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the infinity Sports Network Yeah, we got these these All Stars out here and batting practice, they're signing baseballs, they they had a parade. Atlanta's been real busy over the past few days.
So, since we've been here with the show, we talked about the home run derby last night. Rather confusing. Very confusing. We talked about Sauce Gardner, now the highest paid cornerback in all the NFL. Trace Smith.
Highest paid guard all time to help protect Patrick Mahomes. Talked about Terry McLaurin wanting a new deal. We just heard from Kirby Smart speaking of Georgia. He says, Man, these players are too comfortable. He says these college football players are already making money.
And now they just They don't want to work as hard. It sounds like everybody else in life. And we have more to get into as the show continues on. We're going to have a chat with Kyle Glazer. From Foul Territory TV.
He's going to join us in about 20 minutes to talk about the all-star game, the break, what we can expect the rest of the season. And then we have more to get into. Major League Baseball has some expectations. It's salary cap.
Well It doesn't have one. That's the issue. They want one. The players are saying no. Want no salary, cap.
Meanwhile, the CBA expires next year. Tonight, they're going to test out robotic umpires to help call balls and strikes. They have an entire challenge system, and so there's a lot to get into. As we continue on with this show. You want to be a part of it?
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I exist everywhere. At JR Sport Brief. As the players are now walking around here for All star guys are warmin' up and bad in practice and what have you. What is absolutely hilarious to me is that the Braves now play in the Burbs. They play in a different county from where the city of Atlanta is located in Fulton County.
They basically built their own complex about fifteen minutes outside of the city. where they could have a mall and you know, in a hotel and and the braves could basically have their own space. outside of the city. God bless 'em And so it's just funny to me When they're showing all the downtown Atlanta skyscrapers and whatnot. and they they cut over to the stadium, which is In the middle of Off the highway near a mall.
It's just uh. Funny, Botchery, were you familiar with the geography and and how they built the stadium and whatnot? Not at all.
So I think I don't talk about.
Well, I give him credit. It is a beautiful place They've basically put The Atlanta Braves and the entire stadium and where they are in a commercial district that they just built year a couple of years ago. And it's literally A commercial space, mall, not mall, but there are restaurants, there are shops, there's bars, there's entertainment, there's a hotel. And then you have the baseball stadium, which almost seems like the biggest anchor to an entire mall. And so it's a nice place.
but it's not in the city proper. Like, there's not even full public transportation that goes out there. We have MARTAR, which is the train system. It's not the most extensive thing in the world. But you can't take the train out there.
You have to really only almost drive.
So it's like a mini city. like kind of closed off. Correct, they built it off the side of a highway in a very populated area in the suburbs. That's which is fine. But they've they've the The city, it it's not accessible.
to people that are directly in the city.
So it's not really like the Atlanta brands, it's more of like the uh surrounding Georgia area. 15-20 minutes out, depending on traffic. Let's put it this way: there are a lot of people. The old stadium, which is now a football stadium, was the original Olympic stadium. They wanted to compact it down for the Atlanta Braves to turn to play into.
And so then it was Turner Field when the Olympics ended in 1996. And then, like everybody else, they wanted a subsidy. They found a better deal in a different county. And so they left the city. Like they were literally across the highway from downtown They were not far from the the football stadium.
They were in the city. And now they're right outside the city in a different county. Like, there, as far as I'm concerned, there is not one major activation. which has taken place in the city of Atlanta, related to the All Star game. Like I went to the convention space this past Sunday And I had to drive up there with my family.
And then we walked around the galleria space, which is just a convention space. like downtown near Mercedes Benz is a huge convention space.
So they they didn't have any of that. Everything, as it should, I guess, was concentrated out at the stadium in the area. There was nothing. in the city. Nothing.
As far as I'm concerned, nothing. Nothing big.
So there was no like I would assume there wouldn't be like press meetings, but there was no like fan fest or nothing. It was in the it is. It's all out there in the like once you cross the street away from the stadium is the is a convention center. It's a smaller one. But that's where they're having the fan fest and, you know, the sign autographs and auction and all the brands and sponsors ha everything is right in Cobb County.
