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Foosday Tuesday. Rules are for fools Rich, but not Cavino and Rich. We're here to brighten your day. Super fun time with us, the worldwide leaders of nonsense. The world famous, everybody's saying it. World famous CNR show on fsr. Gonna have some fun today. All you down fools are in for a game. Your chance to win some prizes. Shaq Diesel trivia. We'll talk some NBA. We'll talk some Freddie Freeman baseball. How many times will you hear the word torpedo today? I don't know. Over, under. But we'll find out. And we be rocking out. Let's go. All right. Doing it live. Enjoy your tacos and enjoy Covino and Rich. I hope you didn't fall for any bad Fool's day jokes, by the way. Die with theory about April Fools that I'm gonna. I'm gonna hit you with an April fools deep thought to kick off the show. Then we are gonna get to Freddy Freeman and what is he doing in the shower? We'll get to that, of course. Shaq Diesel, like you said. I hope he's scrubbing his feet because Rich doesn't. Do you know that? No, I clean my feet. I don't scrub them. Every shower doesn't use any sort of washcloth, which I think is odd. I know either. Danny J. I think it's weird because we both have rough manly hands. You put the shower gel on your rough hands and then you get your heel. Dude, you got to use a sagate. As my mom would say, use a cicade, which is a loofah sponge. But Rich doesn't wash his feet. Freddie Freeman. Freddie Freeman, I think was washing his feet and something happened. We'll explain. My. My point was you said you dance in the suds, you big liar. If you take a couple showers a day. If you take a shower in the morning. How many showers you take every day? More than you, apparently. Well, he takes a few. I'll just take one. Okay. Yeah, no, but I'm saying if. All right. I was saying let me go to the gym. Okay. If I wake up in the morning, I can't function without, you know, clearing out the head, taking a hot shower. And then if I go to the gym or, you know, go to the sauna at the gym or something like that, you think I want to lay in my bed with my wife with stank ass? No way. So I think that second shower, I don't think you need to scrub your feet twice a day. So I told Covino once that I tiptoe in the sudsies and, you know, now he thinks I'm gross or something. This guy thinks you don't have to wash your feet. What a fool believes Michael McDonald style. We're broadcasting live from the Tire Rack.com studio. Tirerack.com will help you get there. An unmatched selection, fast. Free shipping, free road hazard protection, over 10,000 recommended installers. Tirerack.com the way tire buying should be. And if you don't go to tyrek.com, you must be a fool. Fu fu f. Now, tractor Supply. Those are guys that probably take two showers a day working out in the fields. They know about teamwork. They know it doesn't come easy. So you got to work hard. Whether you're caring for pets, chickens, a few acres. 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Their numbers are almost that of a regular dude. He doesn't need batting gloves. He needs freezy freakies because he's cold. Put a scarf on this dude. He needs to come up with earmuffs, he's so cold. In fact, in 95. As the meme goes in 95, Tony Gwynn had 15 strikeouts and 585 at bats. Tony Gwynn was insane. In 2025, Rafael Devers has 15 strikeouts and 19 at bats and 23 plate appearances. Yeah, I'm not hating the dude. I'm not hating on him. He's a great player. It's just a colossal meltdown. Historically bad. So if you're having a bad day, just know it's not as bad as that. No. Now, I want to start with a quick thought about April Fools. What's up, you fools? Holy fool. I think it's dead, and I'll tell you why. I think April Fool's Day and the whole concept of it is ridiculous. And I'll tell you why. It's fun. Maybe for kiddies. The kiddos. Listen, I'm thinking about tonight. I'm coaching the girls softball team. I may show up with, like, wiffle balls and wiffle bats and be like, hey, the league says, you know, for safety reasons, this is what we have to use. I'm trying to think, like, could I play a little trick on the kiddies? That's fun, right? Yeah. Like, my. My sister Grace, she is. She works with school kids, right? Like school teachers and everything. And one of the little kids said, hey, Ms. Grace, I made brownies, if you want one. And my sister actually fell for it. She's like, yeah, I would love one. Oh, you put poop in her hands? No, it was just. They cut out brown ease, brown construction paper. Letter, letter E's in brown paper. And she's like, I got got by little kids. So I think for, like, little kids is still fun. Because what's more rewarding than for a kid to like, make someone laugh, right? That really builds their confidence. Like, oh, man, I'm funny. So my sister thought that was cute for kids. I think it's good. Anything