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And we have had a busy Wednesday, a busy Wednesday night, a busy Wednesday evening. First of all, on the baseball side, the Dodgers eliminated from the postseason, swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks finished them off at home. The final score, four to two.
Arizona sweeps them three to nothing. Mookie Betts, Freddy Freeman, they go a combined one of 22 in this three game sweep. Lance Lynn goes out and he gives up four count of four home runs in the third inning. And that's all the Diamondbacks needed to hold on to go ahead and win.
Meanwhile, earlier on tonight, we also saw another elimination. The Houston Astros got the Minnesota Twins the hell up one out of the postseason. They finished them off in Minneapolis. The Astros win three to two. The Houston Astros, they win the series three to one. They go to their seventh consecutive American League championship series. Yeah. And now.
Who do they wait for? The Astros, the Twins, the Astros, they beat the Twins. The Astros are going to take on the Rangers.
Excuse me. The only thing we got to wait on right now is the other series, the Phillies and the Braves. The Phillies smashed the Braves ten to two. The Phillies now lead their series two to one. Bryce Harper Castellanos, they both hit two home runs tonight and the Phillies have an opportunity to eliminate the Braves tomorrow. And the Phillies, this still sounds crazy. The Phillies, if they win tomorrow, they move ahead to take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. I told you there were four home runs in the third by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Let's take a listen to the last of them. Home run number four off of Lance Linn. Gabriel Moreno.
He comes through with a solo blast. This is courtesy of the Diamondbacks radio network. Counts two and two on Moreno on the pitch from Linn. And a shot to left center field.
Back she goes. Are you kidding me? Gabby Moreno hits it out anyway and it's four nothing Diamondbacks. And Lance Linn is just kind of staring out at center field. The man gave up 44 home runs this year. He should be used to it. He should already pitch.
Probably looking behind him to see which direction that the ball is going to fly in. He stunk for the Sox. He stunk for the Dodgers. And the Dodgers, man, their offense betrayed them. The pitching started to betray them throughout the course of the year.
Injuries, domestic violence, age, just all of it. And then the offense went blank at the worst possible time. I told you, Freddy Freeman, Mookie Betts, a combined one of 22. They just spoke to the media in the locker room, surrounded by media, looking miserable.
Freddy Freeman. He sounds miserable. Listen. It's hard to find words right now. I mean, yeah, it's hard to put into words. It's just frustrating.
And me and a lot of us didn't play the way we wanted to. They just came out swinging all three games and they beat us. The offense especially, how does it disappear in October like that? I don't know. It just did. Yeah, come on.
I mean, reporters asking these questions. I don't know. We tried. It just didn't happen. I don't know. We sucked.
What is he supposed to say? That's not a fair question, though. One for 22? No, there's no answer. No. How does that happen? It's baseball. It's a game of failure. They pitched better. Like, what is he supposed to say?
I stuffed my toe? It's not a fair question. How does that happen? Have you played baseball? You mean how does it happen? You and I have watched baseball for a long time in any of their postseason runs.
Now, granted, one of them had help, but did Manny and Big Poppy ever go one for 22? Some guys have it in the postseason. Some guys don't. They clearly don't have it.
That's not the... The question is an empty question. You're asking a guy who just lost. How did y'all not hit the ball? Like, what is he supposed to say?
You can be honest. You can say we were pressing. We weren't reading the slider well enough. We weren't reading the cutter well enough. We weren't manufacturing at bats well enough.
You know, Freddie Freeman makes enough money. The guy left Atlanta high and dry. Shouldn't have left in the first place. He was tearing up. He was genuine then. Be genuine now.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. He didn't leave Atlanta high and dry. Well, his agent didn't help. His agent didn't help. His agent didn't help.
They overshot. He didn't leave Atlanta high and dry. Alex Anthopoulos had a great backup plan in Matt Olson. And last I checked, this guy's hitting 50-plus home runs. So he didn't leave him high and dry.
