10.4.22 - JR SportBrief Hour 4

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And the number here is 855-212-4CBS, you can also holler at me, I'm at J.R. Sportbrief from being joined by super producer and host, Dave Shepherd. And it has been oh so busy of a night, oh so busy of a day. Aaron Judge hits homerun number 62, more home runs than anyone ever in American League history. The Atlanta Braves, they officially clinched the National League East over the New York Mets.

Tom Brady, not in the news for positive reasons, has been reported that both he and his wife, Gisele Bündchen's supermodel, have both looked to hire divorce attorneys. Not too nice, right? Matthew Stafford, he talked to the media after getting beat up last night. Bobby Wagner was out there beating up a fan. NBA executives have already started to put in their pre-season predictions. They believe that Luka Doncic will win the MVP. We gave you an update on Dak Prescott.

We have done a lot. And let me tell you something, Tom flies when you're having fun. I have fun. I'm only going to be here for one more hour and I'm getting the hell up on out of here. They're going to tell me to shut up, turn my microphone off and I have to exit the studio.

And so I'm going to take your calls. We're going to talk about Luka. You're going to hear about Aaron Judge. I know people will ask me about Kirk Cousins. We talked about Kirk Cousins. We talked about Justin Fields. We'll talk about it all.

It's what I do. It's the JR Sport Reshow on CBS Sports Radio. Now before I move on, the New York Yankees, they were able to play a baseball game this evening and they lost in Texas to the Rangers. The final score, 3-2. One more game left in a regular season and Aaron Judge, he was basically going to be down to one more game to hit his final home run or his 62nd, but he did it tonight. He didn't waste any time. He tied Roger Maris for most home runs in the American League with 61 last Tuesday and it took him a week. Tonight he hit number 62. This is the call courtesy of the Yankees Radio Network.

Here's John Sterling. Here's the 1-1. Swung on. There it goes! Deep left. It is high. It is far.

It is gone! Number 62 to set the new American League record. Aaron Judge hits his 62nd. All the Yankees out of the dugout to greet him.

Just think of it. Three Yankee right fielders. The Babe hitting 60 and 27. The Jolly Roger hitting 61 and 61. And now Aaron Judge hits his 62nd home run. The most home runs any American Leaguer has hit in a single season.

And the American League has been alive for 120 years. This is Judgment Day. Case closed. Oh, that's sweet. That's sweet. After the game Aaron Judge spoke to the media and he said, listen, I've enjoyed this. It's been a fun ride so far.

Getting a chance to do this with the team we got, the guys surrounding me, the constant support from my family who's been with me there through this whole thing, it's been a great honor. Yeah, it's fun. You know, I opened up the show.

This happened not too long after I came on air and I shared with you all, hey, I'm loving this. For me personally, it's a matter of personal choice. And this is a fact. We know Barry Bonds is a record holder, man. That's going to be beaten into the ground for the next eternity.

Yes, I'm exaggerating. But the fact is we know his ass was cheating. Mark Maguire was out there cheating. Sammy Sosa was out there cheating.

And we don't have any type of inclination that Aaron Judge has done so. And so I enjoy this. I'm thrilled. I'm happy. And I consider him to be the home run king.

And Roger Maris, he basically doubled down on what he said last week that Roger Maris Jr. went on Twitter and said, it's nice to have a clean home run king. And I'm like, damn, tell us how you really feel. 855-212-4CBS, we've got a lot to get into this hour. We'll talk about Luka, we'll talk more football, and I'm sure Tom Brady will come up.

People always mention wild things. Let's go ahead and hit the phones right now. Lou's calling from Rochester. You're on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, J.R., I enjoy your show.

You and Shep are really cerebral and extremely informative. There's two of them. Don't be fooled.

Go ahead. No, no. I'm not. I know. So this tour thing is really bothering me, bothering me from a conscious standpoint. And I took your bait earlier when you said that maybe the NFL and some kind of additional protection rules.

And I looked up the story in a Shakespearean way of Humpty Dumpty. And that's a sinister story, the NFL. Why has the NFL now suddenly like commandeered or joined the NFL PA in their investigation?

Because they can't really fix Tua. They really couldn't care about him at all. And he was playing magnificently. I don't even root for the dolphins, but I was impressed by him.

