Covino & Rich - Blow Mets Up, Tyreek's Blown Knee

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Speaker 3: Yo, happy Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: And my guy, Damn Buyer, how are you d be doing great?

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Speaker 3: Rich? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about blowing up teams today when things don't go. Great, we're going to get to that. But before we do all that, I just this is on my mind because I just went by the way. I went to the liquor store, not because I'm boozing. It's the closest place that sells these little Starbucks drinks. And my wife on our credit card bill, she's like, why are you going to the liquor stor every three days? I'm like, no, babe, I'm not boozing.

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Speaker 3: I promise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice cover story, I know. So I got a little coffee drink.

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Speaker 5: By the way, is there variable pricing at that liquor store? Because you can buy one thing one day and it's three nineteen, and then somebody else is working and it's three ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: The little crappy Starbucks can that should not be anything more than a couple bucks four to fifty.

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Speaker 5: There'll be four to fifty. Then tomorrow somebody knew we'll be working there, it'll be five ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: Trust me, And then three the next day. Oh yeah, they got you by the you know what, they just had a look at you. I lived in Times Square. I know that sounds crazy, but for a year and a half of my life my wife and I lived in Times Square because I was doing radio and television in mid tall Manhattan, and it only made sense to live where I was working because I was going back and forth a lot to the studio. I'd go to the deli across the street and get like a bacon, egg and cheese on a bagel, and they made a different price every time. And I finally said to the guy I live across the street, I'm local, and he's like, oh, okay, And I had a better price from that point on because they say they you know, they see tourists all day and they're like, bacon, egg and cheese, twelve bucks. That'll be uh ninety four dollars exactly, and then you know they'd be like, eh, five bucks. I want the local discount. So here's where I have a dumb question, and then we'll get to all my deep thoughts today. Thanks for hanging Cavino's swimming in a sonote somewhere and based on our Mets Yankees bet half his vacation was on me. So enjoy Cavino, Go get a massage. I go to get my little can of coffee, and I see they have scratchers now I'm not a scratch off lottery guy. My grandfather was, I think every World War two. The old guy from the old the timey times was I've never bought a scratcher maybe in twenty years. But they had a ten dollars ticket and it was said million dollars and they were forty nine ers. It was like a big forty nine ers logo. And I said, you know what, let me get one of those, boy, And the guy goes, ooh for the lottery it's cash only. Now, I'm honestly it's on my mind that that one ticket that I couldn't buy, that I was going to buy is a big winner.

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Speaker 3: It's your destiny, my destiny.

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Speaker 1: I almost want to be like, please, can you put that one? I almost want to call him during the break.

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Speaker 5: And they put it aside, go to the ATM, pay the five dollars ATM fee just to get the cash out to buy that just scratch off a millionaire.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know what they could be? You never know, You never know. All right, well, hey, welcome to Coveno and Rich. Those are the dumb things I think of, and there's plenty more today. We're gonna have a lot of fun. But as we watched Wildcard Baseball, congrats to the Tigers. Schooble did what Schoobl's supposed to do. Right, You're you're cy young, your ace. Look at that. And the ninth they caught the Guardians in a little pickle between vision and home. It was, you know, it's playoff baseball. Two to one, Schooball going seven and two thirds, which is again what an ace should do. So congrats the detroit they're up one to oh maybe they get back on track in the postseason. Now I saw that the Cubbies beating the Padres two to one, and you'll have Wildcard Baseball all day. Sort of bumm because part of me assume that this week, Danny, you and I we'd be battling Mets Dodgers. But that didn't happen because the Mets had every opportunity on planet Earth to back into the playoffs. The Reds were not some powerhouse team. When your team fails and you know, neglects to make the postseason, if some other team went eighteen and two over their final twenty and it's like, what are you gonna do? They were just that good. They were inspired, like like the Cleveland Guardians. They just got so good at the end of the year. Can't You can't help yourself but say, and they deserved it. The Reds did nothing to deserve this. It's almost like the consolation prize for the Mets sucking so bad over their last eighty games. The Reds were forty and forty. They're a five hundred team. In fact, Danny g you sent me a meme yesterday that aggravated me even more. Do you want to read some of these fun facts about this Cincinnati Reds team that if your Dodgers don't sweep immediately, you should be embarrassed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me pull that up here.

