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Speaker 2: Yesterday we started talking about the Portland pickles. But I
Speaker 2: feel like that was perfect because we let the story
Speaker 2: simmer a little bit. We let everyone have a chance
Speaker 2: to see it, hear about it, and make their own decision.
Speaker 2: And I want to ask you first and first mostly
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Nation, was this a staged story you
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 1: Because that seems to be the debate here.
Speaker 2: Instead of thinking automatically, Wow, how cool, we automatically think, oh,
Speaker 2: that's got to be BS, that's got to be staged.
Speaker 2: But even if it was, let's say staged wasn't.
Speaker 1: It pretty awesome? That's really my spin on it.
Speaker 2: Here the Portland Pickles and rich you described them as
Speaker 2: like a collegiate summer league. Yeah, it's a college d
Speaker 2: one players that played during the summer to stay fresh,
Speaker 2: and yeah, the Portland Pickles. Portland Pickles gave a random
Speaker 2: fan a chance to get in the game, and apparently
Speaker 2: history was made because people are raging about this. They
Speaker 2: gave a random fan in that bat for fan appreciation night.
Speaker 2: So in sort of a Savannah Banana's fashion, they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: you lucky fan, you get to play with the Pickles tonight.
Speaker 1: And that's what she says. His name, by the way,
Speaker 1: Eli Stenhouse.
Speaker 2: You get to play with the Pickles tonight. Well, Eli Stenhouse.
Speaker 2: Because I don't know why they keep calling him Dixie
Speaker 2: and he's media virus.
Speaker 1: That's his nickname. Oh what's his last name? Enormous? So
Speaker 1: what's his name again, Danny g Just so I can
Speaker 1: give him.
Speaker 2: Proper credit, Eli Dixie Steinhaus, Eli Steinhaus.
Speaker 1: Now let me set it up.
Speaker 2: So Steinhaus gets in here, They're like you Steinhaus, random fan,
Speaker 2: and he's like, you know, no way, and he reacts
Speaker 2: like anybody would being picked out of a crowd like me,
Speaker 2: no way, But he turns on the showmanship. He takes
Speaker 2: in that bat and he gets a walk, rich and
Speaker 2: he has his sneakers on. That's important, has his sneakers on.
Speaker 2: He's just a fan, gets a walk, and then he's
Speaker 2: it feels a base and maybe he stole a taco
Speaker 2: I don't know, on a Tuesday. But the crowd's like,
Speaker 2: no way, this is awesome, and he leans into it.
Speaker 2: He's doing like his Hulkster thing, like yeah, flexi. He
Speaker 2: waves up the crowd. Then he throw him in the outfield.
Speaker 2: They throw him in left field, and he makes a
Speaker 2: pretty easy flyball catch, little shag out there, and people like, yeah.
Speaker 1: No way. Now automatically, I'm thinking, what do you mean,
Speaker 1: no way?
Speaker 2: If you're a relatively decent athlete, or if you have
Speaker 2: just minimal baseball experience, it's not that crazy to think
Speaker 2: the guy shags a fly ball.
Speaker 1: It's just cool to see.
Speaker 2: I mean, if this guy's between the ages of eighteen
Speaker 2: and thirty, I don't do we know how old he is,
Speaker 2: because I was gonna say, regardless if he played any
Speaker 2: type of organized baseball or softball in the last couple
Speaker 2: of years of his life. Shagging a fly ball not
Speaker 2: a tricky thing to do. I'm not saying it's easy,
Speaker 2: but I'm saying, if you have any baseball experience, it's
Speaker 2: not impossible. I mean, I'm saying it is easy man
Speaker 2: to catch a fly ball, a routine flyball in the outfield,
Speaker 2: if you have any level of baseball.
Speaker 1: No, how like, that's not a hard thing to do.
Speaker 1: But then Rich he gets one more at bat.
Speaker 2: Here's here's here's where it gets good. They leave this
Speaker 2: fan fan appreciation night. They leave this fan in for
Speaker 2: one more at bat. This is like everybody's fantasy at
Speaker 2: a major league game, right, Like the Yankees are so frustrated.
Speaker 1: Boone's like you and I'm like me, yeah, you get
Speaker 1: on the mound.
Speaker 2: You're like what, this guy gets another at bat and
Speaker 2: listen to what happens.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'll catch fall left sider fidd.
Speaker 1: By the way. That's a collegiate league. That's a great call.
Speaker 1: Letters one word? Is that really what he says? Four letters?
Speaker 1: One word.
Speaker 2: Gone. This dude hits a home run as a fan
Speaker 2: who just entered the game, and the crowd goes nuts
Speaker 2: and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: Eli Steinhaus They called them Dixie, so Dixie delivered. Now
Speaker 2: the story goes viral, It's all over social media. The
Speaker 2: crowd went wild, the call was great, the moment was awesome.
Speaker 2: But everyone's saying that this Portland Pickles thing was staged.
Speaker 2: Even if it was, you can't guarantee a home run
Speaker 2: in that moment. You think it's that easy to just
Speaker 2: hit a home run. But is it impossible that it
Speaker 2: was just a fan who has a good swing. Rich
Speaker 2: if they picked you out of the stands, you're good
Speaker 2: enough to hit one out.
Speaker 1: If you get a hold of one, it's not impossible.
