8.3.23 - JR SportBrief Hour 4

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I am and I'm gonna be here with you for one more hour coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Broadcasting to North America, everywhere in Canada, all over the states and people overseas. Thank you, okay? Free Audacy app, AUDACY, your local affiliate, Sirius XM Channel 158, and smart speakers. You can listen everywhere, anywhere you want.

Go for it. Thank you to super producer and host Dave Shepherd joining us, holding it down live from New York City. Busy, busy night. And so yeah, the Angels lose another game, third consecutive loss, they lose to Seattle tonight, 5-3. Shohei Ohtani, this man has to leave as a pitcher tonight, he has cramps in his hands, and he still hits a 40th home run. Listen to this, the MVP for this year in the American League who will be Shohei Ohtani, he has two seasons with 40 home runs and 150 strikeouts. Two seasons with 40 home runs and 150 strikeouts. No player has ever done that one time in history, he's done it twice. He's a robot, he's not fair. Let's listen to this 40th home run from Shohei Ohtani from the Angels Radio Network.

Listen to this. Yeah, unfortunately they lost. That's what Shohei Ohtani and Angel fans are used to. This is why I believe Shohei Ohtani will be gone. Ain't no trade that was gonna save them, they just wasted their time. And Ohtani is gonna be a dodger. That's what I think. Anyway, that's not the only thing that took place tonight.

A Japanese robot out there playing baseball. The Hall of Fame game was tonight too. Oh, you're not excited? Okay, okay, you're fine.

You're not excited. The Browns beat the Jets 21 to 16. Aaron Rodgers didn't play, had a headset on, was calling plays. Good for him. Deshaun Watson, he wasn't playing, he was just standing around.

Good for him. I can tell you the most exciting thing about the game tonight, the lights went out. Yeah, before the fourth quarter got started, there were no lights. Half the stadium went dark and Aaron Rodgers was sitting there in the dark and Chris Collinsworth and Mike Tirico on NBC, they couldn't help themselves.

They had to make jokes about it. Listen. Currently, we gotta blame Aaron. We're all in the darkness. You know, we're all in it together now. That's good.

So we wait here for the moment and try to figure out what's going on. Hardy Har Har, another darkness retreat. But when they actually had lights before the game, DeMarcus Ware, who is going into the Hall of Fame on Saturday, DeMarcus Ware, he sang the national anthem. He did it in honor of his former teammate, God rest his soul, Demarius Thomas. Listen to this, this riveting, you know, rendition.

And the home of the brave. Okay, alright, Shep, what say you, what do you say? Well, many people argue it should have been a first ballot hall of famer. On top of being an individual that can withstand the pressure of singing in front of tens if not hundreds of thousands of people watching and then millions of people watching at home even though it is a hall of fame game. There's not more than a handful of people that can do what that guy just did. Be the professional athlete that Demarcus Ware was and then be able to belt out the song in which he did, singing for a fallen brother of his, Mr. Thomas Gaughan at the age of 33 years old.

Demerius Thomas was a hell of a player in his own right, DT, he was affectionately known by. That, I mean, look, is he, was this the best, if you closed your eyes. No, it wasn't the best, but who cares because he sang it for a guy and he got balls to sing it. Right, that's where I'm coming from. I think this is unbelievable.

Anybody that is critical of a performance like this under the circumstances needs a real dose of reality and needs to start appreciating what's in front of them in their own lives, let alone this. Can you sing the national anthem, you ever sang it before? I mean, I can sing a little bit. Oh, okay. I'm not asking you to, please don't.

Okay, I got really excited for a second. No, you're gonna sing the national, you want to? Well, I mean, I could give you a lyric. You need some water? You sure you wanna do this? Yeah, like.

Uh oh, he stepped away from the mic for a minute. Go ahead, prepare, prepare. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just let me, just hold on, I wanna make sure, I wanna make sure I, okay, so. Okay, okay. All right. Yeah, yeah, if you want to, don't yell at me later, but go ahead.