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Speaker 1: I think it was like, not one pitcher with fifteen or more wins, Not one batter batted two seventy or higher.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no qualifying batter hit two seventy or above. No batter hit twenty five homers. No pitcher won fifteen games. No pitcher on the Reds notch two hundred strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: So it's even more embarrassing when you look at what Steve Cohen tried to put together with David Stearns in New York and then Mets fell short. I will not make this all about my Mets, I promise you. But it's just the latest example of a team that spends a lot of money and it doesn't work out the way the fan base and ownership wanted. Here's the question. At the trade deadline, we remember what was the big thing up. Mets and Padres won the trade deadline. Mets got Hellsley, they got some relievers, they got Mullins in center field, and at that time I was like Mets made some improvements. Those guys all ended up sucking. A major case of the sucking queens is that David Stearn's fault. He made the moves Mendoza. Do you blame the manager? Is that who falls on the sword. I have met fan friends that say things like, well know you got to do no, gotta blow the whole thing up. Everyone's gotta go. So I want to start there today and no way we will get to Tyreek Kale. I have thoughts on him, and I think you look pretty happy for god I got injured. I think he's happy that his days in Miami are done. He'll start next year and I guarantee it's not there. There's updates with him. Drew Rosenhaus has given some updates on Tyreek Hill. But when your team stink stanny if the Lakers, you know, are a low seed in the playoffs, early exit, and of course a lot of people in LA will say things like you got a new coach, revamp, knew everything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this has happened in recent years.

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Speaker 1: Actually, do you subscribe to this or do you say no, no, no, you don't need to rebuild or blow the whole thing up, You just need to revamp.

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Speaker 3: Depends on the leadership of the team.

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Speaker 4: If it seems like it's rotten to the core, then that's when, you know, fans with higher IQs would be like, well, something's got to change from the top down. But if you have all the right pieces in place and there was just a lot of underperformance going on, then it's a different story.

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Speaker 1: I mean, call me naive. I really feel like sometimes you just have bad luck. I know, you say bad luck for three four months since June when the Mets stunk like third worst team in baseball. That's a long period of stank stink. That's like the Great Stink of eighteen fifty eight, which we've talked about before. But does there come a point where you say, hey, man, the talents there, run it back. It's just everything went wrong. They had no comeback victories. Only team in baseball this year to not have a ninth inning comeback. That's insane. What are you gonna do? You just signed Wan Soto. Lindor is clearly the fan favorite. Everyone's gonna want you to resign Pete Alonzo and give him the money that he clearly has now earned. Nimo's signed for like a decade. What do you do? Do you not run it back with a core of a team. Do you really start saying, well, they didn't make the postseason, they only won eighty three games, let's blow it all up.

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Speaker 5: It's it's seriously is situation by situation? Because of what you just laid out, you would think, I think that the change that you could make would be at the managerial spot.

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Speaker 1: And then so what they did. They immediately said, oh, Carlos Mendoza will be back. So what would have been the sacrificial lamb so to speak for the fan base? Right, like, well, all right, they're doing something. You think of all these bone heads and queens that I root with, right, yeah, Mendoza's gone and Sterns gets a little slap on the wrist, like, yeah, you're warning, warning Sterns. We know you rebuilt Milwaukee, but hey, hey, none of that happened. So you're especially with Roco Belldell Madelli, Bochie Ron Washington, aren't a lot of you know, there's manager options. Plus guys were not even thinking about to immediately say Mendoza's coming back.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting you mentioned the Brewers, and as a Brewers fan, not nearly as much of a Mets fan as you are. But I go back to two thousand and eight when this team was trying to end their playoff drought from nineteen eighty two and then everything going for them and all of a sudden they hit this slide. And Ned Yost had a lot more equity within that organization than Carlos Mendoza does with the Mets. But the Brewers are trying to end a twenty six year postseason drought.

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Speaker 1: You're thinking about your baseball go but robbin Yelt's name any long, Yes, at that time.

