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It is the JR Sport Brief show on CBS Sports Radio. Happy Thursday night to you. Depending on where you live, it might already be Friday morning. I think that's correct. Yeah.

Shep, how the hell did we? This is Thursday night? It's Friday some places in this country like you just alluded to though. Damn. Yeah, I know.

I know. Where did the week go? The NBA Finals happened this week. Did it?

Yeah. When did it end? Monday, right?

Crazy. Finals ended Monday. Tuesday, Stanley Cup Finals ended. Thursday, today, Denver Nuggets had a parade. And now we're sitting here looking up in the weekend.

What's today? Is the 16th week or not? Thursday, June 15th, Friday, June 16th. We're halfway through June. We're going to be staring at the 4th of July.

Well, not any day. Two weeks from now and change. Anyway, I'm here now.

That's all I know. I'm going to be rolling with you for the next two hours. You just heard from super producer and host Dave Sheppard. He's coming to you live from New York City. Me, I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in all over the country.

I don't care where you at. You could be in Houston, Texas. Shout outs to that police officer. His name is Austin in police Texas. In Austin, no, Sam's so confused. Shout outs to Austin in Houston, Texas, who he happens to be a police officer. He didn't give somebody a ticket a couple of weeks ago because they were listening to the show.

Now everybody else don't get no bright ideas. Traffic violations and speeding with the show on is not going to save your ass. I'm sure somebody's in the process of being pulled over right now. Be safe out there. Anyway, I'm going to be here with you for the next two hours.

I get started at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 Pacific every single week night. We just talked about the Nuggets and their parade. We talked about the Miami Heat and Bradley Beal. Unfortunately, I shared with you the accusations against Conor McGregor of rape at a Miami Heat game. We talked about just the worst commissioner, the commissioner that spits, hypothetically speaking, in the face of his fans, Rob Manfred, as he talked about the Oakland Athletics and their their move to Vegas, which needs to just go through final league approval. And as we continue on, I'm going to talk to you about DeAndre Hopkins.

I'm going to get into hard knocks. Conor McGregor isn't the only dude behaving badly. Antonio Brown, thank God it's not of a sexual assault nature.

But Antonio Brown not in the news for good reasons as well. Football related. So we got a lot to do. We do have plenty of callers who have been waiting very patiently for us to talk about very patiently to get on the line. And so now I will get them on eight five five two one two four CBS. That's eight five five two one two four CBS. If you want to follow me on social media, if it won't get you fired, if you want to hear the call from Austin, the officer from Houston actually posted that on social.

Check it out. But right now, let's talk to Mike. He's calling from Washington. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up, Mike? Hey, J.R., thanks for taking my call again.

I appreciate it. OK, back to this man, Fred and Oakland A's moving and all that. I'm a long life Minnesota Vikings fan. Back in the day prior to the Metrodome falling apart, the Vikings were looking for a new home for years. OK, Ziggy and his family said, well, we're not going to pay for Minnesota.

You've got to help us pay for it. Well, him and his politician friends tried to bring it up to the people of Minnesota, brought it to a vote multiple times. God declined. God declined. God declined. Finally, he was like, well, we're going to move the Vikings, OK, if we don't get our new stadium.

Well, I don't know whatever happened all about that, but obviously the Vikings didn't move. But as you Ziggy and TCF and whoever ever his sponsors were, they finally came up, bought a brand, they built the brand new TCF stadium without taxpayers dollars of Minnesota people. So all these billionaires and man, Fred and all that, they can skunk and do whatever they want to about all. We need public money. We need public money. Well, guess what?

You don't. So that is my thought of it. OK, well, thank you, Mike. Unfortunately for Oakland, it's too late. I wish I could say otherwise, but it's it's too late.

It really is. I don't know what the miracle would be, probably a whole lot of lawsuits, but it's too late. The governor in Nevada already signed a bill into law committing almost 400 million dollars into of public funds into the building of the new stadium.

Too late. And Rob Manfred, I want you to hear this again. Rob Manfred made sure to tell everybody, like, I don't care what economic studies you read or see or what they say about public funds building a stadium.

He basically called it crap. Listen to this. I love economics.

They're great. You know, I think take the areas where baseball stadiums have been built. OK, look at what was around Truist Park before that was built. Look at the area around Nationals Park before it was built.

I lived in that city. You know, academics can say whatever they want. I think the reality tells you something else.