that builds a kid's confidence is fun. It's not good for gamblers either. I zelled my bookie earlier today. A whole bunch of money on Tiger woods for the Masters. That's funny. That's funny. April Fools. So what? Look at it this way. I think April Fools stinks. And I'll give you the reason. Number one, you said it's over. It's over. Because, you know, no one's going to do a fake death. That's ridiculous. Fake pregnancies are insensitive to those that can't get pregnant or maybe had a miscarriage recently. So can't do it. These are all Inappropriate. Right. Yet it still happens. And, you know, any. Any real. Let's be honest, like, terrible prank, no one's going to want to do it. The repercussions are bad. Now, I think we live in a world now where every day we're navigating this. It used to be once a year, where it's like, all right, let's see. We could trick someone now. Every day I'm like, wait, is there something under the pyramids? Oh, I was tricked. I heard his Toblerone. That's what the story was yesterday. Danny G hit me up Triangle Chocolates last week. And he goes, yo, Bronny scored 52 in the G League. Yeah, we didn't know because the stat looked official. It was like one of those official meme stat. There's a stat line graphics. Yeah. And I'm like, I am. I'm not seeing this anywhere. Danny goes, ah, hold on. I just checked. I got got. I thought there was a torpedo glove in the works. Based on the memes I saw. Did you see that? Which one of us are watching the G League each night? Exactly. We don't know. So, yeah, you have to research stupid memes. We see. Even the stats. Yeah, everything. Because you just don't know. So many times you're like, yo, do you see this fight's happening? And you're like, no, that fight's not happening. It's nonsense. So every single day. Every single day, you are navigating social media. You're going on Instagram, and your buddy will be like, yo, look at this girl I'm talking to. And you're like, yeah, dude, she's AI. You're an idiot. She's not even. You're talking to a dude, probably. So I. I think every day. We are now accustomed to. To navigating the waters. Now. I don't want to be the guy that's, like, fake news. Not necessarily that. Just a lot of nonsense on social media that you cipher through every day to the point that, what is April Fool's then? Just another day. Every day, someone's out there trying to fool you. Maybe it makes April Fool's Day just more challenging. Like, to catch someone off guard is even tougher as a result. But you're right. I think. I don't even think it's that that killed April Fool's Day, Rich. If you're saying it's dead. I think it's the fact that people started doing, like, death announcements and fake pregnancies and birth announcements and things like that. The fact that it became like sort of low, brown, insensitive, sort of ruined it for everybody. And it made you question the, the rules of it. I really think when you're a kid, like you said, it's fun. And now that we're grown ups, you realize not that they're either mean or again, yeah, maybe he's alive and well with kids. Every. It's a kids holiday. Yeah. Every day as an adult. Yeah. Like May Day, Little May Baskets. You know who else does that? You guys just all made me realize the reality of it. Adults deal with so much BS on a regular basis. So many fools. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't have time for people trying to trick me. And I also, if you do trick me, I'm gonna punch you in the nose. Like, I'm like, I don't. I don't got time for you to be playing tricks. And most adults, most adults that are stressed trying to pay their mortgage, looking at their bank account, you know, picking their kids up at dance class to go to softball, to a baseball, cooking dinner. Yeah. But they got time to be tricked. You know what would be cool though? If you just subtly drop something like, yo, Rich. Yeah, man. Yeah, well, we're going to talk about Woody Johnson later. By the way, did you hear about the show Paradise? Yeah, dude, you believe they canceled season two? Those are fun ones. No, no, no. And just let it sit. Yeah, I love. And Rich repeats it to someone else. Got him and Rich. Morning shows. I liked it. When I was hosting morning shows on hip hop radio stations, people aren't thinking about the date when they first wake up. So on morning shows, you could get people and kind of do it. Subtle too. I remember. But social media is such a reminder all the time. It's hard to forget. Yeah, true. Well, this right before social media was a big deal. I remember pulling a stunt where I told my morning crew, I said, here's what we're going to do. And I had the turntable guy in on it too. I said, no matter what song we're playing, let's come back and announce it as a different artist and just all be in unison. So Ashanti would be on the air and we'd come back and we'd be