This is still a team that had success. Now, to the first thing you said about it's a fair question. This is why, and his answer was appropriate. When you ask a question like that, it's like, well, why didn't y'all get it done? It makes it sound like, oh my God, well, why didn't I get a hit every time? It's like I'm not trying. And it's not asking about a particular pitch.
Well, I didn't see the slider. It's baseball. You're going to go through highs and lows. It doesn't even matter if it's the postseason, man. It happens in the regular season.
There's ups, there's downs. It's not like it's football where there's more strategy per game that applies. And it's less about touch and feel or what the defense is giving you. That's a screwed up question for a baseball player. JR, I know you're multitasking, hosting a national show, and I know you do the best you can, but did you see that last at bat by Freeman when Kenton Wong got on in the eighth? No, I didn't see that at bat.
I saw the final one. Right. He was swinging at balls that were two feet above the strike zone. He was pressing.
And you can be honest about that. If you are Freddie Freeman and you're the Hall of Famer that he is, you can be honest and either say the moment was too big for you or you were trying to force the issue because, like you said, the bats have been next to nothing in this postseason. Because it's the bats that didn't do the job in the latter stages of this game, not pitching for the Dodgers. Well, that's called being a crap teammate.
That's it. He asked him specifically about the team. He didn't ask him about Freddie. He asked him, hey, why did y'all stink?
The last thing that Freddie Freeman is going to do is, A, answer specifically about himself when he wasn't asked, and then, B, throw the team under the bus. The offense especially, how does it disappear in October like that? I don't know.
It just did. Yeah, he asked about the team, the offense in general. Why is he going to throw his teammates under the bus?
It's already frustrating. That is a little bit too, that's going outside the locker room, man. I don't think that's, you see, to stand in those locker rooms and ask those type of questions, I get it. Everybody wants their quote. They want their message.
They want to write what they can. There's nothing that Freddie Freeman is going to say in that moment for Freddie Freeman to go, yeah, yeah, I was pressing. Okay, yeah, sure, that's nice, but that ain't going to do himself personally any favors. If he goes, oh, well, the whole team was pressing, that's not going to do him any favors in the clubhouse. The simple thing you can say is, hey, we sucked, and guess what? We know that. My point is, there's not going to be a constructive response.
Like, if you're going to ask a question, and we talk about this, we have. You talk to Bill Belichick, he's a jerk. He's a jerk by trade. He doesn't want to answer anything.
He wants to do this and get it over with, be entertaining, and leave. But if you ask him about a punter, if you ask him about a question with some substance, then it matters. I personally have always taken the approach, and this is why I don't do post-game press conferences. This is why I don't want to go into locker rooms. This is why I don't want to talk to players before or after games. Because you're not going to get anything.
And so my point isn't so much about, hey, why does the offense stink? You know, he could have said this or that. You ain't going to get nothing.
And so if you're going to ask a question, ask a question that's going to net a result. That's it. Mookie Betts was also asked, what the hell happened? Of course, he wasn't happy either.
I mean, it's obviously super frustrating. There is no real words for it. They played better. We didn't do much.
I can't speak for all of us. But I know for sure I did absolutely nothing to help us win. There's no real words for it. Yeah, you suck.
You suck. That's just what it boils down to. He was asked, Mookie Betts, it's like, hey, are y'all doing something wrong? I mean, one postseason victory between this year and last year. This is what Mookie said.
No. Those guys, they get paid a lot of money to play baseball too. They're not just rolling over and saying you guys can win.
It doesn't matter. When you're getting the postseason, man, you got to play well. And we have not. You can point to a million different things. But at the end of the day, you got to play well. Yeah, well, I'd point to the pitching. The pitching was crap.
I mean, they got to roll out. I don't want to call it the corpse of Lance Lynn's career, but that's where he is at this stage. They had to roll him out there. He's throwing bad in practice. Four home runs here, four home runs, four home runs, one home run, 44 on the year.
