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That's 855-2124 CBS. It's been a busy Monday. It's been a busy weekend. I know. We basically pulled up on Tuesday.

We're pulling up on Tuesday, depending on where you live. Tim Anderson suspended six games after that fight. Jose Ramirez suspended three games. Simone Biles makes her return. She looks great.

Let's see if she goes to the Olympics next year in Paris. Teddy Bridgewater, Teddy Bridgewater, he signed with the Lions. Good for him. The ACC wants Cal and Stanford. What are we doing here? The Pac-12 is about to not exist.

Just flattened period. Kevin, oh man. Kevin Brown. Kevin, Shep, that's his name, right? The guy get all the attention?

Shep is busy. Oh no, no. I said you were correct. Not the big pitcher, but the broadcaster out of Syracuse. Oh yeah. The one that's getting more attention than the actual team, right?

I'd say 10 times the amount, yes. Oh wow, yeah. We got a broadcaster for the Orioles.

I mean, they put them in cobwebs for not doing anything really. JR, you are a very good barometer of what people want to talk about. I cannot recall one show in working with you the last two years. You've talked about the Orioles for more than one segment as a team. Yeah, no, this is the biggest Orioles story that there's been in years. Yeah, it is.

It's factual. My apologies to everybody listening in Baltimore on the fan, but from a, and not a CBS sports radio perspective, not from a sports radio perspective, from an interest perspective, this is the most interesting Oriole story, and my apologies. What's the dude from the Yankees, the little kid, Jeffrey Mayer?

That's his name, right Shep? Yeah, the kid that helped Jeter with the home run, right. That was more than 20 years ago. That was more than 25 years ago. 90, 90 years ago.

96, ALCS. Come on now. That's the biggest story in all, and I wish I was telling you a lie.

I wish I was, but I'm not. It's the biggest story since then involving the Orioles. It's how bad they've been. I'm sorry. I'm saying, and not from a Baltimore Orioles fan perspective, not from an Oriole, but when you wake up in the morning and they're talking about this poor dude who's been suspended for no reason on Good Morning America, when Gary Cohen is on SNY, and Gary Cohen don't bother nobody.

He is very straightforward, but he don't bother nobody. When he is saying comments about your organization like this, like you, you asked. Listen to what Gary Cohen said on SNY. Baltimore Orioles organization draped itself in utter humiliation. With their treatment of one of their young broadcasters, a guy named Kevin Brown, who is one of the great young talents in broadcasting in this game.

Yeah. What did Kevin Owens say? Hey, let's take Kevin Owens. What did Kevin Brown say?

Let's listen massive. This has been maybe the toughest ballpark to play in, but the Orioles have a chance to do something special today. They've already clinched at least a split in the series, winning two of the first three, and they could pick up a series win behind Tyler Wells today.

It's been a minute. The Orioles split a two gamer with a raise in June. They had lost their last 15 series here at Tropicana Field. You have to go back to when our now colleague Brad Brock picked up the win in the series finale, June 25th, 2017.

The last time the Orioles won a series here at. The man, that's what, that's what they gave him the boot for. What did he say?

Nothing. No, you didn't miss anything. No, this wasn't a clever editing job. No, nothing was taken out of context. I guess pointing out the fact that they haven't had success against the raise. I guess that sent the owners, Angelo's, to a place where they sent the owners, Angelo's, into a tizzy. Michael Kay from the Yankees and ESPN, he thinks the Orioles are crap too for this. So the graphic had already been printed out, and you said this earlier, in their notes, that very thing was in their notes.

This makes the Orioles look so small and insignificant and minor league. And of course they don't comment on personnel matters. And they didn't say they fired the guy. They suspended him. But can you imagine how that guy must feel? He has to keep his mouth shut.

He can't criticize the Orioles because they don't get fired. So of course we look forward to Kevin coming back, but you embarrass the guy for no reason. And most importantly, you embarrassed yourself.

What you did is disgraceful. And that was Michael Kay won one. Yes. And then ESPN is radio show. Hey, a couple of weeks ago, maybe last week, I guess Tom flies so much.

