1.4.24 - JR SportBrief Hour 2

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So if road rage is whooping your ass, hang out with me. I'm having some fun. I get started. This is the JR Sport Brief Show if I didn't say it. If you didn't hear it already.

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Both of them. Sacramento. What's up Las Vegas?

Not necessarily on the coast but out West. I'll be out in Las Vegas next week at CES. CES is fun. Watch some flying cars.

Try not to break anything. I actually got a cool project that I'm getting ready to announce at CES. Yeah, I'll be sitting at a panel talking about stuff. So I can't wait to share it with you. So actually one of the nights next week, next Thursday, I'll be broadcasting live from Las Vegas. So a big shout out to everybody in Vegas. Much love to all of our listeners out there planning on having fun.

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Just ask it to play. CBS Sports Radio. Hey, Ryan, I got to ask you this, and I hope this isn't a personal question, not by any stretch of the imagination. I guess it's not personal. It's public space.

The last time I was up in the New York City studio, I don't know, maybe about a month or so ago. Are there still smart speakers in the restroom? You know it. That doesn't take anybody kind of as to like, why couldn't we just put it in the ceiling? It's just, correct me if I'm wrong, it's just stuck to a wall in the men's restroom.

Stuck right on the mirror. So as you're washing your hands, it's right there and probably listening, but also playing whatever you ask it to play, including, of course, CBS Sports Radio. So you're saying it's while it's playing CBS Sports Radio in the restroom, it's listening to you take a leak. Well, a lot of people think it's always listening, right? So if that's if it truly is listening, then it absolutely is listening to whatever is going on there. You know, not that not that I'm trying to bite the hand that feeds me, but isn't that some type of H.R. violation? Like the company has to install computers that listen to me when I pee? Like, shouldn't I get money from that?

I mean, you could. It was unplugged today. So maybe I don't know if, you know, people are already ahead of you and thinking that maybe Alexa unplugged herself, didn't like what she was hearing.

Both could be possible. Now, if Alexa unplugs herself now, we seriously got a problem. We're in trouble.

I don't know if Alexa sprouted arms, but we certainly got some beef. We got something we need to look out for. So, hey, look, I got one of them things in my do you got one of them things in your house? And the box.

Yes, I do have one, but I've not plugged her in in a very long time. Why? You got beef. You got upset.

Somebody. The thing was listening to you. Mine talks too much.

No beef. It's just at this point with the phone. I mean, anything I need to listen to, I just put on the phone. Speakers pretty good, too. So if I go in another room and follows me, you know, it's ease of access.

You're right. It's it's technology's crazy, man. Always evolving. I talk to everything. I talk to my my phone is right in front of me. I don't want to. Let's see if it works. This stupid machine.

What is this thing called? Hey, Siri. Shut up.

There she is. We don't want to we don't want to talk to you right now. Anyway, I talk to the phone. I talk to the car when I'm in my car in the house. I'm talking. Sometimes I call one thing the wrong thing and they get mad.

Like I have called Siri Alexa before and Alexa Siri and they they just go that I don't respond to that. I'm like, whoa. I'm like, well, I'm not married, but I don't need all of this lip. Like this is this is too much.

Technology is great when it works most times. Anyway, as we continue on with the show, we got a lot to do. I've been hanging out here with you for an hour already.

Thank you so much. J.P. Shadrach for joining us. He is the Jacksonville Jaguars senior reporter. He came through to give us the lowdown on what might happen with the Jacksonville Jaguars this upcoming weekend as they try to cement their spot in the playoffs as they take on the Tennessee Titans. Other Florida team.

They looking too good right now. It's the Miami Dolphins. And it also gave you a fire safety tip.

Now, what the hell does that have to do with sports or sports radio? Well, you know, yesterday we found out that Tyreek Hill, unfortunately, he had a fire in the upper level of his home. Yes, his home has multiple levels.

The upper level. Thank God nobody was hurt. But today we learned why there was a fire. And this is why I put on my I guess my Smokey the Bear hat and decided to tell you or share with you some J.R. wisdom. I want you to listen to this clip from CBS Miami. They found out why Tyreek Hill had a fire at his home.

