The Best Of Covino & Rich

Published Aug 6, 2024, 12:06 AM

C&R talk Zachari Dunes & the fun Sunday with the crew for Koa's 1st birthday! What caused the laughter at the party which made the show think of bad actually being better than good? The guys compare it to the Pole Vault Junk Man, Pete Rose & Jim Joyce's blown call getting new life. They share a crazy story about Gardner Minshew! Is he the kind of wild beast you want on your team, or is he nuts? Calls come in from all over the country & Danny G. fires up 'SUMMER GAMES TRIVIA!' Plus, Rich argues with the staff about Patrick Mahomes!

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We all got together for Danny G's Sun's first birthday and it was a wonderful time. It was really relaxing by the beach, beach front, beautiful.

What is it called what dunes, Danny G.

It's Zachary Dune's.

Zachary Dunes over by Oxnard. To tie that into sports. You hear about Oxnard because a lot of fighters come from Oxnard, a lot of boxers, a lot of training goes on in Oxnard, California. But that beach area at Beach Scene was so nice to have a drink and just jail and hang out and celebrate Danny G's little baby.

Didn't you get moved at the trade deadline.

Zachary Dunes, Zachary middle of lever on the Zachary Dunes is my alias to uh check into a h Yeah, but I know nothing about Zachary dunes. We pull up and man, it was like, this is perfect. What a nice day. You know, it really was a great day. I had so many observations just watching the people that we work with in social settings, like Big Mike, who runs his place. Who Mike, he's wearing sandals this weekend comes there, I'm sorry, panther slides. He has his like hat and sunglasses, like but like a like a little fedora, Like he's like summer mic.

Yeah, summer Mic.

Then I was Sam, I did. I posted on our Instagram story, I wish Sam eating a fruit roll up? Like, what is this guy's an animal? I mean he comes to party. There's no question he's a maniac cipolin. He everyone has their summer look going on. I appreciate that.

I wows.

Sam had a nice bright yellow button down with a goop aline the paper boy hat. Yeah, he was rocking the goupuline real straw.

At the end of the party, he opened up his backpack and he brought his pet skunk with him.

Apparently I didn't know about that.

Yeah, that seems like I missed out on all the fund it didn't meet my pet skunk. But but honestly, it's still on our Instagram story for another couple hours. I would say, I'm eating a fruit roll up. Is something that I don't look at it? Oh please don't. Now you gotta look at Covino and Rich. But we bring up Danny's party not only to say happy birthday to your son. Today's official birthday, right, one year's old? Happy birthday one CoA.

Yeah, one year ago today. He was born in Woodland Hills, California.

We'll get that. So happy birthday, baby CoA.

And at the birthday party, I got to what you said, We got to all hang out.

It was fun.

Observation number one there might be a new beach game in town. I don't know if if if you should even preface it that week. I think it's been around for a minute. I haven't played. So for people that are aware to be like, what is this guy talking about there's a new beach game.

You know what, if you've never seen it, I guess it's new to you. Right, Have you played ladder ball?

It's also known as ladder toss because I looked it up too, describing it somebody, ladder ball is a lot of fun. Danny G's Stepsun's challenged me the moment I arrived. I hadn't even gotten a drink yet. They're like, you're next. I'm like, no, I don't even know.

I was so.

Intimidated because I'm like, I don't know how to play this. Then I lied to them and I said I'm more of a spike ball kind of guy. And they're like, oh, we're good at that too, and I'm like, God, you know what kidding?

I was just kidding.

I don't play any of these games, but I'm glad I did because ladder ball ladder Toss was kind of like a cornhole vibe.

I liked it a lot.

Yeah, it's it's two balls attached by a string and can you toss it?

And it's got to wrap around like a pole.

It's fun.

It's one of those typical beach games, but always fun to have one of those things on standby. But my biggest observation from Danny G's kids birthday party ties into something that we're gonna bring into the sports world because there's two stories in the world of sports, and it has the same backstory as what happened at Danny's party. It's turning dilemmas into dilemonade, the silver lining of bad better sometimes could bad be better? All these stories sort of intertwine will explain. I'm starts with Danny G. I'm a believer that people that don't think so are wrong. I think bad could sometimes be better. It's a matter of perspective. It's just a matter of switching your perspective on it, how you look at things. As time goes on, you can see it from a different place and appreciate things differently. So where Danny's gathering, and after we sing happy birthday for his one year old son, CoA, there's another birthday and a cake to go along with it, because danny stepson is traveling.

He's going away to college. And there was another cake.

And this is a big sheet cake, like like one of those huge ass sheet cakes.

They go marble sheet cake.

And your wife, Danny G starts saying some like beautiful words because he's going he's going away to college. So she's saying a little speech to her older son, right too, right, Yeah, yeah, we were doing his birthday a week early because he's about to go on a road trip to Oklahoma. He's gonna be a sooner, dude, And your beautiful wife is like he could accomplish anything. He's such a smart young man. I'm so proudy And everyone's probably getting ulterior like, oh, Brendon's beautiful, my baby's going to college. And as she's given this cute, little like sentimental speech about her son, he's like, oh mom and goes over to hug her. But by going over to hug her, she's holding she one hands this huge ass cake. Yeah, like a like a server would hold a tray over the shoulder. And immediately I look, I make eye contact with Ioa sam In's spot and I was like.

