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on the heels of Deion Sanders' announcement that he was diagnosed. With bladder cancer, and now he is cancer free. God bless him We'll hear from Dion in a second. We learned that Christian Wilkins from the Raiders was apparently let go for a little bit more than a broken foot. Kissed another player on the head.
That player didn't like it, and I guess they gave him another reason to get fired. Luka Doncic went from fat to skinny. Terry McLaurin is at work with the commanders. They say he has a busted-up ankle, so he's not practicing.
Okay, yeah, sure. We talked about Rob Manfred. Got cursed out by Bryce Harper last week. Got into the Hall of Fame inductions from yesterday. Ichiro, Cece Sabathi, and Billy Wagner all going into the hall.
Shamar Stewart is at work. We've discussed. A lot. Even Aaron Rogers, warmer, kindler. gentler extending an olive branch to Terry Bradshaw.
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I got to tell you about Shaquille O'Neal over the weekend. Oh, my God. He laid into Rudy Golbert. You would think that Rouis Golbert, stole Shaq's money. His family, his wife, well, he doesn't have a wife, his ex-wife, his kids.
You would think that Rudy Gobert kicked. Shaquille O'Neal's dog. Like, he just he just railed into him. We hear what Shaq had to say about Rudy Gobert. We'll do that before the show is up as well.
And so we got a lot to do. But the biggest news today. I'd say is the news that we received from Deion Sanders, that he had and was diagnosed With cancer. He had bladder cancer. Bladder has been removed.
He is now cancer-free, which is an amazing thing. This is what Dion had to say earlier today about his diagnosis. I'm thankful. It's been a tremendous journey. It's been tough.
I think I dropped 25 pounds. I was like an Atlanta Valcan Prime at one point. Oh, well, he got that's not how you want to get down to your plan weight. Deion Sanders continued on, said nothing is going to change as it comes down to him being coach of the Colorado Buffaloes. And he encouraged everybody, as I think we all know and should, to go ahead and get checked out.
He said that if I didn't get checked out, we wouldn't be having a press conference. We might have been having. A funeral. But then of course it's Dion. He wanted to make light of the situation.
He says that he's wearing the pens now, like his grandson. Listen to this. Thank God I'm now I'm the I I depend on the pen. You know, you know what I mean. I truly depend on the pen.
Like, I cannot control. My planner.
So I get up and go to the bathroom. already four or five times a night. But then I'm sitting up there waking up, you know. Like my grandson, we're in the same thing. We got the same problem right now.
We're going through the same trials and tribulations. We're trying to see who has the heaviest bag at the end of the night. It's ridiculous. Yeah, so wild Wild world.
Well, at least the cancer has been removed. He's He's cancer free. Good on Dion. He's going to continue to coach. Of the Colorado Buffaloes.
Now, we did learn that the Sanders, who's in the NFL, well, the one who's throwing a football, not the one defending the guy throwing a football, Shadora for the Browns. Kenny Pickett injured his hamstring. Over the weekend. And of course, there's been a lot of talk about how the reps. Are now going to get split.
You got one less guy on a roster. who you have to worry about throwing the ball around. You know, on the first team. And come on now. We know Kenny Pickett.
He was not going to be the starter unless Joe Flacco sucked. And with Joflacco, you want to limit. His repetitions because he's old as hell. And so one guy who hasn't got one first team rep It's Shador. And he was asked about it, and he just said, Well, Listen.
That's not my place, you know, to answer. To give the answer to that, I feel like It's not in my control.
So I'm not even gonna think about that or have that even in my thought process of why it is. It's a lot of people that want to have the opportunity to be at this level, and I'm here, and I'm thankful to have the opportunity. Whenever that is, it is. But it doesn't make me feel down, or it doesn't make me feel left out or anything because I know who I am as a person. Yeah.
Now there's rumors that one of these guys One of the quarterbacks is Gonna get traded. Like now there are rumors that that the Cleveland Browns may not hold on to Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel and Shadora Sanders and Joe Flacco. That one of the guys might be traded.
