September 17, 2025 • 40 mins
C&R have fun sharing Tiger Blood! They discuss "Puca & Luka," both wanting to retire from sports at a reasonably young age. Cardi B. pregnancy sparks athlete/celebrity reaction & Shohei's no-no blown, but a new 50/50 club! Plus, they get ready to argue about Michael Kay's comments!
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Speaker 1 (01:05):
Let's go now? Dare I say, let's go Giants?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
They're playing the Diamondbacks, And if you're a baseball fan, winning,
it's the part of the year where you don't only
root for your team, you root against teams. You root
for some team. So right now I fear the Diamondbacks
slightly more.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The Beard, bro Fear the Beard.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
By the way, does everyone know did we bring this
up on FSR yesterday? It went viral courtesy of Joe Rogan.
We do this so many We do so many random
shows and podcasts together. I was unaware. I bet you
dB doesn't know this, and Dan Buyer is a man
of knowledge. Do you know how Charlie Sheen got the.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Whole Tiger blood winning? Do you know who he got
that from?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I saw the clips, so I did, But I did
not know before I saw they.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Either, did I before I saw the clip of Charlie
Sheen on Rogan? You know Charlie Sheen, big baseball guy.
So he's watching highlights in the twenty teens and he
sees Brian Wilson when was on top of his game,
and fear the Beard. Brian Wilson, not Brian Wilson of
the Beach Boys, as Joe Rogan thought, which is fair.
(02:14):
Brian Wilson of the Giants the beard, and then Romo
had the beard. The whole team had the beard. Everyone
in the stands had the beard. Fear the beard, very eccentric,
nasty reliever. You're right, So the beard.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He lived in a Volkswagen bus.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Brian Wilson impressed Charlie Sheen so much when Sheen, who
loves baseball, was watching highlights that he told his best
friend and by the way, everyone needs a friend like
Tony Todd.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He's like, Tony, get him on the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So Tony Todd gets Brian Wilson of the Giants on
the phone for Charlie Sheen, and they're just chopping it up,
talking baseball, talking life, and Brian Wilson says to Charlie Sheen,
you know guys like us. You know, Charlie, I'm glad
you called guys. I guys have tiger blood. I don't
know what it's like to lose. We're so busy winning.
We have a Donnis DNA. And when that infamous interview aired,
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all that stuff was stored in his cracked out brain
and it just came spilling out and went viral in
the life and life was never the same when Charlie Sheen,
like when he got shook in that interview, that conversation
with Brian Wilson came to the forefront winning fire because
all those years, you know, we gave him the credit
(03:28):
and he made it famous. He took the ball and
ran with it. But it was from Brian Wilson, the reliever,
by the way, peculiar, awesome baseball pitcher. Are you not
shocked though that over the last fifteen years, none of
us have heard that story. Like Brian Wilson, even in
an interview, hasn't ever said, hey, you know the whole
Tiger blood winning thing me and Charlie Sheen, that was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Like my thing.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, you know what was interesting too, is Charlie Sheen
told the story as if Brian Wilson was giving him
a pep talk of sorts, and that's how he received it,
and it fired him up and he just blurted it
out and that was it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Brian Wilson was really good. I remember covering a couple
of All Star games that he would appear in, but
there was there was something there. But when he said
it at first, it took me a second. I'm like, ah, yes,
that Brian Wilson, Absolutely, it makes sense sense.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Suggio Romo took over that role years later on with
the with the and he also had the beard. You
needed to have a beard at one point to be
a dominant closer for the giants. So really, you know
what it is Brian Wilson, And if you look back,
I promise you he started the explosion of the beard.
I give him the credit, and I have for years.
The beard always existed, but for us in our generation,
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it really wasn't that much of a thing. Everyone in
the stands they had beard night, they were growing beards.
The beard came back, he was growing.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
For the beard.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Look around now every group of buddies has at least
one or two guys with a beard. Back then, when
he had that beard, it was almost like wow, that's
what made him stand out. He died it and it
was out of control and he was known for it,
fear the beard, and it became a trend. So I
give him not only credit for starting the beard revolution
all over again. I don't think we saw beards like
this since a old presidential dates Rutherford B.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Hayes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, since Rutherford B.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Hayes started his trend and then you got to give
him credit for the winning and the Donna's DNA and
Tiger BLN the last stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's a trend setter. Brian Wilson, who knew who in
the machine too? Don't forget don't forget about that guy.
Do you remember the machine? Who's the machine? Who's the machine?
The guy in leather in the background during his interviews?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You don't remember that, oh, Charlie Sheen interviews.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, just the Brian Wilson interviews.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The machine. I know DJ Lay Machine Mayhew. I know
the Machines, which are a terrible WWE tag team for
a minute, the machines which was Andre the giant in
the mask. I know Bert Kreischer the machine. So Pat Burrell,
that's what he's talking about. No, I do know Pat Burrell,
(05:58):
all right. So that's the backstory that we didn't know
until this past week is Charlie Sheen's All over the
Place courtesy of his new book and documentary on Netflix, which,
by the way, we are shouted out in which is funny.
Kind of our show name does appear in episode two
of the Charlie Sheen documentary. So we're Covino and Rich
(06:18):
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Speaker 1 (06:51):
So Rich, I'm rooting for your Mets. Why not? Who cares?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yankees play the Twins tonight? Hope all your teams are winning.
We're one day close sort of Thursday Night Football, we'll
talk about it, and we're gonna talk celebrating home run.
Speaking of baseball and midweek Major NXE Wednesday Words of Wisdom.
We're giving away prizes like we always do. You're promising,
so much. Now we're gonna get to it right now.
We're talking Luca and Pooka before that real quick. Yesterday
(07:15):
we paid tribute to Robert Redford at the very end
of the show, and we posted a clip on our
Instagram and Twitter and all that at Covine on Rich
talking about is he one of the goats when it
comes to sports movie actors? The natural is Roy Hobbs.
You know, is that the one?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Is that the king of all baseball movies? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And I bring that up because I got to give
a shout out to again, multi time Emmy Award winner
John De Marcico of the Mets s n Y. We
worked with him at SNY. John, just one another Emmy Award.
I want to get him on our bonus pod over promised.
I'm sure you guys have seen on social media how
during some of the Mets games he does like inematic,
(08:00):
they get all artsy. He gets all artsy and cinematic
where the way he does split screens and fades and
everything like, he takes it real serious. Yesterday, during Brett
Bady's home run, he had the lights at City Field
and then he had firework explosions and it looked like
Roy Hobbs, like he sort of replicated shot for shot
(08:21):
the natural Oh really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's pretty cool. That is very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So yeah, catch our clip at Covino and Rich we
debated it would love your input. Rest in peace, Robert Redford,
and rest in peace the days of hard work and
pride and what you do. Rest in peace to the
older generations that paved the way and they taught us
how to grind. Grandpappy who worked at the same company
for sixty years at the mill.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Real men who work until they're eighty years old. Yeah,
anyone else's grandfather?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Anyone else have a grandpappy that worked at the same
place for like fifty years and he got like a
watch when he retired.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That was that generation that was the World War.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Two grandpappy, he's had like mangled something than like my grandpappy,
Tom Covino, great man, mangled fingers.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He was a butcher like his whole life.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
My grandfather Bill Dempsey, my mom's dad. Yeah, nine fingers, what.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Is up with that? Right? Because they worked hard, they
fought in wars.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Different generation and that generation taught our parents to work
hard and pick a career, and they taught us but
study show our grandparents have the most influence on us.
So we saw, we know their story and they sort
of instilled that work ethic to us. But the newer generation,
I'm not saying they got it wrong, but they think
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different and we're seeing it in two related stories, and
both of those stories are from superstar athletes Luca and Pooka.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Luca and Pooka, Luca.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And pook Interestingly enough, Cavino And by the way, they
said this separately, it just so happens to rhyme.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's not like they were hanging out. They're not a
new tag team duo coming going me off.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, total coincidence. Guy, So I'll start with Puka, you
could take Luca. Okay, Actually I'll start with Luca. Lucas says,
and this is according to Bleacher Report and a bunch
of other sources, says he doesn't want a Lebron length career.
(10:20):
Laker's Luka Dancik is not eyeing a Lebron length career.