Speaker 1: So I'm here to.
Speaker 2: Say, I'm Steve Cavino. I believe that clearly this kid
Speaker 2: had baseball abilities. He had skills, maybe even better than
Speaker 2: the team he was watching. But he's a baseball fan.
Speaker 2: It's not crazy to think a baseball fan has some ability.
Speaker 1: I think they picked.
Speaker 2: A dude who was pretty good, and he had a
Speaker 2: really awesome moment.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it was staged. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was. You can't stage a home run,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't guarantee that.
Speaker 2: But however, I do think that maybe they're like, we're
Speaker 2: gonna put this kid in. He could play again. This
Speaker 2: is collegiate summer ball. It's competitive, but if you've played
Speaker 2: at a level, I guess that there's a chance you
Speaker 2: can make contact if he knows the fastball's coming. I
Speaker 2: think it's a great fun story, But I think what
Speaker 2: you said is more interesting.
Speaker 1: What are those fantasies we all have?
Speaker 2: Because anytime you've been at a stadium and you grab
Speaker 2: a baseball and it's one of those displays where it's like,
Speaker 2: see how fast you could throw?
Speaker 1: I always, as a kid, was like, what if they
Speaker 1: seem and they're like, he's got perfect mechanics.
Speaker 2: And they're like, hey, the Met's bullpen coach wants to
Speaker 2: talk to you, or honestly, I'll give you a sleazy one.
Speaker 2: Every time you're like, you know, an adult establishment, you
Speaker 2: would assume like, yeah, she you know, she's in love
Speaker 2: with me like this. You know, Well, remember that time
Speaker 2: the Hawaiian Tropics bus broke down.
Speaker 1: They needed an oil boy. Yeah, I sent them to
Speaker 1: the I sent them to the town a couple of
Speaker 1: miles up the road. Yeah, you blew that opportunity.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's everyone's like, if you're an extra on
Speaker 2: the set and you're an actor, If you're an aspiring
Speaker 2: actor or actress and you're on the set, you're you're
Speaker 2: wishing that like I don't know, Scorsese.
Speaker 1: Makes eye contact with you and they're like.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Okay, you kid, you're the one hold
Speaker 2: on for all the naysayers. And by the way, you
Speaker 2: could share your fantasy. That's fine, eight seven seven ninety
Speaker 2: nine on Fox. But for all the naysayers that are
Speaker 2: quick to say this is a stunt, like Rich said,
Speaker 2: to guarantee a home run, that's like, that's not a guarantee.
Speaker 2: If it's a stunt. It was. If it's a stunt,
Speaker 2: it was a really well executed stunt.
Speaker 1: Okay, then how do you explain this?
Speaker 2: I think you're putting these players on the team on
Speaker 2: a pedestal and forgetting that other people have a particular
Speaker 2: set of skills. This guy could be a decent baseball player.
Speaker 2: How do you explain Dave rolls on stage and he's
Speaker 2: performing and he's like you do you play? And the
Speaker 2: kid's like yeah, and he gets up there and he shreds.
Speaker 2: He gets up there and he shreds because he plays.
Speaker 2: You think that's stage.
Speaker 1: Why are we putting.
Speaker 2: These people on a pedestal like they're they're gods and
Speaker 2: we can't like have any skill of our own to
Speaker 2: hold our right, I know what you're saying. We didn't
Speaker 2: pick a kid out of the crowd and be like
Speaker 2: all right, guard Lebron James, like it wasn't it wasn't
Speaker 2: that Dan Buyer?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Man?
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, like for a nine year old
Speaker 5: to have like front row tickets to the Foo Fighters,
Speaker 5: there's got to be something like of course.
Speaker 1: The trunks kids. Yeah, happens all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, yes, because it is.
Speaker 2: Because they're gonna be get out there and have them
Speaker 2: stink dn Beyonce brings up some girl to harmonize.
Speaker 1: You don't think they've gone over this? Yeah right, Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, No, not all the time.
Speaker 2: There's there's often times at rock shows they'll see some
Speaker 2: dude singing his heart out the whole time. They may
Speaker 2: even hold a sign up. They'd be like, yo, I
Speaker 2: want to come up and play with you, and the
Speaker 2: artists will be like can you play, and they'll be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can play. All right, let's see what you got,
Speaker 2: and they turn it out because they could play just
Speaker 2: like this guy could play baseball.
Speaker 1: He got a hold of one. It was a cool moment.
Speaker 5: This is the Barry Bond steroid argument, right, Like you
Speaker 5: could take as many steroids, hgh, whatever you wanted, but
Speaker 5: you still have to hit the baseball exactly. And that's
Speaker 5: what I think Cavino is trying to say.
Speaker 2: It is it is, Dan, And you know, I have
Speaker 2: one last point, and I do want to talk to everybody.
Speaker 2: Was the stage or not becomes the debate here and
Speaker 2: your other fantasies. But if you really dissect that at bat,
Speaker 2: they weren't trying to give him a meet ball. They
Speaker 2: were trying to strike this kid out. They were trying
Speaker 2: to pitch around him. Watched back the clip. I watched
Speaker 2: the ball he hit a home run on seemed like
Speaker 2: a seventy mile an hour down the middle fastball. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying I'm hitting it out, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: it's not like this collegiate summer league someone threw some
Speaker 2: Adam Wainwright, you know, twelve to six breaking ball. That
Speaker 2: was that buckle bunch. You know, I'm not debating that
Speaker 2: this kid was a good ball player. Yeah no, that's obvious, right,
Speaker 2: But is it impossible that a good ballplayer was just
Speaker 2: a fan at the game.
