Covino & Rich - Boone's Lineup, Covino Back in Ours

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to the Codino and Rich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday from five to seven Eastern to the four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for Coveno Rich at foxsports Radio dot com, or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app. It's like searching FSR. All right. I first want to say thanks to everybody for holding it down the past few days, especially you, Rich Davis. Oh your no, and I'm back and I'm angry. I hate everybody cause the Yankees stink, That's why, and they got to redeem themselves today. I hate Aaron Boone, I hate Weaver, I hate Bregman's face. I hate you, but not you. Fox Sports Radio Nation, Cadino and Rich. I'm actually happy to be here broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studio. If you miss any of today's show, you want to catch the podcast, search Covino and Rich where you get your podcasts five stars because anything less is uncivilized. Let's be rocking out if it and you can see us do our thing at YouTube dot com, slash Covi and Rich FSR or live streaming right now lave streaming, Big Dreaming. I got my Yankees hat on right here, my Yankees Mexico Diablos hat because I just came back from Rivie Romaya from Mexico and his Hispanic Heritage Month, So happy Hispanic Heritage Month. Monsybon on yours, ball on yours, set the music, take you over about on.

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Speaker 2: Your Oh that was nice and in n.

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Speaker 1: You're hanging out with us and we reap all the benefits. Of course, we got super producer Danny Gadnesday Iowa Sam always bringing the fun and of course spots on the videos with Midweek Major Today the biggest stories in the world of sports and pop culture. We're gonna talk a little more Jackson, some NFL, maybe some Aaron Rodgers. We got Mike's Wednesday Words of Wisdom. But first and first mostly, I hope you had a Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, Dodgers sort of night last night. Well, I mean, how about a Guardian's type of day. That's old news, buddy boy. That series is tied up one one. Good for that, and the Padres they're about to tie this series up if all stays according to what's doing right now three nothing pods YEA. So I hope, I hope it goes further for them for the Yankees. For the fun of baseball, I think we're gonna say, I think we're gonna see three game threes. I think the Dodgers just out power. That would be dope the Reds. I think that's the only sweep you'll see. And it just proves that at least the Mets would have been a more formidable opponent, even though the Mets thing too. It's just like this is just a warm up for you guys, isn't it wild?

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Speaker 3: Though that so far in this current format, teams are eighteen of twenty if they win the first game.

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Speaker 4: Real.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think it's like or something ridiculous. Yeah, it's it's tough, but hey, it's October baseball. You know that eighteen out of twenty is ninety percent. Yeah, you said, I think it's like that. He said, that's exactly nine out of ten times eighteen out of twenty. There you haven't, thank you, John rich Davis. Well, I mean I do have my TI eighty two on a mental mathematicians. I do have my mister professor calculator.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I hope your team is winning. I hope you're enjoying the Ghost season postseason as it officially begins. It's the first of the month. The legend of the rent is way past due. It's time to buy some Halloween candy, and it's time to get ready for some pen season baseball. Don't yawn in October. Why you know what happens when you yawn in October? Right? No, tell us. Let's just say a ghost decides to anyway have its way with you, so hey enjoy October. No what happens during Hispanic Heritage month? Right, because it's another fifteen days every time you go on, bad Bunny has his way with you. I do love how by the way, you're still about Bad Bunny. I just want to make this point because I haven't been here the past few days. If you're not happy about Bad Bunny, that's okay. It doesn't make you racist. It could make you just a rock fan, that's all it could make you. I'm just a rock fan. Could make you just a fan of hip hop or pop or something else, but doesn't mean you.

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Speaker 5: But we've also seen some racist people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, oh, you could be racist, and I'm not hating. I'm just stating it doesn't mean you wear oak Lee's and Trucker hats and you're a Karen or a Darren. Yeah, it could just mean yeah, Metallica would have been cool. And I'm not the biggest fan. And that's okay because I understand what the NFL is doing. Again, though it is very extreme. We talked about it the other day, but it is extreme. Though. You're right that if you insinuate that you don't like the bad Bunny choice, there is almost like a weird like, what are you racist? That's not I just don't like you know what I mean, I'm not It's not my thing. I'm here to say that. Steve Cavino. I'm always stating this because I'm half Mexican, right, so that's hispanic. Last I heard, I'm not happy about the choice, but I'm not mad about it either. Is he worthy of it? Absolutely, we've been hearing about. Hey, newsflash, he performed with jaylo and Shakira. He's already done this super Bowl halftime, so he's been famous internationally known thro rock the microphone for years. And by the way, if you're mad about anything regarding a halftime show, get a life mad about it your measures. Imagine Matzi, Imagine like you have so little going on your personal life, professional life, marriage, dating, kids, work, that that you're imagine being genuinely like mad about it, like rock must.

