Covino & RichCovino & Rich are live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas ahead of this weekend's big fight between David Benavidez and David Morrell! The guys discuss the Taylor Swift impact on the Kansas City Chiefs and ask what other celebrities, athletes, or shows changed the landscape for others in sports and beyond. Broadcaster Brian Custer joins C&R to preview the big fight. Plus, the guys reflect on Nolan Ryan's legacy on his birthday and discuss what other unbreakable records will persist forever in sports!
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I didn't see it in your carry on? Where'd you put it? Yeah again, I'm Steve Cavino.
That is Rich Davis back in La We Sam and Bersch and Buyer, what your updates? Danny g super producing, and Spotty's here on the videos. And we got Brian Custer stopping by later on. You never know who's gonna stop. Buy a radio row and Benavidez, the Mexican Monster, was on our show yesterday, so catch that on the podcast. All right, so a little boxing it a little bit, but lots of NFL today.
Yeah.
The story this morning was that obviously Travis kelce had to decline his invitation to the Grammys this weekend because he's preparing for something called the super Bowl. But the daughter of the Chief's owner, Gracie Hunt, said that thanks to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey's relationship, Chief fandom has spiked over forty percent.
And it gets you wondering what other.
Team shows, networks actors like, who is propelled to product a team a city?
And there are some good answers.
Well, Katelyncark did to the WNBA, you were saying the Sopranos, What that did to Sunday Night cable television.
There's great answers. Let's go to you guys.
You know, also thinking you mentioned Steph Curry and what he meant to the Golden State Warriors, right, but what about Steph Curry meant to under armour? What about what Michael Jordan meant to Nike show. These were companies that weren't doing that great until these guys put it on the map. So eight seven, seven ninety nine out Fox is our number? What comes to mind? That's funny you would say that, right, I want to go to the phones. But it'sunny you would say products because when you watched Air, if you haven't great.
Movie, it was really great.
Yeah, Ben Asflex and who else wasn't that Matt damontt Damon?
You watched that movie? And yes, I said, as Flex, you realize Nike was a.
Running shoe company that was like financially, you know, taking big chances, and that chance paid off.
I was just looking at the Pixar company.
Pixar was hemorrhaging money and was looking for buyers.
They were going to shut down.
Toy Story made over three hundred mills and since then, oh you picks are cleared up.
Yeah.
You often hear about movies that saved the company, that saved the production company, or artists that saved the record label that was going nowhere. So again we gave you our examples. The Taylor Swift effect is real, whether you like it or not. People did hit us up on social media at Covino and Rich, Well, what happens when he retires? Well, I think they still keep their alliance to the Chiefs because these are clearly casual fans that had no alliance or allegiance to a team. Maybe moving forward, it's like, yeah, guessing the Chiefs say for the rest of their life. When people ask who do you reform, like, yeah, I mean I kind of got into the Chiefs and that's the merch they're going to lean toward for the rest of their life and maybe even pass that down for their kids. So what she did for that franchise is amazing.
Oh we were talking about record companies. Yeah, if you saw Straight out of Compton, you know some of the story of Priority Records. Yeah, they were releasing lots of compilation albums. They even released the California Raisins, the cartoon character.
My wife loved those, she said, as a kid, remember those the Claymation Raisins.
And then they signed this little group called NWA.
Put him on the map. Dude saved it. The rest is history. So cool. Yeah, there's a lot of stories like that of record label. They were just.
Going nowhere, failing, ready to fold, and then someone busts out and they're the next big thing.
Who do we got on the phones? Danny g All right, let's start with Tony in Virginia.
Y know, what's up? Ton Cavino on Retron Vegas. Then head it's to New Orleans. What's up?
Listen? I wanted to go along the lines of the tailor, swift, external wind, fluent. Yeah, the Knicks were more bun franchise. Madison Square Garden was dead until Spike Lee started sitting on the sidelines and then we got to thirty for thirty with Reggie Miller and that got that whole thing revived.
So that is not a crazy answer at all.