Oh no ooh this cake goes flying in the air.

No, no, I had the moment, the moment Danny said it to me, Oh, here are the gasps. Oh oh no, and everyone all wants to It's kind of sad because it was a beautiful moment again captured on video. Beautiful moment and even the sentiment of giving the hug was a beautiful moment. But he hugged her while she was holding it, so she dropped the cake. And I had watched your wife nacked her arms down. I had watched your wife put all these candles in.

She made sure everything was right. She put on a special play. Oh dude. But as I said to.

Her, face down right on the right, on the ground, and I did also feel bad for the clean up crew. I did only what I thought I could do, which was I grabbed old piece off the floor and I go, still.

Good, It's still good.

Still good.

But I'll tell you how it ties into other things going on, especially in the world of sports. Sometimes you could take a moment like that and look at us, the moment's ruined, or you could say, to be honest, this created a memory that wouldn't have been there had nothing not gone wrong. Becomes more memorable memorable, right, I mean, listen if they if everyone just had a cake and a hug, Oh yeah, whatever, that's sweet. But the fact that she dropped the cake, you guys will be talking about that for the next thirty years.

He's right.

There's gonna be a Thanksgiving where you're all sitting down and someone brings out a cake, and you know what someone's gonna say, Branda, Hey, Mom, remember when you drop Oh I remember that story. Every year, someone's gonna be remember when Mom dropped that cake.

Anytime someone breaks out a cake, they're gonna say, don't give it to Branda. Oh man, remember that time.

The weight of that thing pancake did it too. It was squashed then on the floor, and she felt bad. Huh Danny g oh, yeah, yeah, she she didn't know how to react. But then a few minutes later with nobody had it on camera, right Rich. At first everybody was like, oh, I stopped filling it before that happen.

What happened was everyone wanted to get the cue pictures of Danny's one year old.

So happy birthday to you. Clap clop cup.

Everyone puts their phone away, and that's when she goes and I had another cake for our other son, no except her mom. Yeah, we let our guard downs. What happened, We let our guard down. So one person has the video and Danny, if you don't mind, I'll post it. No, go for it at Covine on rich footage.

Once we found out that her mom did have it on her phone, then everybody took turns gathering around the phone watching it, and there was just the most laughter you've heard in a long time.

So yeah, you're right. That made it so memorable.

Sorry, are you following, guys?

Beautiful moment quote unquote ruined, But was it really when you got this funny ass story to share on the radio, to share with your family, to talk about, you know, in years to come, it becomes more of a memory. And you could tie that to a question that you know, Big Ryan, the guy that taunts I was Sam with trash yeah and recycling big sexy, big sexy Yeah. Of course he posts a question in the minute we walked in the studio today and it goes exactly with this, because you could argue, what would you're at the cake have been saved and we all had a little sliver cake, Hey, good luck at college, or a lifelong memory of your wife dropping a huge ass cake. I'm gonna go dropping the huge ass cake definitely more memorable. It's more memorable. I wouldn't choose that, but it's definitely more memorable. And as time passes, because in the moment, you're still upset about it, but as time passes then you realize this is kind of funny.

You'll eat a hundred of those cakes, that style of cake in your life and go to hundreds of birthday parties over the course of your life, but you'll definitely remember that.

And Danny g if it was like nineteen eighty something, you guys would have been on America's Funniest on Videos. Yeah, Bob Sago. Bob Saga would have introduced you. Yeah, and now Danny in California, and then backstage you would have told me a dirty joke. You could have want to what was it ten one hundred thousand? I think ten thousand. You could have been a big winner because so.

Could have sat there with a polyester suit on in the front row.

If you listen close, you hear Danny g go, oh you know, oh, no, ties into like I said the question Ryan asked when we walked in. And I'll pose this to you, much like the falling cake is better than the regular cake? Do you rather be someone that medals at the Olympics will forever be known as the guys the guy who's junk couldn't make it over the pole vault, the shlong jump winner. Yeah, the guy that the world knows. Everybody knows his packing now, wasn't he? Amaradi of France Anthony Amuradi of France, who again went viral over the weekend because he was doing the pole vault. He clears the bar, but his junk hits the bar and you see it over and over again, his slow motion and you're thinking, this dude just lost the chance at a medal. Some jiggle so again the silver the silver lining is the cake shop is well, everyone knows he's packing now.

But is that just as good?

I mean, I'm not saying he's going to go this route, but did you see that already a smut site has offered him two hundred and fifty thousand dollars just to show the world not surprised. So I'm not saying that's what you want to be known for. But if you want to talk about I'm a guy that lives on the concept of I rather a good story. Rich is saying that bad could be better if you like that story or the memory that goes with it. Because it is true. If I told you Anthony Amuradi won the gold for pole vault, you'd be like, oh cool. You'd forget that in two days, two years from now, twenty years from now, you might remember gold to be the only kit the bar.

