Covino & Rich - A Baseball to the Face!

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show: Covino & Rich – "A Baseball to the Face!"

Date: September 25, 2025
Podcast/Network: iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network
Hosts: Steve Covino & Rich Davis
Episode Theme: The physical and emotional impact of getting hit in the face in sports—prompted by a harrowing MLB incident—and tales of memorable (and painful) moments, laughter, and insight on baseball, football, and life.

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Episode Overview

In this lively and candid episode, Covino and Rich zero in on a recent frightening MLB event: Cleveland Guardians’ player David Fry taking a 99.6 mph fastball to the face during a game. Through their signature humor and heartfelt banter, the hosts share childhood and adult experiences involving facial injuries, discuss the shot’s implications on Fry and the Guardians, swap listener stories, and riff on broader themes around fear, recovery, and the culture of sports. Additional segments touch on ongoing MLB playoff races, coaching Little League, and the everyday embarrassment and aftermath of sports accidents.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The David Fry Incident

• Summary: The hosts open by reacting to Cleveland Guardian David Fry’s hospitalizing facial injury from a high-and-tight pitch by Tarik Skubal.
• Breakdown:
  • Covino and Rich analyze the play breakdown, noting Fry’s extreme “squaring up” for a bunt put him in harm’s way but stress Skubal’s lack of malicious intent.
  • Empathy is expressed for both players: Fry’s pain and Skubal’s visible regret and shock.
  • Fry, despite sustaining multiple minimal facial fractures, is reported to be in recovery: "Luckily, he’s okay. When I say okay... six to eight week recovery. And that’s great to hear.” (Covino, 08:07)
  • The Guardians, undeterred, win the game and take the division lead.

2. The Psychological Fallout of Sports Injuries

• On Players: The team reflects on the mental trauma, or PTSD, tossed hitters often experience:
  • “He has to be a little apprehensive moving forward, right? There’s got to be that PTSD involved… at least for the next few months.” (Covino, 09:51)
• On Little League: Rich shares how youth ballplayers often need months—or never fully recover—from the fear after being beaned:
  • “Every kid gets hit once in Little League and for the next week, month, two months, maybe the season, [they] are a bit nervous at the plate.” (Rich, 11:01)
• Protective Gear Anecdotes: Covino relates how his friend’s facial injury forced everyone in their Little League to wear a protective mask: “He was that kid... and he was infamous… for that one reason.” (Covino, 09:06)

3. Personal and Listener “Hit in the Face” Stories

• Covino & Rich’s Central Park Listener Event (13:19):

  • During a friendly softball game with listeners in NYC, a wild throw nails a female fan on the sideline. The festive mood evaporates until she’s thankfully found to be okay.
  • “The guy that threw the ball... threw a 90 mile per hour... and it hits this woman square in the face. It took all the fun… sucked all the fun out of the day.” (Covino, 15:14)

• Physical & Emotional Embarrassment:

  • The group unpacks how being hit in the face, even with a dodgeball, is not only physically painful but socially mortifying.

• Listener Call-ins:

  • Tripp (34:02): Remembers the mortification after beaning a left-handed hitter during Pony League.
    • “I hit him square in the helmet. And I was just devastated.” (Tripp, 34:28)
  • Mo (35:32): Describes being struck unexpectedly by a soccer ball, retorting with anger at the wrong culprit, and almost causing a high school riot.
  • Mark in Bakersfield (37:06): Relives the guilt of smashing a co-ed softball participant at third base: “I swing as hard as I can, and it just hits her... straight in the face... That was the last time I ever played coed softball.” (Mark, 37:06)
  • Bruno in Brooklyn (38:58): Recalls a golf practice mishap where a friend walked into a swinging club, resulting in a frightening head injury.

4. The “Would You Rather” Segment: Face vs. Net Region vs. Hands

• Rich muses whether he’d rather be hit in the face, the groin (see recent NFL reference re: Matthew Stafford), or break both wrists.
  • “I think the answer is definitely the huevos. But... I’m not sure about that.” (Rich/Covino, 17:53–18:04)
• General agreement: Face injuries are both terrifying and memorable—“You never forget it.” (Covino, 51:26)

5. Notable Celebrity and Sports Figures’ Facial Injuries

• Reminiscing about wrestler Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake’s reconstructive surgery after a parasailing accident.
  • “They put his face back together based on a picture... he looked relatively handsome... you would have never known.” (Covino, 17:04)
• Reference to MLB star Giancarlo Stanton’s return after facial fractures.

6. Sports Culture—Shame and Resilience

• The hosts reflect on the long memory kids hold for crying after getting beaned: “Even at 65, you remember those kids in Little League that cried when they got hit?” (Covino, 12:30)
• Absorbing and overcoming embarrassment is part of the “sports initiation” for both kids and adults.

7. Safety & Changing Attitudes

• Podcast participants note an increase in adults wearing masks in men’s softball—a practice once ridiculed, now seen as smart after recent harrowing incidents.
  • “Men’s slow pitch softball, there’s guys that are 30, 40 years old, that... swing hard, right?... There was a guy that hit a ball back and knocked the dude in the head unconscious.” (Rich, 22:26–23:09)

8. MLB Standings and Playoff Races

• As a break from injury tales, Rich and Covino recap playoff surges and collapses, focusing on the Guardians overtaking the Tigers, the Mets’ wild card hopes, and the Dodgers’ bullpen woes.
• Dan Beyer provides news and updates, including David Fry’s recovery status and highlights from around MLB and the NFL (41:26–42:57).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Rich (on childhood trauma):
  • “Every kid gets hit once in Little League and... [they] are a bit nervous at the plate.” (11:01)
• Covino (on post-injury nerves):
  • “There’s got to be that PTSD involved of being scared of any high and tight pitch.” (09:51)
• Dan Beyer (medical update):
  • “Multiple fractures on the left side of his face and other nasal fractures as well.” (Dan Beyer, 09:38)
• Covino (on embarrassment):
  • “You never forget it because it’s like a movie... Did that just happen?” (Covino, 18:56)
• Rich (on parent reaction):
  • “Sometimes if you keep your calm, like ‘Are you okay there buddy?’... They don’t cry until you react.” (31:26)
• Listener Mark (softball mishap):
  • “There’s this nice girl playing third base... and it just hits her... straight in the face.” (37:06)
• Covino (recounting a personal/family story):
  • “My little sister is completely knocked out. Not even joking... She had a big lump in her head... yo, we thought we killed her, dude.” (51:22)
• Rich (sports lesson):
  • “Are you injured, or are you scared? Because I think 99% of the time when a kid cries, they’re not injured, they’re just scared.” (32:29)