And the spirit of Demerius Thomas, oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light. Okay, no more, no more. That wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad. Thank you.

You're right, it wasn't that bad. Thank you. Can I give you one more and then I'm done? One more what?

Just lyric? Because I haven't warmed up yet, so. I feel like I'm warmed up now.

What part were you up to? We didn't even get to the bombs bursting in the air yet. No, no, no. What so proudly we hailed. That's not good.

All that wasn't that bad, JR, come on. Keep going, finish, finish. Go ahead, get it out. Last one, I promise. Okay.

At the twilight's last gleaming. Okay, now you're doing too much now. I thought it was good. No, it wasn't. You were okay until the last part. Okay. Okay. Mr. Brief, can we hear a rendition from you? No, I don't sing. Ain't no singing over here, nope. See, I think- Ain't no singing. I don't sing. I don't carry no notes, nope.

Yeah, I don't buy it. I think you can pretty much do anything you put your mind to. I think you are very lyrically and linguistically talented. That's what people say to their dumb kids, okay? Okay. Come on, man.

Okay. You can do anything you put your mind to. I just don't think you can sound this... Because you have like, not only... I mean, anyone who listens knows if they listen to you for five, 10 seconds, you have one of the best radio voices there is.

Oh, well, thanks. You just have a voice meant to be over the airwaves, and so I would find it very difficult to believe that that can't translate into some form of singer. I'm not saying you're going to be Prince, but I think you'd be pretty good. Oh, he hits the high notes, man. I don't hit no damn high notes. Well, I mean, Prince is... I mean, maybe- He wore high heels and had a guitar, yeah. I didn't know that. Assless chaps.

I don't have those. Right. I mean, listen, I'm not asking for Purple Rain. I think you can do The Star Spangled Banner pretty well. Yeah, I haven't sang it since fifth grade, man.

Well? I don't sing. I've never been... Have you been in choir or anything like that? You did choir?

I know. I mean, you heard me sing two minutes ago. You know I haven't been in any kind of choir. I don't know.

I don't know. I've never been in choir. I've never taken... I've been around music my whole life. I've never formally learned how to play an instrument. I just talk, man. That's what I do. I just talk. Can you freestyle? Can I freestyle? Yeah. No, I don't rap. I write, but I don't rap in freestyle. Gotcha. No.

Gotcha. I leave that to LL Cool J, Jin the MC. I could freestyle a little bit. You can? Yeah. What do you need, a subject? No, I mean, I could sit here, right, on the mic talking about J.R. Brief. Yeah, but do I need to give you- No. In my life, I want to do well.

I want to turn over a new leaf. J.R., you know he's smooth. He's got the goods. I know that when I look at him, I know that I ain't ever going to think because I knew that I would. I like to think I can rhyme, and at the end of the day, I'm rich even if I have a dime.

Oh. You do poetry. Have you ever done spoken word, Chef?

I could do that pretty well. You know why? Because I know I'm going to heaven.

I know we ain't going to hell. I've not done the spoken word, no sir. Okay. You still dating this woman?

Yeah, man. You're going to get an invite to the wedding. Okay. That's good. All right. I'll start thinking about a gift.

I was going to say, if you're not dating her, you could probably go to a spoken word thing. You go up on that stage, and you say whatever you need to say. By the time you walk away, they're snapping their fingers, and the next thing you know, you got a wife. Well, thank you for the belief in me, and you know what? You're special because I know you see me. Oh, look at you. Are you into two wives? Do you need another one? No.

No. I don't bat that direction. I'm not a polyamorous fool. You don't got to be a polyamorous fool. Some people have in their culture, they have multiple wives.

Like relax. Wait a minute. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying I'm not a polyamorous fool. Not that anyone who's polyamorous is a fool. I'm just saying I'm not a fool who happens to be polyamorous. That's all I'm saying. Okay.