And he was just laid out to dry. And I'm kind of pissed about it. Well, don't watch football.

I'm just saying, you know, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but we have to make these decisions. I sat here on the air a couple of nights ago, maybe last Thursday, Friday, and I said, listen, if I have to watch Tua, play football again against the New York Jets. Or how about the next time? If Tua Tanga Veloa is going to continue to play football in the NFL, which it appears that he will be, thank God, not this Sunday against the Jets, he's going to get sacked. This man is going to be driven into the ground at some point in time. His head is likely to bounce off of the turf. You don't think I'm going to watch and go, well, damn. And the sooner it happens again, the more likely and prone that I am to just go, oh man, I don't even want to watch this anymore. What time is it?

What time is it on? And I get it. We all have to make decisions. It's always tough to watch a football game when somebody's on the field for 10 minutes, whether they are knocked out, whether they are motionless, whether they have to bring out an air cast. It's tough to watch. And I think most of us, almost all of us football fans, are desensitized to that problem and that issue.

And I cannot provide any simpler of a suggestion and I get it. I know people that will not watch football and have not watched football since Colin Kaepernick. And it's justifiable if you don't want to watch or it's justifiable if you think the NFL is a league that promotes sex abusers. And I mean, people have their reasons and you can't knock them.

If the brain injuries and how they treat the players is enough, I can't knock anybody for saying, hey, I'm not rolling with the game anymore. I get it. I really do. We got people that won't let their kids play. I understand.

855-212-4CBS, Alex is calling from West Virginia. Hey, I got two things. The first one's short and sweet. Keys to a happy marriage.

I've been married 22 years. Number one, you have to find somebody who can tolerate your stuff and you can tolerate hers. Okay. Number two, communicate compromise.

And number three, they have to be 100% dedicated to making sure you're happy and you have to be 100% dedicated to making sure they're happy. Uh oh. So who's, so you calling Tom Brady, you calling Tom Brady a failure here on the radio? No, I'm not calling him a failure. I actually, I have a lot of sympathy for him because sometimes time goes by and life changes and you know, doesn't matter how hard you work or how much effort you put into it, it doesn't work out. I understand Alex.

I feel bad for him on that one. Now my second thing I wanted to talk about was Roger Maris. I 100% agree with him. We have a clean home run king. With that said, what happened now was good for baseball. When the cheaters set their records, unfortunately at that time it was good for baseball, right? You know, it brought a lot of attention to the sport.

So we can't just wipe them clean and throw them away because they did a lot for the sport at the time. Yeah, no, they're, they're, they're in the record books. I'm not someone who thinks that they should be eradicated and erased from the record books. It's just, hey, you, you, you accept and know people for who they are and what they did. And I think most people who look at the record books understand it. It's not, and this is the thing, and thank you Alex for calling from West Virginia.

This is, this ain't law, this ain't the Holy Bible. I mean, for the life of me, I can't understand why people get so upset just about the records. Who cares? Are you getting a bonus? You're going into the hall of fame.

If anybody should be mad or upset, it's some of the cheaters that aren't in and it's their damn fault. It's just how it is. Dan is calling from Ohio. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. Hi, can you hear me? I hear you loud and clear, Dan. Go on ahead.

Oh yeah. I'm just going to make a quick comment cause I'm almost, and then I'm going to hang up and listen here. You know, nobody back then thought these guys were using and we were all going celebrating. We found out years later, I mean, Roger Mares, I think Roger Mares' son, I think he may say we find out in five, 10 years, judges, I mean, how's he know judges clean? I mean, I think he would, I think he's going to sound stupid if in five, 10 years from now we found out Aaron Judge was using. We didn't know any of those guys were using back then and we haven't listened to you. Well thank you, Dan.

I appreciate you calling from Ohio. I don't know if I necessarily subscribe to that. We don't live in the same world that we do or did 20 years ago. I mean, what was there, America Online? There was the advent you had to put a disc into a computer to get internet access.

It make all types of stupid noises as it connected to your house phone. Like we live in the information age and so much has changed over the past 20 years when you think about what goes around. You don't think that 20 years ago that this stuff would have been all over the internet like in two seconds?