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Time | Segment/Topic | |-------------|----------------------------------------------------| | 03:50 | Hosts’ banter, team intros, show plan reveals | | 06:09–10:49 | Deep dive: Fry’s injury & trauma analysis | | 13:19 | Covino & Rich’s Central Park listener event story | | 17:53–18:55 | “Would You Rather”—face vs. groin vs. wrists | | 21:56 | Discussing safety gear and modern attitudes | | 31:04 | Listener call-ins: Experiences with face injuries | | 41:26 | Dan Beyer’s sports news and Fry medical update | | 47:58 | “Tire Rack Play of the Day”—Guardians clinch win | | 50:13–51:26 | Covino’s little sister’s accident—family trauma |

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Overall Tone and Takeaways

• Covino and Rich blend humor, empathy, and candid personal storytelling in exploring how scary and formative being hit (or seeing someone hit) in the face can be—especially in sports.
• The episode is both a heartfelt reflection on the dangers of sports and a tribute to the resilience of athletes (and everyday people) who get back up—physically and emotionally—after taking one “to the face.”
• Advice and lessons for parents, players, and coaches echo throughout: react with calm, use protective gear, don’t let embarrassment linger, and always root for recovery.

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For More:

• Listen live on Fox Sports Radio weekdays, catch Covino & Rich on all podcast platforms, and join the conversation on YouTube or social media.

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“You never, ever forget it... but she’s alive to tell the story.”
—Steve Covino on the lifelong impression left by a fastball to the face (51:26)

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[Steve Covino]

Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino Enrich podcast.

[Rich Davis]

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[Steve Covino]

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[Rich Davis]

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[Steve Covino]

He is I and I is him. I'm Steve Covino. That is Rich Davis. It's the show that's sweeping the nation. Yeah, buddy. And the bathroom floor is after the show, which is just part of the deal. Gonna work that out of the next contract. Got Danny G. Super producing at 87799 on Fox. He's got that smooth, buttery voice and a buttered biscuit he's eating on air. That's Iowa Sam, the coolest guy in town.

[Rich Davis]

Like two for two with bad jokes, huh? Sweeping bathrooms, biscuits. What else you got?

[Steve Covino]

Iowa Sam Sammy, sweetheart.

[Rich Davis]

Thank you.

[Steve Covino]

Hey, we got Dan Beyer with your updates. He's the consummate professional. We got spot. He's just sitting there. He's on the videos. He's on the videos. YouTube, Covino and Rich, FSR. And we be rocking out. Let's go.

[Rich Davis]

You better be careful. You might just put like a permanent dunk hat. Serious over you on the video.

[Steve Covino]

I'm just messing more in the last five minutes than you have. Hey, I'm. I'm daring to be different. I'm trying to get people's attention, trying to hook them in. Just ready to change the channel. They're thinking maybe not because we have lots of fun to talk about today.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, buddy.

[Steve Covino]

Lots of baseball, lots of football, lots of nonsense.

[Rich Davis]

No diggity. No doubt. And if you're watching on the video. Do you like my sweet Keith Hernandez legend shirt?

[Steve Covino]

I was confused. I thought it was my dad.

[Rich Davis]

Just a. It's a shirt my buddy Andy got me. He's like, I thought of you when I saw this. It's 80s Keith Hernandez smoking in the dugout.

[Steve Covino]

Very nice. The good old days when it's wild.

[Rich Davis]

To think that Keith Hernandez used to smoke in the dugout.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, when that was, I guess. I don't know if that was ever accepted, but they did it anyway. Right now we're broadcasting live from the FOX Sports Radio studio. And if you miss any of today's show or any of my bad jokes, catch the podcast. Search Covino and Rich, wherever you get your podcast. And be sure to follow, rate and review. Five stars only, because anything less is uncivilized. And like we said, we're streaming live. And you could chat live. Millions of people chiming in. Become Fox Sports Radio famous and say something [e-mail] covinoenrichfsr or you could watch it later now, later today, not only are we gonna have lots of fun, super fun time, but we got Mike's Wednesday words of wisdom. So we're giving away prizes if you could repeat it verbatim.

[Rich Davis]

And of course, did you mean to say repeat it?

[Steve Covino]

He said repeat it. I was actually just looking at you and telling you to beat it. Sounds like my weekend plan.

[Rich Davis]

Third bad joke.

[Steve Covino]

And we also spot what Edward Midweek Major. We do it every Wednesday. The biggest stories in sports and pop culture spots actually getting ready for that. But no, I'm just sitting here. It's post season ghost season. We're heading into it. And yesterday, some crazy baseball. We're going to talk about the Yankees clinching, but we got to talk about David Fry and what happened to him, because that was scary, dude. I couldn't believe what I saw at first. I was like, Dan Byer did it hit the bat? That was wild.

[Rich Davis]

Well, the guy we're talking about, David Fry, is the guy that got hit in the face. I don't think the pitch, when you take a look at it, I don't think Scuba went to inside. I think Fry squares around for a bun, hovers over the plate, and what would normally have been on a regular pitch, a sort of a brush back. When you're squaring around that much in front of the plate, you are exposing yourself. Like, you know, when you teach little.

[Steve Covino]

Kids, he exposed himself to a 99.6 mile per hour fastball to the face.

[Rich Davis]

When you teach little kids how to get out of the way if a ball's coming at you, you know, it's the opposite of squaring up for a bun. You always tell them to, you know, turn away and let it hit your side or back. Like you, you know, like a turtle.

[Steve Covino]

Well, speaking of what you teach to kids, if you're one of those Kids that sucked at Little League, you may have never learned that the second you see someone square away for a bunt, you're supposed to throw high and tight.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah.

[Steve Covino]

And that's what Scuba was doing. He was doing his job. I agree with Rich. I think he squared away way too far. He leaned into that fastball well, because.

