The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Baseball is back

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

Covino & Rich are in for Colin on The HERD!  The guys explain how Baseball is poppin'! There are positive reviews for the new Naked Gun movie. Plus, a star wide receiver requests a trade!  #CRShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I mean, am I ready? I stay ready. I've been ready since first call. By the way. Friday, Friday, Friday. Is it swirly for that? I've been ready

since first call. Roll. What movie? I mean, I know you know. Do you know? Can I just? Say it. Pewee's Big Adventure. That was Wayne Arnold, who said that.

Didn't he play a nun? Yeah, Jason Hervey's major line. So flashing it back already on a Friday, pump for the weekend. Covino and Rich, we're on Monday through Friday, 5 to 7 on the east, 2 to 4 on the West. Just search Covino and Rich wherever you get your podcasts. And we have our bonus show on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page, Overpromised. New episode dropped yesterday. but always a pleasure to be here.

Now, every Friday on our show, we do something called weekend hobnobbin. So we'll do that before the end of the day. That's everything you need to watch in the world of sports and entertainment. So you know what's going on come Monday when everyone's hobnobin at work, all right? So we'll keep you posted on that.

Plus, we do something called Chipotle worker or WNBA player, and we give away prizes. Yeah. Is the woman a WNBA player or a Chipotle worker? If everyone claims to know the WMBA so well, this should be easy. It's our way to familiarize ourself with WMBA, but at the same time give props to Chipotle workers because they do a hell of a job. Who doesn't love a burrito bowl?

Yeah, we got to get you hype for a naked gun weekend and the first of the month. And by the way, there's a big story and a lot of chatter about actually quite the opposite. Cam Ward, maybe not a lot of chatter, and is that a good thing? So we're going to get to a lot of NFL today. But before I get into what won the day yesterday, why do they hide the straws at Starbucks? Is that just out here in Los Angeles? For the turtles.

Yeah, they don't want people just taking them and dumping them into the ocean. I hate the whole, I feel like such an ass every time, you guys got a straw? I just put them out. No, yeah, they hide them behind the counter. Do you think if they put them out, then people are going to, like, abuse the straws? It's true. A lot of people wondering why you would even want.

a straw with your coffee. It's a nice coffee. What am I going to? I don't know. Everybody sips out of a little swirly straw, a little silly straw like you do. It's not very manly. Rich also uses a straw for his alcohol at a bar. Yeah. So they do. They do keep him behind the counter.

I think, honestly, just to conserve them and just so people don't waste them, for people like you who go to Chipotle, speaking of Chipotle and steal all the forks and knives all the time, because you think you have the right. They have good civilware. And when two burrito bowls, when two burrito bowls are $40, then I'm stealing forks. That doesn't mean you should take three handfuls.

So people probably take a ridiculous amount of straws, so just hand them out if and when you need them. So anyway, I'm Steve Kavino. If you know the answer to that, let us know. The number is 8774-the-Hard. 8774-8-4-34-37. That's 877-484-34-37. We love taking phone calls, so let's get involved.

Let's stay interactive. And that's Rich Davis, who posed the question. and Rich. Before we talk about who won last night, I just want to say, I hope you had, well, not an Astros sort of night. Screw them. Hope you had a Trey Lance sword tonight.

Doesn't even matter. No, it does. Because you were dumping on him yesterday. Hope you had a Trey. If we're going to talk about how he's such a bust, when he goes 13 for 20, 120 yards, two tuddies, and they went 34-7. Hope you had a Trey Lance sort of night.

It might be the only two. It might be the only time I say it all year. You know what? Fair point. Give them props. Props to trade lance. And props to the people that hide straws. Honestly, I just, is it feminine, not masculine to sip out of a straw?

Who knows? But know what I want to talk about to start the show today, In for the Herd, CNR? How baseball is popping. Baseball is doing everything it should be doing. They're marketing their stars better. They got young kids interested again. there are a lot of young stars. That also helps.