And when I say the internet, I'm talking about Twitter, I'm talking about apps. And so to think or not suspect, people looked at the physical changes of these guys and went, what the hell did Barry Bonds do? What is he doing? And so there was suspicion there. There was like an, oh my God, what is he doing from what he accomplished? But I don't know if I'd put it in the same space of, oh, well, here's Aaron Judge. We have no idea.

You are correct. We don't know what the hell Aaron Judge is doing. I don't know what he's doing right now besides maybe having a good dinner, maybe having some sleep before the game. He's probably sitting up with his wife or his mom having dinner. I don't know what he's doing. I have no idea. But is it possible that he's cheating?

Yes. It's possible that somebody listening to me right now was cheating on their spouse like everything is possible or not. We don't have reason to believe that. Aaron Judge is a giant human being. And so, yeah, if he comes out five years from now, then Roger Maris Jr. has to eat his words and he'll be disappointed. I'll be disappointed. I won't be shocked.

Not all that much because anything can happen. But he does not appear to be using anything. He doesn't appear to be getting a leg up. And if he did, he'd be a massive ruse.

Wouldn't be the first time we got one of those now, would it? Robert calling from Charlotte. Go ahead, Rob. What's going on? What's going on, Jayar? How are you?

Doing great. Listen, I know what the judge did was great, but man, Atlanta Braves walked the Mets all the way down. I thought that was really amazing. And I think everybody handed the trophy to the Dodgers at the beginning of the season.

But the Braves are saying not so fast. One thing I want to say before I go now, you know, you talk about Barry Bonds and how he was in his first three years and then when he got a steroid. Did anybody ever look at Michael Jordan's body from his first nine years to his second three feet? Oh, my God. What do you? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Robert. Oh, wait. Hold on. Wait, wait, Robert. Hold on a second. No, hold on, Robert. I'm going to let you know.

I'm going to put you on hold momentarily and I'm going to bring you back, OK? OK. OK. Hey, Shep, did you just hear what this man said? He insinuated the fact that Michael Jordan did something that was advantageous to his body in a non-kosher way. I'm not even going to say that. OK. I'm not even going to go that far.

It was tough to digest that, yeah. I'm not even going to say he insinuated that. He just said, we're talking about Barry Bonds here. Barry Bonds, whose head, his head physically got bigger. Right. His feet physically got bigger.

Right. You could look at him and say, damn it, he looks like two of the guy that I saw 10 years ago. He became a giant. Robert literally just called and said to me, did you see Michael Jordan from his first 3P to the second one? And did I hear, he said, that's what he just said, right? JR, that's what he said. Now, I don't know Robert too well.

This is my own guess. Robert is not happy with the management and leadership skills of an owner in Michael Jordan. So like many other people, they're taking their frustration out on Michael Jordan, the player, where it should be directed towards him as an owner. Wait a minute. So Michael Jordan, this poor guy, his father gets murdered. He disappears from the game. He comes back and he's older, by the way.

He's in his mid 30s. And so now, well, let's, let me not, let me not ask any more questions. He's still on hold. So let me bring Robert back and I'm going to shut up and I'm going to allow Robert to really, you know, just lay out his entire thoughts.

Get prepare yourselves, people. It's Robert from Charlotte. You're back, Robert.

Go ahead. I'm still here and I'm not saying that he did anything. But what I'm saying is some of a person getting bigger has to do with weight training and maturity. Don't you think? Because clearly I don't think that Michael Jordan did anything illegal, but I live in Charlotte.

I saw Michael Jordan a lot when they came to Charlotte because I worked at the Coliseum when he used to come here and I used to see him a person. This is personal. So wait a minute. Wait, wait a minute. Can I ask Robert a question? Wait.

No, hold on, chef, Robert. So what you're saying to me is that Barry Bonds, he got bigger because of age and weight training. Is that what you're telling me? Well, that was part of it. So the fact that he tested positive for steroids had nothing to do with it. The fact that he had doping calendars had nothing to do with it. The fact that he admitted to rubbing things on his body and then I didn't know it was steroids had nothing to do with it.

The fact that he tested positive for a female fertility drug had nothing to do with it. I think most of us know as just men and women, as you get older, you get heavier, you get bigger. Exactly. It's natural. And it's not that Barry Bonds now in his early 40s is just, you know, becoming the incredible hope because he got older, if anything, it's a little bit more difficult to create muscle mass as you become older.