It's two weeks now at this point. We talked about Sean Payton destroying Nathaniel Hackett. We're telling everyone, just for no apparent reason, being a bully, ah, worst coaching job ever by Nathaniel Hackett. Like, damn, bro, why are you chopping down on somebody?

You don't got nothing to do with you. You're supposed to be the, the big boss, smart man to come clean up the mess. Why are you still crapping on this guy? Leave him alone. Shep said it last week. It's like low hanging fruit.

Like, like do something else. Well, it's okay. Jr. Cause he had his, uh, Foxport hat on. Oh yeah, he did. He forgot. He forgot. He wasn't a coach anymore. And so here you have Gary Cohen and Michael Kay for the most part.

I don't buy BRC and don't bother nobody. Michael Kay certainly has a radio show. He will respond and say things. He doesn't bother nobody. He has strong opinions. People may not always like him.

You don't bother nobody. You got Gary Cohen and Michael Kay crapping on the Orioles and they got all the reason in the world and they don't bother nobody. People crap on Michael Kay and he will come and defend himself.

He don't say nothing. If anything, people say, oh, he's too light on the Yankees and Gary Cohen just shoots straight. And when you have them, when you have other announcers across baseball talking about how bad your team is and how badly they're run because of this.

Whoa, this is all over the place. This story has gone beyond traditional sports news or traditional sports media. Front office sports, sports business journal. It's gone beyond that. This has been picked up by, yes, Fox. Foxnews.com has picked the story up.

This is going to be on Good Morning America. The announcer that got suspended for saying what? For saying nothing.

For just telling the truth, which he and the producers had to agree on and the graphics people. That's just, it's just sad. This and then the riverboat story, probably the worst two stories. Just, just all over the internet, all over television and radio over the past 24 hours. Yeah, the people with the boat in Montgomery, just everybody started fighting.

It was pretty wild. JR, I have a very quick question. Yeah, sure. Is, is, I know you're very clear and adamant about him not doing anything wrong, but isn't it also fair to say you want to take it a step further?

And what he did was actually precisely what he should be doing as a professional, objective broadcaster. You provide the facts. Yes, you provide the information. Yes, you give it to the folks good and bad.

Yes, you allow the color person to come through and provide color commentary. He did his job perfectly, man. He ain't saying nothing crazy.

He put everything into a proper perspective. Look, anyone who has a microphone and here I go, here I go talking and telling people stuff again. Somebody will call me and tell me about my job. Anytime you have a microphone in front of you, anytime you have a platform, it's all about storytelling. There's an art to storytelling. There's a reason. There is not a rhyme or reason. Even when I'm on air, everything that I say, everything that I do, how I say it, even reacting to a caller or not has a purpose.

It's telling a story. There's a reason sometimes I get amped. There's a reason sometimes I bring it low. There's a reason sometimes I go back and forth with a caller.

There's a reason why sometimes I'll tell a caller to be quiet. Everything is a story. Whether you're sitting here doing my job or whether you're play-by-play or whether you're the news person or whether you're reading a story to a child, it's all about perspective. His job is to tell the story of the game. The who, what, when, why, where. What has taken place, what is taking place now, what's about to take place because you want to engage the viewer. You want to capture the attention of the listener. And all he did was provide proper context.

He'd be doing a crappy job if he didn't provide context. There's not a damn thing in sports that's all roses. There's going to be a losing streak.

There's going to be a winning streak. And to omit the facts and the truth, that's the robbery for the viewers. And so you have owners who are just overly sensitive, who are concerned about the bottom line, who think that their customers, the fans, are complete idiots that, oh well, if the announcer is saying how bad we are, then they won't buy a ticket. Like, come on, man.

Just because you don't have to buy a ticket, why are you so detached from reality? The best broadcasters, I find, are the ones who shoot it straight. You don't have to be overly critical, positive, negative, one way or the other. Give me the facts. And be a human being about it.

Have some personality. But just give me the facts. That man didn't do anything. And how this story pans out over the next few days for the Orioles to say that he hasn't been suspended. Okay, sure, I guess they're still giving him his check.

But to have him away, say we're not, we don't comment on employment decisions, and to respond that he will be back soon, man, what a slap in the face to everybody. 855-212-4CBS. That's 855-212-4CBS.

