Covino & Rich - Home Field Disadvantage?

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Speaker 1: Hey oy. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, it's almost like if your buddies do the class project, you still get the A plus.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: No, that's true, and there's more to that than meets the I. It's a bit of a reminder when we talk show hey later on, it's like, yeah, remember that happened? And what is undeniably the greatest movie of all time? Because I have an answer and someone celebrates a birthday today, we'll get to that, but cove as you watch the baseball playoffs as we do it live from the Fox Sports Radio studio, and reminder, if you miss anything. Danny g means so much that he does extra effort to put together a hell of a best of every day. He could stream that wherever you get your pods. But last night you're watching some baseball.

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Speaker 1: Look at the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: And your pudgy little pal Kirk hitting bombs. This Blue Jays team looks like they're in fuego, and I'm like, wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: In Seattle, the road teams are now five.

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Speaker 2: And zero in the ALCS and NLCS, and you got to ask yourself, like what does that even mean? Like how is it you can't say that it's home team's pressing that much or could you No, I think that's exactly what it is really to that level, it's a home field disadvantage. That's the only thing I can come up with, because I would see it when the Yankees were in the postseason, Remember that, Yeah, I do. I felt like they were gripping the bat a little tighter. I know the fans are there cheering them on, but that just adds to the pressure. And I know they're professionals, but they're also really young men trying to do their best. And when you're trying too hard, sometimes that's when you're not playing at your best.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I hit up my buddy Elias from the Sports Beer, but I think he's on vacation in a sinote in Mexico somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what else could it be.

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Speaker 2: But I do wonder if in baseball history, how far have we gone into this level, this tier of the playoffs where the home team is winless. Meaning I can only imagine if the Brewers win at Dodger Stadium tonight, And I mean, I know there's two games today, but even then, if it was if six and oh seven and zer possibly today, if the road teams keep winning, there's got to be something about that that's never been done. Yeah, it seems like a switch went off all of a sudden. The Blue Jays bats are alive again. Vladi Gurero remembered how to hit, and Yeah, I really do think it's just a matter of that extra pressure on the biggest scale possible, on the highest level possible.

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Speaker 1: It's like that kid who.

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Speaker 2: Does really well and then when his parents show up at the little league game, that's when he strikes out because he knows they're watching.

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Speaker 1: And it's that little added pressure that you try to ignore but is always there.

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Speaker 2: Now, just to be real here and keep it real, I'm looking at it this year's baseball standings. I just think expectations are so high and fans nowadays, you know, especially in New York. I keep going back to my Yankees because I wish they were in the postseason. If you're not producing and if you're not winning, you're losing and you're getting booed. And I think these teams so desperately want to win for their cities, especially teams like the Brewers, teams like the Mariners, that the pressure starts to add up because it means so much to the fans they've never won before.

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Speaker 1: They're excited to be there.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're gripping that bat tight, and it's definitely subconsciously affecting them to a disadvantage. It's not home field advantage, it's home field disadvantage. At least it's been so far. All right, thirty teams in baseball now, we love to talk macros and micros.

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Speaker 1: Spout our video guys.

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Speaker 2: Spot loves to talk about his macros when he eats and the gym that'll put you to sleep.

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Speaker 1: I will, will you need your pro teams and your Cobra hundreds.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about the macro look at the season versus the micro look.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about five or seven game series.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to really say that that is played in the same way as you look at one hundred and sixty two game season. No, but would you believe different of thirty teams, three teams had a better road record. And it goes exactly with what you're saying. Let me explain, all the teams that perform better on the road have no fans. The A's, the Marlins, and the Washington Nationals. These are bottom feeders, meaning there's no pressure from the home crowd because they stink. So when you look at the A's who don't even have a home, really the Marlins, who you go to a Marlins game if they're playing the Mets or Phillies or a division rival, the Braves, that more than half that stadium is opposing fans, can I give you phinalogy? And the National stink this year as well. So I think over the long season, home field advantage is a thing. Probably also just you're sleeping in your own bed and your home and you're comfy and cozy. But the reality is it's funny that the these moments, the teams that did better on the road were all bad teams. I think it just reminds the players of how big this moment is. Everyone's on their feet, they have to come through. Everything matters. We're all under a microscope in this moment and in real life. I think, let's say relationships. You ever been in a relationship when things are easy, breezy, and you're just grooving. You know everything's going good and the relationship's easy, You're not trying hard to please anybody. You ever try to save a relationship, and then you start trying extra hard and everything goes wrong. It seems like the more you try and the more you push, the more you fall on your face. And that's what happens in the batter's box. That's what happens at these games. And that's the analogy of playing loose, right, Playing loose is how you win, and if you're able to slow down those clutch moments, that's when you're able to step up. It's the theory that Jazz Chishom tries to explain. It didn't work for him obviously in the postseason, but well, just as the secret to his success this year was playing seventy percent. Because when you're trying to play one hundred percent and you're really trying to give it your all, you're really tripping over your own feet because you're trying too hard. So if you're playing loose and you're playing at seventy percent and you're not feeling that pressure and you got no worries, that's when you really are at your best. I like to use the term loosey goosey, loosey goosey no, but you ever been there in a relationship rich where the harder you try, let's say you're trying to win a girl's heart back, and everything you do, the universe feels like it's working against you. It's because you're trying too hard. It's unnatural at that point.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, the road team won eleven times. That was the Texas Rangers, setting a record. And then in twenty nineteen the World Series, there the road team won every game.

