C&R - Leaving Team, Mid Weak Major, Brady's Cards

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Speaker 2: Ight, Steve Covino, Rich Davis, Buddy Danny g Sam Byer. We got Mike who runs this take this hour, Mike who runs this place, and of course Midweek Major with Sammy Sweetheart. We go over all the stories in the world, the sports and pop culture. We decide are they mid stories week or major? As the kiddos say, and as the kiddo say, that's Rich Davis, you're chopped unk. Yeah, he's gonna be getting your phone calls. Well, you're not a chopped on chopped unk. You're looking like a chud today. Steve Camino, Rich Davis and we be rocking out. Let's go and let's go to the phone and wrapped us up eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. The most tired and timeless debate of all time. It is not Taste Great less feeling, long lasting or fast acting. It's Lebron or Jordan's. I thought it was do you roll your toilet paper like over or under? Another good one, O cheese or rand. People love debating these things and better New York first basement with a mustache, Keith Hernandez or not maddingly. That was a big honor in our childhood, was the New York in the Tristate area. That's a huge one. So that's a really a great example. Actually, Hernandez are maddingly.

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Speaker 1: Danny G.

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Speaker 2: What was the Lebron quote again about Lebron, I mean Lebron's quote about Jordan.

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Speaker 3: About making him proud. Yeah, let me call that up right now for you.

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Speaker 2: He's just he's something to the effect that I hope I made him, Yeah, the twenty three number proud.

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Speaker 4: First he talked about how this goat topics a very tiring conversation and barbershop talk, but.

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Speaker 1: It's all over the place again today because of all this.

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Speaker 4: It sure is, and he said, I just hope that I made him proud wearing number twenty three.

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Speaker 2: So based on that, based on this debate that is timeless and tired, what are some other ones that just will never go away in our lifetime. Right, we'll wrap it up with your phone calls and then Mike, who runs this take who we got?

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Speaker 3: All right, let's start in Arizona with David. What up?

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Speaker 1: Dave?

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Speaker 5: Well, guys, how are you this afternoon?

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Speaker 1: We're good man? What's what's your? What's your? What's on your mind?

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Speaker 6: But your big ones?

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Speaker 5: PlayStation and xbar, Apple?

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Speaker 3: And Android?

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Speaker 2: Well, anyone that says Android ruins the group chat and they're wrong Android.

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Speaker 1: Oh we've got a good camera. Rich is the biggest phone snob you' all.

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Speaker 2: No doubt I would if I was single, I would never date a woman with an Android because I'm like, what type of taste do you have?

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Speaker 1: Terrible?

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Speaker 3: It's such a lie, And.

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Speaker 1: I would pull out ray J, but I wanted.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's a real good one because I had both too, uh when they first came out, So that's a real good one, all.

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Speaker 6: Right, on y J.

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Speaker 3: That means you really wouldn't sleep with her.

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Speaker 2: Benny in Ohio, Hey, Benny, Yes, hello, Benny Barrels.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Okay, yeah, it's been in Ohio. Our biggest debate.

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Speaker 3: We alreadys argue about Barry's or and.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, those are those are good ones?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Barry Sanders or Emmitt Smith. I'm sorry, Benny, you had one more?

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Speaker 1: Is Walter Payton just above and beyond both?

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Speaker 3: Is that how it works?

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Speaker 1: I think it's Barry Sandsers.

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Speaker 2: Emmett was in a great system and had the best offensive line of all time and a winning team around him. I mean, Emmitt Smith was fantastic and he's always been great to us. But Barry Sanders was on trash teams and still found ways.

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Speaker 4: Now who else we got? Yeah, thank you for that call. Ohio, Let's go to New Jersey. Mitch Jersey, what I Mitch?

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Speaker 3: That's popping?

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Speaker 2: Guys?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Man?

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Speaker 5: I think this one?

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Speaker 4: Tom Brady Okay, I hope everything's well you guys, Tom Brady, John Elway, who's the best quarters?

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Speaker 5: I rather put him Dame Marie.

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Speaker 3: That's that's that's my choice.

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Speaker 2: I mean Elway, I've never heard him throwing in that conversation, actually talked about this softy air.

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Speaker 1: It was like for a minute, it was it.

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Speaker 2: Was Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, and then it was like Joe Montana or Tom Brady, and Tom Brady just separated himself from the path.

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Speaker 3: Or greatest quarterback who never won a Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: Ring then then your answer is Den Marino.

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Speaker 2: But it's like, you know, I think Tom Brady just totally just separated himself from the conversation.

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Speaker 1: He's the guy.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's wrap this up with Trip in Vegas.

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Speaker 5: Hey Trip, Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. First of all, you're never wrong with just extra chiefs pizza. And then I got three silly ones for you, Cats versus Dogs, Star Wars versus Star Trek, and then would you rather drown or burn to death?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: You went darket you went dark at the end. There, try hold on dogs all the way. Yeah, yeah, dogs all the way. Nothing against cats, but dogs all the way. By the way, I have I have a I have two special skills. I can't take you one on the radio, and the other one is I can look at some I realized that I realized when we wear a second okay, and I realized I can look at someone and tell you if they're a dog or cat owner. And it's I'm like, I'm like nine, I feel like you could tell what a cat owner looks like?

