JR SportBrief Hour 4

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Way fresher than detergent alone. It is! The JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Much love and many thanks to people tuned in and locked in all over North America. Thank you super producer and host Ryan Hickey for being in New York again. Anyway, this show gets started every single weekday at 6pm Eastern 3pm Pacific. East Coast, West Coast, down South, Midwest. Shout out to my folks in Canada.

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We've had some fancy guests who've joined us here on the show. Gary Washburn from the Boston Globe came through to talk about Jalen Brown not making Team USA. Not replacing Kawhi Leonard. Matter of fact, we're going to talk about that in a second because Jalen Brown is at the SBs and he was asked about it. I'm going to I'll let you guess his answer.

We'll play it in a minute. Bill Bender came by from the sporting news. We talked some college football as everybody is getting ready for their media days.

They've had their media days. Jared Dubin came by to talk some NFL action. Jamal Adams is a Tennessee Titan. What is that going to do for the Tennessee Titans? Not a lot if he's not healthy.

How about that? And then earlier today, in what was a difficult decision in Major League Baseball, at least at least for manager Derek Shelton, Paul Skeene Superman, the all-star. He'll be an all-star in Fort Worth next week. Excuse me, Arlington. My bad.

My bad. Today, against the Brewers, this man pitched 7 innings. He struck out 11. He had a no-hitter through 7 innings. He was pulled.

99 pitches. A lot of people were upset. A lot of people were angry. And his manager, he had some explaining to do. Hey, manager Shelton, why the hell did you do what you do? The man was throwing a no-hitter. He's amazing.

Not at all. He was tired. I mean, it was, you know, it really didn't have anything to do with the pitch count.

Everybody makes it about pitch counts. It was about where he was at. It was about, you know, trusting your eyes, trusting him. When I went and talked to him after that, I mean, he was tired. They did a good job of wearing him down. And, I mean, he gave us everything he had. He was tired. Okay, fine.

Sounds good. Good enough reason for me. Like, he's 22 years old. He just made the big leagues. This is his 11th start.

Like, you want this guy for the next 11 plus years. Pitchers get hurt. And if he was tired, that's enough for me. He's thrown more than 99 pitches in the game. He's thrown 107. That's his max. Was he going to complete the game?

Probably not. So, pull him now. You want to know his thoughts on it?

Paul Skeans was asked as well. And he says, nah, I wasn't shocked. I got the hook. Wasn't going to be surprised either way if he sent me out or pulled me. I mean, we have Holderman and Chapman at the back end of our bullpen.

So, I think those are probably the, I think, you know, two of the best guys in the league. So, I have a ton of trust in them to be able to finish it. You know, obviously in a 1-0 game, we, you know, you want to stay in there. You want to finish it. But, you know, I mean, the volume is getting up there a little bit.

So, I get it. Okay. So, Manages says he was tired. He says that, yeah, the workload was getting up there.

And, of course, the media is relentless. Okay. They asked the manager, hey, Derek, how do you know he was getting tired? Listen to this. What the hell was that? Hickey, was he getting, that sounded like aliens. Was he getting ready to get sucked into outer space?

What was that? Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Not the best audio quality there. He pulled it off of a TV feed.

Oh, my God. Well, that's not, that's not an audio. That's whatever the hell they sat him down at. Well, that's also true. I mean, MLB does not exactly do the best job of making sure the managers are in a soundproof, you know, well-equipped space where people can hear you clearly and easily. That's not a priority for whatever reason it may be.

Janitor's closet, men's restroom, you know, concession stand, closet where the ladies are putting the beer away. I don't know. They just, anyway, I'm not mad at him for pulling the guy. Like, he's 22 years old.

They have a lot and they will be investing a lot into him. Seven innings, 99 pitches. Just sit him down, okay?

I get it. He'll have plenty of other chances to throw no-nos. That's why you pull him. Because it's more important that he's healthy than he just goes out there. Let it organically happen.

And it could have organically happened. But if he's tired, he's tired, okay? Call it a day. I'm not mad at him. 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. Speaking of mad, man, we all know about Kawhi Leonard not making the Olympic team, or excuse me, Kawhi Leonard's body physically not able to perform for the Team USA Olympic team. And he got replaced with Derek White. Now, Jalen Brown has been online. Not a lot. He put a tweet up yesterday. He's questioning whether or not it had to do with Nike.

