The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 2 - Call Me Fat & Find Out

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

Covino & Rich think about what great behind the scenes TV show podcasts we would've had in the 80s/90s! Rich has a Luka analogy ahead of tonight's big game. They talk Wemby/Lebron & the Lakers unsung hero. 'SHAQ DIESEL TRIVIA' brings the thunder! Plus, the new MLB shortage, and Ice Cube's son & The Rock! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, no, I know that, I mean, the office probably makes a ton of money in residuals. Behind the scenes on a 30-year-old show. I think about all the great podcast we missed out on as a reason. result like Kirk Cameron's and Gary Coleman's like I would have loved the Webster's podcast That's a great point Covina what would have been the juiciest podcast in the 80s or 90s I would love to hear Philip Drummond's podcast. Oh, what I bet Arnold and Willis or Webster's podcast? Yeah, man, I would love that.

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to get you all fired up for Lakers, Mavs tonight. Well, my analogy, stars. When it comes to Luca and the Lakers. Stars. Stars. In any relationship or job, when someone insinuates you have a deficiency and that's why they cut things off.

Like I said, dating, job, any situation, if you ever the opportunity to prove them wrong or thrown in their face, Luca right now was pretty much told, dude, you're a little soft and lazy and we don't think you've got the long-term ability to stay in shape, essentially. I mean, there's no question.

That's exactly what happened. That's why they got rid of them. would be like some girl who had a dirtbag boyfriend that was like, yeah, you're chubby. And then she comes back with a rock and bod and was like, look at me now on like Jenny Jones or something. Lucas is going to, what is the over under? Let me look this up because I feel like there's a bet to be had. It's like going from zero to hero on Ricky Lake. I bet you on Draft Kings, it's got to be 30 something, right?

You're going to see the most motivated Luca ever. Ascon, you said he had a Colin like analogy. He did say something along the lines of, you're going to see officially why this is the most awful trade ever. You're going to see how awful this trade actually was when he lights them up tonight. And we were talking about bringing your best and being great. He's going to remind everybody that he's one of the greats. And he's going to put on a show tonight.

Oh, damn. And believe you me, when we do things like Radio Row at Super Bowl, a lot of our former employers are there. You don't think that motivates Rich and I to be like, you, let's bring our best and show them what they're missing. It's always great motor. Failure is a great motivator. Her breakups are a great motivator.

How many times you get dumped by a girl? You're at the gym. In your mind, at the back of your mind, you're like, wait until they see me with the next hottie and my rocking bod. If you don't think that's what Luca is sort of feeling a little bit now. You're crazy. Of course he is. Like you just said,

every time, if you say, Rich, when have you been in the best shape? When have you been the most motivated? But probably after some girl told me I stunk. Yeah, when are you really trying to get that promotion or get ahead? When you got dumped and dissed because, you know, she left you for a guy with deeper pockets, that motivated you. So you're going to see that.

Luca's human and he's just going to want to show you. He's not pouting about it. He's going to show you tonight. Well, other people have my idea. So the over under is pretty steep. 31 and a half over under. Luca points tonight. What do you think? Yeah, we guess 30.

Because I mean, like, normally, I think he'll light it up. What I'm saying? What he dropped Saturday, 34? And by the way, everyone's going to be feeding him the ball so that he can light it up. You know, I just think that it's going to be his night for obvious reasons. Mav's big men are out. Like, they're just destined to be destroyed tonight. And their fans are going to be so sad about it.

Oh, man. Let me pull a couple things here. He dropped 32 on Saturday. So Luke is averaging 28. So it's not substantially more than his season average, but 28, 31 and a half. Could he drop 32? And the Lakers are favored by almost double digits. Lakers by nine.

It's the pettiest thought, but it's so true. Do you go Lakers win by double digits? Yes. Yeah, I think he's going to dominate them. And again, I think he's going to show them every reason why they should regret making that move. Like I said, it's a silly petty motivation. I admit it. He's like Julie Roberts and a pretty woman.

Yeah. But when you got dumped or if you've ever been dumped, there's a sense of satisfaction if you're able to make them feel in any way possible that they made a bad move and they regret it. And that's what he's going to do tonight. What's up, DB? Here's my question. Who truly has the motivation tonight?

