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I highly doubt it. Reality TV and social media have love all wrong. So what really makes relationships last? On this episode of Dope Labs, poet and relationship expert Young Pueblo breaks down the psychology of love and provides eye opening insights and advice we all need. It's a big realization moment that you should not be postponing your happiness. Like your greatest happiness is, is not necessarily going to like come from a relationship. Your partner, they should add to your happiness, but your happiness is really coming from within you. Listen to Dope labs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino Enrich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 5 to 7 Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for Kavito and rich@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. Hey, that's us broadcasting live from the TireRack.com studio. 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The guy knows his stuff. Well, that's the whole thing about it. Doug filled out a bracket on who had the most money in nil. So far it's worked out pretty well. Now I'm not saying that was his goal, but he used it as a guiding force. Yeah, guiding principle. And so Steve Hartman. Great Steve Hartman, I think he's still in first and maybe Brady Quinn is in second, last time I checked. There. There you go. Top three right there. All guessing games. Rich had a dumb hypothetical, but not really recently. Like what happens when some multibillionaire one day just wants to mess with how college basketball works in nil because somehow finagles a loophole? The loophole could be if. If Jeff Bezos, just for the hell of it, in fact, just for the smell of it, was like, pick the worst college ever as far as sports. Coastal Florida of something. St. Francis, your example. No, no, no, we talked about it. No, because they were in the tournament. I'm saying. Oh, even worse. Like, just pick a team that has like one win. What if Jeff Bezos was like, you know, I'm going to sponsor the top 15 college basketball players, give you 10 mil each. Which is chump change for a Bezos. We want you to come to this college of Amazon. Could he automatically buy himself an NCAA tournament championship? Yeah, I guess, like in that way for sure. There's loopholes behind it. If. Yeah, if they're using their name, image and likeness with donations. Yeah. Through donations to promote whatever product he's pushing or whatever, then he could find a way to manipulate the outcome or at least change it up a little bit. Any rich person, not just a Jeff Bezos. A rich person, can manipulate college sports easily. That it's. And you know, and obviously would have to go through whatever process it needs to go through. But that's also part of the problem is right now there's exactly nothing to legislate anything. So when they use the term Wild, Wild west, really like, yeah, it kind of is to that aspect. So the lowest ranking team right now is Mississippi Valley State. So Mississippi Valley State. That was mine. I said Mississippi Valley State. That's where Jerry Rice went, right? He did. But in men's basketball, women's basketball, football, they're traditionally lately very bad. So if Elon Musk was like, put aside SpaceX for a second. I'll give the best players, you know, 10 mil each. Haha. Just. Just for S and giggles, I want you to be the spokesman for Tesla. Pay them crazy amounts of money and all of a sudden they. They end up. They beat Duke in the final. I'll pick the second to last, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Pine. They could compete with the. With the right money. I think Spot would love their logo. When we showed it to Monty. She fell in love. It's a lion head. Yeah, but it's uapb. If you can see it. If you can see it, the pine. Oh, that's pretty cool. Like that. It's in there. It looks like flames, but it's a mane. But it's also the letters. That's really cool. That is cool. So we're bringing the madness here. We hope you're enjoying your college basketball. It's baseball eve. There's a lot going on. Again, Kavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. To wrap up the previous conversation, LeBron talked a lot of smack. It was a Fun conversation on McAfee. Smack in the form of entertaining. Do you feel bad for Windhurst? That was the other story too, right. It's like, aw, he thought he's probably pals with LeBron. And LeBron's like, oh, that chump essentially felt a little mean. But, you know, that's his truth, I guess, whatever. The big story, too, was that he said giannis would score 250 points in the 70s. I think what we established in our conversation. Yeah, he's. He's. He's speaking the truth there because sports has evolved, competition has evolved, conditioning has evolved. But