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Speaker 1: Remember I do remember that.

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Speaker 2: I remember that clearly, being like, wow, it is no one could get the job done at home.

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Speaker 1: So I think in the micro we talk about.

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Speaker 2: This postseason not your favorite dirty jobs guy, not Micro in the micro.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Micro though he's a good dude.

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Speaker 2: I think we talked about sabermetrics and analytics that all goes away in a short series. You can rely on that over one hundred and sixty two game schedule to work, but in a small sample you got to go with your gut, and I think over the long haul, sleeping in your own bed, being around your family, playing in front of the home crowd will obviously be an advantage. But I think in a series where high stakes and high pressure, maybe it's not as shocking that these teams are falling flat at home. Let me ask you a question of course, is a typical covinoon rich rich question. When you were a single man, did you perform better at home or on the road?

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Speaker 1: If you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: If the girl said come back to my place, or you said no, no, come over my place?

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Speaker 1: Where do you feel like you had your.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about cooking right your kitchen?

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Speaker 1: Oh yea yeah?

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Speaker 2: Where are you cooking in their kitchen? Because I could always leave when I wanted to stop it? Where do you think you've had yours for her? Where do you think you've had your quote best performances at Homer on the road, Like if you had a fun random fling with a girl if you say, hey, come over my place, would they be more pressure?

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Speaker 1: She's coming over my place? I gotta be.

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Speaker 2: I think it was more fun on the road unless they had cats or something, all right, then they'd be all on the way.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here? How many cats do you have? This is weird? More than three? She's crazy? They ever go to a place and there's like it's like a big mess too, Like what kind of person? Are you not sick?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I was on the road performer myself, rich, So I think that's really what it is.

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Speaker 1: Except here's here's what's hard to believe. It's hard to believe for us because you're like.

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Speaker 2: They're professionals, so you assume that they're oblivious to this, and baseball is also different. So much pressure, but especially for the teams that never won. I really feel like the Dodgers do have less pressure.

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Speaker 1: They won.

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Speaker 2: They're the Dodgers, they have superstars. They know that if one superstar doesn't step up, someone in that lineup is going to step up.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, like Blue Jays and Mariners.

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Speaker 2: Fans blue Jays the Mariners like, there's gotta do it.

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Speaker 1: The fan bases are so thirsty and the players know it. Yes, you know.

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Speaker 2: I think Dan Byer's Seahawks when I think of the last time maybe a home field advantage meant that much, because home field advantage drewers Mariners. Listen, over our lifetime football, baseball, basketball, there have been significant like yo, home home field for that team means a lot. The last one that to me was almost impossible was a time in the twenty tens when if you went to Seattle twelfth man legion of boom was that Dan bar Would you agree the last time a home field meant that much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, darn near close, because I can't think of another one that that comes to mind.

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Speaker 1: Lambo in the nineties, maybe late nineties, early two thousands.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Packer fans are great, and there's there's many, many of them, but an actual home field advantage of affecting the game, I don't think lambeau Field is it. But when you went to lumen Field, you went to the Kingdome, even that those were the those were the places heck in baseball going way back, So it wouldn't even be close to the to the Seahawks. How loud was it to play at the Homer Dome with the Twins and those those Homer hankies and an indoor sort of facility.

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Speaker 2: You could picture that, right, You could picture all the head of the wave in the towels.

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Speaker 4: And honestly, like as of late, just to go back to the Seahawks, their issue, who has been they haven't actually been good at home?

