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Dan Beyer & Aaron Torres on the MLB All-Star Game, Caitlin Clark & Wyndham Clark
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Covino
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Rich
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Covino
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Rich
Ah, what an all Star game it was. Welcome in. It's a Wednesday. You've made it to the middle of the week. He's Aaron Torres. I'm Dan Beyer. Monty Belanos is here. Jason Stewart, Ryan Smith, all hanging out after an epic clash last night in Atlanta that Cavino and Rich took in in watching the National League and American League come to a six all tie at the end of nine and then having to settle it via the Home Run derby part due in the National League end up getting the victory. I loved it, loved every second of it last night. Aaron Torres, first of all, I was.
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Covino
Thinking with that intro, you know, you and I are closing in on half of 20 years. No cuddling for you and I either, but pleasure to be here today with you.
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Rich
Here. Here's the deal. Were you distracted by the moaning? It's Mon's intro that she hates the absolute most, but it's the moaning intro that I think has been here since day one. It. Did you hear the moan in the intro?
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Danielle Robaix
Everyone heard the moan in the intro.
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Rich
All right, all right, I'm sorry.
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Covino
No, I, I, I have thoughts on the intro, but CNR are the best and I don't, I don't really get it, to be honest. And I don't know if like I have to be a daily listener to understand or appreciate the humor. I've never really understood it, but, but yeah, zero cuddling for us either. So that's an HR violation, I think. Anyway, All Star game. So. Yeah, no, I listen, it was, it was, I'll say this, I know we're obviously gonna focus on the ending. I thought it was just a very well done night and celebration of baseball overall. You had the Hank Aaron stuff, you know, Joe Tory coming out there for half a second. Players miked up Clayton Kershaw. You know, I'm throwing 88 down the middle here. Somebody help me. I just thought it was an awesome night overall. Obviously capped by a very unique and very fun ending there.
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Rich
It was an awesome night that we thought was going to end with the National League running away with it. But then it became a ball game at the end and you throw that in and then you throw in the drama. Like, honestly, as it, as the game was progressing, one of the things that we know that the All Star Game will do is they will have some sort of tribute, some bigger than others. And you mentioned that the one for Hank Aaron was last night, I believe after the sixth inning is when they did it. What's interesting about the Hank Aaron tribute is that they are like a ballpark removed from the ballpark that it actually. So like this is the park. And then previously was Turner Field, which was the former Olympic Stadium, which was right next door to, to Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, where Hank Aaron had hit that home run. So it, it, it missed the mark with me on a little. Especially when they had the spot where Hank Aaron's home run landed where it lit up. But. And I haven't been to the spot in, in a while. I assume that it's still there. But the old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium is right next to where the Olympic and where the Braves informally played. Now it's college football stadium for Georgia State, I believe plays there. But they have the infield of Atlanta Fulton County Stadium paved with the diamond. And there is a spot in the outfield where the ball went over and where the ball hit. So last night, when you're seeing it on the All Star Game and you're seeing that tribute to Hank Aaron, which you're right, it was one of the many great things last night, like the spot of that home run and where, where it landed is very important to the Hank Aaron story because we all remember that highlight. And it was just really neat to see. You could park in that parking lot in a Braves game. And the inner, the inner walls of Atlanta Fulton County Stadium are, are still up. That it's not the outfield walls but just of the structure of, of the, of where the stadium was because a little bit of it went into the ground. But it's a neat history thing for people that like to go back and check out all ballparks. And I haven't been there in about 10 years, so I don't know if it' When I was there the last time they had a diamond so you could see where Hank Aaron stood and then you could see where the ball landed because they had a section put out in that parking lot of the fence and it was lit up and then the backdrop afterwards. It's really Neat if you're a baseball fan to see. But seeing that last night and being like, well, this isn't the park, but they're still highlighting the place, shutting down the lights, doing the run around. The basis I thought was, was really well done.
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Covino
Yeah, like I said, I thought it was, I thought it was just, you know, listen, it is ultimately, you know, an exhibition game and that's what we're going to talk about, how it ended. But I, I, I think given that it's an exhibition game. And by the way, how about this? Given that quite literally every other All Star game that we still have continues to fall flat on its face and feel less and less what it's supposed to be about, I thought yesterday the return to the standard, you know, home row team uniforms is, and on top of all of that, all of the other cool stuff they did to honor the present and pass the game, I thought overall was really cool.
