Hour 4: MLB The Show Cover Reveal, Super Bowl Takes, and Mets Trade Talk

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Judge is officially revealed as the MLB The Show cover athlete for the second time in his career. The guys run through the full history of the game’s cover athletes, react to Judge joining a very short list, and debate whether it means anything at all without another Yankees ring to go with it. Then the show completely veers off the rails with Cinco de Luncho, as Shaun Morash unveils his list of 2026 sports events he already knows he does not care about. Dodgers fatigue, World Baseball Classic arguments, Rangers post Olympic apathy, World Cup rooting rules, and Lindsey Vonn Olympic promos all turn into rapid fire arguments that only escalate as the list goes on. The hour keeps rolling with callers weighing in on Mets clubhouse chemistry, Lindor and Soto leadership dynamics, Idiots With Idioms callbacks, Patriots fans defending their Super Bowl path, and a deeper conversation about Sam Darnold, Seattle’s rise, and why so many preseason takes aged poorly. It is a classic Evan and Tiki final hour where baseball, basketball, football, lists, and nonsense all collide at once.

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0:00.0	When MLB the show announced they're not picking a new cover athlete, that meant they're going to an old cover athlete.
0:07.9	And so, for the second time in his illustrious Major League career, the cover athlete of MLB the show is the king of New York himself, Aaron Judge.
0:20.8	The king. All hail the king.
0:23.5	Of course. I mean, he won another MVP.
0:25.6	Of course it would be that.
0:26.7	I just didn't. Did I misinterpret this whole thing?
0:29.7	Because when they announced that we talked about it briefly yesterday
0:32.7	that they were not picking a new cover athlete,
0:35.8	I didn't know that meant they were going to go back to
0:37.8	2018, which is exactly what they did. Here comes the judge. And I have no problem with judge being the cat. I mean, he's the best player in the world. Him and Otani, take a pick. Only the second player in MLB history to appear twice. Yeah. Do you know who the other one is? I do. I didn't know if you did.
0:54.0	Teague's not getting this one.
0:55.6	This was a long...
0:56.1	Appeared twice?
0:56.9	Yeah.
0:57.3	So I got the whole list of guys who've ever appeared on MLB the show. It started in 2006. The inaugural cover athlete was David Ortiz, followed by David Wright, followed by Ryan Howard, followed by Dustin Padroia, followed in 2010 and 2011 by the same guy.
1:15.0	The only back-to-backer and the only person besides Judge who appeared twice, and there's no way you're going to get it.
1:21.4	As great of a player as he is, he does not jump to mine.
1:28.0	2010 and 2011.
1:30.0	Yes. Small market, played for one team
1:33.3	his whole career, Hall of Famer,
1:35.6	but he just doesn't jump necessarily to mind.
1:38.4	The MLB, the show, was probably sold
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