So they're basically not embracing Atlanta as a city. They're just kind of using it as like a renting space, you're going to say. I think so. I mean, that's what it is. They are still the Atlanta Braves.
The Braves play. They're still in metropolitan Atlanta. The best way I could explain this to you. is if The New York Yankees, and they threaten it for, well, they're not going to do it. Years ago, George Steinbrenner, when he wanted a new Yankees stadium across the street, he basically threatened to move the Yankees to New Jersey.
Do you do you remember that? No, not really.
Okay, yeah. There was a point in time where he's just like, oh, well, New York is not going to help us build a stadium. I'm going to move the Yankees to New Jersey. And everybody's like, bro, you got to be kidding me. You're going to leave New York City proper to take the New York Yankees to the other side of the bridge?
That is akin to what the Braves have done here. It will still be in Georgia. It's still a suburb. Imagine the Yankees moving to. Yonkers, New York.
or or Fort Lee, New Jersey. And then just saying, Oh, well, sorry, we got a better deal out here. That's what it is.
So I would think Yankees fans would riot and/or complain. There was no real complaints from Braves fans. Yeah, there are a lot of complaints over Braves fans, but money money talks.
Okay? It's not like they left the city metro, they didn't. It's not like they moved the Braves a couple of hours and just put them in Birmingham. Or it's not like they moved them a couple of counties over where Douglasville, where now you got to drop. They're still in the city, they're just in the burbs.
I feel like this wouldn't be as bad of an issue. If There was accessible public transportation. Because the common folk could get out there, or someone doesn't have a car. That's also one of the big issues. because being able to get to a Braves game was accessible to anybody.
And now the fact is you have a lot of people in the city Who can't get to a Braves game unless you can drive, unless you can afford the. I don't even know how much the parking is. It's tough for the quote-unquote common man. to just make a trip even though it's fifteen, twenty minutes in a car driving? You you might as well take public transportation and throw that completely out the window.
Which is wild to think about. And so that was a sacrifice, and there was a big hubbub and fight about that when they moved here. From Atlanta and Fulton and moved up to Cobb.
So I just find it striking as a guy who lives here, been coming down here forever, I've been down here full-time for going on seven years to just say.
Okay, well, we we have a a massive event. And we didn't have one thing take place in like downtown Atlanta. Everything is out by the stadium. I mean, when the Super Bowl comes here, when it has been here, They've been in the city. They're in downtown.
They're central to everything. But the stadium is there as well.
So. There's no one-size-fits-all. I'm going to get off my soapbox. I just found it absolutely hilarious. And I get it, it's a television broadcast, it's Fox.
Like they're showing the downtown Atlanta traffic to say, hey, we're here in Atlanta. Uh but uh no, not really. Everything is taking place at Cobb. And if they were to show the The surrounding area of Cobb it looks like a lot of other places in America. Here's a highway, here's some roads.
Yeah, they built the hotel and they built up the area around it. But you drive five minutes away and you're just like You feel like you're in any place in America, so. It's what it is. Eight eight eight seven ten four I S N. That's eight eight eight seven ten four I S N.
In five minutes not five minutes in about ten minutes we're going to have a chat with Kyle Glazer. Foul Territory T V We'll talk about the All Star game, which is now a little more Than an hour away, and then take a look at some of the things we can expect the rest of the way this season as well. Let's talk to Slim calling up from Detroit. Only one I know is in Michigan. You're on the JR Sport Reef show, Slim.
What's up? Hey, JR, good to talk to you. Hey, Caitlin Clark. You've got the yips. You can't make the three.
You know what they're calling her now? They got a nickname. Caitlin Clunk. You know it's not Friday, right? Yeah, there you go.
I don't have a calendar. Yeah, we can tell. Did Caitlin Clark do something to you? What happened, Slim? I'm sorry.
