The Paulie & Tony Fusco Show: Nuggets SMART to fire coach, Browns BOLD move, Ohtani AVOIDS disaster

The Paulie & Tony Fusco Show: Nuggets SMART to fire coach, Browns BOLD move, Ohtani AVOIDS disaster

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The Paulie & Tony Fusco Show: Nuggets SMART to fire coach, Browns BOLD move, Ohtani AVOIDS disaster

The Paulie & Tony Fusco Show: Nuggets SMART to fire coach, Browns BOLD move, Ohtani AVOIDS disaster

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0:04

All right, all right, come

0:07

and to your life from Philly. It's the

0:09

number one right in. Paully and Tony four sto show

0:13

yo. As always, Polly fools

0:15

go here with Tony fools, go with Tony.

0:18

Huge shout Today, let's go.

0:20

The Denver Nuggets firing their head coach

0:22

Mike Malone a

0:25

shocking, unexpected move. No totally

0:27

saw it coming. In fact, every

0:30

team should be doing this, should

0:32

there Sanders the draft pick, he's under

0:34

fire. We're gonna come to his defense.

0:36

He's gonna thank us. And we

0:39

do have a brilliant idea Tony to help baseball

0:41

teams, which well we'll stay don't for that.

0:43

What a tease right there, that's what we call

0:45

it. Ta see now you're not going anywhere

0:48

and talk about someone who did go somewhere.

0:50

Luckily our producer. You might

0:52

notice the show is going to be better today because our producer

0:55

is not here, that idiot, and and we

0:57

all know why. It's easy to see. You know, the Sports

0:59

Emmy nominations came out and uh, we

1:02

didn't get a single nomination,

1:04

belie, which meant that idiot over

1:06

there, well he forgot to submit us

1:08

or he did such a poor job submitting the work

1:11

that he's just too scared to show

1:12

his face.

1:14

You know, I'd say this is the biggest

1:16

embarrassment in his life. But

1:18

then again, he is a virgin with no penis,

1:20

so you know, it's.

1:21

A close a close second. But I

1:24

got good news Tony, for you and and everybody

1:26

out there. I was playing around the buttons

1:28

before the show. We don't need him

1:30

anymore. Yeah, we don't. I don't

1:33

even know why we had him. This stuff is easy,

1:35

we do it, I say. Anyway, yeah, all right, so here

1:37

we go. We're gonna get right into a

1:39

top story. Okay, so watch

1:42

this. I just go. I go find

1:44

the file. Okay, it just says top story

1:46

intro. Okay, I go to that folk intros.

1:49

Okay, okay, here we go.

1:54

Did that do anything, Tony? No?

1:57

Oh wait, hold on, all right, wait, let me wait

2:00

file clickload anything?

2:04

M still nothing? Oh

2:07

oh wait? I had to did the button that

2:09

says play here we go? Boom?

2:13

There there you go? Easy? Are

2:15

you smooth? We don't even need we don't

2:17

need a producer, and say, all right, well here

2:19

r On that note, as we've established

2:21

it, shows don't need producers, just like NBA

2:24

teams don't need coaches. As the Nuggets

2:27

just proved that coaches are just totally useless,

2:30

don't need it. They went ahead and fired their

2:32

head coach, Mike Malone just days before the

2:34

playoffs started. Now some people are

2:36

calling this h unexpected,

2:38

insane. Oh please, Tony, This was

2:40

clearly the right move, wasn't it.

2:42

Of Course, as the saying

2:44

goes, the best strategy

2:47

is no strategy. If

2:49

you have a strategy, teams can prepare

2:51

for it. But if you have no strategy,

2:54

the other team won't know what to do at

2:56

all. Exactly do you know what the Nuggets

2:59

are gonna do when the play playoff? Nope,

3:01

exactly, and neither do the

3:04

opposing teams, and neither do

3:06

the Nuggets players themselves. To

3:08

me, that's a winning non

3:10

strategy strategy.

3:13

Just terrific analysis that Dody.

3:15

And Well, you know, you remember two thousand

3:18

and one Lakers Sixers NBA Finals.

3:21

Right after the Sixers one game one, everyone

3:23

came out and said, oh, we're gonna win, We're gonna

3:25

win. Remember I went on the air and what

3:28

did I say? I said, fire Larry

3:30

Brown. I remember, you know, I said,

3:32

now's the time. Well, what happened. They

3:35

wound up losing the next four games of the Lakers.

3:38

Why too much strategy

3:40

there? Exactly, there you go, right there.

3:43

Well, let's move to NFL news. Former

3:45

Colorado QB Shadur Sanders.

