9.9.22 - JR SportBrief Hour 3

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I get started at 10 p.m. Eastern Time, 7 p.m. Pacific. Thank you to our friends listening up in Buffalo. Thank you to my friends listening in Boston, Miami, Wisconsin, Texas, just Idaho, Colorado, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, here in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Anchorage, Baltimore, D.C., Ohio, I mean everywhere. I'm here with super producer and host Stu, oh you're not, hey wait a minute, you're not Stu Kovacs, are you? Listen, that's an honor. You're not Stu, you're super producer Dave Shepherd. Stu Kovacs is an OG.

He is an OG. Between the two of you guys, I might, I might cry like Francis Tiafoe. Thank you. You guys are great. No, I really do. Between you and Stu, I love y'all.

I got no problem saying it. But anyway, speaking of crying, Francis Tiafoe, he just lost the U.S. Open semi-final. He just lost in Queens, New York. And he was, you know, he didn't, he didn't boo hoo, he didn't cry, he didn't let it all out, but he was definitely disappointed.

He was close to tears. Francis is 24 years old. We've been hearing about this man, young man, for the better part of a decade now. And he's walking right into his prime. And he was just beat by a 19 year old from Spain, Carlos Alcaraz. He just beat him. This match took about four and a half hours. Carlos Alcaraz just played Wednesday night into Thursday morning in what was almost a five and a half hour match-up. He finished playing at 2 30 a.m. Eastern time.

The hell is that? And now he comes back on Friday and now he's going to the U.S. Open final to take on Casper Ruud on, on Sunday. And so Francis Tiafoe was basically the, the United States of America's best and last chance to go out there and compete for a championship, to represent the United States of America. Tiafoe was out of Maryland. Parents are originally from Sierra Leone. He grew up in Maryland, played tennis in Maryland, went to the tennis center.

Damn it. His dad literally helped build it and put it together and oversee it. That's how he got involved. And so now he's stepping into his prime and he was just disappointed. He said in his post-match interview on the court, he said he feels that he let everybody down. Michelle Obama was there tonight. Larry Fitzgerald was there tonight. I saw my main man, Rudy Gay, was there tonight.

I need to get Rudy back on the show. Who else was there? Bradley Beal was in attendance. There was a lot of people there.

Jon Bon Jovi was there. And I don't know, maybe I'm a jerk, just a little bit. Francis Tiafoe said, oh yeah, I let everybody down. I feel like I let everybody down. I feel like I let everybody down.

I think it was Patrick McEnroe said, oh, you didn't let anybody down. And to me, I said, oh yeah, you let me down. I'm disappointed. I'm sad.

Not that it matters. Not that my opinion matters to Francis Tiafoe, but I'm disappointed. He did let me down. I don't need no stinking Andy Roddick. I don't need no Isner. I don't need no Blake.

These guys were all fodder. They were all stepping stones for Nadal and Federer and Djokovic to kind of beat around. And so, no, we don't have a dominant player in tennis representing the United States of America. We don't have, now that Serena is gone, we don't have a dominant woman representing the United States of America. I hope we don't end up like soccer. I mean, we can't dominate everything. You know, we send our folks into football, into basketball. Can't dominate everything, but if we wanted to, yeah, we could wipe the world with tennis. Let's give Kevin Durant a racket.

I don't know. Who else is ridiculously long and athletic? Come on, Shep, help me out here. Jimmy Butler, right? I mean, Jimmy Butler's around 6'8". Yeah, we give him a racket.

I mean, them and a buyer would be a very good tennis player. Oh, you're too powerful. Yeah? Aces all over the place.

Who's an American? Well, I mean, I guess that would be Durant. I was going to say, who's an American built like Giannis? I mean, LeBron's going to be great at anything you put him on, right?

Any venue he plays, he's going to be great. If we put LeBron into tennis, he'd be the world's best, right? I'd say so.

I mean, is Anthony Davis going to be healthy, you know? Oh, no. No.

Okay. You know who'd be great if nothing else because of how hard he competes? Who? And how quick he is and tenacious he is? Pat Bev. Oh, in tennis? Oh, yeah. In tennis, yeah. I'm not saying that as a joke. No, I agree with you. Ridiculously demonstrative. He'd be a great, yeah, you probably would be. Yeah. We need to get in a great American tennis player.