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Speaker 1: We've been. Yeah, So that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: It feels like there's not one now, Like for a minute you were like the Chiefs that arrowhead.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at the couple of years and they're splits.

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Speaker 2: It's not like it's not like anyone's undefeated at home, and like, yeah, good luck seeing them in January at home.

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Speaker 1: Like, and think how we set up these expectations.

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Speaker 2: Buffalow just lost at home in a primetime game, and you thought they had the the those white uniforms at home on a like in the new unis no less could so yeah, yeah, I added to it. But when you think about the expectations, not only from the fans, you know, those players have even greater expectations, Like they're supposed.

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Speaker 1: To win at home.

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Speaker 2: Instead of just playing the game and doing their best, we gotta win, They're expected to win it's.

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Speaker 1: A home game.

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Speaker 2: And I think all those things subconsciously mess with you and you get the opposite result.

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Speaker 4: Remember that playoff game, that wild card game with the Pirates and Reds, and the Pirates shook Johnny Quato so much dropped the.

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Speaker 1: Ball in his mitten, like like imploded on the mat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah that was in Pittsburgh. That was you know, a decade ago or so. That gains It's crazy you don't see it as much anything that was.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, they'd be great reference because that was the last time I remember seeing someone visibly shuck. And if you don't know why we're talking about this, you just joined us. The home teams are zero to five this postseason in the MLB.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if.

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Speaker 2: That's a first, but it sounds good to me. I don't remember that being the case. So again, younger people, crazy atmospheres, desperation to win, expectations to win greater than ever. I think you're seeing a lot of people pressing too hard, and that's why we're here. I'm trying to find the stat on a carino. Maybe Dan Bayer knows or Danny j It's all subconscious too, though, rich I found that. I found it. It's also on the smallest level of the lookman theory. We call this the Liukmont theory. And this goes back to grade school. Seriously, how many times when you were a kid, you're in your driveway and you're just hitting three point shots. You're hitting circus shots off the roof, on the pavement, into the bucket, you're in the zone, you're sitting all these ridiculous shots, and then you're like mo, Ma, watch, watch, and you try to make that same shot again.

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Speaker 1: Brick brick air brick air ball.

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Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, wait wait, and then as soon as she walks away, it's back to the bottom of the net. And it's just the way life works sometimes. And these are younger men with with you know, much greater rewards at hand.

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Speaker 1: Here, it's just human nature.

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Speaker 3: Was it you Covino who said you don't like it when your family was in studio? Somebody had family serious exam, Dude, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't like it, right, but I do feel their nervous energy on me, Like my mom gets all nervous and I could feel her being nervous for me, and I don't want that. It's not that I don't want my mom there, so I know she's nervous for me for some weird reason. So it's like, you know, take your nervous energy.

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Speaker 1: Out of here.

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Speaker 2: And that's all part of it. Man, there's high stakes here. We analyze every little thing. Social media adds to this. You know, they didn't have to deal with that years ago, the social media pressure in the backlash. Don't think these players, especially the young players, don't see it, and their friends see it and they talk about it. They have to go home with it. It's a whole different level of pressure. It didn't really apply the same way years ago the way it does right now.

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Speaker 1: I was, Sam, what's up, buddy?

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Speaker 2: I actually have exclusive audio of Covino trying to get his mom's attention.

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Speaker 1: I made it. No, I'll do it again.

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Speaker 2: And then round was like and then you missed a shot every time, that's what's happening. You're trying to perform at your peak in front of these fans it and it backfires. Not that Lebron James needs me to hang from his wavos, but I'm going to for a second.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 2: What was so remarkable about Lebron and the Cavs beating the Warriors the year they went seventy three and nine best record in NBA regular season history was that I had to look it up.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: It took me more than ten seconds to find it. But that twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen Golden State Warriors team forty one home games.

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Speaker 1: What do you think their home record was?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Tell me thirty nine and two. Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: So the fact that in the playoffs and the NBA Finals, down like they were, for Lebron James to find ways to beat a team in the Bay Area when they were thirty nine and two the whole season, only two times had a forty one games did the Warriors come up short at home that year? And I think that also explains why some of these teams who have the best records throughout the year end up falling short because now they're expected to win and the pressure is greater as a result. So I'll be honest, I'll pull a Fonsie. I might have been rue Re wrong. I might have been wrong because remember I said both series are two to zero and they're going home. This is over, dude, right based on last night and tonight postseason, it doesn't matter as much, if anything, he could be working against them regular season. Yeah, And you know what, right now for the Brew crew and Denny, I'm not saying I hope this for.