He put another tweet up saying that I'm not afraid of your resources. And he actually just walked the ESPY's red carpet a few hours ago. Now, you want to know who was on the ESPY's red carpet? It happened to be a quarterback. A former quarterback in the NFL.

I can say former because he ain't coming back. His name is Cam Newton. Of course he's there because Cam Newton has a podcast.

And Cam Newton asked Jalen Brown how he feels about not being on Team USA, courtesy ABC. Listen to this. How do you feel about the USA team right now, bro? What you mean? Why aren't you there? Do you feel a way?

I don't really got no comment. Come on home, team. Come on, bro. I got my beautiful date right there. He's trying to deflect, ladies and gentlemen.

And she's a stepper. Yeah. Alright. I mean, what was he going to say? That's a good excuse. I got a date.

I got to leave. Of course he's upset. We know he's upset. We know he's mad. We know he's not happy. He's been on Twitter about it.

And he got to be careful, right? He can't take a crap on his teammate, Derek White. And then you got Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum, he's out in Vegas getting ready.

Well, getting ready to play for Team USA, unlike Jalen Brown. And it's crazy because Jason Tatum was asked by the media whether or not he talked with Jalen Brown recently. And he's just like, uh, no. Listen to this. Yeah, I mean, there's so many guys that could, you know, take the last spot or whatever.

So, yeah, it is. Yeah, it is disappointing not having him here. No, I didn't talk to him. What is he here to talk about? What is he supposed to call him and say?

I'm sad that you didn't make it. I'm mad that Derek is. He can't do anything. He's between a rock and a hard place. He's screwed.

Imagine they called each other. Hey, Jalen, you believe this? You know what? Derek effing White? Come on.

Think that's how it went? I couldn't. Impossible. It couldn't.

This man isn't one guy. Well, I don't know. Do you think Team USA, it's not far from Vegas to L.A. Are these guys, you think they went to the ESPYs? Oh. They had to, right? You would think so, right? I'm sure the Celtics are up for like best team. Oh, there we go.

Get a Thursday. Here we go. What?

What happened? Well, we'll see who's sitting next to each other. Is Jason Tatum, is his seat closer to Derek Whites or Jalen Browns?

He's two seats over from Jalen Brown, but only one seat over from Derek White. What does that mean? What are they going to, you know what's crazy? This is going to get talked about between now and October.

This is going to be one of the main themes. And the Celtics just won a championship. And when they reconvene in October and they do media day and everything else they got to work on, there's going to be questions about Team USA and I don't expect it. But can you imagine if they don't win?

Could you? Then there's really going to be like, well, why didn't you have Jalen on the team? Well, why wasn't Jalen on Team USA? We talked about this earlier.

Jalen Brown is more, he's comparable to Kawhi Leonard more so than Derek White. Either way, win, lose or draw. The Celtics are going to show up and one of the first questions is going to be to Tatum, hey, how was your Olympic experience? Well, hey, Jalen, how do you, how did you feel about not making it?

And it's just like, oh my God, here we go again. And in Grant Hill last night after Team USA beat Canada, Hickey, I said I wasn't going to watch. I watched a little bit. Did you see any of the game?

I did. I said I wasn't, I lied I did watch for about a quarter and a half. I didn't make it past half time, but I did watch a good amount of the first half. You saw Joel Embiid almost foul out, which he did ultimately. You saw Team USA fall into what, 11 to 2 hole.

Very slow start. Yeah that game, they look like a bunch of guys who just got together, which they did. But after the game, Grant Hill spoke and he was asked about Jalen Brown not making Team USA and Grant Hill tried to be a funny guy. He's like, it has nothing to do with Nike and Jalen's criticisms of Nike. I used to wear Fila and I was on Team USA. Listen to Grant Hill.

Well, for a good portion of my career, I wore Fila. So, that was supposed to be a joke. Didn't play right. No, look, we're proud of our partners obviously at USA Basketball, but this is about putting together a team. And I'm glad you kind of brought that up, because I think just overall you have incredible interest, an abundance of talent that we have here in the United States. You can't get 12 spots. You have to build a team. And one of the hardest things is leaving people off the roster that I'm a fan of. Guys who've been Finals MVPs, guys who've been a part of the program, guys who've won gold medals.