Speaker 1: No, why is that impossible?
Speaker 2: Listen, I was arbitrarily picked once and I said this,
Speaker 2: and I was not in on it. I was not
Speaker 2: like in the media at the time. It was like
Speaker 2: we picked Rich Davis. I was a college kid and
Speaker 2: I had the chance to shoot three pointers during a
Speaker 2: TV timeout in the Carrier Dome up at Syracuse. Every
Speaker 2: three pointer was like one hundred bucks. And I have
Speaker 2: told the story, and I was honest where I air
Speaker 2: balled the first one because I had never shot a
Speaker 2: basketball with a clear backboard with twenty thousand people in
Speaker 2: an arena.
Speaker 1: I hit a couple.
Speaker 2: I think I walked to it with like three or
Speaker 2: four hundred dollars. I got hot for a second, but
Speaker 2: then cold again. If they would have accidentally picked like
Speaker 2: some kid that played high school basketball, I get what
Speaker 2: you're saying.
Speaker 1: You could arbituarily pick a win.
Speaker 2: Just because a guy shows a little bit of skill
Speaker 2: level that means a staged or No, that dude, they
Speaker 2: picked the dude who was a fan. He's at the
Speaker 2: game and he actually is pretty good. You know, that's
Speaker 2: not an impossible thought. And then again, like you say,
Speaker 2: you people are throwing the word stage out there, like
Speaker 2: it's so easy to just come up there and can
Speaker 2: I ask you? Can I ask you a real question?
Speaker 2: And it's a little dirty, so part of me if
Speaker 2: you got kids in the car, I mean, I would
Speaker 2: expect nothing less. Right, I was smut Davis, I would say,
Speaker 2: I just looked at me and gave me like them
Speaker 2: tumba like no, no, yeah, careful, rich. Let's just say
Speaker 2: you're scrolling around some inappropriate Let's say you stumbled across
Speaker 2: some inappropriate content on the internet. Cavino, Okay, it's happening,
Speaker 2: and it's uh so and so with a fan. Do
Speaker 2: you believe some of those women will like film with
Speaker 2: a fan or do I believe it? Or do you
Speaker 2: think it's like a a professional but he's calling himself
Speaker 2: a fan for the video? No, I mean I believe
Speaker 2: there are stage moments like that for sure. When some
Speaker 2: buses were driving down the box, it's like, hey you, hey, kid,
Speaker 2: want to get in the bus with these ladies? Like
Speaker 2: do you think that kid is arbitrarily on the street. Well,
Speaker 2: a lot of those are stage. There's no question about that.
Speaker 2: That's just a gimmick, right, like, hey, we're picking people up.
Speaker 1: Today's your lucky day. Yeah right, A lot of.
Speaker 2: That stage, But I do believe that there are times
Speaker 2: that they throw offers out there to fans.
Speaker 1: How about the cash cab? Do you think that's always stage?
Speaker 1: Let's hit up our guy, Ben Bailey.
Speaker 2: I do remember that show and he said it wasn't.
Speaker 2: He said they would randomly pick people. Damn Byer, you're
Speaker 2: a great golfer?
Speaker 1: Is great? A good word? Can I say? If you
Speaker 1: were covering That's why I was silent?
Speaker 2: You were covering some big golf tournament for Fox, which
Speaker 2: I'm sure you have over the years, Dan Byer, big
Speaker 2: shot here at Fox Sports dB.
Speaker 1: If if they were like.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're gonna do a media contest for ten grand,
Speaker 2: then we pick a name out of the hat from
Speaker 2: Fox Sports, Dan Bayer, do you think you could hit
Speaker 2: a putt in the pressure situation?
Speaker 1: Would you would we be shocked? Or you think you'd like,
Speaker 1: that's possible.
Speaker 5: It's doable, Like I like in this situation, it's a
Speaker 5: great can't hit a bomb like it was? It wasn't cheap,
Speaker 5: it wasn't just over the left field, It wasn't a
Speaker 5: Bartolo Cologne, like just throwing the bat out. It was
Speaker 5: a shot, and so like that's that's like the part,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna get to your I'm gonna get to
Speaker 5: your question. But like for Kevino to think that they're
Speaker 5: just gonna like put some sixty two year old with
Speaker 5: arthritis in his knees is the fan of the game,
Speaker 5: Like it's that that's not going to happen. You want
Speaker 5: to have the fan to be able to do something,
Speaker 5: and he did something extraordinary. I don't know how you
Speaker 5: could stage a home run, but I think that you
Speaker 5: pick someone that can be fun, because that's what these
Speaker 5: minor league, summer league baseball leagues are all about.
