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This man has battled with substance abuse and alcohol issues for years now. We don't know the full details of what took place and what happened, the cult sharing that he has passed away this afternoon. We also, I guess on brighter news and brighter side of things, we learned that Shay Gilgus Alexander is now the NBA MVP, officially being named NBA MVP last hour. We also have the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers. They are set to tip off minutes from now in New York City in Madison Square Garden.
We're also minutes away here from sharing with you a new top six list as we will take some time to highlight some of the biggest crybabies in sports. So we have certainly had a busy day, a busy afternoon, a busy evening, and we will continue to roll on. You can always call up anytime at 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to our producer in New York City holding things down, Ryan Botcher.
Please tune in on the free Odyssey app, your local affiliate Sirius XM375 and a smart speaker if you have one. What a day. What a day. What a day. What a busy, busy day. And then we even had the news earlier today that the NFL decided, well, the NFL owners voted against banning the tush push. So the tush push is going to stay.
It's going to stick around. So today has been a very busy news day. And then, as I told you, last hour, Shay Gilgus Alexander walking away with the MVP award for 2024, 2025 after last year, coming in second to Nikola Jokic. The announcement was made on the NBA, on TNT and Shay Gilgus Alexander. He spoke to Shaq and Charles and Kenny and Ernie. And I guess one of the big questions to Shay Gilgus Alexander was pretty much, hey, how much did you think about Nikola Jokic and the fact that, dammit, this guy has three and he could go out there and win it again.
Listen to this. Yeah, you try so hard throughout the season to like not think about it and just worry about playing basketball and getting better and trying to win games. But as a competitor and as a kid dreaming about the game, it's always in the back of your mind. And I'm very thankful to be this side of the I guess the ballot. But none of it's possible without the guys behind me.
The amount of games we won in the fashion that we won the games is so impressive and is probably the main reason why I get the award. So without them, it's not possible. Man, they had to play music in the back. He's doing an interview on national television and he was in the team facility. Like, did they need music in the back?
Did the PR guy couldn't get them to turn it down? I mean, come on now. Shagil gets Alexander.
They continue chatting. He was surrounded by his teammates. Yeah, they he was flanked. They were wearing his shirt, which is a nice touch on some some unity there. And he talked about being on some bad teams.
Let's keep in mind, Shagil gets Alexander. He was the 11th pick out of Kentucky in twenty eighteen. He was on the Clippers before he was moved to the Oklahoma City Thunder. He knows about playing on some bad teams. And now this guy's the MVP. He just talked about his teammates.
What about the bad teams, man? Listen to him talk about that. I always like to focus on the things that I can control.
I think that's how I got to this point. So all the chit chatter and what's going on in the league, I have no control over. So I just try to keep my head down, work super hard.
And the guys around me do the same thing. And it made it easy to grow, easy to get to this point because of that. I think that mentality is going to help us keep growing in the future. Yeah, man. Well, I think they're going to be NBA champions.
I think that that, too, as well. And so we talked about Shagil gets Alexander. We got the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers getting ready to tip off here in game one. So we have a lot to get into. It is Wednesday. Every Wednesday I bring you a new top six list tonight. This evening will be no different. We're going to take a look at some of the biggest crybabies in sports.
And here's a little bit of a spoiler for everybody. This list was inspired by the Green Bay Packers, all that whining and crying and complaining that they did in order to try to get the Tush Push band in the NFL. So I want to thank them for inspiring this list.
And then also, I can't lie. Reggie Miller also inspired this list. Yeah, Reggie Miller, former Indiana Pacer, NBA Hall of Famer or excuse me, Basketball Hall of Famer. He's another dude always belly aching. And it's not a time that I don't look at this man who's now going to be calling this series between the Pacers and the Knicks and just just look at him and just go, man, just shut up and stop complaining.
I can imagine when I have many quotes tonight. Reggie Miller just being a pain in the ass for New York Knicks fans and people who have to listen to him. And so without wasting any more time, as I do every single Wednesday, it's time for a new top six list. It's time to take a look at some of the biggest crybabies in sports.
Six, five, four, three, two, one. It's time to get JR's latest top six list only on the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Time to talk about some of the biggest crybabies in the world of sports. These are players, these are coaches, these are teams, these are fans who just don't know how to shut up. And I'm talking about now modern day crybabies in sports. I'm not going back in the past thinking about people who are active right now. It's a top six list.