I want her to come through. But yips is yips. I'm putting on my sunglasses. This is France in the Pan territory. She's been hurt for the better part of, I don't know, since May.
She came back from a a leg injury, thigh quad, and then she went down with a groin injury. And so what what what do you want for her? You want her to shoot five or five from three? Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, add that. Oh, ad as advertised.
Well, you know she's a high volume shooter, so her shooting percentage has never been All that, all that great, even coming out of college. And then you think about what she did last year. Uh you would think that she would improve this year, but she's she's been hurt, so I'm not going to beat up on Clait Caitlin Clark. And nobody ever said that she was Steph Curry from a shooting percentage per standpoint, but she can certainly shoot the ball from deep.
So, Slim, just give her a break. Give her some time. She's going to be in a three-point shooting contest this upcoming weekend against Sabrina UNESCO.
So maybe she'll break out of her little slump, okay?
Okay. For you, JR, I'll give her a break. All right, Slim. Thank you for calling from Detroit. Is there anything else that you're mad about while you're here?
Yeah, South Gardner. Did you ever hear this phrase? It's from my day. He trained like Tarzan. Play like Jane.
Yeah, I've heard that too, Slim. All right, thank you for calling from Detroit. Appreciate you. All right, take care. Uh no doubt.
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, he said he got muscles now. Bach, I also saw he's dating Ice Spice. You saw that? Ah, is it still not I don't know if it's when Hummerson confirmed, but I guess that's a win for him. A big one.
someone of the opposite sex. on social media. and you're real close. Isn't there an assumption that you're dating, right? Yes, but that also happened with Stephon Diggs and Cardi B.
And they had presumably broken broken up. No, I thought they were still dating. She think they broke up recently. I don't think I think she's promoting an album. She was upset.
She said, no, I think they're still together. I think that's been debunked by her because, of course, why? Why would anything be straightforward? And now we got Clay Thompson dating Megan the Stallion. It's better than uh Oh my gosh, Tori Craig, they were together.
Yeah. Well, how does Tori Craig feel today? I don't know. Good question. Like Clay Thompson.
Clay Thompson took my girl? How did she end up with him anyway? Houston Texas, Texas Connection? But Tori Craig is like a bench guy. She went from a bench guy to a future Hall of Famer.
Moving up the corner. That's progress, right? You gotta crawl before you walk. Yeah, you got you got the the bench player, then you got the former all-star, and now you got like the, I don't know, MVP. Yeah.
Even though SJA's married. Jokic? Married, probably too. I don't know. Yeah.
As long as Megan thee Stallion stays away from, I don't know. I mean, where can she go from Clay Thompson after this, right? I don't know. Is there a young star coming in? I don't know.
There's got to be someone. Kevin Durant is not. He's not going.
Well, she's not. Maybe Zion, I don't know, but Zion seems a little uh Anyway, he can't think he gets his women from other places. Um Yeah. It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infiniti Sports Network.
We're about an hour away. from the start of the Major League Baseball All-Star game here in Atlanta, Georgia. Cobb County. We're going to take a break. We come back.
We're going to have a chat with Kyle Glazer. From Foul Territory T V. He's been covering baseball for years. We're going to get his thoughts on what we've seen so far over this MLB All-Star break. In addition to some of the things that we should pay attention to, as the Major League Baseball season continues to roll on.
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And shout outs to everybody in Houston. It is the JR Sport Breeze, here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta and the metropolitan area is certainly hosting all of Major League Baseball's all-star festivities. We're about an hour away from first pitch.
We've had the home run derby. We're going to get the big game tonight. We're going to get into the stretch run of the Major League Baseball season. We're going to pull up on the trade deadline to talk about everything we will see here between now and maybe the end of the season. And joining us right now is a host and analyst from the Foul Territory Network.
It's Kyle Glazer. Kyle, thank you for taking the time to join us. My pleasure. Happy to be on with you.
Well, thank you.
Well, let's go backwards before we look forward. What were your thoughts on the home run derby last night? I don't want to say a lot of controversy because it is an exhibition, but moving guys and advancing them and Jazz Chisholm not caring. What were your impressions on what we got last night? Yeah, there's no question.