[Rich Davis]

School, you saw his reaction. He felt terrible. And, you know, he's a good man. He, of course, feels empathy and sympathy and all those things. But David Fry was over the plate. He was. He was. Again, I don't think this is some ridiculous high, tight. Would have hit him pitch. I really wouldn't have. I think it would have been inside ball one.

[Steve Covino]

But so scary to see. Luckily, he's okay. When I say okay, he has facial fractures. You heard Dan Byer talking about it. But in the grand scheme of how bad it could have been, he's okay. Six to eight week recovery. And that's great to hear. I know school felt terrible. His teammates felt. Everybody watching. I felt terrible. But the Guardians pulled it together and they end up winning five to two. But let's talk about it. The times you got hit in the face. Or maybe you were responsible for it, because we all have stories and Rich and I share one together, and we'll tell you this unfortunate tale. But it's scary sometimes. You're never the same. You could talk about Giancarlo Stanton, or you could talk about my buddy Barry. You know, my buddy Barry Barnando. He was that kid in Little League that got hit in the face, broke his jaw. And then we had to wear those masks for the rest of our Little League career.

[Rich Davis]

You had to wear, like, a mask.

[Steve Covino]

In Little League, Like a plastic guard that went over the helmet.

[Rich Davis]

Oh, Barry ruined it.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, he sort of ruined that for everybody. He was that kid, and he was infamous, which is more than famous for. For that one reason. But we all have those stories. And Rich and I, like I said, we share, like, a terrible story. But maybe you were punched. Maybe you were knocked in the face. We want to hear those stories because I want to know if you saw stars, did you see birds, like the cartoons, and how scary it actually is. We had fun a day later, but at first it was very scary.

[Rich Davis]

Very scary. And even, you know, as scary as the hit in the face. Because we know that he's going to recover, right? Danbuyer, like, he's going to be six.

[Dan Beyer]

To eight weeks, was discharged from the hospital. They say he's resting comfortably, but they were minimally, Minimally displaced fractures but there were multiple fractures on the left side of his face and other nasal fractures as well.

[Steve Covino]

Now, I don't wish this upon him or anybody, but he has to be a little apprehensive moving forward, right? There's got to be that PTSD involved of being scared of any high and type pitch, at least for the next few months. But scary, man.

[Rich Davis]

Listen, the bummer for him is a he fractured his face and nasal bones and everything.

[Steve Covino]

That's every ball player, everybody's fear.

[Rich Davis]

But I'm saying what sucks for him is that the Cleveland Guardians are on a roll. They're. They are now in first place in a tiebreaker over Detroit. The Tigers have had the most monumental collapse in Major League Baseball history. At one point this year, they had a 15 and a half game lead over whoever was in second place at the time. So the Tigers collapse has taken a. It has taken a backseat to this story today because right now, Cleveland, Cleveland rocks.

[Steve Covino]

Cleveland, aside from this pitch to the face, is fun times in Cleveland again.

[Rich Davis]

Cleveland, yeah, I mean, good times for Cleveland. I feel bad for David Fry again. I pull back to Little League because she said, your buddy Barry got hit in the face.

[Steve Covino]

Every kid broke his drum.

[Rich Davis]

It is without a doubt the most universally accepted coach ball game would tell you this. Every kid gets hit once in Little League and for the next week, month, two months, maybe the season, are a bit nervous at the plate.

[Steve Covino]

Some kids might not ever recover. And I'm wishing David Fry the best. And I don't know what it is about this particular pitch because when I saw it, you know, maybe it's the fact that I know he's okay now, I was. I'm able to watch it. There's other injuries, like a, like a broken leg or something. We're not going to show that again. I can't watch that. For some reason. I could watch the ball to the face, as terrible as it was. And that's just a random observation I made. I don't get that weird feeling of, oh, I can't watch, but I have a few stories. One in balls.

[Rich Davis]

I would be careful, by the way, with your Google search. Balls to the face.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. Be careful of it. I hope I don't get in trouble from hr.

[Rich Davis]

I was doing research, but my point is every kid has gone through this. I remember I got drilled in the helmet by a kid in Little League throwing heat. And for a good month, I was like, oh, you get scared in the box. And my son who plays T ball, it's coach Pitch and machine pitch. There was a good month where I had to mentally get my son back in and be like, yo, Benny boy, you're not going to get hit. He got hit in the hand, and his hand swelled up. And every pitch he did the. You bail out, you step out.

[Steve Covino]

You know what's unfortunate about that, Rich, is, you know, what are you, like, 60 years old now?

[Rich Davis]

Get out of here.

[Steve Covino]

Even at 65, you remember those kids in Little League that cried when they got hit? You still remember that? Yeah, it's the trip.

[Rich Davis]

Maybe not that young. I remember. I remember the kids that cried when they were like, it.

[Steve Covino]

Just like laying in the batter's box, like, oh.

[Dan Beyer]

The hardball was the crazy thing for me because I took one in the stomach playing pickle. So that made me afraid. I didn't make contact my first year of Little League until the last game of the year. We're talking contact, like a foul ball, because I was always pulling out of the batter's box completely.

[Rich Davis]

Front foot, you're pulling out. And every kid. The kid gets hit or gets nervous. The whole season, you're DB there's kids on my team that will never make contact because they are nervous, like you said.

[Steve Covino]

And every episode, they pull out laces on your face or on your. Wherever you got hit. You feel that sizzle of the fastball coming in?

[Dan Beyer]

Yes.

[Steve Covino]

That's hard to recover from. So we do wish David Fry the best, but it opens up the conversation. I'm glad he's okay. It was a horrible scene, and I did feel for everybody involved last night, and congratulations to the Guardians. But Rich and I had a listener get together. It was at one of our conventions in New York City. We're in Central Park, New York. Beautiful day. Hundreds of listeners there. We had a softball event before a big party. We just got together at Central Park. Listeners from all over the country came. We had a big softball game. It's Rich's chance to show off because he thinks he's Mike Piazza. And we had, by the way, you.

[Rich Davis]

See him hitting bombs at 57.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich Davis]

Mike Piazza, 57 years old.