Because I think Lou Williams has two something or another, I don't know what they're called. If I'm being honest, when you seek intimacy outside of your immediate partner, I think there is something lacking in that partnership. Now maybe that's limited thinking, maybe that's me being old fashioned, but I can't help but think one day for anyone listening that's a parent, they say to themselves, man, I really want my daughter or son to be playing the field when they have kids. I don't think that's- Well what if there's three people in one house and everybody gets along?

Can you really give me a real life example of that actually coming to fruition and that working out where people don't end up jealous and there's not some kind of lover's quarrel? Lou Williams, look it up. Yeah. Well he retired early and underachieved. What does that have to do with his house? Well this guy was once a three time sixth man player of the year and he was balling and he took a real step back really fast.

Really fast. It's called getting older. Well LeBron doesn't get older, KD I don't see getting older. Yeah LeBron James got older. 29, 8 and 7 in year 20, that's getting older? Yeah he got older, he's getting older. He's not cooked, he's not done, he's older. I mean Duran is not done, but he's older. I'm talking about Lou Williams at home in his house. Right. He has two, as far as I know, he has two women in his house. Oh geez.

Different strokes for different folks. I mean is he Charlie Sheen? Why is he doing that? What Charlie Sheen had two women? Oh yeah, he called them goddesses at the time and thought it was cute.

Goddesses? Yeah you remember when Charlie Sheen was like the biggest person on planet earth like 11 years ago and he went nuts? I thought he was losing his mind. Well that's part of the reason why and I don't think it helped that he had two women that he called goddesses around his kids. So what happened to Hugh Hefner? Hugh Hefner was marrying I think multiple 20 year olds when he was in his 80s. That's not something that anyone should try for in my opinion.

You can't do that can you? Well he did legally, but I mean I don't think anyone looked at him with any kind of reverence or dignity. You could legally in America, you could legally, I know you could have as many people in your house as you want, you could legally marry two people?

Oh he was married, I'm pretty sure he was, he might have been, okay so he might have been married to one, I'm not positive, but he was with a lot of different women. That I know. You know what, now that I think about it, who the hell is going to tell me what type of contract I can or cannot sign? Like who's, what government going to tell me what I can't sign? Well that's, well marriage as we know is not up to the federal government, it's up to the state that you reside in.

Yeah but who's to say, how's somebody going to tell me I can't put three signatures, three people can't sign a paper and say hey we in this together? It's the same body, it's the same governing body that tells you you don't have the eye hand coordination and the vision and the bandwidth to text while driving. It's that same body that tells you, you can't even look at your phone for directions because that's called you know driving with distraction. What I do in my house ain't killing nobody else. Yeah well looking on the phone for directions ain't killing anybody either as long as you can see the road. Potential is higher.

That's true. Potential is higher. 855-212-4CBS. It's 855-212-4CBS. Daniel, he's here from San Diego, you're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up Daniel? Yo, yo what's going on, how you doing? I called too, I called too late I guess.

You didn't call too late, what's on your mind? Just say it. I was just going to say the talk about Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan, I can relate because I have a brother, his name is Dan Angel, my brother Angel, and it's kind of similar, you know I'm like the Michael Jordan, he's like the Charles Barkley, we will always get along, we will always love each other, but yeah, you know what I mean, I will never let him beat me, but every now and then yeah he beats me too, he'll become Michael Jordan and I'll be the Charles Barkley. What's your brother's name again? Angel, my brother Angel, that's my brother. Maybe you and Angel don't get along because you think you're the Michael Jordan of your brotherhood. Hey, every now and then we fight, yeah you're right, you know what I mean? Have some humility, why can't you be Charles Barkley?

Oh I do, I am, oh trust me, I am, every now and then he's got me, but it's a different aspect, it's not in sports, it's in arts, or whatever it is. They don't even talk anymore. Hey, but you know what, that's Michael Jordan's fault, that's my fault, you know what I mean?

