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We've had a busy night. We talked about James Harden being absolutely nuts, thinking that he deserves a super max or feeling that he was lied to by Daryl Morey. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. Find it hard to believe that Daryl Morey would promise him a max contract. Probably just said, yeah we're going to get you paid next year.

Just play. And now James Harden is mad. We talked about Anthony Richardson being named the Indianapolis Colts starter already. For what?

What's the rush? Anthony Richardson was shocked himself when he got the gig. We'll play that for you in a little bit. Lionel Messi, another goal. He's a goal scorer machine.

He comes over to America and he's like, hey, this is, this is child's play. We showed love to Dwayne Wade for showing love to his dad at the Hall of Fame induction on Saturday. Michael Orr and, and I don't even know. Shep, what do I call them? I don't call them his family, right? Like what do they call? The twoies, you can call them them all night. That works.

Michael Orr versus the twoies? Yeah. You know what's funny? I can't call them his family though, right? Don't call them family. Oh no. Oh no. Not at this point.

I mean, unless it's the family you don't choose. His dad, I don't know if he still does it. Who? Well, sorry. The head of the, I think his name is Sean.

Tooie? Yeah. He's apparently, and I didn't even know this. I mean, I remember it from the movie, but like you only hear Pete Pranica, not him.

Like he's been a Grizzlies broadcaster for 20 plus years. Yeah. I heard that.

What was it? The son or is it the dad? Like which one?

No, it's definitely the dad. Oh wow. But I, but I've never seen any of his work. Oh bro. I couldn't tell you. Right. I know who the Grizzlies end game host is. I know who that is. Right.

But I don't know. I don't know enough about their broadcasters. Well, Brevin, I mean Brevin Knight does a really good job. Oh, that's Brevin is down there.

You didn't write. Right. As, as their analyst. And then Pete Pranica has been doing it forever. And then like, I think, I think like Eric Hasseltine is there. So I don't, so like, so the reason I bring that up is because like, it just seems so much. I'm getting messages from angry people in Memphis. No, I mean, there's just, there's just so, well, I hope it's not Penny Hardaway about, about a loss to Dusty May, but like we hear so many things about the Tooie family, but apparently he's just broadcast over 20 plus years.

I've never heard of him. Yeah. I just know that they made money off of what? The restaurant business, I think. Apparently.

And like, and like millions, like hundreds of millions, apparently. Well, me and you got to open up a Taco Bell. You ready? I'd be down as long as Sandra Bullock's playing a role in that too. You like Sandra Bullock? She's a great actress. I mean, she made the movie.

What are the movies? Was she in Speed? She was really, she was really good in Speed. That's all I know her from. So Miss Congeniality.

Nope. She's in, I don't, okay, so I don't remember the movie, but it's with, it's with the guy who's in the, Don Shirley. He's in that movie.

I think, okay, Viggo Mortensen. And it's in a movie where basically she's in it with Elizabeth Perkins. The, the, the, the name I'm drawing a blank on right now. You're speaking, Okay. Speaking Chinese to me right now.

Okay. So Steve Buscemi's in the movie. It's, she goes to rehab. It's, it's, it's phenomenal.

It's phenomenal. You know what I know how to say in Chinese? I don't. Ni hao. That's it.

That's not bad. That's, I don't know nothing else, bro. So you telling me everything that you just said?

Ni hao. I don't, I don't know nothing else. She's in, you know, she's in that women's remake of Ocean Eleven. I, I didn't sit through that, man. No.

Okay. Another big one is The Proposal with Ryan Reynolds, Betty White. I never heard of that. You've never heard, really? That was, that was a big one. Why would I know what that is?

I work and I watch sports and I hang out with my family. I don't, I don't know what the proposal is. Sorry. Fair, fair enough.

Two weeks notice is a big one. Don't know what that is. You can keep going, bro. You just, you just saying names. I don't know what this, this crap is. I call it crap.

I don't know what it is. She is one of the 10 greatest actresses of our lifetime. You do realize that, right? Nope. I just told you, I only know Sandra Bullock from Speed. Speed came out in what, 1994?