[Steve Covino]

Piazza always took, like, monster hats, and.

[Rich Davis]

That'S sort of my swing tip.

[Steve Covino]

Monster hats. Rich swings, like, for the fence with every swing.

[Rich Davis]

For the record, he's got a good ten plus years on me.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, yeah.

[Rich Davis]

Come on.

[Steve Covino]

But we're having a listener event, and that's important because everyone's just having fun. It's a listener event. We're in Central park, beautiful day, and some of the women that came to support Our show weren't playing. They were just sitting on the sideline. They were just hanging around. And we had a kid at shortstop who listened to the show that was a college baseball player, like a legitimate athlete, really good, in fact. And a ground balls hit the shortstop. This kid Doug, scoops it up and he rifles one to an average. First play, first base, playing jabroni that was hanging out with us.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, I mean, he made a great play. Throws a bullet. This guy can't scoop it at first. I watched in slow motion as this ball bounced at first base and went about 10 to 15ft on a fly beyond that and hit one of our female listeners in jaw square in the face.

[Steve Covino]

So here we are at a listener event. You know, we're like, hey, can we get sued for this? We're in Central Park. This is horrible. You know, we felt so terrible. The guy that threw the ball, I mean, he just threw like a. Like a 90 mile per hour, like Aaron, you know, to first base. And it hits this woman square in the face. And it took all the fun. Sucked all the fun out of the day. Everyone's, you know, concerned about the whole thing. Turns out she's okay.

[Rich Davis]

Do you remember Spot, weren't they. There was two girls that listened and they visit. They were visiting from Salmon Arm, right?

[Dan Beyer]

Oh, yeah.

[Rich Davis]

I remember being like, yeah, some girl from Salmon Arm got smacked in the face. Why was she sitting behind the first base line?

[Steve Covino]

First base, I don't know. And we were like, oh, no, he killed our listener. We felt so terrible. Yeah, she went down. It was so scary. So let's share some stories. I got other stories and I got a personal story, because getting hit in the face, man, you'll never forget it if your bell's rung like that. Look, if you're a fighter, I get it. It's happened. But if you're not and you get your bell rung like that, it sticks with you.

[Rich Davis]

Now, there's something very scary about getting hit in the face. And the idea of this dude, David Fry, having broken, you know, some fractures in his face. Remember the story of the wrestler Brutus the barber Beefcake?

[Steve Covino]

No, but I remember the story of the hippopotamus.

[Caller]

Jeez.

[Rich Davis]

The story of Brutai. Brutus Beefcake the wrestler. And you learn this if you watch wrestling documentaries or you remember as a kid, he was parasailing and someone's knees slammed into his face at full speed and his face, like, shattered.

[Steve Covino]

He needed reconstructive surgery on his whole face, right? Yeah.

[Rich Davis]

They put his Face back together based on a picture. And I.

[Steve Covino]

Which is kind of remarkable because he looked relatively handsome. I mean, we interviewed the guy you would have never known.

[Rich Davis]

I remember you saying, beefcake for sure.

[Steve Covino]

What a beefcake.

[Rich Davis]

So my question is this. While the face injury is very scary, because it's your freaking face, right? It's your face. It's what people look at. It's what you. It's your face. Your brain's back there, too. And your brain's back there, Sam. It's your face. Would you rather get hit in the face? Because the moment is scary, but God willing, you're okay. Would you rather that? Would you rather. What happened to Matthew Stafford the other day? You see that? He said he got his huevos crushed. His wife said that on her podcast. She goes, you see, there's a clip from the Rams game, and he is.

[Steve Covino]

Would you rather get hit in the huevos or swear in the face?

[Rich Davis]

I think the answer is definitely the huevos. But the third.

[Steve Covino]

No, I'm not sure about that. Thank you.

[Rich Davis]

So Stafford gets crushed in the. In the. In the nutties. The third one, I saw a dude that you and I know, one of our listeners on Long island took like a. He slipped dropping his kid off from school, and he broke both of his wrists. So for the next, like, months, he can't, like, wipe his butt, probably. He can't do. He can't eat. He can't do it. Imagine if both your. If you break both your hands and wrists. That might be the worst.

[Steve Covino]

Guy's gonna have some lonely nights.

[Rich Davis]

It's true.

[Steve Covino]

So you need your hands. Yeah. You do everything for everything.

[Rich Davis]

So while this is a terrible thing, is there anything worse than getting hit in the face?

[Steve Covino]

Maybe the huevos? Yeah. I don't know. It depends. Like, I've never taken a vicious shot, but I have been punched in the face a few times. And again, like I said, you never forget it because it's like a movie.

[Rich Davis]

It's a pa. Pa.

[Steve Covino]

Your head goes back. Did that just happen? Because if you don't get knocked out, you're aware what happened. It's a weird feeling.

[Rich Davis]

We were at a party in Manhattan at a club.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich Davis]

And I remember some dude was hitting on Cavino's girlfriend. And I'm gonna paint the picture accurately. Covino wasn't being some. Blow hard, like, what are you doing?

[Steve Covino]

Not at all. It was a work event. It was working.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, it was. We were doing. Hosting a thing, and Covino said something like, very polite, like, hey, man, you got good Taste. But she's my girl. Have a great night. Like something very polite. The guy's like, oh, yeah. And I saw this guy.

[Steve Covino]

Shazam, bam.

[Rich Davis]

Face.

[Steve Covino]

No, no, not once. Because you sit there in shock. Like your hair goes back.

[Caller]

Poof.

[Steve Covino]

Right?

[Rich Davis]

Look at this guy.

[Steve Covino]

He hits me again.

[Rich Davis]

Boom.

[Steve Covino]

It's like when. Let's see the slow mo replay. Who's the principal in Ferris Bueller Spot. What's his name?

[Rich Davis]

Principal Rooney. Ed Rooney.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. It's like when Ed Rooney gets kicked in the face.

[Rich Davis]

You know, it was like that. I was thinking.

[Steve Covino]

And you're sitting here, you're like so shocked in here.

[Rich Davis]

Do you remember the scene where they're reenacting like a dream scene and dumb and Dumber and Jim Carrey pops back up and he wipes his mouth. He goes.