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Speaker 1: Can I guess? Wane to hear? I bet you owns a cat one of the board ops. I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet you Kiris the engineer owns a cat. There's there on that one, but the baill was for Chris who else that that might Yeah, I feel like there's your your your cat first. I could tell Star Wars versus Star Trek co Star Wars all day, every day forever until the end of time and drown or person to that. Oh man, you know that is you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to thought about that one.

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Speaker 3: That's a brain wave question. That's horrible right there.

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Speaker 1: Uh do you rather have nipples for fingers?

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Speaker 7: Who?

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Speaker 1: Or finger nipples? Do you know what?

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Speaker 8: That's another definitely arraging one. How about like when you're gonna die or how you're gonna die? That's even more broad like when or how?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he did go real dark with that, So we'll think about it. But Timeless entire debates the rest of your feedback at coven On Rich at Fox Sports Radio. If you want to play this game more, hit me up at my downtown because my daughter, that's her one of her delay tactics to not go to sleep. She's like, Dad, come lay with me and she'll ask me all these would you rathers? And would you rather be stuck in an ocean knowing a shark was nearby?

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Speaker 1: Or or in a forest knowing a bear was nearby?

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Speaker 2: Definitely the forest, because you know you're more agile, on your feet, more to eat. Yeah, maybe being in the water. That's scary, dude, no doubt. All right, So we do this, then we do every Wednesday, sort of a warm up to Midweek Major. It's Mike who runs this take?

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Speaker 7: Produce the microphone Assassin.

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Speaker 6: It's time for Mike who runs this take?

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Speaker 3: Who Big?

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Speaker 9: Mike may get to be in charge of the segment, but he still doesn't run this place. He really doesn't even run this segment when you think about it, because this Mike can be turned off by Sam at any moment.

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Speaker 6: That may be true, but Big does get to pick the topic and then CNR offer their strong opinions on it. Consider it a warm up to Midweek. Make sure Mike who rubs this take?

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Speaker 1: All right? Mike, who's his place?

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Speaker 2: Well, he runs his take and you know what he said, guys, I'm sitting out on this take today. We said why because he wants to give an opportunity to a guy he's worked with, the guy we've all worked with for a long time. So in for Mike, who runs his take is birshey boy jolly immersionator.

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Speaker 7: That I was about to try to do a Big Mike impersonation and it's it's not as good as some of the others here.

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Speaker 1: Do you have one?

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Speaker 7: I would love to hear everyone has one.

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Speaker 2: It always starts with that though.

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Speaker 6: Always.

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Speaker 3: I really love DB's take.

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Speaker 1: That's the best. You know, who else doesn't go on V you know that's a good way.

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Speaker 7: Patrick will tell you that his is also in the conversation, but it's not. It's okay, it's better than mine. I'll give him that, all right.

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Speaker 1: So hey, Ryan Bursch take it away. Well, thank you.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Big Mike conceded his time to me today because I have a hot take. I got a big hot take. Mike doesn't run this place.

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Speaker 1: I do where it is wow.

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Speaker 7: And now it's all going to fall apart. I'm leaving. This is my last week at Fox Sports Radio. I have been at FSR for over ten years. I interned here in twenty fourteen. I was an intern on Jmore Sports Wow, where I worked with Dan every day. I worked with John Ramos every day. I worked with Greg Twey every day and from then on. I got hired after after I graduated college and I've been here ever since.

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Speaker 2: Did you know Big Mike when he had hair? No, No, he Mike looked exactly the same day.

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Speaker 1: He was always old. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, first off, before you go any further, man's congratulation is journey here ten years at any place in today's world is one hundred and ten years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially in this business. So congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen so many people come and go and you've maintained a, you know, a great reputation here working with Mike That's a tough thing to do.

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Speaker 1: So congrats on that man. Wherever? Okay, well, good Lakers tickets or that was that was pre pre Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: He had Genie buss On as a as a guest one time when I was interning, and like, I was like, oh, this is weird, Like there's real chemistry here and he was married at the time.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't prior to I was like, this is odd. Didy Inger Spotify playlist by the way, Birch nothing or rough. Did you see that Rabel changed his name on the playlist?

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Speaker 2: Because it said and Mike right, and then it was changed to like tie car And I saw this on Jim Rowe and it took like a third He's second Google search the name of his sons or Tyler and like Carsoner.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, dude, this guy's the worst.

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Speaker 7: It is so easy to figure out it's you. You're called this. I just for the record, I'm not trying to insinuate that Jay was cheating. I think that they they I thought that they were just good friends like that. And I'm sure that they were and and and Jay's in a much better place now and and he said that right relationship, Yeah, they have better place as a great relationship. I really look up to them.

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Speaker 3: Wow, way to make awful announcing on you last week.

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Speaker 7: I know I was gonna come on here and talk about the fact that, like the job I had prior to this, I got fired from. And I mean, there's still time for this one. But yeah, I'm here until Friday. But no, I was. When I was in college, I had a part time job. I worked at a cold Stone slash subway like. It was one of those where the room was one side subway, the other half was cold Stone. I was hired at Coldstone, but I could do both. I was you were really good?