Speaker 1: So you're saying they may have knew the possibility was there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they knew that the kid didn't stink, just
Speaker 5: like they knew that the nine year old can play
Speaker 5: electric guitar at the concert. But at the Ryder Cup
Speaker 5: in twenty sixteen in Minnesota, a fan was heckling the
Speaker 5: European team and they called them out. They said, all right,
Speaker 5: a hundred bucks, you make this putt justin Rose. I
Speaker 5: even think you could probably see the video put one
Speaker 5: hundred dollars down said, all right, hundred bucks. If you
Speaker 5: make this putt, it's yours. The guy came out. If
Speaker 5: it doesn't go in the hole, it's forty feet past.
Speaker 5: But it went in like it was cooking, and everybody
Speaker 5: went nuts. That to me is the randomness of it,
Speaker 5: of in a spur of the moment thing. I just
Speaker 5: don't think that this level of athlete that was playing
Speaker 5: in the game was I don't think that that was
Speaker 5: a coincidence.
Speaker 1: It was random, but not. Yes, an example.
Speaker 2: I don't want to I don't want to create a
Speaker 2: I don't want to kill the illusion of all of
Speaker 2: our hopes and dreams. But I've been in the audience
Speaker 2: on the price is right. Before the price is right,
Speaker 2: they go to every audience member and they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: tell me your backstory, tell me about your life, tell
Speaker 2: me a fun fact. They interview everyone. It's not arbitrary.
Speaker 2: Come on down, the late great Rod Roddy. It wasn't
Speaker 2: picking out of a hat. It was oh, Dan Byer,
Speaker 2: he's here with his you know, family in town, and
Speaker 2: you have a fun fact about you. They are finding
Speaker 2: interesting people in the crowd, so it's not arbitrary when
Speaker 2: they say they're not people. Yeah, so I agree, it's
Speaker 2: that's part of pre screening. Man, that's not it's still
Speaker 2: sort of random. They're just doing a little bit of
Speaker 2: due diligence.
Speaker 5: I'm talking to three guys here. Sorry, I just want
Speaker 5: to make this point. Three guys, if you would take requests,
Speaker 5: how legitimate are requests in radio?
Speaker 1: Not at all?
Speaker 2: Hey, any any that can give me my favorite lot
Speaker 2: yet I said for twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll try to get that on for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right right, Oh you want the most popular song
Speaker 5: in America?
Speaker 1: You got it. We only play it three times an
Speaker 1: hour already. But you know what it's going to be
Speaker 1: coming up later on. That's the funniest thing. Can I
Speaker 1: hear Taylers Swift? You know you could always say, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get that on for you. Way to ruin the
Speaker 1: secret d.
Speaker 2: But hold on, I do have one last little nugget
Speaker 2: for the story, and I want to hear from everybody again.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the Portland pick holes and Eli Steinhaus,
Speaker 2: who was the random fan on fan Appreciation Day that
Speaker 2: went yard in dramatic fashion, the crowd wind nuts. It
Speaker 2: became such a story. I'm assuming most of you saw
Speaker 2: it scrolling doing the bull scroll that the club offered
Speaker 2: him a contract. Now I read that it was a
Speaker 2: one day contract, but I saw the video. The video
Speaker 2: made it seem like they gave him a contract for
Speaker 2: the end of the year till the end of the year,
Speaker 2: and he accepted. So that's where the story ended as
Speaker 2: far as I know. But was it staged or not
Speaker 2: is the question. I think it's a great story. It's
Speaker 2: funny regardless of whether it's staged or not. But again, oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, do you know why people think it
Speaker 2: stays too rich because when they see the clip of
Speaker 2: the home run, he's wearing cleats. That's why I pointed
Speaker 2: out before that he was wearing sneakers in his first
Speaker 2: that bat. But it's like, is it that hard to
Speaker 2: believe that they gave him a pair of spikes in
Speaker 2: the clubhouse? Like because in the second at bat that
Speaker 2: he takes he's wearing cleats. I think if you put
Speaker 2: one hundred guys of his level talent up there, only
Speaker 2: a couple will get lucky and rise to the occasion
Speaker 2: and hit a home run, even if it's a fastball
Speaker 2: down That was jas Chisholm. You're not guaranteeing a home run.
Speaker 2: He only hit three in the home run Derby. Know
Speaker 2: what else is funny too? He shows he comes out
Speaker 2: there in shorts because again he's just a fan. He's
Speaker 2: like hey, and he steals second and slides into shorts.
Speaker 1: He put on a show for the fans. It was
Speaker 1: kind of funny to see. Not even joking when I
Speaker 1: say this.
Speaker 2: If this kid is a ballplayer that played at some
Speaker 2: collegiate level, or you know, maybe he got scouted in
Speaker 2: high school, never made it, just a dude that knows
Speaker 2: how to play ball, do you think this is a
Speaker 2: window to a Bananas tryout?
Speaker 1: I do, Yeah, I thought about that.
Speaker 2: I showed the clip to my parents and they said
Speaker 2: the same thing, like maybe maybe Banana's life. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: the passion level and he seems like a charismatic young dude.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe this gets him a tryout with the Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, he's got to learn how to
Speaker 2: do a cartwheel or a flip, or get some skills
Speaker 2: on stilts. But yeah, I think it it earns him
Speaker 2: a tryout, for sure. It'd be a good story.
Speaker 1: If he's real.