Not true. And I gave some some details on that earlier on. I love how somebody can say, hey, well, who cares about the facts and the numbers and the stats? What do your eyeballs tell you? Well, my eyeballs tell me one thing.

And I typically will back them up with stats and numbers. He mentions, you know, Nationals Park. And yeah, they've been able to put apartments and hotels over there. And that's basically all that they've done. There was nothing over there. And then in the case of the Atlanta Braves, I mean, they moved them clear the hell up on out the city into the burbs. They they built a little mall next to a mall and they you can't even take Marta up there. They didn't care.

I'm sorry. The Atlanta Braves didn't give a damn. They were like, hey, who cares if the people in the city can't get to the ballpark?

Who cares? And so what about the old stadium? Old Turner Field? Well, now Georgia State plays in there. And so it's not always true. Start moving things around. Hey, if Rob Manfred wanted to be honest, all he had to do was say, I don't care.

And then kept it moving. He pretty much said, I don't care. When he was asked about the fans that are left behind in their future fandom. Are you still going to root for the Oakland A's? Listen to this crap answer that Rob Manfred gave about that. I hope that they stay baseball fans, whatever team they decide to affiliate with again. And I'll say it again, the piece of this particular series of events that's the most disturbing to me is the idea of fans that have supported the team. You know, losing a team.

But we hate that idea. A clueless idiot, but just doesn't care. 855-212-4CBS, Tony is calling from Vancouver. Vancouver, Washington, not in Canada. You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Tony? Yeah, JR. They've been trying to build a team up here in Portland for a day and for 10 years.

10 years. They've stated that, Damon stated that if they take Scoot Anderson at three, then he wants no part of it. And this Scoot Anderson seems to be moving up the charts pretty fast. The Blazers are run by a GM who's never been a GM. And Paul Allen's roommate, Bert Cole, he seems to have all the say.

Damon said he wants to go to Miami or New Jersey if he has to move. I've been hearing Zion's name checked up there, too, but I hope they don't do that. You know, I don't question his ability. What desire does he want to play? I think I know what Zion likes to do. He doesn't have to play with the basketballs.

He plays with other things. So what would you like the Trailblazers to do? First thing is get somebody in that can make a basketball this season. This Joe Cronin, he doesn't seem like he's a GM, then somebody in here who can make basketball moves.

Now, here's Siakam being named and coming in for, like, Simons and stuff. You know, Damon wants some players. He wants some veterans. He don't want rookies. So, I mean, we've come to the point now where it looks like Damon's going to be leaving. Yeah, I think I saw that come in for years, for years. And now the fact that he's, what, 32, 33 years old?

The ship has sailed. This is the reality. The Blazers, I think they are in store for some real, real lean years because whoever you bring in post-Damion Lillard is not going to be on that level. I'm not even going to go through the stats as it relates to him being clutch. He's one of the most clutch players that the NBA has ever seen.

When you start thinking about efficiency in the last two minutes of the game, his numbers actually improve. And so I hope you and everybody else who happens to be a Blazers fan is just really in preparation because the Blazers aren't going anywhere. The Blazers weren't going to go anywhere.

They pretty much peaked against the Golden State Warriors in the West Finals and they couldn't even muster a damn thing. And that's a tough way to go out, man. It's done. It's over. In the words of Kenny the Jetsmith, Tony, it's done. Yeah, it's what they're going to do to get somebody for him. That's the thing. I mean, I don't, you know, bridges, I don't think it's, I don't know, you know?

Well, here's another question that doesn't have an answer. Who the hell is available to be swapped for number three that's going to help Damien Lillard and the Blazers become contenders? Who's available? Who's going?

That's a good question. And then, you know, he's already said that if they take Scoot, he wants no part of it. So where do we go?

I think he is. He is basically saying, I know I'm out of here. And this is the comments like that are just the precursor to leaving.

That's it. Thank you, Bob. He's letting everybody know this is not going to be my choice because he's been very clear over the years I want to stay. I don't want to go anywhere. He's, he's laying the groundwork for, Hey, when they move me, I didn't ask for it.

They did it. Hey, good luck, Tony. I feel bad for Tony. It's okay.

He'll be all right. 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. Tommy is calling from New Orleans. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. JR, how are you, man?