You lose it. This is true. Very true. And like I said, I'm not saying that he did anything. Obviously, he worked really hard. You know, Barry, but here's the thing. He did work hard. He worked hard in the early part of his career and at the end he got jealous and he put stuff in his ass. Shep, go ahead and ask your question. Robert, the question I would have for you is, besides being the three of the four greatest shooting guards of all time, Michael Kobe and Dwayne Wade, do you know what they all have in common?

What's that? They work with the same trainer, Tim Grover. So they did progressive overload. And you and I both know, JR obviously knows this, when Michael Jordan got his butt whooped by the way the Detroit Pistons were playing him, by consistently knocking him to the ground, he needed to put on that extra muscle mass. You got to give him credit for taking that necessary step to stand up to the Pistons. And by the way, it benefited Kobe and then it benefited Dwayne Wade. I just think it's ludicrous to say Michael Jordan did anything but go about it the right way in terms of on the basketball court and in the weight room. No, no, you misunderstand. I didn't say he did anything wrong.

What I'm saying is- Darry Moms, yeah. Here's something that I still contend. Did any of those drugs have anything to do with his hand-eye coordination?

Well, Robert, we know it did not have to do with his hand-eye coordination, but the drugs helped his ass to even be on the baseball field, Robert. True. They did.

They did. And your points about it, and again, I wasn't insinuating that Michael did anything wrong. I'm just saying- We get that. So when the person says, whoa, look how big he got.

Well, how about maturity and weight training? Well, it wasn't- Well, in the case of Barry Bonds, we all know it wasn't because he was 40 and that he was just weight training for 20 years, that he all of a sudden got huge, that his head got bigger, that his feet got bigger. There's a whole lot. Hey, Robert, it's not even where there's smoke, there's fire. Barry Bonds admitted to using stuff.

They tried to get the guy for perjury. This man cheated. You know that, right? Yeah.

Yeah, no doubt. Okay. Okay. So that's it.

Now I need to take a drink. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on CBS Sports Radio. We're going to talk about Luka Doncic on the other side. I'll take more of your calls before we roll out. Don't move. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. I just want to say thank you for being on this show and giving me some good content every time I leave my girlfriend's house, give me some time to chill, relax, and listen to some good sports news. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. No problem.

You got it. That's what they pay me for. Now here, just sit down and entertain the people, have some fun.

That's what I do. You should see me leaning back in the studio chair right now. I'm smooth like Snoop Dogg. You hear this in the back? This is smooth music.

Yeah, like, like it's Saturday afternoon, rolling in my low rider, the top down. Yeah. Easy listening.

It's the JR Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. You know what? There's so much that I wanted to get into tonight, but I won't be able to do it. I won't. There's not enough time. I'm not leaving right now.

Don't worry about it. But tomorrow we're going to do a deeper dive into some of these anonymous reportings from NBA GMs. You know, they always pull these guys before the start of the season. It's kind of crazy that we're now a little more than a week away from the start of the NBA season. We got a lot of GMs who filled out these surveys and they say, yeah, Luca's going to be MVP. It's almost like, I don't know, Giannis doesn't exist and Anthony Davis, well, Anthony Davis MVP.

He got to vote. You got John Moran. There's a lot of folks. And so we're going to spend more time on that tomorrow. Of course, I'm going to give you a new top six list. And tomorrow in honor of Aaron Judge breaking the record tonight, 62 home runs, we're going to talk about some other big records in sports. It took 61 years, 61 years for Roger Maris's record to be broken in the American league. We're going to look at some other records that will not be touched. But before we do that, how about this?

Yeah, let me just give you a teaser. This is what Luca Doncic had to say about being an MVP favorite. It's amazing, you know, to be an MVP of this league, you know, not a lot of people can say it, but it's a long progress.

Hopefully one day I can win it, but let's see, you know, first of all, you got to win it and then you can talk about like favorites and that stuff. Yeah, this guy's amazing. He played basketball over the summertime, so it's not like you're going to show up fattened out of shape like last year. Luca Doncic should be no problem, man. He's going to eventually win an MVP. This guy plays basketball and basically averages 30, 10, and 10, and he doesn't in his sleep.