Spike Lee, what he did courtside for the Knicks, he gave him a vibe in the nineties when you know you had ewing Stars, Anthony Mason, all those great characters. But to deny that Spike Lee created a vibe that it was must watch basketball court side, I like to think my ego tells me that Cavino and Rich created a vibe at Fox Sports Radio that the studio was dead. The only person that the studio is Big Mike, who runs the place.
Cool.
But at the same time, COVID sort of ended around that time, so it really had nothing to do with us, but I like to think it. No, I'm convinced that we brought the energy and fun back to Fox Sports Radio. Ego says, Yo, we brought this place back to life. But really people just went back to work.
I know, you guys just made me think of Barry Bonds, who built the stadium, the baseball stadium in San Francisco.
Yes, but what did it start off? As is pack Bell part?
Yeah, that wouldn't have been built had there been no Barry Bond.
You know, I saw a clipper Barry Bond speaking of which not to be a Andy d radio but during the strike season in baseball, he said he would have been fifty to fifty.
He's like, what eachy Road did is amazing.
He wasn't trying to take anything away, but he said, Yo, that was his best shot at fifty to fifty. And he's like, I would have done it. He's like a lot of guys would hit sixty home runs that you're.
Going I mean.
Mickey Mantles famously quoted for saying if he knew forty forty was the thing, he'd done it. Any every year, so fifty to fifty possibly back to your phone calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox again at Covino and Rich.
All right, let's say what's up to Dave in Vermont? Y'all? What up Dave?
Hey? Listen?
So, uh, what's up? Boys?
I was thinking Peyton Manning with the Colts because that before he was there, he took it. It was like a basketball town, you know, he boosted football turn into a football town.
You know how I know this is true because when we were kids, if you got a cult helmet out of the supermarket vending machine.
You ain't kidding there. You were mad.
And by the way, I grew up in New Jersey and Rich grew up in Long Island, and we have the same exact memory of trying to get those little helmets in that quarter machine at the supermarket. You got a Colts one, you might as well have stomped on it right then.
In the way out. Yeah, yeah, the weakest so Colts.
To say that Peyton Manning made the Cults relevant, made him cool, might be the understatement of the of the nineties in the two thousands of football.
Made him cool.
And that's how you know the h the power of somebody, the impact of an important player like a Peyton Manning.
All right, so again.
We're Cavino and Rich and I know you have Taylor Swift and Chiefs fatigue, but the facts are the facts, and they're going to be in the Super Bowl and probably more than ever going to watch because of it.
No doubt.
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Live from Pete Alonzo to the Mets. Are we doing request and dedications?
I mean, I hope he comes back right.
Covino and Rich live from the Benavidez Radio Row in Vegas, Thetiraq dot Com studio. I'm Steve Cavino, that is Rich Davis, super pumped about the fight. And then from Vegas we go right to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. So hope you packed enough chonies. Oh my goodness, we're gonna do a lot of damage. Put it this way, And to be honest, I don't know if I have enough chonies, But you never know who's gonna stop by a radio row. And it's a pleasure to welcome our next guest, our first guest here in Vegas. Right now, got to take you back to twenty thirteen, Cavino en Rich.
We started doing TV.
On SNY, New York, and there were two guys that walked around that place with super swaged sense of confidence. One of those guys Kevin burkhard right, always so cool, but he had that swag about him. And the other guy is to my left. Let's welcome Brian Custler. Yeah, Brock see man, it's so good to see you, man. And it really does say a lot to me. And I think a lot of people listening when they're the new guys and the veteran guys there, and he's cool to the new guys because he's so confident in himself and what he does. And you were that guy to us, for sure, we'll always appreciate that.
Listen. I thought you guys were hilarious. Number one.
Number two, it trips me out that when I'm driving around now and I'm listening to my serious ExM radio and i turned on the FS one and Fox Radio and all of a sudden, I'm here at Comfeto and Rich.
I'm like I knew them when I knew them. When can you believe that was twenty thirteen? That crazy crazy.
What's even more crazy is Kevin Burkhar when he was in studio because obviously he was the Mets reporter, and so when they had home games, he would come into the studio and he his desk was across.
From mind and we would sit there like, man, I gotta get out of here, and I gotta tell you.