Mario, call him from Vancouver. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. Hey, JR. Open line talk radio sports is, how long has that been around for? Oh, for the better part of a full-time?

Maybe pushing 40 years. Yeah, because I've been listening to talk radio probably since I was six years old. My old man always had it on the radio and was all always talking about, you know, the government or what City Hall was doing. And it was never sports open line radio. There wasn't any of that in Vancouver at one time. Right.

But now I've noticed it's, uh, it's changed too much when you can't say anything anymore. And if you say the truth, it might cost you your job. Like that Kevin Brown guy, he's gonna be, well, you know who's the happiest guy in America right now, JR? Do you know? The happiest guy in America?

The happiest guy. I don't know, is he? Where's Elon Musk right now? Where's Zuckerberg? Are they going to fight? I don't know. No, I don't know. I don't care about those guys, you know, but you know, I just seems the happiest guy in America has got to be that guy sitting down in Florida.

That's getting all those indictments. Oh, okay. Wow.

Okay. What's Trump got to do with the Orioles? Trump's got nothing to do with the Orioles.

The Orioles are sports, but what the Oriole management did to that player for just playing, setting up the game, like, you know, telling the history of those two teams, they've turned that guy into a star. Yeah. I hope he gets a job somewhere else. Yeah. Well, I would think he's going to get a job somewhere else.

Cause he's going to attract what you call revenue. I'm not going to go that far, Mario. Well, how about this, Mario? Here, quick question.

You're in Vancouver. You keep up with baseball? Yeah, but yeah, I follow the blue chase a bit. Oh, okay. How about this? Name, name me the, the play by play guy for the Mariners on TV. For the Mariners? Yeah.

Can't do it. Well, my point exactly. So if you think, if you think that Kevin Brown getting another job somewhere is going to lead the revenue for a team. He might be making more money not doing, he might end up on all these talk TV shows and late night television. I don't know. You know, I don't know if that's what, what he would want to do.

And thank you for calling from Vancouver. A lot of these dudes, they don't, they don't want that attention. They love baseball. This man wants to talk about baseball. He wants to mind his business. And now he talks about baseball. He gets kind of put into, to mothballs, into cobwebs. And, and he has to be embarrassed by all of this.

His friends and family ought to be hitting them up. And he has to be going to sleep at night going, Oh my God, my name is everywhere. And JR, the TV play by play guy for the Mariners is actually a legend in this business.

And most people could not even come up with him if you gave him five choices. Well, who is it? Oh, he used to host a WFAN. Um, Dave Sims. Oh, I know Dave. He's a legend in this business. Yeah.

We've had Dave on the show. Right. You know what, maybe we should update me. Nah. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, huh? He may, he may want to stay clear of this. You know, I think they all want to stay clear of this. You know, after, after Gary and Michael K, you know, and see, I stay above that crap. So I'm not, I'm not going to ask Dave to come on and just be like, Hey Dave, what do you think about this?

And I don't, I don't need the pile on. Uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's wild. I know Dave's son too. He's a good dude. Jared or Jordan?

Oh, Jared with the tech, with the tech, with the swing, with the bats. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's about, he's, uh, I think he's 39 or 40 now. Yeah. Isn't he in Detroit? I believe so.

And his younger son, Jordan, I believe is 34. Yeah. Why are we telling this man all this man's business?

That's what I'm saying. He's a legend in his business. You know, about his family. Yeah. His son is cool out in the end.

Yeah. Cool dudes. I haven't spoken to his son. I'll talk to the dad more than the sons. Uh, anyway, Hey look, my point is you'd be hard pressed to pick out announcers from city to city 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS Jonesy from DC. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up Jonesy? Hey, Hey JR, man. Listen, man. I was listening, uh, earlier, man, I've been listening to your show for like over two years, man. And as the great late John Thompson Jr would say, uh, your show is piping hot and jumping out the pot. You understand what I'm saying?

So maybe you keep doing what you're doing. I think you, you're the most professional, uh, guy to come across all of these airways. And so, so, I mean, so I don't know what Dustin was talking about, but I'm very familiar with Robert from Annapolis. I don't know. I don't know if you got my tweet earlier. I tweeted you about that, but no, wait, wait, what happened? This is call on call of violence.