They're not brothers though, they're not blood, you know what I mean? So Michael Jordan, he's Michael Jordan, the guy, he's the best, he's not gonna give it, he's not gonna bow down to Charles Barkley, you know what I mean? That's what Charles Barkley said, Daniel, I hear you, and thank you for calling from San Diego. A matter of fact, let's hear that one more time, because Charles Barkley was on 60 Minutes and he reminded everybody, he's like, yeah I ain't Michael Jordan but I got an ego too dammit. Been a while since you and Michael Jordan spoke. Michael disagreed with something I said and he broke off the friendship.

Born three days apart, Barkley and Jordan were once the best of friends, but as Jordan struggled as owner of the Charlotte Hornets, Barkley meant no words. And what I said, I think that he don't have enough people around him that are gonna tell him no, and he got really offended, and we haven't spoken. I have zero credibility if I criticize other people in the same boat and not criticize my best friend. Even if you have nothing to apologize for, you think of just picking up the phone and trying to repair this thing with Michael? I got an ego too, John.

You can't be greedy or something, like, that doesn't get it right to be a jerk. You think you'll resolve this eventually? He got my number?

Yeah, maybe they weren't best friends in the first day in place, how about that? 855-212-4CBS, Mike is from Baltimore, what's up Mike? Hey JR, how you doing man?

Good. What do you think about, I only probably been in the last hour of the show, so I don't know if you touched on it earlier, but what do you think about my Orioles, I mean, from worst to first, you know, worst two years ago, and first place in the franchise, looking good right now. Yeah, I saw Flaherty pitched, let's just see how far they can go, man, I mean, there ain't too much else I can say, you know? Yeah, I mean, it's been 40 years since we won a championship, it would be great. We won this year, because it's been a long drought, you know, as far as the world championships.

I don't know if they have the pitching to do so, but let's see, they're certainly at the top of the AL, they gotta fight it out with the Rangers, Max Scherzer made his debut today, so it's good to be in a conversation, let's see if they can keep the run going now that they took over from the Rays. Right, and JR, I just have to commend you, because you got the most perfect diction, man. I mean, I know you don't have any problems with Siri or Alexa, or whoever, you know, you had, because man, I mean, saying like, nearest Walmart, it'll say, the nearest Hallmark is, and I mean, whatever, you just got the perfect diction, man, I know you never have any problems like that. Well, listen, Mike, you'd be surprised, I'd be cursing out, I'd be cursing them all out because none of them listened to me.

I did too, man. They don't listen to me, man, I sat in a car the other day, and I asked one of these stupid things, I asked it to play one song, and it played a song that I didn't want, listen, people, you may listen to me on the radio, but when it comes to technology, it ignores the hell out of me, it gets it wrong all the time. I'm shocked at that, man, because that's what I'm saying, I know JR never has any problems with the diction. Oh no, I get pissed. Yeah, no, I get pissed, I gotta, I gotta, I'm like, yo, you supposed to listen to me, these things don't listen to me, believe me. Yeah, I'd be cursing them out like they're human beings, man. I do too, it makes, I'm like, hey, I'm paying all this money, at least the robot can get it together, but I need to relax, because one day the robot is gonna tell me what to do, you know?

I'm telling you, the AI and all this other stuff. Yeah, thank you, Mike. Alright, JR, nice talking to you, buddy, hope you be swinging by Baltimore sometime in the near future, man. Oh, man, I was just up in Baltimore a couple weeks ago. Oh, no, what, what? Yeah, I'll be up in, well, I'm gonna be in DC, I'll be in DC before Labor Day, yeah man, I'll be back.

Okay, JR, I'll be looking for you, bro. Yo, man, I love the Inner Harbor, man, I walked by somebody in, about 10 years, how many years ago, about 12 years ago, Mike, let me tell you, I walked by somebody at the Inner Harbor, you ever walk by somebody and you both turn around? Yes, all the time.

All the time? That happened to me one time, Mike, damn, Mike. We gotta have a separate conversation, okay? Oh, yes, for sure, for sure, man. Thank you, Mike, for calling from Baltimore.