We saw these dudes on their grind and we knew as guys, you know, coming up and working there for the first time again s NY New York. We saw guys like you were like, yeah, it's only a matter of time before they move on and blow up to something bigger.
That's why it was great for our careers. So I love it. I love it every time I see it.
Well, look back at those days, extremely fond of that time and of what we did as well. But he was hosting a show called wheel had a Wheelhouse Wheelhouse at the time, which was huge in New York, and we'd watch it every day, especially Rich as a Mets fan.
I thought it was the coolest place to work as a Mets fan.
And then Brian, I see you and I'm like, I feel like Brian knows a little of everything. Is boxing something you always gravitated towards or is it just a pocket that you're like, Yo, I'm really this is this is for me.
No, I'll give you a I'll give you a really, a really good story. You know, at the time when I was at S and Y, you know, they had a had a show on there called Broadway Boxing, and I was doing that, and you know, we would do local fights all around the city.
I never got paid to do them at all. It just did them. It just did them.
And you know, one day, just out of the blue, president of Showtime Sports called S and Why in se gotspick Brian Custer.
He said, look, I'm in town.
In New York and I'm watching this program, Broadway Boxing, and how would you like to be the voice in the face of Showtime Championship. Wow?
An, that's how that's I got the job of show that story because you always say, you never know.
Who's watching it, no matter what.
You're doing, you never know who's watching you and who's got your eye on you.
And you were doing great work back then.
So again, just from the outside looking in, you left sn Y you left us in the dust, and you know, we were doing our show S and Y to Showtime and you know, the boxing stuff, and then of course a senior on Sports Center and ESPN and and Prime.
So tell us, like, tell us about the journey.
The crazy thing. Another story about that when when he could call. Yeah, at the time, you remember Kurt Galdi Junior was the vice president.
Of S and Y.
Of course, Yeah, So I told him my contract was coming up at the end of the year. And this at this time, I want to say, it might have been August or September, and I went into Kurt's office and I said, you know what, this has been a great you know, nine ten years or whatever it was that I was there, and I just said, I think it's something time for me to change, and I think I'm just going to do boxing for time at this point. And I remember Kirk Gowley Junior looked at me and said, what are you doing? And he said, that's probably be the dumbest thing you've ever done in your career. And I'm telling you this because I love you, is what he said. He said, boxing is dead and your career will be dead if you do this.
Yeah, because you were covering all sports now just boxing, and so I left.
But I left and went to Showtime. And as soon as I went to Showtime Sports, everybody called me, and it was like from radio to Fox and at that time, Fox Sports called me.
Because that's how I got the job at Fox Sports.
I was calling you know, college basketball, college football games at Fox Sports. Serious XM Radio called me. I had to show on Serious XM Radio. Everything came because I made that move to pay. They saw me on the on the national platform.
And it was a risky move. You can bring up, you.
Know, is boxing your specialty because Jim Lampley has told us that they assigned him boxing when he first started as a way to be like, get him out of here, and that was not even something he was in hoping he failed to say they could.
Get rid of him.
So, you know, we've noticed over the last ten plus years of doing a lot of these boxing events, the boxing world is very welcoming, like if you want to be in it, they there's no egos. Honestly, in the press area, everyone you want to cover us, come on absolutely.
You know.
The good thing is that you open it up to a broader audience and you know, like people ask me all the time about the YouTubers and Jake Paul. Hey, look, I'm not one of those purists to say, oh boxing shit, only be that if we can.
Get more eyes to the sport, it's good for it. It's good for it. Any thoughts on the fight this weekend, I think it's gonna be really never take something.
And I'm not just shilling for Prime, but if you look at this fight car, especially the pay per view, those.
Are four really good fights.
I was gonna say never never do you see the billboards and the posters with four fights, all good fights, all.
Good fight I mean at the top, everybody's been wanting to see Benavidez and morel.
It's like, we're gonna have to get dinner early because we're not gonna want to miss these fights.
And figure roll that fight was so good. Everyone's crying for the pit bull. People love pit Bull.