There's a lot of big familiar names. Baseball's doing, to quote Charlie Sheen in the 2000s. Winning. Winning. Baseball should be winning on August 1st. Today, we flipped a calendar, and we should be talking about pennant races. We should be talking about how great baseball is right now. You know, over the last five to ten years, I get it.

Football's still king. I love football. But we were a little obsessed with football to the point where he was all. And we were talking about preseason antics and all this one. We really should be talking about baseball. And that was baseball's fail. Now that baseball's back, it's very clear that this should be baseball time. There's so many reasons as to why, and we've been speculating that for a long time.

But they made all the right adjustments. Yeah, we always talked football because baseball was moving slow. As the world was changing and moving faster and you're scrolling on TikTok and you're so easily disinterested, baseball was boring, but they made the right changes. They made the game quicker. That really did help. The fact that we had more than one superstar

in Shohei Otani and Aaron Judge and Tatis and Harper and like goes on and on and on now. Can I tell you? The fact that the fact that we had the major market teams in the playoffs last year and it was exciting as hell. You heard it in our voices.

last year, the Mets, the Yankees, the Dodgers it made it that much more fun and it set up for a really exciting season this year. Well, major markets, part of it. But it also proves that if you're a small market and play your cards right, you could win. The Brewers

have the best record in baseball. Yeah, but when you got the Dodgers and the Yankees battling in the World Series, when you got some other cool teams in the mix, in the playoffs, and it seems like there's a lot of teams still in it to win it, it makes things exciting. That's why we saw a lot of big

moves. Even our guy Tim Kirkcheon, who's been reporting on baseball for 150 years, said yesterday's trade deadline may have been the craziest most exciting he's ever been a part of in his career. And then did he say, I'm Tim Kirchian. I'm Tim Kirchian.

ESPN. So, yeah, everybody knows it. We were all on the edge of our seat, even on this show yesterday. Oh my God. Well, who's going to get who? What moves are going to be made? Are your teams going to win this deadline and it was exciting man and there wasn't really that many

giant names but like that were traded but some important impactful moves were made. Yeah. The moves for the teams that needed to make moves we're going to see if they make sense. We're going to go over some of them but are you saying baseball won yesterday?

Baseball won the day. Baseball is popping. They outshine to me your first preseason game look at it this way. There's Terry McCrary chlorine news. There's, you know, Micah Parsons, there's cowboy activity going on. This story's in the

NFL, but to me, the baseball trade deadline and the excitement with about, what, 50, 60 games to go? Hey, speaking of Tim Kirkshan and ESPN, that's a bad time for them to lose their deal with the MLB. I don't know if that's official. Is that not official

anymore? Well, it is popping again. And you got to invest now, buy now, because baseball's back. It's back in a big way. Rich is absolutely right. If you go back a few years, we'd be talking football right now without a doubt because people would be tired and bored of baseball. In fact, in radio, pull you behind the velvet rope, when you lead with baseball and you talk baseball, you lose most of the audience because it's sort of a boring old guy conversation.

Not anymore. Not anymore. And that's what we lead with today. Baseball is back. Baseball's winning. Baseball won yesterday. It's August 1st, and we're talking baseball. we're not ready and eager to turn the page. Are we excited about football? Of course, but are we still hanging on to see where this season goes? Absolutely more than ever, more than we have in the past 10 plus years. I said it yesterday. September and October are going to be overstimulating.

If you're a baseball fan and now, you know, on the heels of football coming back, you may very well be completely overstimulated with football starting, it races, playoff baseball, the early part of the NFL season, the next few months are going to be pretty sweet. Know what I want to say that contributes to baseball popping and coming back? I think baseball cards have something to do with it, believe it or not, because these kids are going wild about it.