In the Olympics. You're going to always remember that gold might be the only exception.

Because I think Rogers you have a better chance of remembering it's what's more important to him, I'm sure is the gold medal, But as far as what lasts longer in our memories is the moment. So I ask you, do you rather be Anthony Amuradi, a silver medal winner, or Anthony Emmuradi, the guy forever known as the dude who's junk took out the Paul Vault that.

One it's gold. Or I'd rather be the guy who took out the.

Gold or junk gold or junk bronze. No way, Nope, not worth it. If you're not winning gold, bonzi.

If I'm not winning gold, then I'd rather be famous for my junk.

Isn't it sick to say? Either way? He wins kind of.

He won the junk medal.

He won.

He won, And you're right because if you would have told us he won the silver, maybe.

Even the gold, we're all gonna forget about him because no, wait.

Yeah, there's more, because there's two other stories that sort of all tie in to this one. Danny g moment, the cake drops. Everyone's sad about it. So, by the way, he's a legend from this point on. And if he's single, there's DMS happening right now, I'm imagining.

And business opportunities.

A lot of these Olympians don't make a lot of cash if they don't medal, or they don't get sponsorships if he's.

Not sponsor or doing spokesman stuff.

Cavino for one of these underwear companies that have the pouch built in, right, I mean, do you see them all the time.

There's a girl that had a cheese sponsorship.

If this site doesn't get like a boxer brief sponsorships, it's got.

The wrong agent. I mean what a bragging right?

Huh?

Worldwide stage is chunk knocks the bar down? Anthony? Did you win it? How'd you do at the Olympics? And it's the pole vault too. There's so much comedy there.

Puts new meaning on the term pole vault, doesn't I know? So boy, play the rimshot on yourself.

See yeah, exactly.

There's two other stories that tie into this where the story might be better as a result. I just watched the Pete Rose documentary. We talked about it over and over again last week. So many people say that even our very own Dan Patrick said in that documentary that every year when the Hall of Fame conversation comes up, who do we always talk about in debate? Whose name always comes up? If he got in the Hall of Fame, his legacy may have just sort of I don't want to say died there, But we wouldn't be talking about him every year the way we're talking about Pete Rose. Like everybody knows the legend of Pete Rose and how he gambled and the story of Pete Rose and how tragic it is, and he should be in the hall because we've extended this story.

For thirty years. Sometimes the story is better.

Bobby Benia is Bobby Benia, I mean, not a Hall of Famer, a good home run hitter for a couple of years.

But why is Bobby Bonia None? Bobby Right?

So yeah, I'm sure there's Pete Rose made it very clear he wants to be in the Hall of Fame. But the ancillary prize here, just like everybody knows that dude's packing, just like everybody's gonna remember that cake drop, is that everyone's gonna remember Pete Rose and his and his controversy and his legacy and his hits and the controversy about not getting in the Hall of Fame as a result of prolonging this process. Dude, the Paul Vaulter was highlighted on the Today Show earlier today, So I mean would he have been highlighted if.

Not for his package hitting the bar?

No?

By the way, how many times did they send you? Did someone send you that clip of the guy right slo mo?

Yeah?

If he won the gold, nobody would have sent you that clip, not one person. Nobody cares about the pole vault, the fact that that happened. Everybody saw that a million times. You and I have had this theory for years, so we stand by it. The story is sometimes better than the accomplishment. It goes back to we used to call it the Janate story. I think I've said it quickly here on the show. My friend Jeanette worked for the Mets back in the day, huge David Wright fan.

Every woman in New York that didn't like if.

You didn't have a crush on Jeter, ladies, you like David Wright, it was you know, Derek Jeter. David Wright dominated New York for a time period. My friend Jeanette huge David Wright fan. So for if they're even in the same category, and I like David Wright, give me a break, David Wright didn't win Jack Deadley's squat. He was a great player. I like him the face of the Mets for a decade. I like David Wright. You're making me say that, cheeter. I feel like it's so much better.

Than David Right. All right, he's the greatest guy in the world. I can't let you Jets. David Wright went another.

David Right out sideline like Mattingly with injuries would have been a hall I like David Right, Like I said, you're forcing me David Wright. It's a Hall of Famer head. He not got injured. I know that's a big what if. But David Wright was you know, had to walk away from the game at thirty something the other way years old.

If you're a Mets fan, he was the guy you loved.

So my friend Jeanette, who is working with the Mets, gets a delivery in her office from David Wright and it's a sign jersey, and she lost it.

She's he had a crush on David Wright.

What a moment, right, The jersey goes to hanging in her office, says, dear Janate, thanks for being my number one fan.

David Wright. It's like Janaatee. He said he didn't know how to spell Jeanette.

But the story lives on, I said, but that's the best thing that ever happened.

Who cares about Janette? The story lives on. The jenate story is what you want.

You want the cake story, you want the junk on the pall vault, and it leads us to a story that has made it to a law school. Yeah, this is the icing on Danny G's fallen cake right here, because the story lives on.

Yeah, it's been over what ten years since.