It was not by any means the eight best power hitters in baseball. If it was, you'd have Shohei Otani, you'd have Aaron Judge. At the same time, this is always an event where young guys can come out and kind of make their mark a little bit. And look, as much as Cal Raleigh has been an absolute superstar this season playing in Seattle, a lot of the country hasn't gotten a chance to see him.
So seeing him go out, showcase his power, win the home run derby, I thought that was pretty spectacular. Obviously, you know, advancing over Brent Rooker by inches, less than inches, is certainly controversial. I don't know if Hawkeye is actually that exact, but it is what it is. And I did think the entire country getting to see what a special talent he is was a highlight of the Derby.
Well, he won. He certainly won joining Ken Griffey as uh the only Mariners to go out there and do it. What is your expectation? The man has played in ninety plus games. He has thirty eight home runs.
He swung in it another forty, fifty ish home runs last night. Can he maintain this pace as the season continues on? You know, it's funny. I think the natural inclination is to say no, just because once you get into the dog days of summer, at the wear and tear of catching, but he's already done so many things that. No one thought he would be able to do, which was hit 38 home runs by the all-star break, a number surpassed only by Barry Bonds while doing it as a switch-hitting catcher.
I mean, I don't want to put limits on this guy. He's already blown past so many expectations of what he can or can't do. I think saying he can't or won't do something is probably a fool's bet right now. Kyle Glaser is here with us from the Foul Territory Network.
Well, we got to see what he does the rest of the season. We're going to see an all-star tonight that's only had five starts, five career starts, and here he is. Of course, it is an exhibition just like what we saw last night. What are your thoughts on the selection process and even getting a guy like Jacob Miserowski in here? Yeah.
Obviously, it's not ideal, but the real issue is so many players opting out or electing not to play or not being able to play because they're pitching on Sunday. Whenever you have so many players saying no or opting out, you're going to have to start moving down. Look, Ranger Suarez, Christopher Sanchez both deserved it over Jacob Mizurowski, but Suarez said he didn't want to pitch and Sanchez started on Sunday. Nick Pavetta in San Diego, same thing deserved it, but he pitched on Sunday. Realistically, Major League Baseball is going to have this problem unless they start saying, hey, if you're too injured to play in the all-star game, you're too injured to play in any game period.
You need to go on the 10-day IL. And fans say, well, it's an exhibition. Major League Baseball isn't charging exhibition prices for this. They're charging premium prices and they have to deliver a premium product for it. If it's truly an exhibition, they should charge spring training prices, which they don't.
At the end of the day, as long as players have no incentive, not, you know, they're disincentivized from participating or there's no incentive for them to participate other than personal pride, we're going to continue to see problems like this. Mm-hmm.
Well, we're not moving the way of the the NBA All Star game, are we? No, Major League Baseball's all-star game is still the best all-star game around because the players actually try. The pitchers are still out there trying to throw 97 to 100. The hitters are up there still trying to hit 400-foot home runs.
So you're still getting the best effort from players, which you don't get in the NBA All-Star Game, you don't get in the NHL All-Star Game, you certainly never gotten the Pro Bowl. And that will always make MLB the best All-Star game, but Major League Baseball needs to ensure the best players are participating. And if they're truly hurt, then they need to be on the IL. The two starters that we're going to see tonight, one of them is making his second consecutive start just to start his career here. In Skeens, you also have School out there.
When you take a look at Skeens, we know the Pirates are going absolutely nowhere.
Meanwhile, the Tigers have been able to improve upon their offense based on what we saw last year. What is your confidence level in the Tigers being able to go on a run? This is a real threat to reach the World Series out of the American League this year. When you look at this rotation, you can go Terek Skugel, Casey Mize is having a great season, Jack Flaherty. And by the way, Reese Olson, who's the best pitcher no one has heard of.
