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We'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. We got into some of the the antics last night from the Esps none of those jokes bothered me. I thought that guy was pretty funny. I didn't know that guy from a hole in the wall. I wouldn't have stopped to watch him for nothin' but last night from what I saw, the the comments, the the jokes, I found them funny.
So, we've discussed a lot, but let's talk about some of the news that took place today. Like JJ Watt and not JJ. brother long gone retired. TJ Watt Gettin' a new deal. with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
We've got breaking news in the CBA Sports HQ where the Pittsburgh Steelers have agreed to a massive new contract with star pass wrestler TJ Watt. According to our NFL insider Jonathan Jones, Watt will receive a three-year deal worth $123 million, making him the highest paid non-quarterback in the league. He's a seven-time Pro Bowler, four-time all-pro, league's defensive player of the year in 2021. The stats are impressive, but for him and his team, you would have to imagine that 41 flat. has him at the top.
This guy also has the most forced fumbles and strip sacks in the NFL since he joined in 2017. It's crazy. thirty three strip sacks. Oh, excuse me, forced fumbles, 23 strips acts. Like, that guy doesn't just get after the guy with the ball.
He's going to get. The ball. And so TJ Watt, the Steelers are going all in as they possibly can. This upcoming season. I don't think it's going to have a massive result with all the new talent that they brought in.
Guys like Jalen Ramsey, John U. Smith, Aaron Rodgers, TJ Watt, Reese, and his deal. They'll be good enough to make the postseason, probably as a wildcard in the AFC North. But I'm not going to. Go crazy over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I think they're. I don't want to say they're just out here. treading water, but they they they kinda are. I mean, that is a ridiculously competitive division when you think about the AFC North. The Steelers will get to the postseason.
Let's see what happens after they are there. Also, now that TJ Watt got this contract, paying him forty one million dollars a season. What does this mean for Michael Parsons? He's still looking for his deal, with the Dallas Cowboys. And then you have Trey Hendrickson.
playing for that cheap ass team, the Bengals. We know he ain't getting this.
Okay, he's not probably going to get in the 40 range. he might have to settle for somewhere between Max Crosby. At thirty-five and a half million dollars. And yeah, Miles Garrett, who's making forty, TJ Watt, the highest paid non-quarterback in NFL history. Michael Parsons is probably loving this right now.
Jerry Jones is gonna make him sweat for it all the way damn to damn it to week number one. Uh anyway, somebody who doesn't have to sweat any more. He knows where he's going to spend the next several years of his career. is Damien Lullard. Jamie and Lullard, who basically was amnestied with the Milwaukee Bucks is gonna see every dime and dollar but stretched out over the next several years.
Damien Lullard had his pick of the litter. as he continued his career. As he continued the rehab, especially coming off of that torn Achilles, would he go to the Celtics for whenever Tatum came back? Would he, you know, go to the Lakers and hang out for a year until I don't know, just maybe shoot with Luca? Doesn't appear LeBron will be there past this year.
Damien Lillard said Screw all of that Damien Lillett said, I'm going home. Listen to this report. We've got some breaking news out of the NBA, and it involves that guy, Dame Lillard. And no, you're not seeing things. He is heading back to Rip City to play for the Portland Trailblazers.
Finalizing the three-year deal with $42 million to return to the Blazers per ESPN. The deal is expected to have a player option for the 27 slash 28 season and include a no trade clause. is he's a seven time all-NBA selection with the Trailblazers before being traded and spending a couple of seasons in Milwaukee. You see it there where he ranks in franchise history, arguably the best player they've ever had. Listen, that guy ain't going for no championship.
I challenge you to name five guys on the Portland Trailblazers, okay? Name five of them. Botcher, you can do it.
Okay, Stewart Henderson, Hansen Yang, Tumani Kamara, Drew Holiday. Uh Denny Odvia.
Well, that's five. Yeah, it's five. It's possible. Damn. Oh, Jeremy Grant is still there, right?
Oh, yeah, he's there too. Yeah, same people.