He's very interested in ownership moving forward, like this is
just a means to an end, just his pathway to
something bigger. Yeah, I'm sure he loves basketball, but it's
not the be all end all, he wants to be
a businessman. This is just part of the journey, Like
(10:42):
we always say it. I forget who originated it, but
we always say because when these dudes retire, athletes retire,
they're young. They're an old man on the court, but
a young man in life. I think that's a Derek
Cheter thing because I remember when Jeter retired, it was like, man,
old ass Derek Jeter.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's like, oh there's Derek Juden's.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Like forty old on the field, young man in So
it's like, well, Luca is making all this money, but
what's he going to do after that? Well he doesn't
have his eyes set on plane forever like Lebron did.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, thing Rich I was just going to say.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
In the article, he says that he looks up to
Lebron as a role model for building a successful business
portfolio and he wants to learn more about that from Lebron.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh good for him, man, but disappointing for us, right,
because you want to see the journey as a fan.
But you also talk about you and Danny g both
watch at Shack documentary on Netflix where Shack is involved
in a million businesses. Now, Puka letbrook Let's shift to
Pooka La Rams. Pooka Nakua said he wants to retire
from the NFL around thirty years old, similar to Aaron
(11:45):
Donald Nakoua, who is twenty three at the time. And
he said this, said he wants to have a big family.
And we talked about this with Pooka at the Super
Bowl on Radio Row saying how long term effects of
football injuries, wanting to have a big family, wanting to
venture into other things play a factor. And to go
back to that, you know what plays the biggest factor
(12:05):
You've said, Shack. Shack played a long career, long enough
that he played for every color of the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
He did.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's the funny meme, right, he played for every color
of the rainbow. He played a long time, so he retired.
Then he got into all the business stuff and the
Papa John's and the insurance and the Icy Hot and
Rebock and everything else such a fat Burger or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He owns.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He owns everything. What this is is when you overpay athletes,
they don't need to play anymore. And you can say
that's good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
I think we as fans get chipped, and that's just
selfish on our part. Good for them on wanting to
make moves, but you're cutting their career short, their priorities,
not you know, creating that legacy, breaking records. It's like
(12:46):
getting out because they don't need to play. They've already
got their bang. Generationally, there's two layers here. Let me
break it down. Generationally, you talked about our grandparents the
World War two, the greatest generation, then our parents than
here we are. And then you know your kids are
living a way different life. Right Generationally, your grandfather may
(13:09):
have worked at the same company for fifty plus years, retired,
like he said, got a watch, and he's like, I
worked for the electric company and he died five years
old and they died five years later because he had
no purpose. Younger people now are like, I want to
live man, I want to swim in a sinote and
tuloom and there they're traveling. I'm backpacking through Europe and
I and they'll have like six hundred dollars to their name.
You know what, let me make this clearage because I
(13:29):
don't want to talk out of them all shot through
my mouth.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I think they got it right. You gotta you know.
I had a friend with tell me, don't love your job. Job,
you're love about it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Job, your love work life balance is great, I'm saying
selfishly as a fan, I don't like it. I think
there's a balance that I'm good for them on realizing like, yeah, man,
I don't need to put my health in jeopardy. I
don't care about the records are playing twenty years I got.
I got hundreds of millions of dollars. You need one
big contract and then call a day and invest in
(14:00):
something and that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Cove think about.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The younger person mentality and our grandparents' mentality. Much like
so many things, I feel like our generation perfectly sits
in the middle where it's like we have the work ethic,
but we still appreciate and understand the importance of living
life and leisure and all that. I think a twenty
year old may have it wrong where they're like, who
cares about work? I just want to like see the
Pyramids and swimming to like I said, snote in Mexico,
(14:25):
Yet our grandparents.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Want a backpack in Europe.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I feel like my grandparents went on one vacation to
like the Poconos, for two days.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
My parents.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
My grandparents went the Hawaii one time and that was
like the thrill of their line. And by the way,
that is and I was like for an anniversary that
their kids sent them on.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
My grandparents drove to Canada one time and they thought
they were world travelers.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, so our grandparents got it wrong, but I think
the younger kids now may have it wrong as well.
The middle ground seems ab out right. But based on
what you guys were all saying, if a guy like
Pokin the Kua could sign one big contract, right, a
guy like Luca who you know how much money he's
making wide receiver in the NFL. If you're elite, you
see guys the jamar Chases and justin Jefferson's of the world,
(15:06):
they're making like forty something million dollars a year. You
signed one big contract, that is the equivalent of winning
the powerball, That is the equivalent of winning the Mega millions.
Why play another side ten years if you could just
like sit back and let your money invest in something.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And then watch your money grow.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Unless you are a workhorse or a fanatic, or like
a sports junkie like a Brady or Lebron that's like
out to prove to the world. There you know something
special and generational. I think a guy like Pooka the
Kua is saying, yo, within the next ten years, I
have hundreds of millions of dollars and I guess, well,
here's the problem I could get if I could get
out of this game before I have made your leg
(15:44):
or back or head injuries. God, dude, got stitches on
the field? What was that two weeks ago. Yeah, it's
not an easy lifestyle. You're putting your body through a
lot of trauma, a lot of wear and tear. Yeah,
so I understand selfishly as a fan, I don't like it.
The problem lies with not everybody of that generation is
Puka or Luca and a lot of these young people
(16:05):
have that same mentality without the fundage behind them, without
a nest egg to sit back on, or with da
what would your dad say? The busy right, So that's
the problem. It's a different mindset. It works for them
because they make lots of money.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You question their passion. I mean, I'm I'm not.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't want to put you on the spot. But
when you hear a guy say yeah, I want to
retire when I'm thirty. I do because we grew up.
But he's understanding, here's the guy getting on the field, Dude,
here's you talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It yesterday for the love of the game.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What happened to that you don't have that same love
and desire when you're getting paid millions and millions of dollars,
you're not playing to win, You're you're sort of just
sitting back. You don't have that same fight and that
same hunger. Unfortunately, ask yourself this baseball, football, basketball, You
could you pick your sport hot dog eating.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
When do you remember.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
At first players being looked at as investments? Danny g
is every guy that stands out like a quarterback, a
point guard, a baseball pitcher. Where it's like, remember the
narrative started like, well, we don't you know, he's an investment?
When when when did we start looking at athletes as investments?
Because that's a turning point, it really is, because before that,
(17:20):
you'd sign a guy he made millions, but a couple
million dollars. Back then, when you were kids in the eighties,
it was a big deal in like a Nolan Ryan
or Dave Winfield or Mike Schmidt, someone made like a
million dollars. Now your middle reliever makes like eight million dollars.
Your star player makes twenty five thirty forty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, I can't think of The Dodger pitcher was nineties
and he got his own plane, private plane in the contract.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Do you remember that an investment?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And I remember the LA sports scene was saying, well,
this is an investment for the Dodgers because his contract
was so lucrative and it had so many perks involved
in it.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I mean, I know, I know, no, no, I I'll
look it up.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I know it was before this, but Mirfield was
one of the first to sign a million dollar deal though,
so that's a good one. But as a Mets fan,
I remember specifically this is like ten years ago, and
I know it was way before them, but I remember,
like a Matt Harvey guys like that, They're like, oh,
he is an investment.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
It was Kevin Brown. I remember that huge contract he
was given in nineteen ninety nine. Yep, what's up, Dan
Byer guys, guys, it was Kevin Brown. Guy, Kevin Brown,
that's what Kevin Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Just heads up. He was Kevin Brown who had the jet.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Kvank, You buddy, So what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Fox Sports Radio Nation.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Of course we're torn because selfishly, as fans, we want
to see these guys go for the records and play
out their career. But a younger generation's mindset is no,
I want to live my life, and now we're seeing
that infiltrate into the sports world where they do have
the luxury of.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Being able to say, ah, I got plenty of money.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I'm gonna retire probably a good five to seven years
earlier than they would have if they were still just playing.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
For the paycheck or for the love of the game.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
They're taking the blueprint of I don't want to say Lebron,
but maybe of a businessman put it that way, and
using their money to invest in something. The money's just substantial,
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It's almost too substantial.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
If in twenty twenty five, which is where we're living,
if athletes made two three four million dollars a year,
and after agent fees and taxes, they only played four
or five years in a league, then they're gonna try
to play as long as they possibly can, because after
that life could get scary. But when you're making like
(19:49):
I said, mega million powerball money a year.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You only need.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
One big contract. Like we're saying it's a couple million
dollars a year. I'm certainly not saying that's chump change.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I still remember my grandmother reacting to the news on
TV that Dave Winfield signed that one million dollar contract.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
And her saying, to play a kid's game.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
And then as I look up Kevin Brown, he was
the first one hundred million dollar man in baseball. Yeah, well,
and that seems like a small contract now when you
think about they've got it, they've got it right. But
that's the bottom line, is they got it right. You
know it just it hurts as fans to see because
you want to see them play. You know how they
have every right to want to start a family and
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keep their health in check.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Cav.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You know how when we see those memes and they're real,
they're not just like the memes on social media. How
salaries versus the price of housing, how it's substantially percentage
wise has gone up. Like your your dad may have
made you know, forty thousand dollars or thirty thousand dollars,
and your parents bought a house for eighty thousand dollars.