Happy Thursday to you and chef and have everybody out there in radio land from the hottest part of the world, the Crescent city. JR, do you know anything about light bulbs? Yeah, you selling me filament? No, remember the light bulbs changed and they, you know, now that you got these all squiggly things, I can't figure out which one goes in the 40 watt way because I can't tell which one's 40 watts. Anyway, a couple of light bulbs went off in my head while I was on hold. If you had more real estate, you know, I could give you a quick economic synopsis of why Manfred doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

Okay. And he and the Buffalo's bill coach ought to get together and take out of the press conference. I mean, geez, they talk about talking out about both sides of your ass. You know what? And also a metal light bulb that went off with maybe the pelicans and who's John Moran place for the Memphis team.

Maybe they ought to get together and do like a package deal, you know, Zion and John Moran as a package deal to a team. You know, I don't know how hard that would be to sell. I don't know.

What are your thoughts about that, dude? You're not being serious. You got anything else? No, I'm joking. I'm joking. Actually, I do have some, I don't know if- Hold on, hold on a second. Hold on a minute. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on a second. I have to put them on hold.

That was a terrible joke. Hey, Tommy, keep going. Yeah, am I back? Yeah, you're back. Go ahead. Okay. My real reason for calling this, we love the top- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll put you back on hold.

Wait a minute. We went through all of that to not even get the real reason? Hey, shop, what is he going to do? Read us the Bible? Like he going to read us from Genesis to Revelation? What's he going to do?

So I have a soft spot for Tommy. I think he's going to- I didn't ask that, shop. You didn't ask that. No, he's not going to read Genesis or Leviticus or anything like that. I do think he will redeem himself though, JR. Okay, let's see. I have faith.

Is it going to take two seconds or 20 minutes? No, this isn't others from Toronto. This is Tommy from New Orleans.

Who from Toronto, what? One of your favorites and my favorite, Alan. We love Alan, but sometimes it might take him a little- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Be careful now. No, I mean, Alan is so knowledgeable that it takes him so long to get out everything because he's forgotten more than most people have learned. That was a compliment, not an insult. Last night, Alan said that Manny Ramirez- That's right, that's right. Was an unlikely superstar. But what he was trying to say was- Okay, what he was trying- Go ahead, Tommy. No, what he was trying to say was based on some of the intangibles, I think what you made very clear was based on the expectations people had early on in their careers and then translate that to what would transpire five, 10 years later.

Where he was coming from was given the intangibles and some of the thought process that Manny Ramirez has out there on the field, even if he's going into certain parts and going to the bathroom, it's hard to believe that guy had the kind of success that he did. So I think Alan was correct. He just didn't exactly understand the premise. I thought I made a lot of sense there, JR. You have Alan's number. You want to call him?

Let me tell you something. He's called enough. We can get Alan on. If you want me to call him, I'll call him. Hey, Alan, call up. No, I will call him. You want me to call him? Yeah, let's get Alan on the line. Deal. But let me finish with this guy first.

Hey, Tommy, you're back. How long is it going to take? Go ahead.

20, 30 seconds, Tops. In the beginning, God created. Isn't that how it started? I don't know, dude. I never read Genesis.

I started with the New Testament. Okay, go ahead. Okay, top six list. You mentioned Manny Ramirez.

I have an idea for you. Like the top six, I don't know, biggest, I want to say punks in sports. And I'm talking about like Johnny Manziel, Anthony Davis.

And the reason I mentioned that is because the Oakland A's, the ownership or the administration, whoever is responsible for ripping that team from that community, they belong on the biggest punk list of all time. Top six. Another nominee.

Where do you put in? What world is Anthony Davis in the same space or category of Johnny Manziel? I called your show a while back and I said, Anthony Davis is a punk. He's going to be the reason blah, blah, blah, blah, that the Lakers lost. And I called back and I said he wasn't.

And I apologize. Anthony Davis is a punk. He's not there.

He's going to be Zion. Williams is a punk. Brett Spadler. Slow down. Wait, wait, wait, stop, stop talking and don't say nothing. Define punk. What is a punk to you? Uh, you know, man, um, somebody who doesn't do right, you know, uh, they don't do the right thing.

I don't know, Jr. It's just, I mean, it's just, it's a term. That's all. Oh, okay. All right.

Well, thank you, Tommy. You're pretty good. Um, there's more.

I mean, maybe a bust is a better word. I don't know. No. Okay. It's all good. Thank you, Tommy.

Appreciate you, man. All right, boss. Wait. All right. All right. Shub, I don't know if you, you were right or wrong.