Is it Luca against his former team or is it the Maverick's team as a whole that has been told that they are significantly worse without Luca Donchich and no Anthony Davis. Aha. And who knows more about Luca Donchich than the Dallas Mavericks? To quote, coming to America. It's a good one. I was shocked, though, for the Maverick's one.

You know what? Danny, Dan Byer makes a great point because we talked about this at the Super ball and we were trying to decide, who's got more motivation for the three Pete or for Jay Lynn Hertz to get there? And we made the argument that how can you judge, like, everyone's going to be motivated. If you don't think the Dallas Mavericks locker room is like, yeah, let's shut everyone up. Sure. And maybe their time comes when the game's in Dallas. But I also think like when that game plays, like I'm almost thinking that Luca would have the motivation when they go to Dallas just to have his homecoming and have the fans on his side.

Very interesting. And I think that the betting lines make it so interesting tonight. I just said under earlier today. So that's that was from where I came from. I think both sides of the coin can be seen here. but I think that Dallas will at least be motivated. They also got blown up by the Warriors on Sunday, so it hasn't been a great time for them that maybe tonight they, for some reason,

just ended up bringing it. Well, the truth is, we don't know until it happens, and that's the beauty of sports. That's why it makes it so exciting to watch and see. You know, for all we know, Dan Byer could be completely right. We come back tomorrow and like, yo, man, I can't believe that. Man, where was Luca last night? It would only surprise me because there was only one guy in that whole deal

that was called fat. Right? And, Covino, when this first happened, you said, oh, my God, if that happened to me, I'd be on the treadmill that night. Dude, I was let go by my previous job. Every time I crack the mic here, I want to remind them that they made a mistake. Every girl that broke up with me, every day I used that as motivation as, man, wait until I make my millions.

I can't wait to post a picture of myself on a yacht and hope they regret it. Ha ha ha. Yeah, like in the back of my... mind is petty motivation. He has that. He has that. So, and that's why you're seeing him so fired up. You're seeing a fired up, Luca. You're seeing the Lakers play great defense all of a sudden. You're seeing them win. They're playing good ball. And that brings us to something else, too, that we haven't had time for in the past few days, Rich. Before we do Shaq Diesel trivia, when Binyama made a statement about how, well, he was asked, like, who's the most underrated

player in the NBA? By the way, I got a plus 250 bet here. Can I just throw it at you? Sure. plus 250, bet 100 win 250. I got Luca 32 points or more. Lakers minus 8.5 in the game and Lakers win the first half. So Lakers win the first half. Lakers win the game by 8 and a half or more by 9. And Luca 32 plus. You like that one?

It makes it fun. Yeah, for sure. Let's lock in. I think he's enlightened up tonight. But again, what Dan Byers said could very well. well be a possibility. And that's what makes it fun to watch. So when Binyamo was asked who was the most underrated player in the NBA.

And if you missed it, here's what he said about it. Whose game is most underrated in the league? I'm going to go with LeBron. Underated just means you're not rated out to your right value, right? I think LeBron's underrated. And I had people scratching their heads. But when you think about what he's doing at this age, even though he's very rated and everybody,

I don't think there's a sports show in the nation. That doesn't bring his name out like once to show. Even though he's very rated, would you say that's a fair assessment from Wembe Niyama? Because he's saying, yo, man, I still see some greatness. And what a compliment coming from a young man at the top of his game. You could be very rated and still underrated. I don't think that's impossibly. Yeah.

I think there's NFL players. There's players in baseball, basketball, all sports where you're like, no, no, they're respected. But I'm telling you they're not respected even enough. The value he brings to a team, the leadership. You know, you got a factor to criticism that he gets because he gets a lot of it. I think what Wenyama said about LeBron speaks volumes. It's like, yo, here's a guy that's so rated. And we know that.

He's in a goat conversation 150 times a week still. But he's still underrated, in his opinion? That's amazing. When you look at your own team, I think everyone could draw one name where it's like, I watch this guy day in and day out. he's underrated. Everyone has that guy in their own team. I'm saying on a bigger scale, LeBron James,

because there's so many LeBron haters and people like to kick him down and put him down and he's not Michael Jordan. He's not the goat. He's not this. He's not even Kobe. He's not even magic or bird. I think LeBron James, I said to Kavino

in the hallway yesterday. LeBron James. Lebron James. Lebron James. By the way, that kid's like 40. That kid's 40 now. That's how long LeBron's been dominating. That kid?