That's not a rotation any team wants to face down the stretcher in October. And you have to give the Tigers hitting department a ton of credit. They have helped so many guys have turnaround seasons. Javier Baez, of course, essentially back from the dead, but also Glaber Torres, Spencer Torkelson, guys who really looked like they were kind of on the fringes on the way out or on the downslope of their careers. And the Tigers have helped them get better and perform at a high level.
Add that to guys like Kerry Carpenter and Riley Green. This is a scary lineup with a great starting pitching staff. There's no reason why the Tigers can't continue this and represent the AL in the World Series. Kyle Glaser is here with us on the JR Sport Reef Show. He's a host and analyst for the Foul Territory Network.
We know the old guard in the American League. The New York Yankees are currently on a downswing trying to figure out their offense as well as their pitching. The Astros are seemingly right back in it. Are there any other teams that you would take a look at in the American League and just go, oh, they can also go for a run, but people aren't showing them love? The Toronto Blue Jays.
Let's not forget, this is the team that leads the American League East right now. And they've always had tons of talent. The issue is they just underperformed year after year after year. There were so many guys you looked at and said they're capable of more. Clearly, there's something wrong organizationally.
They fixed it this year. John Schneider's talked about a better culture. You can see it. Players are more focused, more dialed in, just play more cohesively. And now you're getting bounce back years from guys like George Springer and Bo Buchett and Alejandro Kirk.
You still have a really good starting pitching staff. I mean, you can go Kevin Gosman, Jose Berrios, and if Max Serzer's at his best, that's a scary rotation. The Blue Jays have always had the talent. They just kind of played beneath their talent.
Now that they're actually playing to their true talent level, this is a very scary team. As we have this conversation, the New York Yankees are getting a photo op in with their all-stars and free judge. You got Boone is sitting out there taking some photos. We saw what the Yankees did in the World Series last year. They're going to have to fight to get back there.
But we know who the champs are. It's the Dodgers, and we know they've had to deal with tons of injuries. Is it? Can we check a box and just say they're the favorites once again? Not necessarily.
They have not played to the level of a World Series favorite, and a lot of it is injury-induced. Once they get their pitching back, they should take off. But there's been a lot of points this season where it's like, okay, they've been underperforming or underwhelming, but they're going to figure it out. And while they are in first place, they struggled going into the break. They went to three and seven into the break.
I mean, you look at the Phillies have every bit as much talent as the Dodgers do. They're very much a threat. The Cubs have, for my money, the most explosive and dangerous offense in baseball. They're always a threat. And you have teams like the Brewers who can pitch as well as anyone in the league and just completely shut the Dodgers' offense down.
So the Dodgers are going to be in the mix once they get their starting pitchers back healthy, their best arms on the mound. They should be better, but by no means should we assume, oh, it's just going to be the Dodgers again. The Phillies, the Cubs, these are legitimately good teams who can absolutely compete with them. Kyle, you talk about the Brewers. We talked about seeing Jacob Mizurowski on the mound tonight.
We may see him going down the stretch run. But if we think about something that we'll see tonight, we're going to see the challenge system utilized for the first time in an all-star game. Major League Baseball most certainly trying to push it toward the forefront and just garner some excitement, I'd gather, in the game today and bring it to the largest audience. What are your thoughts on how fast and how soon we might see this implemented? As soon as next season?
Yeah, I expect it to be implemented next season. I wrote a lot about the challenge system when I was at Baseball America, covering all the rules changes in the minors. I saw in action the minors. We've seen it in the futures games. We've seen it in spring training.
It's great. The umpires are still able to call most of the game when there's a close call. You can get a challenge. They figure it out in 10 seconds and get the call right. It's something that also fans get into, having it show up on the video board.
You hear ooze and ahs, whether they're right or wrong.
So I think this is something that we are going to see a lot of people embrace the more they get used to it. And I do expect to see it in Major League Baseball next season.