Speaker 3: I just got off the phone with the Portland Pickles
Speaker 3: front office, and nobody there can give me this guy's
Speaker 3: contact information. They were like, I don't know. This just
Speaker 3: feels it feels very minor league baseball, where this is
Speaker 3: what they do to get attention. Hullo, hello Pickles, Sam
Speaker 3: heard me talking to them.
Speaker 1: You know you know that is true, and it's a shame.
Speaker 1: That's why we bring it up.
Speaker 2: It's a shame that we have to always approach every
Speaker 2: fun story from a skeptic stamp because everything's in attention
Speaker 2: grab or an attempt to get likes on social media.
Speaker 3: This is what you thought about Roll, This is what
Speaker 3: you thought Covino about the Browns photographer supposedly falling in
Speaker 3: the water.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, yeah again, Yeah exactly. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is stage?
Speaker 2: I did think that was stage, because everything, unfortunately, is
Speaker 2: used as a way to go viral. You know what
Speaker 2: I want to I just I'm gonna take the approach
Speaker 2: I like, which is I want to believe it. I
Speaker 2: want to believe in Alien walked in front of a
Speaker 2: ring Doorbell and Compton. I want to believe that Rudy
Speaker 2: really was carried off the field Like that, don't ruin
Speaker 2: it for me.
Speaker 3: Joe Montana and your facts. Did you see that alien
Speaker 3: in Compton?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I want to believe in it, Danny. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, it's so much more fun to believe it.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. That's it's more fun. I agree,
Speaker 2: Like every time a story comes up, skepticism is, as
Speaker 2: you said, Kavino the lead. But even if staged, they
Speaker 2: pulled off one of the coolest what would you even
Speaker 2: call this stunts? Stunts in a long time that we've
Speaker 2: seen in years. Because everything has to go perfect, I've
Speaker 2: I've seen the opposite, and the opposite sucks.
Speaker 1: Danny.
Speaker 2: How many times have you been to a Lakers game
Speaker 2: or I'm sorry to say, a Clippers gamer some game
Speaker 2: where they're like, at halftime, we're gonna have this person
Speaker 2: shoot or we're gonna get people if you could do
Speaker 2: a lay up a free throw and like they're just
Speaker 2: a hopelessly terrible athlete.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can't even make a layup. Cavino and I
Speaker 1: were in.
Speaker 2: Vegas once and I won't throw the sponsor under the bus,
Speaker 2: but we didn't event where they flew us out to
Speaker 2: Vegas to host this cool event and it was with
Speaker 2: NBA legend john Sally. They set up this whole big
Speaker 2: ass setup for a fan to take a million dollar shot, right,
Speaker 2: And when I tell you, Danny, this million dollar shot
Speaker 2: was throw it over a volcano, over a car one
Speaker 2: hundred yards away. And then they hand the basketball to
Speaker 2: some little old lady. And I'm like this, like, what
Speaker 2: have we been doing here, Kivino?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? Like it was?
Speaker 2: It was a I was like, this is this is
Speaker 2: the if they give it to a young kid and
Speaker 2: it was a half court shot.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Make it fair, make it fun. And I
Speaker 1: like this story a lot. It's a good I'm glad
Speaker 1: you brought it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forget chasing, forget chasing MJ as the big whale.
Speaker 3: We want for an interview on the air. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to rest until I get Dixie on the show.
Speaker 1: Dixie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say Danny crossed off Stallone and
Speaker 2: Jordan and all the other wishless guests Tom Brady, No, no, no, Dixie,
Speaker 2: Dixie from the Pickles. A right, Well, Hey, we got
Speaker 2: a lot coming up here on Covin on Rich. I
Speaker 2: have an interesting offer for you, my friends. I want
Speaker 2: to see if Covino is down for an offer I
Speaker 2: think he can't refuse, and it has to do with
Speaker 2: his Yankees.
Speaker 1: We'll explain.
Speaker 2: Plus, is bo Nicks the next big thing in the NFL? Well,
Speaker 2: somebody big in the NFL thinks so, So we'll talk
Speaker 2: a bunch of NFL all Next right here, coven On Rich.
Speaker 1: All right, the.
Speaker 2: World famous Covino and Rich Show returns. We get to
Speaker 2: your phone calls and feedback. Next, plus we give away prizes,
Speaker 2: show Time Mahomes Trivia Broke Mahomes live from Chiefs training camp.
Speaker 2: Right now, live from Fox Sports Radio Studio. I'm here
Speaker 2: in Jersey, Rich and the rest of the crew back
Speaker 2: on the west side. Give a boon of pep Talker's
Speaker 2: on the way. I was going to ask Danny g
Speaker 2: if he got Eli Dixie Steinhaus on the phone, because
Speaker 2: I think the Yankees could use that guy better than
Speaker 2: anything they're doing.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 2: we talk about bo Nix, let's wrap up the phone calls.
Speaker 2: Was this Portland Pickles story where the random fan hits
Speaker 2: a home run?
Speaker 1: Was it staged or not? Or what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 2: I think it could be staged, but also an amazing
Speaker 2: coincidence that the guy delivered.
Speaker 1: It could have very well been like, yo, he looks athletic.
Speaker 1: Oh he struck out.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you and I actually do disagree because I
Speaker 2: believe that they did pick a fan. You think it
Speaker 2: was arbitraarers could be, but they picked a fan who
Speaker 2: could actually play, And I don't think that's impossible to believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's enough.