Around there. I mean, that was, that was really when we were introduced from an action film perspective of Keanu Reeves. Okay.

So, but I don't care who we introduced to. I just know, I only know Sandra Bullock from Speed and The Blind Side and those movies are about 20, what? Not even 15 years apart?

Yeah. Well, Blind Side is 2009 and then Speed, that was with Dennis Hopper. That, that was, that was 90. That was 94, I believe. 94, 95.

16, 17 years. And there's a Speed 2 that no one talks about. I kind of sort of remember that. It's like Home Alone 3 when they replaced Macaulay Culkin. Who cares? Exactly. It doesn't matter. Well, even though Sandra Bullock was in it, but Sandra Bullock was in what?

Speed 2. Shows you how bad it was. But you know, you know, it's funny, she doesn't get enough credit for this. Well, first of all, thoughts and prayers out to Sandra Bullock because I know she recently lost her partner. Oh, oh, that's right. Oh my God. He, he, he had ALS, right? Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty sure about that.

Yes, he did. Yeah. See, look, man, I know the news. Right, right.

But I don't sit down, I don't have to sit down and watch this stuff. I, I, I heard about that. Right.

I also heard, they're, they're people for whatever reason. What does she win, an Oscar for this movie, The Blind Side? Yeah, it was her first Academy Award ever and her only one. I mean, not for this. I saw there's a couple of idiots running around saying, oh my God, she should give it back because the story is a flimflam, man. Like, come on. Just like people picking up their phones for no reason. That's like me sitting here saying that she should give the award back and I'm like, hey, I don't know who Sandra Bullock is. It's just ridiculous. Well, listen, to me, JR, if we want to connect it to sports and you can even make a case in favor of Sandra Bullock more than this person, but the fact that Reggie, you know, Bush, who had nothing, it had nothing to do with his actual on the field performance when he was carrying the ball for eight yards of carry.

It has nothing to do with that. So he, so he cheated or, or, or some, or some booster cheated in getting him there. And then they want to give it back to him.

I think Reggie is going to be kumbaya about it. Like we got to stop taking these awards away if they're not doing something to enhance the performance itself that causes them to get that award. You're right.

You know what we need to do? And I've said this and I've had people get angry at me and I don't, I don't care. We need to stop giving away so many awards. Everybody is an award now. Well, you know, sports, the participation trophies, just stop.

Well, JR, you know, you know what, you know, what's interesting is I get from an athletic perspective, you know, physiology and biology, why there's different awards with men and women. Obviously women are not competing against men on the PGA tour. Well, I mean, Michelle, Michelle, we, okay. So, so there's like Annika Sorensen. I get that Michelle, we, but, but no, but they're, am I wrong?

Do you see? I'm saying that we are moving into a space now where we have everybody just playing sports together. And it's just, the waters are getting kind of muddy. They're getting kind of blurred here.

The lines, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You think I'm crossing a line by, by pointing out the fact that we're just right now from an athletic perspective, women do not compete with men on a professional level. Am I, am I off base there? They, they don't. No, I'm not saying that. No, I'm not saying that.

I'm saying that we've seen at different levels of sports. We we've seen and see, I gotta, I gotta, gotta watch my words. We all do these days. Yes. Hold on. I gotta, cause I'm being honest. I don't know all the damn terminologies of, of, of, you know, what people identify as or not, but we, we got people of all sexes and all identities playing sports and, and some of it isn't fair.

And so I don't know if it's, if we're still, if we're still continually or still going in that direction, but how the hell do we get here? Who are you talking about? Well, you're talking, well, you're talking about Cedro Villa. This is, this is, okay.

So this, this was, this was me, this was me connecting the dots and doing a full circle with this. So here's my point. You talked about awards being absolute over the top and I agree with you. What we need to start doing is start having a universal award. So Grammys, Emmys, Academy Awards, SAG Awards, Golden Globes, it shouldn't be best actress and best actor.