So let's talk about all the little things adding up, because sometimes it could be a relationship, it could be a job, it could be something we're like, what do you love about it? It's like, there's not one big thing. Multiple factors. Yesterday, with the trade deadline, there wasn't one big star other than Suarez, to the Mariners, there wasn't really

like a top-tier guy, in my opinion. You could say, Karea back to the Astros. Yeah, you might say a couple of the closers, Johann Duran to the Phillies, but I'm saying it wasn't like a year where like Piazza was on the move or Soto was on the move or, you know, like, it wasn't one of those.

No. I think we could add up all the little things and say, all the little things together. baseball cards. That's a really good one, Kavino. I really think embracing the celebrating instead of being all tight butt about it, like when the Dodgers get a double and they do their silly little dance on second base. Goofy hip flexor thing. Yeah, or when my Mets get a hit, they do that little rolling of the arms, a hand up.

All these teams, when they score a home run, they wear a funny helmet in the dugout. They take like a selfie. They do their little celebrations. To me, I got another one. That is also a contributing factor. How about the, hey, I know it's baseball and only 80-year-old guys really love us and talk about us, but we're going to do something called City Connect jerseys. And, you know, maybe that'll help bring some excitement.

People want to represent a little bit. I think that's great. Without a doubt. It's moving so fast the Yankees changed their beard policy, their facial hair policy. So, jerseys. These little things mattered. Merch. Yeah.

Baseball cards. Celebrations. Stood out to the weaniels. Can I tell you something? saw and Colin loves to point out baseball's poppins so we're on the same page with the guy we're filling in for the legendary Colin Cowherd.

I can't help but say when you go to a game now. I'm not a bird brain. Well, maybe a little. But I don't need to be completely entertained. But when I tell you, the entrances for the closers, the walk-up music, all the in-stadium stuff

is even at another level. Like, when Edwin Diaz comes in for the Mets and Timmy Trumpets is blaring. City Field now has a light show. When Duran, who just got traded to the Phillies... Maybe you got to thank the Savannah Bananas for that. I mean, maybe... Seriously, add that to the list.

They've stepped up the entertainment factor so much that I'm sure baseball said, hey, why are we shying away from family fun? But you remember like a year ago who... Remember a year ago, the guy that's now with Philly, Johann Duran? We talked about how his entrance for the Minnesota Twins was unbelievable.

Like the stadium shuts down. And those, the lights go crazy. Those type of things are right on the right track. So I think we've nailed it here. Baseball's back. And each team has stars again. And big events like tomorrow, Bristol Motor Speedway. Dude.

That's going to be sick. Did you see the overhead of what it looks like when you fit a baseball stadium on a racetrack? It looks insane. It's the first ever game. In the state. So that's extra excitement for all the kids out there. Tennessee. The field of dreams.

The field of dreams game. Field of dreams game. The field of dreams game they do. The international play once in a while now. So international stars. But you know what, Rich? I mentioned in passing Savannah Bananas. I do believe that opened the door to, hey, baseball's fun and exciting for little kids and families.

And that could be a stepping stone to watching the big. big leaguers do their thing. And in related news, I don't know if you saw this yesterday, but sources say the Yankees traded Anthony Volpey to the Savannah bananas in exchange for 10 foot nine pitcher and D.H. Dakota Stilts-Albatron. That's a good one for you guys. They got rid of Volpe. We got the guy on the stilts.

I know. It's going to be big time for you. I can't wait to see this, man. I wasn't sure if it was official, but I saw the meme, so it has to be real. Cove, I don't want to discount the Savannah Bananas. Some love it. Some roll their eyes at it. But I'm not saying it changed baseball, but you know what? You don't think it's a nice gateway for a little kid? If you don't think in stadium production crews and there's been marketing and PR boardroom meetings where it's like, hey, listen, what the Savannah bananas are doing?

We need to incorporate some of that. Stadiums, you know how they have the sausage race? We need fun, Johnson, fun! You know how they have the sausage race in Miliwakee? Yeah. Every stadium is now sort of doing their own version of stuff like that. I know they got the presidents won in D.C. for the nationals, but every stadium now has some type of race.