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Speaker 2: God, I'm question was it were those of the days where they would actually like sing a little song if you tip.

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Speaker 1: Them, Oh, Coldstone, you used to.

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Speaker 2: I feel like when you'd give a tip at Coldstone, throw a couple of bucks in, they'd ring a bell and everyone would sing a little song or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was those days.

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Speaker 7: But we didn't do it because we we just said, hey, we're not owned by cold Stone, We're actually owned by Subway, and Subway says we we don't. We don't sing for tips, So sorry guys. Yeah, that was our line. It worked every time I got fired from that cold Stone. I got fired on the fourth of July. It was because when whenever my friends would come in, which, by the way, every single person did this. Every employee did this. When your friends come in, they would ask for a like it, you know, because they had to like it, love it, got to have it, and you would you know, you there was the the sizing system was subjective, okay, like it loved God to have it doesn't mean small, medium, large, it means whatever it means. So you know, you would you would like accidentally scoop a little too much and then oh, oh shoot, I just made a gotta have it on accident.

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Speaker 1: Well I made it.

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Speaker 7: I'm not gonna not give it to you, so I'm just but you asked for like it, so I'm gonna sell it to you at that price.

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Speaker 1: You got busted for gotta have it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone's fire. Everyone did it. A person did it.

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Speaker 9: By the way, I think ice cream is the only food that I would not want too much of, right because it just melts. Like otherwise you're like, okay, I just leave the fries here or whatever. But that's a good point. I think everybody when they see ice cream being made and they're like, oh man, I'm getting I'm getting more than I asked for. This is great and I'm not gonna have to pay for that extra. That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I got to have it. Yeah. They typically they have you on camera and you got fired for that. Oh my god.

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Speaker 7: And this wasn't like something where I did something else and I deserve to be fired. I would like to say that I was a good employee. I didn't do anything wrong, and I.

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Speaker 2: Argue made a hell of a cold cut combo too cold cuts were pre made.

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Speaker 7: They were in the plastic. You would just throw it on and yeah, so I flew through that. Actually, one night they had like a work meeting and they timed how fast we can make a foot long and I was like one of the slower times. But my subway looked, My sandwich looked immaculate.

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Speaker 1: You were a sandwich artist.

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Speaker 7: I was a sandwich artist. I wasn't just throwing it on there. And they called a stupid thing. We all made a foot long and they were like, okay, well you can't eat them because we're just going to count this as waste. You guys don't get free sandwiches, which was awesome. Really poor company, Subway. I'm sure they're struggling.

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Speaker 1: Uh Anyway, his final week, So are we gonna go over.

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Speaker 2: The weakest, most epic farewells or what are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: So I think I've been thinking about this leap this week, like what's what's the way to go out? You know, at your job, you guys were talking about Lebron and if if that's the way to go out, like if this is it for him? Should he have done a farewell tour? I've been thinking about that. This week and when of how how should I spend my final week. There's some things I'm doing, Like every day, I'm trying to eat at places around here that I always like saw and I was like, I so good.

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Speaker 2: You know why because the routine is over. Yeah, something that was such a big part of your life for the past ten years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not gonna be doing that again.

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Speaker 2: You even got to say goodbye to the guy that nearest Delhi or something right, because he's gonna think you died because he's not gonna see you anymore.

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Speaker 7: I just I just did that with the security guard at the building here, This super nice guy. His name is JB. I've said hi to him every day for years. I didn't know his name until until an hour ago when I went up to him and finally like talked to him.

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Speaker 2: It's funny would say that because when we left New York to move to the West Coast to work with Serious Sex Am ESPNO now Fox Sports Radio, Cavino made fun of me. He called it the Rich Davis farewell tour because I went around town letting people know, like, hey, the coffee guy I saw, like, Hey, I'm moving. I don't like because again, I think if you don't say goodbye to these people, they don't wonder like.

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Speaker 1: What happened to Ryan Bersch, what happened to Bersh?

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Speaker 2: No, and and again like you don't think about those things. That's why it's a great reminder. It's like Rich and I used to get a soup all the time at this place called Hale and Hardy in New York City, and we would go there all the time, and subway we would go to all these seen places and then you know, all of a sudden, you move, or your time shift changes, or your routine changes, and you never go to those places again. So to take it in one last time, I think that's a great idea and a great reminder because you know, you think you're gonna have all these mental snapshots, but you forget and you move on. In this whatever's next to tie to tie to best farewell, I have a best farewell, and uh I have a good firing story as well. Best farewells in sports? Are you gonna go sports? Is the number one answer for everyone have to be John.

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Speaker 1: Elway, Oh, I was gonna Antonio Brown.

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Speaker 4: Find Rich that one and I remember famously Kareem Abdul Jabbar was given a rocking chair and he looked at it, like, how's this That's fun? Yeah, he didn't. He wasn't smiling a lot through his farewell tour.

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Speaker 1: Who started?