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Speaker 5: You know, and you're thinking at that point, like, we can't miss this opportunity. The change that we need to make because we're sliding. Is they were competing with the Mets that year for the wild card. When you're looking at that physition, they made the decision to fire Yost because if they didn't make the playoffs, he wasn't going to be back the next year and you needed to salvage something. So Dale Swam ended up taking over and they saved the season. They ended up making the postseason and ending the drought, and everyone was happy. The outcome was though, if you don't make the playoffs, Yost has gone anyway, so let's do it now. I'm surprised it didn't happen with the Mets because of the slide that they were at, and then it didn't happen, then like to make the move. Move to say we need to make a change is probably the reason why they are keeping him for next year, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: I assume he's very popular with the players, but then again, but then again, like maybe that's not necessarily always the best thing, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I get like the like the Marlins lined up the weekend to beat you guys. Oh yeah, like you know, like they set up their pitching staff the way it is. But there is something that I think is so poetic and not in a good way for you for the Mets to not score any runs on the final day of the season, and so at that point something has to be done. And so that's why I'm not saying you can't blow it up with everything that you've got committed, but you had to at least make a change to signify this is why it happened. This is what we've identified. And maybe that perception may not be reality, but it feels like you're at least addressing the problem at a low a low cost of firing a manager, which happens a lot in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a low cost, you know move and a fan reactive move to get rid of a manager. It might not be you know, always right, Manards is not playing, the GM's not playing. When when like Danny g when Stearns goes out during the trade deadline and you know, acquires bullpen help and Mullins in center field at that time, you even agree that they were like man METSA made some good moves.

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Speaker 4: I saw headlines that said the Padres and the Mets were the trade deadline winners.

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Speaker 1: So if he made the moves that made sense on paper, could you then blame the GM or is that like, because now you're saying, like, well, the GM's not responsible, but we're bringing back the manager. He's not responsible. Who's responsible?

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Speaker 3: Then?

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Speaker 1: And again, don't make it about my Mets. If you don't want to, just think of your own team. If your team is not doing well, do you say who's the core players? These guys are under contract and it know what, it makes me think of annoying fan pet Peeves, which is where I sort of want to go with this because there's so many people that love to say, get rid of this guy, get rid of that guy, fire this guy, do this, And the answer is never simply that contracts, no trade causes, all these things are there, and get rid of Nimmo. Yeah he's locked up until twenty thirty something. Are you gonna trump find a trade partner and then approve it through him? And then who who's playing outfield for you? What do you the guy that you thought was gonna be captain for the Mets? Lin d'Or fan favorite. Every kid's got a number twelve shirt, you're gonna say goodbye Francisco. Let me find another elite shortstop. The Mets have so much talent it's disgusting. Offensively how they couldn't get the job done. Is it safe to say sometimes you just quote run it back and hope you have better luck.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say this. I think this year what should have been the Mets last year and last year should have been the Mets this year. Yeah, So if you want to go, I'll go with ball don't lie theory. So the Mets shouldn't have made it to the NLCS last year. I mean, they probably shouldn't have beaten the Brewers in having the Roics that they did. That was also a year last year that I thought that the we thought as a collective group that give David Sterns a year they weren't going to be spending a lot of money, and it was going to be leading up to twenty twenty five. I would take as the ball don't lie theory that in that case, if that's what the Mets are going to do, I just don't think. The reason why I thought earlier you make the change at the managerial spot is because I don't know how much equity he built up last year. But if you want to look at it from a twenty thousand feet view, I think that that way of last year should have been this year, then this year should have been last year. It's probably the way you rationalize it if you're Steve Cohen.

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Speaker 1: I just can't wrap my head around it. As a fan. I feel like today when I watched Danny g and Bow and Bersch and everyone here with their Dodger shirts on, and I know Covino's probably sitting, like I said, in a lounge chair with his Yankees, you know, swimsuit on his pinstripe little five inch speedo.

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Speaker 5: But it hasn't everything like like I know, like the pet Alnzo situation hasn't worked out. But this is what happens. Like you got your GM that you've wanted for years and years and years, right, You've now signed Juan Soto in a.

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Speaker 1: This is supposed to be it, and then you know you didn't do.

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Speaker 3: Though it's just one year.

