The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Covino's Mountain Bike Angel

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

C&R bring the laughter for your Throwback Thursday! They investigate just how difficult it would be to have a perfect Tournament bracket! Covino explains his luck, or rather, his angel at the Fair. Ron Washington has an interesting new rule for his Angels player. Plus, 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' puts a mask on your memory! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The madness is in the air. Baseball a week away. And every Thursday, whatever we don't fit into the show today. And throughout the week, we do on Overpromised, our bonus podcast, a brand new episode debuts today right after this show, 4 p.m. on the West, 7 p.m. on the East. Again, Overpromised episode 84. We'll do that later on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page.

Broadcasting live. Yes. No, I was going to say, and kindly, I just want to remind everyone as much as you might be into your own bracket. No one else cares. Yeah. Just no. Talking about your bracket is.

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where I tell you guys, bracket is perfect so far? This is where you tell me that. No, I have a theory on people's... Until McNeese wins here. I don't give a rat's... I have a theory. I have a theory about people's whack-ass brackets.

By the way, who's McNeese playing? Oh, they're a 12 seed beating a five. That's the typical upset, right? Yeah. I got to ask you, what do you think? There's two questions at hand because my brain goes a mile a minute. Or at least, I think. what's the most frustrating beginning to a sport?

Meaning if you're bowling and you have an open frame in the first frame, if you're a pitcher and you get lit up in the first inning and it's like, oh, one run, you gave up two runs in the first inning and, oh, rough start. Or is it like what's happening to Georgia right now, they're in the first half and it's 30 to 10 Gonzaga. Like when you just can't get it going, what's the worst feeling? That's when you wish you had Life's Reset button. Remember when you'd have a bad start to a Nintendo game on a throwback Thursday

and you just reach with your big toe to reset it? How about when your favorite NFL team gets scored on and then your defense comes up, you know what I mean? Like you get blown out in the first quarter basically. When they score quick and then you like fumble the kickoff and it's like 14 nothing like that, you're like, it's hard to recover. You see it in fighting a lot. Someone comes out, you know, with a nasty right hook.

to the head. That dude gets popped. He's never the same throughout the rest of the fight. I got one. Now, again, it's sometimes it just unfortunately bad circumstances. You ever see a good fighter gets accidentally headbutted early on in the fight? You're cut. And I'm saying,

so they're already rattled. They're struggling. We saw the worst cut in boxing history. Oh, that was the Tim Zouf and Dora fight. Yeah. But what I'm saying is, that was the result of a headbutt. So imagine you're a fighter and you're game planning and training for months. And in like the second round, the other guy accidentally headbutch you and you cut your

eyebrow and then you're bleeding the rest of the fight? Where is life's reset most important in sports? Life's reset button. How about when you're in a heated game of mini golf? Not real golf because I'm not there yet in life, but mini golf and you start off with a really bad like five or six. Like what? This is horrible. No, I think the number one answer for me. I mean, of course. I think it's bowling. Yeah, I was going to say, because we all have this fantasy that we're going to bowl 300. The other ones are all relatable if you're athlete of a pro level. But I think if you're bowling with some friends or you go with the wife of your girlfriend or your kids bowling, if you have like a seven and then you miss the pocket on like on a spare

and you're like open frame, starting a game of bowling. To start the game weeknight. However, as a, you know, a superstar pitcher when I was like a teenager, never played as an adult. I thought you were a belly itcher. But I do remember the feeling of a one, two, three first inning as a pitcher versus two guys got on base. I let up a run. Like, you just, it's just not how you want to start a game. So that's another big one.

What's the worst? Because it looks like Clemson's off to a bad start. It looks like Gonzaga is beating Georgia by 20 in the first. And speaking of brackets, Rich, I know we're not going to have time for it on this show. We will talk about brackets and other conversations to avoid. On overpromised, right after this show on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. But listen, unless your final four is out of it, you're in it really until then, because there's upsets in every round. But I did want to bring this up today.

Kavino will say that I've been dropping this fun fact all week. Oh, no. The chance of someone having a perfect bracket is one in 9.2 quintillion. Quintillion. Impossible. And that one is Kurt Hennig. That one is Mr. Perfect. Mr. Perfect.

