The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Best Opening Day in Sports?

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

C&R are hyped for MLB Opening Day! They argue that baseball has the best opening of any popular sport. Rich has a dumb but fun hypothetical about Stephen A. versus LeBron! Plus, 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' pays tribute to your baseball heroes! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know what? I'm glad you didn't forget. Let the baseball season begin. Welcome to opening day. Let's go Mets. Spring again. Yeah, let's go Yankees. We bet a thousand dollars on who would have

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It's good. good times. We got Iowa. Sam on the ones and two. Samuel. We get to hang out with him. He's the zaniest guy in the game. Thousand bucks you missed that put. We got, can't wait for this bet to pay off. I know. You know what? Someone said we should up the ante, make it $1,000 per game differential. So let's say, hey man, leave my ante out of this. So let's say like the Mets have a four game better record than the Yankees. That should be four grand. Yeah. All right. You confident or not on this contract. Maybe on the next one. How about you both have to pay me a $1,000? thousand dollars when the Dodgers repeat.

Oh, that's what makes this so fun, because Danny G. Dodgers is the field. You know, can I tell you, I thought about that more. We're going to talk some baseball today. There's football in the news. LeBron and Stephen A. I have what I would argue is the funniest sports hypothetical you've heard all week. So I promise you that. But yesterday, I take it back.

I said, if you had a bet the Dodgers versus the field, meaning the other 29 teams, I have a new stance as of today. Danny G, cover your ears. We're friends. F, the Dodgers. Yeah. I got no patience. You mean the new evil empire?

You know what? To me, Mets, Phillies, Braves, Cubbies, Yankees, Red Sox, Astros, twins, I don't care, as long as it's not the Dodgers. I'm fine with it. I ordered one of the villains hats where the L and the A in the middle of the word is big.

I'm not surprised. It's time for Dodger baseball. And I'm excited to see what unfolds. Yeah, right now, I'll tell you what, the Mets are about to lose this game. You know how I know? Because Clay Holmes is pitching. I'm glad you got him. Good riddance.

Good riddance. That's the other fun part about today. You get to see all the new players on the different teams. We're going to go over all the reasons, but I also want to say hello to Isaac Lohencrone. He's hanging out. Isaac. He's got your updates. Isaac Lohencrime.

We got plenty of Kavino and Rich today. Super pumped. Again, of course, there's college basketball, but we're huge baseball fans. and why do you think I'm rocking my new gear, man? I like that your Travis Matthew Yankee shirt. We'll post some pictures, courtesy of our pals of Travis Matthew. But last night, I want to say, before we get into baseball and opening day, thanks to Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington. I mean, maybe a little thanks to Isaac Lowencrown.

He was part of it last night. I was in the hot seat. I heard. That was so much fun, man. So props to the odd couple. Rich was talking about cocoa butter on the air. You know, I made a straw. I made a strong argument last night on the odd couple that OnlyFans has replaced the strip club.

Also talked about the Mets. Also talked about a lot of stuff. You could hear that on the pod. But Isaac, that was fun, right? I mean, that was a good one. It was. And on that particular item, like I said, Rob's response was so exhaustively researched. We had to go with him.

I had a glizzy in my mouth. Rob really was passionate about how the strip club still has a place. Physical contact. Oh, yeah. The skin. He's keeping it in business. I love it. You got to have the bones.

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Sure. And I don't mind if we paint in broad strokes, little strokes. It doesn't matter to me. Can I add happy little trees? As long as you're stroking. You know what the worst part about Bob Ross is. You know it. Everybody watched Bob Ross as we paint in broad strokes and small strokes.

You thought it was done. Yeah. Then you thought, oh, he ruined it. Yeah, it got better again. You nailed it. You're like, oh, you didn't need that tree. You didn't need that little lake house. You didn't need.

Oh, wait, wait, wait. And then he made it work every. time. Every time. So go ahead. Let's paint this picture. Let me paint a little picture for you. Why is baseball? You could give me any answer you want. Why is there something about baseball? That opening day, baseball, is just so much more special than NBA tip-off, NFL kickoff, the start of the hockey season. I even think start of the bracket. I even think start of college football. Something about opening day. And you would think it would be the opposite because it's one of 162.