Some Yeah, no, they don't have guys that'll win anything Which makes uh him going back to Portland this very clear. That guy went back for his family. And I guess if you are a multi-millionaire over and over and over again, Damian Lillard just has to be in the top 10. He might be in the top 5. of uh NBA Salaries, like all-time career earnings, like Damian Lillard has to be right there in the top five.
So, we know this guy is not thinking about money. but he is thinking about his family. I mean, throughout the process and before he was traded, Initially to the Milwaukee Bucks, he went through a public divorce. And I I've heard ad nauseum about how he had to go to Milwaukee while his family and his kids were still out in Portland.
So I don't knock the guy for going back to Portland to spend more time with his family. And to a certain degree, I don't want to say it's admirable, but it is. He ain't ring chasing. Like he's not. I guess he's like, I tried that with Milwaukee.
It took enough for him and the Portland Trailblazers to separate the first time, and now he's on his way back to Portland.
So good luck to him and his recovery. I don't expect to see Damian Lillard at the end of the season. You know, maybe he gets a couple of games in. Because let's be real. Are the Blazers going to be competing for a playoff spot?
Probably not. Lillard might get sprinkled in at the end of the season If his Achilles is all set, And ready to go.
Somebody who is moving teams, Von Miller, we learned earlier today or last night. He's going to be joining the Washington Commanders. Washington trying to add some depth on the defensive side to help them go out there and get after the quarterback. Let's see what they do. We had a great chat earlier in the show with Ben Standig.
It's going to be tough to replicate. 12 victories in an NFC championship game appearance, but this team can continue to grow and get better. It'll be real fun to see what Jaden Daniels does. Avon Miller is still out here. Trying to help another team.
Go out there and win a championship. Speaking of championships, the team that did go to the Super Bowl early this year and lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Kansas City Chiefs. Looks like they're going to have a reinforcement back. He had an injury last year.
tore some stuff in his knee. But apparently he's also going to come back and have to be suspended by the NFL? And he may have to well, he is gonna spend some time behind bars. I'm talking about Rashi Rice, the man who decided to crash his Lamborghini last year. Injuring people, thank God nobody died, also leaving the scene of the crime.
Well, today he found out his punishment. I want you to listen to this courtesy of Fox Ford Dallas. Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashi Rice agrees to a plea bargain today that puts him on five years probation required to him, requires him also to make restitution to the victims from his racing on Central Expressway last spring. But the judge has also added a bit of jail time in this decision. Fox's Sean Rabb joins us live at the Frank Crowley Courthouse with the latest.
Sean? Yeah, good afternoon to you. And let me just tell you, plea bargains normally move very quickly because the deal's already been done. But that wasn't the case today. And the reason it wasn't is because the conditions that had been worked out in this plea bargain between the DA's office and the defense attorneys for Rashi Rice, five years probation, restitution to the victims, their medical bills, which have already been paid.
That restitution's already been given. But the plea bargain included no jail time for what happened on Central Expressway. And that gave the judge pause. Yeah, it gave the judge pause. The judge said uh uh He's spending thirty days in jail.
Now how they do this over the weekend, how they split it up, is to be seen. But the Kansas City Chiefs, well, let's just also say the NFL hasn't gotten a hold of him. You can expect him to miss some time. Because I think racing in a Lamborghini in the daytime, injuring people where you could have killed them, leaving the scene of the crime and the accident. is not good.
I and we we know the NFL is never really consistent When it hands out punishments, as much as they've said, it's changed, where Roger Goodell is no longer judge, jury, and executioner, he pretty much still has final say over everything. and our Rashee Ricey's goin' miss some time, as long as he is back and healthy. At the end of the season, For the Kansas City Chiefs they'll be fine, and all things considered What the hell is this guy's knee like?
Okay, this man went out there and blew out his knee, needed surgery to fix his L C L had a hamstring injury as a part of it. Uh Rashi Rice. He may be a, let's just say, a deadline acquisition. For the Kansas City Chiefs. They will certainly need him.