But the responsibility that I have is to put together a team and a team that compliments each other, a team that fits, a team that will give us the best opportunity for success. And so, you know, whatever theories that might be out there, they're just that. Yeah, I don't know about the Nike thing. Does it have some type of influence?

I'm sure it does. But ultimately, they just don't like them. That's what it boils down to. Because if you got to look at replacing a Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard is, I don't want to say vastly, but he ain't Derek White. Derek White ain't him. They're not comparable. One is a smaller guard.

One is a forward. I mean, he's more comparable to Brown. And so, they just don't like the dude. That's it. But everything boils down to politics, right? That's life. That's how it goes. I mean, come on.

We've been talking about the women's side for what feels like the better part of a month now. Come on. Angel Reese should be on Team USA, but she's not because of politics. And so Jalen Brown has painted himself into a corner, and they just don't like him.

I'll tell you this much. Team USA is still favorite whether they got Derek White, Kawhi Leonard, or Jalen Brown there. And that's all that Grant Hill cares about. And Joel Embiid, get it together, man. 5.6 rebounds and you fouled out? Hickey, did you see him lay out one of those Canadians? No, I missed that. Over the shoulder, huh? An elbow to a face.

Oh, oof. This man was set...Joel Embiid was setting the screen. I don't know who this Canadian man is. I don't think he's in the NBA.

I've never seen him. Was he Dylan Brooks? No. No, no. I'm pretty sure he would have heard about that.

It would have been nice if it was. Joel Embiid is trying to screen a guy. Just going down the court.

That's it. They've been bounded the ball. He's trying to screen up the court. He puts a elbow up to the guy's chin.

The referee is like, hey, bro, that's a foul. Joel Embiid's response is, I'm just trying to be physical. I can't be physical. That's what he said. My goodness. He said to the ref, for a guy that's had a broken face and can't stay healthy to save his life, Joel Embiid can't be physical?

Like, bro, bigger than everybody out there. You're the most fragile. Chill out. Relax. Anyway, it's the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We will take a break when we come back on the other side. Cam Newton.

How about this? Cam Newton. He's standing at the ESPYs. He's interviewing Jalen Brown. He's trying to get scoops.

He's trying to get news. One thing Cam Newton didn't get an invite to was a certain NFL star's wedding. Cam Newton's kind of ticked off about that. We'll talk about that on the other side of the break. I didn't forget about the college football playoff game. I'll tell you who decided to take some money to be in that.

We've got more to do. 855-212-4227. You're locked in. The JR Sportbree show. The Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sportbree. I try my best. I try.

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That's 855-212-4227. Sometimes you're in. Sometimes you're out. Sometimes you get an invite.

Sometimes you don't. Anyway, I'm going to tell you about somebody that decided to get in and somebody that didn't even get a chance to get in. First of all, last hour. Well, not last hour.

Last break. We talked about Jalen Brown, who's at the ESPYs. Jalen Brown was asked by Cam Newton about being, you know, left off of Team USA and matter of fact, why am I explaining it?

Listen to this conversation between Cam Newton and Jalen Brown. How do you feel about the USA team right now, bro? What you mean?

Why aren't you there? Do you feel a way? I don't really got no comment. You know what I mean? Come on home, team. Come on, bro.

I got my beautiful date right there. He's trying to deflect, ladies and gentlemen, and she's a stepper. He complimented Jalen Brown's girlfriend, or date, who by the way was a former WNBA player that got cut a couple weeks ago. Anyway, Cam Newton is just running around.

He's a star. He got his own podcast, and in his last podcast, Cam Newton took a funny opportunity to tell everybody that he was not invited to Christian McCaffrey's wedding. Christian McCaffrey just got married to Miss Universe, a former Miss Universe, Olivia Cuppo.

They got married a couple of weeks ago. Cam Newton said, I did not get an invite. Obviously, these two dudes were with the Carolina Panthers from 2017 and 2019. Cam Newton showed up again in 2021, and so these Cam Newton used to hand the ball off to this man.