One in 9.2 quintillion. So just for perspective, I did a little research. I don't mind you dropping that fun fact because every time you've said it, I could drop that cool Mr. Perfect joke. Fourth time you've done it. I've been counting. Yeah, no, it's giving me an opportunity

to shout out Mr. Perfect four or five times. The late great current heading. So one in nine point two quintillion. I want to just throw some perspective at you. guys of other far-fetched things. So when your brackets already busted and it's, you know, 208 West Coast time, and you're thinking, my bracket. And for the record, we all filled out our bracket.

We're just trying to explain that no one wants to hear about yours. Everybody cares about their own. They just don't care about yours. I made that point when we walked in, Bree, who's a lovely producer. I love Bree. She's in the editing room. Oh, Briella. Briella.

she ripped her pants today. I'm sure she wants me to tell everyone on Fox Sports Radio. Everyone laughed. Wow, I didn't even know that. I'm here. She ripped her pants. Is that why I saw her running through the parking garage and sweats? No.

I swear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Bree ripped her pants. She said she bought a cute new outfit and it ripped in the crotch. She had to have like Uber go to Target. That's Bree right there. That's Bree. And she had to have sweatpants delivered here so that she could have pants.

And I said, you know what? no one would even notice because everyone's so self-involved that if you would have turned the corner brie and someone said rich for a million dollars what is brie wearing i would have got it wrong also we have staplers and tape you could just jimmy rig that thing give mciver that i wouldn't have noticed so we're all overstimulated today we're not even paying attention everyone's overstimulated and everyone's only concerned about themselves everyone's in their own like when you have a big pimple on your nose and you think Everyone's looking.

No one even notices. However, this bracket thing, one in 9.2 quintillion, for perspective, I did a little research. Other things that seem very impossible, what do you think the chances of winning the power ball are?

Not as high as the bracket. One in 292 million. Wow. To win the mega millions, one in 302 million. to get eaten by a shark in the ocean. One in 265 million. Wow, really?

That's a bad luck. To be struck by lightning. One in 16,000. A lot of people get struck by lightning, apparently. And to bring it back to sports, to show the perspective of this perfect bracket where you guess all 63 games right, one in 9.2 quintillion,

to make it into professional sports. Fewer than 2% of D1 collegiate athletes make it into the pros. Less than 2% of Division 1 college athletes go professional. In fact, in the NFL, 1 in 10,000, in Major League Baseball, 1 in 22,000. And in the NBA, 1 in 55,000. Wow. So to put a perspective of the people,

out there that played sports in high school, college, anything. To make it to the pros is tough enough. You've seen those people do like their little demonstrations like, how many kids play little league or pony ball? Millions and millions and then how many of those play junior high, high school, college, minor league, get drafted. It whittles down. It whittles down and whittles down.

So to think how tough it is to get into pro sports, to win the lottery, to be eaten by a shark. You know, I didn't look this one up. Knock out what, to be in a plane crash. That's why when all these. terrible flight things are happening, you still have to remember, there's a hundred thousand flights to take off out of the United States every day, a hundred thousand. You have a better chance to be killed by a meteorite than you do to have a perfect

bracket. It's true. So you're telling me there's a chance. So. One in 840 million. Well, think about it like this. So to have a meteor hit you, the odds. So when companies are like, hey, we'll give you millions if you get a perfect bracket, they might

as well say we'll give you trillions when you get a perfect bracket. bracket. It's going to be a quintillion dollars. Elon's promising you a trip to Mars, which we know is not even possible. So maybe it's like if you actually somehow did get a perfect bracket, he's like, okay, we'll figure that out at some point. But it's not going to happen. I was saying you brought it up yesterday.

I thought the documentary was fascinating. Do you remember that Pepsi promotion where they said... Collect enough points, those little cutout coupon or little barcode UPC thing on a base of Pepsi or Mountain Dew. You'd get a jet liner. You needed like 60 million points or something. Yeah, it was a fighter jet. But they made it like a joke in the commercial and someone to get literally.

People really try to do it. Right. And some guy actually did it. And you know what? It just shows you how hard it is. The end. I just want to put a perspective because what are you going to do with all that Pepsi in Mountain Dew? Did you watch that documentary?