[Steve Covino]

He starts doing the speed bag on the guy's. Honestly, Sam, I'm not bragging. I'm not like this fighting kind of guy. But the fact that he didn't knock me out, put me in that zone of attack mode. Like he didn't. And get. I'm not getting punched again. And that's what happened at that point.

[Rich Davis]

And I remember in that moment, like bouncers and everyone jumped in and people got like sort of escorted out of the bar. Cavino didn't get in trouble or anything.

[Steve Covino]

Grounded.

[Rich Davis]

Cavino did nothing wrong.

[Steve Covino]

No, not at all. And I just saw it.

[Rich Davis]

And all I remember was Covino being so mad because the girl he was dating at the time was less concerned about him getting punched. And she's like, I lost one of.

[Steve Covino]

My shoes in the club.

[Rich Davis]

And she had one shoe on.

[Steve Covino]

Shoe. It was a melee.

[Rich Davis]

And Camino's like, but I got punched. Punched in the face. She's like, but my shoe, I love that shoe.

[Steve Covino]

I was bleeding all over the place. So your stories. And again, we say it respectfully because we wish David Fry all the best. But it got us thinking about those scary moments.

[Rich Davis]

Getting hit in the face is one of the top, if not the top, a top level. Like, oh, no.

[Steve Covino]

And we get it. Some people make a living out of doing that. Nobody loves a fight more than us. But when you get punched in the face, it's a different story. Especially when you're not looking for it or hit in the face.

[Rich Davis]

So your stories, speaking of getting hit in the face, I'm sure we'll mention at some point, but they came out with the rules for that Jake Paul Tank Davis fight. And we talked about how Jake Paul, twice his size 12 ounce gloves, which isn't as puffy as we thought.

[Steve Covino]

So maximum weight limit of 195 for that fight. Geez. So I don't know how Big Tank could actually get.

[Rich Davis]

So, I mean, listen, we pay pay per view money and we love watching people fight, but when it's a regular guy getting hit in the face, my goodness. How scary is that? What's scary? That or when you see a pitcher get hit with a laundry. I've coming back to me that there's something real alarming about like this.

[Steve Covino]

It is. It's brutal.

[Dan Beyer]

Yeah. Yesterday, comebacker to Ohtani, and he was. Everyone ran out, of course worried. And that's what you worry about with Shohei is him getting hit by a, you know, a batter hitting the pitch back to him. And it was his glove hand and he shook it off. He wound up being okay.

[Rich Davis]

But there's a couple guys in my men's softball league that at first I sort of laughed at a little bit. Like, why is this guy wearing a mask, right? Like a little pull on mask.

[Steve Covino]

Like a Ronald Reagan mask.

[Rich Davis]

Four great jokes today for you, dude.

[Steve Covino]

I'm on a roll. I'm one of the kings of comedy.

[Rich Davis]

A couple of these. Like a pitcher would wear a mask. I'm like, are we doing this? And I was told the story of like, I guess, right? Like before I started playing and moved out here, there was a story where, you know, men's slow pitch softball, there's guys that are 30, 40 years old. That softball, that swing hard, right?

[Steve Covino]

That's a sitting duck. You're just tossing a little baby softball meatball for some big fat Burley guy. Mark Burley's there to hit a 100 mile per hour rocket right back at you.

[Rich Davis]

There's guys, you're defensive. You've seen videos on Instagram of some of these baller softball players. There was a guy that hit a ball back and knocked the dude in the head unconscious. And people like, oh my God, is he dead? He was fine. Dude.

[Caller]

I don't like it.

[Rich Davis]

He was concussed and everything. But I saw a guy break his wrist in softball. You can't guard that. But I saw a guy throw, throw sort of a cookie guy rip one back. I heard his wrist.

[Dan Beyer]

Oh, so that high arc pitching, you can hit it on a rope?

[Rich Davis]

Oh, yeah.

[Dan Beyer]

If you time it perfectly, man, you could rope it down third baseline or at the pitcher's head, unfortunately.

[Steve Covino]

So scary moment.

[Rich Davis]

So hopefully David Fry will, by the way, you not be that effective.

[Steve Covino]

Side observational school bowl had like the weirdest weakest inning ever. It was like a, it was like a bunch of just circus events. That terrible play he made between his legs, right? That weird play.

[Rich Davis]

Everything went wrong.

[Steve Covino]

Everything went wrong for him that inning. The whole thing was, you could say.

[Rich Davis]

Everything goes wrong for the Tigers.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, that was a bad, bad inning. Oh, boy.

[Rich Davis]

All right. Well, hey, your thoughts. We got all the phones going, so we'll take your feedback next. You're getting hit in the face, David Fry style. Luckily, he seems like he'll be all good, so he recovered. We'll talk a little baseball and of course, NFL. I can't believe we're getting into week four already. Tomorrow night we kick off again. After this week, we're going to be essentially a fourth through the season, which just shows you time is flying, my friends. Last Wednesday in September. So we got more Covino and Rich. We'll take all your feedback and phone calls next. Hit in the face here on Covino and Rich.

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[Steve Covino]

Way back Wednesday. Shout out to Dane Cook. You think he listens?

[Rich Davis]

I love Dane. I love the Dane train.

[Steve Covino]

Remember you say got punched in the face.

[Rich Davis]

In the face.

[Steve Covino]

In the face. In the face.

[Rich Davis]

Listen, don't be too cool. You listened to Dane Cook's comedy on a CD back in the day.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, me and Rich bonded over that hard in the early 2000s.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, Dane Cook was all the rage back then.

[Steve Covino]

Speaking of this is hit between the eyes Scorpions if you're listening live, Iowa Sam on the ones and twos. DJ Sammy, sweetheart. But if you're listening to the podcast, you might not be hearing the music, but I'm glad you're listening. Follow rate and review Covino Enrich wherever you stream your podcasts. Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, the LG X boom grab is the portable speaker that powers your hustle from morning coffee runs to midnight rooftop hangs. Enjoy vibrant sound with up to 2020 hours of playback. And now save [e-mail] with code Fall25F A L L. Bring the Boom X boom and let's have a great fall like Humpty Dumpty Covino and Rich number five. I'm on a roll, dude.