So you could argue the significance is like nothing. That's why, though, the clean slate of it, the hope of it. There's 162 games to look forward to anything could happen. That's part of it. But I already gave you my subliminal reason. What did I say when we started the show? It's spring again. Everybody knows it's spring again.

Is that what it is? Is it knowing that the temperature in a lot of cities? is going to change. It's a, it's at time when, you know, the flower start blooming as corny as that sounds there. Apparently, spring officially started last week. But I think everybody associates opening day baseball, even from your little league days with the start of spring. And you just get excited to rock your new gear, your new team shirt, your city connect jersey, whatever it is you bought in the off season. You're excited to see all your new players and the old players, but to me, it just signifies spring, which signifies great weather. We grew up on the East Coast, Rich. So for us,

that means, oh, the weather's breaking a little bit. And you start looking forward to even the summer because spring is here. So I was singing some old school Bismarkey. That was my reference, but I think that's part of it. To us, it's signify springtime is officially here, not when the farmer's almanac says so. Marky, just a friend. And wasn't he on that kid show your daughter liked? Yo Gabba Gabba. He had other songs besides that?

Yeah, it's spring again. I did it like Louis Armstrong, but yeah, Bismarkey did. I forget that sample or what that was from, but yeah, he did that song. Now, Rich, you said that you feel like baseball opening day trumps the NFL's first week? You would think that sounds crazy because I'm a huge NFL fan. If anything, you would argue that I feel like the NFL is by far what I pay attention to. show as a network, Rich, I feel like there's more pep and everybody's step and everyone's more hyped up for NFL Week 1 around here.

It's a good debate. I salivate over everything from the gambling to the magnitude of each of the 17 games. As a Niners fan, you know, they've been on outside of last year a pretty good stretch. So every year I got some high hopes. But I don't know. There's something old school and nostalgic and classic about baseball, too, as corny's as sounds. I just woke up today with the smell of the grass. the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd.

It sounds silly. Your grandpappy talked about baseball and, you know, you just associate baseball with so many old time and old school memories. And maybe back to your earliest childhood memories. When we started off, you didn't grow up playing football right off the bat. You probably played some little league, some wiffleball. You know, today kids play soccer. A lot of kids play soccer. But your memories go back to baseball since day one. So there's something more nostalgic and special about it. It's like that comfort food, man. It's like pizza every night. I woke up this morning just feeling like, man, today's the day.

And don't get me wrong. I watch football probably closer than I watch baseball. Hey, Rich, are you saying you got a spring in your step and a nickel in your pocket? I got a spring in my step and a nickel in my pocket. There's something about baseball. That's all I'll say. And I think- I know what it is too for me.

Appointment watching every night. Like every night, there's a few things you question Monday through. Monday. What are we going to eat? What are we going to watch? Right? One of these questions answered all the time. Baseball is going to be out every day pretty much for the next 162 games. Danny, you have, I love that. You and Brenda have Dodgers on in the background most of the time. That's what I mean. Background. You don't have to be glued to it. 80% of the games throughout the season we have it on. And what's even more special about this season is even if your team's off on that random Thursday or whatever, right? There's so many other interesting teams that you could throw on just this background.

So there's always something to watch and then you could focus on your white lotus later on. But you've got baseball pretty much every day for the next six months. Breaking news, but not really breaking news. Breaking news for my eyeballs. Okay. I'm watching the Yankees for the first time. I didn't watch any spring training Yankees.

I don't think anyone did. No one really cares. I'm not going to spring training. Dominguez just got in the box. Jason Dominguez. Brewers are having a little meeting on the mound. Yep. it's the first time I've seen a Yankee in my life with a beard and it looks like a kid in a Halloween costume.

Dude, Rodon looked like a badass. It doesn't make it doesn't, it looks a little funny. You would say how does that even possible? It's a regular guy. It's just a different uniform. But seeing a Yankee with a beard. It's a big difference. I'm sorry, well-groomed beard.

I'm just saying. So the question is, and that's also part of the fun, right? Like the new moves, the new rules, the new changes, the new players. The question we're asking here is, when football is king, we. all admit that. And when it's Sweet 16, your boy, Clay Travis was saying, why would you even have opening day when you have three or four great games? Yeah, he thought baseball's opener should have been yesterday. Why is it that we find it so special? If you don't, you could also chime in and say, dude, you guys are crazy baseball's things. You know, it's your opinion, but we find it to be

extra special. Everybody here is representing their teams. You know, there's a sense of pride involved. It's a clean slate. You have a long season ahead of you. I think there's so much fun to look forward to. You know, you associate this with barbecues and hot dogs and good times and family moments. I think it's all of that, Rich.