He's not ridiculously athletic. He makes no sense, none, zip, zero, zilch. We spoke to Tracy McGrady here on the show a couple of months ago and I asked Tracy, I said, whoa, we got Luca over here. We got John Moran over here.

What do you think about these guys? And I feel like a basketball smart person now, a smart basketball person, Tracy McGrady and I, we agreed. It's just like you look at Luca, his game is going to age much better. He ain't jumping out the gym. He's slow motion. He does what he wants. He's bigger. Luca is a problem.

And so whether or not he wins the MVP this season or the MVP into the future, he got one coming. Let's see what he does. 855-212-4CBS, 855-212-4CBS, Ezra's calling from West Virginia. Go ahead, Ezra. Hey, JR. Thanks for taking my call.

So I got a couple of things that I wanted to talk about. First, you were talking earlier about the Tua situation and I just wanted to say, you know, like these, these guys, you know, I, I really want to see, um, you know, uh, players get protected and, and helmets get, you know, upgraded and everything, but also these players, like when they start playing, they, um, you know, they, they've seen all these years of people getting concussions and everything, you know, that's kind of what they're signing onto. They already know what's going to happen. And also, I mean, there are two like major things that they're getting paid all these millions for, you know, first they're really talented. And then second, they have, they're taking this risk with their bodies. So, you know, they kind of, they kind of know what's going to happen. They're signing onto it. So what are you saying?

You don't have, you don't have any empathy for them because they sign on a dotted line? No, I think, you know, I like, um, yeah, I mean, I want to see them, you know, stay and not get injured and everything. And I want, you know, the game to become safer, but you know, football is not no fun if, you know, there's a reason why it's called tackle football, you know, you want to see these big hits and you want to see, you know, guys, I'm a Broncos fan, you know, like Von Miller, see, you know, him do his thing if he can't do his thing, you know, then, you know, what's the point? I understand. I think, uh, you know, we touched upon this early on in the show.

Thank you, Ezra, for calling from West Virginia. The game is going to continue to change. I was disappointed when they got rid of kickoffs or basically got rid of kickoffs because I wanted to see a guy running out of the end zone and see if he could take it to the house. That's basically been eliminated. How many people are, are crowing about that, that that's gone? I still think about it. I'm used to it by now, but I still miss what we used to see. And I wouldn't be shocked if we saw more adjustments into the future. I mean, the game has to continue. Everything has to change over time.

Everything you don't change, you get left behind simple. Tony calling from Massachusetts. Go ahead. Tony.

What's up? Go ahead. So I'm going to make this quick. So it's official and the judge is the home run ALK. So can we put that to bed because I don't even say, I just got a chart in my head about Barry Bonds and I go, why is it that we know he cheated? The boy's head was the size of a balloon and we know he cheated, but they always go back to this.

Uh, does that help us? I ain't nobody talks about, here's the sad part. Barry Bonds was five, two, he didn't even have to do all that. He probably could have did that just saying normal. So I got a problem with people calling up, acting like, Oh, he aged well. He put on weight. He worked out and man, he shot himself up. He made himself stronger. He recovered quicker and that's how they did it.

That's all I got to say, Jay, nothing else to say after that, Tony, he hit the nail on the head there. It's the Gerald sport re-show here with you on CBS sports radio, speaking of recovering quicker. No, I am not insinuating that this man is using anything, but Russell Wilson dealing with a little bit of a shoulder issue. He just played on Sunday. He's going to play Thursday night against the Indianapolis Colts. And I'll tell you how fast Russell Wilson is recovering.

Damn it. You can even hear from Russell Wilson himself, and then I'll talk to you. It's the JR sport re-show here on CBS sports radio. You're listening to the JR sport brief on CBS sports radio. You know, I just want to start off by saying I respect you a lot and I love your show and everything that you do.

So just want to say mad love and love everything that you do. Call in now at eight five five two one two four CBS, it's the JR sport re-show here with you on CBS sports radio. I need to let you know this before I roll out, before I talk to you, before I let you know about Russell Wilson. The defensive player of the week is sponsored by the Navy Federal Credit Union, who proudly serves the armed forces, DOD, veterans and their families. Their members are the mission.