when we talk about the arts, it's very different. In fact, we've gone backwards in a lot of ways. As Danny G. Pointed out, off the air, you know, musically, comedically, artistically. We just push out garbage movies other than Richard Pryor and, kidding me. The Carlin years, crafting an act. Now we just fart out specials because they're under contract. You lost a lot of quality. Art's debatable. Everything else, not so much. Art is debatable art. Not necessarily because we fart out music because it's so easily created in someone's basement. When years prior, there was artist development and years and years went into the craftsmanship and the development of that product. Art not in that conversation. The same way sports is. So we established that. Again, we're Covino and Rich. We'll take your phone calls at 877-99-FOX. We still have midweek major to get to, plus Jimmy Butler's awkward return and. And more. Yeah, say hi to Gary in pa. Gary. Hey, Gary, it's Derek, but nice talk to you guys. Wait, what's your name? All that build up just to get it wrong. Derek. Yeah, Derek. You know, it's fine. Oh, my name is Derek, and I could sing high like Derek. Name the movie. What's up? No. Is that a movie? Yeah. Stepfather. I Don't think he's feeling it. Yeah, he doesn't like you. He doesn't like your goofy. You called him Gary and you made a bad jo. Yeah, keep going. Oh no, I'm not Gary, I'm Derek. But no. Yes. I just wanted to. Just want to say you guys are absolutely hilarious. Thanks, Gary. The only thing that I've been able to think about for a while is just a bunch of Justin Bieber's rushing at me. Yeah. How many think you could beat up? Not a. Like I. No, not eight. I don't know, I'm kind of a lazy dude. Maybe three. How's he got three? He's really in shape these days. But. But we're talking floppy headed, you know, 2000s, baby. But they got that pubescent strength. They're stronger than you think. Thanks again, Gary. Thanks. Thanks, Chuck. Thanks for calling Chuck. I've heard of old guy strength. What's pubescent strength? Just like teenage boys are much stronger than you think. They've got that muscle mass. Yeah, I guess so. They're coming into their own body. Just stop, Sam. Going to middle schools and fighting kids. They're coming into their coming of age. Stop. Let's go to E Dawg on Long Island. E Dawg, what's up man? E Dog says he has two random stories that have nothing to do with what we're talking about. Don't say so does Rich, so don't worry about it. So did Gary. E Dog said to pick one of the stories. It's choose our Own Adventure with E Dawg. Sweet. What do you got, E Dog? Okay. One day I rented a hotel room, I threw pebbles in the corner, put it on a tank top and drank Corona Extra and I thought was at the beach. Okay, that's cool. Like that. I like that story visualization. Okay. And another one. Another story is this. I was in. Here's another one. I was at a hospital for my drinking. Yeah. And I was in a home leave to my grandparents. When I was there I went out to a club and I met this girl and I told her I was in the hospital working. I'll be back in two weeks. So I came back in two weeks and you know what movie we saw? What? Liar. Liar. But that doesn't compare to Joe Pesci on My Cousin Vinny. The best movie that there ever was, dog. Interesting guy. Hell yeah. I really wanted to see how that story panned out. Something about Joe Pesci. What happened? He just watched the movie with a girl. Liar. Lie. He watched Liar. Liar. With our very own Justin Cooper from the network. But not as good as my cousin Vinnie. And I kind of agree. I kind of like that guy because it's like doing a show at Rich Davis. They're both from Long Island. They're both from Long island, and they just start talking about random things out of nowhere. Like manicotti. Yeah, exactly. I think that was good. I got one more thought before we get into midweek. Major. And I know we're going to talk some Jimmy Butler. So last night, after my daughter's softball game, after our big win, I coached the hell out of that game. I dragged the field, put on the sprinklers, and do all the stuff that parents do. Now I just have to ask, am I out of my mind to think that when we were kids. Not that it's a big deal, but when we were kids, I feel like no one did that to the fields. Like, do you listen to YMCA while you do that crappy Little League program? My parents did that, being in Little League all the way. Your parents? Yeah. My mom would work the snack stands, and that's what parents. Dads would rake the fields. So you do the Macarena while you do it. Yeah, I know. I'm saying you. I grew up where the fields are, sort of what the field was. And that's why you got bad hops and it wasn't really manicured. Well, sounds like you had a crappy Little League. Maybe I did, man. I'm