3:47

Well, he's continuing to fall down people's draft

3:50

boards for various reasons. For the newest

3:52

reason is that apparently he double

3:54

taps the ball before every

3:56

throw, and a lot of NFL defenders

3:58

out there they're saying, well that it's a huge tell and

4:00

a huge problem because you could tell where he's going to

4:03

throw. The bully's exactly. You know,

4:05

many quarterbacks are coming to his defense

4:08

right downy exactly.

4:09

So many qbs are saying that there's

4:12

absolutely nothing wrong with

4:14

how Shudor Sanders throws a football.

4:17

In fact, I heard that from Chris

4:19

Simms, and he said that.

4:21

You know, maybe not the best example. You're

4:23

right, he did suck.

4:25

I did hear it also from Brady Quinn

4:28

and you know I mean that one too.

4:31

He sucked to Tim hassel

4:33

Beck. No, No, he was not iron.

4:36

But you know, there were a lot of quarterbacks.

4:39

We don't need to go through the name. There's

4:42

tons of quarterbacks. You know what they say quantity

4:46

over quality.

4:47

They do say that, Dony Well

4:49

said, by you to another story,

4:51

the world's greatest general manager. Of course, we're

4:53

talking about Howie Roseman. He came out

4:56

and he said the Eagles will absolutely

4:58

not consider drafting any player

5:00

who has any history of violence

5:02

against women and good terrific. However,

5:05

we should note that, sensing an opportunity

5:07

here, the Browns came out and released

5:09

a list of crimes that they are

5:11

willing to tolerate if a player is elite.

5:14

Let me put this list up. Those crimes

5:16

include, but are not limited to, littering,

5:19

loitering, attempted murder,

5:22

actual murder, wow, Reckless driving

5:25

okay, speeding okay, speeding

5:27

in a school zone, killing a kid

5:29

in a school zone while speeding, public

5:32

urination, public urination on

5:34

a dead kid in a school zone that you killed, speeding,

5:37

and also failure to return overdue

5:39

library books. Yeah, just a very

5:41

aggressive.

5:42

Just a part of example of ye inning when

5:45

everyone else is yanging.

5:47

Well said that, dony And now to Gino

5:50

Smith. He held his first press

5:52

conference as a member of the Raiders, which

5:54

is a reunion with his former Seahawks

5:56

coach Pete Carroll. Now, his press

5:59

conference was full of bizarre quotes. Were still

6:01

trying to wrap our heads around here. But you

6:03

know, first of all, Gino Smith said he

6:05

would quote run through a wall

6:07

for Pete Carroll and Dony. We

6:10

found this just very concerning, didn't

6:12

we.

6:12

Yeah, frankly, that's just bad coaching.

6:15

Don't you want a head coach who tells you

6:17

not to run through a wall. You know,

6:19

if you tell a player to run through a wall,

6:22

he could get seriously injured and miss the

6:24

entire season, And well that's

6:26

on you as a head coach, exactly.

6:29

You know, this just shows like Pete Carroll

6:32

is getting way too old for the sport. I mean,

6:34

he's coaching like it's the nineteen seventies,

6:36

when, as we all know, a lot of coaches used

6:39

to practice by having their players actually run

6:41

through walls. Yeah, I mean you remember Chuck

6:43

Knowle Steelers coach. He used to have the entire

6:45

team just bash the head into a brick

6:48

wall for hours each day, which

6:50

explains Terry Bradshaw.

6:51

You know, it just makes total sense, makes

6:54

total sense, exactly.

6:56

Let's get to some baseball news. You know, there was a lot

6:58

of political tension when the

7:00

world champion Los Angeles Dodgers went

7:02

to the White House to visit President Trump.

7:04

You know, many people around baseball and the world

7:06

were nervous, but in the end, the President

7:08

decided to let show, hey, old Donnie stay

7:10

in the country and not get deported.

7:12

And you know, when you think about it, you know that was the

7:15

right move given as batting average. But you

7:17

know, deportation Dony is something

7:19

Dems should consider moving forward,

7:21

shouldn't they.

7:22

I wouldn't be surprised if more teams

7:25

took advantage of our new deportation

7:28

friendly climate here. I mean, I

7:30

know this might be controversial to say,

7:33

but there's some really bad contracts

7:35

out there, and if you're a GM or

7:37

a team owner and you have a player

7:40

batting under two hundred or

7:42

even sub two point fifty, you gotta

7:44

consider calling ice.

7:46

Yeah.