like, Q1047. It is 6:48am and right there was some Rakim classic, old school. And we did it for every single song. People were losing their damn minds. The phone lines were lit up. What's going on? Is this voice chat like they lost their minds. And then, you know, as the morning went on. People thought about the date and the calendar. Oh, I see what they're doing. So is the qu. The question is, has social media ruined April Fool's Day? Is it over? Because every day's April Fool's Day. We're always trying to trick somebody. We're always getting tricked. There's always fake articles and fake news. Or is it just something that was, was, and always is and always was for the kids? Danny, during. During the NFL draft buildup, during the NFL free agency, how many times when we send each other memes, do we have to double check? Because it might just be like a funny meme someone made up. Like, oh, Aaron Rodgers signed here. And you're like, you know who does this all the time? My mom. My mom will send me something like, richie, did you see who's on the Raiders down? I'm like, mom. No. There are a lot of fan websites now for different NFL teams, and they report stuff that they're hoping is going to happen, but it hasn't happened yet. That is so. I hate it. And I quickly unfollow those sites. There's a graphic that goes along with it. It's so misleading. Have you seen the fake. Have you seen the fake graphics about your team having a Netflix movie or show? Oh, yeah. They have done that for just about every team. Every. Yeah, Danny's exactly right. It's all these trade rumors, like, that's not happening. Yeah. And you go on the comments, Nolan, Aaron, I don't know. They did it. Yeah, you read the comments, too, and people are so mad. They're like, erase, delete this account now. Worse. So, yeah, you're right, Rich. That does put a little damper on the old April Fool's fun that we used. Not so much a damper. I'm just saying we deal with this every day. So it's like. Like this morning. Do you see what President Trump did? This is interesting. He's doing a lot with the tariffs. You could be a fan, you could hate the guy. I don't care. This is just the news, though. Donald Trump pushed back all his tariff stuff till tomorrow because he wanted there to be no confusion. He actually said, I don't wanna do this on April Fool's Day because you don't wanna leave anything possibly up in the air like, oh, is that true or not? So he actually pushed all those things till tomorrow. You are fake news. Yeah, forget about him. What about former President George Bush who said, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, can't get Fooled again Can't get fooled again. I mean, one of the best quotes, shame on. Shame on you. It fooled me. We can't get fooled again. I've always said that. I've always said, can't get full again. It can't get fooled again. So, hey, I think you're onto something, rich. Every day we're navigating these stupid waters. So maybe the fun spin on it is it's even tougher to get people with their trained eye in 2025. You know, back when we were kids, the only thing that you questioned, like, I don't know if that's real, is when you'd be at the supermarket or at your grandma's house and she would have like those magazines, like the sun, and it'd be like, Wolf Boy. That was the only trickery of the 80s and 90s. My grandma's Mexican news. They discovered bat boy. Every two weeks, tabloids, bat Boy, color tabloids. It was tabloids in line at Shoprider, Wegmans, Mirror, the Sun, the Mirror of the sun, all those. But Sam, that's our everyday when we're scrolling on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, we are now scrolling through the Mirror and the sun and all that in just the current form. So when April Fool's Day comes around, I'm just like, another day. I saw some like, transfer portal news on Twitter and I'm like, I don't even know if I should believe this on Today. Like, just wait, I see if other people pick it up. I even saw like Adam Schefter reporting on some stuff and I'm like, he's above this, right? Like, I don't even know if I should be believing the real people. I think what you should do just to get one of your buddies is to drop some stuff that you know they're bound to repeat, but don't tell them it's fake and don't make it real. Like, big news. Yes. Then the big news is obvious. Like, you're right, dude. Raphael Devers. Yeah, man, he's. They said he quit and he's working at Starbucks now. No way. No, for real. Says he couldn't take it anymore. Yeah. And you guys, I think you talked about this last year, if not the April Fools. Prior to that, your friends got you by saying, oh my God, did you mean to post that? Oh, yeah, Remember that? I remember we were in the other studio. This is a great April Fools. You know what? I endorse this one. So for all the BS you're seeing, this is a really good one