I need some, I need the roof for somebody. I'm tired of Nadal. Sick of him. I'm glad that Tiafoe got him out of there. Federer is basically old. I think he's done.

And then Djokovic will be back next year when he probably doesn't have to travel around the world without a shot. Tiafoe did say this. I told you about the emotion after his loss.

This is the interview, courtesy of ESPN. I think I speak for everybody here tonight when I say thank you for that performance tonight. What would you like to say to this crowd? I gave, I gave everything I had.

Too good from Carlos tonight. I gave everything I had. I gave everything I had for the last two weeks. You know, honestly, I came here wanting to win U.S. Open. I feel like I let you guys down. This one really hurts. This one really, really hurts. You didn't let anybody down.

Believe me. Too good from Carlos. Man, you're going to win a lot of Grand Slams. You're a hell of a player, a hell of a person. I'm happy I got to stay the quarter and suck the big stage with you. I'm going to come back and I will win this thing one day. I'm sorry, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you don't care, but I'm disappointed. And it's not because of him.

I'm just, I'm waiting for an American to emerge. I want to root for somebody. Sick of looking at the same three damn guys. Alcaraz won in five sets. Tiafoe won the first one. Took a tiebreaker, seven to six. Alcaraz wiped the floor with him in second and third, six-three, six-one.

They go to another tiebreaker, which Tiafoe comes back in the fourth set. And then Alcaraz won the fifth and final, six to three. And so good luck to you guys, and I'll see you guys in the next one.

And then Alcaraz won the fifth and final, six to three. And so good luck to the 19-year-old. I'll kind of tune in and out. Maybe the U.S. Open men's final will be going up against NFL football. So you can assume where my priority will be, not with the U.S. Open men's final. But Tiafoe says he's going to come back and win it one day.

And at 24 years old, I hope he comes back and that he wins a few. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on CBS Sports Radio. We've talked football. We're going to get back into football before we roll out. We'll have a conversation next hour with Raiders wide receiver Mac Hollins. He's going to join. There's an interesting situation going on.

Hmm. Esports. Mac Hollins doesn't just catch passes in the NFL. He's also an advocate, as I am, for Special Olympics.

And there's something cool that he wants to share. We'll do that next hour. But we're going to talk about Lamar Jackson right now. We've gone through the full slate of NFL games. We've talked about the action in college football on Saturday.

And we'll get into the Basketball Hall of Fame as well. But I want to get to Lamar Jackson because we all know that Friday was the deadline, self-imposed deadline, for Lamar Jackson to come through and come to an agreement with the Baltimore Ravens on his next contract. A matter of fact, this is what Lamar had to say on Wednesday.

Listen. As of right now, you know, we're still talking. You know, the week's not over yet, but soon, soon, probably be a deadline, probably be cut off after this week. Kickoff, I would not be talking about a contract.

I'm thinking straight jets around kickoff time. As far as a deadline, the end of this week, the end of this week, Friday. Yeah, well, Friday it came, it went, and they didn't come to an agreement on a deal. I was actually surprised earlier on in the day when we got the news. It pretty much came through in the morning. And I'm saying to myself, damn it, we got a, we got a whole day here.

Y'all just stopped and quit. And so Lamar Jackson on the final year of his rookie deal, he's going to be playing it out. He's going to be on an expiring contract.

He will make $23 million this season. It's on his fifth year option and not too shabby for a guy who was selected 32 overall in 2018 after winning a Heisman. He's had to watch multiple quarterbacks drafted in front of him get shuffled around like cards. Hi, Baker Mayfield.

Hi, Sam Darnold. And the past few seasons he's been running around making approximately $1 million, even after winning an MVP. If you have to think about how much he's been paid up until now, if you have to think about his draft position, he has outperformed his existing contract.

That's not to say that he should be paid for past performance on a new deal, but in most cases that's typically what happens. And so when you think about the contracts that have been given out in the NFL over the past several months, $230 each to Kyler Murray and Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson making a guaranteed $230. You look at Kyler, a guaranteed $190.

You look at months ago, if you have to think about per year average, oh man, Rogers has pretty much set things up. He's like, hey guys, give me 50 per. And so if you're Lamar Jackson, you slide in and go, well, this is where things are going. I got an MVP. I've had more success than Kyler Murray.