7:46

I mean, it's basically just like sending

7:48

someone to the miners, except you

7:50

know, it's actually kind of better.

7:52

When you get deported, you get to go

7:54

to some warm, tropical island country.

7:57

But if you get deported to the miners,

7:59

you have to take a bus to some random

8:01

place in Iowa, which is way

8:03

worse.

8:04

Sounds like just a win win for everyone,

8:07

totally, just such a terrific perspective

8:09

and thank you. On the opposite

8:11

of a win win, I'll lose lose

8:14

because, as you know, I'll lose a producer.

8:17

He totally botched this whole sports

8:19

semi thing, the sports semi nominations that

8:21

come out. We're nowhere to be found

8:23

on it. Clearly because he botched the dire

8:25

process. He is why he's not here today.

8:28

You know, obviously we should have been nominated a bunch

8:30

of categories, but those specifically we

8:32

would have just dominated, hands down, of course

8:35

best Studio Show Weekly and Outstanding

8:38

d's. You know, for you late people

8:40

out there who a boring jobs a days is

8:42

the thing you see the video montage that

8:45

comes on before the games, you know, yeah, before

8:47

a sporting event. Well, we did an absolutely

8:50

epic ease for the super Bowl.

8:52

That's what it is ourselves. Now.

8:54

Sure it didn't air before the super Bowl on

8:56

Fox, but it aired on our YouTube channel.

8:58

That's just a stupid technicality there,

9:01

exactly, it ran before the game. That's

9:03

all that matters. All that matters, all right, Look

9:05

for those who missed it out there, we want

9:07

to go ahead and show it to you in

9:09

its entirety. Here it is display.

9:12

Here we go. Hold on, hold on, it's

9:15

not playing that. It's not in the same folder,

9:17

Tony, hold on, I gotta go to saved.

9:20

Why wouldn't they get it in the same fold. Because

9:22

he's unorganized, Tony, that's why he didn't

9:24

submit us. Yeah, there is. D's

9:27

say, Okay, here we go. Ready,

9:29

super Bowl days, Get ready.

9:33

The Super Bowl is a battle for

9:35

America. History

9:38

is on the line on

9:41

one side, the most American

9:43

thing ever Eagles.

9:46

On the bad side, the Chiefs,

9:49

Native Americans. And

9:52

what do we know about Native Americans

9:54

in battles, They always

9:57

lose. Eagles,

10:00

super Bowl History.

10:03

No, Tony,

10:10

I gotta say, I'm just covered in goosebumps

10:12

right now.

10:13

You know, the Eagles probably saw

10:16

that before the game, and that's what drove

10:18

them to victory.

10:19

Had to be you know, we deserve our sports

10:22

and the and the Lombardi from the Super Bowl

10:24

trophy exactly. Well. You

10:26

know, usually at this time a producer

10:29

would actually know to hit a Buttony,

10:31

he'd actually this is the one part

10:33

of the job he could do. But I'm gonna

10:35

hit it right now, Tony. Don't

10:41

bet. Get your app out for

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Toty's bet of the week

10:46

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Masters here?

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And that's why I've got a great bet

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who knows how to win, so that's

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bet you can get him for plus

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11:17

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since nineteen ninety three.

11:21

But look at the Cubs.

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11:25

and they won a title. And also

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his name is burn Hard Longer,

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terrific, guys. So what we're gonna do right

11:59

now? You know a lot of these sites out

12:01

there, Instagram, TikTok, these accounts.

12:04

You got these kids, they're going viral.

12:06

All they're doing is they're posting these videos

12:08

where they take a pack of old baseball

12:11

cards, don'ty, and they just open them. And

12:13

people watched us, and well, you know, we've

12:15

been doing this for what twenty thirty

12:17

years? Right now we're not on camera.

12:20

Yeah, you know, we were the ones who came up

12:22

with the idea we attacks of baseball

12:24

cards, and look at it exactly we started it. So

12:26

we're gonna take back what was rightfully

12:29

ours. Yeah, let these you know, copy cats

12:31

steal our stuff, all right, So that's what we're gonna do. Right

12:33

now. It's a segment called sports

12:36

Card Opening.

12:38

Sports Card Opening.

12:41

You see that I pressed it right on guilt,

12:43

don'ty? Perfect, Okay,

12:46

donty. Let's take a look show the audience what

12:48

we got this week. This week we're

12:50

going with nineteen ninety

12:52

flear baseball cards. Now you may be wondering

12:55

why nineteen ninety, Well you see nineteen

12:57

eighty nine, as we all know, that set was just

12:59

full of eerrors, mistatement, eras

13:02

it worthless value wor Yeah,

13:05

we got it right in nineteen ninety

13:07

that came back fixed all the eras. So

13:09

we're gonna say, open up, now what valuables

13:12

we haven't already Tony. Yeah, I'm

13:14

so excited for this.