because again, harmless and it's really fun. It makes the person panic. Text all your friends, right? And just text them the following, yo, dot, dot, dot. Did you mean to post that? What are you talking about? Everyone's butthole? Yeah, everyone. Everyone. You know, their butthole is going to clench. Like, oh, they start checking their Facebook, their Instagram. Like, what are you talking my pages. I forgot about that, Danny. See, it's still alive and well. You just got to be crafty, Danny. That's the one. And you know what? I'm going to do that to everyone I know during this next break and I'll report, you know, let's see how we do. All right. Well, hey, speaking of April Fools being dead or not, it is alive and well with kitties. But were you hoping, Danny G. And all the Dodgers fans that when you heard the Freddie Freeman news that it was an April Fool's joke, you had to be hoping? Like, that can't be real. I hope it's not that bad because apparently he got hurt in a freaky deek. I don't know if it was freaky. Embarrassing. No, like a freak accident, you know, in a weird way in the shower. 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Got a bunch of people with that dumb trick during the break. I know. You're such a bonehead. His whole stance, right, is April Fools is over. It is. And then during commercial, he's there pranking everybody, laughing like an idiot with one caveat. Don't you call me an idiot. Coming over a stance like it's over. Meanwhile, the whole time, instead of going over what we're discussing, he's, like, laughing to himself because he's pranking everybody. Just proves the maturity of our show. So while social media on a day to day, essentially is April Fools because it's all just nonsense. Oh, aliens. Kavina, bro, it's fake. Oh, there's. You see what's under the pyramids? Every day we're getting bamboozled. So April's is no different. However, there is one prank that remains. And Danny G, thanks for reminding me of my own prank. We did this a couple of years ago and I redid it and I still got people. I almost got my wife. She's like, what, you just text people in your life? Yo, did you mean to post that, everyone? My buddy Mike just hit me up. He goes, what? Where? He was on his way to pick up his kids from school and he said his heart and stomach dropped. Like post one, you're gonna cause a guy to have an accident. It's the pan. You just panic. Yeah, everybody thinks about the skeletons deep down inside their phone. Oh, no. And then the problem is people can screen grab even a mistake. So it lives on forever. Oh, I'm canceled now. Yo, Camino. Brody, did you mean to post that? What do you mean? Yeah. Anyway, we're Covino and Rich. Thanks for being Dan ass fools on this foosday Tuesday. Live from the tirerack.com studio. Remember CNR is brought to you by Travis Matthew Apparel designed for confidence and comfort. No matter where the day takes you. Visit travismathieu.com Get 20% off your first order when you sign up for email. That's Travis Matthew. Don't misspell it like I do. It's1t travismathieu.com for 20% off your first order when you sign up. 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As far as what happened last night or over the weekend, I'm not sure when it happened. I just know that Freddie Freeman didn't play yesterday. Freddie Freeman missed the Los Angeles Dodgers series opener against the Braves on Monday for a rather unexpected reason. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters that Freeman had a little mishap, a little mishappy getting into the shower, which caused his surgically repaired right ankle to swell a little bit. So that's the really downside of the story. And so the Dodgers only. The Dodgers only won six. One. I know, but yo. To start the season has been on a roll. Oh, yeah. So it was bad news going into the game, and you don't want any previous injury to be re aggravated, right? So let's talk about it. I know you, Rich, have a few shower stories of your own, but embarrassing injuries and like I said, the fact that he re injured, this is what makes it a bad story. We hope he comes back. We hope he's all right. I'm a Yankees guy, but I don't want to see Freddie Freeman, you know, hurt. We don't know how long he's out for, Right. They're letting him recoup a little bit, and they're gonna see. I haven't heard any updates yet. Danny. Day to day. It's day to day. So he always wants to play. We know that. We saw that in the World Series. But how hurt is he? Who knows? But he slipped. So let's get to your phone calls. And truthfully, whatever I hear today, I'm not gonna believe anyway. I know, right? 