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I just gave you a new top six list. We took a look at some of the biggest cheaters. in sports history. At number one on my list, I have Lance Armstrong. Oh, he's a cheater's cheater.
I'm going to cheat, I'm going to lie, and then I'm going to threaten you to shut the hell up about it. And that's Lance Armstrong, number one on my list, biggest cheater in sports history. We talked about James Cook. Signing his new contract today with the Buffalo Bills. He's not going anywhere.
Getting twelve million dollars a year now. Not the fifteen that he wanted. but the twelve that he got. Shadur Sanders goes down with an oblique. And we've talked about it all.
Thank you so much as well to Eric at home. Eric Edholme coming to us from NFL.com to talk about all things. NFL. If you've missed a minute or second, Rewind. On the Free Odyssey We got so much more to get into.
I'm going to get some more of your calls. 888-710-4ISN is the number. 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.
We got Jerry Jones making a rather interesting Admission. About making money but not winning games. What a shock, what a surprise. We got the Portland Trailblazers have been sold. And there's a lot more that we're going to do before we get out of here.
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Okay. Anyway, The heck is going on here? Hmm. Bacha, where do we go? Should we talk about the guy who signed the contract today or the guy who got hurt?
Which one? Uh got hurt. Oh, damn. And not disrespect James Cook, but like It's the running back position. Ouch.
Okay. Ouch.
Running backs get hurt all the time. That's why they want to get paid. Hey, we got a bunch of NFL players that were hurt today. We don't necessarily know their status. A Chop Robinson, a Penn State product, is is hurt.
We don't know the status of him, his leg. He says, My leg is fine. And then we also have Sauce Gardner. His leg, he's dealing with a calf issue. We got Antoine Winfield Jr.
of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he's dealing with a leg issue. And everybody's just like everybody's fine. I mean, Todd Bowles. Does he sound concerned about Antoine Winfield's injury? He doesn't sound concerned at all.
Noticed Antoine Winfield Jr. was out. Again, what's his prognosis of the name? He's got a lower leg injury, he's a little sore. That's it?
Just l low leg injury, little sore. That's like my legs. Every Single day. Every day. And then we got another guy who's hurt.
He's a quarterback. No, not Matthew Stafford. As far as we know, he didn't need another needle in his back. Shador Sanders. has an oblique issue.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
It's not good. Not good at all. He was gonna start. on Saturday over the weekend against the Eagles. And then, well, his back started acting up.
Then here we are. And Kevin Stofansky, before he heard his oblique, he was just like, yeah, Shador's going to start again if Dylan's hammy's bothering him, if Pickett's hammy's bothering him. Listen to this. In the Charlotte uh game in Charlotte, he said uh Shadow will get plenty of reps in the n the next game. Just picking on Gabriel can't play, well, would he start?
Yeah, I guess if those guys could not play, yes. Yeah, and we're working through that, Tony. You know, we're always going to play our young guys a lot in these games, so we'll see how it shakes out here over the next couple of days. Is there some wisdom, though? If Dylan is healthy, would you like to see him get a start as well, potentially?
Yeah, potentially. Again, the plan was always to give both of those guys a start in the preseason, so we'll see how it shakes out. Yeah, now now he ain't gettin' no start.
Now, Dylan Gabriel can look better if his leg works. It's just a wild world.
Well We got some good news for a guy. Congratulations, James Cook. $12 million a year for a running back. Saquon's making $20 million. Derrick Henry's making $15 million.
James Cook is now making $12. Just like Alvin Kamara, just like Josh Jacobs, except for he, James Cook, is guaranteed. Thirty million dollars. That's something the other running backs cannot say. James Cook.
He doesn't like to speak. but he talked about why he wanted to stay, with the bells. Because we have an awesome quarterback. You know, and then the program just drafted me, organization just drafted me and Just want to spend the rest of my career and be a forever. And he sounds so enthusiastic about it, huh?
So Enthusiastic. eight eight eight seven ten four I S N is the number. That's 888-710-4ISN. The brewer's on a 12 game winning streak. Mariners have won eight games in a row.
We got baseball heating up. Football getting closer to the start of the season. Oh, yeah, we got a lot going on. Trey is calling up from Wyoming. You're on the JR Sport Reshow.
What's up, Trey? Jare, I think you have a pretty respectable list, but I do not understand how you cannot leave off the Monstars. No matter what. The atrocities that stealing the talents of some of the greatest the greatest generation of baseball. I I think you ought to include them on there.