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Rich
I think there's some good and some bad because along with that, I'd put the bad of those hats, I have no idea on what they're doing. Like with, they weren't, they weren't crowned like they normally were. There was no seam down the middle. Stars replaced the, the poke holes that you would have normally. It was a very weird looking hat. I'm not a, wasn't a huge fan of the All Star cap. Was just really, really odd. I didn't mind the ABS system. In fact, I liked the AB ABS system last night because of the drama that it provided.
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Covino
Sure.
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Rich
And to see it work on that stage now, I don't know if you're going to have as many smiles and laughs in a regular game or in a playoff game with it, but I thought that portion of it worked really well. When you challenge a call and then by a millimeter, the ball hits the strike zone and Randy Orose arena ends up striking out on a call. It went the other way on a previous scenario. I think the drama of it, which is what I always loved about Cyclops in tennis, was there was drama whether the ball was in or out. So you have this whole progression of is it in, is it out? Oh, it's, it was really close. Or then if it's really far, you're like, oh, that was an awful challenge. It wasn't even close. I thought last night, I thought that it worked really, really well. And if you're Major League Baseball and want to put this in, I think that last night was a huge win for you.
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Covino
Yeah. It's interesting only from the perspective that, like you said, it being an All Star Game, I don't know. Like, we obviously need to keep human umpires, and it's this. I get that sometimes there's a better way to do stuff. All you're doing is setting yourself up to have pissed off umpires nonstop. And maybe it doesn't matter and maybe you don't care, and maybe this, maybe that, maybe whatever. Maybe it's just about getting it right. I just. For balls and strikes. I don't know. It's cool. I'm watching it right now on my computer. It is cool. Like you said in tennis, it works. We figured it out. It's not a huge deal, whatever. It's just. I don't know, it feels it. Maybe it's like anything else. Maybe it'll just take a little getting used to.
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Rich
So what? I don't. I just. I don't like the middleman of it. I feel you go all in or you don't exactly on it. Like, if you're going to go all in, you're going all in. That then the strike zone is the strike zone. Because otherwise, if a guy is not calling a strike throughout the game, meaning an umpire, and then you challenge it and inside strike, and then all of a sudden you go to the ABs, and he's been calling that a ball all along, and now it's a strike. I think that you're like, you're screwed in that essence. But I think that last night, like, the takeaway from it, and we'll. We could get into the pluses and. And minuses of it, but the takeaway of it is you put it in that setting. You make it in a spot where people are laughing and enjoying it and adding some drama for Major League Baseball, that's the biggest win that you can have. Maybe Randy or Rosarena doesn't care if he strikes out last night on a bad call or a call that ended up being overturned, but if the Mariners are fighting for, you know, a wild card spot or fighting for the AL West Division, and on the final weekend, you get a call like that, completely different reaction. But it doesn't matter for Major League Baseball, as the system would already push in. Like last night's referendum on it was overwhelmingly positive for a transition to the ABS system.
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Covino
Yeah. No, and I. Again, I think that, yes, it is. It can be viewed as positive because in theory, it is a step in the right direction. And in theory, it is ultimately about getting the call right. I guess just what I would say is, is that like. Like I said, I, I. There's a difference between doing it because you want to get every call right, which I know in theory we all want to do. And then to your point, it being game 162 and a playoff berth is on the line, and you think it went one way and you thought it went another way. And then to your point, there's going to still be the human element of umpiring and a strike zone, even if you have abs. I guess it, like I said, and like you said, it was cool in the moment. I'm just a little skeptical about it working. Bigger picture.
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Rich
Jason Stewart loves the ABS system. The show's executive producer. You've always wanted it. Did you feel last night portrayed what could be the future of Major League Baseball?