87799 on Fox. We got Danny Gian standby. We got Iowa Sam with all your favorite fool songs. On this Tuesday. He's on the ones and twos. We got Dan Beyer and Spotty. Tell us the story that you told me. Weren't you on vacation? I was. Were you trying to get all. If there's kids listening. I was in the shower with a. With an ex girlfriend. Because we were sitting there. We were scrubbing each other down because I could have reached my back. You were saving water. Yeah. Each other's feet. You're scrubbing each other's feet? Yeah. So I remember my ex was like, let's go in the shower. And in my mind, I'm like, oh, well, someone's always Cold. It's the wrong type of wet. There's so many wrong things about the shower. It's usually the guy that's cold. I'll take Covino's joke. You know those, like, shower gloves your girl has, like, to scrub herself? Kavino's like, he puts those on because he's cold. Yeah. We talked about how your wife uses a Keith Hernandez glove, remember? Yeah. So? Yeah. So someone's always cold. It's the wrong type of wet. The circumstance, it sounds like, you know, hot and sexy. Never fun in the shower. But I'm on vacation. I'm in my 20s. I was with an ex, and I must have pulled a Freddy Freeman, because I was like, whoa, I slipped. And you know the faucet where before you go to the shower, like, to fill up the tub? That faucet at the bottom? Yeah. I fell and scraped my whole back, like, up my back. Almost like I'm bleeding from my back. And I'm trying to decide, like, do I continue? Like, what do I do? I think we're gonna call this a day. But till this day, I have a scar on my back, and it's from a failed. Oh, I thought that was a tramp stamp. No, that was just from a failed attempt at show. I thought it was a butterfly tattoo right above your ass crack. No, no, that's not what it is. Oh, so it's next to the butterfly tattoo next to your ass crack? It's right. Right above. Yeah, I remember that, though. I remember Rich had, like, his back bandage, and he told this story of, like, this failed moment of romance. And, you know, that's what makes the story even funnier, is because you were trying to be all sexy about it, and then something goes wrong like that. Remember the movie Van Wilder when he oils up the girl and they catch on fire and he, like, slips off her out the window or something? Dude, I actually have a similar thing. I was trying to get all romantic my days, and what did you really know about romance? Right? Like lighting a candle. So I was trying to light a candle, and I dropped all the hot wax all over me. My fingers started blisting up, and the girl's like, I think I'm gonna leave now. I'm fine. And I was like, no, no, it's okay. My finger, like, sizzled. It melted away. And I remember, like, being in so much pain. And she did leave, swear to God. True story. Which made it even more embarrassing. But that's what we're getting at. Like, your stupid, embarrassing injuries based on Freddie Freeman. And it doesn't have to be in the world of sports, but you hear him all the time. Wasn't it Kevin Brown who punched the wall? Right. There's been a ton of these freak injuries in baseball. Yeah. Oh, baseball especially. But you hear about them in sports all the time. It could be in your own personal life. I remember I was. I was like a. Like a early teen, like 13 years old maybe, right? Oh, so the same size you are now? Same size I am right now. Hitting bombs. And, you know, I was playing around in the backyard, and dad was doing some sort of, like, I don't know, working on the patio or something. And it was all these planks of wood just laying there. And what do you do when you see, like, little bars of wood? You just, like, try to balance on it, right? Well, you're a huge Mary Lou Retton fan. I was a huge gymnast guy back in these days, you know, and I was trying to do my best balancing act. And, dude, sure enough, I'm walking just on. Just. Just daydreaming, like, who cares? I'm just walking in the backyard, and I'm walking on this piece of wood, and I stepped dead on it. The nail went right through the shoe, right through my shoe and through my foot, and I had to pull it out like. Like your mar. From. Yeah, right through my foot. But why, though? Because I was an airhead or a balloon head, just, like, floating around in my backyard, balancing on his piece of wood like a Mary Lou Retton. And I. It went right through my foot. Dude. I remember a story. I remember a story, Kavino, you told about your dad, Big Steve. Oh, it's the best story. This. I'm. You. You're lucky your dad didn't die. This is the best one, so I gotta tell it. Thanks for reminding me again. Same backyard, Freak accidents. That's what we're talking about. Accident. Same backyard. My buddy Gus was over the house part of the story, and my dad was by the grill. Everybody remembers their dad by the grill getting ready to cook something for you and your buddy, he's like, hey, Gus, would you want a hamburger? Guy's like, yeah. How you like it cooked? Meanwhile, parents never care. They cook it the same way every time. So my dad's chopping the hamburger meat, and he's to get