No, but you don't have to store all that in like a warehouse. Then it goes bad. I did. I forgot how he did it. But they did. It's warm now. They got a warehouse. He had people to fund him because.

Yeah, he had to get investors. you can't just buy millions of case, how much you big millions of cases of Pepsi costs. So this kid did it. You might as well, just buy a fighter jet from like the Russians or something. I mean, it's much more cost efficient.

So just to put a perspective, if your bracket stinks, you're not alone, everyone's bracket stinks. In fact, what's the luckiest thing that ever happened to you growing up? It's a good question.

I never even want a raffle. Never a raffle? Nothing like that, no? Oh, scratch off? You don't want like a cakewalk? My kids' Little League at Ben's pony ball opening day.

We want a $50 gift card to an ice cream shop. That's the luckyest I ever got. This is no perfect bracket, but this is an amazing story in my life. It's not a perfect bracket, okay? But there has to be what's right under quintillion. There's probably one in a trillion chances of this happened. A bazillion. This is at least one in a bazillion chances.

You know those carnival games where there's bottles and you have to throw those little red rings on those bottles? It's very hard to do. But the little red rings are just the right size to fit on top of those bottles, right? It's like the fixed basketball. And there's usually one like golden bottle. I'm glad you said that because there was 500 bottles, okay? One gold bottle.

I swear to God. This is the truth. And I think it was six flags, if I'm not mistaken. I'm at six flags. There's one gold bottle. The rest of them are like brown, right? And you get those little bucket of red rings. Dude, I did a little flick.

A little flicker. real, right? Dude, it was like, I swear you. It was like one of my ancestors, an angel from above caught it mid-flight and placed it perfectly right on the only golden bottle.

Like Christopher Lloyd and Angels in the outfield. It looks so weird. I couldn't believe my eyes, dude. It was like bleak. I was like, what? Dude, nobody believed it. And you know what?

You know, they advertise like, you can win a TV. They didn't have anything. They didn't have anything because no one wins that. So I'm like, wait. Oh, wait. So they advertise like flat screen TV or a mountain bike.

Yeah, because they're probably like, here's a Tweety Bird stuff. They're like, just come in the back. We'll discuss this. I'll figure out something for you. There's only one out of 500. The chances of winning, I get Scooby-Doo. Hell no. And it's funny you say that, Rich.

I actually got a mountain bike out of it. I wanted the TV, but they were like, we can give you a mountain bike. And at the time, I was like, I could actually use a mountain bike. I was in college. I could use a mountain bike. I could use a mountain bike. I could use a mountain bike. That was, dude, but that was a one and a trillion chance when I did the MF.

So, yeah, I was pretty lucky. It's no bracket, dude, but it was pretty dope. I mean, there's some people you see that on their draft kings or fan duel or whatever, they'll be like, I'm like one leg away from a, you know, 15 leg parlay. And that itself is one of those, but that's a bet. I'm saying in life, when do you feel like, Danny, do you have a moment where you're like, yeah, it was like my luckiest moment. As a kid?

No, I mean, I was like, I got a job that I was trying really hard for. I was 15 years old at the time. And it was an official, legit FM radio station. So I felt super lucky getting hired after the, you know that feeling after an interview where it's the hardest night's sleep. You don't know if you're going to get a call back. I had to bring a work permit in. I'm thinking the odds are stacked against me. So by far, I was like the little doogiehouser on the FM radio.

station staff. So that probably was like my luckiest moment as a kid. And we see these half court shots with all that pressure for big bucks. You know what's really lucky? Did you see that Luca shot warming up? Give me a break with that. Richard, did you see this? No, I didn't.

Dude, he's like in the stands and he just launches it up from behind the backboard. Like by the tunnel, it goes from behind the backboard, high arc, swish, nothing but the bottom. I remember when we were kids. Larry. way crazier than anything you've seen Steph Curry do before. Larry Bird would do that in warm-ups and I remember seeing that on like Warner Wolf's players a year as a kid.

You know, when you think about luck in sports of course the immaculate reception comes to mind but the immaculate reception for me is when that field goal was kicked and there was a dude that jumped out of the stands with such precision perfect timing. The Chicago fan. And he caught it midair.