It's no longer just the fifth inning. Guess which hat the balls under on the scoreboard. The great city subway race. By the way, I got one I know you didn't think of. What Rich is doing is compiling a list to figure out why and how we've come so far with baseball in such a short period of time. Just two years ago, we would be talking about NFL, no doubt, no digity. But you got to ask yourself, you and I are big baseball fans. We grew up playing and loving baseball.

And then as we got older, football became king. And baseball was more of a, I wouldn't say niche sport, but more of something like, yeah, and I love baseball. But now baseball is popping. Star power. And I'm even more intrigued being that I coach. Faster pace. I coach baseball now. And these kids are interested.

Interested. And again, I give baseball cards. a lot of credit because they came back with all these special cards and all these cool unboxings you see on social media. You can thank COVID for that. Yeah, maybe. But here's one that I know Rich isn't going to bring up. That is when collectors, that is when a lot of card collectors came back.

Oh, you know what, man, there's so many great cards. And I'm a big fan. You remember how exciting that was just to get a great card when you were a kid. Imagine how they feel now with all the options. The food. Baseball parks have stepped up the food next level to the point where it's ridiculous. And every year they're releasing new menu items at the ballpark. When you're spending that much money to go, you want to have a good time.

I think that also added to the fun. Don't we find ourselves talking about all the new stadium items? How stupid is that? The only generic food I ever have at a ballpark is a Dodger dog because you feel like you have to. But other than that, if I go to a stadium... You got so many fun options now. Dude, we just came back from Atlanta. They have barbecue restaurants within the stadium.

They have chick-fil-aes in the stadium. All the stadiums are personalized to that city. Yeah, there's so many great fun and goofy options. It adds to the fun. You know, baseball lost its way. It became old and boring. It's a game. It's supposed to be fun and exciting, and they're leaning more toward that.

And, you know, Bossman hit us up and he said, you guys, you named all that. And you didn't even mention pitch clock, pace of play, length of game. you know, bad flips. 10th inning, guy starts on second base and extra innings. They are moving the game along. Yeah, I like it and hate it all at the same time because when your team has someone at second base automatically in extra innings, you're like, yes.

But when it's the other team, like, no, I hate this. And while we do love the added, well, we do love the human element of sports, I'm telling you, the next big one is going to be those, as Danny said yesterday, The two ball strike challenges. The ABS system. And if you get them right, you get the third one. Because I think even some of these umpire fights and the stare-downs and all that, that's good. And the feuds, Danny, your Dodgers and Padres.

The rivalry. Hate each other. That helps. Mets. You know what I think helps too, though? I think, again, having the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, those teams in it, yet still having big market teams competing. like Rich said, that helps. But I think it helps that even though your Dodgers won the N.EG last year,

they're not a hateable team. Shohei, Mookie Betts, Freeman, these guys make that ridiculous team that you have of All-Stars not hateable. So it gets people tuned in. You want to beat the Dodgers. But you don't hate the superstars. There's so many superstars that you could root for that aren't even on your team that are likable. And Sho-Hays one of them.

Well, I think that helps. I want to point out that right now let's do the math I'm a mathematician here guys we just came back from Atlanta even that derby we were at the all-star game everything about it

the way it ended in dramatic fashion the swing off yeah you know the swing off was ridiculous the bombs these monster circus shots these guys are hitting the exit velocity when you see guys like O'Neill Cruz just teeing off you're like my God

But, you know, kids love that, man. So it's back in a big way, guys. And the proof is today. That's why we bring it up. Yesterday was the trade deadline, and a lot of moves were made. We'll speculate on that. But without a doubt, we'd normally be talking about the Chargers Lions game yesterday. Camino, because you're so quick to move on.