the. The hamburger patties, I guess, separated. And all of a sudden, dude, he's just chopping away with the knife. And all of a sudden I hear, ah. And I'm thinking, april Fools. What's going on? He's like, ah, ah. And no one sees their dad, like, cry or act in this way ever, right? So I'm like, I have to be, like, 14, 13 years old. I'm looking at him, me and my buddy Gus, like, what's going on? He's like, ah, ah. And, dude, he goes stumbling down the driveway, bleeding everywhere, because he stabbed himself chopping the meat. So he's chopping the meat and slipped. Boom. Stabbed himself right in the leg, bro. And I'll never forget that because I thought he was messing around. Like, when you see your dad reacting that way, you're like, dad, are you kidding me right now? You know, you. You've probably at some point will hurt yourself trying to do something for your kids. I remember I got a. A wiffle ball stuck in a tree. I don't know how, but, you know, like, you know, a full tree wiffle ball got stuck up there. I go, dad. He goes, hold on. Oh, Richie. And my dad was wearing flip flops, or as he called them in the 80s, thongs. Your dad wore thongs before Cisco made him cool. So my dad's wearing all my thongs. I'm like, dad, don't call them that anymore, please. Your dad thinks the Cisco song is about his shoes. Oh, showing off my sexy thongs. My dad in flip flops. I'm sorry. Thong. Jumps up to get my wiffle ball out of the tree, lands, and turns his ankle. And he was mad at me like, you son of a man. Because of you and your stupid wiffle balls. My dad's ankles all taped up because he tried to get the wiffle ball. But when it comes to sports, I have a few I want to throw out there. But let's get the phones going. The most interactive show on Fox Sports Radio, April Fool's Day. We're talking about foolish behavior. The weird freak injuries a la Freddie Freeman. Missing a couple games because he slipped in the shower. Sammy Sosa sneezing. We've all heard this, right? Yeah, it's a famous one. And because we all know that feeling where, like, you're sort of holding a. Sneezing or not, but, like, his neck, right? My neck and my back. Yeah, he was out for a while because of that. When I was. Something pulled. I think he pulled a neck muscle or something. And in the mid. Mid sneeze. When I was. When I was a little kid growing up on the east coast in the 80s and 90s, everyone remembers this, but it was a big, big story back east when Bobby Ojeda cut His finger off with hedge clippers by mistake. He's. Why would Bobby o'ha be trimming his own hedges and bushes at his yard? But do you remember that story? Bobby o'ha cuts his finger off. Totally remember that. Let's get involved. April Fool's Day. 87799 on Fox. These are true stories we tell though. We're not messing around. And it all is from the Freddie Freeman story of him re injuring his ankle that he had surgery on slipping in the shower. What up, DB I don't know if you guys, I mean, we're of the same age, but I knew a lot of older guys who are missing a digit or two, like my uncle. It was not. And I felt like it was more common. My grandfather had nine fingers. My grandfather's fingers were all mangled too. He was a butcher. Yes. So his fingers were all sliced and butchered up and weird looking. My uncle Harry did not have all 10 fingers, but I know he didn't have 10. My grandfather was missing his left pointer. And know what the answer was? This is how people operated so differently. 1930s in Brooklyn. Him and his brother were chopping wood. His brother cut his finger off. And I remember asking him like, grandpa, what did you do with the finger? He goes, oh, we threw it out. Like you threw it out? Oh, yeah, we tossed it. Just threw it out. His brother ran away from home because he was scared. So his brother ran away for a week. And he's like, oh, no, I have nine fingers. Dan Byer. That's such a funny observation. Really is. The loss of digits was like, you know, so much more kind. An Uncle Carl who was missing a digit. Yeah, right. And he, he was like. He worked with cars, but the rumor was that he kind of. I think he did collections. Sure. So I think something happened. I think he stood up to somebody. Shouldn't have one of my hood land on your finger. One of my best buddies, the Celtics didn't cover his. His dad, one of my best buddy's dad was missing a finger. Right. And my family happened to be there when it happened. It's just a small world sort of thing. The families grew up together. And his dad was running his finger, his hand across a chain link fence and the ring got caught in the fence and ripped his finger off. And he had to get it removed on a car or something? No, he just run in with his hand going across the fence. Very sensitive dude. Have no idea how it happened. But I know my buddy's dad had a finger missing. So think about More freak injuries, especially in