sure not everyone had your great Little League field. I mean, that's what. I imagine your Little League had a short fence, too, with all the home runs you hit. The dads raked the field. That's how it was. But you have. You're not any more special of a dad. Are you here to tell us that Little League coaches have evolved too? Well, actually, the way they teach kids. Yes. In a overabundant way. Where my dad was raking the field in the 80s, where I have girls on my team that are seven and they have private softball pitching lessons. That's wild. I would think nowadays you would have competitions for dads competing on whose field would look better because of lawns. I'm totally into redoing part of my lawn right now. And I think that there are a lot of people like me that you. If. If you gave a couple of dads saying you've got diamond two or you've got Steve Covino Memorial Field to take care of, like, they would have some Kentucky bluegrass on that. Yeah. They would want to make it like the best diamond compared to everybody else. Don dropped a Thatcher reference the other day. The Thatcher? Yeah. I had to look up what the Thatcher was because. And I'm a guy who's done a lot of landscaping. I enjoy that stuff too. And I'll name drop the guy that runs my son's ponyball league. Jeff Supon, former major League baseball pitcher, played for almost 20 years. Sure. Soup is so adamant about making soup. Wait, you call him Soup? That's. Everyone calls him Soup. My best friend, I call him Soup. Get with it. So, Soup, make sure these fields. These fields are so manicured. They're like major league baseball stadiums. Like the grass where you almost like. Wait, is that real grass or turf? Because it's that it's like a. So short, like perfectly manicured. I must have just played on the crappiest fields on Long island where there were rocks on the infield. They would do with the remnants of the foul line every game. I get the little thing, you know, you're making the line, the straight line. Like, to me, I just feel like kids now have way nicer facilities. I think that. And I may have mentioned this on the show, but as a right handed hitter, the first time you stepped in a batter's box that was level with home plate was new because it was. Always had the dip because everybody was a righty. So you're like 3, 4 inches below home plate. Plate. When you actually went to a real diamond and you were even with home plate, it freaked the crap out of me. You know who doesn't let me eat the hole in the batter's box. You know who doesn't let that divot happen? Soup. Soup. You know, full soup. Soup. Do you call Soup du jour? My pal Soup? Rich dropping names. So again, that's Rich Davis, the coach. We're Cavino and Rich Cavino and Coach Rich. And we'll take your random stories in your phone calls. But we got to talk about Jimmy Butler back in Miami. It was one of those anticlimactic, you could say, awkward, awkward moments. It was an awkward return. Well, what was his quote? Danny G. Something like, yo, I was. Yeah, that. The video tribute was nice, but he didn't really feel a lot of emotions. Yeah, I guess it's. He didn't feel a lot on the court either. He only scored 11 points. He was 5 of 12. What was more of an awkward return? Jimmy Butler or when I returned those curtains to Bed, Bath and Beyond after I had him for like three years, I kept the bag. I Was like, hey, man, these things, they just don't work right. Awkward return. There are some stores that were like, we'll take it back whenever. Yeah. So awkward returns. They showed the video, they showed the montage. He showed no reaction. It was sort of an awkward moment. The crowd in the arena looked kind of confused. They didn't know how to clap or boo. He said it was nice, but he had no emotions behind it. He didn't want to deal with Pat Riley. It was an awkward return, man. Can I tell you that crowd reaction is almost the worst reaction? Because what do they say in relationships? What's the worst thing? Apathy. Right? Like, you may hate an ex girlfriend or still be in love with her. Indifference in apathy is the worst because that means, like, I just don't even care. Like. Like, you almost wanted the fans to be like, thanks for all the years, Jimmy Butler. You know, happy face, coffee. We miss you, bro. Or boo, you left us. Yeah, get there. The fact that there was that sense of like, that's like, that's the emotion. You don't want Covino. No. Out of a relationship, a job, or anything. Again, he spoke on his return and the tribute to him. The video was nice, and again, they were just doing the right thing, but there wasn't a lot of emotions. Here's the clip. Like I always say, I got a lot of love for the city, for the fan base here. Video was nice. I won't say that there was a lot of emotions, though. I mean, it