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Speaker 5: Like you have all these things that are thought to be long term decisions, and so I guess that would be the reason to not overreact or to tell your buddies to to not blow it up. These are guys that were brought in because over the long haul, you feel that you will have more success than you than you wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you you get sodo, Like you said, maybe just last year should have been this year. This year should have been last year. But if you guys have any other annoying fan, pet Peeves, I would love to hear him because one of my one of mine that always bothers me, Danny. I know. I see with Dave Roberts and your Dodgers, people have to be like fire and it's like, all right, fire blank and tell me who then.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And in a lot of cases nowadays with analytics in the front office, is holding so much power over a manager. Dave Roberts a lot of people think is just a pawn for Friedman, So really he has job security.

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Speaker 1: It's really interesting you would say that because I read an article today in the New York Post. Sorry to be so Mets heavy, but it had to do with well, maybe Mendoz is safe Danny and Dan Byer because he's well liked and he was really just putting the lineup out there that David Stearns in the front office was telling him to put out there. Sure, it's like you know, falling the sword for what our decisions?

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Speaker 5: Do you give him credit for last year? Do you give Mendoza credit for last year's run.

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Speaker 1: They did last year by saying when the Mets started out so bad and he was you know, he kept that cool demeanor. He got credit last year for that. I don't know. I just think it's very interesting to see New York fans react when they spend so much money. When you look at payrolls, the teams that spend money, they're all in there, except for the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Phillies, all the you know, they're all there.

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Speaker 5: Look, I look at the Seahawks, and the Pete Carroll era in Seattle is one that will be remembered fondly in later years and still to this day because of the Super Bowl and the success in the places that they reached that they never did.

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Speaker 3: But you can't tell me that the.

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Speaker 5: Past five to eight years of the Pete Carroll era in Seattle, while it was winning football most of the time, winning record, that it was inspiring football, things got old. Things got like stale in a way. And that's holding on to holding on to a coach that brought your team to the greatest of heights. There probably wasn't a reason to fire Pete Carroll when they did or to move on from Pete Carroll, but you understood the temperature of your organization at that time, and ownership did make the right move and it's now going to likely payoff as I think the Seahawks are a top ten team this season and Mike McDonald seems to have that defense right, you know, in a good place. But they didn't bottom out retch, they didn't go three to fourteen. Yeah, no, they just yeah, they were just there just was nothing there. So that's when you have to make the decision. So that's when you are ownership or that's where you are the front office. You really have to have a sense overall of is it blowing it up, is it not blowing it up, is it tearing it down?

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Speaker 3: Do you just need a new voice?

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Speaker 5: Because even just with with the Seahawks on paper, it wouldn't have looked like Pete Carroll was worthy of being dismissed. Yet everything that you saw for the past three seasons were probably reasons why he should have been dismissed.

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Speaker 1: Then you hear about people that well, they you know, they they couldn't read the room, and they got rid of clubhouse guys, guys that really bonded the team and you and you know, over a long season, you forget these clubhouse guys, these locker room guys in football, they may have more value than you think. I heard like JD. Martinez and oh my god, Iglesias was a big deal for the Mets and kept things light. So every team's got those guys. Maybe you don't value them enough, and I don't know. It just it's interesting to see your team on the outside looking in when there's just so much talent. It's frustrating all in all sports for that matter, it really is.

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Speaker 5: Nego Horner a sacrifice fly bottom of the eighth inning, comes now up three to one on the Padres, bottom of the eighth.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess you know, I saved myself money because I probably would have tried to go to one of these games. Now I'm doing the rationalization, save money playoff games.

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Speaker 3: Who wants to spend all enjoy it? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And Rich really quick to tie in a couple of teams who played last night. The Dolphins responded the way we thought they would. We saw them play hard against the Bills. We saw them play hard last night. And then I heard Ben Maller on our Network screaming about how the Bengals gave up on coach Zach Taylor. So there's obviously injury involved in that situation. But there's a couple of teams like the Titans, the Bengals, Panthers.

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Speaker 3: For me, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: From the quarterback himself that the Titans are s Yeah. Quarterback himself told me. I was like, what with NFL. You're talking about your Mets. With NFL such shorter season, obviously, Oh yeah, what do you do in that situation? Do you do you blow it up halfway through and try to salvage something with an assistant coach taking over, or do you wait until the offseason. I mean, if your team's ass, I mean, we're keeping a book right now, we ask yeah, I mean if your ass, I mean you saw your Raiders Antonio Pierce came in to try to save the day, but that doesn't work out long term. All the time, the NFL much shorter leash because you're talking about seventeen games, not one sixty two or eighty two.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's.