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Jason Stewart
Oh, absolutely it did. My take going into the game was that MLB was doing the umpires a disservice by having abs. And an All Star Game where you're supposed to be celebrating all the great aspects of the game, but everything you talk about, the laughter after they were reversed and then the entire audience was seeing a massive flaw in the game right now, which is the technology caught up to the umpires a long time ago. So the umpires, on a night to night basis, if you're watching important games, you see the umpire screwing up every time. So my thing was, why roll it out for an exhibition game when you could actually just have it in place for games that matter in the postseason? I'm all for it. You're not going to lose any home plate umpire jobs. They still have plenty to do behind the plate. But stop embarrassing your umpires. Everything that we loved about ABS last night was at the expense of one guy that was getting the call wrong, right?
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Rich
Yes. I felt bad for who got the home run or the home plate assignment.
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Covino
Yeah.
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Rich
Like in finding out, like, guess what, honey, I got the, I got the nod. I'm going to be the home plate umpire for the All Star Game and I'm going to be second guess throughout because of all the calls that I made. Like nobody else is. Like, if you're at first base and you're the first base ump, who cares? Second base, same thing. Right field line, left field line, which I think they have in the All Star Game like they do in the postseason, who cares? But home plate ump gets screwed last night to that effect. If you are, if they do go full time abs, just give the ump a chair back there during that bat. And then when the action happens and you need to call a guy out at home, then you can stand up. But I think that just have them sit back and chill behind the catcher. That would be the way to go. You think they could test that out at next year's All Star Game?
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Covino
That would be a fun thing to test out the official chair. Yeah, it gets complicated with wild pitches and things of that nature, but that would be a fun.
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Rich
Put some rollers on it. There's this stuff. La Z Boy, the new official sponsor of Major League Baseball. The in game interviews. Too much. We were Fox Sports. Was it too much by Fox last night or did you. Or. Or just enough.
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Covino
I, again, it's. I feel like I'm being negative. It was an awesome event. It worked because it was the All Star Game. Like Clay and Kershaw, you know, joking about. Yeah, throwing it right down the middle, you know, wish me luck. Like, that's fun. When you're 38 years old and you know that this is going to be your last All Star Game and you're just there to have a good time, you know. Two things. Two things. One can be weird for the players. I'll also say this. In theory, it sounds fun for the fans. A lot of fans don't like it, though. Like, I. I was watching. I was somewhere, and I believe it was a Subway Series game, but there was a Sunday night game with the Mets and they mic'd up Lindor and they were talking to him during the game and they were talking, you know, they were showing his wife and you just had baby number two or three or whatever it was. And you go on social media, and I know social media is in a direct reflection, but it was like, dude, I'm not a fan of the Mets. I don't want to hear this. I don't care about his wife and how they travel and kid number two versus kid number three. And I hate to be mean to his wife and his kids, but I'm just saying. And so again, I thought it worked because it's the All Star Game, but I do think if it becomes a 162 kind of deal, 162 games, then it's almost like the interview with the NBA coach after the first quarter where like, Greg Popovich clearly doesn't want to do it, but clearly has to do it. And I would worry that it would be a little bit of a beating, a dead horse.
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Rich
I felt they probably did a little too much. And I also would say this. I think you can't start with the starting pitcher because everything else is less. Like, I would build up to it. Like, if you want to talk to the first baseman, talk to Pete Crow Armstrong in the outfield like they did. And there was a point where he and Kyle Tucker or Cubs teammates were, do you have that ball or not? So it was great because he was miked up at the time. But you're not going to get better than Tarek school ball. And I'm saying getting shelled in school relation because he rarely does, but of him giving up hits and runs and you're miked up in the first inning, like, how. How do you top that? Like, it was like, to me, that was the high point. And nothing that you could say to Matt Olson in the eighth when he's playing first base could come close to what it's like to Tarek Skubal, who's likely on his way to winning another Cy Young Award, actually getting roughed up like, there was nothing that you could do from that. So that may have just been bad luck by Fox, but ultimately it's different if you're have Lindor or if you have PCA out in the outfield getting interviewed. The. The. The top level is the pitcher. And I felt like they started out. It's like, if you're a rock band, you start out with your song like, here's the rest of the concert. That's what I think. Last night at least could have been better. And there were a lot of. There felt like there were a lot of interviews, like when they got to Matt Olsen, basically. All you're saying is, like, what do you think of Misarowski, who's throwing heat right now? You gotta love these fans. All right, thanks, Matt. See you later. Like, you know, and that's in the. You know, that's in the eighth inning. So there's only so much you could do with it. But I do think to get Scubal to be able to talk like he did in that scenario was ultimately a huge win.