takes me back to some good times. Whenever I was wearing a Miami Heat jersey. I'm very appreciative of those times. To help me become the player that I am in this league, the individual that I am in this league, the teammate, the leader, all of those things. I don't think I could be who I am today without my opportunity here. I had an awkward return. You know, Rich and I built our talk show at Sirius xm, right? That's where we started as a talk show. I remember when I first started dating my girlfriend, we went back to New York City and I was like, yeah, you know what? That's where I. That's where I work. And we still work there, but I hadn't worked in that facility anymore. And I wanted to go into this building, this real nice building we worked at, like a big shot. And I got there and they wouldn't let me in because my ID didn't work anymore. And I'm trying to show her just how cool the facility is and the security got involved and then they're calling upstairs to see if I even work there anymore. And I'm like, I do work there. And then you go back and none of the people you used to work with are even there anymore. It's how a lot of people felt after Covid. You didn't even know where anyone worked anymore or where they were. Steve, I found exclusive audio of you on that day. I don't even really work here. Yeah, it was so embarrassing because it was like, do I even work here? I felt like such a slob. They wouldn't even let me in the building. Didn't your girlfriend say, are you lying? Yeah, it's like the video of Jamal Adams getting locked out of the jets facility, Remember? Oh, so weird. Let me tell you, when it comes to awkward returns, I guess you could consider reunions returns, right? Like when people get together, haven't been together in a while. I had my 20 year high school reunion recently and recently. 20 years ago. How dare you. When I recently had my 20 year reunion. All the guidos that I grew up with on Long island, all the guys you could picture, like, hey, Tony and Anthony and you know, Geno, all the Italian guidos I grew up with. What about Carmine? I did go to school with a Carmine. Of course you did. Of course, why not? So all those guys, you know what the most Italian name is though, for real? Proven fact. Vito. I went to high school. I'm not even joking. I'll give him a shout out. We got a veto here. I went to school. It is. I'm not even BSing you. I went to school on Long island, graduated class with a guy named Vito Viti. I mean, we work with a guy Vito here. He does great work. But it's one of the most Italian names you could have. According to, I think Giovanni, according to TikTok. What about Giuseppe? Oh, that's a good one. That's pretty Italian, but it's like real. Like it's a real Italian. It is like Italian American, like Vito Mozzarella. So, Giuseppe, we go to my high school reunion and all the Guido tough guys that thought they were hot s and like the nerdy, like good kids, we're all getting along. Like everyone's like, hey, it's 20 years later. It's nice to see you. It was like the most beautiful mesh of meaning. All differences were aside. You're grown ups now and you all come from the same place. Your 20 year reunion a couple years ago, for me, not that long ago. But you're, as my mom says, it must be like a Mexican expression, because it sounds weird. She's like, we all come from the same hole. What? Meaning, like, you're no better than anybody else. You're all from the same place, so you realize that when you're older. I know. Face looks confused, like, I don't think that's her. I think you messed up the phrase. Yeah, come from the same hole. Yeah. Well, anyway, meaning time has passed. You're all from the same high school. You all grew up together. I was C section there. There was. There was a, you know, a different sense of who was cool and who wasn't back then, but that no longer exists. And so time is a great equalizer. Burnouts. All the guidos, all the nerds, all the drama kids. Everyone was getting along. Would the word be swimmingly? Sure, if you're Michael Phelps. It was a beautiful night. And then comes in one of, like, I guess you would say, like, the real nerdy kids that may have got bullied a little bit back in the day. He comes in and one of the guidos is like, hey, John. Oh. And he pulls this. Yeah, you're gonna be nice to me now. You think I forgot? You think I forgot when you threw me in a locker? I didn't forget. And, yo, this dude made the whole room feel like, what is going on? He didn't roll with it. Maybe resentment. Never let it go. Awkward returns. Awkward returns. Jimmy Butler had one. Maybe it was too soon, right? Maybe it's the. The. The pain hasn't dried yet. The. The. The ink hasn't dried. Like, this is months ago. I think when a player comes back, like a year or so later, maybe