Rasheed Reich's probably still recovering from surgery. Yeah, let me serve my jail time.
Well, he doesn't want. Bacha, nobody wants to rehab in jail, right? No? Oh, no. I also saw something that was like, he doesn't have to spend it.
directly Consecutively, so you could do like one a Friday, like every Friday, just go to child. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, he doesn't do it thirty days. Uh that's why I said he may pop. Pop in and pop out.
He'd do a weekend and then come back, do a weekend. Yeah. I'm glad you have no experience with that botch. I'm happy. I the concept of it.
Of someone popping in and out of jail to do 30 days is kind of crazy to me. Just like not consecutive, and it's just in and out of jail, it's not prison.
Well, I well, it's jail, so he's just sitting in the jail cell for a weekend. At a time. Yeah, do you do you want to experience it? I can give you some advice.
Okay, let's make it short. You can get the Rashid Rice experience. I can tell you what to do to get there. I got a first one of Lamborghini. Right.
Yeah. And then do some horrible decisions. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. If you follow what he did. You are going to prison.
Yeah. I can give you advice if you want to go to jail.
Okay, I don't wanna go to either, so I'm gonna not take any of that advice.
Okay, good idea. Good idea good man And speaking of advice I have some advice for all the WNBA players out there. Stop beating the hell out of Caitlin Clark. Not really. Play basketball.
Play her tough. Play her hard. Maybe the referees need to do a better job. Caitlin Clark, we saw her injure her groin again this week. I think it's the other side of her groin.
Anyway. She's not going to be in a three-point contest tomorrow night. I was looking forward to that. Caitlin Clark is now going to be participating in the All-Star game on Saturday night. And here's the unfortunate part.
at least for the fans in attendance. The game is taking place in Indianapolis, Indiana. Indianapolis is the home for all of the WNBA All Star festivities, and Caitlin Clark is only going to be there well, she'll physically be there. She won't be playing. She's going to be signing a lot of autographs.
This really sucks. This is the news from CPS as well. We've got breaking news out of the WNBA. Caitlin Clark has been ruled out for Saturday's WNBA All-Star Game in Indianapolis. The Indiana Fever star suffered a groin injury in Tuesday's win over Connecticut, and she sat out last night's loss to the Liberty.
Clark says she will also miss Friday night's three-point shooting contest. Yeah. That sucks. That really does. Hit news flash.
Not really. The only reason why that I was well, let me just be frank. The only reason that I would watch this or plan to watch it was because of her. Maybe I'll pop in on the All Star break on Saturday night. Maybe I'll pop in on a three-point contest.
But without Caitlin Clark in it, like I'm like I shrugged my shoulders. And that kind of leads us into something else we discussed earlier in the show. The fact that Shane Gillis I never heard one of his jokes in my life. I didn't know who the hell the guy was. But last night, after last night, hosting the Espies, I know him.
And he told the joke about people not knowing WNBA players. As he was introducing all the celebrities in the crowd, Uh he faked it. Listen to this. Four-time WNBA All-Star Britney Hicks is here. Give it up for Britney, everybody.
I'm joking around. That's my friend's wife. I knew none of you knew WNBA players. That's crazy, you clap with it. Ouch.
Botcha, you know it would have been nuts, and there's no way to know. It's impossible to know. It would be even funnier. If there was a WNBA player there Who clapped? Or maybe they maybe even while they went, who's that?
If they still clapped at the same time, that'd be hilarious. I feel like that's on the ESPN production truck. They knew the joke was coming.
so they couldn't find any WNBA player in the crowd to look at. When they should have cut from the lady he was referring to to a WNBA player? That's what they should have done.
So when he said, yeah, that's just my buddy over there. They should have cut to a WA Bay player to see the reaction. That'd have been funny. Sure. That would have been hilarious.
Hey, here we have a WNBA player. Who doesn't even know who else is in the WNBA, right? Like, for instance, there is no possible way in hell, and this is just for perspective, there's no way in hell. that somebody could get people to clap for a fake NBA All Star. It's not happening.