I'm not even going to think about it. It's the JR sport brief show here with you on CBS sports radio 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. When we come back, I'm going to tell you about something that went wrong. Antonio Brown owning a football team.

It went horribly wrong. I'll tell you on the other side. It's the JR sport brief show, CBS sports radio. You're listening to the JR sport brief on CBS sports. Radio. You're listening to the JR sport brief on CBS sports radio. I rather listen to you than my husband. Okay.

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You can hit me up at JR sport brief, which people are doing. I, I hope you're not, I hope these people don't tweet me while they are, while they're driving. I hope not be a terrible thing. Dr AK says, Hey, I love listening to you. Makes my drives so much more enjoyable.

Well, you're welcome. I just hope that at this moment you are not, you are not driving. I hope not. I'm going to get to your calls and I want to tell you about Antonio Brown. What a goddess.

This dude is what a dude. Elizabeth is calling from Ontario. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's up, Elizabeth? What's up, JR? How are you? I'm amazing. How are you?

What's up? I was like, it's funny. I was just calling about, uh, I think Tony's comment about punks, Johnny Manziel being a punk and that, uh, I, for what I don't think it's funny.

Antonio Brown, I think is a punk. I think I know what he means about the term punks. Um, yeah, but I was, I was asking how you put, he said he didn't, he didn't name all those names.

He went through, I don't think, well, thank you, Elizabeth, but I have a packer fence. Okay. Yeah. But he, he mentioned Anthony Davis and Johnny Manziel and basically the same phrase and sentence.

Oh, I get that. But I'm just commenting on what he meant by the term punk, like was a guy now, I wouldn't put Johnny Manziel in any category with Anthony Davis for sure. Okay. Let me ask you this, what's a punk to you?

A punk to me is someone who, um, has been given more than maybe they, they appreciate. Okay. Reasonable. Maybe take things for granted.

Um, like the Johnny Manziel or John Marantz, I put him in the punk category. Okay. Okay.

Right. You know what I mean? You know, I do, I do. I said, okay, I get it.

Anything else? I think you're wonderful. Well, thank you.

I think you're equally as wonderful. I appreciate you. Okay. You too, buddy. Okay. Thank you. Bye bye. Okay.

That was, I don't know what it was, but it was eight, five, five, two, one, two, four CBS, eight, five, five, two, one, two, four CBS. Oh, here he is. Alan is he's here from Toronto. Hey, Alan, how you doing? Yeah, good. Yeah. I just woke up and, uh, if I would have been, uh, I would have been more alert.

I would have phoned you for sure. I just, but we call, wait, wait, wait, we called you this time. Yes, I know. Yes. I, it made you feel better. You know, yes, I feel honored.

Well, good. Did we wake you up? Yeah, no, I, I was already up.

I just woke up. Uh, I heard, I heard chef trying to say that, uh, you should call me. So I'm very honored and, uh, and very proud and, uh, having to call me. So, yeah, we called you. Hey, Alan, you know who else we've called? Who's that?

Nobody. You're the first caller we've called. Oh, great. Yeah.

That's fantastic. Don't expect anything else from us though. Okay. No. Well, now that you, now that you're here, do you have anything to contribute or do I hang up?

It's, uh, you're talking about punks. Oh no, no way. Oh my God. Wait a second. I'll put you on hold even though we called you. Hold on.

I got to pay a bill. Hold on. We're not talking about punks. One guy called up and wanted to just list punks. No, I'm not talking about no punks. Go ahead, Alan. You were talking about, uh, you're talking, okay. The biggest punk of all time was Albert Bell.

The absolute worst of the worst. Do you remember, uh, do you remember he, uh, he chased a bunch of kids and they egged his home. He chased a bunch of Halloween kids away in his car and he hit one of them and he was sued. I don't know how the settlement went. Okay. Well, yeah. Thank you. Anything else? No, uh, I guess I got to give you, you just woke up.

We got to give you time to warm up, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. What do you do? Do you drink tea? No, no, fully retired and, uh, was a cabbie for 37 years and saw everything, heard everything. And, uh, I'm like an amateur psychiatrist like you are, you deal with all kinds of, I dealt with all kinds too.

That's why we can never get mad at each other because, uh, we're psychic and, uh, we'll, uh, we'll be able to settle things in no time. You ever have it? You ever have a drunk in the back of your cab?