there's a little more of a, oh, hey, we missed him. Also, the fans, the reason they were kind of, you know, standing on there or sitting on their. Their hands was the Heat have been struggling since he has moved to Golden State and the warriors except for yesterday's game. And Steph Curry is out hurt right now, but the warriors have been thriving ever since Butler got there. Yeah, it's almost like your ex moved on and she's really happy. It's too soon, bro. Too soon, bro. So your thoughts 87799 on Fox. And Spotty's got it queued up. Next, we go over midweek major, the biggest stories in the world of sports and entertainment. We do that next right here. Fox Sports Radio. Covino and Rich. Tires matter. They're the only part of your vehicle that touches the road. And they're responsible for everything. Acceleration, braking, steering, and handling Gotta tread confidently with new tires and tire rack. 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Or be thrown in the middle of the woods and you know there's a bear within a mile? Oh, I'm much more confident on my feet than in the water. So, yeah, the bear. I have some news for people. When they're swimming in the ocean, there's most likely a shark within a mile. And they're not gonna. They're not gonna bother you. I'm not. They move fast. They just have to keep moving. Bears are like chunky. I'm sorry. And it's easy to a miles big. I should have said 100 yards. Football field. Like if I said football. Yeah, you get dumped in, but you could swim back to the boat right away or run back to a cabin. You could punch the shark in the nose. Can't do that to a bear. Yeah, the bear. You just have to find a big rock and just keep running around in circles. Or find a picnic basket. Yeah. So anyway, we're live from the Tyrant.com studio. Remember, after the show, the podcast goes up. If you miss any of today's show, you want to hear us talk about LeBron James? 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And I guess Eddie Van Halen told him, if you ever speak to me like that again, you better be wearing a cup. I do remember that, you know, happens in life, happens in bands. It happens at reunions. Like Rich said, happens when you go back to your favorite spots. And like, the people that you expected to be there are all different. It's not the same anymore. You know, it was awkward last night when Jimmy Butler went back again. They didn't leave on good terms. And of course, the Golden State warriors got blew out. Blown out. So, awkward return last night, but now it's time. Midweek Major. Let's go, Cavino. And Rich gets you over the middle of the week with Midweek Major. Ooh, I love that. We throw sports and pop culture headlines and topics at the fellas. And it's like the kids say, that's so mid. We definitely major C and R scoring. Midweek Major. I gotta go fast. We give Spotty eight full minutes here. Why bother anymore? And before we hand things over to the number one and only host of this segment, we like to roll the two big red love dice in the main studio. Yeah. What'd you get, Covino? Yeah. Eleven. All right. And now, is it even worth rolling? This is to see who gets first take. It's called a Rich roll. Now I got a one on the first dice. I'm not even gonna. Not even roll on the other. Nice job, Ashley. All right, Covino gets to go first. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the most famous person besides Judy Blume from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Spotty boy. Hey, guys. Sorry. Let's jump right in since you gave me no time. Kendrick Lavar's halftime show, as we know, has been one of the most watched shows in history with a whopping 133.5 million people viewing. But of course, not without some critical criticism. Criticism and complaints from viewers. Official tally is in on FCC complaints totaling 125 complaints. A lot of the complaints had to do with the usage of the red, white and blue representation of the flag, some crotch grabbing gestures. At least 10 complaints had to do with him using the platform to go after Drake, claiming it was a personal vendetta. Some had to do with Serena Williams dancing as a gang affiliation. In comparison, just so you know, Rihanna's show last year had just over 100 complaints while Jlo and Shakira had over 1300 complaints. So not that crazy midweek or major. I think it's a mid story. When you factor in 133.5 million tuned in most ever and you only got 125 complaints. Is that like point that's not that bad. Yeah, I mean when you factor in that many more people people were watching. Plus people in today's culture just love to complain anyway. Have you been on social media? Bunch of Darrens and Karens just complaining all the time. My thought was how many of them do you think are actually named Karen coincidentally? You