Everybody's just going to go. Who? What? It it's it's impossible.
So Yeah, we know the WNBA does have quite a ways to go. It really sucks that Caitlin Clark is not going to be out there. That's the golden goose. That's the person that everybody wants. wants to see.
And speaking of wanting to see anything, I guess congratulations to Major League Baseball. Like they had some uh ratings that came in. They averaged seven point two million viewers for Tuesday Night's Game. That's the second lowest amount ever. Although they did peak at 8.1 million viewers when they got to the swing-off.
And Major League Baseball, they still haul in. more viewers than the other all-star games. NBA, NFL now has moved away from that. NBA, I think, was at four, five, four and a half million viewers.
So Major League Baseball has about three more than that. But if you go back into the seventies and eighties, there were thirty to thirty five million people. watching the All-Star Game. Things change. We got social media.
People don't need to watch the whole game. You watch a snippet, you watch a clip. And then you go out there and you basically keep it moving and so on. Baseball, not too shabby. Congratulations to them.
Major League Baseball is back in action tomorrow. And so I assume most of their players are off the beach. And they're back in the batting cage. Let's see how many of them suck tomorrow because they're hungover. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. But when we come back from break, Yeah, a lot of people took issue with uh Shane Gillis and his jokes last night. I did not. I enjoyed his jokes.
I I do have a little bit of an issue. with one of the things that we will see this weekend. And maybe one of the things that we'll see next year I'm talking about Manny Pacquiao? And then I'm to tell you about John Jones and where he wants to fight. Yeah, the guy that just retired.
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It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you, coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. If you want to give me a holler, you can. 888-710-4ISN is the number. That's 888710. four I S N This has been a busy show.
People always say, Oh, this time of the year, nothing's going on, nothing to watch, nothing to see.
Well, damn it, we had a packed show. TJ Watts contract, Damian Lillard back to Portland. You got Von Miller going to DC. We got no Caitlin Clark this weekend with her injuries. It it's just been It's been it's been a wild one, man.
It's been a wild one. But let me tell you, As I mentioned, this is my final day of the week. I'll be back with you on Monday. There's some other things going on this weekend that I gotta go. Whoa, what are we doing here?
What are we doing? Manny Pacquiao. Is going to be back in action. Manny Pacquiao is 46 years old. Manny Pacquiao is a welterweight, which is great, amazing.
God bless him. He's light, he's swift, he's moving, he has good cardio, still has some power, but at forty six years old. The man last fought in a ring five years ago. Against Ugas and lost via decision. The last time he won a fight, I actually remember that because I was there.
I can't believe it was the last time. July 2019. He beat Keith Thurman. He was 40 years old. The last time any Pacquiao want to fight was six years ago.
when he was forty, He is forty six. hasn't won a fight since. has a career record of sixty two wins, eight losses and two ties. Why the hell is Manny Pacquiao back? Is Mandy Packey out looking for brain damage?
You know, this is not a heavyweight. You get hit a couple times and you go down. These multi-weights out there beating the living hell out of each other. And Mandy Pacquiao is facing a guy who's 30 years old. Mario Barrios He's bigger than him, he's younger than him.
Manny Packy out. Bacher, does he have a death I'm not I'm not saying he has a death wish. Du d is he a masochist? Is he looking for pain? Isn't every boxer a little bit into that?
But when you're forty six years old?
Well, forty-six might be um the only way you would probably get back on the ring is for money, so you might be getting a big check here. Oh wow, yeah.
Well, Manny Pacquiao has been known. For years, you don't hear about it much because he hasn't been out here. Man, the tax man was knocking on his door. I don't know if he went into politics because he needed to save money, he wanted to try to save some laws, but it has been well documented, Manny Pacquiao's financial issues when it comes down to taxes. And if you've ever seen or been around Manny Pacquiao, Forget the taxes.
I haven't been around him that much in like ten years, That guy rose deep.