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Speaker 1: A different mindset, you know. I just want to make one more analogy and then we'll move on. I think, whether it's baseball football, basketball, hockey, every sport where you have a passionate fan base, especially where again one last Mets note, they broke their attendance record. The fans really thought you got Soto. They believed in what this team was building. So you break attendance records. There needs to be accountability. Danny g Danbar. You guys are dads. When your kid does something, especially as they get older, when they do something and misbehave, they have to be held accountable.

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Speaker 3: It's just yeah, fifteen minutes in the dog crate.

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Speaker 1: Yep, that's what Danny does. The little CoA put him in the dog crate. It's a large dog crate. Don't nobody like when my kids, you know, Coach Rich here, When my kids mope around, I say, hey, listen, buddy, you gotta put I always say energy and effort. That's what Coach Rich wants. Energy, effort and just play and have fun. Energy and effort. When that kid's moping around, I'm like, hey, man, Then you ask me, hey, coach, could I play shortstop or bet? First? No, you didn't put in the effort, effort and energy, buddy boy. So I think we want to see accountability and when your team poops to bed, and it's like, oh, don't worry, coaches will be back, and oh the core is still here. Fans don't like that. They want accountability. It's like it's like a husband that goes to Vegas for the weekend and you know, bang some girls spearm at Rhino and then his wife's like, oh, honey, you silly goose, like he should be held accountable. I'm not saying that's a true story. It happened to me. I'm just saying that's happened to someone. Sure, allays will be boys and boys. Yeah, very descriptive, you know. And then and then lost seven hundred dollars on roulette that night. What I'm kidding very specific titles. Well, hey, your thoughts on blowing up the team or running it back? But coming up next we'll take thoughts on that Tyreek kill. Last night we watched a little double doozy the second game more of a snoozy it was, I mean, and by the way, have you noticed every time I make a bet and don't put the bet in what are we like five for five into that? Ye?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Five? And oh you didn't put actual money on.

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Speaker 1: Under forty under forty nine and a half. We hit that with Jets Dolphins by a point and a half. Thanks, and I said Broncos minus one and a half. We should have just done a straight bet on that. But last night you saw some Monday night football. We'll break it down, break it, break it down all next right here, Coveno and Rich Dan Buyer's hanging Danny g I was saying the whole crew right now. If you're looking for a new way to hire and manage your workforce, Express Express Employment Pros make it easy forget about posting jobs, sifting through resumes, being ghosted, interviews with unqualified fools. Yeah, I said, fools, move up to the pros with Expresspros dot Com. Express is your full service workforce solution, connecting you at top talent fest every day. Express recruits and screens a variety of workers in your area, so when it comes time to hire, you have the talent you need ready to work. A contract workforce through Express could help you manage contingent labor costs and provide the people you need to meet current demands. And if you need full time employees, Express can recruit for you. Express Employment Pros helps tens of thousands of companies find workers, saving businesses time and increasing flexibility. Find the nearest location at expresspros dot com. They got over eight hundred and seventy locations, so the show to be one near you, back by a international headquarters. So listen. We know that hiring is a hassle, it's stressful. Partner with Express. Go to expresspros dot com to find the location near you. Ooh so hard? Alright, Hey doing it live Fox Sports Radio. Love keeping you guys company, Love hanging every day, the best two hours, the best two hours of the day. Covino and Rich live from the Fox Sports Radio studio. Dan Bayer hanging co hosting today. We got Danny g Iowa, Sam and spot On the videos always doing it live on the YouTube channel. And here's something I gotta tell you about the LGX boom Grab. It's the portable speaker that powers are hustle. You got hustle, you got flow from morning coffee runs to midnight rooftop hangs. Enjoy vibrant sound with up to twenty hours of playback, and now save twenty five percent at LG dot com. Life's good, Real good Code Fall twenty five. Bring the boom X boom and if you ever wanted to try an Olympic or Paralympic sport, pull the Iowa SAM fencing fast, safe and easy to start the beginner class of the year you USA Fencing dot org slash try fencing. That's USA Fencing dot org slash try fencing. All right, do we close the book on my mets for the year. We We're done.