You said something this morning when we were hanging. And I stand by what you said. Camino said when we were kids, if you were a kid of the 80s or 90s, I don't know if you're just picturing your starting lineup figures or baseball cards, but every team,

in the 80s or 90s had one star star star star star Colin style Stars stars stars stars if I said the Braves you'd be like oh Dale Murphy if I say the Phillies Mike Schmidt hey Kavino Orioles Cal Ripkin Jr. Cardinals Ozzie Smith like everyone had a go to Robin Yount Brewers like every team had a guy every guy had their guy

Every team had their dude. Baseball now, I think, is hitting a stride where there happens to be a lot of exciting stars where I think a young kid could reference a team and have that same. It's the baseball renaissance. It's back. It's the comeback of baseball this season. That's our prediction. There's so many powerhouse teams, so many superstar players, so many household names.

Do the mom test. See if your mom knows some of these names. At this point, she probably does. There's a lot of stars in the league and it makes us excited. And you're going to hear us yapping about it. So enjoy some baseball. Enjoy some March madness. The Sweet 16.

Some say, some say there's no Cinderella team. So it's boring. And then others say, what are you mad about? The best teams have advanced. It's not boring. It usually shakes out to where the Cinderella's don't advance that deep anyway.

This is where the Cinderella usually loses by 25. You got a lot of one, two, three, and four seeds. You got brand names. It's, yeah, you've got the brand names of college basketball. I think people should be like, well, that's a good thing. It's the third year in a row where maybe Isaac could help me with this. It's either like no higher than a 10 or 11 seed is advanced to this round. Is it like Texas Tech.

There's one 10 seed, I think, right? Still left and that's it. Well, no, Arkansas. Is it Arkansas? Arkansas is the 10 seed? So, yeah, it's the third year in a row where it's been mostly chalk, except here's the iron. no rock chalk jahawk i'll tell you what i said texas tech is hosting arkansas yeah there was a lot of debate on the importance of opening day baseball and how you coincide it and overlap it with the start

of the sweet 16 for me there's no comparison but again that's just preferential and that's just i'm a baseball guy i like baseball better i don't think you can compare the opening day with the start of sweet 16 can i logic is is a special day can i lodge a little complaint here yeah yeah these the first game of MLB opening day started at 3 o'clock Eastern and then we haven't even started at the Sweet 16 games yet. Everything is piled up for people on the East Coast

to be watching like sports from when they get home until like 1 a.m. I just wish it started, everything started a little bit earlier maybe start those games at like 11 a.m. Eastern time, maybe noon and just get, because we got a whole sports day and it's piled up now in the afternoon. Let me tell you.

The East Coast thinks the world revolves around them. I live there most of my life. These games are, They're all starting 7 o'clock Eastern time for the NCAA tournament, that is. Well, most of the population does live in the eastern. Which is very true. It's true.

Yeah, I mean, we're on the West Coast mindset because we live here on the West Coast, but most of the population is on East Coast time. Trudeb. Why is today special to you? Hit us at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio 87799 on Fox. And of course, since it's Thursday, opening day baseball, sweet 16 Thursday, we always throw it back and reminisce. So in about a half hour from now, in fact, in 33 minutes.

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Ah, it's 3-0. Game 1, 162. Yeah, but we got $1,000 on this season. I'm ready to raise the stakes. Does it take you back to 1989 like this Bismarkees-aw? Yeah, hell yeah. It's spring again, baby. Everybody knows it spring again when baseball starts. Why is opening day so special?

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Yesterday, or was it the day before, we talked about an old joke of ours. And it was how many Justin Bieber's do you think he could beat up? My answer, it was back in the day. Not two, not three, not four, not five. It was a hypothetical Rich and I had when Bieber was a teenager, when he was a kid. Yeah, floppy-headed Bieber discovered by Usher back of the day. Like when he was like, you know, and back then, I said, I think I could take eight Bieber's.