What do you do? If they get, if I get mad enough, you can throw them out anywhere. You can throw them out on the freeway.

If I was on I-75 or I-95, if you get mad enough, you can throw them out anywhere. Hey, Alan, don't, don't get people in America in trouble. Okay. Don't do that. No, no, but you can't say that. You can't just kick somebody out the car on 75.

They, they might die. That's terrible. You can't do that. Well, then you go to the nearest exit. That's all you go to the nearest exit. And, uh, have you done this to somebody before?

No, no, but I, I came close to it though. You know, it's, uh, you, you're allowed to refuse somebody if they're too obnoxious or they're too drunk or they're, uh, your life is threatened. You're allowed to refuse them. But you can't, you can't kick some, you can't kick some, listen, Alan.

There's somebody listening right now here in Georgia on 75 and 85. They cannot boot the person out the back of the vehicle. They can't do that. Drop them off on 85. You can't just do that.

If somebody has a gun or a knife, then you could, your life is on the line. Why are you being so morbid and dark, Alan? You need another nap. Hey, appreciate you. Well, we called you. Thank you for picking up. Okay. Yeah, great. And, uh, I'm, I'm always, I'm a lawyer listener.

I always listen 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Damn. Okay.

You do better than me. I only, I only listen when I speak. Thank you, Alan. Yeah. I was great being on the line with you. Thank you very much for calling me. Yeah, no problem. It's a one-time thing.

Maybe. Thank you, Alan. Good night. Good night. Take care. Okay.

Bye-bye. Hey chef, we did it. You did it. We did it.

It's tag team off the ropes. Yes. Good.

Whoop. There it is. I feel a sense of accomplishment. What did we do though?

Nothing. We just called Alan. Not a big deal, right? No, I mean, we love Alan. Alan's like family. Is he? So not me.

Oh no, I thought he's close. When you said, when you say any given week, you might speak to Alan more than you do, even members of your own family. Oh yeah. I get paid to do it. Okay. That's another way of looking at it. Yeah, I get paid to do it.

In fairness, wait a minute. In fairness, you would not be the first host that would elect to say, you know what, I don't want to speak to callers today. I'm going to just give my monologue and just do my interviews. You elect to speak to fans. Therefore, it's more than just about the money for you. You enjoy speaking Alan from Toronto is what I'm saying.

Part of the, yes, part of the show talking to the people. Right, but you enjoy doing it. Like you take satisfaction and you learn from it. Oh yeah, I do. That's, that's, that's one of the main reasons.

They have multiple reasons why I do it and everything that you just said is accurate. True. Yes. Alan's one of our best callers. I think that's fair to say. Oh yeah, Alan is great. He's awesome. So even when he's not, he's awesome. So he's kind of, he's kind of like family in that regard then. For you, not me. Hey Marco, you're like family.

Marco Baletti. I hope I'm more family than Alan is. Yeah, you are. I actually know you as a human. Like Alan could walk by me in the street right now. I don't know who he is.

Not at all. If I see Mark, I know who the hell, I know who Marco is. I know Marco.

I hope so. Yeah. You doing good, Marco? You good?

I'm solid yourself. I ain't got no complaints, man. Just out here looking at Manfred, say stupid stuff. Antonio Brown doing stupid stuff.

Conor McGregor being stupid. You know, just all normal. Did anything happen unusual? No, I'm missing nothing, right?

Well, you got a US men's national team coach that was basically fired and brought back in like two seconds before the next World Cup. That's a little strange. That's a little strange. Yeah, you know what? Now you got me going. I wanted to watch that match.

You want to know something, though? It's on Paramount Plus. How many things do I got to pay for?

Why can't I watch the US men's national team? How many more things I got to pay for? You know, you and me both. And I feel like I'll say this. I kind of want Paramount Plus, but it's almost like that was the cut off for me. It was like seven other things. And it was like, hey, you got to get Paramount Plus. So I got him out. I got at some point, like you just got to stop like three hundred dollars a month.

I can't do this no more. There's too much stuff between is HBO, Showtime, Netflix, Disney Plus. What's the one from Comcast, Peacock, Amazon?

There's everything. Amazon. You know, listen, I don't pay for what's the thing? Apple Apple takes enough money from me just period. I ain't paying like there was a baseball game on a couple of weeks ago. I said I ain't paying for Apple. Nothing.