What happened? We don't, we don't want, this is going to be like the boat in Montgomery. No, it's not going to be like, Oh, what happened? No, uh, Robert, he tries to pretty much push, uh, crazy narratives and things across the airwaves and kind of times in the DC area. And, you know, it's a, it's a lot of call of power ons on him alone. So when he calls and start and start talking sideways, so, you know, people put them back, right. And sometimes it's even the radio show host that puts them back in the pocket.

Right. But man, keep doing what you're doing. And I love your show and man, yes, indeed.

This won't be my last time calling. And as far as the Baltimore announces and says, and I can't name you not one, but I can name you the radio announcers for the nationals here in DC, uh, Charlie slows and Dave Jaggler. That's the best I could do for you. And I do follow a little baseball here and there, but I'm for the home team. Well, I bet you, I bet you the fans in Dallas, they don't know who the hell you just mentioned, you know, that's the, thank you. Thank you, Jonesy. Appreciate you, man.

No, I love you too. Thank you. Yeah. Well, people don't know is I've been around enough cities that I know the callers that this, the local, the local people be like, Hey, listen, I know Jr. That guy, he calls us to, we don't, it's pretty funny. You have these, uh, conversations 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CVS Cornell for Maryland.

You're on the Gerald sport brief show. Well, this is just my take on it. When, um, the announcers came on the scene and a couple of years ago, it was Melanie Newman and Brown, and they were supposed to be the primary post.

And then they brought Jeff Arnold on, and then Scott Garceau came in the scene. So to diminish the role of Brown, but if you take what he said, take what he said. Now, this is just my take again, that it was kind of cryptic because the Orioles have had a beef with Tampa Bay because of the master, the masses, um, suit and one of the owners, which was the Tampa Bay raised form voted against the Orioles and had to come up with 300 me.

So if you read between the lines, talk about how sorry Orioles were against Tampa Bay, I guess Madison didn't want to hear that. Am I right in saying that? Uh, I think that's the, if that is the case, that's even more crap.

And that's, that's me putting in radio terms to keep me on air. Right. That's crap, man. Like I told you, this is, this is, this is a rich dude and it doesn't matter the circumstances.

It's just rich dudes being, being rich and belligerent and just being jerks for no reason. Cornell. That's it. Well, okay. I just wanted to get my point.

One more, one more comment. Yeah. Have you, have you saw, um, DJ diesel yet?

Shaquille O'Neal. Yeah. Uh, I see him kind of, uh, a lot. Why are you at that's kind of random, but it's showing at the stadium.

You never really saw it. What Shaq in person? Yeah. Doing this DJ thing. No, him and I know the last I saw Shaq, we agreed to fight in New Jersey or the Bronx, but no, I haven't seen him DJ now. Well, yeah, that, um, that little DJ thing is pretty good. He got going there, touring all the stadiums.

I thought it was pretty human. Yeah, no, he pops up and does plenty of festivals just all over the world. No Shaq, Shaq and DJ. Hey Cornell, you, you like DJing? Oh, I'm far from that.

I'm okay. I got some new, you like the cha cha slide. I've never heard of him. No, him, this, the dance, the cha cha slide. Oh, I know.

I'm way out. That's way out of my league right there. Wait, wait, wait. You've never heard of the cha cha slide. Well, that's a remix of it.

Cornell. Yeah. You've never heard the cha cha, cha cha real smooth. Dude. No clap your hands.

No, no, I never heard of him. I have to say, okay. All right, we'll look it up. Okay. Unfortunately, the guy, don't, don't, don't go on, you know, check out that DJ thing. Me? Yeah. My, my whole background is in music, man.

I don't, I don't need the DJ and talk radio. I've been doing a whole lot before I was asked to sit down and do this. I think I'm okay. Okay. Well, you're doing a great job.

Talk to you later. Thank you, Cornell. I thought everybody knows the cha cha slide, right? What? That's the slide? That's the cupid shuffle.

Apparently, I don't know it either. That's the cupid shuffle, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Wait, yeah. That's the cupid shuffle. That's not the cha cha. Cha cha real smooth. Charlie Brown, go to work. Anyway, my people in Chicago know this. The maker creator of the cha cha slide passed away.