Yeah, he's like and he's coming off a loss, so he want him to see you know where he is now in that division. You know, I want to ask you about this because we had Benavidez on the show yesterday and he looks so focused and so and love the Mexican monster. Have everything about this kid, right, but he seems to be in a different mindset now because he genuinely dislikes Morrell.
That's the storyline. Yes, because he talks so much smack. I've got his family and his father and everything else. Does that help or hurt a fighter?
It makes it more exciting for the fans, no question when he dislike each other. But does it take him too much out of his own What are your thoughts on I think that that's going to be really crucial for both of these guys because of the dislike is real, and you don't want to come out there firing away at the beginning.
That's when you make mistakes, right. It takes you opening up pot and make a mistake. So if you're morale, you got to keep your cool. If your Benavita is, you got to keep your cool to some point. Now, I understand you want to give a guy a beating, but you you start talking stuff once you hurt him, not when you come right out the gate, because then that's when you can make mistakes and you get clipped.
Hanging with Brian Custer here on Fox Sports Radio, Cavin on Rich Now, we were talking to Benavidez about it yesterday.
You calling the fights.
Yeah, these ring introductions and walkouts went from a couple of minutes. I think that's how we were at a Fury fight there it's like fifteen twenty minutes.
Are they a little overboard?
Or do you love the spectacle? But I think it's now it's almost like in the NBA. You know how in the NBA now it's like a walk It's like a fashion show when they walk through the hall, coming through the that's what it is for boxing.
They take the ring walk on.
So if you're like, let's say we have Tank, we have Tank in Barclay Center in a month, right, you know Tank is going to come with the hottest hip.
Hopper, you almost have to, man, so you're not bringing it, right, You're not bringing it. So now it is all about how can I Benefitez doesn't come out with Mariachis and you know he's bringing out artists. You have to yeah, gir else you're not big time. You're not big time, which is why when when Tyson fought Jake Paul and Tyson just walked out of him, was like just he just walked down.
When you do it We asked.
Him about that too. He's like, I don't know. I just walked down. He was Nobody even wanted to be with me. Nobody wanted to be with you.
It's so weird, man, What did you think of that fight?
By the way, you said you love the exhibitions, you love the Jake Paul stuff.
I thought I thought it was going to go the way it was.
Everyone was like, oh, but but you know, we're married to the thirty year old, twenty eight year old Mike Tyson. Yeah, the man's fifty eight years old and he needs, you know, medication level.
Brian, I was the fool.
I heard Portnoy on barstool saying, any dope that bet on Tyson.
I was one of those dumb because you know.
We were betting with our heart and we were thinking it was nineteen ninety again.
Absolutely, and you saw after that, say you see them legs? He had second ROUNDE he was done after the first round.
I was like, I should have just lit those couple hundred dolls on the fire.
Window. For sure.
This Cavino in Rich Radio Row Vegas here with Brian Custer's great to be here. You mentioned Gervante Davis. We asked Benavidez will fight besides you in can Canela. What fight do you want to see? He said, a rematch between him and Garcia with no weight clause. How do you think that goes? And what do you think of that division? There's so many.
Still. I was still Tank.
With question, with like a healthy Garcia without question, without quick because listen, you know with he gonna throw the left HOAt Devin Hany.
He's going to throw the left hay get hit with the left hook.
So he couldn't hit Tank really with that left hook, and his boxing skills are too superior for me.
Dude.
You imagine sitting next to Brian Custer at the barber shop and everyone's spitting their opinion and this guy meanwhile, this guy is calling the fight.
Did it recognize you all the time when you have the barbers?
You know when I'm around now, says the guy, what do you think?
You know? Here's a crazy thing. I trip out even more when I'm out, and people would be like yo, s and why that's crazy? That's even more crazy. But I'm proud of y'all man, due thank you continued success. We love root free Man. Brian Custer on Covino on Rich.
Then we got more next talk Little NFL, Little n b A, and of course more preview of this weekend Benavidez Moral and your thoughts at Cobno on Rich Here on Fox Sports Radio, uh more next live from Las Vegas.