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Covino
Yeah. Like, and I think there's a difference between how they handled it last night with the number of interviews they did and, you know, having one or two situations over the course of a game. You know, to me, it almost equates to the Manning cast. Right. Like, the Manning cast is kind of fun if there's a unique guest or whatever, but it's like, I don't know that I want. At least. I don't. I can't speak for. I don't want four quarters of the Manning cast now. Like, if it's Brady on during a Patriots game and they're Whatever, that's different. And so I just bring it up because I feel like that's kind of how I feel about the mic'd up players.
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Rich
Well, I think ultimately what everybody is talking about, it leads us to the end. And I don't believe that Major League Baseball had a list of players. I don't think that that was the case. I've been to a few All Star games before. I even told Monsieur yesterday I was at the one in New York that ended up at. We. We were there at like 1:35 in the morning. Like it just kept. There was extra innings going and going. And I remember because we had post game duties that were sitting in the tunnel at about, you know, maybe the 9th or 10th inning. Just kind of waiting for the game to end and somebody to score and to go in. And the coworker that I was with knew Francisco Rodriguez, K Rod. And so like, like he walked by and was like, hey, what's up? So he's a reliever, his night's done. So he's gone. The game's still going on. Like Derek Scubal probably wanted to leave, but he's like, well if I'm going to be on the hook for the loss, I'm sure they're going to want to talk to me. But he's out there at the bottom of the ninth inning in street clothes. And I John Heyman had a tweet that said this list was predetermined but there were some alterations due to travel issues. Yeah, guys just take off.
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Covino
Yeah, that.
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Rich
That was the problem with 2002 is people were also gone. Like players weren't there anymore. Players leave the Home Run Derby early cause they got parties and places to go to and people to see. And now like your all star break is Tuesday night until you go back to your team maybe on Thursday for these teams. So you want to have like 36 hours to wherever you go. So I don't think it was predetermined because there's no way that you have a Randa hitting 11 home runs being your third home run hitter. Not that you would bring judge to be like, Aaron, I got some bad news. You got to go put the uniform. Yes. If you want to do it in jeans, that's fine. Go right ahead. Which I thought would have been great. But for as the ending was great. Like Kyle Schwaber made it the moment again. I think that some of it was fly by the seat of the pants on however they were going to do it. I like this Home Run Derby better than the one that we saw Monday night and just doing it in terms of, of swings, guys getting their, their reps and. But to have Schwarber ended the way that he did, to have it be drama filled with the AL taking the early lead, you know, Rooker hit a couple and you're like, wow, he had two out of three. How's the NL gonna respond? There was gamesmanship of it. Like, ultimately that is all we're gonna remember. We could talk about abs, we could talk about in game interviews, we could talk about Misarowski being snubbed and then Ken Rosenthal asking him about it in the dugout. All of that. What we're gonna remember is what Kyle Schwarber did last night. And ultimately that's the biggest win Major League Baseball could have.
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Covino
Well, you brought up an interesting point in our pre show meeting, which is that, you know, people are saying, oh, it's the best All Star Game since. And it's like, I don't really remember.
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Rich
A lot about, but it's like compare, I have no idea.
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Covino
Yes, but to your point, everyone's gonna remember how it ended and everyone's going to remember this was the first of potentially, you know, there's potentially times in the future where it's going to happen, but this is the first time that we saw it. And I, you know, I, I like it because it's fun. It stays with the theme of All Star Weekend, of it's an exhibition, it's a celebration of baseball. I know I keep saying that, but it's like, you know, I, I, I know that for some they want the nice, clean resolution of a winner and a loser. It's an exhibition. That's ultimately all that it is. And I think sometimes we get so caught up in everything has to be this super serious, super whatever thing. And to me, this is like, you know, the bowl game that they pour mayo on the coach at the end. Like it's okay to have fun at a bowl game. It really doesn't mean anything. And the All Star Game, obviously, since we've taken away home field advantage, really doesn't mean anything. So have fun, be cool. This is a cool way to end it.