There's no advantage to being a male or female when it comes to the arts. It should just be best act, you know, best performance. And let's just leave it at that. I think it is too much separation when it comes to the arts. I'm sure it exists that way because at one point the women weren't acknowledged.

I think probably, probably, right? I mean, Katharine Hepburn was winning Academy Awards a long, for a long time ago, you know, as was Bette Davis. In a women's category?

Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Like these categories have been around for- Was there always a women's category? I'm pretty sure.

I'm pretty sure it's always been women and men because Katharine Hepburn was winning Oscars in the thirties. Okay. All right. Yeah.

I mean, different roles likely, you know? Sure. Sure.

It's more of a historic- Have you ever seen that movie, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, by the way? No. Okay.

Okay, JR. So there's two, I highly recommend you see if you ever get time. Good Will Hunting.

You told me that two weeks ago. Haven't seen it. I get it. When you ever get a little bit of downtime, I know that doesn't exist for you, but if you do- I saw the trailer for it on YouTube, and the people on YouTube in the comments were saying this was the worst trailer for a movie ever.

That's fine. Don't blame the trailer. Just give the movie a shot.

The second one is Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. That broke racial ground in this country. Sydney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn. It is, JR, it's one of the greatest movies ever made. I promise you this, I know you don't tear up at about a lot. I don't. You will tear up in the final scene. Yeah, I'm sure I got that on VHS in the garage somewhere, but yeah, no, I ain't watching that.

Probably have that from my grandfather's collection. No, thank you. You really should give it a shot, in all seriousness. Okay. Yeah, I hear you, but I'm just not a movie guy, man. I'm going to fall asleep. No, no, but this is more than a movie.

This is a cultural institution. It's that powerful. I believe you. Good. I'd rather read about it in the synopsis and just go to sleep in taking that. Yeah, I'd rather read about it at game seven than watching Celtics Lakers, of course.

We'll go by that logic. It's the difference between a game and a movie for me, bro. Not this kind of movie. To each his own. Yeah, you watch the games in a movie, I'll just stick to the sports, man.

Fair enough. I'll be a cool on that. 855-212-4CBS. Luigi. He's calling from Pennsylvania. What's up, Luigi? How you doing? How you doing?

Good, good. I'm just on my way home from work, guys. What do you do if you don't mind me asking? What do you do for work?

I work in MRI rooms and hospitals. Oh, that's cool, but it's not. Do those things still make too much noise? Yeah. Yeah, they do. Oh, my God.

Those things are loud as hell. But what's up, Luigi? Well, I heard you talking about football a little earlier, so I kind of changed my question for you.

I'm from Philly. I get crucified for it, just like I do for my name, because I'm actually a Cowboys fan. My question for you... What is Luigi in a Cowboys fan?

What am I missing here? No, I always got picked on because I was Mario Brothers. I'm Luigi.

Where do people go? Where's Mario at? Yeah, of course. I mean, for Halloween, did you ever wear a green hat and suspenders? Oh, of course. Of course, I had to. You're a good man, Luigi. Good sport. Good sport. What's up?

At least I'm the taller one of the two. Well, I mean, Super Mario was the one getting the ass, though. What did Luigi get? I don't know. I'm his brother, I guess.

He didn't get Princess Peach? Go ahead. Well, no, I just wanted to ask you, seeing the Cowboys fans with Dak Prescott, he's always so good on paper. Do you think the same... Do you see the Cowboys going anywhere, Avon?

I gotta be honest. I don't want to say I ignore the Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys ever just like win or go back to an NFC Championship and then go to a Super Bowl. Then I'll just go, well, damn it, they finally did it.

Because it's a sad, sad story. Every year to go, oh my God, the Dallas Cowboys are good. You expect them to be either average or good enough to make the playoffs, but never enough to be like legitimate contenders. Like if we rattle off Super Bowl contenders right now, we know we start with the Chiefs, right? And then you may throw the Bengals in there. If you want to think about the NFC, you probably put the Niners there before you even think about the Cowboys. So the benefit might be Tom Brady is gone. The benefit might be Aaron Rogers is gone. And so the NFC, they might have a little bit easier of a route, but it's the Cowboys, man.