His ERA had to be approaching six for the regular season. And this is who the Dodgers got to throw out there because they got one pitcher who's, you know, putting hands on his partner. You got another one who's old and falling apart. You got another one, a couple of them who are having Tommy John surgery. And then the bats just completely fell asleep. Hey, congratulations to those Diamondbacks. Also, congratulations to the Astros. Justin Verlander just got back to the team. And it's just like, hey, our leader, our fearless leader is back. He was popping more champagne and he even kind of did the toast after they eliminated the twins. Justin Verlander.
He was caught on FS1. Just bigging up the team. Take a listen to this. Come on. This is one of those seasons, you know, nothing went our fucking way early. We battled through injuries. We fucking grinded. I wasn't even fucking here.
I was happy to be back. The seventh fucking time. Seventh fucking time. All right. Don't look that don't take that for granted on seven. Every Poppy's motherfucker. We apologize for the language.
Just a little excited after going on the LCS. You know, that's it, man. It's sediment. Hey, we're in cable, Kevin. That does help.
It does help. I pay the fine, Kevin. That's very generous of you.
Big Poppy, you pay everybody's fine, I guess. And Justin Verlander. Maybe he has reason to, not to cuss, but maybe he has a reason to be happy. He was pitching for the Mets early this year. And damn it, he wasn't even healthy. It must be nice just to roll out of bed and have the Mets and the Astros pay your salary. And then you just show up and win another World Series? Potentially?
Possibly. Somebody who did not curse up a storm, because it's not his nature, is Dusty Baker. He was also excited about this victory and going back to another American League championship series. This is Dusty Baker, courtesy of the Astros Radio Network. He has something to say to Busta Oni.
Take a listen to this. What is it about this team every year that comes out consistently gets the job done when it matters most? Well, hey, man, they believe in each other. And the thing about it is, I read an article by Busta Oni that said the 77 and 78 Yankees or whatever it was, no, later than that, they had lost 14 out of 16 games.
And they backed in and then they won like the next 11 out of 16 or whatever it was. Dusty, I can't tell you how bad you butchered that. I can't tell you how bad you crossed that. I don't care. You cannot retain anything you read.
You sound like my mother. Oh, that was funny. Anyway, congratulations to Dusty Baker. Another chance and an opportunity to go to another World Series.
It took him a year, a day, decades to go ahead and pick up that first one last year. And let's see if he can go ahead and do it again. The Astros are going to take on the Rangers. This is going to be the first time that we got two teams from the same state in a league championship series. And this still sounds nuts to say the Arizona Diamondbacks are the team that has already advanced to the National League Championship Series. And they await either the Phillies or the Braves, which is nuts.
The Phillies have an opportunity to eliminate the Braves on Thursday evening. Let's see if they go ahead and get the job done. 855-2124 CBS. That's 855-2124 CBS. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to get some more of your calls. I know we got people here about the top six list.
That's what we did as well. Talked about NFL head coaches on a hot seat. I said Bill Belichick is number one. Maybe if Bill Belichick gets the boot, maybe at the end of the season, I don't know, maybe he can manage. Does he like baseball? Does Belichick like baseball? He's going to have to because New England is going to give him the boot in about a few weeks from now. And no other team is going to want to pick up his grumpy old ass. Damn, a few weeks from now? You think Belichick could get fired in the middle of the year?
Well, okay, so I wasn't specifically referencing week 10 or week 11. But he's going to get the boot at the end of the season. And I guarantee you there's no other 31 NFL franchises that want to take a chance on his crusty, pathetic, miserable, narcissistic ass.
Whoa! Well, he's been dishing it for 20 plus years as New England Patriots head coach. He doesn't give anybody an inch unless you're a member of the Patriots' former anniversary team. He's been a you-know-what for 20 plus years. And he's been treating us like crap. So you know what? He's been dishing it.