I was younger and stronger, and he was a little nerd. So I said, I could take eight. So based on that, it got Rich thinking. Kavino thought he could take eight teenage beavers back in the day based on the really hilarious back and forth with Stephen A and LeBron James

we all know it started with the confrontation on the court. LeBron James. And then we know that LeBron had a really honest conversation with Pat McAfee and then Stephen A fired back in a joking way saying if he would have stepped to me, I would have thrown punches.

I would, I would have went at him. Not only that, Stephen A was like, LeBron James is a liar. He was calling him a liar. Like, he was straight up, you know, that's a character sort of attack. Yeah, and he said he didn't go to Kobe's funeral. Then he apologized. I am sorry.

I was wrong. A lot of funny back and forth. But my favorite part was when Stephen A insinuated that, While he would get his ass kicked, he said, I would have thrown fist. Like, I would have went at LeBron if he had touched me. First of all, I know we would all pay hundreds of dollars for that pay-per-view. Charity boxing, LeBron versus Stephen A. Over in four seconds.

But here's the question. I'm glad you said that. How many Stephen A is going to take to beat up LeBron James? Good question. All right. Let's open it up. What do you think? You think we're just going to leave it at that?

No, we're getting you involved. We're going to analyze this. 87799 on Fox. I got to say, Stephen A. Smith's punches as viral as they were yesterday. It's an old clip, but they were thrown out there. LeBronlebron was laughing at it. Even Brony got in on it and said, yeah, he'd punch my dad. He'd fight my dad.

Cap. He posted a cap. Like, yeah, BS. That video of Stephen A. Training. Stephen A. That LeBron posted is hilarious. It's hilarious.

The slow-mo. It's the form, right? The form is bad. but let's give Stephen A a little credit where it's due. The power seemed to be there. And he's got his arms were, he looks strong. Like his arms are big. He's in decent shape.

His arms looked cut in that clip. It's an old clip. It's a funny one. But based on the back and forth, also acknowledge you got two big names really going at it. Really dominating the headlines right now. Really getting a little awkward too at the same time. You want the tail of the tape? LeBron.

Yo, let's get the tail of the tape and open it up. How many Stephen A's does it take to beat a LeBron? Not two, not three, not four, not five. Stephen A. Weighing in at 220 pounds, he is 6-1. He's a reverse, Babe Ruth. 2-20. LeBron, weighing in at 250 pounds, he is 6-9.

6-9 and like not an ounce of fat on that guy. I have my answer. My answer is fact. I feel like I've really thought about this good and hard. And the answer is simple. One Stephen A can't do it. No. I think even two Stephen A's, LeBron could punch one, shove one back, hit the other, hit the other.

You go low, I go high. And we'll get him. You need someone to bite the ankles? I think the real answer, because Stephen A is not 5-9-150. He's a big man, Steve's a big guy. I mean, Stephen A. His punches are slow, though. Very orchestrated punches.

Bigger than me. I'm six foot, like 190 something. Stephen A, 6-1, 220. I think three Stephen A's could take out LeBron. You know, I think that's the number one answer on the board, which, if we were playing Family Feud... I think, though, there might be people that say no more. Yeah, I would say 12 people said four.

I was going to say, I'm going to go four. I'm going even past that because LeBron is such a specimen, dude. He's so fit, he's so big, he's so strong. By the way, what's the age difference? How old is Stephen A? He's what, 56? That's a good question. We know LeBron's 40. 57? How old's he? I'll look up Stephen A's age right now.

I mean, we keep in mind, Mike Tyson fought a very young Jake Paul and Tyson was 57, and that's Mike Tyson. Yeah, 57. So Stephen A's 57. He's Mike Tyson's age. That matters. LeBron James, as we know, is 40. So again, more advantage LeBron. He's still in primo physical condition. Stephen A, man, he hasn't sniffed his prime in 20 years.

So that being said, even though Rich, I think you got the number one answer. When you really think about it, the fact of the matter is this. it would take four Stephen A's blasphemous to fight one LeBron James I'm sorry that's the truth that's the truth

four or three now it would take four I'm going with Danny G give me four Stephen A's could beat LeBron in a fight Let's play it out right now Who's give me a big guy Yeah

All right well hold on Why not why think of a big guy Let me just think of LeBron James We have LeBron James in this studio right now say LeBron James is standing right here. His head would be close to the ceiling. He's a big man.