People don't, you know, people don't realize that was Isaac Lowencrown. True story. Do you know the timing involved on that? That's crazy. Isaac Lowen Cross. Security guards were a little touchy with me after that. I remember being like, wait a minute.

But one more sports one, and I have, I know Sam, you have won, and I have a story about Covino that I think was his luckiest moment. But in sports, do you guys remember when Paul O'Neill bobbled the ball in right field? And for some reason, he's like, eff it. And he just kicked it with his foot? Yeah. And it like went in line to the cutoff man. It's on his baseball reference.

Like throws right, he kicks lefty or whatever. Yeah. It was unbelievable. But is that legal? Yeah, it is. Wow. You can't throw your glove at a ball, can you though? I don't think so, right?

What if it lands in the glove? Hold on. Kvino's showing me the Lucas shot. Yeah. Watch his shot. Talk about luck. There's like so much luck in that. I mean, it's obvious skill, but look how ridiculous.

Oh my God. That was in warmups. Yeah. And then he would go on to have, what, that huge first quarter? Yeah. So it's kind of a precursor. Yeah. So my moment that I think Kavino is forgetting

was his luckiest moment. And I don't want to be vulgar here on Fox Sports Radio, but... Don't make me dump you. Does this involve Patriots cheerleaders? Close your ears, kids. All right, better clean it up. Earmuffs.

We were in our 20s. Every good story starts with. We were at our 20s. Well, it justifies it. Yeah, justifies it, too. Wait, wait, wait, you need one of these sound effects. The year was 2000-something-something. We were at a Super Bowl party.

And at this Super Bowl party, we're the New England Patriots cheerleaders. And you can imagine and they were smoking hot. They were. One of these girls, you could imagine. A model blonde-looking cheerleader,

probably like the hottest one. She's like, hey, you. She was like, she was like, teary-od, like she was sad. She comes up to Kavino, and she's like, you, come with me. I'm like, me?

And she brings Kavino back to her hotel. I remember waiting in the lobby for two minutes. But apparently, her boyfriend had cheated on her and she's like I'm gonna get revenge

Kavino happened to look like her boyfriend Yeah yeah the scoop was I looked I resembled them so And I remember I reaped the benefits of this guy being A cheater I guess She got cheated on by Mario Lopez I guess yeah probably And I remember being like

Did this just happen? Did he just happen to be a guy That looked like this hot girl's boyfriend? I have a lucky night So yeah let's go give you proggy Sometimes luck's on your seat Sometimes, not so much. Sam, what's your lucky story? So about 13 months ago, this was mid-February of last year.

Des Bryant on X shared that he did a 13-legg college basketball parlay, and he won $417,000. He had a 13-leg parlay that hit. And he won, I mean, to be a retired football player and to win $417,000, that's like a couple paychecks. Then you're like, okay, that's some good money. You know what the big story in the East Coast was growing up? If you grew up in the New York, New Jersey area, this was a big headline.

I don't know if it made it out here on the West Coast. This is at the height of when Jennifer Lopez is Jenny from the block, J-Lo. Everyone's like, B'Bull, J-Lo, J-Lo, J-Lo, J-Lo. As popular as she is now. The big story was her mother went down to Atlantic City, and J-Lo's mom won the million-dollar slot machine. A real fortune machine. Yeah, and it was like, really, of all people, J-Lo's mom, like, as if she needs it. But you remember that story?

Yeah, of course. Like, it was like, Jennifer Lopez. her mom of all people. So your lucky story, feel free to share 8799 on Fox, but you need to be what? I'll say it one last time and then I'll retire it until next year. Guys, one in nine point two quintillion.

Ridiculously more tricky than winning the powerball, the mega millions, and getting eaten by a shark while being struck by a meteor at the same time. You could take it happen. You could take the phone out of anything. Definitely could happen. Hey guys, you can do it, though. Remember.

So you're telling me there's a chance. Hey, I mean, if Harry thought there was a chance, Lloyd, Lloyd Christmas. A guy like you and a squirrel, ghoul like me. Samson. Scurlgole. I was way off. Yeah. All right.

Thank you. I was Sam. Dave. If you get that perfect bracket, Fox Sports Radio pays you an IOU. A briefcaseful I use. It may be occasional $5. This is good as money, guys. This one's as good as money.

