Chapter 1: What are Covino & Rich's final thoughts on the art of mixtapes?
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Chapter 2: What happened to the fan who stole a ball from kids at a game?
Fox sports radio nation. We're giving away prizes this hour. We do it every Tuesday. I can't wait either. Steve Covino, rich Davis, Danny G the greatest producer in all the land with the most buttery voice you'll ever hear. Oh, you know what? Getting a lot of feedback on our intro chat. Speaking of, hey, you can watch us on YouTube. Yeah.
People saying it's absolutely allowed to laugh at fans when their team's loose. Oh, okay. Like, there's joy in that. All right. Gavino and Rich, we'd be rocking. In fact, Ashley said, Cowboys fans? It's my favorite thing to do. Teams are fun to laugh at. Young men trying to live their dream. I was defending Pavia yesterday as a fellow 5'10 inch Vato Loco.
You know, somebody's got to have his back. And you're going to pretend like everybody in the NFL has such a great attitude? Give me a break. Well, he wound up getting signed. I know. I'm rooting for the guy. Instead of just being invited to minicamp, the Ravens were like, let's sign you to a contract. That's cool, and I just hope he proves everybody wrong because he has a choice, right?
He could either be Johnny Manziel or he could be Baker Mayfield, and I hope he takes the right path. I know, but I'm saying there was something comical about a really boisterous, loud guy just sitting there with 32 hats, not getting drafted. That's sad, dude. I've seen a lot of his interviews. He's a little overly confident. Like, is that a crime? I don't know.
You know what?
Apparently for him it was. I want to put Isaac on the spot because, you know, why wouldn't I? When you do a three-year deal for an unsigned guy like that, and they're like, yeah, I saw like three years. What type of money is involved in that? Is that a very low-key situation, or what's that all about, you think? Oh, no. I mean, it's in the six figures, but the issue is it's non-guaranteed.
It's a pretty standard in terms of length, three years. The problem is it's not guaranteed, and they can obviously fire him at any time. We're not talking millions. This is hundreds of thousands, probably. Oh, yeah. It ain't chump change, but it ain't millions. But it's certainly not millions. He's not signing some... Okay, gotcha. Wasn't quite sure.
He has to make the team is the big thing.
That's Danny G. We got Teenage Mutant Ninja Sammy over there. Sammy Sweetheart on the ones and twos with his TMNT t-shirt on. And again, we are CNR on FSR.
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Chapter 3: What trivia game featuring Big Papi do Covino & Rich play?
And Rich, I thought of one last thing about the art of the mixtape. because there's a lot of mixtape gossip in the world of sports today. It's got to have a flow. It's got to have a theme. It's got to have a title. It's got to have heart put into it. It's got to have effort. And there's so much time and energy put into those. I made so many in my life.
Remember you had to balance out the songs just right because you didn't want to leave too much space at the end of the tape, but you didn't want to get one song cut off at the end of the tape either. So you had to play it out just perfect. You also have to press that little, I don't know what it was called, Danny G. Do you remember on the cassette, that little thing?
You have to push it in so that no one can record over it. I don't know the name of that.
But you know what I'm talking about.
There was a tab. There was a little tab. Rich is like, what tab? Have you ever? You had to push the tab in.
Otherwise, they could record. We broke the tab.
You broke the tab off. And then when you went to record over the cassette tape. Put a piece of tape over it. Yeah, you put like wadded up a piece of paper and then taped it over. But you didn't want people to do that. Was there anything more frustrating when someone accidentally taped over something you had?
Oh, no.
I remember someone taped over. I had Major League on VHS, and I remember someone accidentally taped over my wild thing, Rick Vaughn, Willie Mays Hayes, Jake Taylor. Like a Disney TV movie of the week?
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Chapter 4: How are the NBA playoffs affecting fan engagement?
Like a detective show? And I'm like, what is this? I think my mom or dad taped Simon and Simon. Who was in that, by the way? Gerald McRaney. Yeah, there you go. Gerald McRaney. I would say the bald guy with the mustache. Should have been Jake and the Fat Man, right? Jake and the Fat Man. Might as well have been.
All right, so speaking of fat guys with mustaches, there's a guy who is enemy number one today. A guy that stole a ball. Now, this is another art we need to perfect and we need to figure out. Zach Hample seems to be the league leader of hatred when it comes to catching foul balls and home runs. And honestly, I get that he's annoying. Rich and I have interviewed that guy, Zach Hample.