He can take it a little bit. Wow. Have you ever met him? You spoke to him? I will say this.
I have not. But I don't like how he treats people. But I will say this, JR.
He is very respectful to people that have served our country in the military and the armed forces. So he does deserve some props for that. Well, you found a silver lining, huh? I tried to. Because God knows there needs to be a silver lining for the Patriots right now. Because I can't think of any. Oh, no, they can't score by accident. What a shame, man.
You can't score by accident. That's a good one. I didn't think that was funny. By the way, you're a little hard on Dusty Baker. He's 75 years old, man. Anything that comes out of his mouth is funny these days. Dusty Baker what?
What happened? Well, you were kind of critical about Dusty Baker. See, I thought it was funny. You sound like my mother and you didn't like that line. I thought it was really funny. Oh, I didn't say anything about it.
Okay, good. Because everyone likes Johnny B. Johnny who? Well, Dusty Johnny B. You know that's his real name, right? No, I don't know Dusty Baker's real name. Who the hell calls him Johnny B? Yeah, Dusty's nickname. JR, you knew that. No, I'm not running around looking up his real name.
What do I care? JR, you're a historian of every single sport. You know Dusty Baker. You know he was basically like an Ole Miss to the Hall of Fame player, for God's sakes. I will assume the man's name is not Dusty.
I mean, that much. I could have sworn you knew it was Johnny B. No.
Really? No, Johnny Baker? I don't know if it's Johnny Baker. I know it's Johnny B. Johnny B?
So what does the B stand for? Listen, I don't know everything, but I know it's Johnny B. You're telling me, Dusty Baker.
So what are you telling me? You don't even know. Well, I just know it's Johnny B. I know that. I know that.
So how the hell is Dusty not his first name, obviously. But then, I mean, what is B? I don't know. You know what's also crazy? How we continue to do the national anthem.
Sorry, I won't go down the strobe. Yeah, his name is Johnny Baker. Yeah, Johnny B. Baker Jr. Well, I was stalling, because I thought you were going to be quick enough to look it up, because God knows I'm talking on a mic, and the computer's too far away.
Johnny B. Dusty Baker. Yeah, and listen, man, he lets Belichick look young. That's how old Dusty Baker is. You know who looks old?
Alex Rodriguez. Well, he's not going bald, so I give him that. Have you seen him on the screen? Yeah, his skin is not looking good these days. See, Jeter's skin looks really good, but he is premature balding.
Jeter premature? Jeter's been bald for like a decade now. I thought that was more like the Michael Jordan cut. He didn't like his hair long. He never had long hair. Okay, I wish you think Kobe Bryant could have grown hair, but he just didn't want to do it. Kobe Bryant started with Afro, and he just shaved it. Exactly. I never thought he went bald.
It's probably because he was on the way, man. Afro's thin out in the back, depending on what's going on, yeah. Gotcha. I guess you got the good gene, then. Yeah, well, can you grow an Afro? You do have an Afro, kind of, don't you? Yeah, I mean, it's not as cool as yours, but I can definitely grow one. Well, why don't you?
What's the holdup? Ooh, that's a long story, JR. That you won't grow your hair out? Yeah, that's a long, long story.
I don't think anyone's going to be entertained by that. Just grow it out. Did you do it before? Ever in high school or something? Um, okay. In my personal opinion, there are certain white people that can pull that off. I am not one of them. Oh, so you never tried?
No, I have tried, and I've been mocked for it. Oh, for having an Afro? Yeah, because it ends up getting curly, so it doesn't really do Afros justice.
Ah, that's fine. Just do what you want. It's 2023. Grow an Afro, okay? Maybe.
Yeah, just think about it. It's the JR Sportbree Show here on CBS Sports Radio. It's also Variety Hour. We got you covered on all the bases. When we come back, we'll talk more about some of these NFL head coaches who happen to be on the hot seat. We'll talk more baseball.