LeBron James. He's married with children. LeBron James, if somehow... He's Ed O'Neill. If he wins the NBA title this year with Luca, that would mean two championships with the Lakers, two at the heat, and he took the Cleveland Cavaliers in the greatest season

where the Warriors were the best team in NBA history and lost after being up 3-1. That would be five NBA titles for LeBron. I think you would argue he's underrated. For what he's done for this long? I get what he's saying. I know it sounds crazy, but I totally get what he's saying. When we watch the Olympics last year,

what did every superstar in the NBA say? Y'all, I don't get to play with LeBron every day. No one practices harder. No one has the work ethic. No one brings to the table what LeBron James brings. and clearly has the respect of all the players in the league. No one has more respect from their peers than LeBron James. That speaks volumes, dude.

LeBron never. You know how they always have those like those silent surveys like, hey, most overrated player, most of this, most of that. LeBron James will never win most overrated. He is respected by his peers. Facts. And that was just an interesting story that, what was that last week or was it? Yeah, it was the end of last week, right?

We just didn't have time for it. But speaking of the Lakers tonight, I think we're going to. going to see why he said that. I think we're going to see a really great game tonight. I think we're going to see what the Lakers got. And, you know, there's so much hype that they could go all the way this year, man. And just like that. Just like that. They're playing great defense. Like, whoa, I'm going to win. You know one guy who's a little underrated right now because the, the Lakers are like 18 and four in this past stretch of the season. And so you've got to give a lot of credit to J.J. Reddick. We haven't talked about him at all. And remember that. I heard, I even heard Stephen A.

Smith, who was very critical of him. I might have been wrong. I might have been wrong. Before the season started, he may be coach of the year. I remember dudes on our own network laughing at that saying this is a joke. And look at where they're at the third, fourth seed. They're doing well. They got to keep this up going into the final stretch of the season here.

But Austin Reeves, what a tear. What a tear. That guy has been on. Taring it up. Yeah. And again, it's understated because who, well, you see what the number of season. putting up but I'll go back to the JJ Reddick thing just for one second though you're right the criticism that he got it is worthy of you got to take it back or apologize just LeBron's

podcast boy exactly that's insane and like you said Reeves just yeah the combination and we saw it in Denver and hopefully they could keep that formula going but the big three really have been LeBron Luca and and Austin Reeves so if those three can stay hot this team can go far Coach of the year, J.J. Reddick. So, man, they're firing on all cylinders, as the expression goes, at just the right time. And we're going to see it on the main stage, on a big stage tonight. Just some reason to enjoy some tacos, LeBron style on the Taco Tuesday. You know, it's the coolest part about Austin Reeves.

Austin Reeves. His cool headband? His corny, like, haircut? Well, these are all, I mean, you keep going. His unassuming nature? His wristbands? Austin Reeves, undrafted in 2021. When he broke on the scene, you remember those first couple games?

Danny, we were doing a show together early on. This was like the early days of Kavino and Richer on Fox Sports Radio when he started coming into his own. There was almost a sense of like, all right, is this, is this like for real? Is this like another Alex Caruso type of guy? Yeah, you know, a great white hope kind of guy you root for. Like is he could be like the guy off the bench and it's like, oh, wow, he's become a key component.

He's a, he's a star now. He's a good team. And defensively, too. He's like this. Anytime he gets on the floor, he's a spark plug for the team. And what makes him great, Rich, you already said it, is that he's unassuming. And I think that makes it more fun. That's why I loved Ganadi Golovkin, Triple G, because he looked like a nerd who would beat your ass in the ring.

You know, when someone's unassuming like that, it just makes us so much cooler. So major props to him. And we're going to see what the Lakers got tonight. Or are we going to see what the Mavs got? Can't wait. The one thing that we can't wait. Based on this conversation. we just had.

I gave LeBron all these props saying how great he is. If he scores 45 and that prevents me from winning my Luca over 30 point best, I'm going to hate LeBron tomorrow. All right, we got more, Kavito-N-Ritch. Coming up, we'll do our Shaq Diesel trivia. So if you want in the number, 87799 on Fox, we'll give away Kavino and Rich, stainless steel swiggy, some Fox Sports Radio prizes right here on FSR. Now, whether you're teeing off heading into the office or kicking back to watch the big game, Lakers Maths tonight.