(20:55):
Now you can make six figures and houses are millions
of dollars. Like it's the don't meth I think when
we were younger, an athlete may have made ten times
more a successful person.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Right, Let's say in the eighties a six figure job.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
In the eighties you were balling, So imagine a six
figure salary in the eighties, it's like Dave Winfield makes
a million. That's ten times when guys in the NBA
are making sixty million dollars a year. Again, it's with endorsements,
and every endorsement seeks the incentive to continue playing. They
play five years and be like yo, peace out, suckers. Yeah,
so I get it, but this is the downside of
(21:35):
spoiling these athletes. But again, in the same breath, good
for them, Good for them, You would probably do the same.
It's a great conversation. Would you want to play till
you're forty something or if you're puka? I love his answer.
He wants to be able to walk and raise a
family if you value family. But guess what, you could
also start a family. He's still very young guy. Derek
(21:56):
Jeeters started a family after his playing days. He played
for twenty Yeah, but if Pukinakua wants to start a
family young, not in his forties, he's you know, if
he says he wants a big family and wants to
be around. If he's saying yo, like thirty, I could
check out and be even a lot of tread on
the tires. He's still got a lot of gas in
the tank. And the other analogy I want to throw
in there. You know, there's still a lot of playing
(22:17):
left in your in your in your legs, in your heart.
That's why I also it's like you think Canelo needs
to fight, no, but he's still he still has more
fights on his contract. I think people that get to
that level for the really love it. I also think
it's unique. Could we know that there are people that
think that way, meaning like they prioritize other things because
(22:38):
I think to get to that level, you almost need
to be obsessed with toumbra, so obsessed because like I
think about some of the greats like the Dan Patrick's
to Howard Sterens, the you know, like even like Rogan
who's a young guy. Seacrest has like all these jobs.
They don't need to do all that Those people all
have like Howard Stern's about to figure out this new
deal with serious ex am.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
We've all seen the headlines. Is he leaving? Is he coming?
Howard Stone has made hundreds and hundreds of millions of years.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Five hundred million in his last contract. Seven is getting
like almost one hundred million dollars bonuses a year. He's
his kids are grown, he has mansions, hundreds of millions
of dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
He doesn't need to do it. So it's almost like
Tom bradyus, like you're obsessed.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
With Yeah, you gotta stay hungry, like d Snyder said,
like Sebastian Maniscalco said, stay hungry. But it's hard to
stay hungry when they're feeding you so much money. And
that's really what it comes down to. It really isn't
good for them and kind of ask for us because
we want to see him play, We want to see
him break records, We want to see their journey. Yeah,
but props to Luca and Puka if you just joined us.
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Both athletes put out there, Luca today, Puka on our show,
and recently they both just said they're not interested in
like Lebron length career. They're interested in getting out healthy
and investing their money and being businessmen raising families. Moving forward,
What are your thoughts? We gave you ours plus Lebright
and home runs. Now I want to talk about that.
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There's a really funny, interesting thought about has the celebration's
gone too far? It's not the showboating bat flipping that
you're thinking of. We'll get to it, hey, Kevino on
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biggest stories in sports and popculture. We got to talk
home runs, but I want to give you two of
my observations if you don't mind. As far as Luca
and Puka go, they're saying they plan on retiring early.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They don't want a long ass career. They don't care
about breaking records.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
They made their money and they want to be businessmen
and raise their families.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And that's great. That is great.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
As fans, I think we're a little like ah no,
because our work ethic might be a little different. The
first time, I want to say, the first time I experienced, like, hey,
my work ethics different than a younger generations is when
like five o'clock hit and you had in your brain like,
I guess I stay untill they tell me to leave.
Oh yes, but young the generation was like five o'clock,
(26:39):
I got my backpack on, I'm ready to go. We
had an intern and we're still friends with the guy
till this day. I kild Mike and I remember he
was editing all the stuff for Spot and our show
Coavin non Rich. He's in the middle of editing five
o'clock hits. Kid his backpack and he's like, all right,
see you guys were like, are you in the middle
of like editing the clips were and he's like yeah,
(27:01):
but it's five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And he's like, yeah, my hours, my internship hours are done.
And I go, oh, yeah, I guess that's that's how
some look at it. And I had another, you know, example,
but it slipped my mind. But another thing that does
come to mind is a younger person has this mentality
of yeah, I'll work extra.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Are you paying me?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Where we just so willingly did over time or worked
that extra day and didn't ask questions.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
But did that make us dumb?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It kind of yeah in a way, but it does
show you the difference in work ethic that we grew
up with versus a younger generation. Now we're starting to
see that spill into sports, where it's like it's more
about life less about the job.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, And I wouldn't say dumb rich because it also
gave us job security.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah. You it was like a we had this belief
that it would pay off, and for some people it did.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I think it paid off in the sense of.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You overall would be better at your job and you
got better by working hard.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But there were times early on.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
In my career where I remember being like, oh, work
on the holiday, and I'd be like, yeah, the boss
is really gonna be impressed, and I'm like, then I
realized later in life, like the boss is sitting in
his Hampton's house and does give a crap that I'm
the one working right now. He's not listening, he doesn't care.
And then you realize, ah, I'm a fool. So different
work ethics. Poopa and Luca both saying yeah, as soon
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as they can get out, they're out of the lead.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
But I don't question their current work ethic. I just
I look at it, and then saying, like, as from
a business perspective, signed a big contract, make all that money,
and then get out healthy, And they're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's just different.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know, be a dad, be a husband, be a businessman.
Why would you not want to do that? If you've
made hundreds of millions of dollars, why keep going out
in there and getting banged up.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's like you and I were talking about Terrence Bud Crawford.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
There's an instinct right now to be like, all right, undefeated,
he'd beat Canelo, walk away? Or is it tough to
walk away when you know that the next time you fight,
there's tens of millions of dollars waiting for you?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Is that? How do you say no to that? You can't?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Let's say how to Matt and Sency. Then we'll go
to dB for an update. What's I met?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
What's not? CNR? You guys are great?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Thanks man.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Got a question, So what Tuka coming out and saying that,
what why would the Rams want to sign him to
that long term deal? If you know, say they guaranteed
them all this money and then all of a sudden
they go six and ten or five and eleven, and
then he's promised all that guarante's money and then he
just wants to say he and cleans up and be done.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
No, I think you're not getting those long, long MLB
type of contracts in football anyway, right for a wide receiver.
So I think if he says thirty ish, if he's
still in his twenties, I think I think it does
take the fight away though, when you overpay athletes, and
good for them, like I said, they earned it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm not trying to the NFL makes billions. Who's gonna
get the money? Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I'm not saying they're not deserving. That's not my point.