I've had more success than Deshaun Watson. And okay, if you want to put Aaron Rogers at the top of the totem pole, then you might want to pay me 47 or 48 and let's call it a day. Or he can do what he's doing right now. And that's wait it out and then get paid more money next year. But we all know he's running the risk of injury. He's running the risk of going into this season where he's coming off of an ankle injury from this past season and getting busted up again. Could be an ankle, could be a knee, could be a shoulder, could be a non-contact or absolutely nothing could go wrong moving into this final season of his contract.

He could go out there and win MVP again. We see that he's gotten bigger. You would assume that he continues to improve as a passer.

We know how dynamic he is as a runner. We've seen him have a ridiculous amount of success with the Ravens to start his career off. He's done everything that you could think about or ask, except go through that AFC championship game and go to a Super Bowl. Outside of that, a ridiculous winning record.

An MVP, playoff appearances, Sands last year where he got hurt at the end of the season and they went into the toilet. Is it a dangerous proposition for Lamar Jackson to play without a future contract? Oh yeah it is. A future contract?

Oh yeah it is. But to what degree? Lamar Jackson was asked on Wednesday about this being risky, not having a long-term deal in place. This is what Lamar had to say. It was a pretty big risk last season, the year before.

I wasn't thinking about contract negotiations around that time. This season is going to be the same thing, but I'm just playing football. Anything can happen, but God forbid the wrong thing happen. I'm keeping God first and just playing ball.

Okay and he's right, anything can happen. He's going to go out there and play football. This is not him going and playing jump rope. This is not playing chess.

This is not the PlayStation championship tournament. He's not going to be sitting on his ass with a controller. He's going to be out there being chased down by individuals bigger than him. They may not be faster than him, but they want to take him out and he doesn't have a deal. He also doesn't have an agent helping to negotiate his contract and so he moves into the season on an expiring deal.

You know one of our callers brought this up earlier on in the show. He said well the last time that Baltimore had a quarterback that went into the final season of his deal he got a contract extension after his team won the Super Bowl and that's someone that everyone's familiar with in Baltimore. That's Joe Flacco and by coincidence Joe Flacco was going to start this Sunday for the New York Jets because Zach Wilson hasn't recovered from his knee injury. The Ravens are going to play the Jets and so Flacco was asked about Lamar Jackson and his contract and Flacco said yeah there are some similarities you know almost 10 years ago.

This is what Flacco had to say. I really view it as betting on myself and therefore I didn't really have to put any extra pressure on myself. I was confident in the player that I was and you know what was going on at that time and what it all is and I'm sure he feels the same way. He's confident in the player that he is and you know he's going to be that player and and all that so I think at the end of the day he probably feels like it's all going to settle where it should. Yeah he has to feel and be confident in who he is. He has to be. Otherwise he would have just signed on the dotted line and and took the money.

But here are the differences and I think most of us know and understand this. Flacco is not the same type of player as Lamar Jackson. He wishes he could move like Lamar. Probably he wishes he could have 10% of the movement that Lamar Jackson has. So every time Lamar Jackson moves he potentially sets himself up for that hit. Is he great at evading it? Yes. Do I think people put him in a space or omit how elusive he is? I think sometimes yeah but you put yourself out there you can get hit.

You open yourself up more. And so that's the difference between their style of play. It's much more aggressive and dangerous for Lamar. The second thing the agent situation. Lamar Jackson is going to have to wait until March to even entertain the idea of having a new contract. He's going to have to do it.

Him, his mom, his lawyer, him. March 7, 2023 the Ravens are going to have some options and choices. They're going to start. They can tag him. They're going to have about two months almost three months to that point until they say oh well uh we didn't work out a long-term deal and they got options with the franchise tag. Not to really dive into the particulars but for next season if they tag Lamar it could be a 46 million dollar deal for one season.

Could be. And that'll basically double his salary from what he's making this year and that will put him in that elite class in that Watson range, in that Murray range. It's also not to say that I don't know Joe Burrow and Herbert don't get deals that exceed 50 million per. That's just for next season. If they don't come to terms on a long-term deal in 2024 Lamar Jackson could make 55 million dollars for that one season.

And this is going to be absolutely impossible. If they decide to franchise tag him again in 2025, he could make 80 million dollars a year. He can go from 55 to 80 and that ain't happening. This man will be a free agent or they will work out a long-term deal. They ain't paying him 80 million dollars a season. Not happening.