Alright, JR. Mike is living a good life, oh my goodness, it's happening, maybe not, maybe not all the time, but I remember one, shut up, you ever walk by somebody and you both turn around and you just go, damn, that ever happen? No. Oh. Okay. Alright, then.

Damn. Heath is calling from Michigan, you're on CBS Sports Radio, what's up, Heath? Hey, JR, appreciate you taking the call, man. Sure.

I don't usually stay up this late at night to listen to you guys, but I get a lot of opportunity to hear some updates from the DA show in the mornings and I gotta tell you, man, I think that Shep's singing of the national anthem was probably the best thing I've heard from him and I'm not knocking him, don't get me wrong, I like the guy, but he did a pretty damn good job. Okay. Okay.

That's it. Alright. Well, thank you, Heath. Right on.

Alright. Hey, Shep, you need me to get you a deal, you need a record deal? I was on the phone with a couple people, say that again, JR? Do you need me to get you a record deal? I feel like you're being sarcastic.

Not a man just bigged you up. Was he being sarcastic? No. Are you serious?

No. Really? I didn't think I was that bad. He said that's the best thing that he's ever heard from you.

He said he wasn't joking. I've said a lot of poignant things in my time at CBS Sports Radio. That's really... I wasn't even that great. That's the best he's ever heard me sound and when it came to singing? That's the best, yeah. That's what he said. Oh, geez.

Well, I got out of my game then because I was not that great. Ain't nothing but a couple of lessons, if you want lessons, I could find some vocal coach for you that's easy. Really? Yeah, you want a vocal coach? I would love a vocal coach.

Can they work on a sliding scale? I'm not going to pay for it. Gotcha, gotcha. You're going to pay for it?

Well, I would pay for it, but I got to do a sliding scale. Listen, we work in radio, not TV. Oh. Huh. Listen, not everyone's JR, all right? Let's put it that way. No, listen, I'm not paying for nothing. I steal for a living shot. Yeah, I don't buy that for one second. You don't have to.

Nobody would know. That's right. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. I'm going to get some more of your calls on the other side. Hey, Michael Jordan is gone. Charles Barkley and him can't stand each other. Mac Jones wants to have fun. There's just a lot going on here on CBS Sports Radio.

Don't move. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. Yes, sir. How you doing? Nice to talk to you. I've been locked in to you ever since I got Sirius X on satellite.

Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. Oh, yeah. Sirius is great, man. You get serious and you just drive from one state to the other. You never have to change the station. That's what I do when I'm in the car. I be driving everywhere. 855-212-4CBS.

It's 855-212-4CBS. Hey, congratulate. Shep, did we congratulate Diana Taurasi this hour or last one?

It was the beginning of this hour. Oh, good for her. 10,000 career points. First WNBA player to do so.

Good for her. She got a whole street named after her in front of the, whatever that dumb arena's name. What do they call it now? Is it Talking Stick? It's named after a casino.

I don't know. It's in downtown Phoenix. Shout out to everybody in Phoenix. Hopefully you're some type of cool. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. Hey, speaking of Arizona, ZZ calling from Arizona. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up?

Hey, what's up, JR? I will try to be quick with this. Remember we were talking about a week and a half ago with the whole Saquon Barkley situation with this contract. And you had said that the Giants had offered, I think, guaranteed $19 million, maybe over three years. Correct? Yeah, I don't know. Go ahead.

All right. So let's put it this way. Imagine if they were able to institute the contract across the board, the only negotiation would end up being guaranteed money. They wouldn't have to worry about debt cap anymore, that would be gone. And they would have rookie contracts as they are. And after four years, veterans could sign contracts kind of like this. And the statistics as far as incentives for what they produce on the field would have to be agreed upon.