It's like, wake me up when they actually do it and let's not talk about it. Cherry Jones was asked about their Super Bowl potential a few weeks ago. He's just like, oh, yeah, we're built for the Super Bowl and this and that. But man, get past the Eagles first, you know? Right, yeah.

It's hard to eat, but I agree with you. At least you're not one of the Cowboys fans who thinks that they just win everything, right? No, no. I've been a Cowboys fan since I was three when my parents let me pick out my first little starter jacket. Oh nice.

And they tried to turn me away from it. Well, you know the guy who owns starter is a former New York Giant, right? Well, no, I did not know that. But it's Carl Banks, the linebacker. Yes, Carl Banks.

I did not know that and I'm not a Giants fan at all. You got to find a Dallas Cowboy who has a clothing brand. Who's your favorite Cowboy? Was it Emmett or Michael or something?

Yeah, I liked Irving. Oh, okay. I ain't mad at you. Well, thank you Luigi. What part of PA are you calling from?

Philadelphia. Oh, you cool, Luigi. You call me anytime, okay? All right. Thanks, sir.

All right. Be safe out there. Shout out to my man, Luigi, who is a Dallas Cowboy fans and operates the MRI machine. Maybe he's got a spot ready for Joel MB.

We know that he gonna need one of those sooner than later. 855-2124 CBS. Steve, he's calling from Chicago. Much love to everybody listening on the score in Chicago. What's up, Steve?

Thank you very much. Yeah, that's why I'm listening to you on the score and I just want to say really, I can't appreciate you any more than I do because you turn me on to so many new topics with sports. A lot of us in Chicago don't care about any other sport unless it is a Chicago team. Even when you gave the jab at Mickelson for the 200 mil thing with the Saudi Arabia, really you touch on every topic, every sport. You give everybody a chance to say what they got to say and your legitimacy can be and your bonus feeders and your expertise.

Like you said, all you do is watch sports and hang with your family. It really shows and the legitimacy of your showing. I really look forward to listening to you every night when I got to work this freaking late and just thanks for your show, man. It's the best thing to listen to with all the crap that's actually out there. Oh, I know, Steve. There's a lot of crap out there. That's why I try not to deliver crap. Yeah, no, man.

You got bonus feeders, my man. Thank you so much. Yeah, be safe, okay, Steve? Copy that. No doubt about it. Shout out to Steve. Hey, much love to everybody in Chicago. My people on the Magnificent Mile holding it down on security.

I see you out there. Hey, by the way, AVP Beach Volleyball is coming to Chicago too. They're going to be on Lakeshore Drive. They don't got to bring sand out there either. They already got sand. Maybe they'll bring a little bit more, but they're going to have beach volleyball. I know they just brought it here to Atlanta, brought sand to Atlanta.

Ain't no beach here. 855-212-4CBS. Barry's calling from Boston. What's up, WEEI? What's up, Barry? Good. How are you, JR? I'm okay. Sorry, I put you on hold last night and I couldn't get you back. I was talking to myself and you and Chef were talking to me.

Wait, what? You were talking to yourself? No, last night I called. Yeah, I was talking to myself. I thought I was talking to JR and Chef. Oh, okay.

I didn't know what you meant by that, but go ahead. Okay, so I called to talk about Elliot and then Sandra Pollock came up. Sandra Pollock is by far my number one actress, okay?

And I'm going to get to Elliot in a minute, okay? But she made the movie. It might be Blindside.

It was a black and white movie and she represented, I don't know if she was a lawyer or what she did, but it was one of the best movies I've ever seen in my entire life. Like Chef, I am a movie guy and Sandra Pollock, if she could be my wife, for one day, I would die and go to heaven. Well, let's pour cold water on that one.

What else you got? Okay, so Zeke Elliott, I called last night to talk about him. As the biggest Dallas Cowboy fans, first of all, Luigi in Philadelphia, he lives in Philly and he's a Cowboys fan. There's something wrong with that equation, but anyway, I didn't call to talk about Luigi. So anyway, Zeke Elliott, the best thing in the world for the Patriots is he's coming here at somewhat of a discount.