Y'all can stick it. I am with you 100 percent, J.R. I did not pay for that as well. And Apple TV is one of the few I do not have. Now, again, somebody wants to pay for these things for me. I'm more than willing to watch.

But at some point, like you just you run out of I don't have that much income, disposable income to be using on this kind of stuff. It was that Yankees game, right? The Yankees game on Apple. Yeah. And I really wanted to watch that game, too, because I had a chance to sit down and I was like, I can't I'm not doing it.

What was that? It was either Friday or Saturday, Sunday. I remember. Yeah.

You know what? I was actually it was a I want to say it was a Friday and I was still that was three weeks ago because my son had just been born. So we were in the hospital and I was going to get it.

I was going to watch it like on my phone where I'm like, I'm not doing this. Like, I'm not paying for this to sit in the hospital to be able to watch the game, which I had time for because, you know, what else are you doing other than feeding baby? Congratulations on the baby. Thank you. Yeah.

Number three. So, yeah, congrats. And then, yeah, no, I'm with you on the not Apple ain't getting my money to watch no damn baseball. And as much as I want to sit down and watch soccer, Paramount Plus ain't getting my money either.

They can they can stick it. This is a bunch of leeches. That's what they are.

Oh, anyway. Oh, I think that's is that Kate Abdo? I think that I got I got CBS on here in the studio. Anyway, it's the J.R. Sportbrief show on CBS Sports Radio. We got a lot of callers here. I guess some of them want to say nice things to me.

Maybe not. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbrief on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, what's going on, sir? I love the show, man. I wanted to say I've enjoyed your show forever and I've gone through some tough times. Man, your show, I feel like you're my spirit radio personality. I just really enjoy you and I really appreciate it.

And I thank you for your time. Call in now at 855-624-8255. It's the J.R. Sportbrief show on CBS Sports Radio.

You heard the phone number 855-212-4CBS. You know, I mentioned to you, Antonio Brown. No, he's not coming back to the NFL. If you haven't been aware, and maybe there's no reason for you to, Antonio Brown has, well, he was, I guess, it's confusing. He was the owner of the Albany Empire.

Albany, New York, capital of New York State. This is an arena league football squad. National Arena League, the NAL. And so his dad used to play for the team. And Antonio Brown took over the squad back in March. He initially was a part of it and he just bought the team full out, I guess. And then he stopped paying folks. Stopped paying players, coaches.

He said that he would play in the games. The attendance plummeted out in Albany, up in Albany. And more recently, the team stopped paying its fees to the league, which pretty much operates the entire budget for the team and league to operate. And so the National Arena League kicked the Albany Empire out of the league. Now Antonio Brown's team is, it doesn't even exist anymore. Right now they have a record of one and six.

I don't know when they play. Forgive me for not knowing anything about the National Arena League. Forgive me for not knowing it existed until Antonio Brown popped up.

And now his team doesn't even exist for now. Hey, look, I just feel bad for all of the players and everybody who are involved. Everybody involved in the organization, because let's be real, this ain't the NFL. Ain't nobody in no NFL getting paid millions of dollars.

These are, these are working class folks, man. And so this wouldn't be the first time Antonio Brown has owed somebody money or has been sued, et cetera. It's just, it's just, just terrible. I've had my own personal bad dealings with the guy. It just, he's, he needs help.

That's, that's all it is. 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS, that's 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. Justin is calling from Boston. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. Hey, what's up, JR, man? First time, long time. Wanted to get your opinion on what you think the Boston Celtics need to do regarding Jalen Brown and the Tatermets.

But there's a tooth tear to this. Did you hear the Pat Beverly on, with Roane on the podcast? Oh, they asked him if they think Boston's racist and that brings the whole Damian Lillard thing and how he didn't even give us a breath. Um, Pat said that they just, he just thinks that we're the most passionate fan base in the world. He doesn't think we're racist. He just thinks we're die hard fans. And in my heart, that's what I believe.

Um, but with that said, like, I just want to get your opinion on what you think they need to do to get to that next winning the finals. All right, I don't, I don't know what, uh, who, who said this now? Patrick Beverly? Yeah, Patrick Beverly and Roane on the podcast, on their podcast. All right. Patrick, Patrick Beverly also sat around with, uh, Carl Anthony Towns and they, they said that their accomplishment last year of winning the plan is almost equal, I believe, to what the Nuggets just did.

So I'm not going to, yeah, I'm not going to draw too much into that. The Celtics are interesting, man. Uh, they, they, they should have been in the NBA finals.