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Speaker 2: Was it Kareem or like was it Derek Jeeter or like when did it really become a thing to do a farewell tour? Because as we said earlier, Bruce, you're right, like Lebron said, or their speculation that Lebron might not even want that sort of farewell.

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Speaker 9: I don't know when Kareem's last year was, but I was in attendance for Doctor Jay's last game ever. They lost to the Bucks in the first round of the playoffs in game five. But I remember Doctor J had a farewell tour, and this would have been in nineteen eighty seven, so he had four well one not like I don't know if every arena did, but you know places, you know, if they faced the Lakers in the finals, so like so the Lakers would give them something and Boston did. But I know Doctor J had some stops and then and I think Kareem was right after that.

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Speaker 6: Dan.

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Speaker 9: I can't remember exactly when Kareem retired. I thought maybe it was a year or two later than that. But uh, but that would have been around the time that those things started.

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Speaker 2: I remember part of the deal, Birch, should you send your like goodbye email to the company, because that's part of the process nowadays, right, Because how many times you get an email at the I don't even know this person, delete beat it? How times you get some in an email four journey you like for your journey, you don't deserve an email years first got a shout out from a Fritzi. I know, yes, he replies said, hey, best of luck man, and you know what ten years that that's worthy of Hey, farewell, goodbye, and.

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Speaker 1: Then email Rich is right.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's like it's been a great two years, Like great two years?

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Speaker 1: Beat it? How about a decade? How about ten? Yeah, versus hit it more than that.

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Speaker 3: More than that, versus hit it.

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Speaker 2: I would say great farewells in sports. One more, I hate to say it. The fact that your guy Derek Jeter had a walk off opposite field base hit in like typical Jeter fashion at Yankee Stadium final home game. I was like, it's a gross dude. His his career was such a fantasy, Like every big moment like that, his three thousand hit was a home run, like so many great moments like that.

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Speaker 1: Incredible.

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Speaker 2: It's it's got to be the top after probably John l Way, which you said, but it doesn't have to be great. Maybe memorable, I jokingly san Antonio Brown or you know when.

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Speaker 7: What about Kobe Kobe's final game? Yeah, oh my god, Yeah, that's that's one of the most memorable. Sure it wasn't a playoff game or a championship, but in terms of like what he did, that game was all about Kobe and the fact that he went off in the way he did and it was incredible.

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Speaker 1: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: Anything else that you're gonna do, Like I said, are you going to steal anything from here?

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Speaker 1: Like the guys a keepsake?

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Speaker 3: Click?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, is there something else you're gonna do? Make a hard hat?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Fred's hard hat, you know, but honestly, you should steal something from Big MIC's office, like one.

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Speaker 7: Of his bottle eyed Yeah, yeah, one of the bobble It's one thing I am going to do, is.

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Speaker 1: Uh of them? Now there's only four.

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Speaker 7: I do have a lot of different audio saved from the last ten years. One thing was, you know, I did a Dodger podcast with Bo called swing Shift for a few years, and I have a whole bunch of episodes saved on the computers here, So I'm going to take all of those.

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Speaker 1: And get to keep that with me. Uh yeah.

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Speaker 7: In terms of physically, it's I'm gonna have to seal one of my things are also.

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Speaker 1: Equipment to being serious.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we're having fun, but you think you know your last goodbye when you walk out, you're gonna turn around, take it in and then maybe shed one a little bit.

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Speaker 7: It's I have not gotten emotional yet, which I am an emotional guy.

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Speaker 2: Uh So, Green Bay, by the way, you're gonna be able to hear his goodbye right here on our show because he's participating in Brainwave with us on Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's crazy.

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Speaker 7: Friday is gonna be cool because we're all gonna go to beat Ups after your guys a show and uh uh that will probably because I, you know, I might have a drink or two that stokes the emotional then the tears are just gonna flow.

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Speaker 1: Will bursh tears.

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Speaker 2: Not only not only in sports, but the farewells and you know, are they always deserving?

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Speaker 1: Too, is part of the take. Does everybody deserve a farewell? Sometimes you just move on.

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Speaker 2: I think you have to put in over at least over five years to really like be considered, like, hey, let's have a party for this guy or whatever. I think of the movie Half Baked, and I think of Scarface. I think that's a classic scene in movies, and classic moment where he quits the place like if you, if you, you're cool, if you I'm out, like, I think that's a classic one in movies.

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Speaker 1: Who's coming with me? Who's coming with me? That's another one. That's another great one. People love to say.

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Speaker 2: People have to say, like if I won the lottery or quitter job, I want to want to poop on my boss's desk.

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Speaker 1: Dude, everybody anyone's ever done you? Did you beat me? I can't say that you were a little too descriptive.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 1: You check out the podcast here Rich right now.

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Speaker 2: Sam, thank you for protecting me. You are a great offensive lineman. I'm a reckless quarterback.

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Speaker 9: I guess instead of taking something for Mike's office, you would leave something in Mike's desk.

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Speaker 8: You can I share a quick story, sure, because Bursch is a good friend of mine. We've become really good friends the last five years, and say, we've worked together for over ten years.