Armando Galaraga pitched a Perfect Game. We all watched it go down Rich, if I'm not mistaken, you and I watched it live, Like we saw this happen live. People were like, yo, dude, perfect Game alert, and we saw this happen somewhere at a bar.

And you know, we were watching this game happen. And it turns out that.

And you guys, remember, in twenty ten, Jim Joyce wrongly called Indians hitter Jason Donald safe at first base, spoiling the Perfect Game, opening himself up to worldwide infamy. Now, Jim Joyce said he's received thirteen to fifteen hundred death threats as a result of what happened, and you know, he was very sorry about it, and he apologized when it happened and all that. But since then, on a documentary I saw on ESPN, I believe it was an e sixty documentary, there's been a convincing argument by a law class at Mammoth University in New Jersey where they want to turn over the decision. The law professor at Mammoth, Lawrence Jones, was trying to explain that sometimes there's an injustice. Yeah, for example, look at this story. And the kids were just little kids when this happened. Their minds were blown when they saw the footage and the injustice of Armando Colorado's no hitter and a perfect game, I should say. And these kids were like, well, why don't they just turn it over? So they decided to write this eighty page sort of thesis to the commissioner about why this is an injustice and why it should be overturned.

And there's really no good reason why they want it.

This isn't like, oh, a bad call in the third inning and who knows what would have happened.

It was the final play of the game. They blew the call.

The game ended on the next batter, so they asked Jim Joyce as well, would you think if they were able to overturn this, how do you feel about He's like, I'm all for it. He deserves it. And why do we bring this up. Well, it's a really cool story and it doesn't make you think, And I want your thoughts on that, like, do you think it should be overturned if they allowed it, do you agree with that? Or hey, man, it happened in a moment human error, That's.

Just how it is.

I feel like it's eyes opening up the floodgates and you open up a can of worms on going back and changing calls and things like that. But we tie that into every story you heard so far, because guys, even though what a perfect game has only happened twenty something times, we remember this one. And Armando Galarraga is probably more remembered as a result of the injustice, as a result of the bad moment that happened, and how he carried himself, how him and Jim Joyce both carried themselves in this moment.

I think.

Even at the Hall of Fame, there's a part of the Hall of Fame that focuses on this exact perfect game non perfect game. So I think again, this is how Danny G's wife, Brenda is exactly like Jim Joyce. You take a bad moment and it becomes more memorable to turn it into a good one as a result, that's one of the most legendary moments in baseball history.

Unfortunately, you know, for Armando Galarrago.

But again we remember him for that, We remember the moment, So could bad be better?

And based on that?

I do want to know your thoughts if Mamath University and these students who were perplexed by the fact that we allowed this to happen and go down that way. So wait, think from a kid's perspective today who lives in instant replay, and you know, they like to get it right, question things like what do you mean we want to get it right? You can say what you want. About the younger generation, they do push the envelope. They do question, well, why you tell these kids, well, that's just how it was, and they just don't wrap their heads around it. If they're able to change this, are you all for it or not? It's a good question. Eight seven, seven, nine nine on Fox. If they could overturn it, which is simply yo. It was the last play of the game over a decade ago.

We all saw it.

It's just a matter of them saying yes and putting his name in the record and saying, yeah, he had a perfect game.

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Mammath University writing this letter to the commissioner to overturn the perfect game decision that happen in twenty ten, and if you want to hear what the students have to say about it and what Jim Joyce has to say about it, take a quick Listen.

Yeah, we didn't want to reversal. We just want Armando Kolorado to be added to the list.

I think more important than whether somebody's names on a list or not is the memory of how everyone involved conducted themselves in a way that was consonant with the values that we think are so important to our game.

I just don't necessarily agree with it, and I don't think most of the students agree with it either. But like we taught them in class, you know, you could go to court, especially if you're going to be a lawyer journey, and you could have the greatest argument in the world. You could be totally convinced that you're right and do a fantastic job or a argument written advocacy, and you can still lose.

Why do you think they were so adamant not to change it.

Tradition, But I think it'd be one of the easiest things in the world to do.

To be very honest with you, I'm all for it.

He's a nice umpire Jim Joyce. At the end, so it all ties together because we remember that perfect game and talk about it more because of what happened, because of the mistake. So bad could be better if you look at it from that perspective. Years removed. Again, that was twenty ten, we're still talking about it. Then the second question is do you think they should overturn it? And does that just open up a can of worms? I think this is such a cut and dry case when people say, well what about this or then that?

Not even things like that, You don't need to be like, well, you did it for this, you got to do it for that.

This to me is such an but in that, but you can then reopen every blown call or every questionable decision and try to prove your case if you do it. And everything else in life where you could reopen cases or second guess things or change your mind, why not in this.

Can they take the tuck rull back? Super Bowl?

You know, it happened. It is what it is, and that's just how it is.

But I do love the perspective of a young kid who is a little kid when this happened, hearing the story and them being befuddled.

As to well, why didn't they overturn it?

Sorry, it would have been a magical moment.

You're right, but yeah, no, it's just how it played out.

And then these kids today who are just so used to things being different, they're like, oh, we don't get it, but then they did take the initiative to try to get it changed.

Let's go to.