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Speaker 1: You because you're a Dodgers guy.

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Speaker 2: But would it shock you if tonight, all of a sudden, Contreras and Yelich and all these guys, the ball start dropping, they get a little looser, and maybe they win tonight, maybe it's two to one.

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Speaker 1: They would that shock you?

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Speaker 4: No One?

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Speaker 2: Their team that won ninety six games this year's you know they're they're gonna something's gonna happen something, And maybe they're like, all right, now, we're just in southern California. We're away from all all the fun of Milwaukee. Oh, pressure's off. Yelich gets to go get a home cooked meal from his mom in southern California. Maybe this team brings it tonight. And I wouldn't be shocked if Blue Jay's tied up. And I wouldn't be shocked if the Brewers stole on from the Dodgers tonight, and that would be what.

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Speaker 1: Seven seven and zero from the road teams of that, that would be well.

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Speaker 3: And it seems so simple to say, but all these teams are there for a reason. So you think any of these teams are gonna wilt and just go away quickly, you're wrong.

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Speaker 2: No, they're all great teams. These are good for reasons. These aren't weakst teams that are like, I guess we're gonna fold. No ninety six win team's gonna fold. No Blue Jays team who beat out the Yankees for the Al East is gonna fold. And it's not just because it's zero to five. So far, you could visibly see that these teams were pressing at home and they seem looser on the road. Yeah, I mean Blue Jays for example, yesterday thirteen runs out of nowhere, they won thirteen to four over the Mariners. So if you have any thoughts on it, by all means, are we not making sense to you? Do you still believe in the home field advantage? We do, but in the postseason just doesn't seem to be there, not the way it was. Yeah, eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: We'll take your feedback next.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk more baseball later because I know you got a bunch pick with shohl Tani.

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Speaker 1: I mean you might.

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Speaker 2: It's it's less about show, hey, It's more about how we treat him, how people will treat him in the media, se An untouchable.

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk a little show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we'll talk NFL as we believe this get into week seven? How crazy is that? So a lot of NFL, some baseball, and we'll talk some movies. We'll throw it back all on this show.

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Speaker 1: Coveno on Rich, let's go.

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Speaker 2: It's really difficult to put your finger on why the home teams are owing five, but we did our best, and I think I think it makes sense to be honest, How else would you explain what you're seeing. I can visually see the extra pressure these home teams are putting on themselves. It's because the postseason is different than the regular season, higher stakes, more expectations. And we'll take your phone calls on that eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Again, Cavino and Rich the Fox Sports Radio Studio. It is ghost season, which means don't yawn in October, because when you on in October, yep, a ghost sticks is junk in your face.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what happens. That's why safe, That's why ti Oscar and his wife didn't want to stay at that hotel. That's right.

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Speaker 2: Thankfully there hasn't been any mooring baseball game. By the way, if your kids or wife collect those stupid boo buckets at McDonald's, they're doing him again.

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Speaker 1: Next job, this year, next week.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know that. I just Halloween's here, man, You know, October baseball, we're halfway. We're halfway there, man, pretty crazy. Two weeks from tomorrow Halloween, which means this weekend you got to start looking for costumes.

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Speaker 1: Probably.

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Speaker 2: In fact, we'll get you primed up and ready for that. On Over promised our Bonus Pod premieres today, episode one thirteen. In fact, we'll definitely talk Halloween and some popular costumes to look out for, and some sports related ones too, over promised on our YouTube page. Coveno and Rich FSR. We go live right after the show. That's four pm on the West, seven pm on the East. He got, I'm Steve Covino that as Rich, we got Danny g Sam Spot and Buyer hanging out with us.

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Speaker 1: And let's go to the phone calls real quick.

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Speaker 2: Let's say out to Tony, and then I have an NFL thought as we get to Dan Bayer, what's up, Tony Hey, Tony Hey.

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Speaker 5: Twenty nineteen, like we said, the Nationals won, the Rangers home team won off seven games, and then nineteen eighty seven was the first time that the home team won off seven games. That was in the Homer Dome. And I won't just say real quick, and Dan Byer can correct me on this, but I remember nineteen seventy eight n LCS between the Phillies and the Dodgers pitcher for the Dodgers. I think it was Charlie Huff literally was booed off the mound and could not continue. That's going back aways.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, Charlie Huff pitched one hundred years. I mean, Charlie Huff, whatdy retire?