Listen to this. Officials just confirming that the fire was caused by a child playing with some kind of lighter. CBS News, Miami's Jacqueline Quinn is live outside the home in Southwest Ranches with all of those new details.

Jackie. Yeah. So we've just confirmed that this investigation has wrapped up and that it was a child playing with a lighter that made this fire break out and get out of control. So no one was hurt. But the home, it suffered a bit of damage and will need considerable repairs.

No, thank God nobody's hurt. But come on. So we talked about that last hour.

I had to share some of the most obvious J.R. wisdom like like put fire hazards away, especially ones that have to deal with kids getting their hands on anything that could kill somebody themselves included. Oh, makes me so upset. Anyway, before we went to break, we also talked about potential changes coming to the NCAA as Charlie Baker, their new president, is trying to move forward and push towards or a world where we have certain college programs paying the athletes, the student athletes directly. No, no middleman, no NIL, no marketing company, no big brand, but the school actually paying the student athletes. I wonder how this is going to work out. I'm in favor for it, but I'm glad I don't have to figure out the logistics because one of the first things that comes to my mind.

Union. This is going to continue to move on. This is going to get dragged through the legal system. We're going to have some schools that are like, OK, we're game.

We're going to have some schools who are going to be feeling pretty miserable about this. It's colleges is it's moving towards being pros. It's being professional. It's not amateurism anymore. And quite frankly, it never was.

All of that was a big old sham. Let these athletes go out there and get some money. Speaking of money, in a few seconds, I'm going to tell you about a team, a professional team that just lost some money. Eight five five two one two four CBS. That's eight five five two one two four CBS.

It's the J.R. Sportbrief show. Hey, let's go to the phone lines. I'm in Atlanta.

Not too far away from me is Birmingham, Alabama. Let's talk to Michael. You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Mike? You're on CBS Sports Radio.

J.R., man. Good to talk with you. Always have enjoyed listening to you. I've talked to you a few times when you had your previous slide. Just a big shout out to you.

A big shout out to CBS Sports Radio, too. I think there's a guy on the weekend that I don't like. I won't name him.

But we didn't ask you that. For the most part, I think you all have excellent hosts and you are one of them. I think I liked that before. I like your show best out of all of them. But big, big shout out to you. And I guess I guess you enjoy your new slot. I like how you take things to the next layer. You're not just kind of talking stats, talking this, talking that.

You give us a little bit of a behind the curtain look at what's going on with some of these teams, some of these leagues that fans may not know. So, as a man, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Michael. I appreciate you. Did you have your window? You talking to me with your window down? I have a Jeep down, so that's the Jeep noise. I know. I know.

You have your windows up and all the air comes in. Well, listen, Mike, you enjoy the rest of your week. That's one of the reasons why I didn't get a Jeep, because the noise would be destroying my ears.

I would do it, brother. You too, Mike. Thank you for calling from Birmingham. Yeah, man, them Jeeps, you go 60 miles per hour in a Jeep and it's just sucking in all the air. I mean, them Jeeps, they anyway, some like Jeep.

That's one of the reasons I don't have one. Anyway, thank you so much for the kind words. I appreciate you for listening to CBS Sports Radio. And he said, I go deep and I provide a different perspective. And I appreciate that. That's what the hell I'm here for. Like, it's nice to have different perspectives. And that's that's what I do. I try to apply everything that I've ever learned or experienced or seen in my life and talk about sports.

I could sure sit here and I could Poindexter you to death and I can read off every stat and give you all of this. But it's just like, man, I like staying awake myself. Trust me, I don't want to sit here and fall asleep. I want to talk about myself the whole time anyway. That's why that's why I always talk to the callers. That's why Ryan is here. He ain't just producing a show.

He's talking and helping a host as well. And just trying to have fun. Not that damn serious all the time. I mean, if you look at me on social media, I'm not that serious. I just put up a photo of me and Bill Clinton.

I don't know. Ryan, is it is it bad time to put up a photo of me and Bill Clinton? I mean, not the best time to be associated right now, Bill. I mean, I didn't hang out at his house. I wasn't with him. I'm OK. Right. That's as long as your name's not on a few lists.

You should be good. I'm not on that list. You think Aaron Rodgers is done talking about that list? Is he finished? That's over, right? I hope so.