Now, it ain't going to be. Joe Flacco, they gotta go a little further down the food chain. I think for all the the trouble of bringing on Shaddor. What a terrible story it'd be for him if they cut him. You gotta give him the chance, right?
You have to give him. The opportunity, unless he just completely sucks. The general manager of the Browns, Andrew Berry, was asked about keeping four QBs on a roster. Listen to what he said. There's just more flexibility in terms of how to build your 48 man game day roster, where it's maybe not as quite as restrictive in the past.
Now that being said, when roster rules were more let's say draconian, there have been teams that have carried four.
So if there are four that are 53 man worthy and we think it makes the most sense for us to keep, then we will. All right, we'll see. The Browns are gonna brown. What a disaster. Man, typically a team has to worry about: oh, we're going to start one guy, we're going to start the other.
They got to worry about four different quarterbacks throughout the course of the season. This is going to be a complete crap show. The Browns appropriately named the Browns because this is exactly what this season. Is going to be. Let's see.
Maybe they move off with Dylan Gabriel. I would just be, I'd be surprised. If they decided to move forward and say, ah, Shadora, take a hike, I just. I don't know about that one. Hey, Dallas Cowboys in the news.
We learned that Tyler Guyton. Had to leave practice due to a knee. There was a concern that he tore his ACL. Good news for the Cowboy fans. He did not.
And so apparently, he's going to be out four to six weeks. Hopefully, he can come back some point in the season. Maybe he'll be ready for week one. Uh and then we can We can see Dak Prescott stand upright. And meanwhile on the other side, speaking of the Dallas Cowboys, Micah Parsons still doesn't have a deal.
It still doesn't have a contract. Jerry Jones is needling him, saying, Oh, the fans chant for him to get paid. Not as loud as they did last year for CeeDee Lamb. Jerry Jones is going to provide an update like every three damn days. He spoke to Fox in Dallas.
And he just was just like, listen, man, I want the guy on the team, but I got to have good teammates around him too. Listen. I enjoy being around Micah and we've just got to realize what we're doing here and what we're doing is trying to take the resources that we have under the rules. And we're trying to allocate it to get the best guys out there at the same time. But Micah's fine.
Man, Michael Parsons is gonna get his 40-plus million dollars. Just why is he making him sweat over it? Probably going to make him sweat until game day to open up the season. That is just. The Jerry Jones.
Way Come on now. Speaking of Dallas, this guy used to play in Dallas. I still can't believe they moved him. Luka Doncic. Bacha, what is he on, like a world tour now that he lost weight?
Uh, he's on a press tour at least. You could s I don't I didn't expect him to be on a Health magazine.
Well, yeah, Luka Doncic is, well, we know he's a Jordan brand athlete. I know Jordan Brand is having a series of one on one so they have a one on one tournament that they're having all throughout the course of the country. Luca is getting ready to to participate in the the Euros. I know a lot of the the players are, and they're their respective countries. Yannis for Greece and We'll see Jokic out there as well for Serbia.
Luca is he was on the cover of Men's Health magazine for his weight loss and now his fitness. And now he's hanging out with Aaron Judge, who can't even play for the New York Yankees right now. This is kind of nuts. Luca, Botri, did you see the photo of Judge and Luca? I did.
This is pretty thin. Yeah, well, yeah, God bless him, but forget him. I know it it it never ceases to amaze me. That Aaron Judge is 6'7. They list him at 285.
And he's, of course, he's bigger than Luca. Luca is listed at what, 6'6? Yeah, six six six seven. Yeah, th th judge is bigot Judge is s he's taller than him. Like he makes looking at Aaron Judge on a baseball field.
Just standing next to other players is almost comical. It makes no sense. And then you put judge next to somebody who's supposed to be bigger than most human beings. You just go. The judge is just bigoting everybody?
Like if you put him next to a football player. Aaron Judge is bigger than most of them. He's just a freak, botcher. Yeah.
And it's absurd because it's not like He's just like big and just like chunky. He's ripped too.