He used to go to work. Cam Newton was making jokes. He didn't get no invite. Christian McCaffrey then says, I haven't gotten a text back from Cam Newton in four years. Cam Newton hilariously responded to him on social media and told him, he's just like, listen, man, give me a new number. Picky, if he really wanted to invite him, A, he would have had his number, and then B, he would have found a way to reach out.

It's not that difficult, man. Especially for two dudes who used to be teammates, he could DM him or ask somebody else. Christian McCaffrey didn't care that damn much. Exactly right. I'm with you. If he actually cared even a modicum, you would easily find, in this day and age, with all the connections that they have in terms of paths crossed, he could have sent one text out to a former teammate.

Hey, do you have Cam's number? Cool. Thanks. Boom.

That's it. Could you imagine what, he would be a little bit more reserved, right? Cam Newton had a wedding.

I hope so. I hope he realized who the star of that day should be. He'd show up to the wedding. His top hat would be bigger. He would be wearing, he'd be wearing the train, okay? He'd wear all white for sure.

I think there's no doubt about it. He'd wear all white. He'd wear the penguin-style tuxedo and be dragging behind him.

Forget the train. That thing would be dragging behind him by about eight feet. Yeah, look, Cam Newton, he wears what he wears. He's an eccentric dude, a stylish dude. Look, when people get married, they invite who they want to invite. Christian McCaffrey did not want that man there. And if he did, he would have sent him an invite.

It's not that difficult. He wanted him on the outside. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said a damn thing. Anyway, Cam Newton on the outside looking in.

You know, we talked about this earlier in the show with Bill Bender. I want to talk about someone that decided to get in. Arch Manning is going to be in a video game. He's going to be in this new college EA Sports football game, EA I never know the name. EA College Football 25. EA College Football 25? Boom. There you go. College Football 25.

Okay. This is a game that hasn't been created in 10 years. Arch Manning is so damn rich, he ultimately initially declined to be in the game. I believe every athlete who agreed to be in the game, Hickey, what did they get? 600 bucks? I think that's you had to sign up and I think you got $600 just to be in the game. And copy the game. Don't forget that. You got the game for free that you are in.

Oh my. And you got 600 bucks. I mean, that's not too shabby for the majority of college football players. I'd take 600 bucks just to be in the game. But if you're Arch Manning, what is 600 bucks to Arch Manning? The answer is nothing. Nothing.

Nothing. Hickey, how much money do you think is in Arch Manning's, I don't even know, what would you call it? His trust fund. Coffers?

How much money is put away from him that he can't even touch or see? Oh, there's at least two commas in there. Two? At least?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Some millions? You think 10 million? 10?

5? You want him to not necessarily, you want him to earn things in life, right? True, true. 3.

Humble him. 3 though. Anyway, he don't got to worry about, I mean, between his uncles combined, what did they make combined in the NFL?

What'd you say? Almost, what, 600 million probably? Almost, what, a half a bill? Definitely about half.

Combined probably. I mean, they just missed out on the QB salary boom. Right. They weren't poor by any stretch of imagination, but they're also getting 50 million dollars, like we're seeing guys get now.

I would say a half a billion dollars between the two for, what are they, both 15 years each? Yeah, give or take. 98, what was it Eli, 03? 04?

04? Yeah, we said no to the Chargers, yeah. That's a lot of bread.

That is. Yeah, Arch Manning, they think about no 600 bucks. And so, a couple of months later, we find out that Arch Manning, all of a sudden, has agreed to be in the game.

And you want to know why? Because reportedly, EA Sports gave him, when these NIL deals, they gave him approximately 50 to 60 thousand dollars to help promote and sell the game. Money talks, okay? How much is it going to take? I ain't taking your silly 600 bucks. I do not need it.

But I'll take money. What is he doing with that 50 or 60 hickey? What's he going to do with that? I don't know.

Oh, good question. One vacation he'll go on? One? It's a hell of a vacation. Renting a yacht?

I mean, you got money like him, is it? Two vacations? Three? Four? I feel like I don't see him as a vacation guy.

He seems like a process guy. I don't know. Stash away for a rainy day? Your Arch Manning, you get 50k. What do you do with it? As an 18 year old? Oh boy.