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Speaker 4: Good until Covino returns tomorrow. You know he's gonna have it in for you.

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Speaker 1: Do I do like a jerk move and payment like singles? I do, I go get a Brinks truck of.

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Speaker 4: Quarters to Actually I went to the bank when I was on Ben Mallers Show back in like twenty sixteen. I went to the bank when I owed him a Laker Clipper bet and I took all the money in nickels. I got boxes of nickels and I piled up the boxes of nickels to pay.

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Speaker 3: Oh see he was not happy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, because now then he's gonna bit and complain that he has to then go to the bank, and you know what, I'll just be a man. Can I get a big check? Should I at least make it dramatic and try to find like one of those big checks, like I'm a Ed McMahon, But then again, someone told me Ed McMahon never actually had those big checks, one of those like.

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Speaker 3: Man, are you down for a discount?

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Speaker 4: Like we were talking with the listeners on your Carl's page about having you do something to where you could get like five hundred dollars off the amount ode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could be bought.

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Speaker 3: Do you know me?

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Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? What? Run around the street naked or something wild?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: My suggestion was here on Ventura Boulevard during an entire commercial break. You hold a big Yankees rules sign with bells and whistles and either that or a met stink sign.

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Speaker 1: Oh he just Cavino just went a vacation. He's paying for his daughter's sweet sixteen and his ac went out. Cavino, He's probably gonna try to swindle more money out anybuddy. Yes, all right, you know what, Let's go to our buddy Dan Byer for an update, and then we're going to talk to some tyree killed dB. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: My friend Danny Rich Sam Spot.

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Speaker 5: We got a final at Wrigley, but before it went final, this happened.

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Speaker 1: Kelly swings and it's a.

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Speaker 3: High five ball.

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Speaker 5: D put center field, going back sheets at the track.

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Speaker 3: They're the line.

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Speaker 1: Gomb Cops take the league.

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Speaker 5: Carson Kelly went back to back with Saya Suzuki. Cubs led to to one. They added insurance in the eighth on a Nico Horner sackfly. They just beat the Padres three to one to get Game one of their National League wild Card Series. It's a best of three. Copies win three to one.

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Speaker 1: Look at Danny g smiling. You hate the Padres?

00:28:20
Speaker 3: Huh? I didn't say anything.

00:28:21
Speaker 1: Are you smiling?

00:28:22
Speaker 3: Ear to ear?

00:28:23
Speaker 1: Come on, many Machato. You don't wan have to be happy anyway.

00:28:26
Speaker 5: It's interesting because the Brewers fared better against the Cubs this year than they did with the Padres. But you would think, do you want to face your rival? Do you want your rival to lose?

00:28:35
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:28:36
Speaker 3: Right now?

00:28:37
Speaker 5: Three to one, Cubs get that victory. A lower scoring affair earlier today in Cleveland between the Guardians and Tigers.

00:28:44
Speaker 1: Scobel drops his hands into his motion. The O two is swinging a mess. Who change up? Gets John Kinzen Noel to start the eighth. Fourteen strikeouts for Trek Scobel.

00:28:55
Speaker 5: And seven and two thirds on the Tigers Radio Network, a career high. It's out of frame tranchise high in the postseason with fourteen ks, Tigers beat the Guardians two to one. Cleveland had a runner on third with no one out in the ninth and the Tigers got out of it.

00:29:09
Speaker 2: Man.

00:29:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got Jose Ramirez in a rundown after a comebacker to the picture with one out and that kind of saved the day for the Guardians. Red Sox and Yankees coming up six Eastern, Reds Dodgers nine Eastern. Ron Washington, who had to take a leave of absence this year because of health issues for the Angels, will not return next to her as their skipper. Neither will interim manager Ray Montgomery. And here's an update on Brock Purty for you. The quarterback said today he would not be able to play if they played the Rams tonight because of his toe injury. Says he's got two more days, did not practice, but John lynchaid earlier today on cambr that party will likely be questionable for that game against la as will Juwan Jennings and Ricky pearsall and ah and Drew Rosenhouse says that his client, Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, had successful surgery to repair his injured knee and says the realistic goal is for Hill to be by the start of the season. Danny's Raiders are putting Colton Miller on irs the tackles suffered a high ankle sprain with a hairline fracture in his leg and that lost to the Bears this past weekend. And some sad news from your alma mater, Former Syracuse hoopstar Lawrence Moutin died at the age of fifty three.