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it looks like something Sean Michaels would be driving rich you see this car look at us look at his car his footage of Luke look at his car what is look at that thing is that Marty Janetti's car is he a rocker what is that is it a Pontiac Transam

it's like a pink and blue it's purple yeah it's awesome and then Lucas steps out and he's got a sweet suit on he looks like he's John Wick stepping out. Look at his dude. He's ready. That is a John Wick.

He has a full on like black suit, black tie. He's ready for business tonight. The car is a midnight racer. Is that what it is? Yo, Dini G. Aside from the color, I think you'd like that car. Anyway, props. I just saw that video of him pulling up to the game.

Thank you, Brian Albertson for sending it. And as we watch a bunch of spring training baseball on the TVs around here, props to my dude Keith Hernandez on the S&M. while I call for the Mets. Why are you giving him props? He didn't give you props when we worked at S&Y. That is true. He acted like he didn't know us.

But he did give us, he did give me joy as a child. True, true. Great mustache. I can't take away from his stats. He rocked the stats and he rocks the stash. As you know, Keith, one of the more entertaining color commentators in the world of baseball. Always got a lot of old school type of opinions. No, I love it.

I love his takes. Keith is so great in the booth. They're doing a spring training game. and they cut away for some reason B-roll, you know, down in Florida. There's people playing pickleball, and there's a woman in like a little tank top, and she's got huge, uh, boing-y-y-y-y-y-yaddles. Yeah, paddles. She has huge pickleball paddles. Oh.

And Gary Cohen's talking to Keith, and he's like, I'm sorry, I'm distracted. What did you say? What? Yeah. Now I got to see this. Keith Hernandez, classic Keith. So, all right, let's do this. It's time for Shaq.

Diesel trivia. Whenever we say not to name drop, that means we're about to name drop. I'll name drop. Oh, my goodness. Not only our CNN friends with Tyson and Mahomes. Hey, man. They're also buddies with the Big Aristotle. Dash!

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Shaq Diesel basketball trivia. All right, FSR security, walking our broke Shaq Fu into the main studio. Shack, baby. Going for greatness. Everything I do, greatness. When I do a little shimmy, when I put on icy hot, everything, greatness. What's your prediction for the big game tonight? Greatness.

Luka, Lakers, greatness. Thank you, Shaq. Can't wait. Give me a little shimmy, Shaq. A little shimmy. Shaq, should you go with the general and save some time? You know, when I do that commercial, I bring the greatness. I'm here to win.

I own companies. I'm trying to be the best. All right. Let's meet the contestants. Ten-time winner, Rich Davis, right over there. What's up, Shaq? Hey, what's up? Four-time winner, Spotty Boy.

Oh, big five today. I thought that was Travis Kelsey. By the way, he should retire. Leader in the club house. 11-time winner, Dan Beyer. Hello? And looking to win a CNR stainless steel Swiggy. Let's go to the studio lines here.

Ken in San Francisco. What's going on, gentlemen? What's up, man? Hey, what's up, Ken? Ken, what do you do for... Not how much I don't? What do you do for a living there in the city? Work in the restaurant industry.

Cool. Some good restaurants up there. Big fan. How about that? Absolutely. Do I get to check discount? That famous boot-in sourdough bakery. Give me some soup dumplings. Okay.

I had a restaurant. L.A. Live is shut down. You have hundreds of restaurants. I have a bunch. All right. But here are the rules for Shaq Diesel trivia. The first contestant with two correct answers is the champ. If there's a tie, we have a tie breaker question.

Your name is your buzzer, but you do have to wait until all three possible answers are read. If there's two wrong answers in a row, we move on to the next question. Are you ready? Let's go. Let's get this big Aristotle party started. Which NBA legend averaged a double-double for 10 straight seasons in the 80s? Say that again? A, Kevin McHale.

B, Kremeviel, Jabar, or C, Larry Burr. bird which NBA legend average a double double 10 straight seasons double for a decade can uh cream no oh that would have been my guess uh I'm gonna try to steal them rich rich um the bird yes yeah it would have been my guess cool I thought I thought maybe maybe rebounds and points for cream no because the cream uh averaged round seven boards the closest to this was magic Johnson He was a season and two behind Larry Bird. All right, round two. We move on to round number two.