Not like he needs money. 50 to 60 is probably still to him like, what is this? I guess I'll take a date out for a nice weekend. What am I supposed to buy with this?

I don't know. A Toyota? What am I doing with this? Great, I can make one lease payment on my new Jaguar. Thanks, EA. I can have one tank of gas for this thing.

Maybe that's what he's going to save the money for. Gas. You know what? Take a listen to this.

Arch Manning, he had his own announcement because he got paid 50 to 60k. He told everybody, I'm in the game! Alright, here we go.

Let's go gun far. Sim it right nasty. Z Riz. F Whirlybird. Alert Scarecrow. Use a little cadence here. Alright, you ready?

Are you sure about this? Absolutely. This is the best way to focus on football. So get your eyes on the safety.

Be vocal out there. Yes, Coach. I mean, Uncle E. Green 18!

Green 18! Omaha? What? Alright, there he is. There he is. Now! Boom!

Touchdown! Now that's why you're in the game. EA Sports.

I'm in the game. Ha ha ha funny. Obviously Uncle E, that would be Eli Manning. Who is just, what does Eli Manning do?

He pops up, he makes jokes on TV, I'm sure he's making tons of money on other business ventures. Does the Manning cast with his brother? Those Mannings, man, they live a good one. I mean, Archer's not even pressed to be on the football field.

He's like, I'll stick around that section. Why not? I'll get my day. Archer'll probably end up being the number one draft pick in a few years, and the Mannings, they don't lose.

They don't. Guy got 50 to 60K just to be in a video game. And he doesn't know what he's going to do with it.

And Marco Balletti is here. Marco, if you are Arch Manning, and EA Sports says he has $600 to be in the game, and you're Archer, you're just like, what is this? My haircut is $600.

That's what he says. I was going to say, if I'm Arch Manning, that means nothing. Absolutely nothing. So now they gave him 50 to 60, his agent or whoever, took that money for him to be in a video game. What does he do with that money? 50 grand.

Arch Manning. 18 years old. My guess is, he's going to be in the back room somewhere buying rounds that he's not supposed to. That'd be my guess. 50K? What's he going to do? He's going to do a weekend. What's he going to get with 50 grand? I told Hickey he's going to do an expensive vacation. This is not you or me getting 50,000 well. This is not me or Hickey getting $50,000.

This is Arch Manning. There's a difference. Listen, do you know how many vacations I could go on a 50, 60K? Yeah, again, I feel like everybody's got a different level. I don't think Arch is going to do much with 50K. Hickey said he's going to use it for gas. That sounds about right. It'll be gone.

What's he got, like 15 Hummers back down? Who the hell knows? Yeah, you never know.

I don't know. Good luck to Arch Manning, who's now in the game. Good for him. Hickey, you're going to play with Arch when you get the game? Not with him, no. Probably not. You're going to Colorado? I'm going to play myself.

Excuse me, what? I'm building my own player. Oh, okay. I'm going to be going out there playing with Arch Manning. I'm going to be better than Arch Manning in this game.

You two are sick, by the way. Grow up. Instead of playing myself.

I didn't add any other words in there. I'm like those actors that play themselves in the movie. I'm playing as myself. I'm creating myself as a player. I'm going to do create a player. I'm going to do franchise. Anyway, so what position?

I don't want to ask. What position are you going to play? I've got to be quarterback. I've got to be the one controlling the field here, field general. So you're going to be quarterback for Penn State? Look, someone's got to be at Ohio State, and right now this team on the field ain't doing it.

How does that work? Are you going to use your actual physical attributes, or are you going to be like 6'7"? No, I'll use my physical attributes. I will overcome being 5'11", and 175.

I will leave that to a national title. So you're going to be... Do you have to earn these? Do you have to play minigames to become stronger and faster? You just, hey, I need a 99 at everything. That's a great question.

No idea. I don't know if I have the patience to be going to practice. I'll be like AI. Practice? I thought you used to play this game years ago. Well, I did, but I didn't have a memory card growing up.

It was too cheap to get one, so anytime I would stop playing for the day, I didn't get a race, so I never had the patience to do create a player, because why would I go through all the hassle to have it all raced two hours later? You literally just played the game with it, so you didn't even play a season? You never did anything?