think one of the 125 is a Karen? I'm actually surprised it's not more. Yeah, I'm with you. I think it's a mid story. People will complain about anything. And what really can you complain about? And who cares? Just think that's how many people those people are. Definitely. Can I talk to the manager on a regular? Yeah, they all have that Johnny Resnick Karen haircut. All right. LeBron finally addressing his viral confrontation with ESPN host Stephen A. Smith. While appearing on the Pat McAfee show earlier today, he spoke about the incident, saying it's not necessarily about Stephen A. Criticizing, which is his job, but when he makes it personal. He said when you take it and make it personal, it's my job to not only only protect my household, but the players specifically referenced Smith criticizing Bronny. And when he saw him on the court, he was saying, stop talking stuff about my son. That's my son. That's my son. Leave him out of it. He even made like a Taylor Swift joke, said he's on a Taylor Swift tour right now talking about this incident, speaking about Stephen A. So midweek or major Major because it was a big national story. We also played out on the court and it's fun to see LeBron's side of things. But you know what he did? He gave Stephen A exactly what he wanted. Again, more things to talk about. The fact that LeBron James is talking about Stephen A. Again on a public platform on a big show like that just feeds into what Stephen A's all about. He loves that. I think it's major because it's the biggest, one of the biggest sports personalities and one of the biggest sports media members. And again, Stephen A. Loves it. And LeBron pointed that out saying that he could picture Stephen A. Eating ice cream in his tighty whities, getting all excited about this because you know what, you're right. I love when LeBron's like, he made it seem like I didn't want to address this. Like, come on. Of course you, you were itching to address it. So I mean, I do agree with the point though, that you shouldn't make it personal. But LeBron makes it hard not to when he involves and fit his family into the game. Right? I mean, it's a very unique situation because you are talking basketball, but you're also talking about his son. All right, WNBA star Nafisa Collier isn't thrilled about the upcoming WNBA season coverage and is setting her sights on none other than Caitlin Clark and the Indiana fever. So the TV schedule for the 2025 season, 2025 season has been revealed and the Fever are said to have 41 of their 44 games being televised or streaming in comparison to the last season champion, the New York Liberty, who only have 32 of their games being televised nationally. Colliers on the Links who lost to the the Liberty last season. Just questioning why this spotlight is isn't being shown on other WNBA stars. Of course, she fully acknowledges how Clark has attention. She, she drew attention to the WNBA but said there are stars all over the league and if you want to watch good basketball, you have to feature the other teams. Not trying to take away from the Fever, but lift up the other teams midweek or major. It's a major story because people are going to talk about it. Anything Caitlin Clark related is major. But guess what? You know who's not major? Collier, unfortunately. Liberty. Even though they won the Lynx, no one cares about that as much as they care about Caitlin Clark. The that's the bottom line. She is the reason that anybody cares right now. I'd rather watch a YouTube video of someone making sausage links than watch the Minnesota Links. I mean, I think that's pretty fair, right? If, if Caitlin Clark is getting 41 of 44 games aired and the Liberty who won are getting 32, still a decent amount of games. I mean, I'm actually surprised they're getting 32 games. Take it easy, ladies. Because I remember when like Angel Reese was like maybe we should strike. If they strike you're never going to see the NBA, WNBA again. Relax. Like I agree with him. That's the one thing Antonio Brown said that wasn't crazy. Listen, 32 games televised, that's big. I would say that's, that's a, that's an improvement. Caitlin Clark's a star. We'll see what the ratings show. I bet you, I bet you you can find Sausage Link videos that have more views. Honestly, you probably could see the 2024 World Series champion Dodgers have officially accepted their invite to the White House and will officially take place on April 7th when they're in D.C. to play the Nationals. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said it's certainly a huge honor to get the invitation to the White House respects the position of the president, says it's the highest in the country, certainly in the world. So they're looking forward to it. No official word on who from the team will be intended in attendance, but Roberts did get some criticism back in 2019 when he said he would definitely turn down the chance to go to a Trump White House if they won that season. They did win in 2020 when Biden was in office. So they went to visit but he is switching his, his stance and they are going April 7th. And the OSU Buckeyes also accepted their invitation. They'll be there on April 14th. I think that's major. Definitely major. Whatever your political stance is, that's your business and you have your right to that. I think to turn down the honor of going to the White House is foolish and I don't think that's fair for the other players that looked at that as an honor if they wanted to go. So I'm glad they're going and they're being honored in the way they deserve to be honored. Agreed. I think it's great. Major news, I guess. I think you put your differences aside for an honor. No doubt. I always tell you guys that the. We've interviewed so many celebrities, musicians, we've never interviewed a president sitting or, you know, had served in the office. I bumped into Jimmy Carter once. I would love sure it was you. Sure it was Jimmy Carter. Yeah, man. I was, I turned around the corner, I bumped into Jimmy Carter. You ain't never met Jimmy Carter. I did Clinton, Obama. I did bump into Jimmy Carter, Bush, Trump. I would, I would love to just have the opportunity to meet anyone. You was someone else. Would you like a peanut Punch you in the face. By the way, what, what kind of set this ablaze on the Internet was the fact about the, the Jackie Robinson Website drama. Yeah. And so that's an AI thing, and that's what makes this story a little. It blew up a little bit yesterday because of that. Did you say an AI thing? Yeah. Then it wasn't. Jackie Robinson taken out by an AI program. And then they put it back in. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Well, thank you. Glad they're putting their differences aside to receive their accolades. They had a hell of a season. Regardless of your political stance, I think that's great. All right, let's go to DB for an update. Dan Meyer. What's up, buddy? Guys, Russell Wilson has signed that one year deal with the New York Giants, speaking with reporters today via a zoom call. This might be my 14th year to be able to lead amazing group of men that really have, you know, big hopes and goals and dreams and desires, and we all share the same goal. And so I think that's the best part about it is I get to be around a lot of, you know, extremely, extremely talented guys. Wilson also says he expects to be the starter for the Giants in week one. Adb, I hate to interrupt your updates, but in the other clip you played, he uses the term rock and enroll again. I want to rock and roll. Something like your dad would say, Danny Zuko. Yeah, it's like rocking and rolling. Isn't what. Is that what every old white dad says when he closes out the bill at a restauran? All right, let's rock and roll. It's just noticeable. Let's go this pop stand. But he sounds very upbeat. I like it. I like it. We were watching an old episode of the Bird. Well, they're all old. But an episode of the Brady Bunch last night, and Greg wanted to go to the rock concert. He wanted to go to the rock concert. Rock and roll, bro. Couldn't drive, though, so he used his buddy's car and exact words and the whole deal. All right. Yankees valued at $8.2 billion. According to Forbes, the first baseball squad to break the $8 billion barrier. Dodgers in at 6.8 billion. In second place, Red in third, valued at 4.8 billion. Celtics upgraded Jason Tatum to questionable tonight against Phoenix. Bucks ruled out Giannis and Tetacompo against the Nuggets because of a foot sprain. And West Virginia has found their new men's basketball coach comes from North Texas, Ross Hodge, now leading the Mountaineers men's basketball program. Guys, back to you. Thank you, db and you know the downside of that information? Yankees worth $8.2 billion. All right, so what are we going to do? About Garrett Cole and what are we doing about third base? I don't want to hear about you can't afford it. You're exceeding budgets. If you're 8.2, you better be doing something. Pay all the luxury tax that you'd have to. But that's how the fans are going to think. We don't want to hear, oh, the first team to surpass 8 billion. How about you do something at third base, buddy, now. Well, hey, one sleep until baseball. We got more Covino and Rich with a with a hypothetical about baseball starting tomorrow. Next to wrap the show. Hang time. On November 5, 2018 at 6:33am, a red Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned in a ditch out in Sleep Hole Valley. The driver's seat door was open. No traces of footsteps leaving the vehicle. No belongings were found, except for a cassette tape lodged to the player. On that tape were 10 vile. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Grotesque. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Horrific stories that to this day have been kept restricted from the public. Until now. You feeling this too? A horror anthology podcast. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Are your ears bored? Yeah. Are you looking for a new podcast that will make you laugh, learn, and say gay? Yeah. Then tune in to locatora radio season 10 today. Okay. I'm Viosa. I'm Mala, the host. Host of Locatora Radio, a radiophonic novella, which is just a very extra way of saying a podcast. We're launching this season with a mini series, totally nostalgic, a four part series about the Latinos who shaped pop culture in the early 2000s. It's Lala checking in with all things Y2K 2000s. 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Baseball, you know, the, the Mets were just rated. You know, they never win anything of value like a World Series. But they just were named the for the third year in a row, best stadium food in Major League Baseball. But then again, the Mets have New York City pizza in their stadium. They have Shake Shack. They have sushi. They have, you know, steaks. The Mets have good food. Citi Field, great spot. I'll give our buddy Jim credit. Our buddy Jim, who lives in Charlotte said if you guys had to right now, bet your savings, like if I went into your bank account and took all $4, if I went into your bank account and took you millions and billions, your house, whatever you have, and you had to wager it today, here's the bet Dodgers or the field to win the World Series. Dodgers. Or you get all other 31 teams. I'm sorry, baseball, 29 teams you go. Do you go 29 teams or do you go Dodgers? You have to bet your full savings today to win the World Series. Based on right now, I would have to say I'm going, I'm going the field. Field. Yeah. You know why? Because it's just not easy to do. I believe the Dodgers could do it. Obviously they're stacked, but it's so not easy to do. It hasn't been done in how long A five or seven game series could get tricky and weird and wonky. I know. When's the last repeat? The Yankees. Right. Last repeat was a while ago. Yeah, it's been a minute. Because it's not easy. Yeah. I'm a Dodgers homer. So yeah. Not really fair to get an answer from me. But I will say this though. The Dodgers pitching situation has me feeling like they can repeat. I think if stack I look at it this way there, but again, yeah. One team or 29. There have been stacked teams that couldn't do it. Like I remember the A's when we were kids, the Bash Brothers. I remember there was, you know, there were Texas Ranger teams that lost back to back. They were. The Royals had two years in a row they lost and then they won. It's hard to win. We saw that with the Chiefs. Hard to three peat, hard to repeat in baseball. But if there were any team to do it, this Dodgers team seems so stacked and so ready. But if you had a bet, your life savings, Dodgers or as they say, the field. The rest of the rest of Major League Baseball. It's crazy that it feels like a risk to take the field. That's how good the Dodgers are. That's the whole point. Hypothetical. I'm going with the field on this. That's just, you know, my take on it. And a quick reminder. Yesterday was T Mobile Tuesday. If you have T Mobile, you get the MLB for free. The app for free. So better believe I did that yesterday. Are you the greatest guy? Yeah. Just a reminder. If you have AT&T or Verizon, you don't get that but you just get better coverage. Your phone works. Exactly. So that's a great hypothetical. Ask your friends. What would you do? I was Sam your thought. Most people don't have a savings. Do you have a thought like if I said Sam, put it all on the line, better coverage. I agree with that. What do you think? I have T Mobile and sadly I would say I would take the field as well. I just think. Yeah, Isaac Lo and Cron, I know you're just chiming in now. There he is taking over for Dan by. He's like, I'm not on the clock yet, jerk. Isaac, would you choose the Dodgers or the field? Essentially, if you had to bet everything, Isaac Lo and Cron owns the Dodgers and if not, they will buy the field. Hmm. Man. Good answer. That good though. That's what's crazy about it. And that's what makes the season even more interesting. Imagine the Dodgers have a weakness mid season and actually get someone at the trade deadline like that. Forget that. Yeah, I know. Barf, barf, barf, barfy, barf. And that's why I'm so excited to watch. So enjoy your baseball eve and we'll be talking about it tomorrow. No, nothing like opening day. We'll see you then. And of course, the Sweet 16 continues. 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