and of course our bonus podcast
over promised episode one oh four. You could listen, you
could watch it. That's on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page.
So please check it out. We had a great episode
(36:18):
last week, Covino and Rich live from the Fox Sports
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the way tire buying should be now. I looked at
week one of the NFL, which I'm almost hesitant to
look because how many days are we like eighteen seventeen, seventeen,
I'm teen days away, hesitant to dive in Danny because
you know that once the NFL season starts, it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Be like all we really talk about. Yeah, So I'm
like trying to.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Like eighty percent of the conversation, eighty.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Percent of conversations once football starts are about the NFL
and college football. So I'm trying to like, you know,
the calm before the storm a little bit because I'm
still loving baseball and everything else. It's one of the
doubleheader games on the first Monday night. Bears are hosting
the Vikings, and I think with JJ McCarthy and Caleb
Williams that's gonna be because we've talked about that division
(37:54):
and how people assume the Lions will be a contender. Again,
there's some people that the Packers are a top five
team or so, so that leaves well, the Vikings were
a postseason team last year and they fell.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Remember Sam Darnold pooped the bed in the playoffs and
it's like, oh man, they were thirteen and four and bah,
now where the.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Poop to bed.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's called a grumpy grumpy, a grumpy thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Johnny Depp grumpy, that is what he called it. He
called it a grumpy.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Is it time for the Bears fans to actually have
high hopes? Remember last year that was a crazy sentiment
that Bears fans like, we're making the postseason.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
It's like, oh, it's so fast.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Exactly one year ago on the Covino and Rich show,
you two were talking about Caleb Williams and the Bears
fans being so excited.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I think they opened the season like four and two. Well,
do you remember what the turning point was? I remember, oh,
the Hail Mary. The hail Mary where against the Commanders
correct and the defender gave up on the play, almost
celebrating they lose the game.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
And then that was like the wheels fell off, celebrated
prior to the hail Mary.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Now it was horrible, and that was like a turningquoe
because up until that point, the Bears are hanging in
that division. And then again it all went south. But hey,
we'll see that's gonna be a great double header on
Monday night. Well I'm sorry, not double header on Monday night.
That's your Monday night game. Sunday night, the first Sunday
Night game, Ravens at the Bills. You could argue and
(39:19):
say that might be an AFC Championship preview in Week
one of the NFL. So a hell of a lot
of things to look forward to. But to wrap up
the last conversation, Coveyah of Major League Baseball perhaps pressing
their luck and it just leave things the way they are.
I feel the same way about when the NCAA talks
(39:40):
about having like one hundred teams in March madness. It's like, no,
we're good, we don't need one hundred teams. And when football,
I think football would be wise to cap it at
eighteen games and that would be it.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
No more.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
They're gonna go to eighteen nothing else. And then you
start pressing your luck, pushing your luck. And I think
you could say that about every sport, right.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Dan, if you missed it. During the Little League Classic.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Rob Manfred said there will be MLB expansion and realignment
in the future.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
You don't want the mess and Yankees in the same division,
do you?
Speaker 7 (40:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I don't save we agree
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