13:16

All right.

13:16

Well, first up, we have the Flea of Baseball

13:18

quiz. Okay, cool, So you know that's

13:21

fun trivia. Yeah, that's a lot of fun, toy.

13:23

We got a big one. What we got

13:25

a big one. One of the great superstars

13:28

of nineteen ninety Jerome

13:31

Walton. You know, sure, sure

13:33

he didn't do anything after that year, but that

13:35

doesn't matter, Tony. I mean, you know, we had a

13:37

terrific year. Yeah, a terrific one year.

13:39

You know.

13:39

Then all right, the guy did disappear, but that

13:42

was the year, Dony, that was the I

13:44

gotta be worth what five six thousand?

13:48

Easy? Easy? Yeah? All

13:50

right, Tony. You remember Robin you

13:52

MVP. We got his teammate

13:55

BJ, Sirhoff there he is BJ,

13:58

BJ legend, yep,

14:00

you are one of the greats all time, all

14:03

the grind bjs. You know when he thought, you

14:05

know, and his name is BJ, which is fun,

14:07

you know, yeah, like saying, hey, what

14:09

a great BJ. Another

14:12

teammate of Robin Yount, the pitcher

14:14

Jeff better Rek. Admittedly,

14:18

I have never heard of Jeff Betterick, but

14:20

that yeah,

14:23

oh yeah, they wouldn't have made a card about him, but

14:25

it wasn't good. And well,

14:28

look, I mean, this guy's a well traveled

14:30

He played for a bunch of teams, the

14:32

Brewers, Alpaso, Stockton,

14:36

Beloit. It's all on that.

14:37

You can't tell the story of the Brewers season in

14:39

nineteen ninety without him.

14:42

Oh, Tony, you remember the actor

14:45

from from Mash Jamie

14:47

Farr was someone who might

14:49

be related to him, Steve Farr

14:53

and Tony. The only problem

14:55

here I got to say is you can see I don't know

14:57

if you could see this at home, but the ink

14:59

on the this is part of the s

15:01

missing. So I don't know about

15:03

this card Downy might not be worth.

15:05

A long probably worthless, maybe like one hundred

15:08

and fifty dollars or something.

15:09

And also because it's Steve Fai, you know that's exactly

15:12

I mean. Now, if it was a Jamie phar Car

15:14

Jamie Fahr from Bash, yes, then

15:16

then you have that's money. Oh,

15:20

Dony Big one legendary

15:24

blue Jay Joe Carter World

15:26

Series zero. Now this was two years

15:29

or three years before he won the World Series. He's

15:31

on the Indians, which makes that very

15:34

rare, you know, because people forget Joe

15:36

Carter played for the Indians. That's that's gotta

15:38

be a big one.

15:39

That card is gonna be very valuable

15:41

because it's banned now because

15:44

the Cleveland Indians.

15:45

Delightly this

15:47

Ye look at this logo, the smiling

15:49

Indian. You can't we can't even show this on

15:52

air anymore. They might have to blur it. We might

15:54

have to blur this. I'm gonna have to figure out after

15:57

the show. Yeah, we'll figure it out. Look

15:59

at this book, at this

16:02

this is You know how they have some cards that are

16:04

kind of untraditional, right, Yeah,

16:06

this is what they call a Superstar

16:09

special. L East rivals

16:11

on the same card, Howard Johnson

16:14

and Ryan Sandberg. You know you never see

16:16

them together. They never see them together.

16:18

They are on one card and

16:21

it was so great, Tony Is you could see

16:23

on the back they just have tons of writing.

16:25

I mean, I can't read all this about about

16:28

what goes on with them, but it's such a

16:30

great story. It would take me very

16:32

long to read it. I need a magnifying glass.

16:35

Oh, Tony, we have another band, god, another

16:38

Indian. Uh, Steve Olden

16:42

anything about Steve Olden. Tony,

16:46

Yeah, exactly, all right, moving on, Oh, Tony,

16:49

this has to be a rare occurrence. Well, we just saw

16:52

Howard Johnson in another cad. Well,

16:54

now here's Howard Johnson's baseball card.

16:56

Wow. I mean if you're if

16:58

you're a fan of Howardjohnsen, well, I

17:00

mean Joe Heaven, Oh, Joe Heaven.

17:03

Yeah.