So far, Rich on the board. What was I once quoted saying about my basketball dominance? A, I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other. B. When I oppose my will, it's like Godzilla walking through a city. Oh. Or C, only Jesus had a bigger shoe size.

Rich, Jesus shoe size. No, that's wrong. Ken for the steel Hey Hey yes Oh nice I'm like tax There you are

You're gonna pay one way or the other And you're not gonna like it Hopefully you pay your taxes, Chuck Death taxes and shackses What size is Jesus where He wore sandals All right All right

So far on the board Rich And Ken is we move to round number three Here Jesus Where was the great Steve Nash Born Jesus Steve Nash Yeah A, Canada, B, South Africa, or C, Australia.

Dan. Byer. I think it's South Africa. You would think correctly. Wow. There you go. Three-way tie. Oh, buyer on the board.

Yes, Johannesburg. Johannesburg. Yes. Johanburg. It's all right. We go to round four in this three-way time. Speaking of our global game, who is the first player born outside the U.S. to be drafted number one overall? A. Michael Thompson.

B, Patrick Ewing, or C, Yoming. Ken. Ken for the win. Patrick Ewing? No. Oh. Dan. Byer.

Do you know spot? What were the options again? Oh. God, Dan, just take it. See, Patrick Ewing or C. Bayer, you want to give Spotty a chance there? Yeah, go ahead. No, go for it.

No, please. I thought it was Michael Thompson. Yes. Oh, right. Bahamas. Yes, Bayer with the win. Bahamas. Blazers took him.

1978. Of course, he made his name with the Lakers, Clay's dad. That's right. The Lakers, who are going to win tonight. But again, I don't know if they're going to go all the way. You know why, D.N.EG. Why is that? No big man.

Need a big man. Everybody needs a big man. Jackson Hayes has been looking okay lately. Everybody needs a big man. You're right, though. They probably could use one more big. I'll give me an analogy, Shaq. Does anyone really have a big great man?

Like in baseball, everyone's like, our team's rotation stinks. I'm like, does anyone have a great rotation in 2025? you know, so I think they can do it without the big man. Hey, Ken and San Francisco, we appreciate you playing the game. Hey, guys, thanks very much. Hey, thank you. All right, can I go home now? Later, San Francisco.

Go Niners. I got to go home watch the game. That is Byers' 12th win in Shaq Teasel Tr. Congratulations, DB. There you go, thank you, Shaq. All right, guys. All right, guys. I'll see you guys next week.

Speaking of, uh... Hey, Sam, you want me $20. All right, yeah. Shack. Shacks, Texas. Later, guys. Speaking of Dan Byer with the win, let's go to DB for. for an update. What's up, Dan? I don't mean to...

Later, Shaq. Death and Shaxes. Hi, Shaq. Oops, sorry. Bush. Wrong button there. That's all right. I just caught up thinking about Shaq's taxes. Shaxes. I don't know if you caught this, but Shaq had a restaurant that apparently closed down, downtown.

Yeah. His chicken franchise closed out by us, and I think they're completely separate. Oh, really? Yeah. He has so many. Yeah. He has his hands in a lot of adventures.

Is he owned like Papa John's pizza? Yeah. Yeah. Chacononi. Those are disappearing by us too. But it's good. I'll tell you that. That Tuscan cheese, oh, delicious.

Garlic breadsticks from Papa John's. Tuscan cheese. Love it. Very good. The Tuscan 6 cheese. It's delicious. Yeah, recommended. Highly recommended.

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They think they're doing your favor by filling your bag with French fries. They're just making you more fat. That's the trick, yeah. All right. Well, hey, more. More. We got more. Kavino and Rich coming up.

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you know how like a year ago or so we had a conversation about everyone thinks their team's clothes or stinks unless you were mariano o'ervera in the 90s or Trevor Hoffman in his prime every fan base is like our closer stinks our bullpen's horrible that's just like a common sentiment right mm-hmm like in football everyone's always our defense unless you're the Ravens defense of the 2000s or the steel curtain in the 70s or you know everyone loves to complain about the same things. I think the version of that now is starting rotation.