Okay, that guy rose deep. He got like 20 people hanging out. I'm like, what the hell do all these guys do? Is everybody on payroll? I I don't know.
But Manny Pacquiao, he's getting ready to fight. and he says, you know what? This fight against Mario Barrios, the guy who is uh sixteen years younger than me, The guy who's bigger than me? and faster and stronger Ah, man, he said it's goin' be a good fight. He must already be crazy.
I've been at challenges for many times and the same the same feeling, like I'm excited. Um excitement that to get the belt to win the fight. I know uh uh Barrius is he's a champion. He's a good fighter also. But On Saturday night?
Uh our job is to give uh enjoyment and satisfaction to fans, you know, entertain the fans like you know, like a real fight. Not fight like, uh you know. Um boring, boring fight. I hope That he doesn't have the snot beat out of Manny Pacquiao is never going into a fight. and not thrown hands.
Manny Pacquiao was never going into a fight. and not exchange blows. I don't know. If I want a witness Forty six year old Manny Pacquiao. Get the hell beat out of 'em.
I'm not ready for that. This is not Bernard Hopkins sticking and moving, known for his defense, a smart boxer. He's not going out there just exchanging all willy-nilly. Manny Pacquiao was like, I'm just gonna throw these bombs. They're gonna land, you gonna hit me.
Bacha, I'm worried that Minnie Pacquiao, he might get knocked out. Yeah. He's got grit. He'll he'll stay up. I'd be a TKO.
He has grit. He's 46 years old. He got grit. I saw Mike Tyson, who almost died a couple months before, stay on his feet. I think Pacquiao could stay on his feet.
You you're not talking about Mike Tyson from a couple of months ago, right? Yeah. That man should not have been in the ring with his medical history. And he and he lived and he stood up, didn't get knocked out. Yeah, but that that that was an an exhibition, man.
That wasn't a real fight. Like, as much as which brother is it? Is it Jake? Yeah, it was Jake. But it actually did go in his.
professional record and it's now reason why Jake Paul is actually ranked, but it's like It was a bad fight. We all know it wasn't. meant to be serious. But the fact that Mike Tyson lived I say that's a win. Considering humans had brain issues on the plane.
Yeah, but that that's that's a that's that's a mockery, okay? Like we know that he led him throughout the fight. They were there for money. Everybody wanted to make sure at least the money's worth. And so Jake kept things going.
He wasn't out there throwing bombs to beat up Mike Tyson. This is not an exhibition fight. Mario Barrios is a thirty year old guy who who is a legitimate boxer. Minnie Pacquiao is a Hall of Fame boxer. And thinking about Manny Pacquiao at 46 years old, going in there to face a guy at 30, is kind of scary.
Especially for a dude who hasn't fought. In five years and hasn't won a fight in six, and you talk about grit. It it was more than ten years ago. When Manny Pacquiao got knocked the hell out, Taking on Juan Manuel Marquez.
Okay, Mandy Pacquiao was still in his prime at that point in time. Juan Manuel Marquez put that man down on the ground. Manny Pacquiao went to sleep. And he basically became a meme. You seen that meme where they put symbol on top of him to wake him up?
Oh, yo, that's gone around that meme. Those ones are funny. Yeah, and he was in his prime then. And so to think about this happening at 46. and Manny Packy out.
God bless him if he wins. God bless em if it even goes to a decision. But I expect Manny Pacquiao. He's going to look real bad. This upcoming Saturday night.
I I will maybe I'll pop in on the fight. Uh Yeah, I I just I'm not feeling good. about Manny Pacquiao, and speaking of fights It was just, what, last week, two weeks ago, that John Jones said he's done. John Jones is not done. John Jones got the itch.
he found something that will tickle his fancy. WASHINGTON, DC Listen to what he told ESPN about unretiring for one special event. I was retired. I felt like I was at a place where I've done it all in the MMA space and felt like there wasn't too many more challenges for me. And I just wanted to do something more than championships and money.