But how do you have that same fight, hunger and
desire to fight for your job, to keep your job,
to break those records when you're like think from a
boxer's perspective, Like you said, the ones that really take
it to crazy levels, of the ones that are fighting,
fighting for their life, you know, not the ones that
are sitting pretty like. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Your boy Puka signed a four year deal.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, and for them, by the way, I wonder if
this would change if they were making WNBA money, you'd
see a lot more fight. I bet you see. You
see something different. That's for sure different.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Well, with that said, let's go to our buddy and yours,
Dan Bay. Let's go update what's going on with friends.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Four four hits combined between the Giants and Diamondbacks in
their scoreless affair that's in the ninth inning right now
in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Diamondbacks started the day a game and a half back
of Rich's Mets for the final wildcard, while the Giants
are three back the red start of the day, three
back of your Mets. They topped the Cardinals six to two,
so right now, two and a half back is Cincinnati
well earlier today in Pittsburgh, FLA.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Ball to laf this is going to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Ian half is there and the Cubs are in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
The Cubs are going to be a postseason team here
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Doubling up the Pirates today eight to four on the
Cubs Radio Network. They could still win the division. Time
is running out, though, with the week and a half
left of the regular season. Comes right now four and
a half back of Milwaukee for first place in the
NL Central. Forty nine Ers quarterback Brock Party limited in
practice today because of his toe and shoulder injuries. That
was a message from Kyle Shanahan before the Niners worked out,
(31:32):
saying that Party has a chance to play against the
Cardinals coming up in week three. Damn no practice today
for Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels as he deals with a
knee injury. Marcus Mariota would start for Washington against Danny's
Raiders on Sunday if Daniels can't go, dan Quinn said
at the earliest Friday would be the practice day for
Jayden Daniels got that spring knee. Marcus Mariota again likely
(31:56):
the next man up for Washington. Trod Taylor's going to
start a quarterback for the Jets Sunday against the Buccaneers
is Jets quarterback Justin Fields has been ruled out. Buccaneers
wearing their throwback uniforms, not the full creamsicle, but the
white version of it, honoring their fifty years in the
National Football League. Khalil Max headed to ir for the Chargers,
but the linebacker not going to miss the season. So
(32:16):
for that elbow injury Monday night and the win against
the Raiders not believed to be a season ending injury.
It was announced today that Patriots wide receiver Stefan Diggs
and girlfriend Cardi B are expecting their first child together.
And guys, who was Kevin Brown? It was Kevin Brown.
That's your thank you?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yes, by the way, move on, tempered, Kevin Brown, Move
over Taylor and Travis, because you got you know, Cardi
B and Stefan Diggs. You got Madison Beer and Justin Herbert,
you got Josh Allen and Haley Steinfeld. I think the
athlete celebrity combo is stronger than ever in the NFL.
The pizza favored combo is still the best, best come
(32:52):
on TV won one piece of insight. If you are
the forty nine ers and you're the front office, it's
a division matchup against the Cardinals, do you try to
push along Purty or based on how mac Jones played
pretty solid, do you just play play it.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Safe and go with mac Jones. If you're a GM,
I would play Purdy.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And the only reason being is this finish line with
Kittle was after week five, so because of the short
week that they're going to have with the Rams that week,
that was kind of the goal. Like Kittle wouldn't play
in week five, they probably wouldn't play in week four.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That was the reason.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But if Purdy is well enough division game Cardinals two
and zero right now.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You could jump out to three and oh and your
team's not one hundred percent, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I think.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I think our instincts say play it safe long season.
But if he is, if he's ready to go and
is able to go, and you aren't risking further injury,
then I say play Purdy.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I agree. Thank you Dan Buyer for a great update.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
We got more Kavino on and Rich Now there's a
discrepancy not over show voting with home runs.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It's how teams are celebrating these days.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And one of your dudes, Michael Ka, the best in
the game, has like the weakest take. And we'll play
it next and we'll discuss. We'll talk some baseball. Get
into NFL Week three right here, Cavino and Rich, Fox
Sports Radio. So work ethic has changed, We've seen that
(34:18):
now we're seeing it in sports a little bit. Covino
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
One old pitch.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Otani blunches high in the air, deep bright field number
fifty emphatically leaves the yard on a night he started
the game and through five no hit innings, he then
comes up to the plate of the eighth and launches
home run number fifty.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
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(35:46):
you know, making a move that end up not being the.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Right gut in just a matter of a couple of weeks.
That is the third blown no hitter for the Dodgers
in the wild.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
That is wild.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And by the way, I speaking to Baseball, I've been
keeping an eye like we all I have on that
Diamondbacks Giants game, because that has Wildcard Chase implications. Dbacks
at home had the bases loaded, one out, bottom of
the knife, zero, zero strikeout and a dribbler back to
the pitcher. They're going to extras in Arizona, so extra
innings zero zero, fought through eight innings, one head.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Really, I thought it was more of a little number.
It was a little number to the picture.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah, and number Verlander, who seems to have found his
groove towards the second half of the year. He's three
and ten on the year, but he threw seven innings
of hitless baseball, of runless baseball. You give up a
couple hits, but Verlander shown up when they needed him nice,
which is pretty cool. Speaking of baseball, this is kind
of funny. It's funny to me. First of all, I
(36:46):
gotta say props to Michael Kay. I have been a
fan since he was the young guy in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
My dad's a big fan. I told you.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
My dad listens to us and he somehow feels like
Michael Kay's his friend. Yeah, he used to listen to
Michael Kay on the radio calling the game. Yeah, you know,
he still has his own radio show, but calling the game.
And then he started yes and center stage and he
was the voice of the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
He was that young dude.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
And now you know blink and he's been doing it
for one hundred and twenty years now. And I bring
that up because is this old guy energy or is
he right on here? Baseball? Everything we talk about it
is a kid's game. Well, let's me realize. I think
you were throwing a little old guy energy moments ago
when you keep saying work ethic when it's not work ethic,
(37:29):
it's it's some of these young players want to get
out early when they're healthy, they've made their money. I
don't think you and I always argue off he said,
they're not wrong. I just don't. It's not work ethic.
It's it is. It's not you and I are it is.
It is because I take things from a personal standpoint too.
You think the young people we work with in this
industry have the same work ethic as you? No, But
(37:50):
I don't even treat the studio the same. I think
you and I argue a lot of times about I'm
a big work, smarter, not harder guy and cutting corners
and the results show you think they don't, but they do.
That's called it's called a cheap effort, and it does
show the old buffoon that's like I just keep my
money under the mattress and I'm like, why are you
(38:11):
invest it in something.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I don't trust the banks? Well, guess what if I'm
so wrong?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
You know, we're talking about professional athletes here, but most
young people don't have anything. They don't have any much
for so if anyone should be working hard, it should
be them. I wouldn't question pookin the kup is work ethic.
I think he's smart. So like when you say, oh,
they don't got the same work ethic. The game doesn't
seem to mean as much. They want to live more
and it's a kids game, so she'd be having fun.
But speaking of old guy energy, I sort of do
(38:37):
agree with Michael Kay here, and this has to do
with home run celebrations and the props that they use,
not bat flips, none of that, none of the showboating,
the drops in the dout.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Is it hokey or awesome? Take a listen to Michael Kay.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
I don't know why they don't do it, but let
me ask you a question. Don't you think that's hokey.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Sure, well that's why I wonder why the Yankees don't
do it, because.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
I know, why should they do something hoky? I mean,
you think the Mariners are coming up up and down
the dugout with that trident is cool. You think the
Red Sox putting on the wally the green monster hat
or head that that's that's that's that's cool. I don't
think it's cool.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
The Yankees.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
They they all jump up and down, the guy high
fives everybody on each side as he.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Goes to the end of the dugout.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
That's their celebration. But the prop thing, Hey, maybe they
end up doing it one day, but I'm I'm looking
at it going I think that's weak.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
And I agree with him.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Who is Michael Kay Wally the green head monster of
Michael What are we twelve years old?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Michael Kay? Who?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Again I said, I'm a fan of what he does.
My dad likes him, which is proof. You know a
lot of times when some when someone here's a hot take,
I think Michael Kay is better than Gary Cohen just saying, Oh,
you're the one guy in the industry that's good. I'm
the guy speaking truth. You're the one dentist that doesn't
recommend something, I'm telling you the truth. That's my opinion, dentist.
I want a conversation for another day, because I think
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everybody has a preference to their own broadcaster for their team.
Of course, nine out of ten densists recommend Colgate. Cavino
is the one that doesn't. I recommend Michael Kay over
Gary Coene. You're the one guy anyway, Long Sturry short
is that Michael Kay is a sixty seventy year old man.
He's not the gauge of cool. So when he's like,
that's weak, that's not cool, I'm thinking you're right. The
(40:24):
twenty five year old home run hitters and the Mariners dugout. Yeah,
But putting on a goofy helmet or a trident that's cool.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
I think it is. I think it's very very cool.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I think which we're a celebrating and doing a cool
dance and high five, and I think it's the coolest.
In fact, we're gonna argue about this next. Clearly, Cavino
and Michael Kay get a room. We got more seeing
our next right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (01:05):
Let's go now? Dare I say, let's go Giants?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
They're playing the Diamondbacks, And if you're a baseball fan, winning,
it's the part of the year where you don't only
root for your team, you root against teams. You root
for some team. So right now I fear the Diamondbacks
slightly more.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The Beard, bro Fear the Beard.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
By the way, does everyone know did we bring this
up on FSR yesterday? It went viral courtesy of Joe Rogan.