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Stream your podcast right now again live from the MGM, and a quick thanks to New York, New York for hosting us too. We're staying at the New York, New York so if you see us, drinks on you. But it's always great to be out here in Vegas having a great eight time, excited for the fight tomorrow.
You proud of me for what? Not gambling yet? Yeah? You really haven't. Nope, not a dime.
And Rich's wife actually gave him the green light to go ahead and gamble little Benny's College fun.
You know when you turn to your significant other hoping they say one thing.
Yeah.
I turned to my wife and I said, you know, we got a really action packed great time coming up for Fox Sports, Me, Cavino, Danny g We're gonna be in Vegas, New Orleans, eating, drinking money in my I said to my wife and go, you know what I think when we're in Vegas, I'm gonna lay low.
Maybe I won't gamble and just I'll just chill. She's like, yeah, but you work so hard you deserve it. Have fun. I'm like, why would you say that you weren't kid. I was like I wanted.
I was waiting for my wife to be like probably a good idea, and she's like.
No, have fun.
So basically, if he wasn't on the casino floor gambling, he was probably in his room doing something weird. So it's not like he was upstairs being an angel, right, So I don't know if that's weird.
Yeah, he's either way, he's doing something devious, trust me.
The Velvet Wolf Fridge Davis by the way, Cavino, Spotty's here, Danny g thank you. You just transition my You blame yourself because you say things, and then when I go on a tangent.
Don't blame me, blame he said. Hotel rooms, dev and stuff.
I just read an article about what not to do if you're traveling in a hotel, and you're saying, in a hotel, what not to do, don't lay on the bedspread.
They don't wash them in most places.
Maybe here at the MGM in New York, New York, they do, but most places they don't wash the bedspots they're saying, you know those.
That's true, because they just change out the sheets.
You know, the glasses in the bathroom that you probably put your toothbrush in or something.
They're saying, don't.
Count on them washing them, like, don't think like, oh clean glass like that might be there. And I always see on social media is supposed to tape over the the atlets because that's where the hidden cameras are.
That's true.
The other one I saw was do not just grab the remote control, wipe down the remote if you have any type of wipe what they said, the remote control might be the dirtiest thing in a hotel.
You know.
I saw a comedian our Most people stick him, you know, dude, Eric di Alessandro. He's like an East Coast Italian kid.
He goes, what is it with remote controls? We don't need them smaller?
He goes, Not like we're packing them up and taking them on the road with us. Why did they keep making them small? If anything, make them bigger because we always lose them. You don't need remote controls to be smaller and smaller and smaller. Are you packing them up for the plane ride? Absolutely not. The Roku remote now is honestly like three inches.
Yeah.
He's like, it's not a cell phone. We don't need a smaller He goes, If anything, make it bigger because you always lose it. But anyway, thank you guys for being here on the show. We're in Vegas. Crazy thoughts, crazy things happen, crazy people's not buy. And I do want to say this a big thanks to Brian Custer for stopping by. He's the guy that calls the fights. He's the guy you've seen hosting Sports Center. You see him at every fight. If you don't know fam on social media. Guy knows what he's talking about. And he's a good dude. And we worked with him over ten years ago. And to see him do his thing on a big level and see has come up, it's been cool for us and it's cool to catch up with him. So big shout out and thanks again to Brian Custer. I was gonna ask him, we don't have time. Maybe we'll ask Jim Lampley on our bonus show. If Benavitez wins, and it looks like he is, but who knows anything could happen, is But I mean, this is a closer odds than most fights we've covered. And usually you're the guy that's like, bro, anyone's gonna puncher his chance. He's only a minus two hundred ish underdog, a favorite. I mean, so it's not like Benavidez is just gonna stroll through this fight. Well, the winner of this fight fights the winner of Beevil better beev later.
This, by the way, morals undefeated as well. Exactly, so who does he think wins that fight?
And I wanted to know which is the better fight, Canello Crawford or Canelo Benavidez because those are the two fights that people always talk about. And to me, when you see how big Benavidez is, I think Canello.
Crawford is the better fight.