Well, we've seen a lot of changes in baseball over the past several years, some of them induced via COVID, some of them to try to speed up the game, the Ghost Runners and what have you. What impact do you think this challenge system is ultimately going to have on the game? Thank you. It's going to help some of those late game situations where it's a close call and a batter gets rung up on a questionable strike three. You know, before there was no recourse.
Now they can challenge it. And it's going to change the course of some games in a positive way. We see so many calls missed in big spots late in games.
Now they have a way to fix it and check it. I think ultimately this will make for a better product. And you'll have less games where a bad call is determining the outcome, which I think is always a good thing. Most certainly Kyle Glazer is here with us from from the Foul Territory Network, and to think even further out. We know that the Major League Baseball CBA expires at the end of next season.
Given baseball's history of stops and starts and stops and trying to figure out how they split the pie and what comes next, do you think that we're in danger of being in trouble by the time we flip the calendar into 2027? I will say that. Many, many people in the game, including in the league office, top agents, a couple folks in the players union, do believe we will have a work stoppage after this current CBA expires, just with salaries getting as high as they are for some teams and the gap growing between the top teams and bottom teams, as well as a lot of the revenue issues Major League Baseball is facing due to the decline of the regional sports network television model. There's a sense that this is going to be one of the more complicated negotiations and that. there will be some sort of stoppage.
That said, a lot can change in a year and a half, so nothing is guaranteed. But I will say within the game, there is a belief that we will see some sort of stoppage. Hopefully one that does not cause games to be lost during the season. Yeah. Would that not lean more towards the Players Association kind of getting on one accord?
And sure, when you have a thousand-plus players trying to figure one thing out, it seems like even amongst the players, there are a lot of haves and there are a lot of have-nots. We heard from Tony Clark that he doesn't necessarily want to have a salary cap introduced because the salaries continue to go up, but not for everybody. Is it more of a players' issue? It's not like the owners are trying to choke out the players here, no? No, it's an owner's issue.
A lot of small market owners are saying they can't compete when you have teams like the Dodgers and Cubs running up payrolls in the $300 million range. And while that's true, the Pirates of the world cannot spend $300 million, they certainly can spend more than $90 million. Same with the Marlins and $67 million. Every Major League Baseball team, with the way revenue sharing works, can spend at least $100 million, if not $150 million on payroll. A lot of these small market owners refuse to do so.
They cry poor. And now with the regional television model kind of declining and costing them some revenues as well, it's another. Area they can point to and say, see, we're losing money.
So, this is purely an owner's issue right now. They're claiming that they're losing money and the game cannot go on the way it's currently constructed. It's an argument that Happens every CBA negotiation, and the players have been able to avoid a salary cap so far. And I believe they will again, because that's the one issue they will not budge on. Yeah, well, I know Bob Nutting is probably crying poor this very moment and very second.
Well, we'll see how that goes. Say again, Carl? Always, he's always crying for. Yeah, he says, Hey, fans, show up. Fans, show up.
Oh, you didn't show up enough. I just okay. All right, Bob. All right. Let's go back to uh printing newspapers, I I guess.
Hey, Kyle, thank you so much for the time and and the expertise. Please tell everybody where they can keep up and follow you with the Foul Turing. foul territory network and elsewhere. Yeah, absolutely. Tune into Foul Territory on YouTube every day.
You can follow me on Twitter at Kyle AkeLaser. I'm also a contributing writer for MLB.com, so you can read my work there.
So lots of good stuff. I'm everywhere.
Well appreciate the time. We'll catch you down the line. Enjoy the game, okay, Kyle? Thank you. You too.
Thank you so much. It's the JR Sport Re Show here with you, coast to coast, on the Infinity Sports Network. Yeah, I'm going to enjoy this game. It's fifteen minutes away. I could drive well, there's too much traffic.
Marco, I can do it right, or don't even bother bad idea. Uh, you might. You might wanna finish the radio show. I don't know. I I think people would be a little upset if you just, you know, left.
If I just I how about if I call into my own show from the car on the way, then that wouldn't that be exciting or is that a bad idea? Hmm. Might be exciting. Might give Botch a heart attack.