I think it's awesome. He had 12 touchdowns last year. The entire Patriots team had 12 rushing touchdowns last year.

Zeke Elliott is going to kick ours in New England this year. And I bought a shirt today. Listen to this. This is the best spot, okay? There were two Elliot shirts at this place in New Hampshire and they were hanging from the ceiling and I asked, I said, hey, how can I buy those two shirts? The guy comes over with a carriage or a ladder and he goes up and he goes, here you go, 40 bucks each. They're a hundred dollar shirts at any mall in America, any Simon mall in America. Wait, so you got a bootleg shirt?

I got, yeah, I don't want to incriminate myself, but yeah, maybe I did. So anyway, I said, this is the Dallas Cowboys shirt. The Patriots are playing this weekend in Green Bay. I want to take my son to the game. I know it's only preseason and people don't play preseason. I don't care.

Preseason, it's still football. Did you have fun? You had fun? No, I said, I want to go.

They're playing. Oh, are you going to go? Are you going to go? I'm already looking into flights, brother. Oh, so when you go, call me and let me know how it goes, okay? Okay. Green Bay is the chief to go to. I can't wait to go.

It's on my bucket list. Let me know how it goes, Barry, all right? All right, brother. Thank you. No problem.

Thank you, Barry. It's the JR Sport Reshow here on CBS Sports Radio. I'm going to get some more of your calls on the other side of the break.

We mentioned something about the Bay Area. I got to show you love or I got to show love to Brock Purdy. He's healthy. He's ready to go. It's the JR Sport Reshow, CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. I'm at work doing security, man, and I listen to your show every night. Hey, man, I am new to your show, but I absolutely love it. It's awesome. This is the best sports talk radio show on the air for sure, bar none.

Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. It's the JR Sport Reshow on CBS Sports Radio. You know, I was asked, hey, if you had to label somebody a jackass, no matter of fact, if you had to, you know, just say or call someone the epitome of Jackassery, if Jackassery were in the dictionary, you know, who would it be? I'm like, it's Barry Bonds. It's the same Barry Bonds who admitted that he was straight stupid. He was a dumbass. And so if he's going to call himself a dumbass, then I can call him a jackass, right?

I mean, he said it, he admitted it, how he treated everybody. So Jackassery, if it was a word in the dictionary, if Jackassery was a, I don't know, what would it be? I don't know. What would it be? It wouldn't be a noun. It wouldn't be a person, a place where, it wouldn't be a verb either.

Hey, shut up. Help me out here. What article would it be? Jackassery. Noun, adjective. I mean, an adjective? Description. It's not a descriptive. What is it? Jackassery is like a, it's a classification.

Anyway, Barry Bonds' big old head would be there. I mean, you can call it, I'll tell you what it is. It's definitely, no, but it's definitely informal.

That's the accurate description for Jackassery. They're not saying that in the UK? No, no, absolutely not. What would they say? Foolish or rubbish.

Oh, there's a reason why we said no thank you to them and they stupid taxes, huh? Right? Well, you've seen Hamilton, but no, probably not. Why am I even asking? What's his name? Lin-Manuel Miranda? Yeah, Lin-Manuel.

Oh my, why am I blanking on this too? Lin-Manuel? Is it Manuel?

It's Lin-Manuel. He just, so guess what? He doesn't play it anymore, by the way. I mean, obviously he wrote it and he's like the executive producer. He started it first. He produced something that I, I did see something that he just produced. I don't know what it is. Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Miranda. Yes. Yeah, I saw something he produced. You want to hear something, you want to hear something cool?

I don't, I don't, I don't think so, but try. He's actually one of the nicest people in Hollywood. So my, this is a true story. My girlfriend ran into him at a CVS and they ended up talking and his wife wanted a massage. So my girlfriend owns a massage business. She's a massage therapist. And so she actually works with Lin-Manuel Miranda's wife. Oh, that's cool.