I mean you constantly point out that, well, Canela seems unbeatable. Anytime he's gone up, is that's when he's lost, Yeah, because you lose your power. He's he's five foot seven, dude, you know these guys are big. Benavetez is six foot two and he walks around at two hundred pounds Canelo's not that big.
So anyway, thank you again to Brian Custer.
We'll talk to Jim Lampley about it here and if you have any thoughts. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, we got to talk about records being broken because today is a very special ace Friday, Friday before a fight weekend light seventy eight candles, seventy eight candles for who one of the greats of all time. In fact, when we talk about the goats, it's a name that we often don't bring up, but we probably should. You know why we don't bring him up.
I'll tell you why.
Because he never won a cy young That's like the random fun fact that didn't be the But you're right that you know early on is a met Yes, but as an angel, as an astro, as a ranger, never won a World Series. He won on that sixty nineteen. Yeah, I would say he was a young kid. Yeah, but that was like non factor. Nolan Ryan, Nolan Ryan turns seventy eight today and he probably still throws gas.
Same number of punches too. He hit Robin vent It's a candle for every punch to Ventura's head.
And if you've you know, seen that documentary Facing Nolan, which was fantastic. I urge you to check that out. Honestly, it's a great watch. If you're a sports fan, you'll enjoy it. I think you don't even need to be because he talks about how his wife really kept him in baseball. He was gonna quit after the Mets when he was contemplating what's my next move.
He's a farmer type of guy. He's like, his passion is ranching, ranching. Yeah, he's all.
When they said, Nolan, Ryan, you're in New York and now we're sending you to southern California to play for the Angel he was like, Yanna, I think I'm done. And his wife's like, Nolan, Baseball, it's your passion.
It was the story behind every great man is a great woman. It really was. That was the story.
If you watch his documentary, you realize this guy was unbelievable.
And not only was he just throwing gas.
You know, the rumor is that at one point, if the radar guns were the way they are today, it would have been.
Like one hundred and eight like his strikeout record.
If you go to Fox Sports, Instagram and Twitter, in honor of Nolan Ryan. They put up unbreakable records, and they said Nolan Ryan's fifty seven fourteen five, seven hundred and fourteen strikeouts could arguably be the most unbreakable baseball record for so many reasons too. I mean the longevity the guy had. Do a little quick search of rule niny of years he played over twenty years.
Can I give you a.
Little quick quiz how the dude was playing pitching nine innings you know at a time. Give me the time and era of complete games. Give me number two. I don't want to play on the spot, but number two, number two all time strikeouts, number two, lefty, Yeah you're asking me, yuh, number two all time behind number Okay, Randy Johnson correct on Wendel and he has forty eight hundred, almost a thousand less strikeouts. So when you took sorry for the pause there, I wasn't sure what rich was asking me. But yeah, that's that's insane. Randy Johnson, who we all saw the big unit so dominant in his era, is still so far behind Nolan.
Rudy said, was my question tough? I said, who's number two? Did you think? I said? Who does number two work for the number two works. I just was looking at Richly, what's he one?
From me?
Who's number two? I thought you were asking me to ask you something. But anyway, Randy Johnson comes to mind immediately when you.
Think of the rocket. Roger Clemons is number three with forty six hundred.
Start talking about some of the best ever have like a thousand less strikeouts, so you could argue that his strikeout record.
Well, hold on, put this in perspective.
The milestone for strikeouts it's probably different now. I wouldn't even know what it is now. It's probably two thousand. But the milestone or landmark for the Hall of Fame is three thousand strikeouts. Three thousand strikeouts or more. That's the goal.
I don't even think CC Sabathia had that.
You, No, he did. He didn't have three hundred wins. Okay, it's three hundred wins three thousand strikeouts. Nolan Ryan had five thousand plus. That's insane. All right, let me get well, I'll just put this in perspective for you. Last year's schoobl led the league with two hundred and twenty eight strikeouts, so too, twenty eight solid year though to twenty eight? Yeah, times a twenty year career, he'd still still be twelve hundred shy of Nolan Ryan.
That's insane, that's how good he won.
So when you think of unbreakable records, light them up. Let's know, he was such a.
Sturdy dude, big old Texan high leg kick. Really used those legs, so a durable And again you only think of guys like like the rocket.