He's written a book. He catches all those memorable, monumental home runs. He wasn't that bad of a guy. He gets a lot of hate. Well, guess what? He's not getting as much hate this week because there's a new vandal in town. There's a new villain. And by the way, could I tell you?
I've probably been to more baseball games than the average fellow by far because my family was Met season ticket holders for a while. When we worked at SNY, part of our deal was season tickets. There were times where I was going to 25, 30 games a year for sure. Would you believe? Never caught a foul ball. And it's not like I missed one. It just...
Luck strikes you in different areas of life, and I'm very blessed in my life.
Don't you make up for it as a bushwhacker?
Yeah, we got a lot of TV time. Look it up on YouTube, Covino and Rich Bushwhacking, because we've gotten a lot of TV time at the home run derbies, but we've never caught a home run. We've never caught a foul ball. Yeah, last year, do you remember if you saw us last year at the home run derby? The guy behind us caught one.
right over the like never never in a position should have caught that one if you had reached back in the right spot but you know what danny he had one of those huge blue gloves on the ones that you wear the way the promotional glove on but you know what um shout out to my buddy owen who i know listens on the app once while one of my buddies he's in his like mid-30s he goes yo you believe the other day i was at the dodgers game he goes i caught a foul ball for the first time in my life and he goes it was a thrill it really was a thrill you feel like you're the chosen one for the
Can I tell you this, though? I was at Citi Field a couple years ago with my kids as part of the 10 Mets losses in a row I've witnessed in person. And a ball bounced. It wasn't on a fly, so I don't think it would have counted anyway, but a ball bounced in my section, rolled under the chair, and some big galoot, some big goon, like pulled the ball away from me and my son. Like under the chair.
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Chapter 5: What insights do Covino & Rich share about the NFL draft?
She had the ick. Looked at him like, you just took that ball away from that father and son that were trying to get the ball. In some of the coolest videos we've ever seen is when somebody hands the ball to a little kid and you see the reaction from that little fan. You know what? I disagree on this.
No, no, no.
I have a rule. Here's my thought. is the catch. Like if a ball comes to me and I'm there, my third baseline, catching the ball is the thrill. Once I catch it, hey, is there a kid around me? Here, take a kid. I don't care about the ball. Because this kid, little Steve, pumpkin pie haircut kid, me, never got one. What are you going to do with it?
So after my first one, I'm going to put it in my sock drawer and keep it there and look at it every time I put my tronies on. Rub it for good luck. Yeah, rub it for good luck. You don't think that's a loser move? No. Because after I get my first one, I'll be more than happy to give it to any nose-picking kid in the vicinity. So I have a question. But I got to get my first one.
I don't think God will give you a second one if you do that.
Nah, I got to get my first one, dude. I'm sorry. I'm not handing off my first one. I'll give it to my own kid. I'll give it to my nephew or something. But I look at that differently.
I'm keeping the first one.
Thanks, Steve. Why? I'm worried about this kid inside who never got his. I'm worried about me. Dude, you're in your 40s. I don't care. After that. I'm not saying I'm stealing one from a kid. I'm just saying I'm not giving mine to some nose-picking kid. Until I get my first one. After that, I'll give out hundreds of them. The whole BS thought of you being like, oh, give it to my daughter.
Your daughter's a teenager that doesn't give a hoot about baseball. I'm just saying there's kids in my life that come before some random kid I don't know. So that one is the one. And then after that, I think that's a fair compromise. You're telling me you're at a game.
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Chapter 6: How does the conversation shift to discussing player fandom?
That was me. So you just have to wait for your turn. One day you're going to get yours. Nothing would make me happier is if you were caught on TV doing that and you became the biggest a-hole of the night on SportsCenter. Steve's going to catch us first and then his pants are going to fall down like that guy from the video. How dare you? I wish that on you. Well, my point is this.
Last night, you're making it out that that's a villain move. A villain move is stealing a ball from a kid. That's not what I'm saying. But I also think a loser move. All right, a villain move is that. Now I'm talking about something else. A loser move?
is catching a ball at a stadium, unless it's Otani's game-winning home run, or unless it's someone's 70th, or Aaron Judge's record-breaking, if it's a foul ball off the bat of Miguel Cairo, Are you really want that ball? Are you proud of yourself? What are you going to do with it? It's a baseball. I just told you. I'm going to keep it in my chonies drawer.