And she can't speak highly enough about their family, especially Lin-Manuel Miranda. You would never know. He's like, he's from Uptown, bro. Yeah.

You would never know he's like this ultra. No, he's from Uptown. Yeah. And he from the Heights? Oh, I don't know enough about him to tell you that. But I, what I do know is he's as down to earth as they come.

I'm not sure. He's from the Heights, man. He's from Uptown. Right. Uptown brother. Like me, Uptown, bro.

Come on now. That's right. He's Uptown guy. Anyway.

Yeah. He, he's the opposite of Barry Bonds. Who's a complete jerk. Well, but Bonds is, he's become a little more sympathetic. I feel like as a, as a figure, you know, baseball pushed him out. He could still, he could still hit for the next 10 years.

If you ask me, he pushed himself out there about being a jackass. Anyway, speaking of the Bay area, congratulations to Brock Purdy. Like anyone didn't know his elbow is fine after Hassan Reddick smashed it to pieces. And now Brock Purdy isn't necessarily on a pitch count. And now Trey Lance is going to have to, I guess he's going to have to suffer in the back with Sam Darnold. This is all Brock Purdy, Shanahan basically said the only reason or only way that Brock Purdy is not going to go out there and start for the 49ers is if he melts away.

I don't think that will be the case. And Trey Lance, eh, he was, he was chased to death against the Raiders the other day. And, and they were, they were playing in Vegas and all of the 49er fans showed up and a Raider smacked them 34 to 7.

Okay. Pre-season who cares, but it's still an excuse to go to Vegas and have a party. And so Trey Lance was sacked four times. He played the first half. He threw a touchdown.

A lot of other passes he threw were wobbly. He was running for his damn life and Trey Lance is the backup, but he ain't worrying following that, that game one pre-season matchup. Just taking advantage of every opportunity I get. One day at a time, like I said earlier, in training camp, just trying to stay present focused one day at a time and trust that, you know, whatever's meant to happen will happen.

Oh, whatever. He's going to have to watch from the bench folks. Maybe he can give Anthony Richardson some tips because Anthony Richardson is going to actually start the games on the field.

I think he should start on the bench. Watch a couple of games, watch a game or two. Wait for Gardner Minshew to stink or be destroyed to shreds.

But hey, what do I know? I'm not the dude out there running the team. 8-5-5-2-1-2 for CBS. It's 8-5-5-2-1-2 for CBS.

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You can learn more at NavyFederal.org. Hey, this person, he's an agent. It's Troy Payne, the agent for James Harden. Why is he the Defensive Player of the Week? Because he is putting up a defense of James Harden that is unfathomable. Listen to what Troy Payne had to say about James Harden. Is this a defense?

Is this bigging him up? I don't know what it is. I know what it's called, though.

It's a lie. Tune in. James has a crazy hunger in him right now.

If he got an MVP this season, I wouldn't be surprised. That's what kind of hunger he got in him right now, just from the disrespect, you know, the free agency stuff, which I don't really want to get into. But 7 a.m., two-hour, three-hour practice, workout, come back, you know, the nutrition is, you know, just even from the discipline, from dieting. I just went to his house now. You know, we did cardio for an hour.

We got a photo shoot tomorrow. You know, we're going to get up in the morning and work out at 7 to 10, and then, you know, photo shoot from 11 to 2, and then he won't, you know, he's going to play ball tomorrow at 5. His discipline right now is impeccable. I'm happy that he's starting now. You know, we got a, you know, we got a whole month of August, whole month of September to get this thing going and get him in the best shape of his career.

I think we can get there this summer, and I expect him to have a big season this year. That's a hell of a, hell of a false defense if I've ever heard one. That was James Harden's agent on the Hidden Gems podcast. Where's the part about James Harden going to the club?

Like, where's that part? I need to hear that. Anyway, 855-212-4CBS. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. We got Brian from Georgia. Hey, Brian, you're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up?