So it's like a different type of monster. Every time they go 285, do you think that's BS? Is he 285? He's got to be more than that. You think Aaron Judge is 6'0, 7, 300 pounds?
Come on, he's probably big. No, he's not. Come on. Muscular though. Yeah, the guy's jacked to the kills.
And no no uh no Mark McGuire out here with it either. Nope. Damn. Damn. Anyway.
You think Luke will be healthy throughout the season? I think he'll make it. They can be fine. If he if he stays this weight, he should be fine. Only thing that can stop Luka Doncich Is I don't want to say too much basketball because how much can you really play?
He's been dealing with all these damn calf issues the past few years. These guys play in Europe. They're going to play for a month. They're going to take a couple of weeks off. And then the next thing, you know, they're going to be thrown right into the NBA regular season.
So, I mean. It's either one or two things. All these dudes are just gonna be Already in shape, raring to go, or they're going to be fatigued at some point in time, man. I can't, and we heard Mark Cuban a couple weeks ago. He was upset.
He's like, why we got to send NBA players to represent? USA any Olympics. Why can't we just send You know, young guys. You can imagine that I mean, playing in in in Euros for the Euro championship? You you would think if you're an NBA owner, you don't you don't want to see Luca out there.
I know the Bus family and Jeannie, they getting ready to bounce on out of Lakers' ownership, at least being the majority owners. But I don't want to see Luca play. Playing in the Euros? Like. If you were an owner, would you want to see this?
Not really. I would say rest. Put all of your effort into the NBA team, not your country's team, which is kind of backwards to say. But I I'm paying you so much money to do this, I want you to stay healthy. Yeah, it's It's crazy.
And then the money is astronomical now. These dudes are making fifty and sixty and seventy million dollars a year. And then, what is their respective team supposed to say? The Bucs are supposed to tell Giannis, nah, man, don't represent Greece. Like, he got final say.
And the Euro the Euros run from august twenty seventh to September 14th. And so the players are going to have literally just. A couple of weeks before they got to start NBA camp, and then we get into the regular season. Ah, it's just. little too much.
But good on Luca for going out here and And losing weight. We know he's been criticized plenty for his uh His weight, people call him Huka Doncich, his drinking. Good good for Luca. Hopefully he can stay healthy. He's he's amazing.
I don't know what the Lakers are going to do. And then also, did you see that clip? It's not a clip. Did you see the photo of LeBron hanging out on a yacht with Um Nikola Jokic's agent? Did you see that?
I didn't see that. Was it the one where he was dancing along to Kendrick Lamar? No. There's a photo that Nikola Jokic's agent posted online. And it was LeBron James and not Maverick Carter.
It's his other friend. I can't remember his other friend's name. But they're all on the boat. And and Jokic's agent captioned it like you know, future things ahead and it's just like, okay, here we go again. And it's like, okay, is LeBron going to the Nuggets next year?
I don't know. Who knows? Maybe they got a business deal. Um Just rather interesting to see. It appears that LeBron James is not going to.
end his career. Are with the Los Angeles Lakers. I think at this point. And I don't know. If I'm the Lakers, why would I alien.
Would it. Don't you want to keep LeBron around, or is he just sucking too much money out of the team? He's opting into his 50, which is his right. Wouldn't you want to negotiate an extension? At this point, it might be i addition by subtraction.
with LeBron. With the attention that he demands as the face or was the face of the NBA. You can't. Still is? He still is.
And which is, that's absurd at his age.
So The amount of attention he brings in For him being injured more consistently now, him demanding over $50 million. If you get rid of him and maybe. in a perfect world, invest those funds to a maybe a younger player. To replace and pair with Luca? That's probably better for the Lakers, and I think they're trying to get LeBron out of the door to move towards that.
Damn. You can't do both simultaneous. This is the Lakers. Everybody wants to play for the Lakers, right?
Well, everybody wants to play for the Lakers, but LeBron James. Who's 40? Nobody expects a 40-year-old to make $50 million in the NBA. And it's absurd that he's still making that much. And the Lakers, maybe they saw a decline, maybe they saw him to make less money, but it keeps going up and up and up.