I want it. Touch it for good luck every day.
But what are you going to do? Are you going to show it to someone? Yeah. You know what? You want to know something weird and random? What are you really going to do with it? I'll show you something today. I have a baseball in my sock drawer right now. I don't know who gave it to me, but I keep it there. So I'll replace that one. Your 27th Little League home run ball?
Yeah, I think it might be my 27th and final home run in Little League. I have a baseball in my sock drawer, and I'll add this one to that.
Can I tell you how you display it? You take the freeze frame of him catching it on TV. You print that out. You put it behind the display in a glass case, and the ball is sitting on a little stand. And so Steve's picture of him catching it, it's like, oh, there's the association right there.
But I was him. When you really think about it, it's not signed. It's just a baseball. What a loser you'd have to be not to give it to a little kid next year. Even a home run? Even a home run. Nah, so you're big dreaming. Rich, what if it was a monumental home run?
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of stealing a ball from a child at a game?
I just said that. I said if it was something that would be valuable. Home run's a home run. If it was like Otani's 50th. But you wouldn't feel bad if there was a little kid giving you puppy eyes next to you for something like that? Danny, if this is something that could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars with Steiner Sports or something... Yeah, I worry about my family.
But I said, if this is a foul ball or a home run off the bat of Michael Conforto, know what I'm doing? I'm saying, hey, little kid, it means more to you. What a loser you'd be. It's a baseball. Grow up. I bring this up because last night, or it might have been the night before. Hey, bro, agree to disagree. You're the greatest guy. I'm keeping that one. You're a weenus. Bro. One?
You're making a big deal like I'm the worst guy ever. Weenus? I haven't heard that in years. You should be the lead singer of the band, Weenus. Why don't you put that on your mixtape? Isn't that the elbow right here? Why don't you touch my weenus? Oh, yeah, it is. You know, why don't you go ahead and touch it? But you know what?
I want to make it very clear because Rich is making me out to be a bad guy. One ball for my childhood dream that I'm the worst guy ever? Rich, you're the best. Ooh. So there you go. There's a guy last night or the night before. I don't need you to play stat point back. Rachel, it was two nights ago. It happened to hit my algorithm.
And this guy, I don't think you could be more embarrassed than this guy. Some slob at the game. The ball bounces in front of a brother and a sister, two little kids with their baseball gloves on. They're all pumped up. They reach down for the ball and some slob runs over to their section and pulls it away from them. pulls it. Now that's the difference.
That's why I don't want to get mixed up with losers like this guy. Jerk ass! I never said I'd steal it from a kid. The commentators, I think they sent, you know how every team has their in-stands man or woman that's like the on-field reporter? The on-field reporter, I think his name is Ryan, they sent him up there to give those kids a ball.
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Chapter 8: What are the highlights of the Big Papi trivia segment?
They made a crappy moment, like a nice moment. It was a good PR moment. It was a good PR, nice little moment. But the reality is, if you're doing that, Like, you're the lowest form of weenus. Loser to the highest regard. To pull a ball away from a kid at a game, you should be banned from ever seeing a woman in your life. Like, God, the biggest ick for all women of all time.
You might be the biggest loser that ever was.
And you're caught on camera.
That should be you. Yeah, it's a reallyāthis might be the worst look. You know, there was one from the Mets game a while back, Rich, that we were talking about earlier, too, about this bearded guy steals one from the old guy. Like, that's pathetic. There's an old guy, probably like one of the few remaining World War II veterans, and then some dude rips the ball from him.
I think that's worse because that guy's towards the end of his life, and maybe he's like Covino, and he never touched a foul ball ever. Finally, my moment. Yeah, at least the little kid has his whole lifeā The little kid has his whole life in front of him and a lot more MLB games to attend. They're both losers, in my opinion.
It's the same mentality of people fighting over TVs on Black Friday, that type of mentality. You're fighting over a baseball. Even worse, you're stealing it from an old guy or a little kid. You should be embarrassed.
That is the worst.
It's like people trying to push a kid away. In an autograph opportunity? Yeah, gross. Gross.
It really is.
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