Where do we start? Number six. Oh, man, this crybaby. He should he need to stop crying because maybe he's not on the team that he thought he would be on. But I think he's in a better location. He's playing with an all time great.
He's playing near the beach and maybe just maybe he will learn how to shut the hell up. And number six on the list. I'm giving you Luka Doncic.
You want to talk about a crybaby? This man is one of the best young players that the NBA has ever seen. This guy is winning championships and MVPs in the EuroLeague as a teenager in Barcelona. He comes over to the NBA.
He's exciting. He takes the Mavericks to the NBA Finals. But man, it hasn't been a guy to work the referees like this. And I don't even know how long this man has played in the league for seven seasons. He already has 88 technical fouls. He has four career ejections because he doesn't know how to stop.
And I will never forget last year in the NBA Finals, the Celtics are whipping that ass. He fouls out at the end of the game. He's on the floor. He's yelling at the officials.
He doesn't get back on defense. He's complaining and blaming everybody but himself. For his own frustration fouls. And then he wants to blame the refs and then yell at his own bench. Even Jason Kidd was sick and tired of the guy. Jason Kidd basically said Luka Doncic needed to grow up when it came down to the officiating.
This has nothing to do with him smoking hookah and drinking beer. Luka last year was asked about the comments by Jason Kidd. And Luka kinda sorta owned up to it, but then he kinda sorta didn't want to. Listen to this. Jake Kidd mentioned that, you know, I don't want to botch his words, so. He said as a team we've got to mature.
We've got to grow up. And he mentioned, you know, getting distracted by the whistle. Is that something, you know, what's your reaction to that? It's probably true. That's it.
Did you feel like you got distracted by the whistle today? I know you were going to be the one to ask me that question. I think it's a fair question, though. Yeah, like I said, you know, it's probably true. Uh huh. Probably true? I'm not going to answer.
It is true. You know your ass be complaining out there. I'm hoping that Luka Doncic in an offseason. JJ Redick already basically told him, hey man, you need to get in championship shape. I'm hoping that as he gets older, he will also learn when to fuss with the officials and when to get back on defense. And just shut the hell up.
You want to talk about crybabies? I got Luka Doncic at number six on my list. He's number six. What's next?
Number five. Man, you would think a Super Bowl winning head coach would would relax. You would think a guy who has a rookie quarterback who just took you to the playoffs would relax. But with Bill Belichick now hanging out with young women at UNC or my bad, he's coaching at North Carolina. Just has a young girlfriend.
My bad. You would think that that Sean Payton would be happy, but he has taken over the mantle of being old and grumpy from Belichick in the NFL. I got Sean Payton at number five here on the list. I mean, he was grumpy when he showed up. I mean, is Russell Wilson, was he that big of a pain in the ass? I mean, Sean Payton showed up, got the job, left Fox. And the first thing that he did is take a massive dump on Nathaniel Hackett, who at the time was the offensive coordinator for the New York Jets. I mean, Sean Payton showed up to work. He's supposed to paint a bright picture about what he's going to bring to the Denver Broncos. And he basically said, last year before I got here, it might have been the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL.
Damn, bro. He continued on. He says, you know what, Russell Wilson, last year, it's no there's so much dirt around that. There's 20 dirty hands for what was allowed tolerated in the training rooms, the meeting rooms, the offense. I don't know. Hackett. A lot of people had dirt on their hands. It wasn't just Russell. Damn. I've never heard a coach eviscerate another coach.
It's like a fraternity. But I guess Sean Payton is old. He's like, I don't know, none of these young guys. I'm just old and cranky.
He ultimately apologized and he blamed it on his TV hat. Listen to this garbage. I had I had one of those moments where I still had my Fox hat on and not my coaching hat on. And, you know, I said this to the team in the meeting yesterday.
We've had a great offseason relative to that. You know, and I've been preaching that message. And here I am, the veteran, you know, stepping in it. And, you know, it was it was a learning experience for me. It was a mistake.
Obviously, I need a little bit more filter. You know, there's a pound of flesh for these guys. And as a coach, you stick up for them. And after a while, you know, we're past that season last year. And and, you know, I said what I said and obviously I needed it a little bit more restraint.