Unless you're the Dodgers who have like eight pitchers, Yankees have a pretty decent starting rotation too, but there's injuries. Do you know? Yeah, Jean-Carlo Stanton's got to stop playing tennis. How much tennis does this guy play? What is tennis elbows? Yankees line up not looking that good.

They're pitching better be good. But like I have Metfan friends. They're like, Manias on the IEL already. Same with, you know, Frankie Montas. Listen, guys are banged up already. But don't you feel like that's the new? You know why? Because pitchers today are made a glass.

But do you agree, though? They're just going down all the time. So you could have some big names in your starting rotation, but health is wealth. But do you know what I'm saying, though? Like, remember back in the day you'd be able to say, I can name one ace from each team almost? And if you have like two or three guys, I feel like you look around baseball. And I don't know if it's because these guys go five. And the bullpen, there's more emphasis on that.

I look around baseball and I'm a pretty big baseball fan. In fact, I think ESPN blew it. I think that's the weakest story. Letting baseball go. I heard Colin talking about that. What a ball drop, literally. I mean, I don't know if you guys heard, but after the 2025 season, ESPN and baseball no longer have a partnership.

You're not going to be seeing baseball covered on ESPN. And a lot of us listening, we grew up watching baseball tonight and Sunday night baseball. And you're not going to see that anymore. It's ridiculous, especially when. baseball's on its come up the past few years, it's major ball dropped, like Aaron Judge in the World Series. The ball drop is judge level

because baseball's had a great two to three year pocket here, and I feel like there's a lot of buzz going into the season, but with the offseason last year especially, yeah, you got big stars on big teams. Now is when you would think a network would be leaning into baseball. Well, someone's going to benefit

greatly based on ESPN's failure. Hope is me and you. Do you agree, though, that there is a sense of, yeah, no one's really got that great a starters. Do you feel that? Aside from the Dodgers? I feel like the Yankees starting five,

believe it or not. Plus they got Stroming like lingering around somewhere. Yeah, I feel like the Yankees actually have a pretty decent starting five. Not bad. No one has it. So if you're looking at your team, you're like, who are four and five guys? Who are these guys? As they said in Major League,

who are these effing guys? I feel like, Like everyone feels that way because starting pitching is just not what it once was, where you can name all five starters. You are guaranteed they're all going to go 25 to 30 starts a year. That's just not baseball anymore. The Dodgers won the World Series with a few bullpen games in the playoffs. Baseball pitching is just set up differently now. So when you're looking at your team's roster and you're like,

I don't know how things are looking, don't be discouraged if your team's starting pitching doesn't look at it. Everybody's, for the most part, looking a little shaky, little sussex. respect. Quick search says MLB power rankings going into this new season for top rotations, Braves, Diamondbacks, Red Sox, Rangers, Tigers, pirates, Dodgers. Wow. Yankees aren't even in there. Red Sox. Right underneath. Yeah. Ranking moves. And they got all this Chapman in the bullpen. Yeah, you're right. They're right under the Dodgers here. Wow. So obviously we're excited about baseball. ESPN not so excited about baseball. Listen to the Yankees projected starting five.

and this is a team that's projected to a 90-something games, right? The Yankees are the American League. Remember, you have to preface each guy as bearded Garrett Cole. Okay, bearded. Rodon. But when I say, you know, this is a team that's projected to in 90-200 games, the Yankees are of the elite of the AL going into the season, correct? A.L. Defending Champions.

Lost in the World Series. Garrett Cole. I'm sorry. Garrett Cole. Bearded, well-groomed Garrett Cole. coming off an entry, but I think he's great. Max Fried from Santa Monica, California. Yeah, Scruffy.

Carlos Rodon. Yeah, and that guy... He said he's definitely growing the beard, so he's bringing some intimidation factor with him. And then after you get past Cole, Freed, and Rodon, I don't think the average baseball fan knows who Luis Gil or Clark Schmidt are. Luis Hill was an all-star last year. But Luis...

And rookie the ear. Right? To expect, you know, big numbers from that guy in the four hole in the four spot. They're the most highly touted, though. So he's king of the heel. So just a deep thought I had because, yeah, the deeper point here is if you're worried about your starting five, it feels like everybody is. Yeah, as a Mets fan, and I'm all pumped, you know, Soto and Lendor and Pete Alonzo and Nimmo and Viantos. The lineup stacked.