We do this so many We do so many random
shows and podcasts together. I was unaware. I bet you
dB doesn't know this, and Dan Buyer is a man
of knowledge. Do you know how Charlie Sheen got the.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Whole Tiger blood winning? Do you know who he got
that from?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I saw the clips, so I did, But I did
not know before I saw they.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Either, did I before I saw the clip of Charlie
Sheen on Rogan? You know Charlie Sheen, big baseball guy.
So he's watching highlights in the twenty teens and he
sees Brian Wilson when was on top of his game,
and fear the Beard. Brian Wilson, not Brian Wilson of
the Beach Boys, as Joe Rogan thought, which is fair.
(02:14):
Brian Wilson of the Giants the beard, and then Romo
had the beard. The whole team had the beard. Everyone
in the stands had the beard. Fear the beard, very eccentric,
nasty reliever. You're right, So the beard.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He lived in a Volkswagen bus.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Brian Wilson impressed Charlie Sheen so much when Sheen, who
loves baseball, was watching highlights that he told his best
friend and by the way, everyone needs a friend like
Tony Todd.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He's like, Tony, get him on the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So Tony Todd gets Brian Wilson of the Giants on
the phone for Charlie Sheen, and they're just chopping it up,
talking baseball, talking life, and Brian Wilson says to Charlie Sheen,
you know guys like us. You know, Charlie, I'm glad
you called guys. I guys have tiger blood. I don't
know what it's like to lose. We're so busy winning.
We have a Donnis DNA. And when that infamous interview aired,
(03:07):
all that stuff was stored in his cracked out brain
and it just came spilling out and went viral in
the life and life was never the same when Charlie Sheen,
like when he got shook in that interview, that conversation
with Brian Wilson came to the forefront winning fire because
all those years, you know, we gave him the credit
(03:28):
and he made it famous. He took the ball and
ran with it. But it was from Brian Wilson, the reliever,
by the way, peculiar, awesome baseball pitcher. Are you not
shocked though that over the last fifteen years, none of
us have heard that story. Like Brian Wilson, even in
an interview, hasn't ever said, hey, you know the whole
Tiger blood winning thing me and Charlie Sheen, that was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Like my thing.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, you know what was interesting too, is Charlie Sheen
told the story as if Brian Wilson was giving him
a pep talk of sorts, and that's how he received it,
and it fired him up and he just blurted it
out and that was it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Brian Wilson was really good. I remember covering a couple
of All Star games that he would appear in, but
there was there was something there. But when he said
it at first, it took me a second. I'm like, ah, yes,
that Brian Wilson, Absolutely, it makes sense sense.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Suggio Romo took over that role years later on with
the with the and he also had the beard. You
needed to have a beard at one point to be
a dominant closer for the giants. So really, you know
what it is Brian Wilson, And if you look back,
I promise you he started the explosion of the beard.
I give him the credit, and I have for years.
The beard always existed, but for us in our generation,
(04:42):
it really wasn't that much of a thing. Everyone in
the stands they had beard night, they were growing beards.
The beard came back, he was growing.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
For the beard.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Look around now every group of buddies has at least
one or two guys with a beard. Back then, when
he had that beard, it was almost like wow, that's
what made him stand out. He died it and it
was out of control and he was known for it,
fear the beard, and it became a trend. So I
give him not only credit for starting the beard revolution
all over again. I don't think we saw beards like
this since a old presidential dates Rutherford B.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Hayes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, since Rutherford B.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Hayes started his trend and then you got to give
him credit for the winning and the Donna's DNA and
Tiger BLN the last stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's a trend setter. Brian Wilson, who knew who in
the machine too? Don't forget don't forget about that guy.
Do you remember the machine? Who's the machine? Who's the machine?
The guy in leather in the background during his interviews?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You don't remember that, oh, Charlie Sheen interviews.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, just the Brian Wilson interviews.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The machine. I know DJ Lay Machine Mayhew. I know
the Machines, which are a terrible WWE tag team for
a minute, the machines which was Andre the giant in
the mask. I know Bert Kreischer the machine. So Pat Burrell,
that's what he's talking about. No, I do know Pat Burrell,
(05:58):
all right. So that's the backstory that we didn't know
until this past week is Charlie Sheen's All over the
Place courtesy of his new book and documentary on Netflix, which,
by the way, we are shouted out in which is funny.
Kind of our show name does appear in episode two
of the Charlie Sheen documentary. So we're Covino and Rich
(06:18):
broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studio. Covino and
Rich adonnas DNA. How do we get here? I said,
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Speaker 1 (06:51):
So Rich, I'm rooting for your Mets. Why not? Who cares?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yankees play the Twins tonight? Hope all your teams are winning.
We're one day close sort of Thursday Night Football, we'll
talk about it, and we're gonna talk celebrating home run.
Speaking of baseball and midweek Major NXE Wednesday Words of Wisdom.
We're giving away prizes like we always do. You're promising,
so much. Now we're gonna get to it right now.
We're talking Luca and Pooka before that real quick. Yesterday
(07:15):
we paid tribute to Robert Redford at the very end
of the show, and we posted a clip on our
Instagram and Twitter and all that at Covine on Rich
talking about is he one of the goats when it
comes to sports movie actors? The natural is Roy Hobbs.
You know, is that the one?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Is that the king of all baseball movies? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And I bring that up because I got to give
a shout out to again, multi time Emmy Award winner
John De Marcico of the Mets s n Y. We
worked with him at SNY. John, just one another Emmy Award.
I want to get him on our bonus pod over promised.
I'm sure you guys have seen on social media how
during some of the Mets games he does like inematic,
(08:00):
they get all artsy. He gets all artsy and cinematic
where the way he does split screens and fades and
everything like, he takes it real serious. Yesterday, during Brett
Bady's home run, he had the lights at City Field
and then he had firework explosions and it looked like
Roy Hobbs, like he sort of replicated shot for shot
(08:21):
the natural Oh really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's pretty cool. That is very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So yeah, catch our clip at Covino and Rich we
debated it would love your input. Rest in peace, Robert Redford,
and rest in peace the days of hard work and
pride and what you do. Rest in peace to the
older generations that paved the way and they taught us
how to grind. Grandpappy who worked at the same company
for sixty years at the mill.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Real men who work until they're eighty years old. Yeah,
anyone else's grandfather?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Anyone else have a grandpappy that worked at the same
place for like fifty years and he got like a
watch when he retired.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That was that generation that was the World War.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Two grandpappy, he's had like mangled something than like my grandpappy,
Tom Covino, great man, mangled fingers.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He was a butcher like his whole life.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
My grandfather Bill Dempsey, my mom's dad. Yeah, nine fingers, what.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Is up with that? Right? Because they worked hard, they
fought in wars.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Different generation and that generation taught our parents to work
hard and pick a career, and they taught us but
study show our grandparents have the most influence on us.
So we saw, we know their story and they sort
of instilled that work ethic to us. But the newer generation,
I'm not saying they got it wrong, but they think
(09:38):
different and we're seeing it in two related stories, and
both of those stories are from superstar athletes Luca and Pooka.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Luca and Pooka, Luca.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And pook Interestingly enough, Cavino And by the way, they
said this separately, it just so happens to rhyme.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's not like they were hanging out. They're not a
new tag team duo coming going me off.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, total coincidence. Guy, So I'll start with Puka, you
could take Luca. Okay, Actually I'll start with Luca. Lucas says,
and this is according to Bleacher Report and a bunch
of other sources, says he doesn't want a Lebron length career.
(10:20):
Laker's Luka Dancik is not eyeing a Lebron length career.
He's very interested in ownership moving forward, like this is
just a means to an end, just his pathway to
something bigger. Yeah, I'm sure he loves basketball, but it's
not the be all end all, he wants to be
a businessman. This is just part of the journey, Like
(10:42):
we always say it. I forget who originated it, but
we always say because when these dudes retire, athletes retire,
they're young. They're an old man on the court, but
a young man in life. I think that's a Derek
Cheter thing because I remember when Jeter retired, it was like, man,
old ass Derek Jeter.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's like, oh there's Derek Juden's.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Like forty old on the field, young man in So
it's like, well, Luca is making all this money, but
what's he going to do after that? Well he doesn't
have his eyes set on plane forever like Lebron did.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, thing Rich I was just going to say.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
In the article, he says that he looks up to
Lebron as a role model for building a successful business
portfolio and he wants to learn more about that from Lebron.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh good for him, man, but disappointing for us, right,
because you want to see the journey as a fan.