You're so right. You're so right that, Danny, we've been here at Fox Sports Radio, what, four or five years now almost, right? About that? Feels like 10 working with you every year. We've been doing our show together for like decades now. I promise you, what is it, 2025, since 2010, I'd say every year until now, if you told me the preseason kicked off in the NFL and there were some, you know, stories about stars like McLaren and Micah Parsons and Aaron Rogers,

and we were leading with baseball, this is the only year. Baseball's that back in a big way. And right now, this 50-ish-ish-ish. games left in baseball, 50-ish. Most teams have about 53, 54 games left on the schedule. So with 54 games left, right now the Mets and the Phillies are within a half a game of each other. The Brewers have a one-game lead on the Cubs. The Padres only trail the Dodgers by three, and they just added Mason Miller.

In the National League, you're, look at that, that's insane. go to the American League, if you think the Yankees are going to roll over, I hate to say it because Kavino's a Yanks guy. Oh, they beefed up their bullpen. If you think they're going to roll over and just give this division to the Blue Jays, they're three and a half games only. And Jean-Carlo Stanton's back, bro.

The only division, which is bunk, I apologize, Twins fans, because she sort of just sold everything Esther. You just, you had a yard sale. That's the only division where the Tigers got it, and then the West? You don't think the Mariners, four games,

They made the biggest offensive moves. So, yeah, there's still in. There's people that say over the last 50 games, they think the Mariners might be the best team. Well, that's the other reason, too. You got other fans holding on longer than they've had in previous years. Way more teams have a chance deeper into the season now with the extra wild card and everything else.

So, yeah, these are all the reasons. I mean, we went from the fun excitement to baseball cards to the food at the stadium. speeding up the game that's obvious man that definitely helped people were against it but they made the move we reap the benefits and now we're talking about it

dude the next 50 games it's gonna be electric and by the way if you're not a fan of our show Monday through Friday what's wrong with you you should be but Rich and I have a bet of who has the best record the Yankees or the Mets

and it's a thousand dollar bet which isn't going to make or break anybody but you think I want to lose $1,000 to this guy. Until the Mets got cold, I was loving to bet more because the Mets are two games better than the Yanks now last week when it was like five games. But we raised the stakes, $100 for every extra game that they won by. So, you know, every day on there, it glued.

And that's another thing, too, Rich. I think people put in action on games that also helps, you know, so many factors as to why baseball is just one. way more exciting in the past few years and the proof is today. And this is no ad. But for real, I've been doing, we would do the reads for the Draft Kings pick six.

Every so often I'll throw 10 bucks on like, oh, a mooky home run with a, you know, a Juan Soto, more than one and a half bases and, oh, Mike Trout with a double, like I'll do those quick little bets. And I think there's so many layers as to why baseball's back. And I think we just name like 10 of them.

I should point out that our afternoon drive show is 80% NFL. So for you guys to lead with baseball, it does point out that baseball is thriving right now, but the real test is going to be when there are some real NFL games to compete with.

Because, Rich, it's easy for you to brush over that Hall of Fame game last night. Agreed, yeah. I'm guessing you didn't watch much of it. No. I watched a half. How much did you watch? I watched like 0.0. Like background. I watched highlights and I was like, I looked

at Trey Lance's box score. And that's it. But you know what? You're right, Danny. If it was Thursday night kickoff, that is by far what we're all watching. It just, it might be more of a reflection that baseball was struggling so much that a preseason football game over the last decade got our interest more, but not right now. I think everything really started to shift when the postseason started to pop last year. It's the wild cards, man.

The postseason was so electric last year. So many big moments. That's when it all started. to come to fruition and come together. Of course, all the little changes were in place, but that playoff series, that postseason last year, really set us up for all this excitement this year.

That Padres, Dodgers' first round, the Mets making their ridiculous run, that Alonzo home run in the ninth inning. All those moments. Soto doing the little stare for the Yankees, then hitting a home run. Everything about the postseason was fantastic. And just to tie a little bow on it,

If you look at the standings right now, teams like the Angels who are slightly under 500 are only four games out of the wild card. Well, in the National League... Because they got Oswaldo Paraza and he's ready to tear it up. Dude, in the National League, teams like the Marlins and giants who, again, are slightly under 500

are only six games out of the wild card. So everyone's sort of in it. Baseball's popping the... Mother F&N. All right. I love baseball. Let us go. What else stands out to you?