00:30:15
Speaker 1: Rich back to you, yo, Dan Bayer, Did I hear you correctly? And please say no. Ricky Piercell and Juwan Jennings both questionable.

00:30:26
Speaker 5: Likely to be That was the message from John Lynch. No practice for them.

00:30:30
Speaker 1: Well, short week, maybe they just get a little rest.

00:30:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, yesterday was the estimated practice report. Today would have been the only real workout they would have done. But that was the message from San Francisco.

00:30:40
Speaker 1: Man that point spread jump from four and a half to Rams by six and a half in the last day. So sentiment is that short week Niners are banged up, Rams are home.

00:30:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the Nick Bosa injury. I think still just no matter what happens, everything is added on to that you're already playing with kind of a you know, a short deck in that scenario. So yeah, not adding up good on a short week for the forty nine ers.

00:31:05
Speaker 1: No, you know, I always wonder this, and I've said it before. It it's not so much a deep stoner thought, but like when when Brock Purdy has two days until a Thursday night football game and you know, Dan Byer and all the experts are saying, well, well, we'll see we got forty eight hours. How is he nursing that toe? I mean, is someone does he have an on site like messuse like rubbing his tootsies? Is he like heating it, cooling it, heating it, cooling it like is it? Or is he just chilling? I always wonder, like to what extent when some guys like ollh, this hamstrings a little? Is he have someone NonStop throughout the day just rubbing them down?

00:31:46
Speaker 5: I would think, so, right, I mean to that point, yes, so he had come over to his house.

00:31:51
Speaker 1: Remember when too used to go in like chambers and stuff like, Yes, this is the top level of all athletic performance. So I am my picture Brock Purdy from now until Thursday has someone caressing his toe?

00:32:06
Speaker 3: Sure you fantasize about it? Do you do you want him?

00:32:09
Speaker 1: Like?

00:32:10
Speaker 5: I mean, this is a this is a big picture sort of deal. I think with the forty nine ers, I don't know if it's a guarantee if they beat the Rams on Thursday night, if he plays.

00:32:20
Speaker 1: The argument could be, you know, mac Jones has looked pretty good. Yeah, I would not be. I don't think it's worth four and a half to six and a half. I don't think it's a two point point spread in Vegas move when you go from Perdy to mac Jones. I think mac Jones has performed admirably under Kyle Shanahan's system. I think the bigger question marks are, you know, if Pierce All and Jennings are banged up, that's not good because now who's the weapons you got. You're gonna be doing practice squad guys before you know it. Yeah, so I think mac Jones will be all right all right. Well, speaking of wide receivers, one of the most flashy, fun fastest, most respected wide receivers in all the National Football League looked really fired up yesterday before the game, Danny Is, we were ending our show and making way for the odd couple. I said, look at the screen, Tyreek Hill, he's his hands, he's fired up. He was really pumping up the Dolphins in that sweet looking uniform, and you're like, wow, Tyreek Hill started that game. He was being pretty productive, and then you saw his leg twisted around in one of those oh, I don't know if I want to see that again type of plays. So I have a thought about Tyreek Hill, and I have a thought about where we've come with sports and injuries that I haven't really heard many people talk about. Again, it might sound like a bit of a deep drunk or high thought, but you're gonna like it, and we're gonna get to it next right here, Covin on Rich, Fox Sports Radio, all right, day and night. Hey Covino on Rich doing it live, Fox Sports Radio Studio, and it's time for our Tirerak Tire Act play of the day. You gotta feel bad for the guy. Tyreek Hill's leg basically snapped in half and it looked as if he's trying to fire up the crowd. Afterwards, Ryk killed the injured dolphin following his reception they called for a cart.

00:34:27
Speaker 3: Joe, He's on the cart. Now all the guys, the Dolphin players coming over to the hand. The whole came over right out. That's not a good sign.