Speaker 2: You know, our buddy Mike and Cincinnati said Cavino probably
Speaker 2: also believed. This a great old school reference. If you
Speaker 2: watched wrestling, remember the wrestler earthquake. Yeah, remember how he started.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Hart picked like just a fat guy in the stands,
Speaker 2: and he's like you, and then then it was like
Speaker 2: a plant the whole time, like he became a heel.
Speaker 2: Not everything staged, but you know, maybe this was let's
Speaker 2: go to Pat in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6: Hey, Pat, how you guys doing? To share a story,
Speaker 6: I played a three inning game in Camden Yards with
Speaker 6: Scott McGregor, a former major league pitcher, throwing pretty fast,
Speaker 6: and I'm a twenty year old guy. Hit one off
Speaker 6: the wall, so and a bunch of people actually did well.
Speaker 6: No one hit it over.
Speaker 7: But it was a regular baseball game.
Speaker 6: We all played the field, so hitting a ball out,
Speaker 6: you know, is probably yeah.
Speaker 2: I do, you know, not too kiss ass, but you
Speaker 2: know who we should probably ask later our boss. I
Speaker 2: don't know if he wants it out there, but he's done.
Speaker 2: Like fantasy camp, like when you wear former big leaguers
Speaker 2: pitch against you, you could you take swings like and
Speaker 2: I'm sure some of those guys that you got the
Speaker 2: money and time and you are in shape enough to
Speaker 2: go to like a professional major league baseball fantasy camp.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't think some of those thirty forty
Speaker 2: fifty year old guys could still rip the ball.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I think we're giving way too much credit to there's
Speaker 2: still mere mortals. And these are collegiate athletes. Man, they
Speaker 2: just picked a dude who was good, if not better. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: it's a great point. It's a great point. Let's say,
Speaker 2: how to Eric in Illinois. Eric, you're on buddy.
Speaker 7: Hey, good afternoon, good show.
Speaker 1: Thanks man, always always trying our best. What's up man?
Speaker 7: You good enough? I just when you brought up the
Speaker 7: fact that he was given a contract when I was
Speaker 7: a kid and I'm seventy three to the Cardinals if
Speaker 7: you caught a powl ball that you were supposed to
Speaker 7: hold it up and then the ushers would of course
Speaker 7: come over and check to see if you're okay, but
Speaker 7: they would offer you a workless but a contract with
Speaker 7: the Cardinals for catching the foul ball. And I just
Speaker 7: always thought that was cool.
Speaker 2: That is pretty cool. By the way, I love his endorsement,
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 1: Enough, Dandy.
Speaker 2: I was actually gonna text you new production Covino and
Speaker 2: Rich they're good enough.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, it's pretty fitting. I'll take it. I
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. And by the way, I do think
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. It's like Rich Davis and myself we're
Speaker 2: both lords of Scotland. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 2: know that. Yeah, true store, because we actually own one
Speaker 2: foot right, one foot wall. We both own one foot
Speaker 2: of property in a field somewhere in Scotland, so we're
Speaker 2: official lords by definition if you we own a square
Speaker 2: foot of land.
Speaker 1: We have a car that says we are lords of Scotland. Wow,
Speaker 1: sounds like a bad Morning show bit.
Speaker 5: I'm an official Duke of Hazzard, Kentucky. Seriously, I've got it.
Speaker 5: It's one Z but I've got the proclamation well, as
Speaker 5: is my wife and son.
Speaker 1: You know, speaking of you said the Duke of Hazzard.
Speaker 2: Coincidentally, today is the twentieth anniversary twenty years ago today
Speaker 2: in five Jessica Simpson came out in those Daisy Dukes.
Speaker 2: Just a little timestamp that was twenty years ago, the
Speaker 2: remake of Dukes of Hazzard, which is damn times flying. Coincidentally,
Speaker 2: I spent extra time in the bathroom today with a
Speaker 2: whole other story. Oh that was a Duke of Hazzard's
Speaker 2: Taco Tuesday brot let me hat you up with something.
Speaker 2: Then we'll go to Dan Buy for an update. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pose a question, I'm gonna let you simmer. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna let you think about this, and then we'll go
Speaker 2: get Dan's update. You mean Duke of Hazard, Kentucky Dan Byer, Yes, Duke.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It's in my Twitter profile.
Speaker 2: By the way, so Cove, we made a bet in
Speaker 2: the beginning of the season one thousand dollars whoever had
Speaker 2: the better record Mets or Yankees, and then we up
Speaker 2: the ante one hundred dollars additionally for each game that
Speaker 2: the team is better. So let's just say the Yankees
Speaker 2: had a fifteen game better record than the Mets. That's
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred bucks. No, I'm sorry, that's twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: If they're three games better, thirteen hundred. As of right now,
Speaker 2: with fifty games to go, the Mets have been playing
Speaker 2: not great, but like.
Speaker 1: I said earlier, they're losing.
Speaker 2: The Yankees are losing in dramatic, unbelievable, embarrassing fashion, like
Speaker 2: you can't write it worse than they're playing right now. Well,
Speaker 2: much like our good friends at DraftKings or all the
Speaker 2: great gambling sites out there, they give you payout options if.
Speaker 1: You're trying to do it like a dealer or no
Speaker 1: deal with me.