Don't move. It's CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sportbrief on CBS Sports Radio. I want to commend you on what you're doing going around college to college. My friend's daughter saw you at Bryant, I think it was. You got her really thinking, and I think she's going to go into your field. I think it's just a wonderful thing you're doing. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS.
Oh, thanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love going to talk in schools and colleges. I love it. Yeah, tell the students, take my job. Come take it. Come do this.
855-212-4CBS. It's the JR Sportbree Show, CBS Sports Radio. We've talked about a lot. Phillies one win away from the National League Championship Series against the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks eliminating the Dodgers tonight. We got the American League Championship Series.
It is all set up. All Texas. We have the Houston Astros versus the Texas Rangers. And then we talked some football as well. Coaches on the hot seat. Let's get to more of your calls. There's a lot of people been waiting patiently on CBS Sports Radio. Let's talk to, let's go to Georgia and talk to a gentleman, I assume, by the name of Black. You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Black? What's up, JR?
What it is. Hey, man, your first pick, man, I love it. I was going to choose that, but you chose it first. You're right. Matt Jones, man, he went from being, I mean, his rookie season, man. He was up there with the best of them.
Now he look like trash. Anyway, I love your pick. I just want that one other thing I want to say. How about doing a show you'd like to do? Let us listen to commentators, man. Do a show on who's your best commentator, your top six commentator. I think I did do a top six. I think we've done that in the past. Yeah, we definitely have. I think Vince Scully was JR's number one.
Yeah, he absolutely was. Oh, man, I like Marvin Albert as my all-time favorite, and now I like Joe Buck and Kevin Harlan. That's all I got to say.
What is your favorite Kevin Harlan saying? You have one? Oh, man. No? Okay. No, not right now, man. So many of them, man. I tell you. All right. There was a point in time.
Well, there was a point in time, Kevin Harlan, I think it was Vince Carter. He's like, no regard for human life. He's brought the cat. He's walking to the three.
He's at the two. And the cat is in the CDW red zone. CDW, people who get it now, a policeman, a state trooper has come on the field, and the cat runs into the end zone. That is a touchdown.
Get that cat out of here. Hey, Black, you like Kevin Harlan for the NFL or the NBA? NBA. Yeah, I liked it.
No regard for human life. I think it was Vince Carter. I think. But I would like to see Joe Buck do some NBA or some football.
No, thanks. Joe Buck do football? He does it already.
I haven't seen him do football, man. Wait a minute. Hold on a second. Hold on. Shep, am I on another planet?
Maybe I'm confused. About what? Joe Buck is sitting there with Troy Aikman on Monday Night Football.
We know this. Wait a second. Hey, Black, where you been?
I've been at work at night, man. I don't get a chance to watch football. But Joe Buck, before he did before he did Monday Night Football, he did Fox with Troy Aikman.
For two decades. Oh, OK. Well, my bad. My bad. I just know him from baseball.
You had me confused. I'm like, wait a minute. Is there another Joe Buck? Black, you want to hear the Kevin Harlan J.I. reference? Yeah.
Hoji will defend. Oh! LeBron James with no regard for human life. So it was LeBron. It wasn't Vince Carter.
It was LeBron. OK, man. Well, y'all have a good night, man.
I still want to see Joe Buck do some basketball. Oh, no, thanks. All right, Black, you take care, OK?
All right. Yeah, he was bad enough at golf, J.I. Yeah, I don't want to hear that.
Yeah, no one does. Yeah, by the way, yes, I did my top six favorite announcers back on May 11th of 2022. And Vince Scully was number one. So there you go. Listen, people, I got I got notes on every show that I ever did. I got it all covered.
855-212-4CBS. We got Kevin from Louisville. What's up, Kevin? What's up, my brother? How are you? I'm good, J.I. I have a couple of cocktails listening to you. Cocktails with an S? How many have you had? I've had about six or eight.