And I regret that. No, he regrets that, man. What is he going to do? He might as well hire Gruden to be, you know, right there next to him. Come on, man.
What are we doing? Sean Payton, a big old crybaby. He's taken over as the old crotchety guy of a coach in the NFL. I got Sean Payton a number five on my list.
We're talking about the biggest crybabies in sports today. He's number five. Who's next?
Number four. Oh, my goodness. You want to talk about a crybaby? I think this guy might be blind. I don't know if he's. Well, he is a crybaby. He's also an abuser. I think he's a denier. I think he's not honest.
He just talks and talks. He's talking right now on TNT. It's Draymond Green.
Yeah, I got him number four on my list, one of the biggest crybabies in sports. Draymond Green will punch you in the mouth and then go, I didn't do it. Draymond Green will stomp on your chest and go, it wasn't me. Draymond Green will put you in a headlock and just go, why did I get kicked out of the game?
And then he has advice for everybody else. This man is not the next Charles Barkley. This man was sitting at the NBA All-Star game this year.
Yeah, we know the game suck. But he's complaining about them putting in rookies is like, well, maybe if some of your All-Star contemporaries actually played, they wouldn't have to do so. Let me read you some key Draymond Green stats. Twenty three career ejections. He's second to Rashid Wallace with twenty nine all time. Six career suspensions. He backhanded Nurkic. He put Gobert in a headlock. He stepped on Arvida Sabonis as kid. He hit LeBron in the groin. He had a beef with Kevin Durant that got him suspended.
And oh, yeah, he did punch Jordan Poole in the face. No suspension. Just a couple of days off.
A couple of weeks. Oh, yeah. And he did go back to Michigan State and then he punched the student there after he graduated.
There you have it. Draymond Green. Draymond Green just a couple of weeks ago after the Houston Rockets were eliminated by the Golden State Warriors.
This is when Draymond was still in the playoffs. He did say my own emotions. And sometimes I get my own way. I'm embarrassing myself. And I just I pouted way too much last game. So I spent the last two days embarrassed. Just what I what I gave to the game, what I gave to the world.
I was embarrassed. So I've been dying since the last game ended to get out on the floor and prove who I am. You know, one thing about this league, you're never done proving who you are until you're done.
Oh, man, whatever. Steve Kerr knows it, too. He's had to coach this guy all the way through. He's like, man, I know I'm sick of the guy, but this is who he is.
I'm sick of him. It's part of it's part of Draymond. You know, it's the same thing that makes him such a competitor and a winner. Puts him over the top sometimes.
And, you know, we we know that. And it's our job to try to help him stay, stay poised, stay composed. But the competition is so meaningful to him that, you know, occasionally he goes over the line. Occasionally he goes over the line. Twenty three career ejections.
Oh, my God. He's a crybaby. If I've ever seen one, Draymond Green, number four on my list. Top six crybabies in sports. Draymond is four. Who's next?
Number three. Oh, this is an easy one. It's his teammate, Jimmy Butler. Yeah, the same Jimmy Butler that cried his way out of Miami. The same Jimmy Butler that did all that talking last offseason.
Didn't want to go out there and back it up. Got mad at Pat Riley for calling him out and then decided to bail on the team when it was apparent Pat Riley wasn't just going to say, oh, here's here's one hundred and twenty one million dollars. Listen to the way that Jimmy Butler cried his way out of Miami.
This was the death knell. What do I want to see happen? I want to see me get my joy back from playing basketball and wherever that may be.
We'll we'll find out here pretty soon. But I want to get my joy back. I'm happy here. You know, off the court. But I want to be back to somewhere dominant. I want to hope I want to help this team win right now. I'm not doing it. Can you get your joy back here on the court?
Probably not. OK. And this this this guy cried his way out of Miami and then Pat Riley moved him. Golden State said, ah, we couldn't get Kevin Durant here.
We'll take the consolation prize. And then ultimately he kind of stunk when Steph Curry went down. Hey, you had your chance, your opportunity. I thought I thought you were big time if you were going to go out there and play.
Not the case. This man in the last two games and Steph Curry went down. He took just 20 shots.