Speaker 2: If you get let's say you have a six leg
Speaker 2: parlay and you've hit four of them, they'll be like, hey,
Speaker 2: if you want to cash out now, here's the offer.
Speaker 1: So the Mets are up three games on the Yankees,
Speaker 1: trying to cash you out. Bro, the Mets are up
Speaker 1: three games on the Yankees.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you the chance right now, because if
Speaker 2: the season ended today, you would owe me thirteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I'll give you that you might I'll give you the
Speaker 2: best bud discount since we've known each other for years.
Speaker 2: I'll kick off five hund though, if you want to
Speaker 2: end the bet now, eight hundred.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like that's a solid deal. I don't
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: The banker's ripping me out. If you're only up three games.
Speaker 2: You're up three games, you're not really cutting me a deal.
Speaker 2: If you said five four hundred, that might be like deal.
Speaker 2: I'm out of it because the Yankees suck. But like
Speaker 2: you're only up three games, you're overly confident to even
Speaker 2: think that's a deal.
Speaker 1: I thought I was being very Are you generous? I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think your team is all that good. I
Speaker 2: know my team's better than they just have like a
Speaker 2: curse on him or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I got all right, So no deal? Well,
Speaker 1: let me think about it. Do you know what, go
Speaker 1: open another suitcase. Then let's go to damn bier the duke.
Speaker 1: What's up, duke? What's up? Have you had a deuceive hazard?
Speaker 1: Is that what you called it earlier? All right?
Speaker 5: We got a bunch of news in the NFL All
Speaker 5: corners of the NFL, Shodoor Sanders is going to start
Speaker 5: a quarterback for the Browns and their preseason opener coming
Speaker 5: up Friday against the Panthers. Other quarterbacks on the roster
Speaker 5: ding up Joe Flacco is a veteran. He's not going
Speaker 5: to play, so it goes to Shoodoor Sanders. Of course,
Speaker 5: the team signed Tyler Huntley yesterday, Colt said. Coach Shane
Speaker 5: Steiken says Anthony Richardson is going to start against the
Speaker 5: Ravens Thursday and play into the second quarter. He'll be
Speaker 5: relieved by Daniel Jones, who will finish out the first half.
Speaker 5: Zach Taylor, the head coach of the Bengals, told up
Speaker 5: In Adams that Joe Burrow and the other starters will
Speaker 5: play this weekend against Philadelphia and they can expect to
Speaker 5: play even more in their two preseason game against the Commanders.
Speaker 1: Cardinals.
Speaker 5: Head coach Jonathan Gannon says this star their starters will
Speaker 5: play Saturday against the Chiefs, and Raiders head coach Pete Carroll,
Speaker 5: who faces his former team, the Seahawks, says their starters
Speaker 5: will play in that preseason preseason opener on Thursday. Freeds
Speaker 5: a quarterback Teddy Bridgewater are signing a deal with the Buccaneers,
Speaker 5: while the Rams are running back Karen Williams came to
Speaker 5: terms on a three year extension where thirty three million dollars.
Speaker 5: Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison suspended three games following as
Speaker 5: duya rest in twenty twenty four because he violated the
Speaker 5: NFL's substance abuse policy. He'll miss games in Week one
Speaker 5: against the Bears, we two against the Falcons, in Week
Speaker 5: three against Cincinnati and forty nine Ers and George Kittle
Speaker 5: broke the news today on the NFL Network, But the
Speaker 5: league has now released a statement that they have banned
Speaker 5: smelling assaults and ammonia inhalance for the twenty twenty five season,
Speaker 5: So no more of those camera shots from the sidelines.
Speaker 5: Yankees activatedor and Judge from the injured list. He'll dh
Speaker 5: tonight against Texas.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: Back to you now, the NFL is such king of
Speaker 2: all sports. Dan, did you see the race for that
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame random game?
Speaker 1: I missed it. I did not see them.
Speaker 2: Seven million viewers for a preseason game that no one
Speaker 2: cared aback about, which leads me to believe this Friday
Speaker 2: night game where you get to see the debut of
Speaker 2: Shad Or Sanders. Who would have ever thought maybe a
Speaker 2: Browns Panthers preseason game we get any ratings, people will.
Speaker 5: Watch if it's I don't think it's a national broadcast.
Speaker 5: That's the only thing. I'd just be in those local markets.
Speaker 5: Don't quote me on that, but I think I think
Speaker 5: it'll only be locally.
Speaker 1: And you said they added Huntley to the max. Huh yeah,
Speaker 1: so make it five this case.
Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski a hand out roses like the Bachelor, Like
Speaker 2: you get to stay around this week?
Speaker 1: Like what if five quarterbacks now six? He's a random
Speaker 1: fan I heard, Yeah, really quick TV.
Speaker 3: It is listed as NFL Network, but I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's still going to be reachable.
Speaker 1: NFL Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure either. Could be.
Speaker 5: It's NFL Plus on some of the sites where it
Speaker 5: may be streamed live, and maybe replayed later that you'll see.
Speaker 1: But Dan quick follow up on that George Kittle story.
Speaker 1: Why are they banning smelling salts? Like, what's the point? What? What?
Speaker 1: What was the problem? What's the reason behind this?