No, you haven't. Yeah. The coach that needs to go is that Notre Dame coach that Louisville spanked last week. How about that spanking? Well, you want to you want to fire a college coach for talking about?
No, he ain't going to fire, but Jeff Brown is for your job. Actually, I want to talk about my 49ers. What about them? They're winning. They're beating everybody.
What is there to say? We're destroying everybody. I think we're going to be in the NFL championship game this year.
You know that. I think they'll be in the Super Bowl. And we're going to play Patty Mahomes. We got to beat Patty Mahomes.
That's who we got to beat. All right, Kevin. Well, let's see what happens. OK, have another cocktail for me and then take a nap. I love you, J.R. You know how you smoked that meat, do that thing, man.
You're out, bro. Thank you, Kevin. I love you, man.
OK, I love you, too. Whoa. Hey, Marco Billetti, did you hear his instructions? Did you hear Marco? Smoke the what now? He's going to smoke that meat. He's making brisket.
Come on. He makes brisket, Kevin, from Louisville. He makes brisket. I love brisket.
Smoke that meat. 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. First off, I just want to say mad respect for your show. You always got a lot of good points. I agree with a lot of things you say. I just want to say I love your show.
Me and my grandpa listen to it every night. I needed a J.R. fix tonight and I'm glad you're on. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. It's the J.R.
Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. What a busy Wednesday. What a busy Wednesday night. I can't wait for tomorrow. I mean, we'll have an opportunity to, I don't know, talk about two things.
One a little bit more positive than the other. On the Major League Baseball side, we will know whether or not the Atlanta Braves are still alive and whether or not they have forced a Game 5 or the Phillies will be going to take on Arizona in the National League Championship Series. Now, here's the bad news for Thursday. On Thursday Night Football, we got the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Denver Broncos. Now, Travis Kelce has been dealing with an ankle issue.
If he's not out there and maybe even if he's at half strength or whatever the case might be, this could be ugly. This is going to be an interesting game. Can the Broncos get any worse? You know, what are the Chiefs going to do?
I don't know. We're going to talk about it. We'll be here live to discuss it all. Let's get to more of your calls before I'm forced to roll out.
Amy Lawrence is going to come through at the top of the hour. If you want to talk to me, it's simple. 855-212-4CBS.
It's 855-212-4CBS. Andy is here from Baltimore. You're on CBS Sports Radio, Andy. You wanted to talk to me about the, I guess, the Orioles, right? Well, yeah, I'm an Orioles fan, but I call because you were asking about coaches on the hot seat. I believe I called your show about two years ago and talked about how Bill Belichick was not a good coach. And I don't know for sure it was you, but whoever the late night host was, you know, tried to ring me a new one. Tell me I didn't know what I was talking about.
Bill Belichick, he never won anything without Tom Brady. Hold on, Andy. Andy, Andy, what's all that going on in the background? Oh, I'm a Lyft driver. I got a passenger. But anyway, the other guy... Oh, my God. I'm not at the, I mean, I know it sounds like I'm hanging out at the bar. I know I try to treat the show like we are at the bar or in the Uber.
But I can't have five people in the background, and I know it's not five, but it feels like it. Andy, come on. Yeah, Bill, and by the way, Bill Belichick, Bill Belichick. Yeah, Bill Belichick is a bad coach. Yeah, sure. Okay. He's nothing without Tom Brady.
Absolutely nothing. He's the worst ever. 855-212-4CBS. Tommy's calling from New Orleans. What's up, Tommy?
JR, I hope we're all doing better than Patty in San Francisco. That dude did not stutter. That was incredible.
And then Andy, that was your first tandem phone call, JR. Here we go. Top six list. I'm going to remove the top two because they're gone.
Sean and Bill are gone. Riviera, six. Rivera, six. McDaniel, five. Staley, four. McCarthy, three. Kevin O'Connell, two.
Eberfluss, one. And I will put Dennis Allen on honorable mention down there. Okay. Well, thank you, Tommy. Appreciate you for calling from New Orleans. Bye, Bill.