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Speaker 4: Be nice, must be nice if that is what you're mad about.

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Speaker 2: Bum Those are good, easy problems to have.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not hating. I'm just stating that bad movie. It doesn't make you a racist. You could just simply be a rock fan like I am. And I'm not hating on on bad money. I hope he has a great performance, and I hope NFL reaches their their mission of gaining more international fans. That's clearly what's going on, and that's okay, and it was perfectly stated rich by you in my absence. But I did want to make it clear that not everybody's a racist because they're not pumped about it, like I said the other day. Like I said the other day, it's uh, I'm just really excited happy Gilmore's Caddy has come a long way. Yes, absolutely, I mean great for him. I know we're having fun talking about bet Buddy and other things, but can we talk about how your Yankees blew it yesterday? I listen. I know I owe you a ton of money because your Yankees. There was so much more dominant than the Mets this year. Put that aside. I'm not rooting against your Yanks, but last night Max Freed's rolling. He's rolling like Limp is getting nearly two thousands. I'm going to present a few things and then I'm going to hand it over to the number one Yankee fan. I know, but I have a few questions. I just want to get out. Why take out Max Freed? And when I hear you wait, I said, let me prose my questions, I'm gonna forget them all you like my kids, can I mister one at a time. I just want you to be able to because I think I can say this because Aaron Boone doesn't wear the nuts. That's why. Okay, and I like Aaron Boone. I'm not an Aaron Boone hater. There's a lot of people, a lot of Yankee fans that love to trash Aaron Boone. I like the guy. I'm not one of them, but he's not in charge analytics. That's why it's the postseason. So I'm not saying there's a time where you do push your guys, and it's the postseason, like the whole like let's hold back. Holding back, that's that's not what postseason baseball or any sport is about. Like, that's it's the postseason. Yeah, it's a three game series. No less, you gotta go all out, Yankees. I mean, he was at one hundred and two pitches, But since when is a hundred pitches like this? Like a guy will uh you know, like he's like it's a gremlin after midnight. Don't feed it after midnight. If Max Freed is cruising pitch, kun is relative? Right? Is it a laboring one hundred and two pitches or is he cruising one hundred and two pitches? To me, it felt like he was cruising one hundred and two pitch. Say you let him get to a point where he's in a jam. And by the way, it was only like a decade ago where one hundred pitches was what you let a guy hit when he was coming off of a rehab start or something. One hundred pitches went from that's the number you don't want to push to to your ace's playoff limit. Yeah, Alex Korra pushed it to the limit and it made all the difference. I don't how any chances when your dude is in a zone like that. Didn't look like he was laboring a little bit in the past few winnings. Yes, but I think you let him finish out that inning. Winners know how to finish. Yeah, Max Freed, I think his winner. So let me ask you this while he was asked at the end of the game, like did you still have gas in the tank? And he said yes, So that's all I need to know. What about you left him in? What about on the flippy dip of it? Yeah? I said, flippy dip. Well, that's the proper sports term, I think, Yeah, on the flippy dip of bit Crochet one hundred and seventeen pitches, and isn't the fun fact his one hundred and seventeenth pitch I called the Sergio flippy dip. It's isn't That was his fastest pitch. So Crochet was dealing and they left him in to get through seven and two thirds. So that right there is the differ. Sorry question number two for you, mister Yankees fans, Well let me answer number one. Yeah, analytics Aaron Boone just playing it safe thinking that Freed was laboring, but really Freed had gas in the tank. You let him get to a point where he needed some relief. I don't think he needed it at that point, So that's the answer number one. Question two was Aaron Judge, you know, the MVP runner up, in my opinion, was he not moving fast to that ball in a non hustle move or is he just not there? Is he just physically really not ready arm legs everything like he looked like he did. Ley dallied to that base hit and the Red Sox leg out a double when that was that was a single. That was a single the right field. It was a hustle play. It was a smart play knowing that Aaron Judge can't throw the way he used to because he's coming off an injury. He threw that ball back seventy three miles per hour. If he had thrown it eighty three miles like he did previously, just ten miles hour more, he would have been out a second. But again, it wasn't a matter of lollly gagon well. Remember, it was a matter of just not having that gun and the Red Sox seizing the moment and taking advantage. I get props to the Red Sox for playing to their advantages. Monsey Danny G. Did it feel like it was a little lollygagon not just to throw, like just getting to the ball like you know it did.

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Speaker 4: But I I understand what Covino is saying.

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Speaker 2: It's more like we know he can do.

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Speaker 4: It, so it's hard to believe that he was just lollygagging. I think it has more to do with he can't do it, and he made them right the smart play.