Speaker 5: The NFL's Head, Neck and Spine Committee Committee recommended prohibiting
Speaker 5: the use because the FDA noted potential negative effects. They
Speaker 5: have the potential to mask certain neurological signs and symptoms,
Speaker 5: including some signs of concussion as well.
Speaker 2: Could Dexter still use him when he's waking up his
Speaker 2: victims before he stabs them?
Speaker 1: Could he? Geez?
Speaker 2: Okay, I just want to make sure he can. Thank you, dB.
Speaker 2: We got more Cavino and Rich. We're gonna get to
Speaker 2: the NFL. Speaking of which bo Nix, is he the
Speaker 2: next big deal? Well some people think so. We'll explain
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Speaker 2: we talk bone Nicks, Rich, let's take one last phone
Speaker 2: call about your pickle.
Speaker 1: That's what I said. They want to talk about Cavino's pickle.
Speaker 2: And the quote unquote stage home run that's gone viral.
Speaker 1: It's a really cool moment, no matter how you look
Speaker 1: at it. What's up, Chris, what's up telling?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, apparently not only is he a fan, he's
Speaker 7: a intern for the Pickles and he's the starting second
Speaker 7: baseman for Lois and Clark College.
Speaker 2: Oh do you team up in a big moment?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's why the team wouldn't give me
Speaker 1: his contact info?
Speaker 2: Maybe because he's Yeah, I mean, listen, it's just a
Speaker 2: good story. It worked out right. It's like they took
Speaker 2: a funny chance. I got this kid could play. We'll
Speaker 2: have him be the the fan of the day. I
Speaker 2: think it's like half stage and God, they got lucky
Speaker 2: Covino again. These viral moments happen, and a lot of
Speaker 2: times they just get lucky. And I think it was
Speaker 2: a great lucky moment for that organization. And if you
Speaker 2: haven't seen it, definitely check it out and Rich before
Speaker 2: we talk NFL. Yeah, I did find that promo interesting
Speaker 2: of two pros and a cup of Joe. When you
Speaker 2: were talking about the Speedway Classic Baseball game, you were
Speaker 2: trying to figure out the correlation between racing fans and
Speaker 2: baseball fans, Like if you were to cross examine sports.
Speaker 2: Baseball fans are most similar to what other fans like.
Speaker 2: It's easy to say, like maybe fighting in UFC have
Speaker 2: a great crossover of fans, like boxing in UFC or
Speaker 2: boxing in soccer, because so many Hispanics love so many
Speaker 2: Latin American countries love boxing also loves soccer. There's probably
Speaker 2: a lot of crossover fans.
Speaker 1: In my mind.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I'll give you one again. It's the
Speaker 2: closest to football. These are all stereotypical. But I would
Speaker 2: say college football and NASCAR to me has a big crossover.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I never really looked at it that way. Erhap about
Speaker 2: wrestling in NASCAR, Yeah, I would think. So it's you know, uh,
Speaker 2: it's kind of interesting because maybe, like bad, I would
Speaker 2: say all four major sports have pretty good crossover now
Speaker 2: of fans. Yeah, hot dog eating and oh hey that's
Speaker 2: not one of the four.
Speaker 1: Majors major, but anyways, something to think about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so bon Nicks, we gotta talk, gotta talk to NFL,
Speaker 2: and bon Nicks is getting an endorsement from his coach,
Speaker 2: Like a good coach should write chow confidence in your
Speaker 2: young star. But it's not just like yo, my young
Speaker 2: star is good bone Nicks is being called the next
Speaker 2: big thing. He's being called elite. And remember you can't
Speaker 2: spell elite without eli. According to Sean Payton, head coach
Speaker 2: of the Denver Broncos, on bon Nicks, he's gonna be
Speaker 2: one of the top four or five quarterbacks in the
Speaker 2: league the next two years. So he's saying this year
Speaker 2: and next year, you're gonna see bow Knicks. In that
Speaker 2: conversation with the you know Lamar's and the Joe Burrows
Speaker 2: and the Mahomes and the Josh Allens, he's pretty much saying,
Speaker 2: put bow Knicks right up there with them. And it
Speaker 2: did get me thinking that that, first of all, that's
Speaker 2: the confidence you want your coach having your quarterback when
Speaker 2: a coach has his guy, and that seemed to be
Speaker 2: the scenario for Champagne that he bo Nicks was the
Speaker 2: guy he wanted. And that's sort of why it all
Speaker 2: makes sense there in Denver, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he went out and knew that that was his guy. Remember,
Speaker 3: he even didn't let everyone else in the organization know
Speaker 3: he was going to target him because he wanted to
Speaker 3: keep it private.
Speaker 2: So bow Knicks is who Peyton wanted, got him. Now
Speaker 2: he's saying I knew all along what everyone else is
Speaker 2: about to find out. I got one of the best
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the National Football League. He feels that way
Speaker 2: about bo Knicks. It's a great endorsement, Like you said, Rich,
Speaker 2: but quote un quote, the next big thing isn't always
Speaker 2: a guarantee, so I'm glad you said that. I want
Speaker 2: this conversation to go in a more fun direction. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the not so next big things,
Speaker 2: the athletes, the products, the bands, the infomercial items, things
Speaker 2: you remember that we're gonna be the next big thing
Speaker 2: that weren't.
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