But you also talk about you and Danny g both
watch at Shack documentary on Netflix where Shack is involved
in a million businesses. Now, Puka letbrook Let's shift to
Pooka La Rams. Pooka Nakua said he wants to retire
from the NFL around thirty years old, similar to Aaron
(11:45):
Donald Nakoua, who is twenty three at the time. And
he said this, said he wants to have a big family.
And we talked about this with Pooka at the Super
Bowl on Radio Row saying how long term effects of
football injuries, wanting to have a big family, wanting to
venture into other things play a factor. And to go
back to that, you know what plays the biggest factor
(12:05):
You've said, Shack. Shack played a long career, long enough
that he played for every color of the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
He did.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's the funny meme, right, he played for every color
of the rainbow. He played a long time, so he retired.
Then he got into all the business stuff and the
Papa John's and the insurance and the Icy Hot and
Rebock and everything else such a fat Burger or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He owns.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He owns everything. What this is is when you overpay athletes,
they don't need to play anymore. And you can say
that's good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
I think we as fans get chipped, and that's just
selfish on our part. Good for them on wanting to
make moves, but you're cutting their career short, their priorities,
not you know, creating that legacy, breaking records. It's like
(12:46):
getting out because they don't need to play. They've already
got their bang. Generationally, there's two layers here. Let me
break it down. Generationally, you talked about our grandparents the
World War two, the greatest generation, then our parents than
here we are. And then you know your kids are
living a way different life. Right Generationally, your grandfather may
(13:09):
have worked at the same company for fifty plus years, retired,
like he said, got a watch, and he's like, I
worked for the electric company and he died five years
old and they died five years later because he had
no purpose. Younger people now are like, I want to
live man, I want to swim in a sinote and
tuloom and there they're traveling. I'm backpacking through Europe and
I and they'll have like six hundred dollars to their name.
You know what, let me make this clearage because I
(13:29):
don't want to talk out of them all shot through
my mouth.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I think they got it right. You gotta you know.
I had a friend with tell me, don't love your job. Job,
you're love about it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Job, your love work life balance is great, I'm saying
selfishly as a fan, I don't like it. I think
there's a balance that I'm good for them on realizing like, yeah, man,
I don't need to put my health in jeopardy. I
don't care about the records are playing twenty years I got.
I got hundreds of millions of dollars. You need one
big contract and then call a day and invest in
(14:00):
something and that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Cove think about.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The younger person mentality and our grandparents' mentality. Much like
so many things, I feel like our generation perfectly sits
in the middle where it's like we have the work ethic,
but we still appreciate and understand the importance of living
life and leisure and all that. I think a twenty
year old may have it wrong where they're like, who
cares about work? I just want to like see the
Pyramids and swimming to like I said, snote in Mexico,
(14:25):
Yet our grandparents.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Want a backpack in Europe.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I feel like my grandparents went on one vacation to
like the Poconos, for two days.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
My parents.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
My grandparents went the Hawaii one time and that was
like the thrill of their line. And by the way,
that is and I was like for an anniversary that
their kids sent them on.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
My grandparents drove to Canada one time and they thought
they were world travelers.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, so our grandparents got it wrong, but I think
the younger kids now may have it wrong as well.
The middle ground seems ab out right. But based on
what you guys were all saying, if a guy like
Pokin the Kua could sign one big contract, right, a
guy like Luca who you know how much money he's
making wide receiver in the NFL. If you're elite, you
see guys the jamar Chases and justin Jefferson's of the world,
(15:06):
they're making like forty something million dollars a year. You
signed one big contract, that is the equivalent of winning
the powerball, That is the equivalent of winning the Mega millions.
Why play another side ten years if you could just
like sit back and let your money invest in something.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And then watch your money grow.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Unless you are a workhorse or a fanatic, or like
a sports junkie like a Brady or Lebron that's like
out to prove to the world. There you know something
special and generational. I think a guy like Pooka the
Kua is saying, yo, within the next ten years, I
have hundreds of millions of dollars and I guess, well,
here's the problem I could get if I could get
out of this game before I have made your leg
(15:44):
or back or head injuries. God, dude, got stitches on
the field? What was that two weeks ago. Yeah, it's
not an easy lifestyle. You're putting your body through a
lot of trauma, a lot of wear and tear. Yeah,
so I understand selfishly as a fan, I don't like it.
The problem lies with not everybody of that generation is
Puka or Luca and a lot of these young people
(16:05):
have that same mentality without the fundage behind them, without
a nest egg to sit back on, or with da
what would your dad say? The busy right, So that's
the problem. It's a different mindset. It works for them
because they make lots of money.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You question their passion. I mean, I'm I'm not.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't want to put you on the spot. But
when you hear a guy say yeah, I want to
retire when I'm thirty. I do because we grew up.
But he's understanding, here's the guy getting on the field, Dude,
here's you talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It yesterday for the love of the game.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What happened to that you don't have that same love
and desire when you're getting paid millions and millions of dollars,
you're not playing to win, You're you're sort of just
sitting back. You don't have that same fight and that
same hunger. Unfortunately, ask yourself this baseball, football, basketball, You
could you pick your sport hot dog eating.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
When do you remember.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
At first players being looked at as investments? Danny g
is every guy that stands out like a quarterback, a
point guard, a baseball pitcher. Where it's like, remember the
narrative started like, well, we don't you know, he's an investment?
When when when did we start looking at athletes as investments?
Because that's a turning point, it really is, because before that,
(17:20):
you'd sign a guy he made millions, but a couple
million dollars. Back then, when you were kids in the eighties,
it was a big deal in like a Nolan Ryan
or Dave Winfield or Mike Schmidt, someone made like a
million dollars. Now your middle reliever makes like eight million dollars.
Your star player makes twenty five thirty forty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, I can't think of The Dodger pitcher was nineties
and he got his own plane, private plane in the contract.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Do you remember that an investment?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And I remember the LA sports scene was saying, well,
this is an investment for the Dodgers because his contract
was so lucrative and it had so many perks involved
in it.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I mean, I know, I know, no, no, I I'll
look it up.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I know it was before this, but Mirfield was
one of the first to sign a million dollar deal though,
so that's a good one. But as a Mets fan,
I remember specifically this is like ten years ago, and
I know it was way before them, but I remember,
like a Matt Harvey guys like that, They're like, oh,
he is an investment.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
It was Kevin Brown. I remember that huge contract he
was given in nineteen ninety nine. Yep, what's up, Dan
Byer guys, guys, it was Kevin Brown. Guy, Kevin Brown,
that's what Kevin Brown.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Just heads up. He was Kevin Brown who had the jet.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Kvank, You buddy, So what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Fox Sports Radio Nation.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Of course we're torn because selfishly, as fans, we want
to see these guys go for the records and play
out their career. But a younger generation's mindset is no,
I want to live my life, and now we're seeing
that infiltrate into the sports world where they do have
the luxury of.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Being able to say, ah, I got plenty of money.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I'm gonna retire probably a good five to seven years
earlier than they would have if they were still just playing.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
For the paycheck or for the love of the game.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
They're taking the blueprint of I don't want to say Lebron,
but maybe of a businessman put it that way, and
using their money to invest in something. The money's just substantial,
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It's almost too substantial.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
If in twenty twenty five, which is where we're living,
if athletes made two three four million dollars a year,
and after agent fees and taxes, they only played four
or five years in a league, then they're gonna try
to play as long as they possibly can, because after
that life could get scary. But when you're making like
(19:49):
I said, mega million powerball money a year.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You only need.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
One big contract. Like we're saying it's a couple million
dollars a year. I'm certainly not saying that's chump change.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I still remember my grandmother reacting to the news on
TV that Dave Winfield signed that one million dollar contract.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
And her saying, to play a kid's game.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
And then as I look up Kevin Brown, he was
the first one hundred million dollar man in baseball. Yeah, well,
and that seems like a small contract now when you
think about they've got it, they've got it right. But
that's the bottom line, is they got it right. You
know it just it hurts as fans to see because
you want to see them play. You know how they
have every right to want to start a family and
(20:33):
keep their health in check.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Cav.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You know how when we see those memes and they're real,
they're not just like the memes on social media. How
salaries versus the price of housing, how it's substantially percentage
wise has gone up. Like your your dad may have
made you know, forty thousand dollars or thirty thousand dollars,
and your parents bought a house for eighty thousand dollars.