And Donald Trump mentioned that he wanted to have a fight at the White House Garden, you know, and that just seems like such a huge opportunity. I'm a very proud American. I have a lot of close friends that are in the military. And this is my act of, I can't call it service, but just to be able to entertain the country and the world at this level at the White House, it just means the world to me.
So I'm back. Oh, damn, this isn't exactly the opera Right, this is not reading a poem. This is not the Easter egg. He wants to whoop ass at the White House. I don't know, man.
There's going to be a lot of interest if it does take place. It has been rumored, it has been said that we might have a UFC event on the White House grounds. And I'm just like, if they do it, so be it. A little too tacky for me. I would not do it.
I mean, w what's next? We got the UFC fight. The Easter egg hunt I don't know. Hey, Marco, you you next, you go fight at the White House, you do it. You want me to fight at the White House?
You want me to never come back? Yeah, me and you in the rose garden. Is it still there? No, it's not there. No, I don't know.
Yeah. And that's what are they doing? Are they doing this on the lawn? Where where where were we actually having this fight? Do we know?
They're going to, I don't know, they're going to build the octagon out there and I don't know, have helicopters flying over. I don't know. Is that how it works? What's the next thing? We're going to have like mud wrestling by the Lincoln Monument?
Okay. Nah? Did you say mud wrestling? Yeah, why not? What the hell?
Go ahead. Is that the one where the. Do you have to wear a bikini for it to be mud wrestling? Probably. Probably.
I think those are part of the rules. Probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get a little dry, you got the reflection pool there, no? Yeah, why not?
Why? Oh, Marco, you weren't supposed to indulge me on this, man. Oh, my God. Look, this whole thing is just, again, I can't be the only one. Like, what are we doing?
It almost feels like we're in the twilight.
So, like, what the hell is going on? We're fighting on the White House law now? What happened? It's supposed to be a place of dignity. The most important house on earth, right?
Is dignity no longer part of our vocabulary? Like, do we just not care anymore at all? Part of me is actually happy about it, and part of me is like, wait, whoa, whoa, we're happy about it. What do they do if blood ends up on the White House? I think you have to do it at this point now.
I mean, if you're going to have a UFC fight, I mean, you might as well go all the way in. But the hell, why not? But could you really imagine they put the cage outside there? And like, blood flies, it travels. You punch a guy in blood fl.
Blood on the White House. Splatter it all on, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Symbolism.
Symbolism of what? Blood on the wha what does it symbolize? Just America. There's nothing more American than people fighting in a cage Outside the White House. Sponsored by Waffle House.
That would be very American. Why not? Let's go for it. What else can we do in the process? Is there anything else that we can insert into this?
You know. There's so many jokes. Uh What a burger, I don't know. Oh my god. How did we get here?
I don't know. How did we get here? I don't know. Was it a slow process? I feel like it was fast.
How did we get here? Well, maybe it can be an annual thing. 4th of July UFC at the White House. Oh, you know what? You just hit it.
4th of July with the fireworks going off with the whole thing. Oh, yeah.
Somebody's got to lose a limb on top of it. Perfect. This sounds like an episode of. The Simpsons Okay. This is the Simpsons.
This is where we're at. Anyway, good luck to Manny Pacquiao in his fight this week, and hopefully that guy doesn't get beat to shreds. Mark, are you going to watch that one? Uh, Probably not just because I can't, but I'm somewhat intrigued and hopeful that Pacquiao doesn't get hurt. That's basically what comes down to.
He's 46 years old taking over. How did?
Well, I know how. Yeah. Like, how did they sanction this fight? I know how. It's called money.
But I mean, damn. A 30-year-old versus he hasn't fought, he hasn't won in six years, he hasn't fought in five. Nah, see, this stuff, again, like, and I get in, you say, well, you know, like. It's dangerous. Like, we're not talking about a guy trying to come back and, you know, run up and down the floor in a basketball court and he's going to pop his Achilles.