That's all I got. Oh my God. Wow. Thank you, Trey, for calling from Wyoming. Wow I did not know the name of that little short guy in the Space Jam movie.
I don't remember that guy. It's Danny DeVito. That's all you got to know. Yeah, but he just gave the guys charact the the character had a name? I guess so.
I I just I thought of the guy smoking a cigar and, you know, trying to powers. Yeah, and that's what he did. I have a question though. I got a question first. Is that cheating?
If you are an alien. And you are a villain. And this is a Looney Tunes ass world. Are you really cheating? Yes.
You don't think Wiley Coyote cheats all the time to try to catch a road runner? He's doing what he needs to do. He's like a sick freak. Yeah, but he's not good at it.
So it's like he's cheating and it's not helping. He's backfired. It's not cheating. That's the laws of nature. Laws of Looneytown No, he is a coyote.
Trying to catch, what is that, a bird? It's a road runner. Yeah, trying to catch a bird. That's earth. That's the laws of nature.
That's not cheating. Come on now. Yeah, but a coyote using dynamite. This is called natural selection. If coyotes were smart enough to use dynamite out here, I'm sure they would.
That's true. And what was your question? My question is: you're the Monstars, right? Oh, God. Why would they go after Mugsy Bogues.
And Sean Bradley. Like, they weren't like. the greatest of all time. And even still, you're trying to get the powers of Muggsy Bogues. He's pretty short.
Like I understand Sean Bradley, he's like seven foot six. Whatever it was. You're trying to get after mugsy bugs. That seems like a waste of a talent pool. Mugsy Bowles is a great point guard for his size, man.
What are you talking about? What do you think she went after? Wasn't Gary Payton in there, too, right? No. It was.
Charles Barkley. Tim Hardaway, right? No. No, it was. Sean Bradley, Mugsy Bogs.
Yewing. Uh What's called? I just said his name. And then Grandmama. They took more guys' powers than that.
It was only five. It was just the stars. No, Charles Barkley. Yeah, I said Barkley. Bradley, Bogues, Larry Johnson, Larry Johnson and Ewing.
Those were the five. That's it. That's it? That's it. That's all they took.
So I'm saying, like, you went to one game at the garden And I don't know who you can take John Stark's powers? No, no, no. Muxy Bose is probably the best point guard out there. Yeah, come on, man. Did you ever watch Muggsy Bose?
No, I wasn't born when he was playing. Oh, so there you go. You just think because he was short, he was garbage? No, I know he was like good, but if you're trying to build a team to beat the Looney Tunes, they're pretty wacky. You're going for Muggsy Bogues?
You just talked. Yes, you just talked about the two teams that were playing. You've obviously seen Space Jam a lot. I mean, yeah, Muggsy Bowles is probably the best guard out there. If I needed a point guard, let Jon Starks go over there.
What do I need him for? The missed shots? No, no thanks. Leave Mugsy Bose alone. Muggsy Bose is from Baltimore.
He'll whoop your ass, okay? We got Charles Oakley. And n n no, they don't need no bruiser.
Well, you said Sean Bradley. He didn't play for the Knicks or the Hornets. What are you talking about? Well, I don't know then because you put two and two together. No, no, no.
Four of the five were playing in the Knicks. No. No, no, no. So they just got Sean Bradley from another game then?
Okay. Yes. Go back and watch the movie.
Alright, go back and watch the movie. Leave Monksy Bose alone. He will cut you. He will cut you. eight eight eight seven ten four I S N.
I didn't think that we'd talk about cheaters and get into space jam. But yeah, Barkley wasn't on the other team either. That makes more sense now. Yeah, yeah. He's probably playing what year was this?
90? 95? The year Jordan retired. Ninety-four, so he's still on the Suns at that point. Eight eight eight seven ten four I S N 888-710-4ISN.
Yeah, you probably had the Mavs taking on the Suns, and that's where you get Bradley and uh. And Barclay. Eric is calling from Colorado. Hopefully, not to bring up a space jam, one or two. You're on the JR Sport B show, Eric.
What's up?
Okay. Yeah. Jate, I'm definitely not going to bring that up. But I was gonna bring up uh This guy's not number six or better. He's at least number seven.
And it's at Tim Donahue, man. You talk about cheating. Like that guy is the the definition of cheat, like right in the dictionary. Yeah, he was he was uh trying to fix games to win money on himself. But who did he cheat outside of himself?