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Speaker 1: Now, feel he's leaving you behind? Sham. Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 8: I started it kind of because I started my ten year anniversary at Fox Sports Radio is coming up on like May third, so he's going to be gone by then. And it's like this seismic shift of Uh, someone I've worked with for ten years and none of my good friends that you know I went to was you know, Bursch and I have hung out.

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Speaker 1: We you know, I went to his wedding and you care about him so much.

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Speaker 2: Last like two weeks ago, You're like, I'm gonna go to Bursa's house and uh watch slides from his honeymoon.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, you know I told him.

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Speaker 8: I was like, bursh, you and your your wife meet meet me at a Topper's Pizza in SeeMe Valley and tell me all about your honeymoon, you know, over in Asia. And it was great and we had some great pizza. Uh but uh, let's go two super well, go ahead, Dan. That's that's why he wanted to meet up. He told me that he told.

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Speaker 9: Me that doesn't like different toppers or something, and there's only certain ones that he likes.

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Speaker 1: So one of them all the same area, okay, because there's one up by us.

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Speaker 3: So I think they're I think that's why you want wanted to go.

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Speaker 8: I kind of just gone, and myself, I did want to hear about the other honeymoon, but.

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Speaker 2: You know what those Sam on a serious and I want to hear your your take. I think we all could relate to, Like, you worked with someone for so long and it does feel weird when that person leaves and you're like you're there. You know, like we've all had like someone you shared an office with or someone you worked with and they moved on, and you're like, ud, do I feel like you have that feeling too?

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Speaker 1: What about when you're the last one that's that's the feeling.

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Speaker 8: It feels like the end ending of the Sandlot where they tell you where the guy's go and then they disappear, and it's like you're kind of sad about it. You're like little Jimmy went off and had a family and moved to a Utah and never no one ever saw from him again.

00:22:41
Speaker 1: Sam stayed there by himself.

00:22:43
Speaker 8: And then the only one left was me Sam, but quickly two super bowls ago, So this is the New Orleans Super Bowl.

00:22:50
Speaker 1: I was working with Bursch. We were doing radio row.

00:22:52
Speaker 8: Dan was on updates and we were talking about like New Orleans cuisine. This drop has never made the air before, It's only just been circulating in circle here F s R. But instead of turning Dan Byer's mic on for the updet accidentally turned Burshinger's mic on uh. And he was talking about New Orleans cuisine and he said this.

00:23:10
Speaker 7: Crawl So when the when when we went live at at the top of Doug's show, instead of the update playing, that's what played down the line which I was saying it because Doug was talking about crawfish, so I thought he heard it and that heard me like mocking him in essence a.

00:23:34
Speaker 1: Mic on, So that went over the air. Probably shouldn't have admitted that crawl one more time. Give me some of that crawl fish.

00:23:43
Speaker 2: So now we open up the phone lines. Mike who runs his take. Bursch is in for Mike Bursch. Bursch who's leaving on Friday, and we asked you the most epic exits of all time the most epic way to leave you a job eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.

00:24:03
Speaker 1: And of course Sam's got Midweek Major.

00:24:05
Speaker 2: And of course Sam's Midweek made you gotta make time for all that, So hang tight more Cavino on Rich Mackew Bersch right here on Fox Sports Radium.

00:24:13
Speaker 3: All right.

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00:25:16
Speaker 1: Alright, some of that.

00:25:22
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00:25:34
Speaker 1: Wife wanted to kick me out of the house.

00:25:36
Speaker 10: It's called Stegots and Company Live, which is available in podcast form right when the show finishes every single day.

00:25:44
Speaker 1: Some of the biggest names in sports. A lot of phone calls.

00:25:47
Speaker 6: I love you guys.

00:25:48
Speaker 5: You show it's one of my favorites.

00:25:49
Speaker 10: A lot of interaction, guys not taking themselves too seriously. Those are just some of the things that you could expect from Stu Gotts and Company and Stegotson Company Live. So listen to stew Gods and Company Live. Ed our will original podcast. Please subscribe, rate and review Stew Gods in Company and God bless football. Taylor's livelihood depends on it. You do it today and you can check all of those out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:26:27
Speaker 2: Congrats again to Ryan bursch Ryan Burschinger, he'll be on our show again on Friday.

00:26:33
Speaker 1: Sandwich artist.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, the dude from Cold sunt Creamery. I'm saying a mean falsetto. He made a mean gotta have it well. He'll be on the show again for Brainwave on Friday to say farewell. But yeah, ten years is a great run. So it got us thinking of great farewells.

00:26:49
Speaker 1: How long have we been here now? Over four years?

00:26:51
Speaker 2: I think like between we started part time weekends, yeah, like three to four years. And Bursh's been you know, been a part of our day to day seeing around, so you know we'll be missing him. So it's Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studio, and it's time to get your financial portfolio game ready with wee Bowl. Get powerful investing tools in real time data, all on one platform. Get started by downloading the wee bol app today or visiting we bowl dot com.

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00:27:23
Speaker 2: All right, it's time for something we do every week. I was, Sam, I hope you got your stories ready mid Week Major, let's.

00:27:30
Speaker 6: Go Covino and Rich get you over the middle of the week.