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Now, normally we've established it. We'd be talking some football. It's still exciting to see football on TV. Trey Lance had a game, 120 yards, two touchdowns, chargers beat the lines 34-7. but baseball's having a moment and it needs to be acknowledged. As we keep saying, baseball's popping. We're going to go over the moves.

We're going to give away prizes. We're going to play games. We have lots to get to on the show. Kavino and Rich, Naked Gun Weekend, 8774 The Her. You said Naked Gun Weekend before we get to a little more baseball. Is everyone else fascinated by the fact that Liam Neeson in real life is now dating Pam Anderson? Good for him. Because she used to be married to Tommy Lee.

So that says a lot. Oh, you're saying that he must be a... Yes. Says a lot about Liam. I know that Liam Neeson lost his wife and he had not really dated or publicly had a relationship. But apparently him and Pam Anderson hit it off. And I wonder... He said he fell in love with her.

I betcha. If you would have asked 1990s Liam Neeson when he was a younger man, like, hey, you think you over banged Pam Anderson? I will find you. That would have been like... I will kiss you. The most preposterous thought ever. but we'll talk about it a little more later when we go over what to watch this weekend

not only in sports but in entertainment they're given this movie absurdly good ratings yeah they're saying they nail this movie which by the way never happens with critics and comedies yeah they're saying it is like an hour and a half hour 40 minutes of no waste like there is Leslie Nielsen-esque naked gun jokes

like one after the other after the other almost like just nonstop an hour and 40 minutes of stupidity in a good way. And they pay homage to Leslie Nielsen in the new one. So we go from Leslie Nielsen to Liam Nissen. And by the way, this ties into everything we're talking about. Because when we first heard that

news, that Seth MacFarlane was going to be rebooting naked gun. We're like, oh, come on. No, leave well enough alone. With him? With Liam Nieson. Liam Nisen. Is even funny? I like them. But, God. No, I don't touch the classics. That's how we were about baseball. How a lot

lot of people. Not we. Not we. Oh, pitch clock. What are you doing on? Bigger basses. All. And I'm so glad. It also proves that, you know, change is good. Innovate or die, as our boy Gary Vaynerchuk says. Innovate or die. I'm Gary V. But it's great for me personally because it proves that if you hold on long enough, everything comes back. So those carpenter jeans that you got rid of,

you know, the Bob Villas that you used to wear. They're back. You should have held on to him. I used to joke that my dad wore like Puma warm-up pants in the 80s. And he held on to them long enough that when that Puma vibe came back in the 2000s, I'm like, Dad, you still got him. Well, you know what Rich used to say about me and my sports habits? Rich said he would introduce me to other friends and people.

Yeah, Kavino's a baseball boxing, baseball fighting guy. He has the interests of an 80-year-old white guy. And I'm funny, funny. He's an 80-year-old white guy trapped in a four-old. 40-year-old Latino guy's body. Right? But I held on long enough to see all of this come back to be cool again. You know, so, hey, baseball's back.

I feel like fighting is on its comeback. Thank God you kept your champion sweatshirt too. Turkey-A-Sheikhs, no more pay-per-views. We got these big fights. Canello Crawford in September, but everything comes back. And baseball, the greatest game, in my opinion, is back in a big way. thanks to all the star power and how we've marketed these young players and how they've stepped up in big ways and in big moments.

And we saw some big moves go down yesterday. The biggest thing was Suarez. And I believe it was the first time that someone with those type of numbers got traded this late into the season. 36 home runs to Seattle. So it makes their lineup more potent. But we'll go over that. What moves you liked and your thoughts on why? I do want to just ask you

Of the moves made yesterday Yeah And I'm not playing Like let's break out a crystal ball I know you're not Madam Ruby from Peewee's Big Adventure I see a bicycle Of the moves

No I just ask chat GPT now I know You rely on that too much You're the reason robots are taken over It guides my life Of the moves Do you feel like some of the closers Some of the missing pieces

Like to me I hate to say it as a Mets fan the Johann Duran thing to the Phillies, that's big. But then again, the Mets did get Tyler Rogers and Helsley from the Cardinals. I'm not much of an AL guy compared to an L guy. I'm very aware of him, but Cedric Mullins, you probably saw him more as a Yankees fan playing the Orioles. Yeah. You think he's got some juice or what?