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Rich
And I want to ask Monsie because she had information earlier on there was a player that wanted this maybe ending to go further. But just for what you said, Jason Stewart, you kind of were put in your place. Kind of what Aaron Torres was just saying right now by someone last night on social media.
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Jason Stewart
Yeah, I mean, to your point, Dan, I had criticized Fox, Bean and Tarek his ear. They put a graphic up. He's never given up more than three hits in an inning or something. I'm like, yeah, because he's never had Joe Davis talking to him in the middle of a wind up before. This is weird. I thought it was weird. So I put out a tweet, a snarky tweet, as I do, and some guy's like, dude, yeah, I guess it would be a big deal if it wasn't. Wasn't an exhibition game and this game doesn't count. And he basically said, relax. And I'm like, you're right. As long as you accept everything is a circus, then why be offended by anything that happened last night?
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Covino
Yeah, if you're playing a football game in the Bahamas in December, you know, we don't need it. You get the point.
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Rich
Yeah, yeah, I understand. Who said what?
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Danielle Robaix
Logan Webb mentioned that he has a group text going on and that the players in said group text feel that they should do this instead of playing an extra inning game, that they should just do it like that.
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Rich
I don't agree with that. I think that last night was fun and for the moment I. Go ahead, monsieur.
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Danielle Robaix
I was just going to add that apparently Justin Turner said this in 2020 that when the game is still tied after 10 innings, it should be a home run derby. And so now that story is tracking again because he said this in 2020 and so after. Yeah, that it should be a home run derby to decide games tied after 10 innings.
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Rich
It's the most, I guess, direct relation to what a shootout would be in hockey, you know, PKs and soccer. Like that sort of thing. Like that's, that's kind of the equivalent of it. I know people don't like the runner starting at second. I actually do. I think that it's. I think that it's an interesting twist a little bit. In college, like in college football, their overtime isn't perfect, but if you don't cash in on your possession to start changes everything. So every play means something. And I feel that like if you're in an extra inning game and you have a runner on second base, if you don't cash in in the top half, like, oh boy, this is, this is going to be a little. This is going to be tricky. Maybe, maybe you don't want to put them at second, maybe you want to put the runner at first. But in a way to. I don't mind it. I think this would be hokey to do it because then it's just like, well, guess what? We got Aaron Judge, you know, the Yankees 142 and 1 in extra inning game, you know, like, like that's like, like that's what it would end up coming down to.
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Covino
Well, and I, I think it's very 2025. One, everything being in the moment at this exact second. And then two, everybody having access to a phone and social media and I include myself. I'm guilty of tweeting in the moment sometimes, but it's like it is to your point, very stupid. You know, again, it's fun. On July 15th at the All Star Game. That ultimately means nothing, to your point. Yankees, whatever. Orioles game one 62. You gotta win to get in. And it's like, oh, and by the way, counter that so and so's hurt. So and so's this. We're, we're a pitching and defense team that isn't built on home runs. What about the ballpark? You know, it's a short porch and. Right. But we're on the road and we don't have any lefties. It's just, it's just such the Gen Z like. And I, I sound like such an old man. It's such the Gen Z in the moment. This is coolest thing ever. We have to do it. No, it's, it was cool in the moment. It doesn't mean it'd be cool in every moment.
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Rich
I won't even blame Gen Z. What I'm going to say is it's when you go on vacation, you're like, we should move here.
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Covino
Yes.
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Rich
No, it's awesome. It's because you're on vacation.
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Covino
Yeah.
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Rich
Like if you were there 52 a weeks out of the year, probably not as great. You know what, it's awesome to stay at a hotel room for like a weekend. My son loves the hotel. He has no idea what it's like to live in a hotel for like eight straight days and he just can't wait to leave. You have to eat out every night. Which I know may sound awesome, but it's not that awesome. That's what this is.
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Jason Stewart
It's like a date. On any, on any bachelor show, one of the, One of the two of the couple always says the following. I can get used to this. Yeah. A resort on an island on tv.
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Covino
Yeah.
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Jason Stewart
Where your food's free.
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Covino
I can get used to this date when. Yeah. Yeah.