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Speaker 1: And what did your Dodger say in the postseason last year? We're going to expose the Yankees and their lack of fundamentals and hustle at times. Right, it was about putting the ball in playing and them beat themselves.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot about that.

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Speaker 1: Now the last question, now, this is the most important one. I listen to you talk about the Yankees every day than on the air. I mean, Cavino's the most die hard guy watches one hundred and sixty two games. He could be out to a nice dinner with his girlfriend and he's got his phone watching the Yankees. You know, in June game seventy something, it's my only joy. Rich Well, I hope your joy extends me on today. You talked last week, Danny G. Do you remember Cavino saying, bro, impact player, I'm gonna call it now, Yo Ben a Ros Ben A Ros, Ben Rice Atoos, and you're doing your little scoop and ball thing, Yo, not in the starting lineup and laffing because you were all about Yo Ben Aros, Ben Ros Rice, the Yankees and a guy that didn't even want to show his face to the reporters after the game because he was probably aggravated. You know, a thirty thirty guy. You leave a thirty thirty star star out of the lineup. Where was Jazz Chisholm Stars? Where was Ben Rice? I asked, because talking about getting weight too cute? Yeah, I wrote it down here Yankees getting cute. See. I know Amid Rosario because he was a met. I know he went out to play for the Guardians. Maybe even the National beat it with him. So Rosario. When I saw him in the box score, I was like, oh, am I looking at the right game. Oh, simple answer. He had thirty eight bats for the Yankees this year and you put him in Game one of the wild Card What are you doing? Aeron? Simple answer? Not the right answer. I don't agree with it, but I can answer the question. Now to back up Rich's point. The Yankees benched fifty seven home runs and one hundred and forty five RBI by leaving Chisholm and Rice out of the lineup. How do you do that in a three game series? The answer is simple, analytics. You're letting nerds ruin baseball. Danny, you got because the lefty Crochet is a dominant, dominant lefty pitcher, so they were going lefty righty matchup. So the Yankees were stacking their right handed bats and taking Jazz, Chisholm and Ben Rice out of the lineup as a result. So that's really it. That really answers the question, because even I'm scratching my noggin. Rosario barely started a game for the Yankees all season, but he's there because he's a right handed hitter in that moment, and he's not a bad defensive replacement. Sonny, you're lucky that the Dodgers are facing a righty tonight, because if you're facing a lefty, you might want to sit Otani right. Maybe fact, but how do you expect to win with two of your biggest bats out of the lineup.

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Speaker 3: It's a Travis No, You're right, former Yankee Clint Frasier tweeted this, leave it up to the dorks to f he put the whole work the game up. Just use your eyes and make a lineup with your gut. Ben Rice and Gastism are too good to sit out a must win playoff game.

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Speaker 1: And I couldn't agree more. And here's why analytics don't work well. Two reasons. It's an obvious one, but I'll give Big Mike the credit because he did point this out. Mike, who runs this place, He has wisdom. Man. We'll discuss that later.

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Speaker 2: Never heard of them.

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Speaker 1: When dealing with analytics. They don't work in a three game playoff because that's the average of one hundred and sixty two game season, right, He's not gonna work in that little series. You think Big Mike came up with this thought. No, I'm just given point number one. Point number two. Analytics don't cover in tangibles. Do they have it in the moment? Are they in a good zone? And that's why you put Weaver in there and he blows it. They just don't know that they's just not in the moment right now, and that do they have a hot bat? Are they coming out with their last couple appearances, they are struggling in these type of pressure moments. It doesn't cover the human element and that's what's ruining the game. And that's why Boone is making these decisions. And it's not just Boone, it's your stupid Mets, and it's your Dodgers too, Danny Gene. You know it, And that's your problem with Dave Roberts. Yeah, yeah, except you know the players step up now, am my man? Aaron Boone? Yes, do I hate the Yankees? Yes? Well I love them after today, I hope so. But the truth is it's both to blame. And when I say both to blame, I mean Aaron Boone in a stupid analytics I think he blew the game by taking Freed out and having that weak ass lineup in there and not making certain moves when I thought they should have been made. I thought you should pinch run Goldschmidt in the night, to be honest, when you had the Mingas still on the benchmid who has cinder blocks your feet exactly like, And I get that run really didn't matter, but put some pressure on that sweaty a hole Chapman who I can't stand and Bregman in his stupid face. I hate the Red Sox huh. So I think Boone blew it, but I also think that the bullpen and Big G blew it. Don't blow it, Boom, Yeah, don't blow it? Man, Who need to give you the boring answer like, hey man, you blame the players or you blame the manager. It's both. Boone made the moves and they didn't come through, So yeah, Weaver stunk it up. Gian Carlos Stanton was in a big moment and the biggest heartbreak of the night is you have the bases loaded with no outs and you can't push one run across as disgusting unless they change it up quick, They're going home tonight. So I wanted to vomit last night. That's really it. I get so upset about it. But it wasn't just about the Yankees. But everyone's talking about analytics today and it really is what's ruining in the game, and last night was a classic example of that. I mean, ruining the game is extreme, ruining these macros. It is it's the micro versus the macro. And when I say micro, and i't mean your favorite dirty jobs guy. I love Mike and I'm not talking about micro I'm not talking about micros in spots talking about his macros and micros and his diet. What about my my pet crow micro? I said this joke like a week.