[Rich Davis]

Let's go to the phones are all lit so let's go. Rapid fire times you got hit in the face because this David Fry clip is something man. Just to watch him.

[Steve Covino]

Can we just say like can we spin it and say this is our way of celebrating the recovery of David Frye? Because what we saw was scary. But he's okay.

[Rich Davis]

I think what adds to the scary is, you know, a lot of times I'll give you the analogy. You know when your kid falls sometimes you reacting is the worst thing because then they get scared. Like if you're like oh my God, you okay?

[Steve Covino]

They don't cry until you react.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah. So sometimes if you keep your calm, like are you okay there buddy?

[Dan Beyer]

Or if they're on the edge, you can cause them to fall by overreacting to what they're doing to scare him.

[Rich Davis]

Like, what are you doing up there? I think by Scubal, like dropping his glove and hat and being like, oh, heavens to Betsy, like, and really reacting, it made to me it feel worse.

[Steve Covino]

Everyone's emotion.

[Rich Davis]

I love scubal's emotions. And he reached out and seems like a really good dude. But his reaction to me made it even scarier.

[Dan Beyer]

We were playing some street football in our cul de sac and my 4 year old son fell on his knee wearing shorts. And in my head I was like, ooh, that hurt. And he teetered. Do you cry? Do you not cry? And I played it cool. And he didn't cry. He's like, I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm like, you know what, let's do halftime. Let's go inside. He's like, nope, nope.

[Rich Davis]

Let's play winning dad move. Dan Byer. Winning dad move.

[Steve Covino]

Because if you would have reacted, he probably would have cried some dirt on it. You're all right.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, you know what? Since, you know, I talk a lot about coaching because I'm the number one coach on Fox sports radio.

[Dan Beyer]

When did that start?

[Rich Davis]

I do this with the kids, my daughter's team and my son's team. And if you got kids, you don't need to be a coach. But I always say, and someone taught me this, I always say, are you injured or scared? Because when a kid's like crying, is.

[Steve Covino]

It like, yo, are you stolen that for me? Cause I always say, are you hungry or just bored?

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, I stole from you.

[Steve Covino]

Every time I go to the pantry, I ask myself that, am I hungry.

[Rich Davis]

Or am I bored? That's a good one. But a lot of times you'll see a kid crying and I'm like, are you, Are you. Hey, buddy, you scared? Are you okay? You a little. Did you get shaken up or are you injured? Because I think 99% of the time when a kid cries, they're not injured, they're just scared. Like, hey, you know, you get, you get hit by a ball, you fell and you get startled. And every coach is like, yo, you okay, little Jackson? The kid's scared. He's not hurt. So are you scared or are you injured?

[Steve Covino]

It was a weird sequence of events. School bull making weird plays, had no control. Fry squares up, school hits him in the face. 99.6 mile per hour fastball. As rich said, school very animated and regretful about what happened. And he said the right things too. He said something along the lines of, you know, they lost the game, but Some things are bigger than the game. And David Fry's health was the priority last night. And he's okay. He's got fractures. So we're taking your phone calls now about those scary moments where you hit somebody in the face, or maybe you were hit in the face, because you never forget it. That's really the thing. You never forget it.

[Rich Davis]

Got a trip in Vegas. What's up, Tripp?

[Caller]

Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen.

[Rich Davis]

What's up, buddy?

[Caller]

You'll love this. I got plenty of fight stories from the military, but I got one when I was a kid. So I'm. I'm playing pony league and they bring me in from center field because the pitcher gets hurt. They're like, you got a big arm. You can come pitch. I'm like, okay, first kid, right handed, strike out. Next kid, strike out. Next kid's left handed. I hit him square in the helmet. And I was just devastated.

[Steve Covino]

Those lefties threw you off as a kid.

[Rich Davis]

That's so funny you say that because when you were a pitcher in little league or pony ball, you're so. You got so used to throwing a righties that when there was a lefty, you're like, I don't really need to do anything different, but it feels different.

[Steve Covino]

And, you know, there's a lot of kids that take the mound. And Rich, I'm sure you're experiencing this now as the, you know, the number one coach, as you brag about all the time.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Steve Covino]

So many kids take the mound and they're so scared of actually hitting a kid that they don't throw the way they're capable of because they're so apprehensive. Hitting somebody.

[Dan Beyer]

You sound like Dave Roberts. Press conference after the game last night.

[Steve Covino]

We're going to get to that.

[Rich Davis]

Let me tell you. I see the girls do that all the time in my daughter's softball. Like, they. If a girl hits a girl, she will then pitch hesitantly. And they do this thing. When a girl gets hit, they all take a knee. I don't know if that's a new thing. Like, like everyone in the field and dugout, like, girl gets hit by a pitcher, instinct, like, take a knee and they, like, don't get up until the girl's like, I'm okay.

[Steve Covino]

No, but you know those kids that have a rocket arm and then all of a sudden they're like, throwing darts. They're like, eh. Because they don't want. They don't want to hit the kid.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah. What up, Arizona?

[Steve Covino]

What's up, Mo?

[Caller]

Hey, what's going on, guys.

[Rich Davis]

What's up, man?

[Caller]

All right. Hey. So I'm in the 90s. MET Fontana High School. May have heard about this one. Rich soccer players are playing soccer at lunchtime. And I'm over with the hanging with the cool guys. And the ball guy misses the net, ball comes over probably like 40, 50 yards. Nobody says a word to me. Just watched the ball, and I turned around, smacked him right in the side of the face. Hurt a little bit, but I was more embarrassed and angry. Yeah, I feel bad for the kid who came and got the ball because he wasn't even the one who kicked it. And I just threw that ball double fisted right in his face. And I may or may not have started a small riot at the school.

[Steve Covino]

So you know what? You paint a great picture. And you remind me of something, too. The embarrassment that's involved if you're alert and awake to tell the story. Because I remember playing, it was like a varsity high school game or whatever. And I'm running home, and it was a play at the plate. Catcher has the ball, I'm going down the slide, and the catcher with all his force tags me right in the face. Boom. So I get tagged in the face, my head goes back.

[Rich Davis]

And you're out. I'm out and out.

[Steve Covino]

I'm out and out. And then I got a bloody face all over the place, you know? And you're embarrassed and you'll never forget it.