No doubt. 855-212-4CBS. Frank is here from Iowa. What's up, Frank?
Yes. How's it going, JR? It's going very well.
What's on your mind? You know, I think if the Twins would have had a healthy Byron Buxton, they would have took that game, the fifth game, and they probably could have won it in Houston if they would have had a healthy Byron Buxton. Frank, when has this man ever been healthy? Ever? I mean, from the day he got called up, when has he ever been healthy?
He's never been healthy, or he hasn't been healthy that much because he's always, outside of Nick Gordon, he's been the only two superstars, and Alex, not Alex Kurloff, but Carlos Correa, they're the only ones that, you know, does pretty well on the field. I'm talking about that. And they would have had a better pick, and also a better picking staff. They had a better picking, starting picking rotation, that would have been a different story as well. Well, Frank, I mean, I could say that about every team, right?
I mean, if would have, could have, should have. Like, that's what else is new. It's just, it's just a little funny to me to go, hey, you know, Byron Buxton was healthy. Like, that man ain't been healthy since he got called up. Like, he is, he is a walking injury. He ain't never healthy. Ever.
Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. I kind of hate, I kind of hate for them to trade him because he pretty much couldn't be the franchise at this point. But I don't know what they, what they get out of him.
Nothing. Who wants a guy that doesn't play? Oh, that's true.
That's absolutely true. This is, Frank, I'm looking at his numbers right now. And I remember the hype when he came up and he's been hurt. He came up at 21 years old. He is 29 years old. You want to know how many games he's, there's 162 games in the season, right? Right. Right. This man plays in the outfield.
Right. He has played 46, 92, 140, 28, 87, 39, 61, 92, and he played 85 games this year. Why would anybody want to even bring him on trade for him? No, yeah, yeah, he's not no trade date then, if that be the case.
He plays just as much baseball professionally as me. Okay? Mm-hmm. Sorry, Frank. Yeah, yeah, but they need to make some trades other than who they have to be Houston, you know.
Yeah, if they had this, and so could all the other teams, but it's not too young. That's true. Thank you, Frank. Appreciate you, man. Yes.
Okay. Yeah, that guy hurts me. When I think about Buxton, I'm like, well, damn, bro. He is always hurt. I think in a general sense, he's worse than, if I have to find an equivalent, he's worse than Anthony Davis on the basketball side or Zion. He's like Zion if Zion had a 10-year career, and Zion played like 30 games and 40 games and 50. He'd be out of the league. It's disastrous.
And there was so much about how he was going to be the next big thing, and you can't play. 855-212-4CBS. Mike is here from Fort Lauderdale. What's up, Mike? Hey, JR.
I'm going to give you a hypothesis, and then I'll hang up, but I want you to just talk about it. Bill Belichick has called up the crash office, and Roberts sits him down, and he goes, hey, Bill. Bill, you're the guy, man. I can't believe how much we won.
You know you're my number one. But, hey, there's some kid coming out of USC, you know? And they tell me, he's like, you know, 10 years is going to be great or something. I don't watch a lot of college myself, to be honest with you.
Yeah, he's great. Yeah, so these tell them, Bill, you know what, Bill? Blow a few games for me. Take the heat. Don't worry. You're my man, Bill. You're my man. You know, you always got a job.
Don't worry about it. Blow some games. We get this number one. And you know I love to win, Bill. You know I love to win.
We'll win for another 10 years. All right. What do you think, JR? I'm going to hang up. What do you think? You want the Patriots to tank to get Caleb Williams?
Well, maybe. Craig is calling from Arizona. What's up, Craig?
Hey, JR. The bar is open here in Arizona. The bar? Is it like the alcohol? We're serving up JR martinis.
We are ecstatic about beating the evil Dodgers. Oh, okay. Hey, Craig.