00:27:34
Speaker 1: When mid Week Major Major, Oh, I love that.

00:27:39
Speaker 6: We throw sports and pop culture headlines and topics at the fellas and it's like the kids.

00:27:44
Speaker 5: Say, that's summit.

00:27:46
Speaker 2: We definitely mead.

00:27:47
Speaker 6: Here see it our score Midweek Major.

00:27:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta go really quick here to give Iowa Sam at least seven minutes for this. You hear the horns. You made it to the middle of the work week. We roll the two big red love dice over there to see who gets the first.

00:28:02
Speaker 1: Take hide we tired. All right, we have a roll one dice each one die ready, you went, I got three, Rich got one, I went. You know, gets to go first.

00:28:13
Speaker 4: And now the most famous person besides Brian Bell of Wezer from Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa San.

00:28:20
Speaker 8: Sammy, Hey, get into it, buddy, which you got to get into it? I did not pick this story, guys because Danny g is a diehard Raiders fan. But behold an NFL free agent signing at the kicker position that is already growing legs among Raider fans.

00:28:36
Speaker 1: He is the Tokyo Toe.

00:28:39
Speaker 8: Can say Matsuzawa taught himself how to place kick while living in native Japan using YouTube instructional videos. He also taught himself English and eventually found his way to a junior college in Ohio. And then he finished the UH and then he finished a successful stint at the University of Hawaii. Full disclosure. I had no idea what this guy was. I didn't know about his Rainbow Warrior greatness at the time. But the Tokyo Toe has a good chance of making the Las Vegas roster. Hold on Daniel Carlson, he wasn't resigned. Thank you Danny for that bit of info. It's the Toe versus the other kicker on the team recent signing, Matthew Gay. Come see the Tokyo to in Vegas sounds like a draw to me, midweek or major.

00:29:14
Speaker 2: This is major only because of a story and because of Danny g and the Raiders.

00:29:20
Speaker 1: They're just a major team to look out for.

00:29:23
Speaker 2: With Fernanda Mendoza and Tom Rady and all the moving parts and genty and this and dude, you had me at tokyoot at the nickname. I think a good nickname goes a long way and like, how could you forget that?

00:29:35
Speaker 3: Now?

00:29:35
Speaker 7: Oh?

00:29:36
Speaker 2: I tell you, I think it's major. I think the Raiders are a major storyline period between Mendoza and Brady having an active role and all these players that you feel like, oh, maybe they're in position to do well now like like you said, like a gent or a Bowers.

00:29:49
Speaker 1: They get some weapons now Yo.

00:29:51
Speaker 2: The Tokyo toe just another fun little gimmick for a team that has been in the basement so long.

00:29:56
Speaker 1: And Danny, I'm rooting for your team to really make some fun noise.

00:29:59
Speaker 3: This year, I hope. So think about it.

00:30:02
Speaker 8: He's a Japanese kicker, he's a little close to the West coast. Maybe it draws people in. Maybe it's the reason to go see the Raiders. Tokyo to Tokyo to bro All right, let's move on another football related story here. Brendan Soorsby, former Indiana Hoo's your quarterback turned Cincinnati Bearcat turned Texas Tech red Raider has entered a treatment program not for an issue like substance abuse, but rather for a massive gambling addiction. Sorsby's accused of placing thousands of bets on sporting events while as an active college athlete, a few of those bets on his own Indiana team when he was there as a true freshman. Sorsby arrived at Texas Tech as one of college football's highest paid athletes, but his eligibility is now in certain jeopardy. Jock's with a sports gambling addiction midweek or major major.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: I think this is major. I'm gonna say this carefully and respectfully. You know, we live in a time and culture where everybody thinks they're going to be the.

00:30:52
Speaker 1: Next YouTube star or whatever.

00:30:54
Speaker 2: We also live in a culture where all these kids think they're going to make their next fortion by betting on the weather right and betting on predictions or crypto or crypto or hitting it big like that. And I think these things with the wrong people, Like a guy like me, I don't have an addictive personality in that way. So yeah, if I, you know, drop some money on a prediction or on an investment, whatever, but some people get really caught up in that and it could be a it could be a life changer, put it that way, if not handled properly. So I think this could be a major issue moving forward. Now you agreat it's very major.

00:31:26
Speaker 1: It's too accessible.

00:31:27
Speaker 2: It's major because, like you said, the culture we live in now where I read an article that the younger generation, the post college kids, feel like they have a better chance to win money or make a tricky quick buck investment then actually get into a career and earn a living the old fashioned way.

00:31:44
Speaker 1: So you know, wagering sites, this feeds that that need.

00:31:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, the prediction market, wagering sites, crypto NFTs, these if done responsibly, are really fun things.

00:31:55
Speaker 1: But a lot of people in that response you're betting on your own team.

00:31:58
Speaker 8: You know, you're if you're athlete, you have to completely to stay away from all that stuff because then you're calling the integrity of the game slippery slope. Buddy boy, All right, let's go on another story here. For some reason, I love crime stories over and more like you know, pop culture stories. Last week I had the guy swapping out the lego pieces for the dry pasta.

00:32:17
Speaker 1: This week, let me quote the offspring.