Yes, yes. In fact, Rich, my boy Ben Verlander, who I like his stuff, his content. Yeah, he's good. Ben Verlander, MLB contributor analyst, says that your Mets, the Padres, and the Mariners were the big winners at the trade deadline.

And I agree with them. I wouldn't be just given a props for a way if I didn't agree. And the trade deadline losers were the Cubs, the socks, and the Blue Jays. Yep. All right, well, now it's time for the herd line news.

Let's do this. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. All right. Gee, let's go, man. Fellas, I feel like you've already maxed out your MLB talk time, so I'll start with NFL.

Okay. Contract negotiations between Terry McCloran and the commanders have not gone the way the star receiver was hoping, so he officially requested a trade yesterday. If Commander's GM Adam Peters does decide to move on from McLaren, which would be crazy, but the NFL website, NFL.com, has listed six teams they think are the best fit for the two-time pro bowler. Chargers, Raiders,

Jets, Patriots, Rich, your Niners, and the Browns. You know, you got to understand if there was a trade, I'm assuming the new team would restructure a deal for him, right?

That would be part of the thing, which means you got to also then look into like, all right, which of these teams has money to spare? He's a catch for any of those teams. The commanders would be crazy, right, to let them go somewhere else. Why would you do that?

You're hot right now. You're coming off in a surprising NFC championship appearance. If I'm the commanders, I said, come on, let's make this happen. What's the best fit for him? Not the Browns. They don't know what's going on in their quarterback situation. I mean, with Ayuk, not ready to go. I'm a Niners fan, so of course I'm going to say, yeah, yeah, San Francisco.

You know, I was thinking I do. But I was thinking maybe, I don't know. Take the Chargers? Be another weapon for Herbert. Yeah. Herbert and Herbert would have no excuses if you added him as well. The two Charger fans we know would be so hype. You know what?

The stadiums filled of the opposing fans would be really bummed out. Let's move on to the MLB. Back to baseball. And Rich, you referenced this fire sale. The twins wound up trading a total of 10 players more than one third of their active 26-man roster. I am sorry, Minnesota fans. Correa, Duran, and Bader are the biggest names. sitting six games under 500, the front office decided a shakeup was necessary.

And they also want to shed salary as there is a chance the team is going to be up for sale. Wow. Yeah, that's heartbreaking, man. Well, you know, I always think about when a team goes through a moment, what are the other teams in that city doing? So you're a Minnesota guy, like our buddy Scott. If you're a Minnesota guy. Vikings, T-wolves, you have other things that are going to make you at least a little happy.

If you're a Minnesota guy, you're not agreeing with anything we said this entire first hour. You're like, yeah, all right, I'm ready for football. Yeah. All right, and let's finish off with some NBA news. Millions of dollars worth of Miami Heat Collectibles, including Game War and Finals, jerseys, were stolen from the NBA franchise in what some are calling the largest heist

of sports collectibles ever, according to a report. NBA analyst Amin Al-Hassan says expensive items were slowly removed from a team vault that they were saving for their franchise's history. This, of course, leads, some to suspect it as an inside job. The feds began investigating 18 months ago with stolen items including

finals gear from Shaq, LeBron, and Dwayne Wade. Yeah, you know, much like when they steal art for museums, I know it's a lot of like underground drug stuff and all this, but aren't you always fascinated? Like, who's going to buy, I don't know, a shop, a shack game worn NBA finals jersey. if it's on the list of like, yo, this stuff's been stolen.