It's sad. Play that. There we go.

Cha cha real smooth. There we go. Here we go. Go to work. Turn it out.

To the left. Take it back now, y'all. Okay, that's enough. We have to pay for this. We ain't doing that. It's the JR Sport Reshow here on CBS Sports Radio 855-2124 CBS. I'm going to get some more of your calls. I want to give you the latest update on schools moving conferences. Oh, it's happening again, probably.

Don't move. Here on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. I certainly appreciate your show. I really think you do the best job on the radio talk shows. First of all, I want to say, man, I enjoy your show because it's a different voice and I've contemplated calling before.

Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here on CBS Sports Radio. And today, we're going to be talking about some of the things that are going on in the show for CBS.

It's the JR Sport Brief Show here on CBS Sports Radio. In today's, I guess, daily news, when it comes down to conference realignment in college athletics, we know about the Pac-12 being pilfered and it's like these other conferences are like pirates, okay? The latest today? Cal and Stanford? Maybe, possibly, maybe not going to the ACC. Like, they want to go to the ACC and the ACC is going to have a meeting, I believe, on Tuesday to look into the viability of such. Wait a minute.

I saw this earlier today and I had to go, wait a minute. What? The ACC? Atlantic? And that was Atlantic? Like, not Pacific?

Like, PAC is Pacific. A in Atlantic and A in ACC Atlantic. What are we doing here? What is the, what school in the ACC is, is furthest west? What, Louisville? Like, what are we doing here?

This is nuts. Now, I don't know if it's going to happen. There is not agreement. There's just, it's been reported that, you know, they're looking into it between Cal and Stanford. They're trying to figure out if they can go to the ACC. The ACC presidents are supposed to meet and try to figure this out. Well, they can't stay in the PAC-12, can they? And if they stay in the PAC-12, they're going to get joined by a bunch of lesser schools.

I mean, damn. Oh, oh, by the way, Nick Saban, of course, Nick Saban weighs in on everything because it's Nick Saban. Nick Saban put in his two cents over the weekend as well. And he lamented the fact that there were so many traditions in college football that are going to be disappearing with the, just the destruction of the conferences. Listen to this.

Look, I did not hear what anybody's comments have been about this. Look, there's a lot of traditions that we've had for a long time in college football. And I think we're in a time of evolution for whatever reasons.

And some of those traditions are going to get sort of pushed by the wayside, I think. And that's sad. Yeah, well, I like how he says some, some reason, what you mean some reason? We all know the reasons that, that, that we have conference realignment. It's to chase money, man. There's not some reasons or why this time in particular, we know why.

Money. It's terrible. 855-2124 CBS.

Not, not terrible for anybody going to get the money, but terrible that he would sit up there for whatever reason, man, we know the reasons. Claudia is calling from Florida. You're on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, good morning. Hey, what's up?

Hey, I want to work my head on the causeway line. Thank you, J.R.A. Claudius, hold, hold on.

Claudius, I'm sorry. It sounds terrible, man. It sounds like the windows are down. It sounds like you, you're talking to me with SpongeBob, man.

There's water and air. Try to fix it. And then we'll, we'll try to get you on the other side of the break before we roll out, Claudius. 855-2124, you're on CBS Sports Radio. 855-2124 CBS.

That's 855-2124 CBS. I'm going to get some more of your calls. Yes, before we roll out, we're going to put a recap and summation. It's everything that we discussed and talked about tonight. And oh yeah, guess what? The United States of America played basketball and they beat Puerto Rico.

They should feel proud about that, right? I'll explain. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the J.R.

Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, what's going on, sir? I love the show, man. I wanted to say um, I've enjoyed your show forever and I've gone through some tough times. And 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 855-212-4CBS. Okay. I'll take that.

Better than just being called and flat a spirit animal. I'll take that. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. What a busy night. The world of sports and I think at least America has found out about this guy, Kevin Brown, now that the Orioles have kind of punished him for no reason. And we talked about Tim Anderson being suspended six games. Tim Anderson throwing up his Dukes on Saturday night and he got put down.