Like, we're talking about some serious damage. Like, you know, I know I'm going back, but I remember when Larry Holmes, when he was an old man and he fought Mike Tyson, do you remember that fight? I honestly thought when Holmes went down, I thought he was dead. Like, this is dangerous. Yeah, it is.
But hey, Manny needs the money and so does everybody involved, so. Yeah. You can't just light fireworks and fight somebody on the White House lawn. We can't do that.
Well, maybe. There's so many things I want to say about that as it relates to Pacquiao. I think he might have problems in the Philippines.
Okay, so. Wow. Good luck to Manny.
Well, he got political connections. We should get that done. In the Philippines.
Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's got political stuff. He can wind up, you know, getting knocked out on the White House law. And I feel like that should work out. No, what happened?
Philippines. What happened to Bashawa? I just had an idea. What? Philippines versus USA.
and you go to their country, we do our country, we have a tour, the UFC tour. The UFC Tour? Yes, the UFC Tour around the world where you go to political buildings and you just have fights. Is that going to like uh help international relations? Uh, you win a fight, you do you get a a bill passed at the UN?
Is that something? I don't know. Well, last time I looked, the UFC is heavily in bed with Saudi Arabia, but who isn't, right?
So. I don't know about that one. Do we take UFC in the Middle East? Like, what are we doing? What is going on here?
Yeah. What do we do? You know what? This would be a great time, and God rest his soul. This'll be a great time to bring back the Iron Chic, okay?
Where would the next one? Yeah, let's bring back the iron sheet. Could you imagine? Could you um could Yeah. Amarco.
You know the iron sheet, right? I'll picture in the tweets going with that and then watching him do the Marco. What's that thing over his head with the whatever those things that he used to juggle? Yeah, the cones, the pins. Yeah, whatever the hell they were, that they were like impossible to lift, and he was juggling them behind his head.
Biletti, could you imagine if, Biletti, could you imagine if we were back in the 80s? And Vince McMahon Put a ring at the White House. And we had like Sgt. Slaughter or Hulk Hogan versus the Iron Sheikh. Could you imagine that?
You know what? I think if we're going to have USC, now you just said it too, on the White House lawn, I think you got to use the Hogan entrance, no? Shouldn't everybody have to come out to like a real American? I don't know. Wow.
Fireworks, hot dogs, you know, a bunch of fat asses on that lawn watching people get their ass busted and blood all over the place. We gotta find Hacksaw Jim Duggan, too, okay? Oh. We gotta get all the real Americans there. Uh let's see if they do this.
I I will shake my head so hard I'm going to pop in and look at it real fast and I'm going to shake my head and go damn What are we doing? And I'm gonna have a beer and mind my business that Let's see if we get UFC at the White House. I feel like it might. happen. It might sometime next year.
Let's see. John Jones wants to be a part of it. We'll see. It's the JR Sport Re Show on the Infinity Sports Network. We come back.
We'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. That may be something in the future. But right now, Newsflash, Marco Belletti. I'ma put you on, nephew. All right, Unc.
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You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. Hey, before we get a. Thinking about UFC in the future at the White House. Let's uh send those tingles up your spine. Let's talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history.
Do you Back, back, back, back. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. See, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it.
On the JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. July 17th, 1941, Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak of 56 games comes to an end at the hand of, at that time, the Cleveland Indians. Listen to Joe D tell you about the streak being broken. This is courtesy of MLB.
We generally walk to the ballpark from the Cleveland Hotel to the municipal grounds, which is only about six block walk.
However, we decided to take a cab this particular day, and as entering the cab, the fellow looked over at me and he says, aren't you, Joe? And I said, yes. He says, you know, I got a feeling you're going to be stopped tonight. It was a night game, and the left he'd like to climb all over the fella. He felt very bad about the whole incident throughout that night because he had a felt a jinx was put upon me.
We started a little bit of a rally, weren't any, and they brought in Jim Bagby, a relief pitcher. And there was a man on first base, and I was at bat with one out, and I hit a ball to the left of Lou Boudreaux who was managing the ball, who was playing shortstop. And as going to field the ball, the ball took a bad half and he got his glove up in time and threw the second base and completed the double play. And that's how that streak was broken. Yeah, 56.