And they can't afford this for a guy who's starting to slow down. They didn't even. They didn't even have a contract discussion with him about an extension. I mean, is it worth it? You mean to tell me you couldn't tell LeBron James, hey man, thank you for opting into your, you know.
Your $50 million deal, thank you so much.
Well, maybe on the opposite, they said, Well, you could have left money on the table. But if you're LeBron and you know, these are your last years. I'm pretty sure at some point LeBron will buy this. He'll have an NBA team. I don't think the guy is worried about cash like that.
Could he have not just taken a smaller deal? Or is he just like, hey? These are the guaranteed years I know where I can make 50 mil. When he retires, Is he just clocking 50 out the gate? Does he have to worry about money?
Probably not, but. That's liquid cash. That's that that's not easy to come by, you know? I know, but it's just You're putting your team in a weird spot at your age. You're declining in health.
and just the amount of minutes you can play as the number one guy. And you can already see they moved, they traded AD. I don't know that's because of LeBron. But they brought in Luca trying to reset to a younger team. And I can see that the Lakers, there's tension now.
Maybe they just want to move off of LeBron and go to a different direction. Yeah, that's surprising. I would run that man and the marketing machine until the wheels fall off, but I guess they're like, screw that. We got Luca now. If there was no Luka Doncic, they would run LeBron James.
He'd get the farewell tour and all of it, but. We'll see what happens with LeBron. I'm just, it's crazy. The Lakers want to get rid of this guy. All right, we'll see.
Maybe LeBron wants to bounce sooner than that. It's the JR Sport Pre show on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back. Ugh. We'll talk some more basketball.
I don't know what Rudy Gobert did to Shaq. But Shaq said he hates Rudy Golbert. Going to hear what Shack had to say on the other side of the break. Of course, to talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. The phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler: 888-710-4ISN.
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Before we went to break, man, we went around the world on a lot of things, talked about Deion Sanders and his health issues, his cancer scare earlier this year, he's now cancer free. After having bladder cancer, we just talked about Luka Doncich. who showed up at Yankee Stadium. He's hanging out with Aaron Judge, who unfortunately can't play right now. Uh for the Yankees.
Flexor strain. It sucks for the Yankees to miss this guy for 10 games. That's just. It's just horrific. And then We talked about LeBron James, who was just hanging out on a yacht.
with the agent of Nikola Yokich. Who posted a a photo and he's just like, Oh, yeah, future things coming.
Okay, whatever. And then looking at LeBron, that wouldn't be too bad. Watching him play in Denver. That'd actually be pretty cool. LeBron and Jokic on the same team.
I get it Lebron is older, but Jokic is the team, and so having LeBron is any type of addition. Uh w would be awesome. That'd be great. We know without a shadow of a doubt Nikola Yokich is one of the best big men. One of the best basketball players the league has ever seen.
I know we talk about Luka Doncic getting in shape. Nikola Jokic was down in two liters of Pepsi a day. The Nuggets had to look at him and go, bro, you can't have an NBA career. and be out here doing that. And so Wild stuff.
And speaking of big men, I mentioned this as well. I don't know what Rudy Gobert did to Shaquille O'Neal. But Shaquille O'Neal does not like this man. Shaquille O'Neal said he hates Rudy Gobert. And we know Rudy Gobert is typically the butt of a lot of jokes.
Rudy Gobert was basically the first guy in the NBA who caught COVID and. made jokes about it before, that certainly didn't help him. Donovan Mitchell wasn't happy when he caught COVID from Rudy Golbert. A Rudy Gobert, you watch him play, you go, Do do you have one offensive move? Draymond Green can't stand him.
Draymond put him in a headlock. It's just so much. He's an easy target. And Shaquille O'Neal, well, he's looking at his bank account. And he's an easier target.
Listen to what Shaq had to say on his Big Man podcast. I hate Rudy Gobert. Why don't you like Rudy Gobert? He's a motherfucking money. $250.
You don't deserve it, though. As the president of the Big Man Alliance, you're making big money play like a fing big man. That's it. Play like a fing big man. Throw some balls, knock some people out.