I mean, damn it. We heard it yesterday from Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade sitting down on his own podcast. Dwayne Wade was just like, Jimmy Butler, man, they paying you 60 mil a year. Show up and get some buckets. I know Jimmy is a pass first guy. I know he's about getting his teammates to ball and want to see them shine. But it's a point where you're getting 60. This ain't working.
You got to go. He won't look at the basket. And I've seen this before. I've seen it in a heat jersey. And so, you know, in a sense, like when Pat come out, Pat say we want to get your attention is not always because of injury. Sometimes I need to see what you're going to do in every moment, not just in one moment.
All the time. Yeah, Jimmy Butler, number three on my list. Biggest crybaby in sports today. Draymond is three. What's that number?
Number two. Oh, they inspired the list. It's the Green Bay Packers. It's Mark Murphy.
Yeah. The guys that wanted to ban the tush push because they could not go out there and stop it. What a bunch of complainers. I'm glad the tush push is here to stay. You know, we had a great caller hit us up earlier in the show.
He's just like, this is really a situation of, hey, I can't beat the competition. I'm just going to take my ball and go home. Listen to Mark Murphy complain about this on Up and Adams several months ago. I'm glad it didn't happen. I'm glad the tush push is here to stay.
But listen to this man whine and cry and complain about the tush push. I mean, it's nothing against Philadelphia, but I think eventually you're going to see more and more teams do it because it's it's really difficult to stop the reality of it. And it's more of a rugby play than a football play. You're very passionate about it, I feel like. And so are the Packers.
What is it that makes you so passionate about this? Did you watch the NFC championship game? Did you see what the my old team, the Washington commanders?
I mean, I did. That's that's not good for football. You had players flying over the line of scrimmage to try to time it up.
What a waste of time. Other teams are going to go out there and try it. Well, why didn't they? Why didn't they? OK, the Eagles and the Bills are the only two teams that ran the tush push more than five times last season.
Let's put this whole band, the tush push and push and pull. Let's put this thing behind us. There's more important things going on in the game of football, like, I don't know, a guy catching a touchdown.
I don't know. Like, leave things alone. OK, stop complaining just because you couldn't go out there and beat a team.
Beat the Eagles. Don't change the rules. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. We're talking about some of the biggest crybabies in the world of sports.
I'm going to tell you who I have at number one on my list. I'm going to give you an update on what's going on between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers. And then the NFL has released a statement Roger Goodell has on the passing of Colts owner Jim Irsay.
We'll come through and talk about it all on the other side of the break. You're locked in to the J.R. sport re-show, the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief. It is the J.R. sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I am sharing with you a new top six list.
We're talking about some of the biggest crybabies in the world of sports today. I'm about to share with you who I have at number one. Before we get there, I do want to tell you about game one between the Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks. The Pacers currently lead the Knicks 29 to 22. Miles Turner has 11 points and is perfect from the field of perfect five of five for the Indiana Pacers. He is leading the way for them. Tyrese Halliburton with four points and then also five assists. Meanwhile, the New York Knicks. Well, everybody expects Jalen Brunson and towns to lead the way.
That they are. Karl-Anthony Towns is aggressive tonight from start with eight points. Jalen Brunson has six. Mikel Bridges with six points as well. Pacers lead 29 to 22 here.
About two and a half minutes to go in the first quarter. As we continue on with this top six list, looking at some of the biggest crybabies in the world of sports. And number six, I gave you Luka Doncic. And number five, I gave you Sean Payton taking over for Captain Grump. Bill Belichick in the NFL. And number four, one of the biggest crybabies in sports.
I gave you Draymond Green. This guy will punch, kick, stomp, backhand, beat the living hell out of you. He's done everything except for bite an opponent.
And who knows that might be coming up next. Draymond Green has never committed a foul, has never hit anybody, doesn't understand his suspensions. I got him at number four on the list.
And number three, you want to talk about crybabies? His teammate, Jimmy Butler. How the hell did Steph Curry get saddled with both of these guys? Jimmy Butler won and cried his way out of Miami after not playing, after being hurt, after not taking shots, after playing when he wants to. And then he goes to Golden State. Steph Curry goes down and he is kind of MIA when even Golden State needs him the most. Come on, Jimmy Butler, you can't whine and cry, get paid and not show up. At number two on the list, a big inspiration, the top six list of crybabies in sports, the Green Bay Packers. They wanted the Tush Push Band. The Tush Push, the brotherly shove.