Absolutely. I don't know if it's so much of their talent, if it's so much of their coach and everybody having a second year and go round at it. Uh, Jalen Brown, I can't see him being moved unless you're going to improve, but who the hell is in the NBA that you swapping Jalen Brown for that's going to move you into being a contender.

I don't see anybody. That's kind of my thing, right? So if we keep him, is there any way that, like I said, Lily didn't even give us a breath, right? He even mentioned that he'd rather go to Brooklyn. Now I get that. But you just said a little while ago, if you look at Damon Lillard, like, uh, at the end of the game, the two minutes, the last two minutes, that's when the Celtics suck that, that, that last two minutes, man, they blow the ball, the game, if they had someone like Lillard, Oh my Lord. Well, yeah, that's, that's easy to say, but I can look at the totality of a game.

And the Boston Celtics this past post season, there were times that they just played stupid. Yeah. All right.

Yeah. So I, that's why, that's why I think maybe the benefit of another year and we're going to have some roster tweaks. I saw that Danilo Gallinari, God knows how much he has left in the tank, but he's not going to be asked to do a lot. I saw that he's opting in, uh, to, to his contract with the Celtics. So maybe with some of the, the, the veteran coaches who are going to be joining the staff, uh, maybe with Jalen Brown and being embarrassed, I, I would think that they're going to come back next year and be just as competitive. Let's see what tweaks that they could do.

I don't think there's a massive change, but it's the NBA. It can happen, man. Thank you, Justin. I like it. I like it. Thanks. Yeah.

No doubt about it. Dave is calling from Wisconsin. You're on CBS Sports Radio.

Yeah. Mr. JR, how you doing? I'm excellent. How are you? Good, good.

Uh, the last time I spoke on the radio was back in 1985 and I spoke to, uh, Mr. Gary Fencik, got an autograph poster from him and, uh, you JR and, uh, Jim Rome have brought my interest back into sports. I mean, and Mr. Shep, he's great too. I'm just, I'm just nervous talking to you here, but, uh, I mean, yeah, I know. I know. I'm just, I don't know. I'm just a little bit nervous saying what I have to say, but I mean, I watched that old time football and, uh, the fields that were muddy that the football players on. I mean, it was just phenomenal. I mean, I love it now since you guys have been on the radio. I mean, I listen to you all the time, every afternoon at night, I just got off of work and just sitting here in the parking lot talking to you. But, uh, I mean, you just bring back memories that I I've lost. I mean, I watched the basketball.

I remember the shark chewing on his towel on the side. I mean, it was great times back then, but you bring back my memories. I appreciate you all. I love you all. Well, thank you, David. You enjoy the rest of the night and don't be afraid.

You call me anytime. Okay. All right. Thank you, sir. Have a great night. Be safe. You too, Dave. Be well. Thank you so much.

8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. Bob is calling from Maryland. Oh, yes. Good evening. Hey, I want to tell you that, uh, I appreciate you so much. It's a show and you and Shep makes a good team together. Oh, thank you. Bob, you're part of the team, too. You really do.

Yeah, you're part of the team, too. I wanted to talk about some of the billionaires who want to take use public funds from people who work anywhere from 40 to 60 hours a week. People like that. They work because they have to work. And you have to put food on the table for the family, and they can't afford to put their children in private schools and so forth.

They got to put them in the especially the urban areas. And what they call public schools. Really, they're not public schools. You get a woman in 12th grade is not worth the worth of the words on that document. I want a public school. What? I want to tell you this. Some of the school systems, especially in urban areas. I know Baltimore, especially.

I went to school in the Bronx. All right. But this is my point. You got to use this kind of money. If you're a multi billionaire, you can build your own stadium like they did for the Dallas Cowboys, correct? But don't come crying to the public because you're not they're not going to do anything for you. Like you said, for the money, they get the money.

Everybody else walks. Plus money falls. That's right, Bob. I'll tell you about these former city public schools. In the wintertime, the kids got to work overcoats, gloves, and so forth to stay warm in the classroom. And then the summer, the spring and summer, they don't get any air conditioning.

So that's what they have to suffer for. Well, well, hold on, Bob. I got to go to break. Okay.

All right. And he stopped talking for that. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here on CBS Sports Radio. He's right, though. Hundreds of million dollars to build stadiums and we got no air conditioning in the school.

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