Well, people didn't know. It was because it was being sold on the regular market. But they were also being sold on the black market. Absolutely. And those buyers, Rich, I don't think. They care. No, there's so many underground collectors that just want this stuff. Absolutely, man.

That's wild. All right. That's it, guys, that's your herd line news. Thank you, Danny Chee. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The herd line news. All right.

So baseball's winning. Baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball. Now, coming up, football, football, because I want to talk about Cam Ward, and I'll tell you what, because no one else is, and that's my point. I'll explain all next, Kavino and Rich, in for Colin Coward. On The Herd, it's Friday, let's go. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what?

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I don't know why you want to talk about Tim Allen when there's so much action. Guys, Steve in Texas wants to talk. about baseball with you. Yo, what's up, Steve? Hello. What's up, buddy? Hey, what's going on? How are you?

Good, good. Am I? Is there still like the pre-question or I'm on there? Yeah, you're on. Dude, you're on. You're on. The pre-interview. The job experience.

No, go ahead. What do we got, man? Hey, I agree wholeheartedly. I love the resurgence of baseball. I'm both a dinosaur, purists, and I love the fact that the game that I love is come back. I think one of the big things you all brought up was the Savannah Bananas. Okay, I'm a lifelong Mets fan,

so you know my pain. Same, dude. I love that. That's my team, man. I feel you. I was in the Army. I always knew the Columbia Mets with a single-A facility or an affiliate. I got stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and that's when they became the capital city bombers. And I thought, oh, my God, marketing crap and everything else. I love baseball. Everything you guys said nailed it.

Thanks, man. Thank you so much, man. And it sounds goofy, but we really meant that. How many families went out there and had to blast their kids out of Savannah, Bananas game? They're selling out everywhere. And that opened up the door to, hey, if you like that, we could go see the Phillies play.

We can go see the Red Sox. It brings excitement back. It pushes baseball to lean more into fun. And we've reaped all the benefits. And like we made the point. It wasn't one big thing. It wasn't one. We love the changes,

but it's all the little changes that made it what it is right now. Much like yesterday's trade deadline. It wasn't one big name or a bunch of big names. It was a bunch of little pieces that made it exciting. Nice. You're 100% right. And thank you for the call, man. Big baseball fan as well.

And I think even the purest like that guy, I get it because there's, you know, our parents' generation that, you know, are reluctant for change. And I think when it comes to baseball, I don't think anyone now is like, man, you know what? The pitch clock and the bat flips. I think we've all accepted it as like, you know, these are good things. In fact, I saw that study the other day that 72% of fans are okay if they added the ball strike challenge a couple times a game. Not every inning, a couple times a game. and I think 15 said they were apathetic and it was only about 10% of fans that were like

no I don't want it people want to get the call right and I'm telling you these little changes will continue because as you said before we evolve we innovate or die now before we get to Cam Ward I feel like there's a great thought about this dude your number one

draft pick and I think it's a good thing for him I'll explain but my home improvement question I'm meeting with someone it has nothing to do with Tim Allen or Richard Karn. No, the poster you had on your wall, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It's a...

Pam Anderson. She was on the show. Yes, she was, and she's back this weekend. When you negotiate, I'm no price-line negotiator. Do you have any tactics of how to kindly be like, yeah, give me a better deal? I'm meeting with someone to go over... My dad's an Italian Guido from New Jersey. You always offer cash.

Oh, besides cash. Does that even work anymore? Yes, it does. But besides, I'll pay you in cash. Cash still is king. If you're getting, I'll tell you what I'm doing. You just don't carry it anymore. If you're getting an estimate for pavers, yard work, resurfacing a pool, I don't know,

you got the landscaper redoing some bushes. And you're like, ooh, that number's a little high. I just want to know from you before we get into more football, because this is life. This is what guys deal with. When you're negotiating, do you have like a, catch phrase? Like, can you do better than that? Like, what is your, what is your go-to phrase? We'll take your feedback next. Kavino and Rich. In for Colin on the herd. Hey guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what?

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