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Hey, Navy Federal Credit Union, you can learn more Navy federal dot org. Speaking of injuries, you probably know this, unfortunately, Russell Wilson isn't having the best of starts as a member of the Denver Broncos. This past Sunday, the Broncos actually lost to the Raiders. The Raiders actually won a football game. They came into Sunday with zero victories, and they beat the Broncos 32 to 23. Russell Wilson probably had the best game of his short time now with the Broncos. Two hundred thirty-seven yards, two touchdowns, a rushing TD, he also came out of there with a busted up shoulder. They play Thursday night.

This is not exactly, not at all. A tour situation is a big difference between a shoulder and a head. But Russell Wilson, knowing that he has to be right back in action Thursday night against the Indianapolis Colts, Russell Wilson is just like, listen, folks, my shoulder is perfectly fine. I'll be out there. Listen, you're good. Hang in there. I think you play a competitive game.

You get banged up a couple of times here and there. But I'm excited. Obviously, Thursday night, what a special time, what an opportunity for us. Are you confident you'll be able to play on Thursday? Yeah, I'm super confident.

Yeah. With somebody who spends so much time preparing every week, how much does a Thursday night game challenge you to get to where you like to be before a game? Well, I think it's great. I think that when you get to play these Thursday night games, for me, I always try to get a lot of my film ahead of film on Mondays. And when you play a Thursday night game, as soon as I get back on the plane on Sundays, I'm watching that film usually on Sunday night of the next team.

So getting prepared that way, Monday all day, Tuesday all day. So I think that the great thing is that every Thursday practice should feel like a game in a way throughout the regular season. You want to make it that competitive, and I think we do a great job of that. Obviously, you're going to play a different uniform on a great team in the Colts. I think they got a lot of great players, so many stars in their team. So it's going to be a great matchup, and we're looking forward to it.

Play in front of our fans. What a great time that's going to be. So it's a special thing. Okay. All right, listen. The whole time he's speaking, I'm just like, man.

I am well aware that the cliff could have been 50 seconds short, but I just want you to react. No, I'm just saying to myself, he's like, oh yeah. He's like, my shoulder will be fine. And in my head, I'm going, man, somebody should just slap him on the shoulder. Hey, good luck, Russell.

That's just me. Anyway, that's going to be an interesting, and when I say an interesting Thursday night football matchup, prepare yourselves, because yes, Russell Wilson will be in action. The Denver Broncos have been just flat to start off the season. We're talking two and two. Nathaniel Hackett is making mistakes all over the place.

He needed to hire a guy for clock management. And also, if we want to take a look at the Colts, what exactly is exciting about them? Nothing. Not a damn thing. There's injuries all over the place.

How about the latest one? You got Jonathan Taylor, his ankle is busted up. He's telling everybody that he's going to go out there and play.

It's just, I don't know. The Broncos have to win this game, and you should just prepare yourselves. Prepare yourselves. We're going to have Russell Wilson audio on Thursday, so it should be a lot of fun. Let's get to some of your calls before I have to roll out. 855-212-4CBS. That's 855-212-4CBS. JB, calling from Houston, you're on the JR Sport Brief Show.

Hey, how's it going? Matter of fact, speaking of the Colts last night, that's when I was going to start with your caller talking about Bushwickville, and Aaron Judge hitting his own run tonight, being in 1999, when I was in high school, I think, in 1999 in Houston. If you know the Jack in the Box scene after hours in Houston, you said you've never really been to Dallas. No, no, I didn't say that, except I haven't been in Dallas recently. I spend a lot more time in Houston. I've been in Dallas more times than I could probably count.

Well, sorry about that. I'm still new to the show, but it's funny that we were there after hours. Back in 1999, and the long lines, and people were honking and everything, and the next thing you know, Bushwickville jumps out the car and was like, yo, hey, everybody's slow their roll.

I'm trying to order my food. And we were all like, wait, is that Bushwickville ghetto boys? I mean, I'll never forget that. Legendary. Yes.

God bless them. To go back to that, sorry about that, but the other records and everything else is, with Severino last night being a Yankees and Astros fan, which Lock It In is going to be the championship series again, hopefully, and then hopefully a Houston rematch with Atlanta, but is why are these guys keep pulling these pitchers out and let them get one hit and then pull them out? Stop pulling them out and taking away a life chance from these people to have a chance at a no-hitter.