But I'm just giving you an example. Let's say, for example, guaranteed money for two years, Saquon Barkley got $8.5 million a year for $17 million. And let's say he finished with 1,800 yards combined and 12 touchdowns. For 100 yards rushing, 100 yards receiving, for each one, they would pay out $100,000. So for 1,800 yards, he would get $1.8 million as a bonus. For 12 touchdowns, let's say they got $100,000.

ZZ, ZZ, I feel like I'm back in third grade. I don't want to know how many pennies Saquon made if he has a dollar and three nickels. Are you trying to make a point that running back should be paid incentive-based or performance-based? But the reason I'm trying to show you a breakdown is because the breakdown will just show that he'll get the money as far as what he wants to get. Then he wants to get $16 million. That's not going to happen.

But I'm saying to you, the let's say a player got 1,800 yards. No, no, ZZ, ZZ, I don't want to let's say, man. You don't want to do it. You don't want to fucking fight.

You're making my brain break. All right. All right. No, it's not all right.

All right. Be quiet. Be quiet. Just make your point. What's your point?

My point is, is that the negotiation would be just guaranteed money and that there would be some sort of performance, performances on the field that they don't have now and they get incentive now. I just said that. I just said that.

Go ahead, ZZ. I just said that. I don't know what you did. What do you say? You just said what? You said what?

Oh my, you're doing so much talking. You don't listen. I went through this whole scenario and I stopped you and then I said, so you're advocating that he has a contract with a performance based pay and then you wanted to give me another example and I had to stop you. No, no, but hold up.

There's a reason why I'm doing that because you're not giving me a chance to fully explain it is that they have incentives now, but the incentives aren't priority for a touchdown because if they put that in the contract, it counts against the cap. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, I do. I do. I understand.

I do. You could have just said that from the beginning instead of walking us through a scenario. True, but maybe there's some people that would like to hear the scenario that I came up with and how much you can get paid to make it better than that. Yeah, sure, but are you talking to the whole country first? You talking to me? I would assume that you're trying to appeal to the listeners.

No, no, no, no. Let me... No, ZZ, listen to me. I don't need you to appeal to the listeners. When you call, call and talk to me, and then as a result, you talk to everybody else, okay? Okay.

That's for next time. I'm not mad at you. Are we okay? We're friends. We're not like Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley.

We still okay? Yeah, I just would have liked to have had more time to be able to elaborate what I want to say, but I hear what you're saying. But I'm looking at a board right now that has quite a few callers here. I'm looking at a clock that also tells me that I need to keep things moving.

I'm looking at a Marco Belletti who's ready for the newsflash, and those are all the things that I have to consider, ZZ. I hear. Okay. Okay. We're still friends? Yeah, we're still friends. Absolutely.

We'll see you at the coffee table tomorrow. No problem. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay.

Okay. A55212. A55212. A55212. A55212.

A55212. For CBS. For CBS. Frank is from Baltimore. What's up, Frank?

Frank Bowers. Well, this is fine. A'ight Frank, bye. A'ight. A'ight. A'ight. A'ight. A'ight. A'ight. Billy's calling from Cleveland.

You're on CBS Sports Radio. A'ight. A'ight. A'ight.

I'm good. I was did you guys get a chance to watch the Browns test game tonight? Did we want to watch it? We know the results of the game. I mean, what was there to watch the lights went out. Well, you know, that's that's not the team's fault. Well, I don't know I saw I saw 820 stringers out there. That's what I saw. I you know, I'm just asking because I'm from Cleveland.

I just wondering if you guys watch it. I love the past, you know segment. I thought that you you and Shep were funny saying I've heard on the radio and that's 10 years that little four minute.

That was that was if you guys didn't write that that was best riff I've ever heard. Well, thanks. I don't write a damn thing. I'll just show up.

Thank you. No, I'm just telling you you guys are entertaining but you know, I just got back from the game and I know there's no big deal, you know, watching bunch of seconds or guys that won't even be in the league. Well, did you turn the lights off while the lights go off? No, I didn't pull the cord. I support again.

You could blame it on me, but I didn't do it. All right. Well as long as you enjoy the game and as you enjoyed it, how did you feel about the National Anthem?