Honestly, when you think of guys like him made out of the same sort of a textan Also, yeah, you know what you think of when I picture like, uh, who's like a specimen of a picture, And it's usually guys that get hurt like a Noah sinder Guard, like a ripped big guy. Guys like Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens, they almost appear to me to have like more like old guy dadda strength, yet are sturdy, sturdy. I saw Roger Clemens recently still throwing gas like you're like you're dud. John Carlo Stanton is a specimen, but he's hurt. He's hurt all the time out it's so weird. So those are very special dudes.
Man.
So Nolan Ryan should be in the goat conversation. It's his seventy eighth birthday. Congrats to him, but his record really is unmatched. And you know, I'm gonna just get this out of the way, Rich, because it's I think, like the common answer when people have these questions.
So I'll kick it off and we open it up to you.
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Fox call and say what's up and let us know what you think will never be broken. But anytime this comes up, well there's two, there's two.
Yeah. The one I'm going with is the fifty six game. Oh that's dopey. I disagree.
You're gonna say, cal I think that, but I think that lightning could strike, and I think a guy could get hot. I think the social media and the world of pressure in twenty twenty five would get to a guy. But I don't think that's I don't think that's off the time.
I don't think anybody catches.
I mean the Cluho Pete Rose forty four was the closest after that. Yeah, Joe DiMaggio fifty fifty six games, and he could have could have gone longer. But that's just one of those things that it's just so hard to break. And you see how the pressure grows. You see when Judge was chasing sixty two, how the pressure just grew and grew and grew, so even.
More so.
Worse today than yesterdyear to break these records. So I already said it. I thought Rich was gonna say, cal Ripken. That's another one that's never gonna be broke because the cultures so different. Yeah, Now, if you see a guy play one season now, like you know, I've been talking way too much about Pete A.
Lonzo.
You know last year he played one hundred and sixty two games. That's imagine doing that for like twenty year.
Reason though, for him to be highly considered to be a met.
Yeah, let's take it to the NBA for a minute. Sure, Lebron passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar to become the NBA's all time scoring leader last season. That record had stood for forty years. And if Adam Silver does go ahead with his idea of maybe shortening the NBA games, nobody's gonna touch Lebron. And how many more seasons is the King gonna play?
I didn't think about the circumstances in which Lebron started playing as a teenager, right, and now gonna be playing post forty, So you gotta have that longevity and six skill level, Like, give me a break. Yeah, that's a good one, Danny g Because as a kid, you thought no one would catch Kareem. You know, this is an interesting let me throw one at you, and I'm curious what you guys think. But it took a special, special dude at a really early age to do that. We saw Kobe go for eighty one and it seemed miraculous.
The fact that Wilt has that.
One hundred point game, there's no circumstance in which I think a guy could.
Put one of those bedroom records. You think anyone will ever break those or not. I don't know that girl's trying to sleep with a thousand and twos in one day, right, I don't know. I would say his bedroom records are more impressive.
I mean that is true, but one hundred points in a game that would it would have to be like a triple quadruple over time, where it's like one fifty to one thirty and a guy goes off, but still.
One hundred points.
Who would be even capable that if Steph was just three three three, If there's a four point line, maybe in the future that's unattainable.
But let me go to the NFL.
I think that when we talk about records, there's a dude that doesn't get enough credit, even a little. To me, And I'm not being a homer as a forty nine Ers fan, what Jerry Rice meant to the wide receiver position go so onto the radar because he played with Montana and Young and he's sort of a humble guy, never a show boat. He played for your Raiders, Danny j Jerry Rice career yards twenty two thousand, eight hundred and ninety five. And it's how he did it, though, like such an enigma, like a gazelle, Like how did he do as they say he had? He had route running abilities and he had game speed.
It was the first step. His forty was never impressive.
His first step just put him ahead of everybody else. But he always looks so wide open, and that's what's so weird about it. In every NFL film, you.
Just see him run. Somebody runs. He would glide the way.
I always say that Carlos Beltron in his prime would glide through the outfield towards the ball. He would glide and everyone have to think of a mental image of Jerry Rice, right, I don't see anyone else in the image, Like trying to block his pass is just him.