Don't be letting little white dudes from Denver dunk on you and talk to you. Then you gotta grab them by the neck at the last second. Come on, bro. That's it. If you're going to get paid big money, play big.
I just want Shaq to still be on TV when Rudy gets into the Hall of Fame because it's going to be a good thing. If Rudy Gobert gets into the Hall of Fame, if Rudy Gobert gets to the Hall of Fame, I'll wear this dress to the motherfucking ceremony.
Okay? Yeah, he he had a photo of Charles for whatever reason. Yes, he had a photo of Charles Barclay.
next to him in a dress And Shaquille O'Neill grabbed that giant poster and said if Rudy Gobert goes into the Hall of Fame He's going to wear that dress.
Well, damn it, he's going to be wearing a dress. And I know as much as people don't particularly care for it or like it, Like Rudy Golbert is going into the Hall of Fame he is. And I get it, he's in the midst of a four, what, five-year, $200-plus million-dollar contract. You think about Rudy Gobert, you think about defense, but You go, where's the rest of the game? Is that a reason to hate the guy, though?
He has four. Count em four. Defensive Player of the Year awards. He's in the same category of a da Kembe Mutumbo with four of them suckers. Like Rudico Bear is going into the Hall of Fame.
I don't know what his speech is gonna sound like. Draymond Green is likely also going to be in a Hall of Fame. Draymond Green might get up and walk out. Shaq is going to wear a dress. Rudy Gobert doesn't say anything to anybody.
I do remember that time he did get into it, I think with Kyle Anderson on the bench. Botra, why do you think people hate this guy? It's just a combination of everything I said, really. I think the COVID situation really started the Rudy Gobert hate. Yeah.
in everyone else's eyes on social media, he was the one that ended the season. Rubber beat the Main season before they went to the bubble. And then on top of that, he doesn't score the ball well.
So that's just more of a Fuel of the fire. in the hatred. Yeah, I think that yeah, the the COVID thing really put him in an a An ugly situation. Because he made light of it. See, I don't know if that's karma or that's the way the world works.
He made light of it in a very public way. He's over here touching everybody's microphones. And it's like, poof, who's the first guy to get COVID? And I know everybody talks about sports being scripted.
Well, here you have it. It it it was Rudy Golbert. And then after that it was just full steam ahead on uh On parliament or And but there is a reputation on the European players about about being soft. Ain't nobody bothering Giannis, right? There's nobody bothering Jokic.
I remember Jokic one time he got pushed. I forgot who it was. He got hit with a cheap shot. By one of the Morris brothers and Jokic, he gave him a cheap shot back. He gave the guy whiplash.
So. Uh Rudy might be the last of of soft guys coming over from Europe. I mean, even Victor Wembenyama. The NBA put up a happy birthday post for Carl Malone and Rudy Gobert, not Rudy Gobert, Victor Wembanyama was just like. Why are we celebrating this guy?
Damn, Victor. I don't know when Ben Yama had it in him. And for people who are not familiar, uh Let's just say carmalone is Well You sat a history. A va.
Well Hanging out with uh younger women.
Okay. You you Google that. on your own time. But anyway, s uh forget Carl Malone. I don't wanna make Victor Wimanyama angry.
Uh botcher, did you see Which one is it that don't play no more? Does Mark Heath even play anymore? Is he still playing? I think Marcus still plays. Mark Heath is, if not, like the last guy on the bench type of guy.
Yeah, Marcus is done. Marke is some on somebody's because Marcus is now on ESPN, right? Yes. And that that may be done. I saw this thing earlier today.
He's writing, he's being investigated for writing fake checks. He put out a message saying that, oh, this is a whole not a big deal, but then it's like he's writing. Fake checks or checks that are bouncing for Rolls Royce. He owes a. A casino money, and that check bounced.
They're saying that he's writing these checks that. He knows that there's no money in the account and now they're trying to come after his ass. Listen to this report from the Daily Mail. NBA Free Agent Marcus Morris Sr. was arrested at Fort Lauderdale International Airport over the weekend.