Did you like it? Um, I appreciated it. Ah, there you go.

I have an appreciation for what Marcus Flair did. Okay, I'm not going to rate it. I'm not going to put it in a top six list. Yeah, don't don't you know, I'll be back to you, you know, all right, man. You have a great night. All right.

Thank you. Yeah, I ain't breaking down a Hall of Fame and get out of here Michael Scola from Cali. What's up, Michael? Hey, how's it going?

Jr. It's a great I always every once in a while. I tune into your show on the way home and I gotta say tonight man. You had a topic that made me call it. Guys there. Yeah, you're on the radio.

We ain't going nowhere. You're here. Go ahead. Okay. No, no, no. I just yeah, I just want to make sure because you have the silence. But anyways, you would talk so my okay.

Okay, so check this out. So I'm on my way home and your boy was his name Shep. He starts talking about polyamorous fools and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why are we judging people? Why are we judging lovers over here about polyamorous schools?

Because you know, this is a country where yes, we are taught as kids about monogamous relationships, you know with religion in the state and etcetera, etcetera, but we live in a country where succeed 50% of the time. So all I'm saying is just like whoa before we start in stuff that we've never tasted. Whoa, maybe we should kind of see the other side of the corner Jr.

I really appreciated you pulling. Well, I guess your boy's name is Shep, you know out of the judgment because out because I was like, yo, man, how do you know if you've never tasted and I think you know for the most part. Well, hold on Michael before your phone craps out because that's what's going to happen. You got eight wives. You got eight wives. No, no, I'm not saying that. No, I'm not. I don't know. I didn't say you said anything.

I asked you I asked you a simple question. No, I don't I don't I don't have eight wives. Do you have three? I was just like do you have three wives? No, I'm married to one woman.

I'm married to one woman, but I'm just saying I'm just saying why are we talking about why we why we judging other people when we've never tasted that type of lifestyle. That's all I'm saying. He was only talking about himself. He said it at the end. He caught himself.

He caught himself. We're having a conversation. We spoke Michael. Okay. Anyways, Mike Michael.

It was Michael. It was it was more it was more tongue-in-cheek. What you're saying is valid. I've never experienced that type of lifestyle. I don't have a right to judge it.

You were 1,000% right. Okay, Michael Michael this would have been better if you had five wives, but you don't so go home. Okay. All right. Bye Michael. Thank you. All right, drive safe. You hear what?

I got a deal with Marco Baleta. You hear this? Yeah, you got seven wives. You got to carry the one you are you all in on this. If I seven wives and carry the one hey, what which one equals a happy home? No, like you said you got us at three wives times two squared minus five kids. Like what do you do? Yeah, man.

I'm not good at math. I stay out of all that. I have no idea the guy a guy calls and says hey don't judge having more than one wife. How many wives you got one? Call me when you got three more wives and we could talk. Hey, where's the woman who has four husbands? She needs to call me.

That's what I need to talk to. It's the chair of sport be show on CBS Sports Radio 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. I'm going to get some more your calls before we have to roll out. You're listening to the JR sport brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR sport brief on CBS Sports Radio. First of all, one of the most well-rounded shows on sports talk radio.

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That's the it's the music not the guy speaking. Hey, I love hanging out here with you as well. Damn. It's been a busy night. We had the Hall of Fame game. The Browns beat the Jets.

The lights went out at the game to Marcus where saying the national anthem Shohei Ohtani hit his 40th home run tonight despite dealing with cramping in his hands because he pitched as well. What else is new Diana Taurasi first WNBA player to score 10,000 career points absolutely amazing. Hey shoutouts to Rosie white representing New Zealand multiple time Olympian and World Cup and she came through and talked to us about the US women's national team.

She's out in New Zealand and following all the soccer. We talked about Tom Brady getting involved in soccer. You didn't know Tom Brady is invested into Birmingham City FC.