You know how they always talk about in game speed and how you can't really.
You know, you just there's no way to measure that.
Some guys they run the forty, they're not that fast, but in a game it looks like like Marcus Allen used to look that way. Long strides looks like they're hardly trying and they're way ahead of the pack.
Not the name drop, but we've had Jerry Rice on the on the show a few times over the years, and he talked about how when he would catch the ball on a slant and he saw a lane, he had that thing like, I can't let anyone catch me. They may be faster than me, but you're right, there's an in game speed that you really can't you really can't account for. But speaking of Jerry Rice with that twenty two, eight hundred and ninety five yards, just to put in perspective, second place is Larry Fitzgerald, who had a long, ridiculously amazing career seventeen thousand. Then after that to Randy Moss, they have like fifteen thousand, which is again seven eight thousand less than Jerry Rice. And when you talk about guys that are still active, like is there any active player close? There's four guys that have twelve thousand, which is still ten thousand yards shive of Jerry Rice, Travis Kelce, DeVante Adams, Mike Evans, and DeAndre Hopkins. So you know, when it goes back to what we said and they have an extra they have more games to play. That's the other crazy part right now, you know, Dura, it goes back to durability once again. Though players today. I don't know if high ankle sprain became a thing or was always a thing, but doesn't it seem like more injuries than ever before, where yeah, it's never gonna happen. It's not gonna it's not gonna be beaten at this at this pace, you gotta throw Ricky Henderson in the late great Ricky Henderson.
People don't steal pass the way he steals bases.
They don't do that anymore, even with the bigger band, you know, with the pizza boxes. Ellie de la Cruz looks like a speedster that we haven't seen in a couple decades, and he had fourteen oh six. But yeah, career, no way. But Ellie de la Cruz, I'm looking for a guy. Could there be a guy that even cracks one hundred? Because Ricky would have seasons where he had over one hundred stolen bases. I just don't know if a guy can even crack a hunda.
Yeah, it doesn't seem like it. And back to the NFL really quick.
How about a record on the other side of things, a record you don't want to have three hundred and thirty six interceptions.
I'm talking about Brett Farv, Yes, sir, Yeah.
You know, it's almost like strikeouts in baseball. You have to be around long enough to be that man, and you have to be a gun slaying.
Are we going to ever see a quarterback throw that many interceptions?
You know, it's interesting though, because the games change, and the answer to your question is probably not right, because if you threw that many interceptions, most likely you'd be out of the league.
But he was Brett Farv. Games changed, techniques change.
I heard Kenny lofton recently speaking about how when he was playing, that's when the slide step came into effect. Oh, so the leg kick went away. The leg kick sort of went away. The slide pitch became a thing. He goes, I would have been stealing one hundred bases of a season if that wasn't a thing. You know, as as things changing, techniques change, we may see some changes in these records. Look, we almost saw Eric Dickerson's record broken this year. You know, the most stolen bases in the season ever, it's got to be Ricky two sixty something maybe not something, No, he had two something a season. They need two hundred hits maybe, but basw.
Would you that would be in every time he got a hit? He maybe those were my range, those were your video games.
I'm sorry, that was Cabino's Little league stats one. Ricky uh lou Brock had won eighteen, Vince Coleman in eighty five had won ten tim Rains, you know, and they all have the Ricky and Vince Coleman with the two guys that seemed to dominate that.
And yeah, I'm trying to say, I'm scrolling down the.
List show hey with fifty nine is uh is the closest recently. So so based on Nolan Ryan, the I'm saying forgotten go. We know how great he is, but he's never in that conversation. He's seventy today, he holds the record for strikeouts.
Over five thousand strikeouts. What's the record again? Five seven fourteen? Five thousand, seven fourteen.
Based on that, what other records do you think will last well at least our lifetime. We're never gonna see broken because the game changed, or it's just unreached.
By five thousand, seven point fifteen.
If you count the punch out of Robin Ventoire as a punch out, oh yeah, yeah, that's another KO.
Yeah, that's a KO.