I really hope so. Yeah, he was Aaron Rodgers. If you missed yesterday's show, Aaron Rodgers was number one on the I hope this guy shuts up in 2024. And we haven't heard a retort yet, but I guess we got to wait until next week. Is he done? He should be done now that the season is over for the Jets.

You know, right. No more next week with him. I mean, as Travis Kelce says, Tuesdays are his game day.

So, I mean, that season may continue through the regular season. I don't know. Oh, my God.

On a different schedule. If we if I had a choice between more Travis Kelce and what's her name? Taylor Swift. Like we had a guy call last night. Remember that guy called last night and he said he hates this whole Taylor Swift Kelce thing. If I had a choice between Kelce and Swift or hearing about Aaron Rodgers, I'm picking Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. Like that's that's how bad it is when you got to think about some of these Aaron Rodgers comments and things about lists and what have you.

But hey, at least the Jets season is over. I'm going to assume he's going to go. I don't want to say crawl back into a hole. What did he do last year? The darkness retreat. So basically that in the woods. So what did he he went into? He went into like a cave, like a hole in the water. What did he do? A mountain, right?

Cave makes it sound like he's tough. It was like a hotel. No, it wasn't a hole. The room he went into was black.

They had no lights. Right. You had a bad way. Had a I think a couch. Like he wasn't exactly roughing it for however long it was. Was it a day? Something like that. Thirty hours a day.

Oh, come on. What's the longest? What's the longest you've been in the modern? Did you grow up with a phone?

No. High school was the first time I got one. OK, you got a phone in high school. OK, well, how can I spell now about this?

I'm trying to think. I had a moat. I had a moat. What was your first phone?

This would make more sense. I forget the brand was like one of those sidekicks. That slides up and you're like the keyboard. You had a T-Mobile sidekick. Yeah. OK. My first phone was a track phone.

OK. It was like a brick. It's like the first phone I got.

I was in high school when it came out, I think. And you couldn't do nothing. And so I'm kind of right on the line of technology and remembering like when there was no phone. Like you had to be a thousand or a millionaire to have a phone.

And so like, how long have you gone without a cell phone? Right. Oh, at this point. Oh, good. I'm trying to. Wow.

Couple hours. Yeah. I was going to say maybe my phone died when I was out.

We have like no service somewhere. Not not intentional. Not intentional. Intentional?

I've never put my phone away intentionally. More than like two hours. Two hours. I try, man. Sometimes we pull up to the weekend. I'm like, man, I'm putting this suck away. Nice to shut your brain off and get a breather. Sometimes I relish the days where there were no phones.

Sometimes I look at shows that are from, I don't know, the 80s, 90s, 70s. And I'm just like, huh? If you were going to pick somebody up at 3 p.m., you have to be outside at 3 p.m. Or you have to go to the pay phone and let them know.

And you had to have a call. I mean, not to say I'm old because I'm not. But man, you're longing for those days, huh? I just simple at times, man. I love technology.

I love it. But I also love simplicity. I know somebody who got a cabin in the woods. If I had time, I'd go up into the cabin in the woods right now. I wouldn't I wouldn't take my phone.

I'd take a friend and occupy the time in some other ways. But that's that's besides the point. Anyway, it's the J.R. Sportbreeze show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. We're going to take a break. When we get to the side, I told you about an NBA team being punished. Why did they get punished? Were they really punished? Why is the NBA demanding a measly $100,000 from them? I mean, these leagues don't know punishments, do they?

Go ask David Tepper. I'll tell you about the Brooklyn Nets on the other side. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze show here on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbreeze on CBS Sports Radio. It is the J.R. Sportbreeze show here on CBS Sports Radio.

Dr. Dre, West Coast. Let's go from the West Coast to the East Coast. Let's talk about the Brooklyn Nets. You have the other basketball team in New York. The basketball team in New York that has a record of 15-2. And so why in the hell are we taking time to talk about a loser basketball team? Well, they are the first loser basketball team to be fined by the NBA for what you might call load management. Lack of player participation.