There was no major impact on any of the games or the league. They didn't find that, and I don't believe so. I don't know. I mean, it it you never know who it really impacted, but I mean, it it impacted the credibility of the league total. I don't think so.
I don't think. You think the NBA's integrity was infected by Tim Donaghy? I think it was imp I think He was made of to be a lot worse than it really was to people that weren't more are they more casual, like, you know, followers. Yeah, but th th this took place almost 20 years ago. And the NBA is in bed.
The NBA is in bed with gambling partners. They're making billions of dollars. They're the most popular thing in the states behind the NFL. Like I don't think if the NBA was gonna be hurting is they'd feel some pain. I think more outside.
Yes. You said the integrity of the game. Right, yeah, but there was no but no, bruh. Nobody cared, bruh. Nobody cared.
Like in 2008, 2009, 2010, when the Celtics and the Lakers were going and LeBron went. Nobody talked about Tim Donahy. Nobody said, I'm not watching. Nobody cared. And at the same time, you'd have to go to Vegas to one of the casinos to even bet anyway.
So nobody cared. I don't think there was any residual. People looked at Tim Donahy, and now they had an excuse if they wanted to, to go, oh my God, the games are fixed. Look at him. He was doing it, the referee.
He's one guy. He's one guy. No big deal. But it did give those people that thought in their head: like, oh, see, I knew it. I knew it.
Well, there's a. There's always going to be people that go, I knew it. I mean, people call me up during football season and go, JR, I knew it. I told you so.
Well, if you know so much. Give me some lottery numbers. Don't tell me about cheaters. Hey, thank you, Eric. I see it.
Appreciate you, yeah. I told you those referees would we always people are always trying to cheat. Referees are cheating, players are cheating, people are cheating on their husbands, their wives. Their family people cheat all the time, man. Come on.
eight eight eight seven ten four I S N eight eight eight seven ten four I S N Abner is calling from Pennsylvania. You're on the J.R. Sport Re Show. What's up?
Abner, where the heck are you? Yeah, right here. Can you hear me? Yeah, now I got you. What's going on?
I almost got hung up on. What's up?
Yeah. No, I'm driving. I hope I didn't go for a bad area.
So, yeah. I probably should have more research on the call here, but how about those guys that were sports fishing and they uh put weights in the fish's stomachs so they weigh so they weigh more. They want all kinds of money. What What what did you just say? Fishermen did what?
Yeah, if you look it up, they were in a tournament. They were professional fishermen. I think it was like up in Michigan somewhere.
Okay. And they got caught. They were putting weights. putting sinkers into fishes' stomachs.
So when they came in and weighed them that they weighed more. They wa they won thousands of dollars till they got cut. Oh my God. I got to look that up. I don't know if I put that in the same category of Lance Armstrong, but I'm going to look that one up.
The fishermen were cheating?
Okay. Yeah, no. Yeah, your list is right on. I agree with that, Liz. Yeah, Lance Arnzo is definitely on the top there.
But, yeah, hey, it's been great listening to you. Great show.
So. Oh, yeah. I should have more research before I call it, but yeah, look it up. You see it. I will.
Thank you, Abner. I like obscure cheaters. I like them. No, I don't. I don't like obscure cheat.
I don't like cheaters anywhere. Jacob Runyon and Chase Kaminski? Is this the guy? These are fishermen that were cheating? Yes, Lake Erie Walleye Trail in Ohio, 2023.
So they caught fish and then they just dropped weights into the fish's mouth Lead weights and Fillets inside.
So they just put, so they just cut, like, they bought fish. of the same fish fish they were catching. and stuffing the fish with more fish. How did they get caught? A fish fell out?
Like what happened? I think they found some just discrepancies in the measuring. Oh boy, okay, okay. Wow. Ten days in jail?
10 days in jail for that? 10 days in jail, six months' probation, and three years' suspension of the fishing licenses. Wait, wait, wait. Why did they go to jail? I'm assuming ca let's keep reading.
You can't you go to jail forfeited their boat. And trailer. And they had to go to Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife and pay fines. Oh, because they were messing up the fish. Yeah, so they were disgracing fish.
Or let her get Yeah, you can't do that. Peter will be in your backside. Start desecrating the animals. You can't do that. Mutilating the fish, putting weights in the fish as he's dying, and I don't know.