And so this is dangerous for both sides. Not the 80 million dollars part because it ain't happening. But the Ravens who have invested their entire team and offense built around Lamar Jackson in a couple of seasons he could say I want out of here. It might happen sooner than later. From Lamar Jackson's perspective, he could say, oh, well, man, I just broke my leg.

I'm cooked. I actually believe this is a more dangerous scenario for the Ravens. Lamar Jackson I am sure and certain has an insurance policy out. If he's smart, if everything is going well, I will assume this man will not go broke or go poor at any point in his life. And if he's insured against injury, which I'm sure he is, he can still walk away potentially with 100 maybe more.

He's going to be paid. What is the likelihood of a career-threatening injury? We saw Dak Prescott break his ankle and come back. I would say more often than not, we have several years in front of us of Lamar Jackson. Is it going to be Lamar in a Ravens uniform?

That we'll have to see. And so is this dangerous? Is this risky for both sides? Is this dangerous for Lamar to enter into the season without a contract?

The answer is yes. Is this risky for the Ravens? Yes, because the price continues to go up and eventually you're going to have to either overpay him or move on and start over. And so for the Ravens, I think this is trickier.

I understand the injury risk, but listen to me. Lamar Jackson is going to get his money anyway. Whether it's going to come from the Ravens in the form of a franchise tag, whether it's going to come from another team in the future, or unfortunately, whether it comes via an insurance payout, Lamar will be fine. The Ravens now have to figure this out and now they got to wait months. I'm going to take your calls after this 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. The Ravens and Lamar Jackson did not come to an agreement on a contract extension. He's an Aaron Judge territory entering into a contract year.

Is he going to have an MVP season or is he going to fall apart where nobody wants him? Is this too risky for Lamar Jackson? I'm going to take your calls on the other side. You're listening to the JR Sportbrief show on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sportbrief show on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sportbrief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sportbrief on CBS Sports Radio. Hey JR, thanks for taking my call. You have a great show. I listen to you on my midnight shift every night.

Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. Oh, this song in the back. Get paid.

Shout outs to Dolph, shout outs to his family. Get paid, get paid, get paid. Lamar Jackson's getting paid, but he ain't getting no long-term deal. The Ravens and Lamar Jackson did not come to an agreement on a long-term deal. Today, or I should say Friday, was a self-imposed deadline.

It did not take place. We know that Lamar Jackson is without a typical representation in the NFL when it comes down to an agent. It's he, himself, and a lawyer. And you can go ahead and look at the deals that have presented themselves and two other quarterbacks. 50 million dollars per year and 190 guaranteed and 230 guaranteed and you think about his accomplishments.

It's rather simple where he would slot in. I would assume that it's really about the guaranteed money at this point. And so for a man who has outplayed his contract and outplayed his draft position, has had the ultimate success or great success for someone who has just started their career, this is risky for him to not have a long-term deal in place and it's risky as well for the Ravens who have built their entire team and offense around him.

To a certain degree many would say that they've taken advantage of his skill set. And so we got to see what he looks like this year. The Ravens will have an option to realistically franchise tag him for the next two seasons. The third season the number would be astronomical. 80 million dollars for one season.

Not gonna happen. It's dangerous. It's dangerous for both sides.

But I'll tell you this, it's not as dangerous for Lamar Jackson as you think. Yes, this is football. It's a contact sport. It's contact sport. One hit could end him completely. I'm almost sure he has insurance.

It's commonplace. Second of all, yeah you play the odds every time you step out onto the field. But the odds are higher that he'll play and he'll have success. And if he doesn't the money's gonna come either way. This is dangerous for both sides but I'm not going to overreact on Lamar and who knows.

Maybe he steps up and has another MVP caliber season. 8-5-5 2-1-2 for CBS. That's 8-5-5 2-1-2 for CBS. Bob is calling from Wisconsin. You're on the JR Sport Reshow. Hey JR. Hope you're having a good Friday night like I am. I am Bob.

I am. I'm thinking that really Lamar should get himself an agent because those agents are out there to get the best deal they can for a quarterback. Now Lamar is a good quarterback but how good of an agent is he? There's a lot of really good agents out there but they're probably very crappy quarterbacks.