It's here to stay. Mark Murphy, please go find something else to complain about. I don't know, like maybe a wide receivers from last year. Maybe the new ones you just drafted will actually work out. If I got the Packers at number two on my list of the biggest crybabies in sports, who could possibly be at this number?
Number one. The biggest crybaby in sports is someone making $313 million. The biggest crybaby in sports just over the past several months has just showed you what not to do as a teammate. The biggest crybaby in sports isn't there when his team needs him the most.
I think he's terrible for what he's done. His name is Rafael Devers. I don't want to call him a third baseman. I can't call him a first baseman. He's the DH for the Boston Red Sox. You want to talk about being an awful teammate? The owner had to pay him a personal visit to try to set him straight.
Oh, you're not familiar? In the offseason, the Boston Red Sox, who currently have a record of 25 and 25, right now they're playing the New York Mets. Rafael Devers, a couple of seasons ago, two seasons ago, got himself a 10-year, $313 million deal.
He's playing third base. The Boston Red Sox basically said, oh, you know what? We can keep Devers and we can add someone who's better defensively at third base, but they can also provide us plenty of offensive production, all-star caliber, championship caliber, and Alex Bregman. So they decided to bring in Bregman. They basically told Devers, hey, can you move for us, please?
Like, we're paying you a lot of money. We want to put him, the superior defender, at third base and we want to move you so we have more flexibility. And so Rafael Devers is now the DH. They put Casas at first base so they would have more offense, more defensive versatility. And unfortunately, Tristan Casas, he got hurt. His season is over. You want to know what the Boston Red Sox did?
The team paying him $313 million over the next, what, eight more years, I think, of left? They asked him to play first. Hey, we can open up an offensive spot. You can go to first base, stand there, receive the ball. You will help us out offensively. We can work with you defensively. We can put some more offense in the DH spot. Rafael Devers said, no. First you take away third base from me. Then you put me at DH. And now you want me to play first base?
I've never played first base before. Screw you. You figure it out. Not my problem. He basically said it in those exact words.
Not exactly. But he told the team, no. Like a good teammate would say, hey, whatever the team needs, I'm going to go out there and do my best. Rafael Devers said, screw you. When he was asked about this a couple of weeks ago, I want you to hear the question. And then I'm going to give you the translation.
The translation, you will hear the Spanish and then you will hear the English translation. Rafael Devers said it's not my problem. Screw them. They got to figure it out. I'm playing DH. Listen to all of this.
This is fun. Alex has been asked a couple of times about possibly you playing first base. Is that something you're open to if they ask? No, I'm open to my question.
I'm open to the question. But I think I also want to play a different position in training. I think it's very difficult.
I don't have money. I'm playing a different position. I think it's very difficult for me to play a different position now. I don't even have two months playing this position to all of a sudden have me try to play another position. So from my end, it doesn't seem like a good decision. The position he's playing is DH. That's not a position.
You go swing the bat. He said it's not my problem. It's very difficult for me to move. It's not fair.
I'm not moving. I can't ever remember hearing it. I'm sure there is. But I can't remember an athlete saying, ah, no thanks. I guess this is the benefit of having a $313 million deal. You know they're not going to move you. I mean, even the owner, John Henry, flew in to meet him on the road to basically say, brah, I'm paying you a lot of money.
The most you can do is be a decent teammate. I mean, even the general manager, Craig Breslow, who used to play in baseball. Rafael Devers basically also said, oh, he should know it's not easy to move. Like, he played baseball. He should know.
Like, damn. And so Craig Breslow basically became a mouthpiece. He flew in for the meeting. And then he basically had to tell the media, yeah, I went to the meeting and I think the owner set him straight.
Listen to this. Did you, obviously, one delay and when Alex was supposed to speak, did you guys meet with Raffi today or what? Yeah, so there were conversations. John, Sam, and I flew out earlier today. It was actually John who spoke directly with Raffi but felt like it was important based on the situation that unfolded yesterday. To come out here and have an honest conversation about what we value as an organization and what we believe is important to the Boston Red Sox and that being great teammates for each other. And so we think we had a productive conversation. John seems to have had a productive conversation and that's where things stand right now. And the Red Sox currently as a stands heading into tonight's matchup with the Mets have a record of twenty five and twenty five. Imagine paying somebody three hundred and thirteen million dollars, asking them to move their cubicle or their office from one corner of the office to the other.