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Speaker 1: Like last year? Guy Loot he was one hundred and twelve. I think when he was on the Rangers he was one hundred and fifteen. As he outlived sister Jean, didn't he Yeah, he's still alive. I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, you had to go way back to the eighties to give us that stat and that's pre social media obviously. I think that's also pre you know, we have this idea as fans too, that they're professionals, but they're young men, they're still human, and we know what they're getting paid, and we know how much they're getting paid in this ridiculous amounts, so we're quick to boo them and quick to expect greatness when that's not always going to be the case.

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Speaker 4: It's up dB. How would you guys take that? Would you guys take that as like Dan Byer knows his sports or Dan Buyer's old that he may remember what happened in nineteen seventy eight.

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Speaker 1: I took a little. To be honest, I was. I was at first. I was like, if it was.

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Speaker 2: Like Dan Bayer, I remember it was nineteen eighty something when you dip into the seventies.

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Speaker 1: He's now saying, oh, dB might be fifty.

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Speaker 4: For the record, I'm not the oldest person on this show. For the record, I'm not the oldest person on the show. Grizzled veteran Dan Byer might pay back me up on this. I'm I'm just saying I look at what he was saying, and I think it's the Alonso Morning meme of yah h or the late the girl, the girl at the counter, Like, oh, that's really funny. So that's that's how I took that.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 4: I was, by the way, I was one in nineteen seventy eight, so I don't remember that world series.

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Speaker 1: Well, but you're a big Charlie Huff fan. I was, Dan Byer. I was. I was referencing the Woodrow Wilson administration.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any let me talk about when President taff got stuck at a bathtub? By the way, speaking of Charlie huff we had Juliannehuff on our show once and just randomly we were like, yo, grown up Charlie Hoff any relations.

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Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, he's my uncle, He's my uncle something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Deredy uncle or he's related to Charlie and Derremy Derek and Julian Huff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We randomly threw that out there and I'm like, oh, crap, you really are related. Let's talk a little NFL. We'll go to dB for an update. Yesterday, when we filled in for Dan Patrick, we talked about how everyone from NFL on Fox to USA Today everyone has decided to put out their power rankings as to where we are, like a third of the way through the NFL season. USA Today has the Bucks and Colts number one and two. Pro Football Talk has the Bucks and Colts at one and two. NFL on Fox has the Bucks at number one, Colts are on their top five, and if you want to add to the list, TB twelve himself. Tom Brady decided to chime in. He has the Bucks and Colts at one and two. So I ask you all, hold on though, hold on.

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Speaker 1: You were right.

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Speaker 2: USA Today, Pro Football Talk all had Bucks and top Brady one and two, but NFL on Fox n them off. Yeah, they didn't even have Colts in the top five. Now they had the Bucks and Lions at one and two. Packers Lions, Rams are Brady's three four five and if you want to just play stat Boy, three four five for USA today was Seahawks, Steelers, Lions, Lions, Rams, Steelers for Pro Football Talk, Rams, Packers, Bills for NFL on Fox. But they had the Lions at number two, So Lions seem like someone we could all get behind, like Lions will be rich. It was all the hype that Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers got this past weekend against your team because everybody's injured. But I think what separated the Buccaneers is that Baker Mayfield still found a way to win with all the other players despite the injuries. My question, Covino, because all of a sudden, everyone's swinging from Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: My question for.

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Speaker 2: Not only Ukavina, but for everyone in the room and everyone listening. When you think of power rankings, do we interpret that as you genuinely feel like those are the best teams, like in this moment, like you think moving forward to the best teams.

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Speaker 3: Like that's in the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I feel like power rankings is such an interesting thing. Is Listen, When I was a kid, I don't know who the first to do it was, but I remember always looking up the power rankings to see where the Niners were. And I'm sure you felt the same about the Raiders and the Seahawks, like I would always look at the power rankings as a kid with such like it's a good place to be.

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Speaker 1: Like me, it's better to be there than not to have an up arrow or a.

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Speaker 2: Down arrow, like power rankings are the thing we put You know, I don't like weird stock into But do you genuinely feel like the Bucks and the cult of the two best teams in football.

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Speaker 1: In a way? Yes, honestly. Like it's a tricky question because I'm not saying I disagree with you.

00:26:11
Speaker 2: I'm sort of like, I mean, no way answer where the Steelers stand tonight.