Now my question to you is it's kind of threefold and I'll ask it and maybe you can educate me a little bit about this and then I'll hang up and listen to your answer. Obviously these agents get a percentage of the contract. Now what I want to know is like do they get the percentage every year that the player plays? Do they also get a percentage of the signing bonus and then well I guess that's it and thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it and I'll listen off the air. No problem Bob.

Thank you for calling from Wisconsin. My understanding and I could be wrong and in all honesty I don't think it makes too big or large of a difference. An NFL agent will typically take approximately no more than three percent of the totality of the contract. That's it. Three percent and no it's not a massive amount.

The reality is the majority of NFL players are represented and it's the same in the NBA. Let me tell you something. It's difficult. It is tough becoming an agent. They run you through the ringer to make sure that you're not a crook.

You have to a be able to pay for the tests. You have to be vetted. It it's a tough world to break into.

It's a tough world. You, me, your next door neighbor, sans qualifications and you can be an agent but for a lot of people it's not worth it. The money that you might put out in becoming a quote-unquote agent, a sports agent, you may not get that back. There is a small pool of agents who represent the majority of the players and so although there are lots of lawyers who are agents and they might be making a pittance, they might not make anything.

They may not break even. When you have to factor in I have to recruit this guy from from from high school or not high school, now you can. I got to recruit him from college. I may have to secure an advance for him.

I may have to get this money back and then at the end of the day nothing stops him from leaving me at the conclusion. And so are there other additional spaces of revenue where an agent can make money off of a player? Yes, endorsement deals and that at that point you can make more money and depending on who you are as a player, there's some players, the super superstars, they make more money in endorsements typically than they might make when they're playing contract. That's not for everybody. Not everybody's LeBron James. Not everybody is Tom Brady.

So it's it's tough. It's not that Lamar is giving up the whole world but the precedent has been set. He is not the only, he's not the first player to go ahead and represent himself and by the way the union helps out as well. The NFL Players Association doesn't allow the players just to go out there and just be thrown to the wolves.

You figure it out. Richard Sherman is someone. Richard Sherman negotiated his own contracts especially recently at the end and who knows he still might be back on that field sooner than later.

And so this is not something unusual. There are a lot of players who take the approach of I can do this and protect myself. I'm not an NFL agent. I'm sure and I know NFL agents are listening. Some of these the NFL agents who are my friends who I talk to they listen to the show. The majority of us are not agents but the fact is I can look at what's been given to other folks and I can establish a baseline. You know the intricacies of that yes is where an agent can come in. How many players have that leverage? Only a handful of them. Guys who have actually I don't know won an MVP. You can't necessarily nickel and dime them in the same way.

Things become clearer more clear-cut. 855-212-44 CBS. That's 855-212-4 CBS. Lamar the Ravens.

What are your thoughts on this man entering into the final year of his deal on an expiring contract? Take your calls on the other side. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. Hey bro good night bro I enjoy your show man every night I get in trouble with the wife listening to your show all late. Yeah man I'm about to get a glass of wine or something to listen with me because it should be entertaining so she'll be on it talking smack. Call in now at 855-212-4 CBS. Man do better than that. You listen to me your wife gets mad and all you doing is giving her a glass of wine you better give her something else.

Come on man I understand though it'd be like that sometimes 855-212-4 CBS that's 855-212-4 CBS. Shep. Yes sir. Oh you know you're not you're not married. Man no. Why are you saying it like that? Oh marriage is a marriage is a touchy subject I feel like a lot of people and uh it's not it's not something that I have found uh success with in my life unfortunately. Okay. I don't know if people can relate to that I don't know if you can relate to that probably not.

It's 50 percent man it's the success rate is 50 percent. Yeah but I don't mind I don't mind getting up at the plate though I'm all for the at bat I haven't gotten the at bat yet. Whoa.

I just want the at bat. Whoa. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah man. Little Albert Pujols. Well listen I mean Albert Pujols has been at bat for 22 years I mean I'll take one year at this point.

A little Aaron Judge hit a home run at the plate. Uh yeah I mean yeah let's put it this way JR. What? I'm uh ready for that next phase of my life it's just not easy to me I don't have to tell you I'll tell our audience this we know what society is like these days and the the culture of dating it's not easy so I hope everyone listening has had more success than I've had this year. Okay I understand.