Yeah, this street still stands today. Nobody's in close to that. July 17th, speaking of another amazing player, 1974, Bob Gibson. He became the second pitcher to strike out 3,000 guys. He struck out Caesar Geronimo.
Listen to Dal Cheney talk about facing Bob Gibson. This is courtesy of Braves on Deck. My first time against Bob Gibson. I'm playing against Bob Gibson. I'm playing second base for Tommy Helm.
He struck me out the first two times I faced him and the third time I hit a line drive right back at him. Him in the knee. He bounced off the mound and threw me out and I'm... I'm jogging back with my head down behind the mound and I hear him say with my head down, I hear him say, don't ever do that again, kid. I get to the dugout and Pete Rose says to me, he says, what'd he say to you?
I said, he said, don't ever do that again, kid. And Pete gets up on the top of the dugout steps and starts screaming at Gibson. Gibson, you ain't got nothing and you ain't got nothing. Leave the kid alone and all that kind of stuff. I was thinking, wait a minute, Pete, I got maybe one more swing at this guy.
Sure enough, my next time up in the top of the ninth inning, first pitch, he hits me right here. I mean, I couldn't run away from it. And you know he did it on purpose, and it hurt. I got to first base, and our first base coach, Hal Smith, said, don't let him know it hurts. And I'm thinking, okay, I won't.
What? Yeah, I like when baseball players hit each other. It's fun. It just doesn't use the bats. July 17, 1990.
How about this? The Minnesota Twins did something amazing. The Minnesota Twins became the first team in major league history. To have two triple plays in one game. And they still lost to the Red Sox one to nothing, but listen to this amazing.
Third base, one there. Two there. and a triple play. Holy mackerel, the twins have just rolled off. a triple play on a perfect ball.
For Guyana. They go. Angiety has one. They got two. And they've got another triple play.
Mercy me, Gerald. And Mr. Morgan. The second time. The Twins have started a triple play in this game.
Man, I feel like you don't. There's not enough people on base nowadays to get a triple play. How about that? That sucks. Hey, July 17, 2005.
Tiger Woods, he won the British Open for his 10th career major. He won it by five shots. At that point, he joined Jack Nicholas as the only players to win the career Grand Slam twice. Listen to Tiger Woods talk about winning his 10th major in the second Grand Slam. He never thought that in your Wilderness dreams as a kid that you could ever have 10.
in your 20s. It's something you don't think about. You just hope that you can win name one or two here and there. Uh I've got ten, you know, pass some Legends of the game, and that's It's hard to comprehend. I just got one more than than you know, Hogan and Watson and Plair, so I think that's pretty cool.
No, yeah, listen. Tiger Woods, Botcha, don't take advice from Tiger Woods ever, okay? A golf game or just everything? Life.
Okay. Yeah, don't take it. Don't I ain't talking about golf. Tiger Woods can give advice on a lot of things. Avoid his advice at all costs.
And how about this July 17, 2011? We don't need to hear this because who wants to hear it? Japan beat the United States. In the Women's World Cup final. We don't need to hear that.
We're proud Americans. Looking forward to UFC at the White House. Not really. And there you have it, folks, a couple of things that took place this day in sports. History Been a hell of a week, a hell of a show.
As I mentioned, I will not be here tomorrow. I'll be back with you all on Monday. Thank you to Law Murray for joining us from the Athletic to talk about the Clippers. Thank you to Ben Standig for coming through to have a chat with us about the Commanders. Think about the guys that they've added, like Von Miller.
We've had a busy show. TJ Watts, new contract. Lillard back to the Blazers. No Caitlin Clark this weekend, but you will have Manny Pacquiao. Hopefully, uh not being beat.
to a public If you miss me, You can find me online at JR Sport Brief. If you missed any minute of the show, you can hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. Hey, Bacha, thank you for another great week. Appreciate you, man. Appreciate you, too.
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