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Speaker 5: Sam play on your shelf.

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Speaker 2: He don't.

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Speaker 1: I applaud the fact that he told that pantroke twice. He's like a stand up comic that he just said. He's like, oh, that didn't work at chuckles, let me try it at a laughers down the block.

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Speaker 5: So let me try it on a radio network.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we only have three hundred and fifty affiliates. So I look at it like analytics don't work in the play off. Oh yeah, over one hundred and sixty two games, analytics will work, right, But that's the big picture. That's the macro in the micro. When you're talking about a three game series, he knows, right, who's swinging a hot bat, who's called out of the bullpen, where's their head in these moments? You know, there's always a guy like Volpi for example. I guarantee you analytics would have said sit this guy out of the game. But he's great in the playoffs, and he came in big yesterday home run another single when it mattered, like who makes that call? By the way, And I asked that because even though my mets have nothing to do right now, because they're irrelevant, a lot of people are speculating Carlos Mendoza was not fired because he wasn't even the guy really making decisions. So how do you fire a guy that wasn't even making the lineup? Do you think that it's the Revenge of the Nerds? Do you think it's uh, Do you think it's your boy, Aaron Boone? Or do you think Cashman is making the phone call before the game and it's a team of goobers? You think Steinberner's and Cashman and everyone's calling and saying we talked to the nerds, Aaron, Yes, what did they say? What was the name of that band that they had? And Revenge of the Nerds with that corny synthesizer just song? Did they have electric violin? They didn't have a name though they didn't have a Yeah, they call him up and they're like, here's what we think you should do based on the statistics, and that's why you get the results that you got. If Aaron Boone would just take a stand, I don't believe he did in that moment. I believe that Freed had more in him. I think you let him finish out that inning. Then you start the next inning with Weaver. You might have a different story. But here's the thing. It's a bunch of woodves could have should work. But that's what sucks about I just think it's it's wild. But you don't sit Jazz and and and Rice. And that's why Jazz ignored the media yesterday and it was a bad look. And Boone responded to that. He said, yeah, I saw it. But all I need for him to do is kick some masks today. And yeah, this is what they do, hey nerds. Yes, this is it. This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you. This is what they're doing right now. Calculating.

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Speaker 6: Oh, it says here. Then he says, play Austin Wells against hey nerds.

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Speaker 1: But uh I met Rosarios only have thirty at bets for the Yankees.

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Speaker 6: Oh you gotta go righty lefty matchup, it says here in the analytics, Brazario is much better against the left handed pitcher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Rosario hasn't played at all this year. Ben here, Yes, that's why it sucks. That's why you're not using your gun and your instinct and that's ruining the game. And I hate to sound cliche because I know I'm not the first guy to say that, but yesterday was the prime example of what we're talking about. If you were sitting there wondering why that made no sense, that's why. Yeah, Hey, let me ask Monty and Danny g who I know we're watching their Dodgers last night, Dodgers who are just outclassing the Reds one hundred percent. But was there a party that's like, while we did score ten runs and this team is stacked and they're a while they're a world series favorite, I'm sure, is there a party that's like, well, that bullpen's not gonna fly against the Phillies or the Brewers or the Yankees or the Red Sox, Like yeah, I think you know, you don't even have to it's to me, but but I'd only imagine, like, who's the guy you bring it all the time? Hold on, don't tell me, I gotta, I gotta, you gotta call. It's a guy that I'm always like, why do they keep bringing this guy in? Because I don't watch the Dodgers the way you guys, do you.

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Speaker 3: Forgot about him when he had to turn around and go back to the bullpen?

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Speaker 1: Remember Ves, Yes, I knew it was going to Why do you guys love VESSI? Why is Dave?

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Speaker 3: Why do you guys keep going to VESSI? He's inconsistent. There's been times where he'll close games out or at least still set it up very nicely.