[Rich Davis]

No, there is a level of embarrassment.

[Steve Covino]

You get tagged and hit so hard in the face.

[Rich Davis]

You know what's embarrassing? Let me take you back to gym class. I was. Sam, you ever get hit in the face during dodgeball? Like blindsided? Like, boink.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Rich Davis]

And the ball makes a weird sound, and then you're like, your face might.

[Dan Beyer]

Swell up a little bit, and you're.

[Rich Davis]

Just like, what happened? Yeah, not a good one. Not a good one. All right, let's say hi to Mark in Bakersfield. Hey, Mark.

[Caller]

Hey. Thank you, gentlemen. I was playing like four nights of softball. Fast pitch, slow pitch. One of the leagues we played in was co league. So I get up, my buddy's already hit two home runs. I have two home runs, so I'm gonna try to hit one to beat him. There's this nice girl playing third base. Got her knee pads on, got her ponytail and her sunglasses, playing right at third base. So I swing as hard as I can, and it just hits her. Can't even move straight in the face. And I'm like, do I run to first or do I run to Go to her. And that was the last time I ever played coed softball.

[Rich Davis]

Ever. I mean, not to sound sexist, but who would put the, like, maybe inexperienced girl in the hot corner at coed softball? That just. That just seems like a dumb move.

[Steve Covino]

Asking for or an evil move by whoever put her there.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, like, oh, John's girlfriend.

[Steve Covino]

We hate her.

[Rich Davis]

Put her at third base.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. And you feel terrible about it.

[Rich Davis]

Man, that is. I hope he ran to third base to check on her single time.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, he took second, man.

[Dan Beyer]

He checked on her when he got to third. You're routing second in the third triple.

[Rich Davis]

Out of it, by the way. Did you see that the other day? Not to be all over the place, but the Mets, who are in a wild card race, luckily the play was called dead, but the left fielder for the Nationals slid into the wall and injured himself on the play. And it was like, bad. Like, he was immediately thriving. Like, oh, Cedric Mullins of the Mets, who's been trash for the Mets, stops in between first and second, puts his hands on his helmet, like, oh, my God. The ball gets thrown back into the infield. They tag him and luckily they're like. After further review, we've. We call the play dead. I'm like, yo, you still have to play at that level. At that level, right?

[Steve Covino]

So the times you're hitting the face, because you'll never forget it.

[Rich Davis]

Bruno and Brooklyn, let's. We'll take two more. What's up, Bruno?

[Caller]

Boys? Hey, I got a good one. Pretty scary, but it was pretty crazy. Foursome playing golf. We're out. We got two carts. We're out there. One of my buddies is up in a tee box. He's lining it up. I'm talking to one of my other friends.

[Steve Covino]

The other.

[Caller]

The third party is basically off to the side taking some practice. Practice cuts or practice swings. The guy I'm talking to has got his back to the guy taking practice swings. He turns around, this guy swings and he walks right into it, right in the forehead. Takes him off his feet. I thought we killed the guy. It was. It was insane. We had to race him up.

[Rich Davis]

That is the scariest thing. When people are swinging golf clubs or baseball bats or other people. Pinata parties or pinata. Oh, dude, you have a little kid's birthday party.

[Steve Covino]

As a kid who always had pinatas at his party, someone always get hit in the face, but it was usually wiffle bat, bro.

[Rich Davis]

It is. It is always a scary moment. You know how many times I have to tell or.

[Steve Covino]

Or dad takes it in the nether region, because the kids are lined up right there. Yeah, you're so right about that.

[Rich Davis]

Do you know how many times I have to say, like, boys bats down? Because these knuckleheads would walk into it? Put on your helmet side, Kevin. Wrap it up in Tennessee. Then we'll go to DB for an update. What's up, Kev?

[Caller]

Hey, guys. How you doing today?

[Rich Davis]

What's up, man?

[Caller]

Well, I'll tell you, this is kind of a crazy story. About 10 years ago, our best friend's daughter got married to a guy. They met each other playing softball, and they get married. They go away on their honeymoon. They get back from their honeymoon, they don't even check the presence or anything yet. They go, and he has a game. He goes out. He's a pitcher. Throws a pitch, gets hit with a. Gets the batter hits the ball right in his head, guy dies.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, dude, that's horrible.

[Caller]

Isn't that terrible? I hate. They give you a story.

[Steve Covino]

No, no. But you know what? It goes to show you how serious last night was and how lucky he got and how we could all take a deep breath and say, hey, man, get back. Get better. David Fry. I do have one more story, but we got to go to Dan Byer.

[Rich Davis]

Let's go to DB.

[Steve Covino]

DB's got the updates.

[Dan Beyer]

Now you go to me. You couldn't tell your story and cushion. I got to follow a death. Yes, the guy died. Let's go to Dan Beyer for more.

[Rich Davis]

It's like Casey Kasa with that dead dog, Dedic.

[Caller]

Jeez.

[Dan Beyer]

I was like, please, Covino, tell the story. Please tell.

[Steve Covino]

You know what?

[Rich Davis]

I'm gonna hold off.

[Caller]

Dan, Go ahead.

[Rich Davis]

It's all you. And then everyone died. Hey, Dan, what's going on? All right.

[Dan Beyer]

David Fry, out six to eight weeks. Multiple facial fractures, some minimally displaced. Did have nasal fractures as well, but is has been discharged from the hospital and the team says is home resting comfortably. But, yeah, scary situation with David Fry, who won't play again this season. Brewers are up. The Padres won nothing. Playing in the fifth inning in San Diego Padres still having hopes of winning the NL West. Starting the day, a game and a half, back of the Dodgers Nationals beat the Braves 4 3. But the real story is the Nats have a new GM. Multiple reports say they're naming Red Sox assistant GM Paul Tabone as their new general manager. In the NFL, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy limited in practice. Wide receivers Ricky Pearsall and Juwan Jennings set out workouts today, as did Commander's wide receiver Terry McLaurin. Commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels practiced on a limited basis. That was the plan. According to head coach Dan Quinn. The plan for the Giants is to go with Jackson Dart. The first round pick will start Week four against the Chargers. Russell Wilson will serve as the backup. Speaking of the Chargers, they placed running back Najee Harris on injured reserve with that Achilles injury. The Eagles placed linebacker Nolan Smith on IR with a triceps injury. Fox broadcaster and Raiders limited partner Tom Brady said there was no conflict of interest between his two positions, making the comments in his weekly newsletter. Finally, guys Sister Jean, the chaplain and mentor for the Loyola of Chicago men's basketball team. Retiring at the age of 106, she was a fixture during the Ramblers Final Four run a few years back.