00:32:20
Speaker 8: If you're under eighteen, you won't be doing any time, but two eighteen year old men in Florida were busted for a brazen social media stone over the weekend.

00:32:27
Speaker 1: Yanik, I'm gonna try to say this.

00:32:29
Speaker 8: Yanka Strivarek is accused of taking a riding lawnmower into a Target store in Marion County, Florida.

00:32:36
Speaker 1: I watched the video.

00:32:37
Speaker 8: He can't quite make it through the doors on his first attempt, seemingly damaging them. He then drives into the store, likely causing some mild hysteria. His pal in social media Ride or Die Cameraman was also arrested. Guys criminal record, accruing a criminal record doing some dumb crap for the TikTok Looxie Daisies Midweek or Major.

00:32:58
Speaker 1: I'll say major. You know what.

00:33:00
Speaker 2: I it's still surprised that a Florida man does something dumb. We see those headlines all the time.

00:33:03
Speaker 1: Young Florida man.

00:33:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, young Florida man does something dumb. Not a surprise there. But I think that somebody these young casts need to start learning their lessons. You're messing with the wrong people. You're doing all these things for the clicks. You know, people are gonna get hurt out there, and I don't know, I just think this this story is on that track of someone's gonna get hurt, when someone's gonna get hurt, And by the way, I think it's more mid something, but it is like someone's gonna get hurt, or even better, someone's gonna get punched in the nose. I see videos all the time where someone will I don't know, put a bucket on someone's head and home deep and pretend it wasn't them. And you're assuming, like, mess with the wrong guy. Yeah, you mess with the wrong guy, You're gonna get punched in the nose. Like you ever see someone like go behind someone who whisper in their ear and the guys like you do, Like, I mean, it's happened before, someone didn't someone gets shot? Remember that clip in a food court in a food court. Yeah, so you know people were gonna have to learn that you can't mess around. Not everything's a joke, not everything's a click. And you know everyone's looking for that cheap viral moment. Your answer can't always be like bro to relax, I'm recording.

00:34:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll still punch in the nose.

00:34:03
Speaker 8: And these guys were also captured. I think out of culvers with like a leaf flower doing another stunt. So they had already kind of run up like a track record of nonsense.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: So I do with a leaf blower on TikTok blowing women's weaves.

00:34:16
Speaker 1: Off their head.

00:34:20
Speaker 2: You do that to the wrong person, a disrespectful regardless, you gotta get your ass whooped or worse.

00:34:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you much all I got for you. Thank you, Thank you. Dan Buyer for an update, d B. What's going on with friends?

00:34:30
Speaker 9: What what's happening guys. Let's get into the NBA action tonight, because about to tip off at the top of the hour, Magic and Pistons from Motown, Orlando's up three to one in the series, trying to close it out on the road.

00:34:41
Speaker 3: Seven thirty Eastern.

00:34:42
Speaker 9: It's the Cavaliers and Raptors from Cleveland that series tied up at two and Austin Reeves expected to play somenight, according to ESPN, for the Lakers, as they faced the Rockets in their Game five LA at home and up three to one, tip off at ten o'clock. Eastern Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is in the final year of his contract. A report from ESPN says that the Warriors head coach met with ownership and GM Mike Dunleavy Junior to discuss his future with the team. No decision has been made, and the sides are expected to meet again. Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens has signed his franchise Tag Texans and linebacker as zizel Shire have a great terms on a three year extension. Former Broncos All Pro safety Justin Simmons announced his retirement after nine seasons. The Red Sox today placed pitcher Garret Crochet in the fifteen day IL because of shoulder inflammation. Then they lost to the Blue Jays eight to one. Marlins dropped the Dodgers three to two, while the Rangers blank the Yankees three nothing. Mariners over the Twins five to three. In TENA was the White Sox three Angels two, Guardian's a three to one winner against the Rays. Cubsley the Padres right now in the ninth five to four. Iowa State and head men's basketball coach TJ. Atzelberger have agreed to terms on a ten year extension that'll pay him six million dollars per season, and the Wall Street Journal is saying that Live Golf intends to tell its players and employees tomorrow that the league will not be funded through the after the twenty twenty six season by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, So if the tour is gonna go on, they're gonna have to find their money somewhere else.

00:36:04
Speaker 3: Guys, back to you.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks buyer. Now we wrap the show with what ca Do? Fernando Mendoza signed his first NFL autograph card. Who wants it? Who wants it? Who's gonna get it? There's a story there and we're gonna go over that next more C and R right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, so the Magic and Pistons about the tip off, keep you posted here on Fox Sports Radio. Enjoy your basketball tonight, Magic Pistons, Raptors, Cavs, Rockets, Lakers, some good Wednesday night basketball. I'm going super Nintendo on that. I'm just old school, original nes, classically trained on that, to be honest. Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. We talked about classic debates, timeless debates. We had Mike Who runs his Take? We have two new great segments, Mike who runs his Take and Big Poppy Baseball Trivia. If you missed that yesterday everything's on the podcast, or you could watch it. You could see Big Poppy at Covino and Rich FSR at Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube. Thank you guys for hanging out with us. We're live from the Fox Sports Radio studio and for over forty years tire Rack they've been helping customers find the right tires for how and where they drive. Ship fast and free back by, free roadhazard protection, convenient installation options like mobile tire installation, tirac dot com, the way tire buying should be and facing production swings or a tough skills gap workforce solutions from Express Employment Professionals make hiring easier. Find your local office and see how Express can help you hire smarter and faster. Visit expresspros dot com today. I have a question for you guys before you get to this Mendoza Tom Brady story.