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Rich
I don't have to pay for, you know, the room or any of the extra stuff. Yeah.
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Covino
I haven't met your parents yet. Yeah, exactly.
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Rich
All right. He's Aaron Torres. I'M Dan Byer, Monty Belanos, Jason Stewart, Ryan Smith are here as we are in for Covino and Rich, who were in for Dan Patrick earlier today in Atlanta as they were at the All Star festivities. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app.
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Rich
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Covino
Across the country, cops called this Taser the Revolution.
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Rich
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Covino
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Covino
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Rich
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Rich
And Rich on Fox Sports Radio, he's Aaron Torres. I'm Dan Beyer in for the guys. Shortly after our show, our podcast will be going up. If you missed any of today's show, be sure to check out the podcast. Just search Cavino and Rich. Wherever you get your podcasts, be sure to also follow, rate and review the podcast. Again, just search Cavino Enrich. Wherever you get your podcast, find Aaron on X at aarontorres. You can find me at Dan Beyer on Fox. And if you missed Kavino and Rich live from the All Star festivities in Atlanta the previous three days, this morning and Tuesday and Monday as well. You can always get their podcasts as well@foxsportsradio.com Danny G sets it up. So just search Cavino and Rich and you can hear the guys from earlier in the day. My eyes were basically on the All Star Game last night, but there was another game taking place and there was a point where I changed channels. Aaron Torres I switched over to ESPN to see what the scene was like as Caitlin Clark in the Indiana Fever took on the Connecticut sun in Boston, Massachusetts. TD Garden, home of the Celtics. 18,000 seats donned with orange Sun T shirts. And I said when we left yesterday's show that we're going to see a huge sign of growth from the WNBA if that arena is orange and Caitlin Clark gets booed. So I turned over in the first half. I did not hear any pooing of Caitlin Clark. The arena was not orange. In fact, hardly anybody wore their orange shirts. That, by the way, were free. It was the exact opposite of the Oklahoma City Thunder. In fact, I saw more Caitlin Clark shirts at the Connecticut sun home game than than I did of the Connecticut Sun. I couldn't have been more wrong on what we saw last night. The WNBA hasn't grown as much as I thought that it possibly could cause. Aaron I thought, hey, the Connecticut sun, maybe they're trying to expand their fan base and now their new rival, the Indiana Fever, with the villain of Caitlyn Clark and Sophie Cunningham are coming into town. Nobody cared. Everybody wore their Caitlyn Clark stuff and that's why they had 18,000 there. Once again, same old story.
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Covino
So a couple things. One, Caitlin Clark is no one's villain except for Angel, Reese and maybe, maybe rg. Three, I'm a little confused as to what's going on there. Anyway, beyond that, this to me is a small scale metaphor for, you know, how it's like a conversation. The WNBA literally makes the wrong decision at every single turn. I'm going to go super northeast, bro, here. But the folks of Boston do not care about anything to do with Connecticut. Literally nothing. And I can promise you that no one in Boston is like, wow, I don't have a WNBA team, but there's a team an hour and a half down the road in beautiful Uncasville, Connecticut. So I'm going to start rooting for them. That's not how. Listen, Boston people, they have their own vibe. Whatever. That. That's not how people in Boston think. If you're not of Boston about Boston, you're, you're not getting on the, the freaking, you know, What. What's not the. The bandwagon is the word I'm looking for. So they could have played this game in Harford in front of 18,000 people. I don't know why they went to Boston. They're not going to expand. People in Boston are not going to care about a team from Connecticut. Weird vibes all around. Not surprised that it was mostly Caitlin Clark.
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Rich
We knew why the game was moved, and it's because of Caitlin Clark. Cause you mentioned they did it against the Chicago sky recently. They're going to do it against Dallas coming up in a couple of weeks as well.
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Covino
Can I make one quick analogy?
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Rich
Yes.
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Covino
It would be like the San Francisco Giants being like, you know, we. We really want to expand our fan base. Let's play some game. Let's play some home games at Dodger Stadium. Like, there would not be people in la like, California. Yeah, yeah. We're all in this together. That's not how it works.
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Rich
The Angels. The Angels actually did try that. So considering the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Jason Stewart had another comparison on what the Connecticut sun tried to do last night.