Greg in Sinsey thoughts, Man, is it logical to say, dude, just overturn it or.

Is that just not the way? What's up, Jim?

Uh?

Greg?

Well, you're not allowed to have an airror and it doesn't matter.

I mean, of course Jim Joyce is gonna say that he wants to overturn it.

I assume Bill Burt.

Buckner wants to have another run at that ground ball.

Well, it is a very specific thing. I'm with you on the Jim Joyce thing. Of course, he wants to be removed from this horrible situation so that Armando Galarraga could be in the record books.

I get it.

But the Bill Buckner thing, that's a that's a totally difference. Again, That's what Rich was trying to say. This is a very specific, last out blown call, very specific.

Yeah.

I don't like when people say, well, if you do this, so we got to do it for everyone.

Get done.

I hate when people say that at work, like you ever ask your boss, like, hey, can I get a raise for this, well, you know we were not giving this person or this. I don't care about them. I'm talking about me. This is a particular case where it's very specific, so specific, like if I told you the a game, a playoff game ended because a foul ball hit the poll and the umpire called the foul and you could clearly go back and be like, it hit the Paul home run. Like if it's so easily obvious, why not change it? Because stubbornness, Are you going to rewrite history for everything? And I do get that. The Bill Buckner thing I'm just saying is a different type of example. The guy made a mistake, he made a full on playing error when this is a judgment call at the end of the game that would.

Have been it.

Let's go to Jennifer and Michigan. It doesn't change any outcome. That's another thing, doesn't It only changes his names in the record book with a perfect game that we all saw. But then again, we still talk about it because of what happened exactly. Jennifer and Michigan has an example of where you know, sometimes bad could be better.

What's up, Jennifer Hey, Jennifer Hey, guys.

Of course you all know.

I'm a Detroit Tigers fan and I.

Was thirty one.

I think that happened just after my birthday.

So I was like, oh, some on you missed the call.

I'm over it.

But if if they can get it overturned, just overturn this and move on.

I mean, listen, it was hard. But who would say no, this is a question baseball? But what is it?

Who the commissioner that he Rob Manfred could be like, no, yeah, you heard what Rob Manford said. He's the one that said, I think the takeaway should be how they both conducted themselves.

He's not saying, yeah, let's do it.

You just brought up a sore spot, saying Rob Manfred, because what about oh, it's just a piece of metal.

What about the cheating Astros?

What about the Dodgers That's why they don't want to touch I'm saying yeah. And of course no Astro had any consequence because they got immunity.

Yeah, all right.

Well, hey, your thoughts at kobin on Rich and we'll go to Moncey for an update.

Manzi and he thoughts to you, do you think they should overturn this type of thing or no?

I mean, yes, I want them to overturn that's that particular game in that situation. But it does open up a count of worms, so that's I agree, Yes, why not overturn it? It's very simple, everybody knows, and it's very black and white that a mistake was made. But I don't think it's that simple if you do overturn this one.

Gardner Minshew. When I say his name, even, what's the first thing that comes to mind. Spark plug yeah, right, fire crack like wild cor wild guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mustache is another usage.

Must hair the photo shoot even with the Raiders, like that man headband.

Yeah, he's like the animal ups.

Now me like football.

So I really enjoy the vibe as we all do of Gardner Minshew. Now, is a guy like that more fun When he's your backup that gets a chance and he lights it up. That might be a little more fun than when you're like, oh, he's our starter. Now, oh, I think. So, I don't want to put him in a box. I don't like when people put you in a box or me in a box, right, But I do see him as that guy when he's got to buy his character and his makeup and his way of playing that seems to fit that role very Ryan Fitzpatrick like, where, I don't know if I want this guy to be my starter, yo, But if he has to start four games and he goes three to one and he brings some excitement, change the tempo of the game, could change the outcome, get people fired up. It's a big raw ra guy. Yeah, it could change the whole feeling of what's going on in the moment. You want that from your backup. But when you're looking at a full seventeen plus game schedule ahead of you and you're like, oh, with the Raiders and he's like our QB one, I don't know if it has the same.

Hey five, you're wrong, right right, Like it's you.

We all probably have a middle infielder that you're like, oh, you know what, I like that guy's heart, But do you want him betting third every single day?

Probably? Not, by the way, your best hitter.

It's so obviously different now that he's got a bat first or second. In today's world, more at bats more at bats man. It's crazy how much that's changed in the past ten years of baseball, not even five years, where your superstar players not batting third or fourth anymore. Yeah, So I bring up Minshew for a reason. I saw a clip of him. He talked to some of the guys, Big Cat and those dudes on barstool, and he told the story. And my takeaway was that it's one of two things. I'll let you decide before I give you my opinion. Gardner Minshew talks about how he loves football so much and he's so competitive. There came a point when he tried to break his own hand. Take a listen to this.

The only thing I could do would be to get a medical red shirt. But if I played in this next game, then that would be off the table. So you know, I get an idea, get an idea.

Home, I grab a bottle of Jack Daniels, and I grab a hammer, and uh, go back in my room. I take a pull of Jack Daniels, put my hand down on the table and put one.