sports. Like Rich said, there's plenty of stories in sports that we can get to and we just hope Freddie Freeman's Ight, even though the Dodgers are just fine. But first. Oh, they all, they might. I just saw the research. They might only win 122 games this year if he's out a few more years. All right, Dan Byer, what's going on, my friend? Never stopped him from smoking though, right? You know, like, doesn't matter how many digits. We're, we're gonna, we're gonna make that work in the car too, with the windows up. The NFL had a lot of news makers today, especially when it comes to the rules Tush push that's been pushed to May. No decision has been made on the play made famous by the Philadelphia Eagles. They talk it for about 30 to 40 minutes. 16 teams reportedly against the Tush push. More conversations coming up in May. Hey, Dan, can I ask you like a really dumb question? I watch football every week just like everybody else. Aside from the pylon aspect of what's happening, like, what's the big risk? Like, why is this such a world of football? I'll tell you what. Rich has your answer. If. Yeah, I want to know if you want a really good follow up, I'll promote one of the other shows here on Fox Sports Radio. I was very pro push Tush until I saw Levar Arrington sort of give his angle on it. And being a former football player. Yeah, because everybody could do it if they have the right players. That's one angle. So it's like, well then why doesn't everyone do it more about not just the pylon, like the integrity of like, you know, the offense versus defense. Like once a running back, his forward progress is stopped. That's the end of the play. That's football. So when you just get guys pushing and pushing, it sort of takes away, okay, almost like the integrity. I like that more than like, is it, where's all the injuries? Is it really that big of a deal? Because we don't see it that often. So, yeah, this was the commissioner's messaging earlier today. There are safety issues that are being considered in that case. We have very little data from it. So there you go. Here's what's weird about it. Pylons happen all the time. What about people running full speed at each other in kickoffs? That's not like an injury risk. That's why I don't get it. But what Rich just explained here makes more sense to me. There's more to it than that. All right, thank you. I thought, and honestly when you started when you said pylons, I thought you meant like pylon cam and the orange things that are in the end zone. But you were saying pylons. Yes, yes. Just get the stop those two guys from pushing Jalen hurts in the back and. And then it's just a normal quarterback sneak which nobody is saying should be banned. Right. Okay. Touchback on the kickoffs going to be moved out to the 35 yard line. Both teams by the way in regular season overtime games will get the football but still just a 10 minute session line to gain measurements will be made by Hawkeye Technology. Bye bye to the chain gang. And then the Lions proposal to receive the playoffs was also tabled until their May meetings. Couple of other NFL notes. Niners owner Jed York admitted the reason they let 17 players go from last year's team was because of the contract they plan to give quarterback Brock Purdy. Jeffrey Lurie, the Eagles owner, hinted at a contract extension for Nick Sirianni. Defensive lineman Goliath Campbell signing a one year deal with the Arizona Cardinals. And there will be three games on Christmas day this season. Christmas falls on a Thursday. First two will be on Netflix. The nightcap will be on Amazon. Maryland expected to hire Texas A&M's Buzz Williams is their next men's basketball coach. Met shutting down pitcher Shamania for two weeks. Sorry, Rich. Back to you guys. I was hoping that was a April fools, but it's not. But you know, Mets are doing just fine. Looking good yesterday. He saw my dude polar bear Pete Alonzo with a oppo grand salami. Yeah. And you didn't want him played every game last year and you had this guy on the fence. I never said that. Now he's. I like him over the fence with a bomb. Good for him. Well, hey, we got all your phone calls and feedback. Next April Fool's day, freak injuries. Freddy Freeman slipped in the shower. So let's go over some of your favorites, some of the weirdest ones. All next right here. Here. Fox Sports Radio. I've fallen and I can't get up. We ready to fight? I'm ready to fight. Is that what I thought it was? Oh, this is fighting words. Okay, I'll put the hammer back. Hi, I'm George M. Johnson, a best selling author with the second most banned book in America. Now more than ever, we need to use our voices to fight back. And that's what we are doing. On fighting Words. We're not going to let anyone silence us. That's the reason why they're banning books like yours, George. 