Jose Ramirez only suspended three games, both appealing their suspensions. I just told you before the break, Cal and Stanford and the ACC, could this be a match? Two West Coast schools going to the ACC? I mean, that's more of a stretch than everybody else. Moving into the middle of the country or just conferences and Geographics that just don't match. Or they don't, they don't match anymore.

Throw that out the window. We talked about Simone Biles. We talked about Messi. Simone Biles coming back over the weekend, having an amazing performance at a meet in Chicago. Messi scoring two more goals over the weekend, making it look real easy.

Oh, how about this? This took place today, on Monday, I should say. The Houston Astros, the defending World Series champs, they were in DC visiting with President Biden. And of course, President Biden, I think he remembered everybody's names, at least. He remembered Dusty Baker's name. And he didn't waste any time by throwing around an old person joke at Dusty Baker. Listen to this, led by, and this is not hyperbole, the legendary Dusty Baker. Worst part was I remember rooting for him as a kid and I was old and he was. Dusty, it wasn't easy.

People counted you out saying you're past your prime. Hell, I know something about that. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, there's always old people jokes for Biden.

I guess he can't go a joke without making one about himself now, whoever writes his jokes. We talked about Richard Sherman. He's going to Fox. He's going to be opposite Skip Bayless for 50 to 100 episodes for Undisputed in place of Shannon Sharpe. So get ready for more Richard Sherman and Skip Bayless going back and forth. Let's hear a little bit of that. This is from almost 10 years ago on ESPN. And Stephen A. Smith is a guest or he's a host, I should say, with Richard Sherman, who's a guest.

And Skip Bayless is there. Let's listen to this for a sec. How good do you really believe you are?

Because you got people out there looking at you and saying he's a talking smack. How good do you believe you are? Well, I believe my numbers speak for themselves. I mean, my tape speaks for myself, for itself.

My tape is my resume. That's what I leave it up to. I mean, you can say whatever you want.

Skip can say whatever he wants. But Skip, whenever you refer to me, whenever you speak to me, whenever you address me, address me as all pro Stanford graduate, because those are some accomplishments you can aspire to, you will never accomplish. You have never accomplished anything. But those things are on my resume.

Those are what I've done. It's my second year in the NFL, going on my third. I mean, you tell me who's wrong. OK, I'll accept that. I think I've accomplished more in my field than you have in yours, though you're just getting started. So I'm the top of my field.

So I'm all pro. I'm one of the best 22 players in the NFL. You're going to brush it off, but I don't think you're the best 22 anything in sports and in media and anything. I think you think more of yourself than you actually can, you know, prove. But OK, you think you're better Darryl Reeves is right now in my in my 24 years of life?

I'm better at life than you. OK, wow. Well, damn.

Well, damn. And so, yeah, they sat down. They don't got no real beef.

They sat down, they met whatever a bunch of times, and that should be interesting. I just know that Skip Bayless has a shelf life on television, and this is going to be good for Richard Sherman. I'm happy for him.

But this this this is going to be good for Richard for the moment. And who knows how longer Bayless is going to be on TV? I have no idea. Eight, five, five, two, one, two, four, CBS. It's eight, five, five, two, one, two, four, CBS. Mike is calling from Cleveland, Ohio.

You're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up, Mike? Nice talking to you, Jay. Hey, you're out. You know, I've been listening to talk radio since the mid 60s.

That's what kept me safe in my home. You know, talking to people on the radio and listening. And I heard you tell the person on the radio to wait. And he say, why did you tell me to shut up? And I heard you say, wait. So tell them Mike from Cleveland is telling them to shut up. That way you can do your job because you do an excellent job. I know you do an excellent job because you let me come on this radio station. You're one of the best things that I listen to on the radio.

But the best thing I see in person at Parliament Funkadelic George Clinton, who I'm going to see on the 26th of August at the MGM. They didn't come by yet. They didn't come by yet. No, no, he's coming here.

It might be a bad run. Like I can get you and your producer a ticket if you want to make it. What day is it? Pardon me? What day is it again? It's going to be on a Thursday, the 20th of August at the MGM. No, I can't do that.

I can't do that. I got to, I got to be in Washington, D.C. that day. I'm so proud of you, the way you handle your business and your man as a producer. He can do a talk show and produce. I mean, people don't know what talk radio really does for people.