According to arrest records in Broward County, Morris is being held on a charge of fraud, writing a check with insufficient funds. But hours after the arrest, Morris's twin brother Markeith posted an angry statement on X. The wording is crazy. Damn, for that amount of money, they'll embarrass you in the airport with your family, the post read. They could have came to the crib for all that.
He followed that, urging people to wait for the real story and that his brother will tell them tomorrow. An agent that represents the brothers put out a statement saying, Just so everyone understands this is zero fraud here or whatever crap outlets have said regarding fake checks or whatever the hell, this is due to an outstanding marker with a casino. Apparently, if you have over $1,200, they can issue a warrant for your arrest. Absolute insanity. Failing to pay a marker is treated as a Class D felony and carries a penalty of fines and up to four years in prison.
Oh damn. He says it's no big deal. Marco Belletti, how many How many checks do I have to write before people just don't get angry at me? Like how many checks do I gotta write? before I got the police after me.
Hmm. I don't know the exact number. I would imagine it's a lot. I I I don't I don't think they come after you for every bounce check. Yeah.
No, I can't write it. I haven't written a check in a long time. You write checks? A couple. Believe it or not, there's one place that there's one thing, the guy that cuts my grass, that's the only way I could pen.
Get out of here. Yeah.
Good dude. He will only take a check? No, he just doesn't have anything else for me to be able to pay him. Like, I don't, there's no other way. Like, he leaves the thing in my mailbox unless I'm going to drive to his house and give him money.
Like, I don't know another way to give him money. He doesn't got Cash Shap. He doesn't. He can't. Oh my God.
And I'm slow on some of this stuff either. I don't have some of the stuff that maybe he does have. Maybe that's possible. But the only way I know in the last, whatever, two years has been coming along, I gotta write him a check and I leave it in, you know, I mail it. He leaves it in my mailbox and I mail it out to him.
I haven't written a check yet. And I don't even know how long. Yeah, it feels like 1987, honestly, when I read it. Oh, yeah, write in a check. Could you imagine if you went to the grocery store?
And you went to go pay in the line and somebody pulled out a checkbook? You know, do they even take that anymore? I was going to say, can't you do that? If I if I went to Publix I don't even have a check. I don't have a check in my house.
But if I did and I went to Publix and they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, $150 and I pulled out a checkbook. What would the reaction be? We don't take that, huh? You know, I don't know, but I think they have to take it, right? Like, isn't that one of those things where.
It's not like you busted out like a roll of pennies and you know, slammed it on the counter and made them count it. Like, if you write the checkout, I think they have to technically take it, no? Wow, I don't know. And what happens if there's no money, right? Like in the check, what they gonna they're gonna email me or well, not email me, they're gonna They're going to send a letter to my house?
What do they do? I don't know. Is it the bank that goes after you and they get their money anyway? Like, I don't know. Is that where insured comes in?
I don't know. I don't know. I've had to write cashier checks every now and then. Got to go to the bank, get a cashier check. Right.
I haven't had to get a write a check in forever. I'll say this: the checks that I, again, it's only like one or two. And I've been doing it for so long. I've been in this place for maybe seven years. This still has my address from like three moves ago.
Because I wasn't going to get more checks. I understand, man. I mean, like, honestly, I'm going to get more checks. Why? What am I going to do with them?
Am I going to pay for these things? Yeah, there was a point in time I had books of those things in the house. I got to write a check. Got to write a check. Got to write a check.
And I do too from three moves ago.
So wherever I was living when I was writing checks in 2005, that's what you're getting. Yeah.
Hey, listen, money is there, count is there. They don't care. Bacha, y when's the last time you wrote a check? This Senior no, not even senior year, junior year of high school. We gotta buy books.
So I had to use that.
So you bring in there like a whole book sale. You walk down, you're like, okay, what class is you in? And I had to write a check at the end of the day. You actually know how to write a check, though? Yeah.
Okay. I I took a finance class in senior year. And we learned that basically basically it was like basic finance class. It was like, what should you do with your investments? and whatnot.