We're catching the fish, and they're dead anyway, but. Wow. You can't make this stuff up. What a world. 888-710-4ISN.
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Portland Trailblazers getting a new owner. Jerry Jones is admitting what we've heard for years. Jerry Jones is. Basically, ratting himself out. Not a cheater.
Maybe so. But anyway, we'll hear what Jerry Jones had to say about making money on the other side of the break. We'll talk about the Trailblazers, and then even the Celtics have an interesting story right now. The phone lines are still open if you want to give me a holler: 888-710-4ISN. And of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history.
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People trying to get a leg up, doing anything to get ahead in life. And then sometimes it works out. Maybe you could become a billionaire. Maybe you got a couple mil and you bought a sports team and now it's worth billions and billions of dollars. I don't know.
Maybe you are. Jerry Jones.
Well, we found out with this new Netflix series coming out, Jerry Jones has been speaking to the media. Jerry Jones has revealed he has been battling uh skin cancer uh for almost a decade and now he's all in the clear. God bless him, good for him on that. And then we heard even more from Jerry Jones. We learned today that the Dallas Cowboys have a valuation of about $13 billion.
I'd say it's probably closer to $15, but what do I know? Most valuable sports franchise on planet Earth. And Jerry Jones spoke to the media and he basically said. Yeah, I make all the controversy on purpose to keep them in the news because if the Cowboys are in the news, then I make more money. And we all knew that.
But do you care about winning? Listen to what Jerry Jones said. If we're not being looked at. then I'll do my part to get us looked at. The Cowboys are a soap opera.
365. I'll start. Please take your receipts. And so it is, it's, oh, it's wonderful to have the great athletes, have the great players. But there's something more there.
There's sizzle, there's emotion. And if you will, there's controversy. That controversy is good stuff. Controversy is good stuff. Damn.
He knows he's not stupid. Ah big. We've been saying that I've been saying that for years. He cares more about the valuation of the franchise than actually winning. Yeah.
If nothin''s goin' on, then I come outside and I'll stir it up. And start up a victory. I still can't believe a guy called up last week. JR, what's your definition of winning?
Well the Dallas Cowboys have done more wet man, shut up I'm talking about a Super Bowl. If you want to be a loser-ass sitting around just getting B's and C's every year and And never getting an A, then good on you, then you'll be a loser then. Man, you think the Dallas Cowboys, the actual players, are trying to go out there and Just go to the playoffs and be eliminated? You think the fan base is cool with just, oh, we won 12 games. Oh, we won 12 games again.
Oh, we won 12 games. Hooray, we're winners. No, you're losers. You're running in place. Man, the goal is to win a championship, not sit around skating around on 10, 12 wins.
Whoop the freaking dude, bunch of losers? That's when you know you've been in a warp of losing for so long. Become complacent.
Now that's a loser-ass mentality. How about that? The goal is to win. And good for Jerry Jones. Not that he's going to sell the team.
Maybe one day his kids do it. Maybe one day he doesn't even allow them to do it when he's dead. But. The man is more concerned With making money and boosting that valuation, than he is winning. Because if Jerry Jones was concerned with winning, He wouldn't be running the team from an operational standpoint.
He wouldn't be doing a whole circus act. Like with Micah Parsons or C De Lamb or Dak Prescott. Goes on and on and on and on. And speaking of teams being sold, The Portland Trailblazers are finally On the move. To a new team.
Well, not a new team. They've been sold. Paul Allen used to own the team, used to own the Seattle. Seahawks as well, co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates. I need you to listen to K2 News Break It Down.
All right, Bobby Corso here in the parking lot at K2. We have some breaking news. The Portland Trailblazers have been sold to Tom Dundon, the owner of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes. Obviously, he said he is not going to move the team out of Portland, and a group of investors has Portland ties, so that's the important news. But this news is just coming down right now.
We're going to have complete coverage throughout the day, k2.com as well as on air. But Portland Trailblazers. Have a new owner for the first time in a really long time. The Paul Allen G Foundation has sold them for an estimated valuation of about $4 billion. Yeah.
Tom Dundon owns the Carolina Hurricanes now owns The Blazers Come on, man, we We gotta keep the blazers. can keep the blazes in Portland forever. That's not the only team that we got a little bit of an update about. being sold? The Polad family is not selling the Minnesota Twins.
They might have sold off all of their players over the past several weeks. But they're just saying we're gonna keep the team. and bring in some minority investors with some new ideas. Listen to this report for many. And the Minnesota Twins are no longer for sale.