Yeah. Have you ever done voiceover work? Well, you know, they were talking about your favorite play-by-play guy was Vinny. And I used to work for NBC Sports and I worked with Vinny. I worked with Marv.
I worked with Bob Costas. You weren't hanging out with Robert at night, were you? No, no.
Marv always had to go to his room. Okay. Marv was great. They were all professionals.
But Vinny was by far the best, in my opinion. Absolutely. Well, you have an amazing voice, Craig. Well, thank you so much. You're welcome.
What else you got? You know, I'm a Yankee fan, number one. That's a long story. Giants fan, number two.
I was born in the Bay Area. But I have always supported the D-backs since 1998. And I am just a celebrating fan tonight. And thanks for having me on your show.
Oh, well, thank you, Craig. Good luck to the Diamondbacks, okay? Good luck. We got it. Oh, yeah.
Keep going. You know what? We didn't mention this. You know what we forgot to mention tonight, Shep?
What's that? That the Las Vegas Aces are ahead of the New York Liberty in the WNBA Finals. They're just not marketing the sport specifically that league well enough, JR. They're not doing it justice. Well, Las Vegas beat the Liberty.
They beat them 104 to 70. You can't market an ass whooping now, can you? I actually think there's juice. You know what I'm looking forward to? I'm looking forward to the women in college. Kaitlyn Clark.
Kaitlyn Clark, Angel Reese. Wait until they make the NBA. But, JR, yeah. They're going to switch things up.
Wait. Usually when there's something really big happening and there's so much to get to, we'll still have a few callers that say, hey, I really want to talk about this, JR. And I'll say, listen, we're really jam-packed with the phones at this particular topic. We'll call about this tomorrow. There is not one person that has called or tweeted, and there's a lot of people listening to your show, about the WNBA Finals. Have we ever gotten a call? Somebody's called about the WNBA before, right? They've called about Kaitlyn Clark. Well, no, no, no, no, no.
Forget that. Has anybody ever called about the WNBA? About how, in their opinion, it's just a crappy league and doesn't do any service to basketball, yes. So the answer is yes. Someone has called about that. Right. Only to put it down. Have I spoken to them?
Yeah, I mean, you stood up for the WNBA, as you should, and the reality is they're not paying anyone to play. Hey, I'm going to go to the game on, what day is it? I'm going to go on Sunday. I'm going to go. Good. Yeah, I'm going to go see the, what are they called? The Liberty. I'm going to go see them play.
Best three out of five. Yeah, they might be eliminated by them, but I'll watch. I'll see.
I'll be in Brooklyn watching the New York Liberty. Anyway. Hey, I got to leave now, don't I? How much time I got, Shep? What's going on here? Could you fit this one guy in? What do you think?
Can I? I think you got it. See, probably not. He's probably, he's going to be a terrible caller.
No, he'll be. Jason from Cleveland, you literally have like 20 seconds. What's up? Not terrible caller. I wanted to pick up all the Ohio State quarterbacks, much maligned. I wanted to know if you could put on your hometown dude's song, Cee Lo's F U for CJ Stroud and Justin Field and the Young Buck playing right now, because everyone was dogging them.
And, you know, they're doing all right. You were to play Cee Lo? I saw Cee Lo the other day. He's always in the neighborhood. Yeah, this song is Forget You, but his original version is better. I know. You know Millie? Hey, Jason, you know Millie Jackson? I do. I do. Yeah, her F U song was better. You like that one?
I like Cee Lo. I don't know what it is about him. I feel him. Okay. All right.
Yeah, goodie mob. All right. Thank you, Jason. Shout outs to Ohio State, okay? Take care.
Thank you, man. No doubt. I always found it odd that people will crap on an entire school and what they produce.
I'm like, what does one generation have to do with the next? Shout outs to Stroud. It's the JR Sport Reshow here on CBS Sports Radio. We'll be back. We'll be back tomorrow. More baseball, NFL. Gotcha covered.
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