And they just go. No. Yeah, that deserves a talking to a tongue lashing. And by the way, Rafael Devers. Yeah, he is.
He's he's not out in the field. I guess he won that one. I think he's a crybaby. I got him at number one on my list. I just gave you a top six list of crybabies in sports. And number six, I gave you Luka Doncic. Number five, I gave you Sean Payton. Number four, I gave you Draymond Green. Number three, I gave you Jimmy Butler. Number two, I gave you the Green Bay Packers. Number one, I gave you Rafael Devers. It's a simple question.
The phone lines open. If you want to give me a holler, eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. That's eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. When I say crybabies in sports.
Is there another crybaby? Like who the hell would you put on your list? I got Devers at number one on mine. I'm going to ask Ryan Botcher, get his thoughts on the other side of the break. We have so much more to do, so much to get into, so much news.
There's some good and some bad. And it's time for that news flash here on the Infinity Sports Network. Here he is. It's Rich Ackerman. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief. It is the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
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Talking about athletes, I'm talking about coaches, I'm talking about teams that are active in the world of sports who just whine and cry and complain. Don't give it up. And number six, I gave you Luka Doncic. Number five, I gave you Sean Payton. Number four, Draymond Green. Number three, Jimmy Butler. Number two, the Green Bay Packers.
Thank you with that tush push. And number one, you want to talk about the biggest crybaby making $313 million. Won't even bother to switch or even entertain adjusting positions because he feels it's not fair. It's Rafael Devers of the Boston Red Sox. I think he's just a terrible teammate in the world of sports right now.
If you want an example of what to show your kids what not to do, take a look at Rafael Devers. The phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler. It's real simple.
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That's 888-710-4ISN. We're talking about some of the biggest crybabies in sports today. I've got Rafael Devers at Numero Uno on my list. David is calling up. David is here from Los Angeles. You're on the JR Sportbree show. What's up David? Hey, good afternoon JR. Always great to talk to you. Thanks for taking my call.
Sure, go ahead. Alright, so I've got two crybabies here. One from today and one from not too distant in the past year. Hold on David. I don't want to hear about no guy in the past. I want to hear about who's playing and active today. Give me that one.
Alright, sure thing. No denying his greatness. Everyone knows who he is. Three times the world champion, but for God's sake, Patrick Mahomes, you're a crybaby.
I've got to say it. Here's why. After every hit a defensive player puts on him, he's looking for the flag right away. He's looking for the referee to throw the flag right away. Bro, no. That's not how it works.
Occasionally they'll be on your side, but no, that's not how it works. Do you remember that game against Buffalo in 2023 when his teammate had to basically restrain him on the sideline as he was trying to go after the officials? We're making a right call on Kadarius Toney lining up offside. And then at the end of the game, after the game, during his press conference, there he is in front of the mic saying, man, sometimes, you know, at the end of the game that you just let the players play and, you know, swallow their whistles or whatever.
Not his exact words, but that's what he meant. Now, Patty, the year before in the Super Bowl, you won the Super Bowl because the officials called the holding calls late that allowed you to run off the clock. Did you forget that?
Well, that wasn't that wasn't unfair back then, was it? Well, I mean, there's no there's no there's no I'm going to I'm going to have to I'm going to have to look at that. I agree with you, David, and thank you for calling from L.A. I agree with him. Patrick Mahomes is always looking for the call, always looking for the whistle.
I get that. I'm going to have to look up that Kadarius Toney, a press conference, because I see I see this almost like a point guard in basketball, any player in basketball. Sometimes you got to know when to go. Sometimes you got to know when to shut up. I mean, people were complaining last night about Shay Gilgus, Alexander and this guy is out here looking for every foul imaginable. I mean, if you are so good of a player and you can manipulate the opposition or excuse me, not even the opposition, you can manipulate the refs. You do it like I find it being part of the game. And there's only a few guys, a few players that can go out there and do it.
And it's the best of the best. And so I'm not going to knock Patrick Mahomes. I understand the example that he gave, given Kadarius Toney lining up offsides and him complaining afterwards. I don't recall that. That's not to say it didn't happen. I don't remember everything.