In a letter this morning, the Poland family says they will remain the principal owner of the team. The family goes on to say they are in the process of adding two partnerships to the ownership group. The Twins have been owned by the Poland family since 1984. Yeah, K-E-L-O-N. or Kelloland, whatever that is.
Got family out there. I don't know what the heck that is. And good luck to the twins. Botcha, why didn't you buy him? You know what's crazy?
One of my friends knows... the son of the ex the owner.
So Yeah, his son knows one of my friends.
So maybe I could get in. If I had, I know, a few more billion dollars on my uh belt. Yeah, it's Minn it's Minnesota Twins. You be alright. They give you a piece.
If you come in with bright ideas, you can get some equity in it, I'm sure. Sign Better Players, Step 1. Oh, ouch. Don't trade your entire team. Two.
Isn't is Joe Maurer involved in the front office in some way? Isn't he? I don't think so. He. I'd Posey is the only recent catcher that I know is now the GM, but I don't think Mauer's involved.
I wouldn't be there if I was him. Yeah, it'd be a dumpster fire. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that stinks for him.
Hey, he got into the Hall of Fame. He's not complaining anymore. What a Maurer. Joe Joe Mauer? Yeah, he's he's good.
Oh, wait, wait, here we go. 2025. Joe January Joe Maurer admits interest in buying a twin stake.
Okay. Well, that's news to me, Maurice said, before admitting he's been approached. By possible buyers. Of course, he needs somebody else to come up with some money. He puts in a few dollars himself.
And then all is uh Well, in the world. I mean, that's how A-Rod did it. You gotta find that good billionaire friend. And then you just say, Hey, you put up the money, I'll help run it. And to be honest, there's only but so many athletes that could do that.
We got Eli Manning running around. People, there's levels to this money. Eli Mann is like, man, I can't afford a stake in the Giants. I need another rich person to come help me out. What a world Not everybody could be out here, uh like Jerry Jones.
Wild stuff. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN That's 888-710-45. 4ISN. We're going to take a break.
we come back on the other side. We've been talking about so many cheaters and sports. People like Lance Armstrong, Threatening people.
Sonia Harding Knowing that people are going to beat up our competition, chop them down at the legs. Horrendous things. We have to talk about something positive. I'm going to tell you something that Michael Phelps did to help out the Baltimore Ravens. We're going to get into that.
on the other side of the brake. And then in addition to that, Of course it's the end of the show. We're going to talk about a few things that took place this day. In sports history. It has been August 13th, 2025, all day long.
But what else is going on in the world of sports?
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888-710-4ISN is the number that's 888-710-4ISN. N. Speaking of all these sales of organizations.
Well, Dallas Cowboys have a $13 million valuation. We know Jerry Jones isn't selling. We learned today that the Blazers are being sold to the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes for $4 billion. The NBA has approved the sale of the Celtics for six point one. billion dollars.
So now we have Bill Chisholm. Who now has full control over the Boston Celtics when the deal is actually finalized? He's going to take up 51%, he's going to own 51% of the team. You'll have full control by twenty twenty eight. And at that point in time, by the time he has the full valuation, the team could cost 7.3 billion Dollars.
That's why the Celtics cutting all his salary. We know they ain't winning nothing this upcoming season. As Tatum is coming back, From that blown-out Achilles. Good on him, though. He's already out.
Of a walking boot. Hopefully, they don't push him too hard. I don't think they're going to. Maybe not even let him come back this year at all, but we'll see. Jason Tatum is somebody who's in ridiculous.
a shape. He's played so much basketball, maybe that's one of the reasons that he fondly I broke down. Anyway. We got so much more to do before we roll out. I told you about Michael Phelps doing a good deed with the Baltimore Ravens.
We'll get into that in a second. But it's the end of the show. You know what that means? It's time for us to talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. Shut 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. It is the JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network. Today is August 13th. The year is 2025.
And in 1969, this day in sports history. Legendary Jim Palmer. He no hit the Oakland A's. 8 to nothing. Yeah, this Oreo legend did it again.
Listen to L. Rod Hendrix and Earl Weaver talk about Jim Palmer's no hitter. This is courtesy of Memories on 33rd Street. And I remember just getting as small as I could behind the plate to try to get him down in the strike zone because he was wild mostly up that day. And with three and one and Dick Green, I think it was.
