WEBVTT - The Best Of Covino & Rich 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.760 Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Cabino and 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.440 Rich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every day 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:09.799 from five to seven pm to eastern two to four 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.799 pacifics on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.200 Gabino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.880 stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:24.800 searching FSR. I'm Steve Cavino from Union, New Jersey. Oh 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.840 that one from Fox Sports Radio. From the store. You'll 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.600 see me at Trader Joe's later on. That's Rich Davis Bundy. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.000 Ge is here, Sam, is your buyers here? Thank you 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.239 for being here. Let's rock out. Yeah, I need just 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.559 pick me up the best two hours of the day. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.680 Agett are Humpty hump on on a hump day. So 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.360 pumped to be here. Who's sang the Humpty Dance? 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:44.840 I was, Sam? 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:49.080 Come on, it's a digital underground there it is. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.440 Thank you morning. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.000 Should know that me and a shower this morning. All right, 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.720 So hope you had a George Lombard Junior sort of night. 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.120 Just like I said, maybe you should tune in and 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.120 watch the kid. He made his debut last night. We're 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.679 gonna talk about it. Plus Justin Herbert's in the news. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.759 We're gonna talk a little PDA. We'll explain PDA talking 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.160 love birds here on the show. Pc Yeah, that was 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:19.880 yesterday NODA and it's Wednesday. So Sammy, are you ready 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:20.679 for Midweek? 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:21.039 Major? 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.680 I am the biggest stories in sports and pop culture? 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.160 We decide are they midweek or Major? Sam gives them 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.399 to us and Mike, who runs this take? Who is 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.559 gonna talk more relationships on the show? 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:31.840 Hold on? 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.800 Before you start the show? I gotta ask Danny G, like, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:35.319 are you okay? 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:35.600 Man? 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.600 I mean, I know the Dodgers are like like going 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.880 for lost number six. I can't roll my eyes more 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.640 at Danny G. At our pre show meeting him and 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.400 Big Mike. We're saying, man, the Dodgers could go for 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.840 their sixth loss in a row right now, and then, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.080 to quote Danny G, yeah, man, they would only be 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:58.560 eight up in the division. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.560 Only Rich I forgot. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.640 I forget, hey, I forgot what it felt like to 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:10.240 go on a losing streak like so no, I dude, 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.440 I I was feeling for Rich as I watched the 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.040 loss last night, because if that's what it feels like 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.720 to be a baseball fan, I forgot. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.560 It's only Yeah, school is probably really sad now. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.640 But hey, I told you a few days ago that 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.360 the Dodgers were in a little bit of trouble with 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.040 the pitching rotation and some of the entries, and Rich 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:31.560 laughed at me. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.080 He's like, oh yeah, right, yeah, but look at there 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.120 some runs when school was on the matter. You know 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.840 you had a chance to win and you lose. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.960 Okay, Rich, at what point do you get worried? As 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.919 far as a losing street goes how many in a row? 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.200 It doesn't to me, the losing riches Mets, those like twelve, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.160 It doesn't. The number doesn't matter. It's the fact that 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.679 if you look at the baseball standings right now, see, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:52.919 you know what I would be concerned about if I 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.120 were you, If I'm a Dodgers fan, which I really 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.679 should have let my kid be a Dodgers fan. I 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.720 remember my son's like, I like the Mets and the Dodgers. 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:00.000 Dad. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.000 As by the way, as then you forced them into Mets. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.600 Did is it a two run home run? Or is 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.040 that a double home run? 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:15.000 We might not be sarch in a row show hay 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.000 oh Tani, But I think. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.679 What you have to worry about, Danny g if you 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.720 want to just get nerdy baseball for a second, they 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.440 got to be the one or two seed. Because the 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.720 way baseball playoffs are structured is that because there's three 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.480 division winners and three wildcards, that third division winner is 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.760 technically a wildcard, meaning they just host the wildcard round. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.720 Only two teams get that buy. So I think the 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.160 fail for the Dodgers would be is slump enough where 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.640 you're not the one or two seed and you have 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:48.360 to play a best of three, which could go anyway. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.839 That's that's the way the Dodgers get eliminated. The rest 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.640 of baseball should be like, man, let them be the 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.920 three seed. That way they have to play like the 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.680 Cubs or the Phillies or the Padres or someone round one, 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:01.320 best of three. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:02.360 I didn't think it happened. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.200 O Tawny stabilizes that team when he's pitching because since 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.280 his last time on the mound, obviously with that knee injury, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.880 he's not been pitching for. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:11.680 The past few weeks. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.240 Tying runs on base eleven the Dodgers if they drop 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.360 this game, I hope they don't, but they'd be eleven 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.520 and fifteen since the last time Otani pitched. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.000 Yah, dude, I'd be a little worried. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:21.240 Rich. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.280 I know it's funny, right, Oh, you're only eight games up. Ooh, 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.200 I get all that. I get what you're saying, but 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.400 it's cliche. However, it's true. The bigger they are, the 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.200 harder the fall. This team has such high expectations that 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.880 if they get into a slide, man, they're gonna fall 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.800 really hard. And then the pressure starts to mount. And 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.360 I wouldn't want to be part of that. Like, expectations 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.039 are through the roof. That's a lot of pressure to 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:51.200 play under. So there's no guarantee. There's no guarantee. Especially 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.280 the more they continue to play bad, the more's gonna. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.640 Be a bigger deal, especially when Kyle Tucker looks like 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.320 Confardo out there in the outfield exactly. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.480 And by the way, I I think that's the pressure sucker, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.880 that type of pressure, those expectations, Yeah, is why Antony 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.680 Bolpi got sent down to the miners. I think when 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.160 expectations no, it's the truth. When expectations are so high, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.360 it's almost impossible to meet them, you know, Like, how 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.320 do you outdo the past two Dodgers seasons? 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:18.280 How are we gonna do that. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.080 Well, you know why there needs to be a lockout 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.440 now next year because of DB's Brewers. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.799 They have the best record in baseball. They are they're solid, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.039 they are good. dB and the Brewers it's all their fault. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.120 How are you going to You're gonna celebrate by going 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.920 down that slide and left field and one the slider's 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.120 much better when he slid into a beer mug head 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.120 Old County Stadium. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.680 Now it's just they all curly slide. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.680 Do you see the clip as years ago now of 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.960 the reporter that did that and like got injured, Oh David, yeah, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.840 I was like, oh my goodness. But if you look 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.880 at the Dodgers record year by year, their best statistical 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.960 regular seasons, they came away with really nothing one hundred 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.320 and six wins, one hundred and eleven wins and one 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.760 hundred wins, that nothing to show for it. The last 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.359 two years ninety eight wins and ninety three wins, and 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.360 right now they are on pace for ninety eight wins. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.040 They're on pace to win close to one hundred games. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.960 And even if it's hard to play baseball, when there's 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.200 pressure on you and you're playing tight, you know baseball, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.760 you have to play confident and loose. That's just how 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.360 it's played. The tighter you grip the bat, the worse 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.240 off you are. And I think the Dodgers, for as 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.200 great as they are, have a lot of pressure on 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.480 them to again win again. The team got better, but 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.800 they're hurt. They're not winning the way they're supposed to. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.200 I'd be a little worried. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.080 I saw that last postseason for your Yankees. Yeah, I 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.600 remember they were gripping the bat. Yeah, they were swimming 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:39.080 too hard. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:44.119 That pressures. That pressure is real, So I wouldn't really 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.000 I get it rich it's laughable, but if it continues 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.640 a few more games, I would not downplay it. Hold 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:55.600 on sixty nine and forty five they got, they got forty, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.040 they got forty eight games left. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.000 Looks like Alex call moved over to second. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.480 Yeah, a wild So anyway, it's the eighth inning Dodgers 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.360 Cubs and the tying runs on Sex. Then you put 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.599 yourself in such a great position which you could credit 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.560 your early success to any If the Dodgers go twenty 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.680 four and twenty four, if they play five hundred baseball 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.920 for the final, you know, forty eight games, they win 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:18.880 ninety three games and that's going to get in the playoffs. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.760 And now you're not going to be that one or 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.000 two seed likely, but dude, you're in it. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.040 Worry about the playoffs. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.360 But again, the world, I hate to say this, standing 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.240 close your ears, no. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:30.800 Key k just struck out. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.600 The world has to root for the Dodgers to be 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.640 a three seed. That's the best shot for someone to 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.440 take down the almighty evil Empire the Dodgers, because. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.840 They're not the evil Empire. S if you they are 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.720 so well, they're a likable they. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.840 Would be the evil Empire if they had like really 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.000 punishable faces on it. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.480 They're not evil per se, but interesting that they are 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.680 quite the Empire. But to root again, but think about it, Empire, 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.840 they're just a likable team. I'll give you that. If 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.720 you're brew Crew and the Braves keep winning it their 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.920 pace and the Dodgers do acquire that three seed. I 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.480 know we're you know, a month and a half, two 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.400 months away, But if the Dodgers don't play on part 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.080 with the Bruise and the Braves and the Bravos, all 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.040 of a sudden, you got to play a team like 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.840 Philadelphia or the Cubs in a best of three, and 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.600 that's where the Dodgers could get caught. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.720 Yes, the start of the series, the more likely that is. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.440 And that's you know, that's why when the NBA had 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.360 five game series, that was the only time, like a 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.200 lower seed had a better chance. You get hot, you 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.120 get lucky. But a best of three, Danny, that's tough, 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.920 it is. But right now, sitting pretty yeah, you're fine. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.160 We'll see if he continues on pace to it almost 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.480 one hundred games. But speaking of baseball, you know, Dodgers 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.680 are playing right now. We'll see what happens. Dan Byer's 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.760 got your updates Covino and Rich with Danny g the 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.360 resident Dodgers fan, Sam Is on the Ones and twos. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.360 We mentioned it at the end of yesterday's show. It's 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.920 not about the Yankees, it's not about Anthony Volpi, but 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.960 I do want to give you the Backstorynthony Volpi had 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.120 to replace Derek Jeter. So again it goes back to 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.079 the pressure. Talk about pressure. Just like the Dodgers are 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.160 going for the three people, but there were guys in between, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.320 the d d Gregorioases of the world. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:12.640 But essentially you're the. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.120 Next name that people. He's the next guy you know 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.880 d d was great, but he wasn't Derek Jeter. They 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.960 touted him to be one of the highest prospects since 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.040 Derek Jeter, like he's the next guy. He was a 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.480 local kid, grew up watching the Yankees. Everybody wanted this story. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:29.959 Good looking kids of talent. You watch every day. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:30.480 So I'm not. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.160 Catching you off guard here. What number was Volpi wearing? 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:34.000 Oh? 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:34.960 Actually, I don't even remember. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:35.800 Do you watch? 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.840 Yeah, I'll be honest with you. Look it up yourself, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.000 but I'll tell you this, Okay, those things don't mean 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.360 as much to me as they did when I was 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.480 a kid. And he watches one hundred and sixty two 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.640 games a year. He'll be at a five star restaurant 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:53.880 and he'll have the Yankees game on his phone. But 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.600 he doesn't realize that Anthony Volpi is number is because 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.760 he only has mattingly jerseys number eleven. Number eleven, And 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.000 I'm glad I looked it up because that Ben Rice 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.480 is twenty two. But do you understand that giving him 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.760 number eleven was an honor the same way they gave 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.520 Derek Jeter number two. Because in the Yankees eye rolling 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.760 history of well, the pinstripes and everyone from the the 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.280 Imaginary Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to the Maggio. Those 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.000 numbers are all retired. So if you get a lower 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.520 single digit or like double digit number, it means they 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.640 put stock in you. There's a weird time thing it 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.080 used to be. I mean, Aaron Judge is number ninety. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.120 You're not giving some schlub. Well that was because that's kitchy, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.520 like he wanted ninety nine. I'm saying number lee number. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.040 They're not gonna go ten retire. Yeah, they're not gonna 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.679 give number eleven to their utility infield. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:46.480 Well, it goes with the point. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.080 He was touted to be the next superstar, the next 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.360 Derek Jeter, the next guy. We heard about Anthony Volpi 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.000 for so long because he was a New Jersey kid, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.319 a local kid, grew up watching the Yankees. He was 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.520 going to be the next be all end all for 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:06.120 the Yankees and be the starting short shortstop for years 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.920 to come, like the pillar of the Yankees. Moving forward, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.760 you're reading this run. He has one home run this year. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.439 I was just going to give you stats. He's only 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.839 twenty five years old. Two forty one home run nineteen RBI, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.240 but again he was hurt for a lot of the 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.400 beginning of the year. Still was his fourth season. Now 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.360 he had a gold glove. His first year he had 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:28.360 some shining moments. But since then it's been like disappointment 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.199 after disappointment with this guy, and they've done nothing but 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.960 defend him and give him chances. That's the thing, give 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.560 him chances. They've given him so many chances, and they've 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.320 defended him so hard. Aaron Boone was putting so many 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.679 awkward positions, like he's elite, what do you want for me? 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.439 He's elite, he's a great player. It's like yeah, but 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:51.400 everybody could see he's struggling. So finally at trade deadline 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.400 the day after him and Jason Dominguez get sent down 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.800 to get option to the minor leagues, and he was 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.559 a bona fide Major leaguer. It's fourth year in the league. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.800 Back to the miners, and they bring up the next 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.800 Anthony Volpi, the next Derek Jeter, the next highly tauted 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.800 guy that you've been hearing about for years, George Lombard Junior, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.719 which basically implies rich they're giving his job to him, 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.360 Like all right, he earned it. He's now our starting 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.079 shortstop and we're sending Vultan dad, Hey, what do we 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:23.600 have to lose by giving this kid a look? 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:24.080 Right now? 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.199 So I don't expect you to care, but imagine you 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.640 talk about it. No, no, no, about the Yankees. I mean, well, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.480 you can't expect someone not to care. It's about the story. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.480 I don't expect you to care about the Yankees. It's hey, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.240 we're sending you down and we're bringing up this new dude. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.000 If you're bringing up this new dude, he's got the 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.839 job because the old dude got demoted. That's really it. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.120 So George Lombard Junior makes his debut last night, told you, hey, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:49.600 check it out. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:49.800 Man. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.959 Been here about this kid for years, and he was 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.839 really putting the pressure on voultpy Balpi was here in 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.800 the footsteps. Not only was he feeling the pressure of 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.520 New York and the expectations and living in the jeter 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.880 shadow of the world, he was here in the footsteps 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.720 of this kid. George Lombard Jr. In his first game, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.240 in his first attempt at a play, he makes a 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.079 ridiculous double play that Volpe would have never made. He 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.520 hits a home run and his second at bat, tying 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.440 the season totals of Anthony Volpe. They got one, okay, 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.520 cool man, he puts on a show. So it was 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.199 about seizing the moment. Like you can't complain if you're 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.880 an Anthony Volpi in life, meaning if you really got 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.160 an opportunity, you just blew the chance. You had your chance, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.200 You had your chance, and. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:41.559 You blew it. You blew It's like, are you really. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.920 Wally Pipped Billy who had the chance and you blew it? No, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.800 Wally Pip's a different a different example. Yeah, but I've 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.439 heard Wally Pip a few times, Like, I want to 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.839 make it clear. Volpi had a chance, he blew it. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.600 Now do we hope he, you know, works it out 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.920 in the minors, Maybe he learns a second base or 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.600 different position, comes back. You never root for any ballplayer 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.920 to fail, but it happens. Sometimes you just never meet 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.679 those expectations. I don't think it's what the Yankees. I 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.560 think at some point the Yankees may be pirates or something. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.160 They'll they'll dish him somewhere for like a middle reliever 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.600 or something aneed and maybe Nentony Volpi has an opportunity 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.200 to go somewhere else and become who you thought he 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.960 might have been. But you really gotta seize the moment. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.480 It's as cliche as it gets. And this kid had 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.840 so many chances. So you feel bad anytime a superstar 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.400 with all his potential fails, but you also have to 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.800 be realistic and say, yeah, well you know, they had 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.480 a pretty fair chance to deliver. And I feel really 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.880 bad about this. But where there's crisis, there's opportunity. Right 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.200 where there's failure, there's room for someone else to succeed. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.840 And that someone else is George Lombard Junior. And in 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.720 his very second at bat, his second major league at bat, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:48.680 is what happens? 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.160 Freaking ball swung on in a high fly ball. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:55.600 Well, they fail, going back, going back, done home run 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.880 for George from Burntnor And if parents are going nuts, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.320 it sounds everybody in the ballpark two nuping Yankees. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.680 And again his kid looking the part, looking composed. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.280 I needed that Lombard support. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.320 Yeah, a Miami kid who made his debut in the 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.040 bigs yesterday and is coincidentally his younger brother also made 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.760 his pro debut in the miners and hit a home 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.160 run too, So the parents watching the one home run 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.960 of their minor league soun on their phone, they look 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.280 up and their big league kid hits a home run. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:29.840 That was cool. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.360 And it just goes to show you, I mean little 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.520 sidetrack from the conversation we're having, because I do want 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.320 to talk about seizing the moment, but I don't know 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.800 if there's anything cooler in the world of sports. Well 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.720 that's kind of what I wanted to actually get to. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.960 Is there anything cooler in the world of sports? And 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.800 seeing parents in the stands at any sport watching their 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.360 kid get that chance, Baseball just seems to be the 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.120 one you see the most just because of you know, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.440 I guess you would say the dynamic of like, you know, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.920 baseball's casual. You see the parents sitting there in the 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.080 stands at a stadium. You don't get those glimpses be 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.000 in college football when you see like the mom or dad, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.480 like Mendoza's family. But for the most part, I feel 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.000 like baseball is the sport where you do get that 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.240 beautiful glimpse. And a lot of times the sideline sideline, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.760 I guess the field reporter a lot of times we'll 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.120 be interviewing those parents and a lot of times something 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:17.880 happens in the middle of that and that makes it 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.760 even cooler. Yeah, I mean, I have so many thoughts 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.320 about this, but again, both of their kids went yard 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.320 yesterday in their debuts. I think in the NFL you 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.880 get these moments most when a kid's drafted and then 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.080 you see the parents show the love. But in baseball, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.280 for me, since the draft doesn't really a big deal 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.480 in baseball compared to the NFL and NBA, in baseball, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.440 it's usually like he's making his debut today and there's 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.479 his mom and dad sitting by the first baseline. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.640 I like it when they're on the road and the 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.520 player does something well and then the home fans are 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.800 cheering for the road kid because they're sitting by mom 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.200 and dad. It's a close So like if it was 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.000 a Mets player and they're facing the Nationals, the Nationals 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.600 fans are still giving them high fivescause because the parents 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:02.520 are sitting behind him. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.720 Of course, Yeah, that's that is a great moment. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.320 And you know, when you think about it, is the 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.000 reason why baseball is more special Covino, because in the 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.720 NBA or NFL, when does that moment happen Draft night? 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:13.080 Usually? 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.640 Yeah, and he made his debut yesterday and came through again, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.800 matching the totals the season totals in one game of 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.479 an Anthony Volpi. And I'm reading the feedback and one 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.359 guy's a total moron. So I'm not even going to 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.240 address that. Vince Garcia says, the amount of pressure that 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.920 Anthony Volpi was under in New York is just tremendous 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.480 due to the expectations. He's trade bait at this point. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.639 You know, that's his story in itself. You don't have 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.919 to be a Yankees fan to think of that person 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.639 where the expectations were through the roof and they just 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.240 couldn't meet him, and they just never mounted to what 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.720 you thought they'd be. Well, and it's a sad story. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.119 So I'm waiting for the kid trade bait with his stats. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.680 I'll give you only twenty five. I'll give you some 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.639 double bubble on some sunflower seats. I mean, at this rate, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.639 you have to imagine that they wanted to dish him 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.880 somewhere during the deadline, and nobody wanted so he got optioned. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.320 So speaking of Yankees lore, though I do want to 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.240 mention these things, and speaking of numbers, Rich George Lombard 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:14.040 Junior comes out and he's wearing number ninety six, and 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.440 that's what they gave him, number ninety six when Jeter 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.800 won Rookie of the Year. That's when they won the 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.560 World Series. He hit his first home run in the 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.879 same place that Derek Jeter hit his three thousand hit 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.639 as a home run, and his parents were a mixed couple, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.879 very reminiscent of Doctor Jeter was one I'm. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:32.159 Not gonna lie. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:33.800 When I saw his parents and he's got a black 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:35.920 dad and a white mom, I was like, very much 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.840