00:26:16
Speaker 4: The Buccaneers have answered the bell in a couple of really tough situations, including in Seattle and getting that win against the Seahawks. It's one of the better wins. In fact, rich I would even argue that if the forty nine Ers wouldn't have lost to the Buccaneers this past weekend that there would be an argument for what your Niners have done so far, because when you would if you were to win in Tampa, if you were to win in Seattle and do what you did, that there'd be an argument there. But I just I don't believe in what the Eagles are right now. I think that the Bills have many flaws, and I don't think we can reward a team like the Chiefs, I big Denver to win the Super Bowl. Are at four and two, but could have lost to the Jets in London this past weekend, So Ravens are not Yeah, well, I've been having the good teams. I'm not to believe we were at a crown the Packers the Super Bowl champions after week two and now we're like, wow, you really couldn't put away a Joe Flacco led Bengals team this past week.

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Speaker 2: What's funny is Cavino and I we're joking about the Packers earlier, how like the weirdest record because they had the bye week and the tie week. So the Packers are three to one and one like it feels like it doesn't belong and the rest of the standings, like other teams four and two, five and one, one and five three.

00:27:27
Speaker 1: To one and one.

00:27:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the losses to the Browns, Yeah, yeah, funky.

00:27:31
Speaker 2: It's interesting because the two teams to wrap this up to two teams that arguably every outlet is saying are one and two are both underdogs this week in the NFL, Well, you two underdogs.

00:27:43
Speaker 3: Better figure out after Week seven wraps up next Monday, who are the top teams? Because you've said, and you extended last year on the radio show, said, by week seven, we'll tell you who's who in the NFL.

00:27:55
Speaker 2: Fie weeks, I would say, I have one more week, and you had this two very telling games based on what Dan Byer and I were just discussing.

00:28:03
Speaker 1: Listen to this.

00:28:04
Speaker 2: Get this as Tony no Breaks would say, this very telling game. Out here in Los Angeles, the Chargers hosting the Colts. Chargers are one and a half point favorites. If the Colts convincingly beat the Chargers out here in LA, that's to me, that's a stamp of they are real, like real legit contenders. Now if they come out here and stumble, I don't think it's the end of the world. It could be an l on the schedule that doesn't destroy the Cults. But if you come out here and beat the Chargers and moved to six and one, how could you deny the Cults?

00:28:38
Speaker 1: Right?

00:28:38
Speaker 3: They played well last time they were at so far against the ram yny them.

00:28:42
Speaker 2: And you can't deny the Buccaneers either, because how many people like the Colin Cowherds of the world too, who used to dump on Baker Mayfield had to look back and say, you know what, I was wrong about that because look how great they're playing now. I don't think people were quick to give the Buccaneers or Mayfield any credit. And he's undeniably leading that team, so you have to give him the credit. Well, then you should love the second part of what I just said, because Monday Night another double doozy for Monday Night football in a few days from now, the first game which starts right at the end of our show, four pm, West Coast, seven o'clock back East Bucks at Lions. If that is not the most telling game of the week, that's so good. Box at Lions and Lions are five and a half point favorites again an NFL on Fox. They're number one and two Box and Lions according to the Power rank.

00:29:33
Speaker 1: So Bucks and Lions.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: You're gonna see what if Baker goes up to Detroit and with again you know, some bang ups on that offense. What if they go beat the Lions? That would really make you think crap Buccaneers?

00:29:45
Speaker 1: It for real?

00:29:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, Rich loves to look at the schedule.

00:29:50
Speaker 1: Game you'll watch it. That's what I do best. All right, what's gonna Dann buy for an update?

00:29:55
Speaker 5: D me?

00:29:55
Speaker 1: What's going on? My friend?

00:29:56
Speaker 4: I would actually argue, because I love rankings in college football, that you should have them in the NFL. How great would it be to promote one versus two on Monday Night football?

00:30:07
Speaker 1: Right?

00:30:09
Speaker 4: Ultimately it's meaningless because we have a playoff at the end that's determined by record. But if we actually did incorporate power rankings, how great.

00:30:18
Speaker 1: Would it be to see those matches? Hey, we got a three versus five match up?

00:30:22
Speaker 2: You know, some teams would play with a chip on their shoulder if they like if you're the kNs City Chiefs and Andy Reid Mahomes, you know, to think we're not even ranked, We're not even top ten ranked.

00:30:31
Speaker 3: The problem DV is a network would have to sell twenty five versus twenty.