And Dick Green swung it what would have been ball four and he popped it up in that end of the ballgame. He just pitched an intelligently smart game. And the closer that it got to a no-hitter, the more careful he was. People say it wasn't a good ballgame, but when you shut out, I mean, no-hit a ball club like the Oakland A's in those days, it was an accomplishment. Yeah, that was in 1969.
Jim Palmer no-hit the Oakland A's. There was another legend with an accomplishment on August 13th, but this year. Was it 1979? Because Lou Bra Playing for those Cardinals. He got his 3,000th career hit against the Chicago Cubs.
He got that hit. against Dennis Lamb. Let's take a listen, courtesy of MLB. The 2-2 pitch. Brigging ball.
Get off the pitcher. To the... No play, stay ticked, three pounds him up the man, Jack. He's knocked down on the pitch before, and then he turns around and hits a line live off the pitch and then knocks him down. Pandemonium here at the ballpark.
Pandemonium here at the ballpark. I love the old school announcers. August 13th. 2006 We gotta go to to Cleveland. Travis Hafner.
This man tied Don Manningly. For the Major League Baseball record of six Grand Slams. In one season, he had a home run off of Luke Hudson. Take a listen to this: courtesy at MLB.
Well, the bases are loaded, and here is Mr. Grant Slam. Yes. Travis Hafner comes up with only one out. Hafner, he walked and scored.
Yeah. Earlier in the inning. He felt it. To right field and it is a Grand Slam number six, Grand Slam, number six for Travis Adam. Man, you get guns.
Well, I think Don Mattingly, the season that he did it, he didn't hit no more in his career. He hit all six career Grand Slams in that one season. Never hit another one again. Shout out to Travis Haffin. It's been a while.
August 13th, 2016. I remember this. Speaking of Don Mattingly, some other Yankees did something. New York Yankees rookies Tyler Austin and some guy named Aaron Judge. They hit back-to-back home runs and their first Major League Baseball plate appearances.
They beat the Rays 8-4. This took place at Yankee Stadium. I was actually watching this game. People were so excited about the Yankees' future. Where's Tyler Austin now?
Listen to this: Aaron Judge hitting his first homer. Courtesy of yes. Yeah. Dodge hits one to center field indeed. Going back, Kiermeyer.
Turning, looking, see ya, a monster home run. Back-to-back home runs by the Baby Bombers in their first big league at bats. Can you believe it? Yeah, Aaron Judge is on his way to the Hall of Fame in Tyler Austin.
Well, he's in Japan. Nothing wrong with Japan, but I guess he'd rather be in the majors, right? I think so. August 13th. The 2016.
Oh, what a busy day in the Olympics. Damn. US women's Four by one hundred meter Medley Relay Team They won in Brazil. They got our 100th or excuse me, they got our 1000th gold medal in Olympics history. And then you had Michael Phelps.
You got a gold medal in the butterfly leg of the relay. Michael Phelps 28 metals. five golds and a silver At those games. Listen to Michael Phelps won his last gold in the Olympics, courtesy at NBC. The USA have got it.
Nathan Adrian will bring them home. Great Britain's Duncan Scott will take the silver. And will the Australians get up and take the bronze? They do. Olympic record.
Michael Phelps. And his team Yeah. have maintained this extraordinary record. of never having lost. The midley relay.
At a full Olympics. Damn, that was nine years ago? Damn. Damn. Ebacha, I was at the Olympics in 2016 in Brazil.
That sounded like fun, wasn't it? Brazil is fun, isn't it? Do you remember Zika? Zika virus? Oh, yeah, from the mosquitoes, right?
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. People were like, don't go, don't go, don't go, don't go, don't go. I was working with Who was I working with?
I think I was working with Capital One. And botcha, let's just say, I was willing to risk my blood for some money. And I did. I came back. I'm fine.
A lot of bug spray. And I didn't use that crap out there, bro. No. No, I did it now. You know, the thing about the Olympics when it comes to a city, it is so sanitized.
Like I'm out in Brazil. Yeah, all the locals are primarily gone. People are hustling the tourists on the beach. It was nice. I saw the Christ the Redeemer statue.
But it was just so sanitized. Like you got You got military vehicles every five blocks. The Olympics are nice, they're great. I wouldn't say that the Olympics is the best time to see a city. Unless you really, really just want to spend.
You know, two weeks or a week checking out sports. It's just, it's not the true essence of a city. Not, not at all.