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Speaker 1: They make that phone call to those nerds again, and they go back to the control room and they're listening to that music, and I like it says here, vessis. I mean absolutely, his whip is under one and is the r A was three? But I just feel like VESSI, in key spots, there are guys like there are inning eaters, and there's guys that in key spots.

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Speaker 5: There have been bigger culprits in the Dodgers bullpen.

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Speaker 1: There was a point where it was going on. The game was never in danger, but there was a point where I'm like, well, the Reds were a grand Slam away from being you know.

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Speaker 2: The Tye run on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you know why I feeling that because Roberts was just wanting to eat those innings up. He didn't want to he didn't want to was either you saw right, and Dodger fans were like, just just put it in first, but they didn't want to do that. They wanted to try to eat up some of those innings, and it was the.

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Speaker 1: Right move because ultimately they won. Is moving forward, you're going to use your key guys, and actually some of your starters will move to the pen in those long relief situations. But when you're beating the lowly Reds, who I can't make fun of because they're better than my lowly or Mets, I think it's kind of nice to see the Reds in the playoffs. It is.

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Speaker 2: I'm not just happy to be there.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think it's Terry fran Cone is a g But the Red stink the Red.

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Speaker 2: They're not that they.

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Speaker 1: Deserve to be there.

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Speaker 4: If your Mets were a dumpster fire, I would say the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Actually, they deserve to be there.

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Speaker 2: They got they got there, and yeah, your Mets should have been there.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Mets should be there. They blew it, but I'm saying any team that's eighty three and seventy nine, four games over five hundred after one hundred and sixty two doesn't really deserve to move on in any level. This is bad, This is rash charity they are they are there because they had that record, like they did it sort of some sort of like sympathy given.

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Speaker 2: That was a Diamondbacks record was a year that they want.

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Speaker 1: You ever see the You ever see the movie? I believe it's grown Ups or Grown Ups two and there's like a water park scene. It's like two hotties and bikinis and like one nerd girl, and people use it as a meme. No, weren't they. I know you're talking about with the daughter. What is it the daughters like someone had someone in Grown Ups has like three daughters and two or smoke shows and ones like a nerd. Yeah, that to me, like that's's character Rob Schneider. He has two hot daughters and one like yeah, sweet Robbie Schneider. Well if that meme, which we've all seen, it's like Phillies Dodgers and then the nerdy like unworthy daughter is the red What about the two dragons that look all fierce and then there's like the weird looking one that's like got the weird You ever see the super face? They they have all these memes. You ever see the one that's like a fitness competition, it's like ripped oiled up like honky dudes, and one like out with a dad bod. Oh you mean you're your phone wallpaper? No, my last pool party. Yeah, no, I don't know. I mean, look, that was another weird game of analytics. And I hate to bore you with that word in this conversation, but it's a matter of here's what's ruining baseball, even though it's very close, very tight, and very exciting at the same time, I don't think anything's ruining it. I think analy analytics are ruining the game because you're losing that gut feeling, that gut move, the manager doing his job. You're leaving it to the nerds. It's not helping the game. Nerds don't belong there in this situation, not in these small time three game series that we're seeing. But it's also a matter of players not coming through. So yes, both could be true. Analytics suck and certain players suck in big moments. And we'll see if it happens any different in a half hour from now. For the New York Yankees, let's hope so well, it looks like right now, the Padres are in the leads. It looks like Baseball's giving us exactly what we want because we're looking at the first two series. Are going to Game three's tomorrow, unless, of course, the Cubbies have a comeback over the last seven outs of the game. But right now, Dylan see started, it came out early. I don't know if they're trying to save him for an emergency situation. He through sixty something pictures. So Padres Cubbies likely Game three tomorrow, Tigers, Guardians Game three tomorrow, hopefully for you Yankees, Red Sox Game three tomorrow, the only one that won't be. Dodger's just gonna embarrass the Reds tonight, just to make me feel better about it. And by the way, here's my hot I know you don't come here for hot takes. You just come for our riches, hot buns. I know you're not here for the hot takes. But my hot take is I just don't like Alec Pregman's face. I think he's stupid. I don't like a stupid face. But my point in bringing that up, I think you would like your You can't let that guy, you know, the guys that you can't let beat you, right, you know that heading into the game, he's the guy that we can't let beat us, and then you let him beat you. Can't let that happen again tonight. Not Well, we'll talk a little more wild Card, but of course it's NFL. We're talking week five. I'm an AFC North theory. We're gonna get to but you had a Peter North theory, not for this show. And we're gonna talk some forty nine ers only because I don't know if anyone's actually suiting up. On Thursday. We'll get to more NFL, some baseball all coming up. Covino and Rich Yeah, Bilanos, Yeah, but the rhythm take you overs. Mancy is with us today, Barlos, do you know that Iowa? Sam asked me, Mancy, if I got Moncie Zuma's revenge while I was in Mexico. It's fun. He's full of like ridiculous puns, toy yes, And I said no, Sam, I did not get Moncey Zuma's revenge. That's until I get an eighties thing like don't don't trick the water. I think it's still a thing. Tricks filtered and you know, maybe my sister went to Colombia and she said she wasn't right for a week after that. Yeah, my sister.