00:30:35
Speaker 4: Eight, like oh Man that only goes to certain parts of Charlotte and then other places. Yes, right, just four out of the five boroughs in New York City, All right? In Los Angeles, Brewers and Dodgers getting underway coverage actually already underway on TBS first pitch just after six o'clock Eastern time. It's Game three of the NLCS. Dodgers up to two to oh Blue Jays and Mayor Earners play Game four the Alcs. That's on Fox Sports One. Mariners currently lead the series two games to one. In the best of seven matchup, Max Scherzer goes up against Luis Castile. In other baseball news, Aaron Boone and The Yankee says that outfielder Aaron Judge will not need Surgeryana's injured elbow. However, garat Cole is not expected to be available for opening Day, and now they're is shortstop Anthony Volpe, who may miss the start of the twenty twenty six season following labram surgery on his left shoulder. Cowboys wide receiver Cede Lamb is going to play on Sunday against the Commanders, while tonight Week seven begins with the Steelers in Bengals. Cincinnati not expected to have Trey Hendrickson as the edge rusher is out because of a neck injury. No practice for Rams wide receiver Puca Nakua today. Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans getting back on the practice field, according to the Tampa Bay Times as he tries to return from a hamstring injury. Kyler Murray limited in practice for the Cardinals. And the big news in college football is Indiana and head coach Kurt Signetti have agreed on a new eight year contract extension.

00:32:00
Speaker 7: I couldn't be more proud to be a Hoosier and I plan on retiring as a Hoosier. And the way that this state has embraced us in our success in football, it has meant more to me than anything else.

00:32:15
Speaker 4: Average annual salary of eleven point six million dollars, Guys, only Kirby Smart at Georgia and Ohio State's Ryan Day make more on a yearly basis than Kurt Signetti will and his new deal with Indiana.

00:32:26
Speaker 2: Back to you, guys, being six and zero and playing the way you're playing doesn't hurt no, No, two nice things. Headed to the likely editor of the College Football player for the second straight year. It's pretty wild. DBI had something for what was it? Oh that sounds for you too. I wanted to thank you for that Yankee update, even though I didn't appreciate all the injuries.

00:32:46
Speaker 4: It was, oh good news. I was actually judge I didn't need surgery.

00:32:50
Speaker 1: Surgery.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: But you know what's funny is I saw Aaron Boone at a press conference all throughout the day and I didn't watch it, not once, because I assumed it was fake AI nonsense. And that's the world we're living in right now. Like I didn't realize there actually was real Yankee news until you told me, because I kept ignoring that because I'm like, it's just Aaron Boone AI nons science, and I skipped right past it. I know what I was gonna ask at dB, Max Schirzer. I know I'm gonna describe like a movie plot. But when you're a guy that's had a Hall of Fame career like Max, two colored eye shures are a bulldog on the mount, a guy that pitches with a passion that you could argue is unmatched. Right Like, when he's out there, he's a maniac. He's like the man hungarian.

00:33:31
Speaker 1: Is there a part of you.

00:33:32
Speaker 2: That thinks he's subconsciously thinking like, all right, I'm at the end now. This is even though I've had big games, tonight is one of the biggest games in my life, Like like the ULTI, I'm leaving it all out there tonight. Whatever I have left is on the field tonight. You're getting a start in the ALCS after a career like Max Scherzer has.

00:33:55
Speaker 1: You got to leave everything you have tonight on that mound. Absolutely, I'm sure you guys will agree with me.

00:34:00
Speaker 4: But it reminds me of nineteen seventy one Vita Blue.

00:34:05
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I remember Bob Gibson and the six went fine and we got more Cavino and Rich and we're gonna go old school next right here on C and R hangtight ooh yeah, Covino and Rich. And by the way, I want to give some props. I'm not one of those you Carrat top haters, not those kind of props. I want to give props to the Grande man, Curtis Granderson. I think he's doing a great job with the postseason coverage, great analyst. I'm just a fan of what he does for the game as an ambassador. I like Curtis Granderson. I think he's doing a great job. I think this I'm going to be said about liking Pedro Martinez and his no filter as well. Yeah, these guys are doing a really great job with all the coverage we downplay. We downplay sometimes because in basketball and football we know there's a lot of great athletes turned broadcasters, and we love to say, of course, like everyone from John Madden to you know, Aikman and Brady and Greg Olsen, a lot of great and of course NBA you got Shaq and Charles Barklay and Kenny.

00:35:18
Speaker 1: In baseball, these guys are bringing it. They're really good.