Here's a couple of things that we know. The NBA has been plagued over the past several years with load management. Players who are not or players who are healthy who have not suited up to go out there and play. Fans who have spent their hard earned dollars to go see superstars who are taking a night off. The NBA regular season is 82 games long, 41 games on the road, 41 games at home. And sometimes some of the old guys, they might need a rest.

Multiple times throughout the course of a season where you might have back to back games. Well, if I got to go back years, the players played. They showed up. They earned their paychecks.

They said my ankle hurts, but there's some kid out there and his parents who might see me for the first time. I owe it to them, our customers, to go out there and try to give them their money's worth. Nowadays, the players make so much damn money. Superstars. Guys who aren't superstars are making 30 million a year. Superstars are now making approximately 60 million a year.

I could take a day off. My check's still on cash. Well, the NBA finally answered back. Why? Because it's not good for business. The NBA is trying to get money from Amazon. The NBA is trying to get money from Turner and Warner and Disney and ESPN. The NBA wants money.

You don't think these executives are asking, hey man, we've been putting these games on TV. I'm spending millions and billions of dollars and Anthony Davis ain't playing. Well, maybe not Anthony Davis because he's allergic to health. This season he's been pretty healthy. Good for him. But you got guys like Kawhi. Oh, I guess he's been hurt, too. You got James Harden. Oh, he's a workhorse. You got Paul George.

Maybe not. You got dudes who don't show up to work. Or the teams make him sit out because they're paying him so much money. And the NBA instituted rules before the season started saying we're going to investigate teams that don't put its stars out on the floor. We're going to investigate teams that don't play its all stars. We're going to investigate teams, especially in nationally televised games, that sit out players. The NBA has decided to strike back.

Well, the Brooklyn Nets, they happen to be the first victims. And maybe they thought that they would get away with this because it took place during the holiday season. People were distracted with with Christmas and New Year's. People were partying. They were with their families. They were passing out with eggnog.

I have no idea. But last week, the Brooklyn Nets. They took on the Bucks. December 27th.

This is like no man's land when you think about the calendar. And the Brooklyn Nets lost to the Bucks. No shock. 144 to 122. Giannis had 32. Chris Middleton had 27. And the Nets rested three starters. They had another two starters who barely played. Mikel Bridges. This man has played in 423 straight games. They put him out there just to keep the streak going. Cam Thomas, who doesn't do anything but score.

He only played in the first quarter. The Brooklyn Nets, they're not filled with superstars. I don't think they they have one, but they didn't have name players.

No Nick Claxton, no Spencer Dinwiddie, no Cam Johnson. And the Nets, they've stuck recently. I mean, even last night, they lost to the Rockets. They were on a five game losing streak. They have now lost 10 of their last 10 games. Excuse me, 10 out of their last 12 games. The last time they won, they had to beat the Pistons twice. They've been on the road a lot. They were on a five game road trip. They had multiple sets of back to backs. The NBA said, hey, y'all are screwing things up.

You're not supposed to be resting players. And so the NBA has fined the Brooklyn Nets. Let's listen to this. One hundred thousand dollars. Come on now. One hundred that only one hundred thousand dollars. That's it.

Only one hundred thousand dollars. Joe Dumars said, we've been very clear with teams what we're trying to accomplish and what we'd like to see. And if I'm just cutting to the chase, if you're going to sit four starters at one time, that's going to violate the policy and it violates the spirit of what we're trying to do here. Terrible, man. I think about Joe Dumars. I'm like, oh, it's a nice guy. Hit three point as he was the only nice guy that you could think about being on the Pistons. And now he's in charge of laying out punishments for the NBA as their vice president. Good on him. But one hundred thousand dollars.

Do I do I got to be real? If I got to think about the Brooklyn Nets and their owner, Joe Tsai. He's worth seven and a half billion dollars. The Brooklyn Nets got fined one hundred K. What the hell is that? That is, I don't know, maybe a middle executive, lower end executive. That's their salary. Joe Tsai has that stashed away somewhere illegally.

Possibly. I don't need him sending me a lawsuit. Here's the facts. If you're going to punish somebody, then really do it.

I mean, we talked about this the other day. David Tepper of the Carolina Panthers is throwing a drink on somebody. Only fined three hundred thousand dollars. Well, Joe Tsai is worth seven and a half billion dollars. David Tepper. This man is worth 20 billion dollars.