[Rich Davis]

Any headline about someone at 106 other than their sad passing is remarkable. As soon as you said that, I'm like, oh no.

[Dan Beyer]

See, I throw it back to you guys with positive news.

[Rich Davis]

Thank you.

[Dan Beyer]

Yes, you're welcome.

[Rich Davis]

Now Kavino, you're getting hit in the face story.

[Steve Covino]

Thanks Dan Meyer.

[Dan Beyer]

Thanks guys.

[Steve Covino]

You know what? I gotta tease this one cause it was scary, but we'll wrap it up and then we'll play some games. We got Big Mike's words of wisdom and talking about major leagues.

[Rich Davis]

We gotta talk about celebrating. We're gonna talk about baseball playoffs and NFL Week four. My goodness, so much fun coming up. Thanks for hanging Kavino and Richmore. Next.

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[Steve Covino]

All right, Covino and Rich, thank you for hanging with us live from the FOX Sports Radio Studio Hope you're having a great day. And it's time for our tyrant play of the day.

[Rich Davis]

I'm going to debate this. We're going to go with Scuba. And the Tigers caught off guard by the Guardians. Their final play. The final. Take a listen.

[Caller]

Cleveland will not only move into a.

[Steve Covino]

Tie for first, but they'll own the season series and the tiebreaker. Here's the pitch.

[Caller]

Swung on line to third. Caught by Ramirez. Ball game. The Guardians take over the Central Division lead. They beat the Detroit Tigers 5 to 2.

[Rich Davis]

All right, that is pretty cool. Guardians taking over when at one point of the season the tigers had a 15 and a half game lead.

[Dan Beyer]

So I just wanted to give them love because I knew we would cover the Mets and the Yankees in regular.

[Rich Davis]

That is true.

[Steve Covino]

Fair enough.

[Rich Davis]

That is true.

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[Rich Davis]

All right, well, we will talk a little more wild card and playoff baseball where we got five games left, which is giving me anxiety to the highest level. Like Yesterday, Mets are losing 6 1. I'm at my kids baseball practice. I put down my phone, I pick it up. Nimmos hitting a home run to tie it. A wild day. Your Dodgers. Danny G. I want to talk about this later. They couldn't do me any favors. What is Dave Robertson, your bullpen doing? Beat the damn D backs.

[Steve Covino]

They've been doing what they've been doing.

[Dan Beyer]

All season where it's. It's the reverse of last season. Last season the bullpen basically won that World Series. This year they have starting pitching and no bullpen.

[Rich Davis]

Shohei threw a gem. And I'm like, oh, four nothing. Dodgers are going to win. Perfect. And I'm like, no, not so fast.

[Dan Beyer]

We're going to have to have back to back starters go in these games because as soon as the Dodgers go to the pen, the other teams licking their chops.

[Rich Davis]

So that went down. We'll talk a little Yankees clinching. But you said you had your final hit in the face story.

[Steve Covino]

One last story it's worth telling. You know, this is in honor of David Fry. Speedy recovery. He's okay. Yeah.

[Rich Davis]

About that time with that girl motorboated you in Vegas, right?

[Steve Covino]

No, you were hit in the face. That was a great story. Yeah, no, this is a terrible story, but with a happy ending. No, not that. So I graduated with this kid. I'll give him a shout out.

[Rich Davis]

E.J.

[Steve Covino]

Collins. Eddie Collins was drafted by the brewers, right? And he was at my house. Kid through heat, dude. 90s. We're in high school, so he's like 16, 17 years old. We're on our front lawn. So this is all part of the story. On the front lawn. And we're just practicing throwing heaters.

[Rich Davis]

Forget about the curveball.

[Steve Covino]

One of my buddies squatting right in front of a little fence. I got a little wooden fence in the front yard that separates the front yard to the backyard. So you got one friend just squatting in front of the fence. Yeah, and then me and my buddy Eddie, we're just throwing heaters, right? Just some practice.

[Rich Davis]

Who'd you get? What sucker did you get to catch for you guys?

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, just one of our buddies, right? EJ Gets in full wind up again. Is a big kid. High school, six, three heat. Yeah, Cheese. Full wind up, throws one, and it goes sizzling over the little fence. And all of a sudden, here, pop. And I see the ball, like, going a different direction, and we look over the fence, and my little sister is completely knocked out. Not even joking.

[Rich Davis]

You. My little sister dawn, dude, she's never been the same.

[Steve Covino]

Yo, we thought we killed her, dude. And then immediately, this is why it's so scary. Immediately. She was five, maybe. Immediately had, like, a cartoon. She had a big lump in her head. You saw the veins in her head. Like, oh, my God. And then you had to go get your. My parents. You know how frightening that was, dude? Horrible. Turns out Dawn's a great person. She has kids and she's doing well, but, man, getting hit in the face. The point is, she does have cte.

[Rich Davis]

She still has a huge lump on her head.

[Steve Covino]

She's still got this weird Frankenstein scar on her head. But the point is, you never, ever forget it. And you know, she's alive to tell the story, but, man, that was scary, dude.

[Rich Davis]

David Fry last night. Thank goodness, he's all good. And you know what? Baseball, We've been saying it all year. It's popping. And right now, you have two teams that are one game behind the Mets in the wild card race, and both of those teams own the tiebreaker over the Mets. So when I tell you the Mets are clinging to a one game lead, it's not like, oh, if they tie it up, who has the tiebreaker? No, no. There is zero margin of error for the Mets. And today. Danny G. All I'm rooting for is your Dodgers to beat the D backs and the Reds have to face Paul Skeens today, so. And the Mets are in Wrigley so that NL wild card is getting freaking awesome. So we got more coming on Reg. We'll do some baseball and football coming up.

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[Rich Davis]

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