So okay. Check. Do not go to cities when they're hosting it because it'll be oh, but it's clean though.
So like that, that's not the worst thing. It's not about it being clean. It's like a fake feeling. Yes, it's sanitized. I'll tell you this.
In London, London is different. Because in London, you can travel around inside and outside the city. London is a massive international city. and you can get lost. It's like in New York.
Do you did it feel like the Super Bowl was in New York when it came by? Uh no, it didn't. Because it with Jersey, though, it's like a different different vibe. Because there's so much going on in the metropolitan area, right? It's it's just like, who cares?
Like, oh, there's so many things that are always going on. Outside of media coverage, life continues on. It's the same thing in London. There were bits and pieces if you went to tourist areas where obviously it's like Oh my God, the Olympics are here. But then outside of that, you start going outside the city into the burbs and different parts.
It gets lost. And Rio. Primarily, all the tourist parts were all the typically the safest areas. And if you go outside the tourist area, you likely get your ass whooped.
So. Yeah. As much as I wish I could say that I absolutely love Brazil, us, you know. No, I I don't think I'd go back. I love I love a lot of places.
I'd go back to Brazil, but It ain't it ain't high on my list. Anyway, shout outs to Michael Phelps. He won a gold medal in Rio. Uh Ryan Lochthy lied about getting robbed in Rio. And I had an okay time in Real Day.
Gennaro. Anyway, Michael Phelps is having a good time now. The Baltimore Ravens, we know Michael Phelps is from Baltimore. The Ravens actually reached out to him. The players did and said, Can you teach us how to swim?
And yesterday, He showed up. Michael Phelps showed up along with Ray Lewis. And they said that they were going to teach the guys how to swim. I think it was a little bit. of a success.
Listen to Michael Phelps talk to the Ravens about swimming. Thank you guys for Taking this step and being vulnerable, right? I know not all of you do know how to swim, so I thank you so much. And this whole city, you know, looks up to every single one of you. And you guys getting in the water to do this could potentially save and change somebody else's life in a positive way.
I want to say thank you again for taking this step with us today. Let's have some fun. Let's get in the water and let's learn how to swim. You got right up, suck your belly button in. Drowning is the second highest cause of death for children under the age of 14.
For me, With my foundation, that's something that we're trying to change. Honestly, for me to get into the swimming pool, I was deathly afraid. I didn't want to put my face in there. Yeah, apparently Roquan Smith, former linebacker here from Georgia. He didn't know how to swim.
He learned how to swim yesterday. Good for him. And then you had Ray Lewis out there. Of course, he was inspiring and shouting at folks. Listen to this.
Come here. Guys, man, listen, it's special to see you guys every year. The challenge is this, right? What Mike is talking about. What will you do at time?
Life goes. Life keeps passing. And one day, you're gonna go back and say, what did I do with time? Did I waste it? Did I use it?
Did I abuse it? I don't care what you have, it's how you use what you have. I don't care what's in front of you. It's the moment that you feel. that I have to give everything I got.
To the preparation so when the moment comes I saw it in that moment. This is where we're missing. Life, this is where we're disconnected. Because everything else can pull you away from what you're supposed to be doing, which is your purpose. Talent is the easiest thing you will ever be given.
It's what you do with it. That decides your purpose. Man, what Why isn't he not preaching somewhere, right? You go to Ray Lewis's church either be ready to s never mind, never mind. Never mind.
Never mind. Bacha, are you inspired? Oh, I'm ready to run through a brick wall. He is he's a preacher of football. There you go, b football preacher.
What that what's that dance call that he does? The uh Uh oh. It's the shuffle. Is it a shuffle, right? No, it's not.
Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. It's the pigeon dance. Oh, no, no.
Uh-oh, wait a minute. It's gotta be like a bird, right, Ravens? Oh no, it has a particular name. I'm going to get in trouble. People in Baltimore are yelling at me right now.
Here we go. Uh-uh. The squirrel dance. There we go.
Okay, it's the squirrel. Yeah, he's getting hot in here. Google it. Just understand. I know the dance.
I don't know what it's okay. Believe me, scroll dance.
Okay. Hey, shout outs to Eric at home for coming by. If you've missed a minute or second of the show, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. And shout outs to Ray Lewis, inspiring people. Shout outs to Michael Phelps, teaching them how to swim.
And shout outs to you for listening. We'll be back tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern 3 Pacific. The JR Sport Brief Show is done. Bart Winkler coming up next.
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