The Best Of Covino & Rich
Covino & Rich
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Covino & Rich are torn on this whole ABS situation in baseball! Are home plate umpires really needed at all? Can someone explain it to Covino's girlfriend? They take calls from around the country. 49ers not thrilled about starting season in Australia? The guys discuss. Plus, 'IRON MIKE TRIVIA,' hot sauce & Tommy Boy anniversary!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.4 | Hey, thanks for listening to the best of Kavino and Rich podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | Be sure to catch us live every day from 5 to 7 p.m. Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacifics on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:16.1 | Find your local station for Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeart |
| 0:21.5 | Radio app by searching FSR. |
| 0:27.3 | The ABS system was put to use, bro. |
| 0:31.2 | Yanks were five for five. |
| 0:32.8 | Did you see that? |
| 0:33.8 | Like, it was put to use. |
| 0:36.3 | And it was like a grain of rice, as they say. |
| 0:39.9 | They were getting it by this much. |
| 0:42.0 | Not this much, this much. |
| 0:44.9 | Calls were turned over. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm sitting there like, man, I don't know how I feel about this. |
| 0:49.9 | Because it really could change the outcome of a game. |
| 0:52.8 | Well, yesterday, Dan Bayer brought up an umpire that sort of looked a little foolish. And yesterday it was even worse for him. CB Buckner? C.B. Buckner is not having a good week. This guy is like, it's missing inside, outside. It's to the point now. Inside, outside, come around. It's to the point now where some people are just looking a little foolish. Right. And that's not the point. It wasn't created to show up an umpire. It was created to get it right. They're calling him D-Minus Buckner now. Oh, not C.B. Buckner? D-minus. D-minus Buckner. I like that. I like that. |
| 1:28.5 | It's just, you know, and you can see the look on his face too. |
| 1:32.6 | There's a level of like embarrassment. |
| 1:35.7 | I believe he rung up Trevor's story on a check swing without checking with the first base |
| 1:40.0 | umpire simply out of spite in my mind. |
| 1:41.8 | Like I feel like it was, there's like a spite level to this as well |
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