So I don't know if we want to go that far. Botch, how strong is your heart? Uh Now create. Oh, okay.
Okay, all right.
Well, it's a Marco's point. I'll stay here in the studio, okay? It could be done theoretically. It could be, of course, it could be done. And then you could get pulled over, and then you have another.
You gotta let it roll at that point. Oh, no, it's connected to the car. Why? You want a live arrest on a radio, Marco?
Well, I just, come on, you get pulled over. I mean, now we got to know what's going on, we got to hear the whole story. I think the police in the metropolitan area are right. I think they got better things to do than pull me over while the All-Star game is going on. Speaking of better things to do, while we were here in Commercial Break, And this creeps me out sometimes.
I saw them practice uh the flyover from out here in the studio window. Like you when you see fighter jets moving at a very I guess as slow as possible, and you hear them and look up. I go, Okay, yeah, they're they're they're getting ready for the flyover, so Yeah, things are busy. It was a couple of weeks ago I I It was a Saturday. The braves played?
and they were fighter jets flying over the city. For like 35 minutes, and it creeped the living hell out of everybody. It's just like, I don't know, maybe you guys should do like a warning or something like that. Hm thirty five minutes. Jeeze Yeah, it's thirty and you know them things are allowed.
Yeah, they are allowed. That's what I'm saying. That's a long time. That's a routine. Them things are allowed.
I'm just, you know, sitting down having I don't know what it is at four o'clock in the afternoon, but every time you look up, it's just I'm there, they're flying around. Oh, wow Yes, yes, that's good. No, no, but I'm looking at them now. They're still flying. There's like three jets flying in a row, they flying from east And they're flying northwest towards the stadiums.
Yeah, but tonight is fine. You know why they're there tonight. There's a big, giant event. This is on a random Wednesday that gets everybody looking around, going, what the hell's going on? Yeah, it was like a Saturday afternoon, and it scared the living hell out of everybody.
I was like, wait a minute, not for 40 minutes. What are we doing? That was crazy. I felt like it was Independence Day, you know, but.
Okay. This is like a month ago and was still here, so knock on wood. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Yeah, we're minutes away from the start of the MLB All-Star game. To get an update on that and everything else going on in the world of sports, you just heard his voice.
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Thank you so much to the great chat. Kyle Glazer joining us. from the foul territory network to talk about this Major League Baseball All-Star game about to take place. What we can expect the rest of this season, what we can expect in the future as it relates to baseball.
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It is the young man. who decided to rob Junior Caminero of a home run last night. That was ultimately uh recalled. He's doing a little too much. DTM doing too much in the outfield last night.
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Now Bachra, if you That kid is gonna hear about it for the next what forever. I mean, he was on social media last night being made fun of. It's not a bad thing what he did. It was cool. I think it's awesome that he robbed a home run.
I don't know why everybody's so mad. Because it's his job not to his job is to catch fly balls, not rob home runs. What is a home run? A fly ball. He technically did the job of catching a fly ball.
Yeah, but if it's go if it's going over the fence, leave it. No. They should have a home run derby now. Oh boy. Where all the platinum glovers, all the gold glove outfielders are in the outfield.
We don't want any wall scrapers. We need every home run to be bombs. or else they don't count.
So if they can rob the home run, it shouldn't count.
So, what are you going to advocate for next? It was only, what, a month ago, we talked about the steroid Olympics. Uh we need we need a steroid home run derby too. Not doesn't have to be steroid home render. We just put better.
defenders in the L field and if they can rob the home runs. That's cooler. Also, they could change the scoring system. I think Farther home runs are cooler than the total number of home runs.
So you could do like a point multiplier system where like I don't know, the exit velocity times Total distance traveled equals more points than just a singular home run that goes, I don't know 350 feet.
Okay. All right. Have you you have you been in touch with a Rob Manfred? I haven't. I should I should send the whole letter to him.