17:04

So you know, maybe we pair that if you pair

17:07

this card the doubles,

17:09

Yeah, I mean that that right there is God, oh

17:11

my god, imagine getting

17:13

that the same pack. Unbelievable. What

17:15

a story that would? What are the odds? And you know it's

17:18

it's about the story too, the value exactly.

17:21

Well, you know the football player Greg Olsen. Yeah,

17:23

of course, here's the picture, greg

17:25

Olsen, same name. Wow.

17:28

How rare is that? It's gotta be rare. I'm I'm

17:31

gonna say that's gotta be worth two three thousand.

17:33

If your paart, imagine your parrot with a Greg

17:35

Olsen.

17:36

Card, I mean, yeah, panthers

17:38

Greg Olsen and then that guy greg Olsen.

17:40

Oh, toty,

17:43

what do we got? You remember the

17:46

legendary Braves of that

17:48

time, You know how well they had Maddox they

17:50

had them. Yeah,

17:52

all these great players. One of one of the eighth and

17:54

ninth best names on the team, Ron Gant,

17:57

Is there, Ronan?

17:58

Oh?

17:58

Wow? There you go. Yep, I remember

18:00

that team. Yeah, I hated them. You know

18:03

that's got to raise the vat. It's not about the player,

18:05

it's about the team too, you know. So Yeah,

18:07

and then we're going out big, Tony.

18:09

We're going out big, last one

18:12

in the fast. Oh I can't wait. Who

18:14

is it? Pat Combs,

18:17

Tony? We got legend. At

18:19

least there you go

18:21

going out with the bank automatic be

18:23

worth. I mean, I mean, you know, you just try to sell

18:25

this in Philly. It's almost you can't.

18:28

It's valueless. It's so expensive. Yeah,

18:30

I mean, just that's breaking the bank. Yeah,

18:33

I mean we're gonna do it.

18:34

All those cards on special display

18:36

coming up at FUSCO Fest's.

18:38

Right if you come to Fullsco Fest June

18:40

twentieth to twenty seconds right across

18:42

from Fanatics Fest, Ye, you will be able

18:44

to see this Pat Combs Flee

18:48

display special at all

18:50

of it except for the Indians ones. We may have to

18:52

hie out. We may not be allowed to do that.

18:54

So all right, Well that wraps up sports

18:57

card opening. I gotta just find

18:59

the outro, the outro

19:02

animation, check the

19:05

oh the O fold. Yeah, I don't have it alphabetically

19:07

right, let me alphabetize. Oh there it is the

19:09

okay, here we go, all right, there we go.

19:13

You know that that's the show downy, I mean, just

19:15

a smooth show that was small around.

19:18

You know, we don't even need it. We don't need him.

19:20

In fact, I got an idea, donty, let's

19:22

call him up. I don't need to know. Let's get

19:24

him on the phone.

19:25

We got a special message for him.

19:29

Oh, he just sent us strike the voice

19:31

fails right,

19:33

which won't give out his number. We won't

19:36

give out of that. Yeah,

19:38

hey loser. Yeah, guess what

19:40

we just did the whole show without

19:43

you. Yeah smooth is

19:45

so smooth like a baby's bottom

19:47

transitions. We had video with everything

19:50

everything. So guess what. I don't know where you are.

19:52

I don't even care. Stay there. You

19:54

could stay there because you're out of a job.

19:57

You don't come back. You're

19:59

done. Yeah, you see you. We'll

20:01

see you later. Yeah,

20:03

Oh better we won't. Yeah we

20:05

won't. Yeah, Well, we have as

20:07

much chance of seeing you as a woman does of

20:09

seeing your penus. Yeah, I ever got

20:12

all have a

20:14

great trip to nowhere. We don't

20:16

care where you are, by ament

20:21

loser bye

20:25

right and with that, just you know, oh don't

20:27

they? This just came across book.

20:29

Next week on the show you guessed

20:31

that super Bowl hero Egos legend

20:34

Nick Foles is gonna wa cannot

20:36

wait for that anyway, don't forget it. You

20:38

go rate and review this show. You do it on the Apple

20:41

podcast. Up, you hit subscribe on the

20:43

subscribe You've got a lot to do. You subscribe

20:45

on them, your doube and hey, you go to the merch

20:47

store. Yeah, running something almost for

20:50

like a whole week. So you go there

20:52

to laypril seventeeth or something. You got done?

20:55

Go there now by all the merchant, don't it? Great

20:58

job as always, same to you, Pawly,

21:00

another floorless show. There

21:03

you go. We'll see if people next week. See yuh

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