I don't recall that. Come on, Michael Jordan. I find him to be the greatest basketball player of all time. Michael Jordan basically had the refs hypnotized. And it's not because he was some smooth talker. It's because he could do whatever he wanted on the basketball court. And you would assume that if Michael Jordan came up to you and told you, hey, this is what happened, that it did because this guy was just running the entire show. Nobody listens to the guy at the end of the bench. The rookie doesn't get a call because you got to go out there and prove your worth.
I mean, if you're good at what you do, you can start utilizing your influence in other places that aren't directly related to you. The officiating. I mean, for all the people who complain about the referees being in the back pocket of the Kansas City Chiefs to say that that Patrick Mahomes is a crybaby, was he making love to the refs? I would leave that one alone. I'm not jumping aboard that bandwagon. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. We're talking about some of the biggest crybabies in the world of sports today. I want to ask our producer, Ryan Botcher. Hey, Ryan, when I say crybaby, who comes to your mind? Josh Allen. And it's kind of a similar way as Patrick Mahomes. But Josh Allen, granted, he's a rival to the Jets, but he flops so much. And then he complains if he gets tapped.
It's pretty bad. I guess that's what happened. I don't want to say he's bigger than everybody, but for a quarterback, he's big as hell. And that's the issue. He complains after every hit at his size and he runs through people all the time. So for him to go down like a piece of paper, it's annoying.
I can understand that. And we've had that. That exists in every sport when the biggest guy on the field or somebody big at his position gets kind of tapped, tackled and what have you. It's just, did he flop? Did he foul? Did he get fouled?
Is he not getting calls? I can certainly understand that. Hey, how about this? What about Juan Soto? Like this guy goes one for 10 against the New York Yankees in the Subway series that the Yankees win the series over the weekend, two to one. And we start getting all these stories about how miserable Juan Soto is despite having a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar contract.
I mean, that makes the three thirteen that Rafael Devers is receiving come across as paltry. And it's just like what we heard from Michael K just a couple of days ago. He's like, I've been hearing that Juan Soto never wanted to leave the Yankees, but his family wanted him to listen to this from ESPN. I'll say it right now and it will be denied.
Of course, it has to be denied. But I've talked to people that I respect. He wanted to return to the Yankees. That was his preference. His family said, you're going to the Mets. His family felt very comfortable around Alex and Steve Cohen.
And they said, you're going to the Mets. And he is a guy who listens to his family. Yeah, a lot of people listen to their family. I mean, he's 26 years old. Very familiar.
I mean, why not? Pedro Martinez was on CBS and Pedro was just like, he's still adjusting. Give the guy a break.
He's not a crybaby. Because I was once the best paid player in the game. And it took me a while to adjust to my team, adjust to the media.
I was coming from Montreal. There was a lot of attention on me. There was a lot of stuff that I needed to deal with until I finally made the adjustment. And this is an adjustment year for Soto, even though he went from the Bronx to Queens. It's an adjustment year, but nobody's stopping to think about the human inside the uniform.
And there are some stuff that can get your mind distracted. Of course. And you're right. We know he's a human inside the uniform, but there aren't too many human beings walking around making seven hundred and sixty five million dollars. I'm sorry, Pedro. I don't have any sympathy for Juan Soto. And man, he's stuck.
Yes. Now, I do understand he has the opportunity to opt out after five years or five year opt outs. I just don't think that anything's going to change. Juan Soto will be fine.
Numbers aren't necessarily living up to what the New York Mets expected. Is he a crybaby? I don't think so.
Not yet. But is Soto a crybaby? No, I think he's just boring. He's not like he he's not going to complain about things, but he will show emotion in the fact that he won't show emotion.
If that means anything. Him not showing any emotion, happiness is him pouting. Yeah.
Yeah. He's he's not happy. He's he's not he's I don't want to say he's in a slump, but he's not cranking. He's not cranking how people thought he would at this point of the season. He'll go on a heater and everybody will forget about it.
Not a crybaby, just a wealthy man. The J.R. Sportbree show on the Infinity Sports Network has been a busy day. We're going to talk about all the news and updates on the other side of the break. The J.R. Sportbree show Infinity Sports Network.