00:37:50
Speaker 1: Danny G.

00:37:51
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing your backup catcher Will Smith's understudy using Broadway terms.

00:37:58
Speaker 3: You love how Rushing went off against your met Huh?

00:38:00
Speaker 2: No, Dalton Rushing, did you see this play from last night where he's in the batter's box, makes eye contact with the umpire and he goes time out looks. The second time he goes time out, please, the umpire nods yep, yes, then calls him for a pitchclock violation, and everyone is like baffled. The announcers, Dave Roberts, Everyone's like what is going on? Like there was a clear understanding of like a timeout. Do you think there should be some type of Hey man, I had a brain fart because this umpire clearly like you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, sometimes.

00:38:39
Speaker 3: You're just because he granted it, and yeah.

00:38:41
Speaker 2: You know, like sometimes you just get lost in the moment in any job you have, hopefully it's not an important job, but we all have those moments where you're like, dude, I'm sorry. I was like not really paying attention. Sometimes it's just the regular fart that throws you off. It does not always just a brain fart. Sorry, this guy straight up grants him the timeout and then like almost forgets he.

00:39:01
Speaker 1: Does, and he's out. How do you do that?

00:39:04
Speaker 2: There's some confusion going on even in the Yankees game today. Earlier today they lost to the Rangers.

00:39:10
Speaker 1: There was a.

00:39:13
Speaker 2: Strikeout throw them out, but during the strikeout it was an ABS challenge and it was strike three, but they threw him out and the guy stopped going to second because he was like, I thought it was ball four And he was like, yo, but dude, you don't stop running because you think it's ball four. Oh yeah, I know called the abs challenge a strike. So strike three and you're out.

00:39:35
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: So there's lots of different things going on, and there's a lot of moving parts that the umpires are they're still confused by. Maybe so maybe this dude's thinking about something else, maybe he has gas. I don't know what's going on, because yeah, he missed that completely. You know, it's interesting. You know how we've talked about how in baseball they're doing reverse framing now, reverse framing with the catchers. In other words, catchers trying to make it look like a ball when it's a strike. It was a ball, but it was actually a strike just to get the guy to challenge, because they want the other team to waste their challenges. You're deaking the challenge kind of. There may be other shenanigans, just based on what you said, Danny. What if what if a team's like, all right, steal, Like if you steal, run through, no matter what, because you could almost you can might chance change the car, you can abs, you can abs hoping it's a striker ball. And then all of a sudden you catch a guy sleep and saying, all right, I'll just walk to second.

00:40:26
Speaker 1: You'll see it later. There's a lot of different things going on. It's like get out.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick would manipulate timeout calling until they caught him, Like, all right, we gotta adjust that. You're seeing it in baseball. But all right, let's let's wrap with Brady and Mendoza. Mendoza sciences first ever official tops NFL card, And of course, I mean it's the card. It's like the Jose Canseco rated rookie, It's the eighty six rated rookie of today. This is Fernando Mendoza's rookie card, autographed, and who's jumping at it? TB twelve himself already says, I'm buying this Brady On Mendoza's first rookie card.

00:41:01
Speaker 1: But is that is that? Is that a good look? Meaning like I believe in this kid so much.

00:41:06
Speaker 2: I almost feel like it's a Tom Brady trying to give a little extra confidence.

00:41:09
Speaker 4: Boost that that And I was gonna say Cove because you know, Tom Brady, he has these card shops.

00:41:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he has a card vault. I think I don't know why he has like thirteen of him. I feel like I heard him say that once before. He has a bunch of them. Yeah, he owns all these twelve Yeah he should, I think he yeah, me double check that. I don't know why, but I think Danny he wanted for one of his shops that Brady wants in. But I think also it's the right move because if Brady's already a collector, what a great confidence look in that, y'all. I feel like this is gonna be valuable, like above and beyond, because you're my guy and I believe in you.

00:41:42
Speaker 1: Fernando.

00:41:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he knows he's a future pro bowler.

00:41:46
Speaker 1: Not like when I bought all those Todd Van Poppol cards.

00:41:49
Speaker 2: Greg Jefferies, My Greg Jeffery future Stark collection.

00:41:53
Speaker 1: Man, I had like eighteen of those.

00:41:54
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: Tom Brady holds a fifty percent steak and card vault and he has over a dozen now thirteen. Eric's to maybe fourteen locations by the end of the year. So yeah, he wants it, so you can't have it now. Listen, We'll see you guys tomorrow. Enjoy your NBA Playoffs tonight. Until next time, a river there, Chie baby, see you in the premise land.

00:42:13
Speaker 1: Goodbye.