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Jason Stewart
It would be like. It would be like you go into a Harlem Globetrotters game. I don't know if you guys have been. I took my son there. I actually liked it a lot. And then you show up, and then on the seats are T shirts for Washington Generals. Like, everyone's going to put on a General's T shirt to watch the Globetrotters.
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Rich
You're right. Very, very fair. I sent. I took a screen grab. I just. It was middle of the second quarter. I sent it to Jason and Monsieur. I took three separate camera shots, waiting.
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Covino
Just hoping to see that orange. Yeah.
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Rich
There. And by the way, it was a bright orange. It wasn't like. Like you could see them. So you could see who was and who wasn't. And nobody was wearing those jerseys last night. It was. It was. It was Caitlin Clark fest once again. And then she got injured at the.
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Covino
End, which is concerning in its own right. With All Star Weekend coming up, Monty.
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Rich
Belanos is here to give us the latest and so much more. Were you. You weren't surprised at all from seeing that?
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Danielle Robaix
I was not super surprised, but we had talked about it, so I also kept going back and forth trying to, like, see the start and watch the All Star Game. And I was like, nobody's wearing this shirt. Are we sure they gave them the shirt because nobody was wearing it.
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Rich
None.
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Danielle Robaix
Or nobody was, like, playing with it. Like, I couldn't see it.
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Rich
There were a Random enough T shirt. And I knew what I looking for. So if you didn't know what you were looking for, like an orange shirt, you wouldn't have known that they had given out free shirts. But I knew it so I could see, like, specks of it, like maybe like a pixel here and a pixel there. But I mean, when I say There were maybe 10 in the three different pictures I took one of Aaliyah. Boston was shooting a free throw. So you have like the main camera where there's the people behind the bench. And I took it. No, no shirts. And I'm like, well, that's behind the fever bench. Why would they be wearing it like, behind the fever. Let's. Let's be fair. Then I took another one behind the sun bench, maybe one T shirt there and then another one which had. From behind the basket so you could see the lower bowl, other end of the court, pretty wide shot. And I counted maybe like five orange T shirts in that spot.
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Covino
I just really. Jstu did you ever live in the Northeast? I know you've worked all over. I'm not trying to be sarcastic. Hey, did you ever live in the Northeast? Never.
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Jason Stewart
Never. My entire family's from Syracuse, New York, but I've always lived out here.
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Covino
I just cannot emphasize how little people from Boston care about anything that's not Boston related. Like the angry guys from goodwill hunting. That is really Boston. Like the. How you like them apples slamming the window. That is the entire city of Monsie.
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Rich
Live three years in Vermont.
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Covino
No, you didn't.
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Rich
Montpelier Zone. Monty Belano.
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Danielle Robaix
Oh, no, no, no.
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Rich
So you're saying, Aaron, to that, that it's not reciprocal where, like, people in Maine cheer for the Patriots.
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Covino
No, it's the reverse. Yeah. Yeah. So people in Maine, New Hampshire, New England. Hey, New England, Rhode Island, Rhode island thinks it's new. It thinks it's Boston. And in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont all do root for the Boston teams. I don't know why Connecticut. I think, you know, Connecticut's between New York and Boston. So the Massachusetts. So the. The state is divided. But Boston people are not coming down to Connecticut for their sports fandom, for their. For sports fandom or interests. And I think it's even more. Secular is probably not the right word, but New York's a little bit different. New York, believe it or not, New York's a little bit more like, you know, they'll come up to connect, whatever. The point is, it was. It was a doomed concept from the start. And There is an 18,000 seat basketball arena in Harford that they very easily could have done this, that they might have actually gotten some orange in. But you're not going to expand the fan base up.
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Rich
Well, Caitlin Clark I mentioned was injured last night. To find out her status and so much more, let's go back to Monty with her music playing. What is going on?
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Danielle Robaix
Yeah, she was listed as questionable as you mentioned and she exited in the final minute of last night's win at TD Garden against the sun holding her right groin. And she has officially been ruled out for tonight's game against the Liberty. It's the second night of a back to back game. Tips off at 4:30 Eastern. And Aaron, as you mentioned, W NB All Star weekend starts this Friday with the three point shooting contest that Clark is scheduled to participate. No word on that right now but she's been ruled out for tonight's game against Sabrina Unescu and the Liberty.