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Speaker 5: Went to Colombia.

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Speaker 1: Oh geez, so that's Iowa Sam. We got Danny G, super producer Danny G pumped about his Dodgers on the phones at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Of course, Manzi is a big Dodgers fan as well. She's here with your updates in a few minutes. We got Mike's Wednesday Words of Wisdom, your chance to win some prizes if you could repeat it verbatim, and Midweek Major the biggest stories in the world of sports and pop culture. We decide here on the show if those stories are mid like the kiddos say week or chopped or whatever they're saying nowadays, or major.

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Speaker 6: Definitely major.

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Speaker 1: So I'm Cavino. It's good to be back. That's rich. You know. We we'll talk about baseball later. I do want to ask, like, when you see a team in any sport struggling with injuries and conditioning struggling, do you ever say, oh, it's coincidental all is it? Or is it always in your mind the problem of the training staff?

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Speaker 5: Huh?

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Speaker 1: Well, it depends. Does it seem to be an issue like with your Mets for years and years and years. I'm talking about the forty nine here, Mets are just cursed. As we go into Thursday Night football, it could be Ricky Pearsall, Juan Jennings, Rock Priorty. That point spread went from four and a half to six and a half to now seven and a half. This was supposed to be an NFC West battle here in LA Thursday night. It was supposed to be what people watch because everyone assumes that Dodgers are going to wrap it up tonight and tomorrow. You don't have to worry about Dodger baseball out here in Los Angeles, Rams Niners. It's a good Thursday night game, two three and one teams, And now it looks like the forty nine is going to take an l unless, of course, Mac Jones and Christian McCaffrey controlled everything and they, you know, control the clock instead of trying to defense. Robert Salas got his work cut out for him with that Rams offense. Like, I don't know, like forty nine ers might be ass or buns, as the kids say, I don't know, that's a lot of that's a. Do you realize how depleted that team is? I used up back for a while. So your theory is the trade Steph, Is that what you're saying? Does that fall on them at some point?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've seen that before, something in conditioning. Is Is it right or could? It might not be right. I hate when those primetime games, even when it's not my team. I hate when it looks like such a great matchup on paper and then it happens and you're like, oh, key players are injured, so it loses. It's like primetime Pizaz Thursday night was supposed to be a good one. So we'll see. Maybe the Niners could hang in there. Only time will tell. Gonna be a defensive obstacle for Robert Sala, who, by the way, did you see he was fighting with the Jags head coach? Is that over yet or one of they? Did they hug it out?

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Speaker 3: Sala said he thinks he chose the wrong words stealing SI.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, when you saw those two fighting, If you don't know what we're talking about. After the Niners Jags game, defensive coordinator and former Jets head coach Robert Sala and the Jags head coach Liam Cohen, we're having words, and Robert sala is the type of guy that could break you in half. And Liam Cohen is the type of guy that, like is a nerd. I wouldn't mess with some so to me. So when Liam Cohen is like, God, keep my name out of your mouth, I think Robert Sala they I didn't even know if you needed some John boy lip reading. I think he's like, I will break you. Didn't he say something like almost Van Drago, like, yeah, something like I'll break you in I'll break your half. Why is that really what he said?

00:30:04
Speaker 5: I must break you know? That's what people were saying that we're trying to read his lists.

00:30:08
Speaker 1: Say if he dies, he dies. Yeah wow. But I just thought that's hardcore. It wasn't one side accusing the other of sign stealing. Yeah, Robert Salad said maybe he used their own words, but saying that there's certain teams that are picking up on signals. Listen, it's not sign stealing if it's legally done. If you're just picking up on other team's cues and stuff, that's just I think part of any game, right, Like when a guy's on second base, on second base Have you seen guys balk on purpose just to move the runner from second to third and a non key situation just because it's like to me, if you're so easily giving it up, whether it be baseball or football, Yeah, it's just part of the game. Get a more complex system. I don't know the intricacies. I just thought it was funny that, and they're like Liam Cohen said, like, keep my name out of your mouth. And then Robert sala I think did say something to the effect of I must break you. I think he said I will find you and I will kill you, something something like that. Some sort of Robert Sallace could have pulled. You see that viral clip with a bouncer who's gonna probably end up in jail. Headlocked that kid and put his head through a car window. Are you still traveling back? Yeah?