Okay. All right. Well, let let's uh Let's see about that. Hey, let's listen to that call from last night. This is on ESPN.
as a the sun of a Braves employee was one of the young men out there, shagging flies, and decided to go a little further and steal and rob a home run from Caminero. We think one of the shaggers may have just stolen a home run. That's Ryan Sandberg all over again. Vlad Jr. is pointing out.
Oh, we got to get replay. We're left there. Field Li de la Cruz. Oh, someone's going to have to escort that kid out of the park. Aren't there a rye?
Oh, they're spinning the fingers. Fernando Tatis Jr. wants a challenge. Comanero took the timeout. They're showing the replay on the board in the stadium, and so everyone's going crazy.
No freaking way. No way. Oh, yay! What are you doing? Look at the kid on the bottom.
Andrew Jones in left center field. Oh, no. Oh, his life is. Oh, buddy. You got one job.
Not that. Yeah, they they ultimately did count the home run. Which was which was nice. The rep I mean, even the umpires are getting work in. In a home run derby.
Who would have thought that that would have been the case? And right now they're. pretty much warming everybody up for uh tonight's All-Star game. What a bacha, what are they? What is this?
America the beautiful, what are they doing? I think America Beautiful or God Bless America? One of the two, right? One of the two. Yeah, the players aren't out there yet, so we we know damn well it's not the Star Spangled Banner.
I mean, there's so much pageantry and so many performances now before the All Star break. I mean, you could you could barely keep up. I could barely sit well I did it. I couldn't make it through the NBA All Star game. With all the mini-games that they did and all the TNT tributes and the Kevin Hart comedy, Like I I just I said screw this crap, I'm not.
I'm not watching this, so I don't think baseball has devolved into the NBA when it comes down to all-star games. But I guess we're about thirty minutes away. Botch, what are we, thirty minutes you think, from the start of the game? First pitch is 820 and it's surprising how late it is. The game is going to be.
Well, the way the games go now, but there's so many substitutions, but I guess you're not moving, guys, there's no strategy. This game will be over by The same time as last night, you think, right? I would say 11. Eleven Eastern, eight Pacific. I would say like eleven fifteen Eastern.
Damn. Yeah, now we got all the players there lined up. We got Germaine Dupree. Standing at the plate with a jersey, a Braves jersey on that says the mayor. And I assume he's walking to center field to go meet with uh Ludicrous.
and I guess I can only imagine they're just singing. And welcome to Atlanta. Uh well, baseball has really embraced hip hop over the past. Year, I guess. We had Fat Joe, which was terrible.
Last year at the World Series we had Ice Cube at the World Series. And this is actually pretty good, Bacha. They're they're they're doing all the player announcements, huh? That's good. They're doing it quick too.
I think they're flying through these. Yeah, they're flying through there. There's a rolders chapman. They're doing a player announcement. You got Jermaine Dupree in the back, so that spares all of America.
Well, shout outs to Jermaine, but that spares us for having to just listen to him and Ludacris go on for five to ten minutes. And yeah, might as well. Two's better than one. Knock out the introductions, damn it. We got 80.
All stars. Get them in. Get him out. Show us the starters. have quick little interludes.
and let's let's keep it moving.
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At this moment in time we got all the The MLB All Stars, all eighty of them, I guess the guys who showed up. they all being introduced here, At Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia. First pitch, as Bacha said, is scheduled to take place in a little less. Than 30 minutes from now, about 25 minutes from now, even got Jash Chisholm out here. The guy who decided to only hit three home runs last night.
So we'll keep you up to date on the game, when it gets started. As it gets rolling, when we come back on the other side, though, I do want to. kinda continue on a point. that was made by our guest, Kyle Glazer, earlier this hour. It was about the fact that he he thinks it's likely that we're going to have a work stoppage at the end of the twenty twenty six season.
Baseball is always changin'. They always lookin' for money. And we got players who are making tons of money. in another place who are not. Are the players Just not on one accord?
Were the owners cheap?
Some of them. We're going to get into that on the other side of the break. And then I told you, we got the Robo Umps coming soon. We're going to get into that as well. We got a lot to do.
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