Two three. Hit the hell out of my hand.

Dude.

I'm sitting there shaking, but I know it's not broke. So I'm like, God, come on, take another pull, one, two three again. Still nothing. I'm just shaking at this point, man.

This is but I knew it wasn't broken.

So one more time, another pull, another three hits, and that was all I could take. I couldn't break my own hand.

Do you I see Manci shaking her head? Is that psycho behavior?

Were you like? That's a baller right there, psycho behavior?

Because I think there are easier ways to break your hand, my guy.

Oh that's your thought. Okay, yeah, I think right.

That's what we could have done. This a lot easier to break it, Aunt.

Jack, Maybe some tequila, yeah, and then can you run over my hand or something. I just like tequila would have been a much better decision, would have a much better decision better. Let's be real.

It just seems like we could have.

Broken your hand in a much easier way.

That's the psychotic part. The way he did it.

Well again, if you missed it, it was he needed to be medical, have a medical red shirt, excuse for one more I guess year of eligibility. Yeah, so that was his last living brain cell, and that was his idea. He's like, I'll just break my own hand. Then, well, think about it. You could say desperate and crazy. You could say what a competitor that he's thinking. Yah, I played meaningless snaps and if I have to fill in again, this counts as a year of my college career. I can't have that if I have bigger goals. So well, it's not my throwing hand. Hey give me, do I take my left hand. It's psycho. It's crazy. It's both, it's it's you know. It shows his dedication to the game, but it also exposes how crazy this. We talked recently about that rugby olympian who cut their finger off so they could keep playing. Yeah, that's psycho. I'm going psycho rich if I if I have two choices, we are you calling Ronnie Lot psycho his finger.

Off a Super Bowl so he could stay in the game.

So I'm going Psycho. You can say, man, that's great, that's what I want. That's the heart and I kind of leader I want. I think you're just a maniac. I would never do that. Now, I remember I had a I don't know, I'm not comparing the two. Let's make that I remember I had a. You ever go to get a root canal or something, they put a crown on your tooth and that doesn't fit right. They give you like a temporary crown and your bite is off. My bite was so off once the swelling went down, and it was bothering me so hard. I took a nail file. I was filing it down on my own, and I remember Rich being like.

You're a maniac, you know what.

And I know it sounds terrible, but bro, it was driving me so crazy and I couldn't get it was like over the weekend or something like that, so I couldn't get an appointment, and I was filing down this this tooth of mine, but it was it was a temporary crown. But I remember Rich saying how I was a maniac for doing that. Everyone has a different threshold of pain and what's okay, Well, I'm just gonna keep that in mind, dental pain and if I remember correctly, but dude, that bite was driving me crazy. I got to call you out with the whole story, yeah, because you know, I have to. I'm pretty sure it was around the time where let's just say, maybe your ex were spending a lot of money and you were like, you were like, have.

You in La house or New York house?

You were going back and forth, and You're like you were like to save money, you had a dental student do your work Yeah, that's true. And I was a night You're like, dude, what do you do? I was gripping onto that share of sword. That's probably what happened. That's probably why I had such an off bite. So I'm trying to fix it myself with a nail five. I remember seeing had a metal file in his mouth and I'm like.

What are you doing? He's like nothing.

True story.

Again, I'm not comparing him.

I'm just saying, sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. Let me tell you, I look at this guy and say, while while this is such crazy behavior, this is the type of guy you want on your team. I forgot a guy that's willing to do any We live in a world where people question all the weak ass reasons guys sit out games and load management all a little tweak.

A little bit.

They're on the il Gardner Minshew. I promise you hearing that story, Danny Y'll, as a Raiders fan, never questioned his heart.

Not at all.

I mean, it's his football. It does show you how tough he is.

I think a lot of Raider Nation is hoping that they have Rich Gannon two point zero because if you think back to Gannon, he stuck his neck out to get a first down. And when the Raiders were playing the Colts in that very important game towards the end of last season, both teams needed a win to try to sneak into the playoffs. Raiders left it all out there. Who wouldn't let them win that game? Minshew? He was sticking his neck out left and right, and I remember thinking to myself, Man, we need a dude like that, and they got him, and I'm convinced that that performance got him that money, that thirty million from the Raiders.

Man, well, listen, Gardner, Minshew, your thoughts right kind of attitude or just psycho?

Yeah?

I mean trying to break your own hand with a hammer. You ever watch those horror movies manse where like like a saw where they're trapped and it's like never die, and it's like, would you be able to saw off your own leg?

I don't live.

There as certain things I don't think I can do, like the one where she has to go in.

Where all the needles are like I'd be like, I'll just kill me.

Yeah, you know the sign off.

Maybe I can so off my leg.

Maybe liver die. But we buried a key inside your eye socket. Well, but this guy, think about the dedication. You're in college drinking and really a cell premise. I don't know if I remember that one.

There was one. Yeah, like there's a key behind your arms. Key you have to dig out your eyeball. Gross? Yeah, no, good, think about it.

You're in college, drinking cheap PBRs in Milwaukee's Best and hook it up with mediocre looking people, you know, stumbling home from the bar with no jacket on and the freezing winter cold. This guy's contemplating breaking his hand for sports and Eligi.