I say a Ferrari. When we first started promoting this, I, pictured our boss Scott Shapiro sitting down with the lawyer for our network and saying one million, can we say 10 million? You could say 500 million. There's not a briefcase with a million.

You're going to end up with a mountain budget. You can save $500 million and Colin Cowherd gives you lap dancer. There were like Howie Mandel briefcases on the table. I think the point here. It's not impossible. It is.

But it's the closest thing to impossible. It's improbable. No, technically it's not. Not impossible. Technically it's not. Not impossible. But the closest thing you could. But we just talked about how you could win the power ball and get hit by a meteor.

And still, that's better odds. While getting eaten by a shark. All right. Here's a question to move on from. What's more likely to happen in our lifetime? Someone just miraculously dumb luck gets a perfect bracket. Never. Or we see aliens.

Aliens. No doubt. Do you guys remember the movie Hot Tub Time Machine? Yes. where Rob Cordry bet something because he's like, I know the fast, and it changes, but he bets something like dirty or sexual. Do you remember that at the bar when he's playing pool?

Yeah. So, hey, I guess anything could happen. You're right. There's no such thing is impossible, but one in nine point two quintillion. I'll take my chances. All right, we got more, Kavino and Rich. We're going to go old school.

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really good. So you need something to watch. Oh, yeah, it's great. Iowa, Sam, one of the ones

and two is playing some J-Lo, throwing it back to when J-Lo's mom won, millions of dollars on a slot machine. My love don't cost a thing because my mom won all this money. Exactly. And I have money.

The story was like, why her mom? They got enough money. Yeah. So, don't cost the thing unless you buy a $60 million house with Ben Affleck and get divorced a month later.

Talking about crazy luck, because you need crazy luck to get a perfect bracket. Look at Clemson's coming back. Oh, yeah. They got three minutes to cover this 10. Yeah. And by the way, speaking of luck, he clenching to come back.

While you were watching John Cena, I was watching a new Burt Kreischer special. And it's called Lucky. Lucky, yes, on Netflix. So whatever you're watching, enjoy, enjoy your March Madness. Dipsy do Dunkeroo. And a week from today will all be enjoying some baseball.

Enjoy over promise right after this show. Let's get to the phone calls at 87799 on Fox. Then we'll talk some Ron Washington. Oh, nice. What up, Joe, in Sacramento. What's up, Joe? What's up, brother? I wanted to share a lucky story with you guys that I experienced back way back in the late 90s, mid-90s.

Okay. So I was in the sixth grade. There was a soda company. I don't know if you guys remember it called Surge. Of course. So they were giving out prizes, you know, under the bottle. cap type thing. Well, I found a bottle cap, and I looked at it. And there was a code on it. I got the code. It was for the walkie-tockeys. So I won two free walkie-talkies. I was stoked. Well, then it got better

because I was waiting for him to come. They came. My dad says, let's check out the range. I started walking down the road. He was at the house. Got about a quarter mile down the road. I found a $20 bill. And that's the lucky as this guys ever got. 20 months. That is great, you know, finding money and laundry that you forgot about. I found a dollar on a park bench or on a bus stop bench and I was like, my lucky day. Had a nickel in my pocket. Nickel in my pocket and I got a dollar. I found a dollar.

Thanks for sharing. We appreciate it. Shout out to Rapid Radio's too, by the way. Speaking of luck, to wrap it up, it all comes down to who's lucky enough to win March madness, your bracket? No one's going to be perfect. You feel that way about box pulls at the Super Bowl. Like, you could get crappy numbers.

I always remember the story. My dad loves to tell. where he got 8 and 9 and this was the Super Bowl, Danny, where your Raiders ended up beating the Washington Redskins. 8 and 9. He's a terrible numbers.

I remember being a little boy. I could hardly understand football. He's like, oh, buddy, dad's not going to win. These are the worst numbers. These are the waste. And the Raiders won 38 to 9. And 8 and 9 are not traditionally good numbers

for a box pool. So sometimes you get lucky. I always think of this. When you go to a stadium and speaking of Burke Chrysher, Show all ties together. I saw it recently for the hell of it. He just bought everyone in his whole section at a ball game a bunch of 50-50

raffle tickets. Did you see that? He just bought a ton of them. Do you know anyone that's ever won the 50-50 at a stadium? No, I kind of feel like it's a scam. Dude, you'll see. You'll be a Dodger Stadium. And they'll be like, hey, the 50-50 raffles up to $90,000.