No, I did not, which is why I'm excited. Just for the record, how much was a memory card? I don't know. This was back in the day. Look, I was like 10 years old. So it had nothing to do with you. I didn't want to ask my parents. It wasn't your money. That's fair.

Well, no, at least that I can live with. Marco, could you imagine playing Super Mario Brothers with no well, I mean, it's saved in the game. You didn't need a memory card, but could you imagine I guess it's different in sports. You don't you just pick up and play.

I mean, it's worse in sports. Well, you're never going to get through a full season. So what do you just play? You just play randomly playing back in the day when we were playing the computer, not, you know, whoever from down and down the street or I don't do that.

I've never done well. I did. Listen, I played Mario Kart one time, OK, on a what is this thing called on a Wii.

It's in my closet. All right. I played Mario Kart one time connected it to the Internet. I said, what's all this about people playing games on the Internet against somebody else?

The list came up with people I was playing against and they were all from Japan. Right, man. Guess who finished last. OK, they destroyed me. I said, I'm not doing this. I unplugged that stupid Internet from the back of the console. I said, I'm not playing this anymore. See, I've never done that.

I never graduated to the idea of once it came to the Internet. So all my gameplay was against the computer. If you're playing Madden or whatever, any any sport game and you didn't have the ability to save the season, like I can't get through a season in a day.

There's no chance. So you're lucky to get a game through. Well, that's what he did.

You just play one exhibition or whatever it is and you keep it moving. Yeah. Now, screw that. I mean, I got to get through a season. It didn't make any sense.

I get it. My fate. You have. Did you ever play a season and get through it? Oh, football. Definitely baseball. No, I never played a full baseball. I can never I can never get through a season of baseball. Never, ever basketball. I think maybe once I got through a season. I don't know if I ever finished a full season in basketball.

He did the abbreviated ones. Baseball. I think I got to the All-Star break once and it took me like a year. I was like, all right, enough. I can't do this anymore. Football. You can get through, though.

No problem, though, because I mean, just lower the quarters a little bit. Like five minutes. Life of being a kid, right? Yeah. You got less to do, right?

Yeah. Just say, what do you just turn the turn the TV on and all of a sudden now? Now I'm playing baseball. I got no I wish I wish I wish I was playing a video game right now. I'm playing a game of life. Playing a game of life. Memory card on that sucks. It does. Well, there's quite a few things in life I wish I could erase like like, well, Hickey didn't have one.

So quite a few things I wish I could erase. But here we are. This is life. It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side.

We don't need no memory card. I'm going to remind you about a few things that took place this day in sports history. It is July 11th. You are listening to the J.R. Sportbree. It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

855-212-4227. What a show. What a day. ESPYs are going on in L.A. Jalen Brown's still unhappy not being on Team USA.

Paul Skeen's pulled despite throwing a no hitter. It has been a busy one. And now it's time to go back in time to a bunch of things that took place this day in sports history.

And you know what? I'm not wasting no damn time. What's today? It's July 11th already?

Damn! Where's time going? It goes by too fast. Anyway, back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history.

You see, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the J.R. Sportbree show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass.

It's so violent, right? It is the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Time to go back in time. Quite a few things. First of all, well we gonna go way back in time for this one. July 11th, 1914. Babe Ruth made his debut for the Red Sox as a pitcher. This man pitched seven innings helping the Red Sox go over what are now the Guardians 4-3. Five years later, he's a Yankee, Red Sox suck forever. Curse of the Bambino. And now we got a guy named Shohei Ohtani who hits and pitches at the same time when he's actually healthy enough to do so.

Which is rare, sorry. Anyway, how about this day in sports history? July 11th in 1985, a little bit more recent for some of us. Nolan Ryan becomes the first player in Major League Baseball to get to 4,000 strikeouts.

I want you to take a listen to this. Well the story in tonight's game, six strikeouts by Nolan Ryan. He needs one strikeout to be the first man in the history of this great game to have 4,000 strikeouts. Breaking ball and that's it. Strikeout number 4,000 for Nolan Ryan.