You know, that job just come on the airwaves and keep us like this. But I'm glad you were on the other end of the phone when I called because people like you is what we need in the world right now, you and your producer. I just want to thank you for being there.

Shep is awesome, of course. Well, thank you, Mike. Appreciate you.

Thank you. Hey, Shep, people like us. They do.

They do. I think they love you. Oh, that's sweet.

Step above like. Oh, that's nice. Send money. 855-212-4CBS. Claudius hopefully sounds better. Hey, Claudius, you OK? Hey, I'm still here. What's up, man? Good morning.

Oh, now you sound better. What were you doing? Calling me with the windows down? No, I was driving, man. I'm a CBO driver. I drive regional. I'm from Florida. Thank you.

Oh, OK. You see what? Commercial driver's license? Yeah, I got a CD from Florida.

I'm a Florida CD holder. Thank you. What's in the back of that truck?

You got those in the back of the truck? I got chicken. You're like like dead chicken. Like dead chicken and like my box chicken.

Yeah, I'm going to the new distribution center in North Carolina. I published. Oh, OK. OK. We don't need we don't need to know all of it. Hey, I need that. There's a God. There's a God that listens.

He's a goat farmer in Florida. Maybe I can connect you guys, OK? All right. What's up, Claudius?

What's up? Hey, listen, my opinion on the confidence realignment, like you said, is all about money. That's number one. Number two, I feel like it's making the sports look bad, like, you know, just taking these schools out of the Pac-12, making them look silly next year in the 2020 to 2024 season is going to make the Pac-12 look like junk next year, you know? And I mean, yeah, it's adding to more conferences. Yeah.

But like you said, it comes down to the money situation, the TV deals. They look like junk now. They do it. They really do.

And me personally, I do not like it because it's not make it is breaking apart the rivalries. Right. Yeah. That's what Nick Saban said. Let me tell you something. If Cal and Stanford go over to the ACC, right, I'm going to look at it and I'm a laugh like, like what else can I do at that point?

I would just laugh. Yeah, it's just not looking good for the sport period, man. The way it's shaping up next season.

Well, it's still going to generate money, still going to generate interest. And let me tell you, after a few years, and this is, let me not say that because we're going to move into more and more years of, I don't know, of just realignment and consolidation, but they'll come a point in time where people will get over it. Claudius, thank you for calling from Florida, man. All right.

Later. No doubt about it. Hey, chef, we got to really find the goat farmer and connect him with Claudius. You think they could start a business together?

You never know. Crazy things have happened. The man is like, I said, what's in the back of your truck? He said, chickens. Now I have seen a lot. Chef, you ever been down the road and seen the live chickens?

I have not. Okay. Yeah. I've been down the road and you see feathers flying outside the cage. And I'm like, is this, is this cool for the chickens? Chickens just freewheeling in the back of a truck going 90 miles per hour.

And I'm like, you don't got vertigo? Like, this is not fair. That's not good for anybody. Yes, it's not.

People are doing it. Hey, Kenny from Baltimore, you got to go quick. Go ahead. How are you doing tonight?

I'm good. We up against the end of the show. What's your point? Uh, well, I mean, John Angeles fired everybody three years ago. He fired, um, Gary Thorne and Hunter.

These Jim Hunter, you know, these are, um, legends fired them all. Yeah. You know, and one of the things about John Angeles, you know, is, is that he's somebody that doesn't keep his word in there. He said that, um, Open up his books. Well, he said, it's not so much that they are. It's he said that he was going to sign a lease after.

Oh yeah. With captain brother, you know, when they sell this to you, didn't sign a lease, all serving and sign the lease and finally the lease is expiring three months. He's lied about that. And I don't know if you heard this as rumors, which you might try to move the Orioles to Tennessee next year. Oh, Kenny, I I'll be damned if, if, if that happens, I don't think that'll be the case.

That'll be a ridiculous travesty. And thank you for calling from Baltimore. Hey, listen, we know the Orioles crap run organization.

We know that that's it. Hey, shout out to everybody who tuned in tonight. I'll be back with you tomorrow. 10 PM Eastern seven Pacific. You can find me in the meantime on social media, everywhere at JR sport brief. Thank you to Shep.

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