I'm like, all right, so we got Senga? Who else? Minaya's on the I.L. Peterson? Clay Holmes from the Yankees is now a starter on my team. What's going on here? Everyone feels that way at the end. And by the way, how do you feel about Clay Holmes as a starter crossed down on the Mets?

I mean, he wasn't doing it as a reliever. It's an interesting decision. All right. Let's get to this O'Shea Jackson Jr. story. Yeah, real quick, right quick. It's a two-part doozy because O'Shea Jackson turned 34 yesterday. We ran out of time yesterday. So happy birthday to him.

and The Rock His little French bulldog passed away So it's a relevant story on two parts Happy birthday O'Shea Jackson And our condolences to the Rock This is about being starstruck Take a listen This is Ice Cube's son

O'Shea Jackson Jr. On being starstruck I'm in sixth grade Word around the school spreads like wildfire Share your dad's here So I'm thinking What did I do? Picking me up from school is grandma business.

My dad's not doing this too. So I'm like, I'm f***. I can't think of what I did. So when I get outside, he's outside in the nice car. Now we got family vehicles, four doors, but he's here in the two door. So this is the nice car. Again, the car, he drives all the way to Venice.

Sit down at this restaurant. We're at a table that's bigger than it should be for two people. In walks my f*** hero, the rock. Jesus. And he just sits next to me and him and my dad have a meeting over a lunch and I am starstruck beyond belief. I can't get any words to come out of my mouth. As a kid, the memories I have from is I got a cheeseburger. He got a cheeseburger. I got a root beer. He got a Diet Coke. Thought that was weird. Wasn't really filling that. Wanted caffeine, but he

didn't want the sugar. My dad was like, dude, talk to him. Who's what do you want him to kick? And I'm just like, I can't talk. He signed my shirt, took a picture. He paid for his meal. Lady came back for the change. He didn't take the change. He just walked out. And I took his quarter and put in my pocket and I put it in a sandwich bag and I still have it. You still got the quarter. Damn right. Where's the quarter at? Give it to my mom's. She has it in her safe. The lucky quarter. Yeah, dude, dude, bro. How old were you? 12. Oh, so you're in the heat of loving wrestling. Dude, yeah. This is the biggest. I went to the Scorpion King premiere. That's a rock fan. That's a rock fan. Yeah. I went to see the mummy returns twice. He's in the movie for five minutes.

This was my dude, bro. So how cool is that? Like, those are the celebrity perks that you dream of. having lunch with his dad and the rock. But the point here is he was so starstruck, he couldn't think of anything to say to the dude, and he still has that quarter, which is great, because deep down inside, we're all a little 12-year-old kid

who remembers how we felt about our heroes. Seriously, you know, we all had heroes at 12 years old. That was his. When you, if you ever get the opportunity to meet someone that you would consider a hero, It really is It is an awkward moment

One story comes to mind for me The first Super Bowl that I ever went to cover Was in Jacksonville, Florida And I was in my 20s And across the room This is before Kavino and I were interviewing I guess athletes on the regular This is like when we were sort of new to the athlete world

This is our first coverage of the Super Bowl So this was big, yeah So they're like, yeah You're going to have the opportunity to interview some legends, I see across the room, Joe Montana. And to know me, I'm a diehard 49ers fan. And Joe Montana is the reason I wore 16 when I played sports. It's why my daughter wears 16 because she knows that's my favorite number.

Like, I play red 16, Danny, every time we go to Vegas, right? It's my thing. Montana's my guy. As O'Shea said, this is my guy. I was like, what am I going to say when I finally meet Joe Montana? would you believe the best I could come up with was Hey Joe I had your pajamas when I was a kid

I couldn't believe he said it And you know what he said to him Because I hope you don't still wear him Because Richard is a grown man He had a snappy comeback We've met him a couple times since But I remember always thinking back like I wasn't a kid I was 25 maybe

Yeah because he'll always be your hero So who was that for you And who would you be starstruck to meet For me that was Don Mattingly And I'll tell you a story on another day Let's just say I got caught right next to him in traffic one time, and I lost it. All right. Have a great night.

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