00:31:10
Speaker 5: I was.

00:31:10
Speaker 1: I was up in the backstroke. You know what, I'll show you that during the break. I'll maybe I'll post on our Instagram story. But right now it's time to go to Mansi for an update. Oh you mean Bulanios.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: Rule it goes bolos.

00:31:26
Speaker 4: Let the update take you overos.

00:31:30
Speaker 2: That's how it goes. Thank you to Jonas Nas for that one.

00:31:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, so guys, we've got October basement, Yes, October baseball.

00:31:40
Speaker 2: The Guardians have forced a Game three.

00:31:43
Speaker 4: They outscored the Tigers already six to one, scoring five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, capped off by a three run shot from bow Naylor. So game three tomorrow for sure? Is that the second two greatest words in sports?

00:31:56
Speaker 2: Game seven? But then it's game three, not game five.

00:31:59
Speaker 1: Game three a three.

00:32:00
Speaker 4: Game three is more exciting, yes, because.

00:32:04
Speaker 2: Anything can happen.

00:32:05
Speaker 4: Anything can happen, especially in the wildcard. So who is also likely gonna have another Game three? Likely Padres and Cups. Because San Diego is up right now three zero. It is the bottom of.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: The eighth inning. It's Nanny Matchado.

00:32:19
Speaker 4: Yes, a game three Manny Mchatto with a two run shot extending San Diego's lead.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: And of course we still have two more game threes. Red Sox and Yankees.

00:32:26
Speaker 4: That's at sixth Eastern, Reds and Dodgers that is at nine Eastern. News out of the NFL other than the forty nine ers have nobody playing on Thursday against the Rams. The Browns are benching quarterback Joe Flacco's starting rookie Dylan Gabriel for Sunday's game in London against the Vikings, and Joe Flacco is still gonna be the backup. Commander's head coach Dan Quinn confirmed that quarterback Jaden Daniels has been medically cleared to return. He's going to be a full participant in today's practice, and Chargers head coach John Harbor announced that Joe Alts, with that high ankle spring, is doubtful to play this week. Cardinals running back Trey Benson underwent are the scopic surgery on his meniscus.

00:33:01
Speaker 2: He's going to be about four to six weeks back to you guys.

00:33:04
Speaker 1: Of course he is. He's on my fantasy, of course.

00:33:06
Speaker 2: Of course he is.

00:33:07
Speaker 4: I got chopped, Cavino, What do you mean a guillotine league, I got chopped.

00:33:12
Speaker 1: Wait, so we have two losers on this show, you do?

00:33:15
Speaker 2: And you know what, we're the prettier losers out of this show.

00:33:19
Speaker 1: So hell yeah, so pretty losers guillotine moncy, Yeah, I got that's me that.

00:33:30
Speaker 2: It's okay.

00:33:31
Speaker 1: What was your problem? Who did you have? Nobody had Josh Allen and the one week Josh Allen put up no numbers. Can you know got knocked out? Yeah? I was.

00:33:38
Speaker 4: I lost by like two points. But I think Ladi McConkey has been was really really quiet, and he was one of my higher picks, and it just and then I think I also have Baker Mayfield in that league, and he was all right, I know, by like.

00:33:49
Speaker 1: Two points in the league. Forty bucks, Yeah anybody? Yeah, three nothing, Cubbies down to the Padres right now. I like the battling. I like the battling going on. I doubt the Reds are gonna have the same fate, but it'd be cool. You know, I mentioned something yesterday, nothing against your Dodgers. I think the Dodgers got it in the bag. You know what's odd about them too? They're hitting so contagious and makes me want to vomit. I feel like that tasker Hernandez sees the ball like a beach ball. In the playoffs, show Hey doing big things in big moments, everyone starts hitting. It's gross.

00:34:23
Speaker 3: Well, the problem is the bullpen comes in and walking the opposing batters becomes contagious. No, but it's so but yeah, but if they can get a six to seven run lead in every game.

00:34:33
Speaker 1: Well, the problem is is that we talk about it. There's a lot of teams in Major League Baseball that have a good top of the lineup, even non playoff teams we talked about like my Mets with Lindor and Soto and Pete and Yankees and Padres and Tigers. Everyone's got a good few at the top. I just hate the fact that the Dodgers. You get to the bottom of that lineup and it's like Edmund will Smith, like guys that could still be You can tell that they just see the ball so well, and they make such good contact when they're in their zone, and it feels like they're in their zone right at the right time, right where they left off in the postseason last year. Because those bats were hot last night. So good luck to the Reds if they could even steal one, just to make it exciting. I think the Dodgers are gonna win either way. I know we got a break, But yesterday, when you weren't here, I talked about how there's got to be something like all these injuries in football and baseball have to be almost because and this wasn't a high thought. So I don't want to repeat myself too much. But players have just gotten too big, strong and fast where their bodies aren't, Like they just can't handle the speed, size and strength of the game.