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00:35:58
Speaker 5: Now that it's not ambitious, it's such an agent doing his job for a guy that will be available for teams to sign. Yeah, So that's the that's the issue at hand is I wouldn't believe anything that Drew Rosenhaus is saying, but I am reporting it because that is what he said. I just think it's the surgery they had today successful from what we understand. But like as Ayuk situation was, Kyle Shanahan says, guess what there was more damage. Are we going to find out what exactly happened to Tyreek Hill's knee? Is it just an acl is it multiple ligaments in that knee? I think it behooves only Drew Rosenhaus and Tyreek Hill to say that he is going to be ready for the start of next season.

00:36:45
Speaker 1: Man, it did not look good. And I always wonder in those moments, and again, God forbid this ever happens to any of us playing Rex sports or anything you get. You know, every so often you play softball, basketball at the jim, you know you see guys r own age forty something all of a sudden. Ah, I've seen guys rounding second base and as they always say, it looks so is there a sniper in the tree, Like some guy just falls in between second and third base. As we all get older, not just pros, people have these injuries and they're brutal. You see people twisting these Is the adrenaline pumping so much that while it is pain, it's more just that adrenaline shock or do you think it's not to be morbid? Is it like a constant pain in that moment or is it more adrenaline in shock? You think when Tyreek Hill is like waving and pumping up the crowd.

00:37:33
Speaker 4: Shock, right, I mean like yeah, absolutely yeah, in adrenaline rushing through his body. I'm sure in his mind and he's got a big ego. We all know that, but he's thinking to himself, I got to come back from this. He's in your mind like everything's going in fast fast foot yeah, and you're thinking about what's to come. But at the same time, he's trying to let the fans know I'm all right, I'm gonna be back.

00:37:55
Speaker 3: I'm all right, and we're gonna be good in this game. Right here, I was telling Danny about this.

00:37:59
Speaker 2: We were talking about like it sort of seemed like one of those kind of unrealistically positive reactions like, Yeah, I'm gonna be back from this and no time, it's gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be good, Mike. I guess to be a really great athlete like that, you have to have that mentality.

00:38:11
Speaker 1: Yes, so, But Drew rosenhows, like Dan Bayer said, he has to be optimistic. Danny, Denise, say, you send me a little screenshot of what like some of the guaranteed money that's not guaranteed, or some of the money that you might have thought, oh, he's gonna get, but there's not a lot of guarantees for Tyreek Hill.

00:38:27
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:38:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll look up that contract info right now. But as Bayer was saying, he's going to be available and yeah, according to a spot track, it says his contract contains one point eight million of per game active roster bonuses in twenty twenty five, one point four million of which he'll now miss out on. None of the thirty six million owed to him in twenty twenty six is currently guaranteed.

00:38:51
Speaker 1: Damn. So that's that's you know, you tell, I mean, we forget perspective sometimes because these guys make so much money that injury, you know, could have cost Tyreek Hill thirty forty million dollars.

00:39:03
Speaker 5: There's also there's also the fact of there's sometimes our injury guarantees and contracts. However, with that being the final year next year of Tyreek Hill's contract, not likely to have injury guarantees. So remember when the Broncos benched Russell Wilson. Yes, there was also the point of they don't want to get him hurt so his salary the next year doesn't kick in and then you're on the hook for that. With Tyreek Hill, that doesn't apply in this situation.

00:39:31
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Drew Rosenhaus their goal now is to recover and put the perception out there that some new team's going to sign him to a new deal next year because he'll be ready to go for Week one. It's wild. So wishing Tyreek the best. And I want to bring up a thought that you might think, Rich, Is this like some did you have an edible last night? I did not, But this is a thought that I feel like I don't hear enough people talk about maybe to free your mind at night. Let me tell you, Danny G. Maybe it's because I'm not thinking like a sports stat nerd I'm thinking more like like a regular dumb guy. Thought in our lifetime, the amount of Tommy John surgeries, acls Achilles, these major major injuries we're seeing in sports, is there any part of you that thinks when these sports were developed, we have outgrown athletically the way these sports were designed to be played, Meaning people weren't throwing one hundred and three miles an hour, Tommy John surgery and all these things weren't to think because it was just a bunch of tough guys that had jobs in the offseason and through eighty five ninety miles an hour. It was like, of course, Nolan Ryan, but these guys weren't thrown like that when we were kids, there was one Lawrence Taylor. Every team has three guys with the size and speed and strength of Lawrence Taylor. Now, so we'll continue this deep thought and more next right here, Fox Sports Radio