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Do it on fox Sports Radio's YouTube again. Over promised with Cavino and Rich. Now Freddie Freeman out for a few days. We don't know the severity of the injury. We just know it was a little mishap that he slipped in a shower and re injured the surgically repaired ankle. You guys remember him hobbling around last year? His swing is still mint, but his foot's a little jacked up. So other crazy embarrassing sports injuries or just injuries that you remember? I got three, but I'm going to the phone. Yeah, let's, let's, let's save them, see if anyone else hits them. Boise and Caleb, you're on with Kavino and Rich. What's up, man? Hey, what's up? How are you guys doing? We're good, man. What's on your mind? What up, man? All right, first time caller, I got two for you and they're both involving holidays, which makes them that much more unfortunate. So Scotty Shepler got glass shards in his hand making ravioli on New Year's. Oh, terrible. Missed. Missed the first major, I believe. And then secondly, it's Jason Pierre Paul, the football player he blew some fingers off with with a firework accident on the 4th of July. He is the prime example. I remember always being like, how could he, an NFL player, be the guy that holds fireworks? Totally remember that. But he made me think of, didn't Derrick Rose cut his fingers slicing an apple or something like that and he was out for a little while. Did he have avocado hand? Remember that whole thing? He just suffered from, from far more severe injuries that people forget about them. Do you know that's a thing, Sam, at emergency rooms, there's avocado hand where people, when they're trying to make guac or slice and avocado they put in their palm slip and the people go into the hospital with a slice in their palm and most of the time it's some idiots trying to slice an avocado. All right, Dave, Virginia, what's up? Yeah, hey, guys. First time caller. Yeah, when I was a college sophomore, I broke a wrist. Sleep, sleeping, Sleeping. Yeah, that's like. Yeah, on your day off. So. Yeah, well, so when you're, when you're on the, when you're in the dorm, they would sell you this kit that would turn the two bunk beds in the dorm into two, like upper bunks so you're like six feet off the floor. And I went to sleep one Night. Rolled out of bed, fell six feet to the tile floor and broke my wrist. Thanks. Save Andy in Montana. What's up, Andy? Andy. Andy. But then again, though, think of all the room for activities he had. What's up, buddy? You guys are awesome. Hey, man, just letting you know, you got a lot of fans here in Great Falls, Montana. Oh, thanks, man. Keep up the great work. All right, this is a dumb one. Years ago, me and my buddy get done unloading his pickup truck, and I'm leaning up, I'm doing the drunky lean up against his tailgate, and unbeknownst to me, he starts to raise the tailgate. Got me up on my toes. So, needless to say, three days later, after frozen peas every day, you got that. Yeah. Killer wedgie right there. Have you ever seen that video of the girl, she's trying to be all sexy, like, posing in a tree, and she falls, but the tree holds on to her bathing suit bottom, and she's like. I mean, there's a million of these. I mean, I'm sure you've seen that. Yeah, I'm thinking of one in particular. Let's go to Nate dog. What's up, Nate? Ohio? What's up, bud? Hey, guys. What's going on? Hey, buddy. Yeah, I had one when I was about 15. My dad. Dad was building in the garage, my sister's bed frame, and my girlfriend was come picking me up, and that was the first time they met. And he comes out of the garage with the nail and all three of us and three of his fingers. Every time I think of a nail on someone. You ever picture Mr. Larson from Happy Gilmore? The nail on his head. So funny. The nail in his head. Same guy who played Jaws, right? From the Bond movies. Yes. But again, I have three that you're going to want to hear for sure, because I think they're my favorite ones. They're horrible. They're horrible. But they were freak injuries. But do we have time for one more phone call? Let's do two phone calls, and then we'll take yours to. To cap off this great April Fools conversation. Tripp. What's up, Vegas? Hey. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Always a privilege to listen and talk to y'all. Thanks. I got to remember when Jeff Kent was. Said he was cleaning his truck, the Washington truck, and his popping wheelies. That came out. Yeah, that's how he got hurt. And then the second one, this was a lady I worked with at Mohegan sun in Connecticut. She was on medical leave. She came in one day, and we heard she's in bad accident. She had both of her hands in casts. And we said, what happened? She said, I was using a miter saw and I cut the tips off my left fingers. It was like, well, how'd you do the other side? 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