What has to be one of the greatest beats in the history of this great game. Nolan struck out his first batter on September 11th of 1966 for the New York Mets. And here he strikes out Danny Heap of the New York Mets for his 4,000th career. At the time Nolan Ryan was 38 years old. He struck out Danny Heap, if you care. The New York Mets lost to the Astros, the score was 4-3. Nolan Ryan finished that game, 7 innings pitched, 11 strikeouts. You know Nolan Ryan, this guy would finish with 57, well let me not shortchange him. 5,714 strikeouts.

That's a lot. What else took place this day? July 11th 2012. Steve Nash was traded from the Suns to the Lakers. You want to know how that worked out?

It didn't. Listen to this news. Our other big story tonight, a Suns standout joining a rival team.

You better believe it. Steve Nash is joining the Los Angeles Lakers. ABC15's Christopher Sein in studio to break this all down for us, what this move means for our team. The Suns organization really didn't want Steve Nash going to a team in the same conference, especially the Lakers, but clearly had a change of heart hammering out a deal that will team up Nash and Kobe in purple and gold. Just a short time ago Nash spoke to ESPN.com saying quote after talking with Robert Sarver and Lon Babby we've agreed that it's time for both of us to move in new directions. I approached them and asked if they would be willing to do a sign and trade deal with LA because it's very important for me to stay near my children and family.

They were very apprehensive and didn't want to do it. Fortunately for me, they reconsidered. I hope the Suns win a championship someday soon for all the amazing fans and wonderful people in the organization. Man, that was a disaster. Steve Nash got there, he broke his leg and then I don't even think he played more than 70 games over a couple of years. He was just hurt the whole time. That was such a disaster. Man, they went nowhere.

Dwight Howard, that team looked nice and didn't go anywhere. July 11th 2015, guess what happened? Wimbledon is going on right now. You want to know who won Wimbledon on the women's side? What a shock, what a surprise. It was Serena Williams.

Take a listen to this. Serena Williams is busy tonight. She's hosting the ESPYs. I didn't know she was hosting the ESPYs.

And she beat Garbine Muguruza to win her sixth Wimbledon title in 21st. Hickey, do you think, she doesn't care. Do you think she's thinking about this today? Like, oh, I won Wimbledon today. She doesn't care.

I think when you win so many times, it's like, oh yeah, I guess I did win this day and then tomorrow, I guess I won that one that year too in this day. Yeah, she's like, what are we eating? What do we have at craft services?

Forget craft, she doesn't do craft. What is in my dressing room? That's what she's thinking about. Yeah, those are a bunch of things that happened this day in sports history. Congratulations. Babe Ruth debuted for the Red Sox on this day. Wow. 1914.

Damn. You know, Hickey, it's still mind-blowing to me that Shohei Ohtani is like the only dude to hit and pitch at the same time. Like, Babe Ruth didn't even do it. Like, Babe Ruth pitched for the Sox and they're like, hey, okay, now they trade him to the Yankees for a bag of chips. And now he's swinging for the fences. He's one of the most prolific hitters of all time. Ohtani is nuts.

You know what we need to see next week? I don't know. Ohtani, why is he? Well, they said his health. Why can't he be in a home run derby again? Because his arm is busted up. I know.

Anyway, is there anything that you're looking forward to? You just want to see Pete Alonso win the derby, huh? I don't, honestly, I don't care. That's one of those things. He won it once.

I thought it was very cool. Got to see him do it a second and now a third time. I'm more worried about, hey, don't lose your swing because that's a concern. Are they going to give away one of them stupid big-ass chains again? Are we done with that? I hope so. The turnover chain but for the home run derby, I hope so.

That was overplayed. Everybody had to get a chain. Everybody. The turnover chain killed me. It's like, y'all are losing the game right now. We handing out chains on the sideline. We got guys in a home run derby. They got chains.

It's just, it's stupid. I hope they have no chain. Anyway, they're going to have a cowboy hat because it's Texas. Watch. Oh, good one. Good call. They will.

They will. Anyway, we're done here. You've been listening to the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We'll be back with you tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Thank you so much to all of our guests who joined us. Gary Washburn, Bill Bender, Jared Dubin. Thank you to you for listening.

You can hit rewind on the free Odyssey app if you missed anything. But don't move. Coming up next is Bart Winkler. Thank you to you for listening. Thank you to Ryan Hickey. I'm gone. JR Sport Reshow is finished.