00:35:37
Speaker 6: Right.

00:35:38
Speaker 1: You know what it makes me think of when you love this reference, because that bring it up a lot, when Daniel Jones had that breakaway and his body just couldn't keep up with what his mind wanted to do. Yeah, like, because I was just saying that, remember when he fell on himself the reliever of the reliever on the padres just through one hundred and three mile an hour fastball followed by a ninety mile an hour slider, Like, how was a pitter? Do you adjust to one hundred and three mile an hour fanst fall and then a ninety mile an hour cutter? And then how's that? Guys? You know this guy's gonna get Tommy John than the next like years, solf eh, body's kind of handle so much. Man. All right, well I have you so much more Covino and Rich hanging on Fox Sports Radio. Next, it's the first of the mom post season. Ghost season. Spooky season has begun. As I always say, make sure you take your trip to City Field. Doesn't that spirit Halloween?

00:36:31
Speaker 6: No?

00:36:33
Speaker 1: You know, go to Spirit Halloween and get something earlier, or else you're gonna be generic baseball player. You don't want to be Aaron Smudge for Halloween, so let me tell you this. You don't want to be the weakest guy at the Halloween party. Get something now. You know how our parents fall for AI stuff all the time? Yeah, my mom will send me clips and I'm like, Mom, are you serious? And by the way, if you missed yesterday the show we played will Rich's mom no, which is so much fun. You can catch out on the pod. Will your boomer parents have the answer to things? I'll tell you what they You know, it's interesting about that game. I've been working with Rich for twenty years. I don't think Rich's mom knew me when she saw me in the lobby the other day. So yeah, she's like, is that you. I'm like, yeah, it's me, Marianne. I look different. So my mom sent me a picture of city Field with a Spirit Halloween sign and she's like, Richie, is this true. I'm like, yes, Mom. They turned city Field into a costume, which my point wasn't to make a bad joke about city Field. Yeah, it's about getting a costume early buying some Halloween candy early, because no one wants your weak ass circus peanuts, your big orange peanuts. No one wants your leftover fruit. No one wants your pennies and a cellophene rapper. And don't be the weak ass house that's not participating. Have some fun this holiday season. Nothing worse than when you walk your kid around trick or treating and they knock on a door like no one answers, like one day you can give me, give my kid a little kick cat or something. Anyway, and being postseason ghost season rich, let me just give you one crazy stat before the play of the day.

00:38:06
Speaker 5: All right.

00:38:06
Speaker 1: I saw this in a meme, so it has to be true. It's actually from the Athletic If you're wondering how rare the Yankees ninth inning was last night, it's because it never happened before. The Yankees are the first team in MLB postseason history to have bases loaded with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth and not score a run and lose the game. It was kind of gross. Oh, I'm sorry, that kind of gross. Sorry to hear that. I'm not saying that anyone should have sympathy for the Yankees or Yankees fans are me in particular. But it was wild to see last night, so they deserve to lose. You can't win the game with one run, well, not against the Red Sox. Your dude, your pal Chappie or Ald Chapman. Yeah, who is the owner, by the way of the record fastest pitch ever thrown in Mide League Baseball history, one hundred and five point eight miles an hour had his way with you guys. Yeah he did, really did. He owns the Yanks. But guess what, it's not our tyrack play of the day. What is show? Hey? Otani hit two bombs on a one to one Otani HiT's a towering ball day Pride Field.

00:39:13
Speaker 7: He flips so bad, Bed watches it fly three quarters of the way up the pavilions, just a mammoth blast for his second home run, and the Dodgers are pouring it.

00:39:25
Speaker 1: On in Game one. I know where that ball landed, right my buddy's and the seat my buddy hit me up, He goes, I went to get a coffee because the game was sort of out of reach. I step away and everyone in the section goes. The ball landed where you were, which is the worst feeling. That's courtesy of a five to seven the Dodgers audio on Network. That was our Tiraq play of the Day. Tyreck's been helping customers find the right tires for how what where they drive ship fast and free back by free Road has protection, convenient installation options all at tyrack dot com. The way tirebying should. The only thing worse than your buddy Andy story is when you leave the party, and that's when all the hot shicks come. Usually yeah, the girls never came. All right, So hey listen, we got more come coming up here on Coveno Rich. We got Mike's words wisdom. We'll talk some NFL spots midweek major all right here on Fox Sports Radio. Don't go anywhere.