And not don't be an idiot. And then the first day of class, he got some kid to give him a social security number. The teacher. What? Because the first lesson for homework said: go home, you better memorize your social security number.
Because most of the kids in class had no idea what it was. They had no idea what their social security number is? No. I didn't either, so I memorized it then. And the next thing.
When I was 17? No. Okay. And then the next day he came in, and then he was like, okay, what's your social security number? And the kid told him.
And he's like, You never do that again, you're an idiot. Yeah.
And he went off the the problems of fraud. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That is your uh that is your uh government ID number for being a an alive human before and after well. While you're here and after, that's your number, that's who you are. Damn.
You I guess there'd be no. I knew mine. I don't know what. I guess there's enough things that I needed. Like.
What do I need? You need it for school, you need it for life, you need it for banking, you need it for everything. Yeah, but I'll I'll give botcher. Like, I don't think I learned it until either senior year of high school or like into college. Really?
Yeah, I don't think I knew it before that. For like applications, I needed and for job applications.
So it's like I need to know it then. Yeah.
Did you know your phone number? Yeah.
Yeah, okay. I wasn't great with it, but I knew it.
Okay. I'm just saying. Momad, does anybody really know that? Anybody know anybody's phone number? I know mine.
We talked about this last week being botched. It was good to say I had a million of them in my head.
Now I don't know anything. If it's not in my phone, to hell with you. I don't know who you are. I don't know nobody's number. I think I made no one other number besides my own.
See, we were smarter back in the day, J.R. You had to remember things. You had to write it down. That's what I mean. It's almost like caveman-esque.
We used to know how to be able to go out there with a pocket knife in our wits, and we would be able to come back with food.
Now we don't know nothing. Man, I got navigation automatically in my car. Come on, what is this about? There used to be no navigation, nothing. Not even map before MapQuest, you know?
Could you imagine somebody going outside without some stupid thing giving you direction? I'll tell you now, I'm old enough to actually have busted out the map, unfolded it, put it on the hood. and literally charted out where we were going. For, like, a whatever seven-hour ride, and we figured out everywhere we were going. Yeah.
And if you were in that passenger seat, you were the navigator. You better know what the hell you're doing, how to read that map. Yeah.
We're in your hands. Yeah, that's them. Days are gone. Exit 50. Why did you tell me?
Because, oh, you know, yeah. We don't have too many of those anymore. We don't have navigation. People get in the passenger seat and they think it's time to scroll on their phone all day, you know? See?
This is where we all went awry. We used to be able to do stuff. Oh yeah. No, it's stupid. Yeah, we're dumb.
It's just what it is. 2025, we ain't getting smart. I'll tell you that much. Yeah.
How much I know. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN. When we come back, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. But right now, what's going on right now in the world of sports?
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It's time for us to talk about a few things that took place this day. in sports history. Dingle doo. 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. The JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass.
July 28th, 2025, that is the year, that is the day, this is the month. In 1991, July 28th. Dennis Martinez, this man pitched a perfect game. He did it for the Expos. They beat the Dodgers 2-0.
This was the 13th perfect game that we saw in Major League Baseball history. Dennis Martinez did it with 95 pitches and 5 strikeouts. Take a listen to the great Vince Culley give you the call. Then this Martinez ready and the 1-2 pitch hopped in the air to center field. Going deep on it is Marcus Brisson.
He's got it. On the track, Dennis Martinez being. Mar by his team. on this 28th of July. 1991.
3.22 p.m. In the afternoon, Dennis Martinez has reached the ultimate, a perfect game against the game. and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nothing stacked. See nothing flukey.
It was amazing. Masterpiece. And just from the best storyteller ever, from one Hall of Famer to another. I mean, Vince Scully, Dennis Martinez. Let's go to July 28th, 1993.
Ken Griffey Jr. He's the third person in baseball history to hit a home run in eight straight games. He joined Dale Long and Donnie Baseball for doing it, or they were the only two to do it before Griffey. He hit a home run against the Twins. Listen to Ken Griffey do it.