Muscley ripped 40-year-old physical specimen. LeBron James is standing in the Fox Sports Radio Studio. Do you think me, you, and Spot, or Danny Spot in Iowa Sam with three grown men in this room? You said, hey, Isaac, Danny, and Spot, do you think those three men could take out LeBron? I think so. I think three grown men. I just annoy him into submission. It's possible.

I think you have to pants them first and then knock him down. Great strategy, copy. I don't know, man. I really do think you got to throw age in there. Stephen A, although fit for his age. And I was impressed by his arms and everything. And I like Stephen A. I'm a fan.

He's 57 years old. Look how Mike Tyson at 58 looked. He's 57. I'm saying four Stephen A's versus a young, a relatively young, in life and fit LeBron James. LeBron James is the one of the most exceptional athletes that we've seen in our lifetime, a legend. I'm not saying he's an ass kicker, but I'm sure he could throw some, some haymakers

to beat up for Stephen Ace. I'm going, I'm going with four. The answer is four. I do believe you have the number one answer, though, Rich three. You don't want to make an enemy out of me. All right. Well, hey, let's open it out. What do you guys think?

87799 on Fox. It's a real beef. It's a serious one. All right, let's go handicapped match. Remember back in the old wrestling days where like King Kong Bundy would fight like two little, like three little people? Would they have Andre the Giant versus three guys? What Stephen A could tag in like Kevin Perkins or something? No, I'm saying like, all right, Stephen A, who else did he insult?

Winhurst? Winhorst? Yeah. What if it was like how many? Remember that scene in stripes where John Candy wrestles all the women in the mud pit? And he's like, he's like, I used to love all those scenes as a kid. Yeah, yeah, because their tops come off eventually. But it's all, I'd stay up late just to watch that.

He pushes their head. He pushes one down in the mud and there's another one like attacking him. And then I also think of like Kramer fighting all the kids like in the Taekwondo, dojo. Like those just come to mind when I think of Stephen A. With the kids. Yes, it's such a great Seinfeld reference. Yeah, he's just fighting kids. There, again, there's power and numbers.

But I think it takes three to four. I'm going with four. All right. Marcus in Indiana, I love how you guys feed in to the ridiculous thoughts we have. How many Stephen A's would it take to beat up a LeBron James?

What do you think, Marcus? You're on with Kavino and Rich. I say 14. 14. 14. 14. At some point, you have a weight issue. You just have enough guys piling on LeBron and he's going to fall down.

It's going to crumple into a ball. I mean, at that point, it's a beat down. Yeah. What's 14 times? That's like thousands of pounds. I was Sam. What are you? Six foot, 200 pounds?

I'm 5'10. Too much over 200 pounds. Okay. How many? How many? You're like in Babe Ruth territory. How many? No, that's why I said Stephen A was the reverse Babe Ruth because he doesn't look like he's 226.

One. How many Iowa Sam's bum rushing LeBron do you think gets the job done? You know your own strength? Honestly, like if you have... Eight of me. Eight of me. A guy biting the ankle. Put him on my.

LeBron. He's so big and his reach is so strong. You got a guy with the pipe to the knees. He'd slap. Think about it. He slap you out of the way. It's the mass. It's the volume of me's coming at him.

His shoulder caps alone would knock a few of you at him. He could just take his two hands immediately and just shove like the first three IRA Sam's back. You know this thing where you get the, and then they're. With his wingspan alone, he could get, you know, it's a double nag and knocker. He could probably take four of you guys. A quadruple noggin-knocker. Brendan in Missouri, thank you for play along. What's up, man?

Yeah, a big LeBron honk, but we've known him since he was 15 years old. He's never been in a fight. He doesn't really know what he's doing, I wouldn't think. You know, I know. No one wants to mess with him. Three season A's. But he makes a good point. We have known LeBron since he's a teenager, and he stayed out of trouble.