You know, you get half and they give the other half to get charity or something. I've never known one person to be like, you guess what? I won 40 grand. Where? I was at the Brewers game and I won the 50-50. Never. Never met them. Ever.

Like, do they have to publish a winner ever? They don't show a winner up on the scoreboard or anything at the end of a game. Probably is a scam, Danny. So, again, we're Kavino Rich Live from theairak.com studio. That's how they paid for Otani. Exactly. CNR brought to you by Travis Matthew, apparel designed for confidence and comfort. No matter where the day takes you, visit Travis Matthew.com.

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Yeah. I know you said you got nice green ones? Yeah. You know, maybe Danny J. You size 11? I am, actually. I am. We both are.

Now you give me a dilemma. They're both size 11. Oh, boy. I want some Travis Matthew shoes. We'll see who's lucky. Maybe I'll spread the wealth. That's cool. You could give them to see.

No, no, I insist, Danny. We'll flip a coin for it. They're silver and black. Oh. Oh, no way. Really? Yeah. Oh, wow.

Some cool stuff at Travis Matthew. So they got really great stuff. Now, before we get into old school when 50 hits, we do it every Thursday, throwback conversation. Today's like a terrible anniversary of sorts, but we're going to have some fun with it. We'll explain. Got to talk about Ron Washington. What is he, 73?

You know what I always think about how he looks like George Jefferson? No, but close. I think about how long he's been in the game, right? What a nice guy he is and what a great coach he's been for such a long time. I've only heard good things about it. No, but don't you remember when some little kid was baby Ron Washington for Halloween? I do. And he went viral.

It's one of the best. It's like a little baby George Jefferson in a Rangers uniform. He had like the horseshoe ball ball block. See, I don't know why. I always think of that. It's so funny. And I always felt bad for him because that Rangers team was a strike. away from winning the World Series.

They went to a couple World Series and just couldn't get the job done. Remember they lost to David Freeze? He's one of those guys you would like to see win eventually, but not at the expense of my team. But, you know, Ron Washington's been doing it a long time. You know, who never gets blame? Not that I want to throw him under the bus. Someone fill in the blank for me. I know Isaac's going to have it on the tip of his tongue.

Who is the right fielder for the Rangers who, if he made a really nice play? It wasn't an easy play by any means, but right fielder for the Rangers. I was a Pete in Covellia. Stop it. Was it Hamilton? No, but no, it was a... It was not a white player. It was a guy in Wrightfield who missed...

That misplayed it slightly, but... Was it Nelson Cruz? Nelson Cruz slightly misplayed a ball a little bit. It would have been a phenomenal play. But if he makes that play, the Rangers won the World Series. And no one ever really blames Nelson Cruz. Rightfully so. It would have been a...

But it would have been a really, really great catch. Anyway. So Ron Washington. He's 73 years old, by the way. So keep in mind, that's my dad is 73. Yeah, that's perspective. Because, you know, he's in great shape. He's been doing.

He's still doing it. A lot of people, his age, retired. If you're a guy that's, you know, roughly 40, your dad is Ron Washington's age, likely, right? So I bring this up because I'm torn on it. And a lot of times I want to come here with an opinion where I'm like, guys, here's my opinion. You know, it's in stone. but I really don't know. I feel like I want to talk it out with you guys.

Ron Washington has banned phones in the clubhouse for the Angels. I like it. Now, the Angels are a team with terrible luck. Speaking of luck. The Angels are a team that, do you remember like a couple years ago? It was the first time they were in first place at the same time as the Dodgers ever. The Angels are never good. O2, the rally monkey was like their one moment of glory.

Last time they won was when Danny Glover was the manager, right? you're going to come with us too what about bullpen phones are taking those out too so Ron Washington who I do love his vibe saying no phones in the clubhouse no cell phones no smartphones and you got to ask yourself a bunch of players in their 20s and 30s

are they going to be like yo if this and he's put Mike Trout and some of the team leaders in charge of how much the fine should be and it seems like there's people people behind it. And I'm like, are they behind it? Because if they weren't, then they look like a bunch of complaining beauches?