How are you, Jay? Our first-time caller actually was at the Braves-Yankees game today, and this Yankees team must be one of the worst baseball teams ever. Oh, well, come on.

Come on. What, one of the worst baseball teams? I'm just saying, five to zero today? I mean, you know, I mean, what's going on? You know, I'm a diehard Red Sox fan, but what is going on with this team? Well, the Yankees offense sucks. I mean, the, the pitching sucks.

There's no other way to put it, man. I mean, Luis Severino, he didn't give up eight runs today. He only gave up three, but Yankees, who's the best guy? It's Aaron Judge and everybody else sucks, man. It's, I'm sorry to be so, you know, lack of analysis, but they stink.

Yeah, they're, they're absolutely horrible. I mean, Cashman is, I mean, you know, I, like I said, I was, I was at the game and I was talking to Yankee fans and, I mean, I'm a diehard Red Sox fan. Diehard, you know, I was there when the Sox came back three to zero, uh, when they, when they won. So, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was, you know, so, I mean, just seeing how bad this Yankees team has fallen, like, I mean, Brian Cashman, you know, he's just like, I saw a couple of Yankee fans today.

They're like, Steinbrenner would roll over in his grave right now. Well, it's not, it's, oh, well, let me, well, let me answer you. Sure. It's not Brian Cashman.

Okay. It's Steinbrenner's son. He's the one who's decided to cut payroll and people will look at Brian Cashman because he's the one spending the money.

People will look at Aaron Boone. He's the one who has to talk every day and at the, is there, is there a blame to share and spread across with everyone? The answer is yes, but it comes down to the dude at the top. They don't spend like they used to. That's just these facts. They don't want to go into the tax. They've, they've said that. And so the Yankees have passed, they would go out there and spend. Right now they're spending, they give, they gave judges money. They gave Gary Cole his money. But when they were close to the world series a few years ago, man, they didn't, they didn't offer Bryce Harper a deal. They didn't offer Manny Machado a you gotta take this deal.

So now they're paying for it. You saw, who the hell did they have out there that was amazing today? Nobody. I mean, judges are not even looking that great. I mean, he's just, he's coming off an injury. Stan, it's been a bust. I mean, Rizzo's got a concussion. I mean. So they didn't have it.

DJ LeMay, he was playing below. Yeah. Look, and then there's, they, they even had dudes that they gave contracts to that. I mean, they got a guy right now who's, who checked himself in the rehab.

Well, they didn't, well, Herman, they kind of pushed him in that direction. They paid Aaron Hicks to, to not be on the team. So the Yankees suck, Brian.

They'll be okay when they spend some money again. Okay. No, that's true. Do yourself a favor. Do yourself a favor. Ignore the Yankee fans who just want to fire everybody.

It starts with the owner. Okay. Yeah. Well, I'm, I'm a, I'm a diehard Red Sox fan. I was at the game today. I was just like, wow.

I was with one of my best friends, but I was like five zero, like not even close. Like, do you forget the stupid Yankees? Forget the stupid Yankees. Yeah. You, you like Truist Park. Did you like it? I do. I mean, I, I go there a lot. I've been there four times, you know, what do you do before you go in? Do you go to one of the bars or something?

I own a bartending business. So yeah, I was hanging out with one of my, one of my best friends from college, went to UTC and this guy, Henry Dickerson, our coach, I was going to walk on a UTC. He passed away.

Okay. So I got to see one of my, one of my best friends. I'm sorry to hear that. Where did you go? Did you go to like a, which, which bar restaurant?

Where'd you go? Oh, I go to, um, social and, uh, yeah, punch bowl social. We went to, uh, you know, you know, you know, so yeah, I mean, I, I, I grew up here, but I mean, I lived in Boston for seven years and they got a podcast and, you know, so, you know, I, I, I'm actually your first time caller, so Well listen, call me back anytime. Okay. I will. Good talking to you, Jay. Okay. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate you. Okay. Sorry about that.

Bring alcohol next time. 855-212-4CBS. David Escola from Nova Scotia. What's up, David? What's up, Jay?