00:35:21
Speaker 2: Poppy with Jeter and a Rod and I really think that the Grande Man with you know, Pedro.

00:35:28
Speaker 1: The Grandie Man.

00:35:30
Speaker 2: Can you know, as broadcasters, believe it or not, we are professionals, right, I gotta tip my hat. I think they're doing a tremendous job. Great job, Grandy Man and all the baseball coverage we're seeing Covino and Rich live from the Fox Sports Radio studio. Is time for our tire rack play of the day. The Blue Jays found their bats in Seattle. Kirk blew the game wide open on one pitch.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: Kirk kitts in high and deep right field, racing back road plays hat the fence.

00:35:58
Speaker 1: Climbs the wall.

00:36:00
Speaker 2: It is gone.

00:36:03
Speaker 1: Make it a dozen for the Blue Jays. Well not three run homer from a Lajandro Kirk. Do you want your kids say? Suck? By the way.

00:36:12
Speaker 2: I bring that up because after that home run, my five year old son turns to me and goes, Dad, the Mariner suck tonight. I go it sounds abrasive from a little kid. I was like, yeah, yeah they do, buddy, what a curse they do?

00:36:24
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:36:24
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00:36:47
Speaker 1: There's a surgeon.

00:36:49
Speaker 5: Yea.

00:36:50
Speaker 6: What we gonna do is go back back into town, throwing it back for a Thursday. Old School went fifty hits. That's the after CNR give you the time capsule topic and we reminisce together.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what is that time capsule topic today? Well, today's October sixteenth, twenty twenty five, and you're on this day boy. Rich Davis is also a pop radio host on The Joy, so he's always given on this day information and little fun facts. I'll give you one that does nothing to do with this and birthday shout outs. Today was the day that Walt Disney and his brother Roy decided to open a little cartoon studio, and I think we know how that went. Well, if you're such a Disney fan, will you show the kids the legend of Sleepy Hollow headless Horseman Crane. Well, I told you, by the way, and that'll spoil it. But brom Bones did it. Brom Bones did it?

00:37:49
Speaker 1: You spoiled it.

00:37:50
Speaker 2: I'll watch that with the kids if you watch Little Giants and Mighty Ducks, because you've seen neither.

00:37:54
Speaker 1: Which is a crime.

00:37:55
Speaker 2: I do watch it by myself, Ed O'Neil frick Moran next time, my niece nephew O watcher Nice Sam alright, popcord with Sam. It's also National Boss's day. So what are you going now? It's trying to kiss your boss's Hey, thanks boss man. No one better than Scott and Don Scott and Dons. True, Yeah, Julie Talbot the greatest boss I've ever had. So anyway, guys, true story. Fox Sports Radio has been a blessing for Cavino and Rich. So we're very happy here and we do love our boss.

00:38:31
Speaker 1: Hey, kissing ass or not.

00:38:32
Speaker 2: We really do work for great people because I've worked for people that were not so great. I had a boss when I first started radio that he'd like, you want extra shifts.

00:38:39
Speaker 1: Right, I'm like, of course.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: I was a young, hungry kid, fill ins overnights, weekends whenever. You know what earned me those filling shifts? If I would cover for him when he cheated on his wife. No, I'm not joking, Like my wife Cole's with you at the bar.

00:38:53
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, both, Actually your shift came with an alibi, that's no for real.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: I think our experience here is very relatable because you work for a lot of places and they hire you, but then they hire you and try to change what you do. Right, So yeah, we like you now do it our way and you're like, well, I thought you hired me because you liked me. Now you're telling me to do something else. Here at Fox Sports Radio, they actually did hire us and let us do what we do and what they hired us for. That's really refreshing. But when you think of bosses, who do you think comes to mind? Like I think we have these TV bosses that come to mind, movie bosses that come to mind. The number one boss, Yeah, who comes up? A big boss man Lumberg? Yeah you know what he in fact is on the graphic for National Bosses Day.

00:39:41
Speaker 7: I did that.

00:39:44
Speaker 1: Creation.

00:39:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I made that.

00:39:45
Speaker 2: I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too. Wow, he needs those TPS reports. Yeah, National Bosses Day?

00:39:55
Speaker 1: Who do you think of? Let's hear some boss stories.

00:39:59
Speaker 2: Let's think of the best bosses in TV movies, cartoons, A few cartoon ones come to mind. But this is where we get you involved. Fox Sports Radio Nation eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 1: Let's go o