Or do you think a bunch of young men want a no phone policy? No, the theory is, they don't, but that's not the point. The theory is Ron Washington wants to force his team to talk to each other. Exactly. To bond and communicate. Is this forced? Do you think it's brilliant? Do you think it's ridiculous?

I don't know the answer. Because every time I convince myself, like, dude, outdated. Get Ron Washington out of here. This is stupid. I think it's great because even if it doesn't work, it's not going to come back to this being the issue, right? It's either going to work and great or it doesn't, and that's not even the reason. You thought people didn't want to go to the Yankees because of facial hair? Imagine it's like, yeah, dude, you know, all day when you're in the clubhouse and getting ready, you can't have your phone? Here's what I think is a great idea. First of all, it's also a storyline on the White Lotus this season. The White Lotus season three,

the whole premise there is they're in Thailand and they're, like, all right, give us your phone so the families could bond together. And Jason Isaac's character is a businessman who's dealing with some issues and he doesn't want to give up his phone. Right? But the whole point is so that you could bond. That's why you're there. Get to know each other. Take it back. And I think in this case, you got to think outside the box and that's what Ron Washington's doing here. He's like, look, I played and lived in an era where this was the way it was and we all bonded as a team. We're better as a result. And if this helps the team, good. But again, if they stink, it's not going to be because of this.

So it's a no-lose move that he can reap the benefits from. But I'm saying you could argue that this outdated type of thinking would upset the young players. So I just saw a study, someone posted about this. Like in Australia or Sweden in some country, they did all the high schools there. You could not have your phone all day. And they found out that kids were learning better. They had better social skills. There was less anxiety from cyberbullying.

Iowa's legislature wants to do this too or they're going to ban cell phones all day and it's good. It's been overwhelmingly positive. I'm all for it. So it's like these guys are paid millions. They can go without their phone for however many hours. I'm all for it in high schools. I'm wondering will it work in a clubhouse. Think about

it. We'll take your feedback next. Let's go to our buddy Ilo for an update. Isaac Loring Cron. What up, Isaac? Well, a lot going on in the Hang on. Hey man, you want to put your phone away? Look at him. Look at him. Sorry. Look at you.

Sorry, Ron. You smart allocates. You know the real reason? Artie Marino doesn't want to pay the wireless bill. That's the one. All right. Family plan. In the NCAA tournament, the name of the day, McNeese,

the 12-C, trying to hold on to a huge upset against five-seed Clemson. McNice led this game, 51 to 29, with 741 left to play in the second half. But since then, Clemson has outscored McNeese, 33 to 16 to make it a ballgame again. We're now down to 22 seconds left in the second half. McNeese, the 12-seat, holding it on to a five-point lead over Clemson, 67 to 62 again in round one of the NCAA tournament. Right now, eight-seed Gonzaga has a 48 to 27-half-time lead over nine-seed, Georgia. Gonzaga jumped out to leads of 13 to nothing and 30. to 5. And 6-seed, BYU, on top of 11-seed Virginia Commonwealth, 56 to 39, 12 minutes left to play

in the second half. Earlier, one-seat Arburn over 16-seat Alabama State, 83 to 63. Auburn actually led this game by just one point with 114 left in the first half. One-seat Houston over 16-seat S-I-U Edwardsville, 78 to 40, 9-seed Creighton, knocking off 8-Ced, Louisville, 89, 75, behind 29 points from Jemiah Neal. Three-seed Wisconsin, getting past 14-seed Montana, 85-66, and 4-seed Purdue held off 13-seed high point 75 to 63. Finally, in Major League Baseball, you've heard of them selling at concession stands, the ice cream in the miniature batting helmets, right? I feel like that's my favorite part of going to a game. Slider Sundays.