Yeah that's craziness.

Yeah.

Again, I'm sticking with my sort of psycho.

You want to get into it. Let's do this Olympics Summer Games trivia.

Yes, Spotty suggested we Olympics music.

Yeah, apparably the Olympic theme is. John Williams is like, don't play.

It, Ah, need take the fun out of everything.

I know.

All right, let's meet the contestants here for Summer Games Trivia. Our winner last Monday, Rich Davis.

Yeah, you don't mean a big Olympics guy, Covino.

That's me, Spotty Boy and Moncy.

And looking to winn and seeing our stay in the Steel Swiggy on our studio lines one of the last of this batch. I might add, all right, Moncie, I'm gonna use you to be the bad girl for this. Pick a number one through six.

One through six. Let's go with four because I meant Chris Webber, good answer, Money, You're big? Lenny Dykes, No, what did I just say?

Derek Carr No, Sean and Rochester, New York? What up?

John? Hey?

John?

What do you do for a living there in Rochester? What do you do for work in Rochester?

Oh?

Nice just gets to listen to Covino and yeah, as much as he wants and nobody can stop him. All right.

Here are the rules for the Summer Games trivia. The first contestant with two correct answers is the champ. If there's a tie, we have a tie breaker question. Your name is your buzzer, but you do have to wait until all three possible answers are read. If there's two wrong answers in a row, we move on to the next question.

Are you ready?

Let's do it?

Let's get it on all right?

Round one here you were just talking about break dancing, and as Rich mentioned, it debuts at the Paris games this Friday. Who are the two breakers widely considered to be the favorites for the men A Toddy T and Riah B Victor and Phil Wizard or C eight one three and Danny Lace's Lancey A. No, no, you gotta buzz in with your name, John? What'd you say? B? John is on the board? Your name first?

Next time? John?

Yeah?

One step closer to a swiggy? That's right, Victor and Phil Wizard two of the first.

In the Olympics, is it, b yo, C bring your own carboarder, No to bring your own boom boxing talking about the high jump.

Here we go round to John's halfway to a swiggy, which US Olympic star once said, are you going to stand or you're gonna crumble in the face of everything? Stand still? A Ryan Murphy, B Noah Lyles or C. Gabby Douglas could be Oh that was close. I think Covino snuck in a Murphy. No Chapoule working.

Spotty? You got in next?

I'm gonna say C. Yeah, oh yeah, so we see. Yes, I just gotta be a little quicker on here, John. You got to say your name is your buzzer. So if you answered, Just say say John, John, all right, John, and spot both on the board, and so we moved around three. How many gold medals has Michael Phelps won? A twenty No, you gotta wait.

Hold on you like my kid, I always say to my kids, I go look at daddy when I'm talking.

I want to make sure you're listening. John, we listen.

Gotta wait for all three topics?

Yes, just wait and then say John A.

Twenty eight, B thirty or C twenty five?

John, say your name?

Your name? John? Is he right?

Though?

John? You're not right?

Spot spot for this spot steal in the way.

I forget which letter it was, but twenty eight?

Yes?

Hey, yeah, wins.

Off.

Nice Hey John, you're a great contest make John, but we'd like it. John, thanks for making much. John, enjoy your retirement days off. Thanks for hanging with us, and we hope you get to play again next time.

A big Olympic guy.

Did you know that? Thanks John? Thank you John, take that mona. Thank you, Joe, big Olympic guy. Hey, you know what your next chance to win tomorrow will pay? Are gonna do? Tyson Trivin?

No, No, Tyson couldn't make it tomorrow. We're gonna do a Tuesday edition of Last One Standing.

Tuesday edition of Last One Standing again, your chance to win more cn R on FSR prizes.

This guy likes whole.

Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio, and we're live from a Tirack dot com studio. Remember a special edition, a Tuesday edition tomorrow of Last One Standing. More prizes to give away. Who's taking hold of the CNR gold tomorrow. Well, we'll find out. We're gonna take your phone calls on this Mahomes conversation. But I want to just bring up two things.

Sure.

Number One, sometimes you get how how young some of these guys are that we root for. Anthony Edwards twenty three years old today twenty three.

It's a baby.

I feel like he's I mean, I know he hasn't been around for that long, but a partying with eight Ron over the weekend, Anthony Edwards, twenty three. And you know we always glorify and applaud greatness in sports. How about when it's the opposite what the Chicago White Sox are doing right now? It's like disgustingly, Beny or twenty one, now twenty and I just looked up they're on Pace to be worse than the nineteen sixty two Mets.

Yeah, they're gross, that's bad.

All the other worst teams are like in the eighteen hundred, So it's hard to compare it to a different era. To think that I'd have to quit as a fan to think that they may win less than forty games.

What a nightmare? Right?

How DoD He's turn that around? All right, let's go to your feedback. There's that survey of who's the best player in the NFL that the players did, and the fact that Mahomes isn't number one is ludicrous.

What don't you understand?