Thank you. 855-2124 CBS it's 855-2124 CBS we've been talking about marriage as well of uh of the football variety the lack of a long form agreement or announcement between Lamar Jackson and the Ravens we've also taught college football damn it we talked about that amazing tennis match that took place tonight between Francis Tiafoe and Carlos Alcaraz and the 19 year old beat the American we just got to wait a million more years before we have a successful consistent male tennis player and that's just we got a lot more to do even next hour before I roll out Mac Hollins of the Raiders will join us and I want to talk to you about the rule adjustments in Major League Baseball and even more NFL we got a lot to do so let's get back to the phones 855-2124 CBS that's Ryan he's calling from Charlotte you're on CBS Sports Radio. Hey uh is this me? Is your name Ryan? I'm calling from Chicago. Oh okay yeah that would be you then. Yeah all good um actually Fox River Grove hey I really enjoy your show man I listen to it every night when I'm driving home I play music for a living and I've got a lot of late nights and and uh I enjoy it anyway my point I guess is George I've heard of the hardest working most focused and talented athlete maybe to ever have existed tried his hand at baseball another sport which you'd think because of his athleticism he would be dominant at changing sports is not easy at a high level I don't care how athletic how focused how amazing you are it's just not that easy and so I guess that that that's my point like you know this is in this is in reference to what this is a reference to the tennis oh what I said oh okay yeah well yeah well not to sound well pardon me I'm probably gonna you know what hitting a baseball is like the most impossible most impossible thing to do I totally get it but yes well Ryan Ryan yes allow me to respond yes sir thank you you took one of the words or one of my statements out of my mouth and for anyone who wasn't listening as we talked about Francis Tiafoe losing I talked about the fact that a lot of our best athletes here in the United States of America that they don't go play tennis they go play sports like basketball they go play football I am not saying for someone who has played basketball at a high level for 20 years a la LeBron James to all of a sudden wake up and go play Nadal of Federer that's that's not what I'm saying my point is if they developed in a sport like tennis the typical way that someone else would instead of playing basketball or football then we would have someone successfully out there at a high level representing the United States of America I think the same thing holds true in the dearth of talent that we've had or the success I should say I don't want to say dearth of talent in the United States men's national team for soccer and so my thought process on that will will never change I will tell you this as someone who grew up playing both basketball and tennis that the the the athleticism and the abilities baseball I don't think equates and that's the one thing that you just said I could play tennis I had a great old time playing tennis in basketball I love baseball absolutely love it the few times that I stepped into a batter's box to swing a bat I realized this ain't for me I ain't doing it and so there's something different about having a something with a little larger head instead of having a baseball bat which has a smaller head and a flat plane basically and trying to hit there's a difference there so I understand your point but I'm not saying that oh my god we can take Giannis today and have him beat Federer who's broken by the way yeah right on I you know I mean fair enough like hitting a baseball is almost impossible for 99% in the major league level 99% of us we just we would fail so miserably it would be laughable yeah but but you know I mean again I guess I just feel like on a professional level you're talking about a focus on a particular skill set that is lifelong yes but I repeat I don't want to repeat I repeat I don't want to repeat myself again but I answered and responded that you're repeating yourself I get it I and I do understand what you're saying I it's different tennis is different than baseball they're they're different types of skill yes but this is this is my point and and you heard it from me but now I'm going to repeat something I said earlier and thank you Ryan for calling from Chicago Aaron Judge was asked why don't we have more and this is me being a little bit more crass why don't we have more big-ass baseball players like you he said because they're playing football because they're playing basketball because they decided to specialize in a particular sport a lot of our great athletes that you sit down and watch on Sundays during the NFL from October to June in the NBA a lot of your baseball players these guys were multi-sport stars until they started to specialize in a particular area Patrick Mahomes was he going to play in the NBA probably not but this man was out there busting ass in basketball Aaron Judge Aaron Judge before he started to specialize in baseball Aaron Judge was all everything in basketball and football he had football scholarships he chose baseball I think he picked the right thing this man has cracked 55 home runs he might break the record for most home runs by a righty legitimately at least in the American League I'll say overall if it happens and so some of our best athletes let's just put it this way they're not playing tennis and if they did they did sharpen that skill we wouldn't be talking about Agassi and Sampras as being the last dudes 8 5 5 2 1 2 for CBS that's 8 5 5 2 1 2 for CBS I'm gonna get some more of your calls we'll talk about everything including some of these rules that will change in baseball here on CBS Sports Radio.