This season, Steve Kavino's New York Yankees, will be selling. tiramisu in miniature batting helmets made with espresso mascarponi cream ladyfinger cookies and cocoa powder bon appetit guys they believe it you guys here on the west coast don't know as much about the tiramisu a little uh so good dessert course each one will cost $839 I'm not saying it probably will be like $18 do you actually know what they call that

out in the west coast what do they call it tiramisu you come on it's litigious Meet Tiramisu you Oh look at the time One more time? No, look at the clock Come on that's pretty good You got to admit that's good

With that said We'll go old school next Right here on Kavino and Rich Hang tight Great one Sam Hey it's us The Jonas Brothers and guess what We have some big news

What's the news? Huge news We created our own podcast Called Hey Jonas We invented a podcast Well we didn't invent it We just contributed to our

First people to do podcasts Pretty Yeah pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember.

I think it was on a call about what we should call it. We were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it.

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can I just say this before we get into old school? Yeah. You're playing some Get Lucky. Is that The Legend of the Phoenix? Is that Farrell and Daft Punk? It didn't get a lot of hype, but it's such a great watch, especially if you have kids. It's called piece by piece.

It's the story of Farrell Williams, but told in Lego form. All Lego characters. The soundtrack's phenomenal. That's awesome. Definitely worth the watch. It didn't get a lot of hype, but I loved it. Robbie Williams tried to do the same with chimpanzees and it didn't work, right? Yeah, with animated monkeys.

Yeah, it didn't work. By the way, before you go old school, one quick thing. Everyone around the room, where is McNeese? Does anyone even know? Yeah, we both know. Did you look it up like today? Yeah, because we saw the Polk's shirts and I was like, that's interesting because I didn't think they were from Texas. They are from Louisiana.

Lake Charles, Louisiana. Right across the lake from New Orleans, basically. McNeice, who just beat Clemson, the big upset. They're the Cowboys. The Cowboys. I was going to say, the Cowboys. That explains the Polks shirts because we're. We were like, should they be like the Codads or something?

Like something very Cajun, you know. And congrats to them. Named after an educator from the early 1900s, McNeese. So look at. Well, again, we're Covino & Rich, everything at Covino and Rich. And we're going to return to the Ron Washington conversation. So think about that. He's saying no phones in the clubhouse.

We'll get to that next. We do this every Thursday. Old school and 50 hits. There's a search. Yeah. What we're going to do right here is go back. Back into time. Throwing it back for a Thursday.

Old school went 50 hits. At 50 after, CNN give you the time capsule topic and we reminisce together. So last week we were on vacation. I was doing the backstroke into Sanote. Rich, you were in Mexico with the spring breakers. Rich was in a

booty shaking contest. Yeah, people would be able to know that if you was in Cabo. We weren't here. And last week was the anniversary of when Rudy Gobert rubbed the microphones. Remember that? Of course. We were working at ESPN at the time. Like, what is going on?

Yeah, he started COVID. Yeah. Like, man, he's not taking this serious. This is a bad look. I remember sitting in the newsroom when we worked over there. And it was the day last week when we all got worried. Wait, well, Tom Hanks has COVID? Yeah.

Wait, this is getting serious now. Tom Hanks. Well, this week, Danny G., you said one of your greatest memories was hearing the news. Right about when COVID started, it was announced that Tom Hanks. Brady officially agrees to move on to Tampa Bay for a two-year deal, 50 million guaranteed. Yeah, because we were like, is there even going to be an NFL season? Yeah. So, you know, we started hearing all these different random things.

And could we go back to work? We're watching our hands singing happy birthday. So we want to take you back. It wasn't a fun time. It really wasn't. But as we look back five years ago this week when that happened, five years. What are some of your random memories during COVID?

Could be sports related. It doesn't have to be. It could be sports. It could be just those random things you remember, like going to the supermarket and they would only let certain people in at a time. I remember they would let old ladies in early in the morning. Yeah, senior citizen a.m. But if you got some random memories five years ago this week, we're talking the anniversary

of coronavirus. And I bring it up because today, is the day. Five years ago, Tiger King was released on Netflix. So we met Joe Exotic on this day. Five years ago today. You believe that? We'll reminisce a little bit.

Five years ago, your odd, weird memories from the early days of COVID. Oh, you know what you could do too? Look in your phone and search March 2020. See where you were on this day. It's wild. It's weird. We'll reminisce a little bit. And of course, that Ron Washington story.

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