Well, all eyes are on this young man right now as he stands in. Griffey 0 for 2 tonight. And the first pitch from back to 1. There it goes! Yeah.
See you later. Upper deck, Griffey is tied to major league record. Holy cow, the kid has done it. Home runs in eight consecutive games. It sucks for him though.
He that hell of an honor. The Mariners still lost. They lost to the Twins 5-1. Griffey's run, his home run, that was the only run that they went out there and scored. July 28th, 1994, Kenny Rogers pitched the perfect game for the Rangers.
They beat California, the Angels, 4-0. He did this: 98 pitches, 8 strikeouts. Listen, courtesy of MLB. The crowd on its feet here in Arlington. Two outs in the ninth.
A fly to center field. Greer there. He's got it. A perfect game. Oh, baby.
Rogers. Pinches the 11th perfect game in. Major league. Yeah.
And he is by his teammates here at the bottom. Ballpark in Arlington. History made To lie. 28, 19, 19. 94.
Kenny Rogers, a true gem. A perfecto. He throws 98 pitches, strikes. retires all 27 California Angels that he faces. July 28th, 1996.
Dow Strawberry. He had his 300th home run. He did it in a. Walk off fashion, a two-run. Walk-off home run.
The Yankees beat the Royals 3-2. Let's listen to Dow Strawberry Go Deep. Runner Hull is and the pitcher swung on said high. Deep for right field. Right center field going back and David.
It's gone. There's Strawberry with the two-run shot here in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Yankees win it. Three to two. Number three for Strawberry. It's out well.
Thou strobe a hell of a career. in and of himself. Yeah, and those are a few things that took place this day. In sports history, it has been July 28th. Uh Yeah.
Long. And a sad news as well, as we just heard from Marco Belletti. not too long ago in our last news flash, Uh Ryan Sandberg. has passed away. At the age of 65, due to Prostate cancer.
This is something he was diagnosed with last year, the former MVP and And Hall of Famer, everybody knows him really from his time with the Cubs, also spending a little bit of time. With the Phillies, they drafted him and also being a member of being their manager about a decade ago. I mean, it's just. Ugh. There's life.
You know, one day, hopefully, sooner than later. uh we get a cure uh for cancer and these diseases and so It's l little sad when you think about You know what we heard earlier today from Deion Sanders and the bladder cancer and And then to to have to cap the evening off. uh with the passing of of Ryan Sandberg. I know there's a lot of uh Cubs fans And he was one of the few bright spots throughout the course of uh the eighties as he played. Uh if you are a Cubs fan.
And so uh Condolences to Ron Sandberg and his family. Is uh Yeah. N not news that you would expect. Uh Ryan Sandberg. passing at the age of 65.
years old. And then I had mentioned this earlier in the show. Unfortunately, we learned that there was a a shooting in the office building That house is the NFL. uh this evening as well, just a couple of hours ago. Uh five dead.
including an NYPD officer as a man, Walked into the building that houses the NFL headquarters. There are many other businesses in there as well. Uh apparently Okay. shot a bunch of people and then ended up taking His own life suggests So just a a wild day, an interesting day. Wherever you might be, whatever you're doing, I just wish and hope you are safe and you are well.
In this world that we live in, I want to thank everybody for being tuned in and locked in. Thank you so much to Brian Howell for joining us, covers all things Colorado Buffaloes, and for coming through to talk about. A Deion Sanders. Of course, we talked about Shamar Stewart and Terry McLaurin showing up to work under different circumstances. We talked about the Hall of Fame inductions from last night.
Aaron Rodgers extending an olive branch. To Terry Branch. Shaq, no olive branch. Shaq said, I hate. Rudy Gobert.
We talked about Luca losing weight. Gave you the latest on Michael Parsons. Still no deal, still no contract. The Browns quarterback situation with Kenny Pickett being down. Christian Wilkins kissing his teammates, apparently, allegedly.
It's just been a day. You can hit Rewind on the Free Odyssey app. If you've missed a minute of the show, you can find me online at JR Sport Brief. We'll be back tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.
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