Can I please try to explain what I think the thought process is. First of all, the players are always going to have a different opinion, right the fans. They're asking the best players in the NFL. According to the NFL players. When I think of Patrick Mahomes, his greatness is undeniable, okay, and they recognize it and that's why he's fourth. But all around football player, you can't see how they're thinking Tyreek Hill or Christian McCaffrey, in my opinion, might be a number one, even though they had him number three here, because he's an all around great football player like Patrick Mahomes is very specific. He's a great quarterback. But Christian McCaffrey probably could do so many things on the field. I where the other players are like, he's just undeniable, Like he's just a football player. What Mahomes a great athlete, He's a great quarterback. We know his greatness. You put Kaffrey on a tyro speed is undeniable. The things that that guy could do. Mahomes wishes he could do. But you put you put McCaffrey on a great team like the Niners. You know, he's a game changer.

He's on the Panthers.

You know, I'm just saying he's a great player on a stinky team. Maybe that's where the thinking comes from. You know, Tyreek Kill's on the Dolphins, and we're not sure if the Dolphins are a borderline maybe wildcard team, maybe they missed the postseason. Mahomes is the type of guy that you could take if I said, take a Garbaggio team in the NFL, put Matt Mahomes on the team. I think their postseason team. There's not a team in this league that I think wouldn't make the postseason with Mahomes maybe the Patriots quarterbacks very specific Yeah, McCaffrey, Tyreek Hill. These dudes are blocking, they're catching, they're running around. Maybe there's all around in a football player's opinion, clearly. And by the way, don't you think they know more than you? Well, I just got to throw that out there. Yeah, okay, so it comes from some rich.

Let me ask you this.

If Lamar Jackson is already your quarterback or Josh Allen, then who would you pick.

I think any of those gems would secretly be like, we want. Mahomes is a winning in tangible. The guy is a winner. I think I'm not disagreeing with you. Give me Dinny's saying is probably where the thought process comes. Think of the I love, you know, think of the lower tier teams in the NFL other than the Patriots, because I did say that one. Can you think of a team that you could confidently say even if they had Mahomes they wouldn't make the postseason. I think every other bottom feeder you'd be like, well, if you gave the Cardinals Mahomes, and you know they do have Marvin Harrison Junior in the ARTH, well, if you gave the Washington Commanders Mahomes say that so confidently when he has so many weapons. He has a lot of wide receivers. Of the Chiefs are ranked in the bottom third of the league. They are not known for their wide receivers. Yes he did. He never had elite wide receivers. He had Travis Kelcey. But as I mean, all I'm saying is that the fact that Mahomes isn't the go to answer is wild to meet Greg say what about Tyre? That was not this past year? Greg in New York with some buddy.

What's going on?

Guys?

Hey body?

He first off, love the show. I would have to agree with Danny g. It's like, if your quarterback is already a top five quarterback and Tyreek Hill is probably more valuable to you than Patrick Mahomes.

If you get what I'm saying, it's an argument.

I'm just thinking, Well, for Rich's argument, you can say, well, who's more valuable than the quarterback?

But that's not the question. There's Rich ruining the question again.

The question was the best player in the NFL, not the most valuable player in the NFL. Who is the best football player in the NFL. You don't think Patrick Mahomes the best fetball player. But you're posing two different questions and trying to angle your answers. Mymes, Mahomes may be the most valuable. You could say, brock Perty, if you really want to get into semantics, is the most valuable because based on value.

Can't you guys both agree that that those two questions, though get conflated like they in diagram that they bleed over and they're.

Like I would argue, they're not as different as you think because I think both the answers. I would say my answer to both of those questions is Matt Patrick Mahomes. I'm still waiting other than the Patriots, give me a team that wouldn't make the postseason if you inserted Mahomes on their team right now.

I wonder what the narrative would be rich if your Niners hadn't lost the Super Bowl. And I say that because they let that Super Bowl.

Yeah they did.

Because you guys, I mean all TV, just about all TV and radio shows. We're pretty hard on Patrick Mahomes out the gate last season.

He was struggling a little bit as well as the team.

Again, the reason we're even posing this question is because the players voted and the best player in the NFL according to the players, number one Tyreek Kill, followed by Lamar Jackson, McCaffrey, and then Mahomes.

I mean Rich is saying, and we all agree.

I mean, Mahomes, who cares, He's he's great, we all love him. But I'm trying to figure out where the thought process came from. How could the players say that is what Rich is saying when clearly Mahomes is number one?

Yeah, I know, you know what.

I'll uh, I'll die on this hill, even though because my heart.

Twice in the Super Bowl.

Athleticism, Like, yeah, we all know Mahomes has undeniable athleticism. But maybe they're just saying, yeah, but Lamar Jackson is even better. McCaffrey's even better.

Lamar Jackson hasn't wont a big playoff game in his life.

Talking about football, players didn't say who's the biggest winner in this They're saying all around, who do you think is the best football player?

A playoff game? But you keep changing the question, I'll change it. I'll change win the argument every time I answer the question. If you keep changing it, well.

Now receiver can't win a Super Bowl by himself.

Rich exactly well, we'll see tomorrow or even baby, see you in the Promised Life.

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