He's a good man. So it's not like he's not like LeBron's story. He's like, he comes to the streets and he's a hard kid and he, you know, struggled on the come-up. I agree with that, but does he seem to be the kind of guy you want to mess with him that way? I feel like LeBron's got that switch where you don't want to mess with. LeBron's the type of guy also that, like, sits on a treadmill and always reads page one of a book, right? Hey, speaking of, besides our ridiculous. Besides our ridiculous hypothetical, which I find to be great radio and a really intriguing thought,

one that you may think is dumb, but you'll share with someone else later on, guaranteed. There's probably some guy that says this is the dumbest. thing but at dinner tonight he's like honey he'll be repeating it at the office tomorrow lebron did tie coby and joe johnson with the second most buzzer beaters ever one behind

mj so that he has eight now michael jordan has the record with nine and it was his first ever buzzer beater with the lakers last night so that was cool to see so you got to give him props there too the storyline i know that isa loencrown was following because he was in with the odd couple last night

end of the third quarter, LeBron had like three points. And I remember you guys, we were talking about whether or not LeBron was going to break his streak of double digits. And then he turned it on in the fourth quarter and made up for a pretty average game with that little tip in the end. And that's all that matters. I mean, yeah, he ended up winning it. So tipping it in, I think he totally redeemed himself. All right. Let's say one more quick.

We'll go to ILO. Tony in Oregon. What's up, Tom? Hey, thanks for taking the call, guys. Yeah, you know, LeBron's probably taking a few, you know, martial arts. classes over his time. So he's probably, you know, got a few news. But I think the answer's got to be five. You got one, one, one for each limb. So one, Stephen A's holding, you know, one arm, a left arm, and the other one's holding the right. And you got a couple legs. And the

fifth guy's, you know, put him in his face. Got him. Fifth guy's using his beanbag like a, like a speed bag. But hold on that way, wait, wait, as we go to Isaac for the update. Dumber style. Yeah. I want you to think of this one. I want you to think of this one. He said five for each limb. I'm like, well, what was the fifth one? the appendages of the body. You call that, I mean, a limb. He's talking about the hangdown, I think. He's talking about the old tripod there.

I know. Let's go to Isaac for an update, but I want everyone to think of this as we get to the rest of the phone calls next. LeBron also known as a big flopper. What if, like, you touch LeBron? He might be like, oh. I'd go elbows first at LeBron. I mean, sometimes a little elbow tap the guys down. That's such a funny angle here, guys.

Like, is he that type of guy where he's? He's really soft when he comes down to it. One Stephen A jabs him and he's like, oh. Yeah, think about it. We'll get back to your calls. What's up, Isaac? Top two trending subjects in the entire world right now. Number one, opening day.

Number two, MLB.com. We'll get to MLB.com. At a moment. First, though, opening day, your Yankees up 3-1 over the Milwaukee Brewers in the bottom of the seventh inning on home runs by Austin Wells and Anthony Volpe and an RBI double by Aaron Judge. Brewers getting their run on a home run by Vinnie Capra and the Yankees. It just made it four to one over the Brewers in the bottom of the seventh inning.

The Baltimore Orioles have a 9-2 lead at Toronto at the seventh inning stretch. Baltimore is Tyler O'Neill with a three-run home run. It's the sixth straight season, O'Neill's Homeward on opening day. The Orioles Cedric Mullins with two home runs and five RBI. Juan Soto in his debut for the New York Mets single to write his first time up and then walked On to another game, I won't even bother giving the score of the Mets game. I guess I have to. Mets nothing, Houston Astros 3 in the bottom half of the fifth inning.

How about this? The Washington Nationals were the 1-0 lead over the Phillies in the top of the seventh inning. Nationals pitcher McKenzie Gore struck out 13 in six innings allowing one hit. And despite having throw just 93 pitches, they just took him out of the game. Now, on to the other trending subject across the world. MLB.tv, Major League Baseball's official streaming package. A subscription goes for $150. On opening day, it's been down all day.

It's not shocking. My buddy hit me up from Florida. He's a Mets fan that moved down to Florida. He goes, how are you even watching? Isn't your app down? I use... Is baseball so hot that it shut down the app? That's what I'm thinking.

No, seriously. I purchased my Mets package, mm-package, through Amazon, and it's just on my Amazon, I guess it renews. Works fine today. Okay, it works. MLB TV, though. MLB TV. Not working. It's so widespread that it's the number two trending topic in the entire world, and it's being picked up by mainstream outlets, including, of course, up us.

But unfortunately, MLB support seems to not be satisfying the fans either. A fan name Jeff posted his interaction with MLB support. and I will reenact some of it for you here. Support. Let's get a support case started. Please provide any details that may help us resolve your issue. Jeff. The system doesn't work.