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Covino
That would be a fun event. Caitlin Clark in a chair for the three point contest versus everybody else. A big, big, big hour for chairs on this show.
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Danielle Robaix
That's literally worst case scenario for the wnba.
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Covino
How about a wheelchair? Just let her roller, you know, behind from one little station to the next.
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Danielle Robaix
She has to participate somehow, right?
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Covino
I think that's interesting.
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Rich
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Covino
So there you go.
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Rich
He said if he could get it.
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Covino
On his first swing and he did.
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Rich
Oh, another drive swing.
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Covino
Four bombs in the All Star game tied at three.
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Rich
That's MVP material if he gets the 30 right here. Al rallied in the game. NL has rallied in the swing.
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Covino
It was great.
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Rich
Like it was.
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Covino
National League takes the lead four to three. I know we gotta get to James Harden. Joe Davis is so freaking good, man. He is so good.
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Rich
Fox with the call. Tirek.com the way tire buying should be Bringing us our tire rack play of the day. The play of the day in Golf is going to be coming up over the next four days. We'll probably have some golf highlights, at least that by my request, just put it in your back of your mind looking back at the U.S. open that happened last month at Oakmont, J.J. spawn the great putts that ended up clinching the victory. All he needed to do was two putt. He decides to make it from 65ft or whatever. One of the lasting images from Oakmont. But another lasting image was Windham Clark's damaged locker that he wrecked in the locker room at Oakmont Country Club. And now the club has decided to fight back. Golf Digest obtained a letter that was sent to membership saying this. Several of you have inquired about the situation involving Windham Clark and the steps taken in response to his recent behavior. Following multiple discussions with the USGA and the OCC board, a decision has been made that Mr. Clark will no longer be permitted on OCC property. The decision will remain in effect unless formally reconsidered and approved by the board. Reinstatement would be contingent, Aaron, upon Clark fulfilling a number of specific conditions, including full repayment of damages, a meaningful contribution to charity of the board's choosing, and the successful completion of counseling or anger management sessions. Thank you for understanding and continued support. So Oakmont is not messing around. And I absolutely love it because Wyndham Clark acted like an absolute brat in that situation. And it's something that's kind of been following Windham Clark around throughout his career, his inability to contain his emotions. Now, the U.S. open isn't going back to Oakmont until, I believe, 2033. So it would be eight years before Windham Clark would be able to step on the grounds. But still, you have to take a stand. And if Windom Clark doesn't abide by these rules, despite him being a US Open champion, his exemption would run out just prior to, I believe, the, the that U.S. open. But he would not be allowed back on the grounds. I love it. I absolutely love them taking a stand.
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Covino
All I was going to say was, excuse me, is that I love it because it shows that nobody is bigger than, in this case, the course. I mean, you don't want to say the sport, right? But what are our constant complaints about athletes demanding trades athlete? You know, this whole situation with LeBron James in with Los Angeles Lakers, him acting like he's bigger than the organization. Why wasn't I consulted on why aren't we putting together a championship team? And it's like I, I like the course taking the stand. And I do feel like that's a golf thing. You know, the Masters were the, were this weekend. Take it or leave it. This is how we do things at Augusta National. Whatever. So I just, I, I actually think it's pretty cool. I, you know, we'll see if it actually impacts anything, but I think it's pretty cool.
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Rich
I get 2033 will be the final year of his exemption. So he would be, is cleared to play. You get a 10 year exemption into the US Open if you win it. So it would be in that window. But the point is, is he was a guest, you know, if someone had to come over to your house, something like that. Yeah. You wouldn't be necessarily happy about it. And I'm glad they took action. They didn't, they didn't need to. I'm actually glad that it became public. I don't think that it was mysteriously leaked either. I think there are a lot of members that wanted to say we're not going to put up with this here.
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Covino
Yeah, nobody's bigger than the course.
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Rich
He's Aaron Torres. I'm Dan Beyer in for Covino and Rich here on Fox Sports Radio. The Patriots dynasty may be over, but the feuding between two of the principal architects is not. That's next.
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