Uh, I'm just calling. I want to know, do you have a favorite movie? Do I have a favorite movie? Yeah.

Like, you know, I thought Rudy was pretty good or football. Yeah. Nope. Okay. Uh, let's see. Favorite movie. I don't know.

Uh, predator Terminator alien. Oh, there you go. All right. Now we're talking.

I was just wondering, man. I got a joke for you. Yeah. What's you got a joke for me?

Yeah. Do you think I'm a laugh? I don't know. Probably not. Was that the joke? I'm pretty sure what you just said is funnier than whatever else you're going to tell me. Go ahead. That's all I got to say that I don't know. Oh, you don't really have a joke.

Uh, you got a joke? And knock, knock. Who's that?

Not you. 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CVS. Nick is calling from Boston. What's up, Nick?

What is going on? Jr. How are you, man? I'm good. What's up? Yeah.

So a couple of things, right? So I just, I listened to a couple of Boston guys call. Uh, first of all, yeah, the Yankees suck. They've always sucked.

They always will suck. Um, and we'll leave that where it is. Not necessarily the, uh, the most partial of, uh, of comments. No, no, and that's okay. But let, let me just tell you what else. The Red Sox suck too, because Haim Bloom had an opportunity to do something at the deadline, did absolutely nothing. So we suck too. So I'm a realist when it comes to Boston sports.

Um, good. I'm really calling about Barry a little earlier talking about Ezekiel Elliott being this great pickup. Like, look, dude had 12 touchdowns last year, a hundred percent that happened behind that amazing offensive line down in Dallas. I don't know what people think we got going on up here in new England, but it sure as hell ain't that right. It's it's a diminishing return.

Like you've got a guy for, for cheap money, but Dalvin cook was on the market and said, he's with the jets. We are in last place in the AFC East because we have an ownership that won't press bill Belichick to do anything meaningful with his 27th in spending salary gap. Like it ain't getting better.

It's getting worse. And, and anyone who thinks that this is a good move, fine. You can think that, but when you see about, I think Vegas has it as four and a half over under on touchdowns for Ezekiel Elliott, when you see him maybe punch in three this year on two yards per carry, I think that's going to tell the tale.

I don't, I don't know if it'll be that bad. I also know that Ezekiel Elliott is, he's going to make an impact on the games, but in the overall win and loss record, win loss record, he ain't, he ain't moving a needle for the Patriots. They got, they have larger problems as you just mentioned. Yeah, man. I mean, we, we, we have, we have a lot more problems than, than running back wide receiver. I mean, obviously our offensive line is suspect too, so. The biggest problem happens to be, I know we just briefly talked about the Yankees and, and Staun Brunner and Cashman.

You might want to look at the owner and the coach and how they feel about each other right now. So yeah, it's a rough situation. I do have one joke for you too, though. You got to go ahead quickly. Bobby from Baltimore, go ahead quickly. Yeah, a long time. I haven't talked to you in a while, but how are you doing? I'm good. You got to go ahead before the show gets cut off. All right.

So Jack Astory will be an adverb. Oh, okay. Well, well thank you. Go ahead. Explain for us. I'd like to switch gears, Lamar Jackson.

No, no, don't switch gears. Explain why it's an adverb. It's an adjective and a verb at the same time. So use it in the sentence as an adjective to describe, to describe who or what.

Barry Bonds and his Jack Astory are stupid. It's his, that makes it possessive. Yeah, you're not, you're not incorrect. I know I'm not. That's why I questioned you.

Cause I, what do you got? Who? Say again? What happened? Uh oh.

Shep, what happened? I think he called Bobby red handed. He's trying to make something up.

You call them on it. Hey, listen, I'm no English man. Hey, you know what? No, I'd studied English in school. I don't remember all of it, but I know a little something.

I think, watch all the emails and messages I get about adverbs. I don't care. I'll be back. No, Shep will be here tomorrow. I'll be in for Maggie and Pearl off.

Amy Lawrence is coming up next. Hey Shep, have a good time tomorrow. Okay. Thank you, sir.

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