Give me back my money. Support. Your case number is 0376-5692. Would you like to be transferred to a support agent? Yeah, like right now. Support. Please reply yes to consent to sending and receiving text messages, message and data rates will apply. Jeff, Jesus Christ, dot, dot, dot.

So frustrated. On that note, back to you guys. Thank you. And Isaac, the number three trending thing. How many, how many Stephen A's does it take to beat up LeBron James? Yeah, that's number three in Rising. Better watch out opening day. Stephen A. Isaac, how many times have you screamed this into the phone? Representative. Yeah, oh my God. Operator. Very frustrating. I feel like we need a wise old owl to tell us how many Stephen A's it takes to get to the center of a Tudzi pop. The world may never know. Very good. Thank you so much. We're going to take

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Fox Sports Radio but the hard-hitting question, how many Stephen A's would it take to beat up LeBron James?

Many men. Many men. Lebron James. Many Stephen A's would have to take on to take on LeBron James

to bring him down. Don't forget if you missed any of that conversation and anything else. Danny G. does a great job each hour

and a best-up podcast. after the show. Let's go rapid fire, then we'll go old school. Let's say what's up to Justin and Sincere. What's up, Justin? Guys, thanks for taking my call. No problem, man. No, thanks for playing along with this ridiculous question. How many Stephen A's would it take to beat up LeBron? We can just one.

All you have to do is swing and miss, and LeBron's falling down. He'll be out for the game with concussion. The whole flop. By the way, I think you guys are forgetting I'm from Philly. I'm scrappy. And, you know, as Mike, who runs this place, said, Danny, who's got the line set at two and a half. He thinks two and a half.

Stephen A's little scrappier than we give him credit for. So I'm sticking with four, Rich says three, but the line's at two and a half. Doug, Ohio, what you think? Hey, guys, just remember, I always tell my son, he says, look at these basketball players, how fit they are. I say, but you're comparing them to other skinny guys. You know, all basketball players are so skinny and tall. And it makes someone like Braun, LeBron, he's got these big wide shoulder, you know. Yeah.

He's a tough guy, but I would say definitely two. Two. Okay. You're giving Stephen A some credit. Danny G., you got some street credit. Do you think deep down, even though Stephen A is smaller and he's a broadcaster and all that, I think he's like a tougher guy than LeBron? Might be tougher as far as, you know, street smarts go, but he's older, as you mentioned.

Yeah. Stephen A also played college basketball very briefly, I think, at Winston-Salem State. True, man. He's athletic. We saw Father Time and what it did in that, Logan Paul, Mike Tyson, fighting Mike Tyson and Stephen A at the same age. Hey, and give credit to Stephen A. He did say LeBron would whip his ass, but, you know, he would have swung at him.

He said jokingly. Up to Rochester, New York. Ron, you're on with CNR. That's funny. I was going to say, I set the line at two and a half, and I take LeBron. It's funny, the guy said that. Yeah. You know, if he did, if it was one-on-one,

LeBron would just hold his hand out and hold his head, and he'd be, like, swinging and trailing away. That would be funny as hell. I love that. Like a cartoon. Showrod, D.C., what's up, man? What's going on, fellas? No.

First off, I want to say, I go home, Kron, you stole my scoop. I wanted to talk about my boy McKenzie Gore, getting 13 strikeouts today. But it's fine. So, it would take approximately six LeBron. I mean, six Stephen A. Right, Sean LeBron. Do you all right? Like five dudes off?

Oh, yeah, that's right. Cam Newton did. He's a big guy. You're right. That's a good one. And it took a bunch of dudes and he was holding his own. That's a really great point. Britain wrapped us up in Texas.

Kavino and Rich. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Honestly, Stephen A is not a, he's not a small guy. So I'm thinking, I think three. Yeah, and I don't think Stephen A's a punk. So to be fair, to be fair, we take the rest of your feedback at Covino and Rich

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You tried to break that down. And part of that is, you know, it takes you back to your childhood. What made you fall in love with the game? Want you guys to think about who it was. In honor of opening day, who was your favorite baseball player of all time? But what made you love them? What was it about them that made you fall in love with that player, therefore, the game? Like, we all have those moments.

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