WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Dodger L's, New Yankee, Shohei & PCA 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.960 Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino and Rich Podcast. 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.240 Be sure to catch us live every weekday from five 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.680 to seven Eastern to the four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.600 Find your local station for Covino Rich at Foxsports Radio 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:14.880 dot com, or stream us live every day on the 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:20.960 iHeartRadio app. It's like searching FSR. Yeah, I like that. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.640 In that intro, says Steve Covino, Google it, Google it. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.360 You'll see that I'm a professional soccer player. Is someone 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:28.960 I never heard of? 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.440 I did? COVID comes up? 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.120 Yeah. Yeah, when you Google me, the first thing that 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.959 comes up is COVID. Yeah. You gotta get to the end. 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.839 Then Covino fills it. Before that, everything's COVID. And I 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:42.760 think it says I'm worth like a few million dollars, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.920 So don't believe everything you read. I think is the 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.080 moral of the story. Million dollar hairs. Yeah, a few 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.640 million dollar hairs. And I've never played professional soccer in 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:55.040 my life. It's another Steve Cavino. I'm Steve Cavino from Union, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.960 New Jersey. Oh, that one from Fox Sports Radio. From 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.880 the store. You'll see me at Trader Joe's. That's Rich. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.400 Davis Moundy g is here, Sam is here, buyers here, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.840 thank you for being here. Let's rock out. Yeah, I 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.280 need just pick me up. The best two hours of 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.000 the day A getting are Humpty hump on on a 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.760 hump day. So pumped to be here. Who's sang the 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.679 Humpty dance? I was, Sam? Come on, it's a digital 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.120 underground there it is. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:20.679 Thank you. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.440 Morning. Should know that. Me and a shower this morning. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.000 All right, So hope you had a George Lumbard junior 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.720 sort of night. Just like I said, maybe you should 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.560 tune in and watch the kid. He made his debut 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.640 last night. We're gonna talk about it, dude. Plus justin 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.240 Herbert's in the news. We're gonna talk a little PDA. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.720 We'll explain PDA talking love birds here on the show now, piec. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:50.080 Yeah that was yesterday, no heda and it's Wednesday. So Sammy, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.160 are you ready for Midweek Major? I am the biggest 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.560 stories in sports and pomp culture. We decide are the 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.559 Midweek or Major? Sam gives him to us and Mike, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.000 who runs this take, is going to talk more relationships 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.840 on the show. Hold on, before you start the show. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.520 I got to ask Danny g like you came in. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.120 I mean, I know the Dodgers like going for lost 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:16.560 number six. I can't roll my eyes more at Danny 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.239 G at our pre show meeting, him and Big Mike 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.040 were saying, man, the Dodgers could go for their sixth 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.880 loss in a row right now, and then, to quote 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.800 Danny G, yeah, man, they would only be eight up 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.600 in the division. Only Rich, I forgot. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.680 I forget, hey, I forgot what it felt like to 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:41.280 go on a losing street like so no, I dude, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.840 I I was feeling for Rich as I watched the 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.919 the loss last night, because if that's what it feels 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.640 like to be a baseball fan, I forgot. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.560 School is probably really sad now. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.640 But hey, I told you a few days ago that 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.320 the Dodgers were in a little bit of trouble with 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.040 the pitching rotation and some of the entries, and Rich 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:02.600 laughed at me. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:03.880 It's like, oh yeah, right. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.160 Yeah, some runs. When school was on the matter, you know, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.480 you had a chance to win and you lose bad. 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.960 Okay, Rich, At what point do you get worried? As 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.959 far as a losing street goes how many in a row. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.240 It doesn't to me the losing churches, mets, those like twelve, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.000 and it doesn't The number doesn't matter. It's the fact 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.400 that if you look at the baseball standings right now, 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:23.959 see know what I would be concerned about if I 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.120 were you, If I'm a Dodgers fan, which I really 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:28.679 should have let my kid be a Dodgers fan. I 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.800 remember my son's like, I like the Mets and the Dodgers. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.600 Dad as by the way, as. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.440 Then you forced them into Mets. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.640 Did is it a two run home run? Or is 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.440 that a double home run? Oh? Might not in a 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:49.160 row show. Hey, oh, Tony. But I think what you 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.040 have to worry about, Danny g if you want to 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.000 just get nerdy baseball for a second, they got to 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.680 be the one or two seat. Because the way baseball 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.400 playoffs are structured is that because there's three division winners 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:04.160 in three while cards, that third division winner is technically 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.160 a wildcard, meaning they just host the wildcard round. Only 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.120 two teams get that buye. So I think the fail 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.360 for the Dodgers would be is slump enough where you're 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:14.840 not the one or two seed and you have to 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:20.200 play a best of three, which could go anyway. That's 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.920 the way the Dodgers get eliminated. Yeah, the rest of 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.160 baseball should be like, man, let him be the three seed. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.159 That way they have to play like the Cubs or 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.719 the Phillies or the Padres or someone in Round one, 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.280 best of three. Anything could happen. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.200 O Tawny stabilizes that team when he's pitching, because since 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.320 his last time on the mound, obviously with that knee injury, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.120 he's not been pitching for the past few weeks. Tying 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.799 runs on base eleven the Dodgers if they drop this game, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.040 I hope they don't, but they'd be eleven and fifteen 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:50.520 since the last time Otani picked. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.040 Yeah, dude, I'd be a little worried. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:52.280 Rich. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.279 I know it's funny, right, Oh, you're only eight games up. Ooh, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.240 I get all that. I get what you're saying, but 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.400 it's cliche. However, it's true. The bigger they are the 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.080 heart of the fall. This team has such high expectations 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.640 that if they get into a slide, man, they're gonna 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.000 fall really hard, and then the pressure starts to mount, 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.440 and I wouldn't want to be part of that. Like 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.880 expectations are through the roof. That's a lot of pressure 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:21.480 to play under. So there's no guarantee there's no guarantee. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.400 Especially the more they continue to play bad, the more 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:25.919 it's gonna be a bigger. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.680 Deal, especially when Kyle Tucker looks like Confardo out there 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.400 in the outfield exactly. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.680 And by the way, I think that's the pressure. That 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.640 type of pressure, those expectations is why Antony Bolpi got 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.640 sent down to the Miners. I think when expectations no, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.960 it's the truth. When expectations are so high, it's almost 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.599 impossible to meet them. You know, like, how do you 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.040 outdo the past two Dodger seasons? How are we gonna 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:49.520 do that? Well? 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.600 You know why there needs to be a lockout now 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.000 next year because of DB's Brewers. They have the best 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:54.799 record in baseball. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.280 They are they're solid, you know, they are good. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.039 dB and the Brewers it's all their fault. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.160 How is are you going? You're gonna celebrate by going 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:03.880 down that slide and left fielder one. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.640 The slider's much better when he slid into a beer 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.160 mug heat Old County Stadium. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.360 Now it's just they all curly slide. Do you see 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.360 the clip? Its years ago now of the reporter that 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.000 did that and like got injured, Oh, David, yeah, yeah, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.880 I was like, oh my goodness. But if you look 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.880 at the Dodgers record year by year, their best statistical 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:28.000 regular seasons, they came away with really nothing, one hundred 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.320 and six wins, one hundred and eleven wins and one 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.560 hundred wins that had nothing to show for it. The 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.920 last two years ninety eight wins and ninety three wins, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.360 and right now they are on pace for ninety eight wins. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.040 They're on pace to win close to one hundred games. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.960 And even if it's hard to play baseball, when there's 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.200 pressure on you and you're playing tight, you know baseball, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.800 you have to play confident and loose. That's just how 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.440 it's played. The tighter you grip the bat, the worst 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.280 off you are. And I think the Dodgers, for as 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.240 great as they are, have a lot of pressure on 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.480 them to again win again. The team got better, but 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.800 they're hurt. They're not winning the way they're supposed to. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.239 I'd be a little worried. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.120 I saw that last postseason for your Yankees. Yeah, I 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.240 remember they were gripping the bat. Tell Yeah, they were 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.120 swimming too hard. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:15.160 That pressure's that pressure is real, So I wouldn't really 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.040 I get it. Rich it's laughable. But if it continues 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.600 a few more games, I would not downplay it. Hold 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:26.600 on sixty nine and forty five they got, they got forty, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.080 they got forty eight games left. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.000 Looks like Alex call moved over to second. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.840 Yeah, as a wild So anyway, it's the eighth inning 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.200 Dodgers Cubs and the tying runs on second. Then you 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.240 put yourself in such a great position which you could 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.600 credit your early success. Danny. If the Dodgers go twenty 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.680 four and twenty four, if they play five hundred baseball 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.920 for the final, you know, forty eight games. They went 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.040 ninety three games, and that's gonna get in the playoffs. Now, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.640 you're not going to be that one or two seed likely, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.680 but dude, you're in it. Worry about the playoffs. But again, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.040 the world, I hate to say this, Dandy, close your ears. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.520 No key k just struck out. The world has to 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.880 root for the Dodgers to be a three seed. That's 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.160 the best shot for someone to take down the almighty 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.480 evil Empire, the Dodgers, because. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.480 They're the evil Empire. Stop if you. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.960 They are so well, they're a likable they would be 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.840 the evil Empire if they had, like really punchable faces 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:21.120 on it. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.560 They're not evil per se, but interesting that they are 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.720 quite the Empire. But again, but think about it, Empire, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.920 they're just a likable team. I'll give you that. If 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.760 your brew crew and the Braves keep winning at their 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.000 pace and the Dodgers do acquire that three seed, I 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.520 know we're you know, a month and a half, two 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.480 months away, but if the Dodgers don't play on part 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.120 with the Bruise and the Braves and the Bravos, all 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.120 of a sudden, you got to play a team like 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.960 Philadelphia or the Cubs in a best of three, and 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:51.679 that's where the Dodgers could get caught. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.840 Yes, the start of the series, the more likely that is. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.480 And that's you know, that's why when the NBA had 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.440 five game series, that was the only time, like a 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.240 lower seed had a better chance. You get hot, you 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.200 get lucky. But a best of three, Danny, that's tough 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.960 it is. But right now, sitting pretty yeah, you're fine. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.199 We'll see if he continues on pace to it almost 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.520 one hundred games. But speaking of baseball, you know Dodgers 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.720 are playing right now. We'll see what happens. Dan Byer's 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.920 got your updates. Covino and Rich with Danny g the 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.440 resident Dodgers fan sam Is on The Ones and Twos. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.440 We mentioned it at the end of yesterday's show. It's 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.959 not about the Yankees, it's not about Anthony Valpy, but 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.640 I do want to give you the backstory. Anthony Volpi 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.079 had to replace Derek Jeter. So again it goes back 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.720 to the pressure. Talk about pressure, just like the Dodgers 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.720 are going for the three people, but there were guys 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.559 in between, the d D. Gregorioases of the world. But 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.720 essentially you're the next name that people. He's the next guy. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:47.200 You know. 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.959 D D was great, but he wasn't Derek Jeter. They 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.040 touted him to be one of the highest prospects since 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.080 Derek Jeter. Like he's the next guy. He was a 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.559 local kid, grew up watching the Yankees. Everybody wanted this story. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.200 Good looking kids in town. You watch every day. So 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.559 I'm not catching you off guard here. What number was 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.120 Volpi wearing? Oh? Actually, I don't even remember. How do 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:10.520 you know you watch? Yeah, I'll be honest with you. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.960 Look it up yourself, but I'll tell you this, Okay, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.880 those things don't mean as much to me as they 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.560 did when I was a kid, and he watches one 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.800 hundred and sixty two games a year. I really, he'll 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.640 be at a five star restaurant and he'll have the 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.680 Yankees game on his phone. But he doesn't realize that 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:26.760 Anthony Volpi is. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.520 Number because he only has Mattingly Jerseys. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.520 Number eleven, number eleven, And I'm glad I looked it 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.840 up because that meant Ben Rice is twenty two. But 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.560 do you understand that giving him number eleven was an 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.920 honor the same way they gave Derek Jeter number two. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.760 Because in the Yankees eye rolling history of well the 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.800 Pinstripes and everyone from the imaginary Babe Ruth to Mickey 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:53.200 Mantle to Demaggio, those numbers are all retired. So if 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.720 you get a lower single digit or like double digit number, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.199 it means they put stock in you. There's a you're 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.400 used to be. I mean, Avery Judge's number ninety. They're 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.120 not giving some schlub Well that was because that's kitchy, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.520 like he wanted ninety nine. I'm saying number one number. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.480 You're right, they're not going to give ten or retire. Yeah, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.800 they're not gonna give number eleven to uh, their utility infield. Well, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.480 it goes with the point. He was touted to be 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.920 the next superstar, the next Derek Jeter, the next guy. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.480 We heard about Anthony Volpi for so long because he 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.080 was a New Jersey kid, a local kid grew up 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.120 watching the Yankees. He was going to be the next 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.840 be all end all for the Yankees and be the 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.960 starting short shortstop for years to come, like the pillar 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.920 of the Yankees. Moving forward, reading this rung, he has 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.599 one home run this year. I was just going to 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.080 give you stats. He's only twenty five years old too. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.520 Forty one home run, nineteen RBI. But again, he was 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.120 hurt for a lot of the beginning of the year. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.120 Still on was his fourth season. Now he had a 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.400 gold glove. His first year he had some shining moments. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:00.199 But since then it's been like disappointment after disappoint with 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.920 this guy, and they've done nothing but defend him and 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.960 give him chances. That's the thing, give him chances. They've 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.760 given him so many chances, and they've defended him so hard. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.160 Aaron Boone was putting so many awkward positions, like he's elite, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.920 what do you offer me? He's elite, He's a great player, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.240 it's like, yeah, but everybody could see he's struggling. So finally, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.800 at trade deadline, the day after him and Jason Domingez 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.079 get sent down to get option to the minor leagues, 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.880 and he was a bona fide Major leaguer. It's fourth 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.199 year in the league. Back to the miners, and they 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.959 bring up the next Anthony Volpi, the next Derek Cheter, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.880 the next highly tauted guy that you've been hearing about 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.320 for years, George Lombard Junior, which basically implies rich they're 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.000 giving his job to him, like all right, he earned it. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.480 He's now our starting shortstop, and we're sending Volcan Hey, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.319 what do we have to lose by giving this kid 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.360 a look? Right now? So I don't expect you to care, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.599 But imagine you talked about it. No, no, no, about the 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.000 Yankee I mean, well, you can't expect someone not to care. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.280 It's about the story. I don't expect you to care 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.080 about the Yankees. It's hey, we're sending you down and 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:09.960 we're bringing up this new dude. If you're bringing up 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.000 this new dude, he's got the job because the old 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.120 dude got demoted. That's really it. So George Lombard Junior 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.839 makes his debut last night. Told you, hey, check it out. Man, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.000 been here about this kid for years, and he was 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.880 really putting the pressure on Volpi. Vopi was here in 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.839 the footsteps. Not only was he feeling the pressure of 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.600 New York and the expectations and living in the jeter 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.000 shadows of the world, he was hearing the footsteps of 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:37.920 this kid, George Lombard Junior. In his first game, in 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.679 his first attempt at a play, he makes a ridiculous 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.440 double play that Volpi would have never made. He hits 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.199 a home run and his second at bat, tying the 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.480 season totals of Anthony Volpi. They got one home each. Okay, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.559 cool man. He puts on a show. So it was 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.240 about seizing the moment, Like you can't complain if you're 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.760 an Anthony Volpian life, meaning if you really got an opportunity, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.360 you just blew the chance. You had your chance, You 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:10.920 had your chance and you blew it. You blew likely. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.520 Are you really Wally Pipped who had the chance and 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.600 you blew it? No, Wally Pip's afferent a different example. Yeah, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.240 but I've heard Wally Pip a few times, Like I 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.120 want to make it clear Volpi had a chance. He 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.400 blew it. Now do we hope he, you know, works 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.840 it out in the minors, maybe learns a second base 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.160 or different position, comes back. You never root for any 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.760 ballplayer to fail, but it happens. Sometimes you just never 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.720 meet those expectations. I think it's what the Yankees. I 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.640 think at some point the Yankees made pirates or something, 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.200 they'll they'll dish him somewhere for like a middle reliever 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.960 or something a need and maybe nentity. Volpi has an 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.960 opportunity to go somewhere else and and become who you 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.320 thought he might have been. But you really gotta seize 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.040 the moment. It's as cliche as it gets. And this 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.080 kid had so many chances. So you feel bad anytime 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.160 a superstar with all his potential fail, But you also 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.520 have to be realistic and say, yeah, well, you know, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.000 they had a pretty fair chance to deliver. And I 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.720 feel really bad about this, But where there's crisis, there's opportunity. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.240 Right where there's failure, there's room for someone else to succeed. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.920 And that someone else is George Lombard Junior, And in 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.840 his very second at bat, his second major league at bat. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:19.760 This is what happens. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.560 Franking ball, swung on in a high fly ball, well 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.360 big bleat field, going back, going back, done a home 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.560 run for George Lumbard Junior, and the parents are going 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.960 nuts and suns everybody in the ballpark. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.920 Two nothing Yankees and again his kid looking the part, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.280 looking composed. I needed that Lombard support. Yeah, a Miami 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.480 kid who made his debut in the bigs yesterday and 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.800 is coincidentally his younger brother also made his pro debut 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.160 in the miners and hit a home run too. Talk 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.560 about so the parents watching the one home run of 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.240 their minor league son on their phone. They look up 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.600 and their big league kid hits a home run. That 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.480 was so cool. It's so cool, and it just goes 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.640 to show you. I mean little sidetracked from the conversation 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.280 we're having because I do want to talk about seizing 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.520 the moment, but I don't know if there's anything cooler 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.400 in the world of sports. Well, that's kind of what 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.720 I wanted to actually get to. Yeah, is there anything 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.440 cooler in the world of sports? And seeing parents in 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.920 the stands at any sport watching their kid get that chance, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.680 Baseball just seems to be the one you see the 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.840 most just because of you know, I guess you would 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.800 say the dynamic of like, you know, baseball's casual. You 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.080 see the parents sitting there in the stands at a stadium. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.000 You don't get those glimpses maybe in college football when 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.200 you see like the mom or dad, like Mendoza's family. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.800 But for the most part, I feel like baseball is 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.360 the sport where you do get that beautiful glimpse and 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.760 a lot of times the sideline sideline, I guess the 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.640 field reporter a lot of times we'll be interviewing those 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.800 parents and a lot of times something happens in the 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.360 middle of that and that makes it even cooler. Yeah, 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.920 I mean, I have so many thoughts about this, but again, 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.359 both of their kids went yard yesterday in their debuts. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.600 I think in the NFL you get these moments most 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.360 when and a kid's drafted and then you see the 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.040 parents show the love. But in baseball, for me, since 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.119 the draft doesn't really a big deal in baseball compared 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.280 to the NFL and NBA, in baseball, it's usually like 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.879 he's making his debut today and there's his mom and 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.040 dad sitting by the first base line, I like it. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.680 When they're on the road and the player does something 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.399 well and then the home fans are cheering for the 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.920 road kid because they're sitting by mom and dad. It's 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.000 a close So like if it was a Mets player 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.320 and they're facing the Nationals, the Nationals fans are still 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.520 giving them high fives because the parents are sitting behind him. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.000 Of course, Yeah, that's that is a great moment. And 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.600 you know, when you think about it, is the reason 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.440 why baseball is more special Covino, because in the NBA 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.880 or NFL, when does that moment happen Draft Night? Usually? Yeah. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.680 And he made his debut yesterday and came through again, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.879 matching the totals the season totals in one game of 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.520 an Anthony Volpi. And I'm reading the feedback and one 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.359 guy's a total moron. So I'm not even going to 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.280 address that. Vince Garcia says, the amount of pressure that 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.960 Anthony Volpi was under in New York is just tremendous 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.600 due to the expectations he's trade bait at this point. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.720 You know, that's his story in itself. You don't have 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.000 to be a Yankees fan to think of that person. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.720 Where the expectations were through the roof and they just 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.400 couldn't meet him, and they just never mounted to what 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.800 you thought they'd be. Well, and it's a sad story. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.199 So I rooting for the kid. Trade bait with his stats. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.720 I'll give you only twenty five. I'll give you some 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.720 double bubble on some sunflower seats. I mean, at this rate, 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.720 you have to imagine that they wanted to dish him 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.199 somewhere during the deadline, and nobody wanted him, so he 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:37.040 got optioned. So speaking of Yankees' lore, though, I do 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.000 want to mention these things, and speaking of numbers, Rich 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.920 George Lombard Junior comes out and he's wearing number ninety six, 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.520 and that's what they gave him, number ninety six some 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.520 one Jeter one Rookie of the Year. That's when they 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.440 won the World Series. He hit his first home run 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.320 in the same place that Derek Jeter hit his three 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.560 thousand hit as a home run, and his parents were 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.840 a mixed couple, very reminiscent of Dr Jeter. I'm not 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.440 gonna lie when I say his parents and he's got 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.320 a black dad and a white mom. I was like, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.399 very much like someone else. He really was shortstop of 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.480 the captain the Yankees. But the kid had a magical night, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.560 and you think about it, it's it's such a weird 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.320 juxtaposition because, yeah, Anthony Volpi, who's you know, probably at 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.320 the lowest point possible. So you gotta feel bad for 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.280 any young guy that just doesn't make it, even though 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.320