(20:55):
Now you can make six figures and houses are millions
of dollars. Like it's the don't meth I think when
we were younger, an athlete may have made ten times
more a successful person.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Right, Let's say in the eighties a six figure job.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
In the eighties you were balling, So imagine a six
figure salary in the eighties, it's like Dave Winfield makes
a million. That's ten times when guys in the NBA
are making sixty million dollars a year. Again, it's with endorsements,
and every endorsement seeks the incentive to continue playing. They
play five years and be like yo, peace out, suckers. Yeah,
so I get it, but this is the downside of
(21:35):
spoiling these athletes. But again, in the same breath, good
for them, Good for them, You would probably do the same.
It's a great conversation. Would you want to play till
you're forty something or if you're puka? I love his answer.
He wants to be able to walk and raise a
family if you value family. But guess what, you could
also start a family. He's still very young guy. Derek
(21:56):
Jeeters started a family after his playing days. He played
for twenty Yeah, but if Pukinakua wants to start a
family young, not in his forties, he's you know, if
he says he wants a big family and wants to
be around. If he's saying yo, like thirty, I could
check out and be even a lot of tread on
the tires. He's still got a lot of gas in
the tank. And the other analogy I want to throw
in there. You know, there's still a lot of playing
(22:17):
left in your in your in your legs, in your heart.
That's why I also it's like you think Canelo needs
to fight, no, but he's still he still has more
fights on his contract. I think people that get to
that level for the really love it. I also think
it's unique. Could we know that there are people that
think that way, meaning like they prioritize other things because
(22:38):
I think to get to that level, you almost need
to be obsessed with toumbra, so obsessed because like I
think about some of the greats like the Dan Patrick's
to Howard Sterens, the you know, like even like Rogan
who's a young guy. Seacrest has like all these jobs.
They don't need to do all that Those people all
have like Howard Stern's about to figure out this new
deal with serious ex am.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
We've all seen the headlines. Is he leaving? Is he coming?
Howard Stone has made hundreds and hundreds of millions of years.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Five hundred million in his last contract. Seven is getting
like almost one hundred million dollars bonuses a year. He's
his kids are grown, he has mansions, hundreds of millions
of dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
He doesn't need to do it. So it's almost like
Tom bradyus, like you're obsessed.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
With Yeah, you gotta stay hungry, like d Snyder said,
like Sebastian Maniscalco said, stay hungry. But it's hard to
stay hungry when they're feeding you so much money. And
that's really what it comes down to. It really isn't
good for them and kind of ask for us because
we want to see him play, We want to see
him break records, We want to see their journey. Yeah,
but props to Luca and Puka if you just joined us.
(23:40):
Both athletes put out there, Luca today, Puka on our show,
and recently they both just said they're not interested in
like Lebron length career. They're interested in getting out healthy
and investing their money and being businessmen raising families. Moving forward,
What are your thoughts? We gave you ours plus Lebright
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biggest stories in sports and popculture. We got to talk
home runs, but I want to give you two of
my observations if you don't mind. As far as Luca
and Puka go, they're saying they plan on retiring early.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
They don't want a long ass career. They don't care
about breaking records.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
They made their money and they want to be businessmen
and raise their families.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And that's great. That is great.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
As fans, I think we're a little like ah no,
because our work ethic might be a little different. The
first time, I want to say, the first time I experienced, like, hey,
my work ethics different than a younger generations is when
like five o'clock hit and you had in your brain like,
I guess I stay untill they tell me to leave.
Oh yes, but young the generation was like five o'clock,
(26:39):
I got my backpack on, I'm ready to go. We
had an intern and we're still friends with the guy
till this day. I kild Mike and I remember he
was editing all the stuff for Spot and our show
Coavin non Rich. He's in the middle of editing five
o'clock hits. Kid his backpack and he's like, all right,
see you guys were like, are you in the middle
of like editing the clips were and he's like yeah,
(27:01):
but it's five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And he's like, yeah, my hours, my internship hours are done.
And I go, oh, yeah, I guess that's that's how
some look at it. And I had another, you know, example,
but it slipped my mind. But another thing that does
come to mind is a younger person has this mentality
of yeah, I'll work extra.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Are you paying me?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Where we just so willingly did over time or worked
that extra day and didn't ask questions.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
But did that make us dumb?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It kind of yeah in a way, but it does
show you the difference in work ethic that we grew
up with versus a younger generation. Now we're starting to
see that spill into sports, where it's like it's more
about life less about the job.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, And I wouldn't say dumb rich because it also
gave us job security.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah. You it was like a we had this belief
that it would pay off, and for some people it did.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I think it paid off in the sense of.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You overall would be better at your job and you
got better by working hard.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But there were times early on.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
In my career where I remember being like, oh, work
on the holiday, and I'd be like, yeah, the boss
is really gonna be impressed, and I'm like, then I
realized later in life, like the boss is sitting in
his Hampton's house and does give a crap that I'm
the one working right now. He's not listening, he doesn't care.
And then you realize, ah, I'm a fool. So different
work ethics. Poopa and Luca both saying yeah, as soon
(28:28):
as they can get out, they're out of the lead.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
But I don't question their current work ethic. I just
I look at it, and then saying, like, as from
a business perspective, signed a big contract, make all that money,
and then get out healthy, And they're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's just different.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know, be a dad, be a husband, be a businessman.
Why would you not want to do that? If you've
made hundreds of millions of dollars, why keep going out
in there and getting banged up.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's like you and I were talking about Terrence Bud Crawford.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
There's an instinct right now to be like, all right, undefeated,
he'd beat Canelo, walk away? Or is it tough to
walk away when you know that the next time you fight,
there's tens of millions of dollars waiting for you?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Is that? How do you say no to that? You can't?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Let's say how to Matt and Sency. Then we'll go
to dB for an update. What's I met?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
What's not? CNR? You guys are great?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Thanks man.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Got a question, So what Tuka coming out and saying that,
what why would the Rams want to sign him to
that long term deal? If you know, say they guaranteed
them all this money and then all of a sudden
they go six and ten or five and eleven, and
then he's promised all that guarante's money and then he
just wants to say he and cleans up and be done.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
No, I think you're not getting those long, long MLB
type of contracts in football anyway, right for a wide receiver.
So I think if he says thirty ish, if he's
still in his twenties, I think I think it does
take the fight away though, when you overpay athletes, and
good for them, like I said, they earned it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm not trying to the NFL makes billions. Who's gonna
get the money? Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I'm not saying they're not deserving. That's not my point.
But how do you have that same fight, hunger and
desire to fight for your job, to keep your job,
to break those records when you're like think from a
boxer's perspective, Like you said, the ones that really take
it to crazy levels, of the ones that are fighting,
fighting for their life, you know, not the ones that
are sitting pretty like. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Your boy Puka signed a four year deal.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, and for them, by the way, I wonder if
this would change if they were making WNBA money, you'd
see a lot more fight. I bet you see. You
see something different. That's for sure different.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
All right.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Well, with that said, let's go to our buddy and yours,
Dan Bay. Let's go update what's going on with friends.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Four four hits combined between the Giants and Diamondbacks in
their scoreless affair that's in the ninth inning right now
in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Diamondbacks started the day a game and a half back
of Rich's Mets for the final wildcard, while the Giants
are three back the red start of the day, three
back of your Mets. They topped the Cardinals six to two,
so right now, two and a half back is Cincinnati
well earlier today in Pittsburgh, FLA.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Ball to laf this is going to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Ian half is there and the Cubs are in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
The Cubs are going to be a postseason team here
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Doubling up the Pirates today eight to four on the
Cubs Radio Network. They could still win the division. Time
is running out, though, with the week and a half
left of the regular season. Comes right now four and
a half back of Milwaukee for first place in the
NL Central. Forty nine Ers quarterback Brock Party limited in
practice today because of his toe and shoulder injuries. That
was a message from Kyle Shanahan before the Niners worked out,
(31:32):
saying that Party has a chance to play against the
Cardinals coming up in week three. Damn no practice today
for Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels as he deals with a
knee injury. Marcus Mariota would start for Washington against Danny's
Raiders on Sunday if Daniels can't go, dan Quinn said
at the earliest Friday would be the practice day for
Jayden Daniels got that spring knee. Marcus Mariota again likely
(31:56):
the next man up for Washington. Trod Taylor's going to
start a quarterback for the Jets Sunday against the Buccaneers
is Jets quarterback Justin Fields has been ruled out. Buccaneers
wearing their throwback uniforms, not the full creamsicle, but the
white version of it, honoring their fifty years in the
National Football League. Khalil Max headed to ir for the Chargers,
but the linebacker not going to miss the season. So
(32:16):
for that elbow injury Monday night and the win against
the Raiders not believed to be a season ending injury.