They're in the second level of English football below the Premier League, but Tom Brady showing up and he's going to show up with some money and I'm sure over the next few years if they do things the right way Birmingham FC is going to be in the Premier League. Maybe they'll actually be competitive. We talked about Michael Jordan officially out as owner of the Hornets. We talked about Charles Barkley beefing with him. Those guys don't talk anymore.

I think we all know that we got more college teams that are just flipping conferences. Everybody wants to leave. What else is new such a disaster that is maybe we'll get into some of this tomorrow. Mac Jones says he just wants to have fun this year to a tongue of Aloha is big as hell is muscular.

You put on some weight some muscles we talked about messy. It's been a busy busy night. Let's get to some of your calls and try to wrap things up eight five five two one two four CBS Richards here from Baltimore. You're on the Gerald sport reef show. Thanks for taking my call appreciate it did not call to talk about the Orioles or the Ravens but come to Baltimore this fall. It's going to be crazy here. That's for sure. I have not seen this kind of enthusiasm about sports in the city since I was a kid, you know back in the 80s quick thing.

I wanted to tell you I did go to a Hall of Fame induction some of your stack when Ray Lewis and Randy Moss were inducted. So after the speeches, okay, I see a lady who is a front okay on the side and she's waiting for a golf cart to take all of the inductees and their families back to the actual Hall of Fame. They had like an affair or something afterwards. So the lady couldn't walk.

It looks like I asked her she just had knee replacement surgery. So I was there with my dad and we ended up using his scooter to get her back to that area. Okay, so my whole family loses me an hour later.

But look, where were you? Well, I end up on security and there's Randy Moss Hall and Ray Lewis was that was my mother. Thank you, but that's my experience but cool place. Have you ever been to that Hall of Fame or the baseball well worth it?

Okay, it's too long for me personally Rich, but I can watch on TV. Thank you. Yeah, it's good experience though.

They'll artifacts. That's for sure. So I'm sure thank you Rich. No doubt about it. Yeah, I like it and I know guys in the Hall of Fame.

I know guys, you know, I'm sure one day sooner than later as I get older. I'm gonna get invited out to one of these things. I'm gonna have no choice but to go but watching on TV is too long.

Long well to be honest to be completely honest. I ain't watching the Hall of Fame on Saturday. I will not I'll catch up on it. I'll look at it on social media, but I'm not sitting down and watching too much. I'll actually be playing softball with Bernie Williams. That's what I'll be doing. Hey and tomorrow man, I'm gonna be watching volleyball.

We got Pro Beach volleyball here in Atlanta. I'll be doing that in the daytime and then I'm gonna come hop on and do the show. So yeah Hall of Fame speeches are long days along. It's just no thanks. I'll wait until it's over everything will be on YouTube and then I can fast forward without having to sit down and watch five hours of Hall of Fame. Sorry. Hey chef you you you want sort of watching a Hall of Fame speeches and stuff?

Yeah, especially when it's guys like Ray Lewis Shannon Sharp. I know it's going to be emotionally written guys. I'm there for the long haul. Yeah, not me. I'll wait. This is the new era man. I'll wait until it's on YouTube or it's going to be on Twitter.

I think I think it's in the middle of the day. I believe I'll catch up with it. Hey chef good hanging with you tonight, man. Likewise as always Jr. Yeah, it's nice to know you you have a hidden talent not so hidden anymore. You sing. I appreciate that and I can freestyle a little bit too.

So thanks for the platform man. The artiste the arts. I can't say the artiste formerly known as shut because you're still known as shop.

You're just the artiste appreciate you man. No doubt about it. The Jr. sport we show you on CBS Sports Radio. It's done. Okay, I'm gonna be back tomorrow 10 p.m. Eastern 7 Pacific you want to listen to every minute and second you listen on the free Odyssey app. I told you I'm gonna have me a Good Friday. Check out Pro Beach volleyball here in Atlanta, and then I'm going to join you on the radio get you all set and ready for the Hall of Fame.

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