Well, a lot of that is, well, I mean, at this point of the season, it's like, do we have more to gain? In the case of Severino, he's been, he was hurt basically for two consecutive years. The other element in a larger scheme, you know, these pitchers are making tons of money. I'm just going through my head of all the pitchers.

These guys are fragile. Verlander, too. I mean, you know, he's been injured an old, you know, you're not taking Nolan Ryan out the game even at 40 years old. The game is different now.

The money invested into these guys is different. I mean, here you have Jacob DeGrom, who for two consecutive years is just like, hey, I got Cy Youngs for you. I mean, last year he had an ERA of basically one, which is unfathomable. And then he gets hurt. He misses an entire calendar year playing baseball. And so it's like, what are we going to do? Just have him go out there and go balls to the wall?

The answer is no. You got, you got Scherzer, who's still one of the best pitchers. So man, you got to baby these guys. Listen, I love it like the next dude. I wish we had nine inning games from starters, eight innings, seven innings.

You get a guy out there to get a hold and another guy picks up the save. But it's not what it is. I understand what you're saying, but I also understand the logic regardless of how much I dislike it. I really, I'm with you.

I actually hate it. I accept it, though. Alex is here from Atlanta. Alex is not here from Atlanta. Ron is calling from North Carolina. You're on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, J.R., how you doing? Love your show. Thank you.

Go ahead. Look, I've been a Braves fan forever. I started watching them when I was living in Atlanta in the late 70s and early 80s. It's so funny that I used to be able to go there and pay $6 and go in and sit anywhere I wanted to, even two rows behind Ted Turner. And the ushers wouldn't say a thing.

But it's so much fun watching them now because it's there's so much of a better team. And just want to say, hey. Oh, well, thank you. Hey to me.

Yeah. Oh, that's so nice of you, man. Oh, thank you, Ron.

Hi to you, too. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for letting me talk on your show.

Absolutely. Thank you, Ron, for calling from North Carolina. You call me back any time.

That was such a nice thing. I just wanted to call and say hey. You know who called?

Hey, Shep, you want to know who called me today to say hey? Richard Sherman? No. Nobody.

Until him. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. No, I haven't spoken to Richard.

No. Who's this? I'm calling from Alabama.

You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Robert? Hey, man. How you doing there? Oh, Robert.

Well, thank you, Robert. Do you have me on speaker? No, I got. No, I don't. I don't. I don't. Do I need this? I won't do this.

I think you do. I'm at the end of the show, Robert. I don't have time for this. I know. I'm holding your show up. No, but the show is almost done. Oh, my God.

Chris from Maryland. You have 30 seconds to absolutely kill it quickly. Oh, man. Okay. Because nightly, nuptial talk. How could you say? You made me laugh when you asked what was wrong with that man's sister. That was so funny.

How could you say such a thing? But anyway, hey, this whole show tonight would have been about Aaron Judge if not for those steroid guys. And that's the shame. That's the damage they did. And that's why they deserve the place they're in. And they should bear bonds.

And all of them should start making amends. Thanks for having me. Just wanted to say, hey, JR. Thanks. Oh, thank you. Somebody else called to say hey to me.

Thank you, Chris, for calling from Maryland. He just did it because the other guy did it, you know? Oh, he did. He wanted to say hi.

Monkey see, monkey do. He just wanted to say hi. I would have loved to talk to the other guy, but I'm like, hey, do you have me on speaker? He's like, no. I'm like, so why do you sound like you're miles away from your phone? Like, let me fix something real quick.

Okay. It's like, come on, man. It's the end of the show, bruh.

The music is getting ready to come on in a second. I'm going to have to shut up. Amy Lawrence is going to come on. She's going to take you the rest of the way.

It's absolutely amazing. And me, I'll be back with you tomorrow. 10 p.m. Eastern time, 7 p.m. Pacific. If you miss me, you can find me at JR Sport Brief. Talk about some of these NBA MVP people. Give you a new top six list. I'm just here to have fun.

It's the JR Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. Thank you, Shep, for an amazing night. I told you this. I'll tell you again. Amy Lawrence.

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