It was announced today that Patriots wide receiver Stefan Diggs
and girlfriend Cardi B are expecting their first child together.
And guys, who was Kevin Brown? It was Kevin Brown.
That's your thank you?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yes, by the way, move on, tempered, Kevin Brown, Move
over Taylor and Travis, because you got you know, Cardi
B and Stefan Diggs. You got Madison Beer and Justin Herbert,
you got Josh Allen and Haley Steinfeld. I think the
athlete celebrity combo is stronger than ever in the NFL.
The pizza favored combo is still the best, best come
(32:52):
on TV won one piece of insight. If you are
the forty nine ers and you're the front office, it's
a division matchup against the Cardinals, do you try to
push along Purty or based on how mac Jones played
pretty solid, do you just play play it.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Safe and go with mac Jones. If you're a GM,
I would play Purdy.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And the only reason being is this finish line with
Kittle was after week five, so because of the short
week that they're going to have with the Rams that week,
that was kind of the goal. Like Kittle wouldn't play
in week five, they probably wouldn't play in week four.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That was the reason.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But if Purdy is well enough division game Cardinals two
and zero right now.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You could jump out to three and oh and your
team's not one hundred percent, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I think.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I think our instincts say play it safe long season.
But if he is, if he's ready to go and
is able to go, and you aren't risking further injury,
then I say play Purdy.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I agree. Thank you Dan Buyer for a great update.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
We got more Kavino on and Rich Now there's a
discrepancy not over show voting with home runs.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
It's how teams are celebrating these days.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And one of your dudes, Michael Ka, the best in
the game, has like the weakest take. And we'll play
it next and we'll discuss. We'll talk some baseball. Get
into NFL Week three right here, Cavino and Rich, Fox
Sports Radio. So work ethic has changed, We've seen that
(34:18):
now we're seeing it in sports a little bit. Covino
and Rich live from the Fox Sports Radio studio and
it's time for our tire rack play of the day Show,
Hey Otani Show, Hey O'tani was in the middle of
a no hitter until that Jibbroni Dave Roberts pulled him
(34:40):
for the Dodgers bullpen blue yet another lead. Otani created
a new fifty to fifty club, the.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
One old pitch.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
Otani blunches high in the air, deep bright field number
fifty emphatically leaves the yard on a night he started
the game and through five no hit innings, he then
comes up to the plate of the eighth and launches
home run number fifty.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
On the season, fifty home runs, fifty stolen bases, fifty strikeouts,
and as courtesy of AM five to seventy Dodgers Adio network.
And that's our tire Rack play of the day. Well
not fifty stone bases this year. Well he's going for it, right,
it's a different fifty It's not even like close, I know,
but he's fifty forty two stolen bases. But no at
different fifty five their Tiraqt play of the game. For
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you hit usself last night. I was like, Danny's one
that wrote this JABBRONI Dave Roberts, isn't the third time
the Dodgers had a no hitter going And Dave Roberts's,
(35:46):
you know, making a move that end up not being the.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Right gut in just a matter of a couple of weeks.
That is the third blown no hitter for the Dodgers
in the wild.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
That is wild.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And by the way, I speaking to Baseball, I've been
keeping an eye like we all I have on that
Diamondbacks Giants game, because that has Wildcard Chase implications. Dbacks
at home had the bases loaded, one out, bottom of
the knife, zero, zero strikeout and a dribbler back to
the pitcher. They're going to extras in Arizona, so extra
innings zero zero, fought through eight innings, one head.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Really, I thought it was more of a little number.
It was a little number to the picture.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah, and number Verlander, who seems to have found his
groove towards the second half of the year. He's three
and ten on the year, but he threw seven innings
of hitless baseball, of runless baseball. You give up a
couple hits, but Verlander shown up when they needed him nice,
which is pretty cool. Speaking of baseball, this is kind
of funny. It's funny to me. First of all, I
(36:46):
gotta say props to Michael Kay. I have been a
fan since he was the young guy in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
My dad's a big fan. I told you.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
My dad listens to us and he somehow feels like
Michael Kay's his friend. Yeah, he used to listen to
Michael Kay on the radio calling the game. Yeah, you know,
he still has his own radio show, but calling the game.
And then he started yes and center stage and he
was the voice of the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
He was that young dude.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
And now you know blink and he's been doing it
for one hundred and twenty years now. And I bring
that up because is this old guy energy or is
he right on here? Baseball? Everything we talk about it
is a kid's game. Well, let's me realize. I think
you were throwing a little old guy energy moments ago
when you keep saying work ethic when it's not work ethic,
(37:29):
it's it's some of these young players want to get
out early when they're healthy, they've made their money. I
don't think you and I always argue off he said,
they're not wrong. I just don't. It's not work ethic.
It's it is. It's not you and I are it is.
It is because I take things from a personal standpoint too.
You think the young people we work with in this
industry have the same work ethic as you? No, But
(37:50):
I don't even treat the studio the same. I think
you and I argue a lot of times about I'm
a big work, smarter, not harder guy and cutting corners
and the results show you think they don't, but they do.
That's called it's called a cheap effort, and it does
show the old buffoon that's like I just keep my
money under the mattress and I'm like, why are you
(38:11):
invest it in something.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I don't trust the banks? Well, guess what if I'm
so wrong?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
You know, we're talking about professional athletes here, but most
young people don't have anything. They don't have any much
for so if anyone should be working hard, it should
be them. I wouldn't question pookin the kup is work ethic.
I think he's smart. So like when you say, oh,
they don't got the same work ethic. The game doesn't
seem to mean as much. They want to live more
and it's a kids game, so she'd be having fun.
But speaking of old guy energy, I sort of do
(38:37):
agree with Michael Kay here, and this has to do
with home run celebrations and the props that they use,
not bat flips, none of that, none of the showboating,
the drops in the dout.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Is it hokey or awesome? Take a listen to Michael Kay.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
I don't know why they don't do it, but let
me ask you a question. Don't you think that's hokey.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Sure, well that's why I wonder why the Yankees don't
do it, because.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
I know, why should they do something hoky? I mean,
you think the Mariners are coming up up and down
the dugout with that trident is cool. You think the
Red Sox putting on the wally the green monster hat
or head that that's that's that's that's cool. I don't
think it's cool.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
The Yankees.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
They they all jump up and down, the guy high
fives everybody on each side as he.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Goes to the end of the dugout.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
That's their celebration. But the prop thing, Hey, maybe they
end up doing it one day, but I'm I'm looking
at it going I think that's weak.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
And I agree with him.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Who is Michael Kay Wally the green head monster of
Michael What are we twelve years old?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Michael Kay? Who?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Again I said, I'm a fan of what he does.
My dad likes him, which is proof. You know a
lot of times when some when someone here's a hot take,
I think Michael Kay is better than Gary Cohen just saying, Oh,
you're the one guy in the industry that's good. I'm
the guy speaking truth. You're the one dentist that doesn't
recommend something, I'm telling you the truth. That's my opinion, dentist.
I want a conversation for another day, because I think
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everybody has a preference to their own broadcaster for their team.
Of course, nine out of ten densists recommend Colgate. Cavino
is the one that doesn't. I recommend Michael Kay over
Gary Coene. You're the one guy anyway, Long Sturry short
is that Michael Kay is a sixty seventy year old man.
He's not the gauge of cool. So when he's like,
that's weak, that's not cool, I'm thinking you're right. The
(40:24):
twenty five year old home run hitters and the Mariners dugout. Yeah,
But putting on a goofy helmet or a trident that's cool.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
I think it is. I think it's very very cool.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I think which we're a celebrating and doing a cool
dance and high five, and I think it's the coolest.
In fact, we're gonna argue about this next. Clearly, Cavino
and Michael Kay get a room. We got more seeing
our next right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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