Where are the real punishments? I said this the other night. You can't punish a billionaire. Joe Tsai is such a great owner. I mean, back not this past season, but a couple of seasons ago, he broke the rules of the WNBA. He put the Liberty players on a private plane so they could move around at points through the season. WNBA players, if you weren't aware, for the most part, some of the playoffs, they fly commercial. The WNBA fined him because of the accommodations that he gave to his players was not fair for the other teams in the league. And so Joe Tsai doesn't care. And Jack Vaughn, when he was asked about this last week, why the hell are you deciding to sit four of your starters? His response was, yeah, well, yeah, we stunk. But my guys, the no name guys, they played hard. Listen to this. I have too much respect for the dudes that suit up and put their body on the line and the competition level to even mention the word exhibition.

Any guy could have ended their career tonight by one play. And so I treat it as such. It is a honor. It is a, I don't know, a sense of gratitude that you do this for a living. And you never, ever underestimate that.

If you do, you'll pay for it. So that was my approach tonight. I coached these dudes as hard as I could tonight because they deserved it. And each dude that stepped on the floor, they deserve to be coached and they deserve to be on the floor tonight.

Ain't no fans showed up. Who's this guy? What's this guy's name?

Uh, Trendon Watford. These are, by the way, like I have a good idea about dudes who actually play, like actually get burn and get minutes in the league. I have a good idea about who they all are. I have a good idea about guys who are kind of on the fence. I know about G League dudes. I know high school guys like I know basketball. Thank you to NBA TV for hiring me.

Bring me back. Here's the facts. Like I'm familiar with these names, but if Noah Clowney walked by me right now and slapped me in the face, I'd have no idea who the hell he was. And that's who the Brooklyn Nets had playing against Giannis Atetokounmpo. Giannis Atetokounmpo in his own postgame comments pretty much said, Hey, I don't I don't know who those guys were. I learned who they are.

They played us hard. Giannis said that. Future Hall of Famer MVP Giannis Atetokounmpo said, I don't know who those guys are that I just play.

And it's what that man does every single day for a living. And so congratulations to the Brooklyn Nets for getting off with only a one hundred thousand dollar fine. But damn, who are these guys? And Jacques Vaughn, don't don't shovel us nonsense about they deserve the opportunity and I will coach them as such. How about them fans in Brooklyn, New York?

They deserve to see what they paid for. And that's not to watch Jalen Johnson, Trenton Watford, Noah Clowney. And I guess the only guy that I really know who got burned and I could barely recognize it when I actually saw him in my own face a couple of weeks ago is Dennis Smith Junior. He's the only guy that I would recognize out of a lineup. And he got a new haircut. He was staring me right in the face. I had to go, is that Dennis Smith Junior?

He's like, yeah, that's me. That's that's the world we live in. Brooklyn Nets fined for load management. It's a shame.

Hey, Hickey, do you what do you think about these slaps on the wrist? Like why? These are not fines like this. Just donate the money. It is going to charity.

But like, why even do it? I agree. Like, I don't know if the league office thinks, well, to the common man, one hundred thousand dollars and three hundred thousand dollars sounds extreme. So they're going to think we're coming down harder than we actually are. I don't know if that's who they're or they think that they're placating the common fam because it sounds like a big dollar amount when in reality it's not.

But I'm with who they try to sound stern and rarely do. I need people getting fined. See, we need we need clear cut punishments.

And it goes beyond one hundred K for the first one. We need real punishments. Like Jacques Vaughn in the Brooklyn Nets should have an understanding.

Anybody should have an understanding. If you decide to load manage and take days or games off, what have you, that the team gets fined. I don't know. First violation. Three million dollars. Anybody's going to go, whoa, hey, that's that's that's that's that's our electric bill for the day.

Like it has to be something when they get punched in a wallet. I know nobody's sitting around humming. Not too many people are going to say, oh, my God, I need to see the Brooklyn Nets. But they they got fans. They exist. Hey, let me. Hey, Ryan, Rich Ackerman is hanging out with you, any?

Yes, I am. Hey, Rich, what do you think of one hundred thousand dollars for a fine? I think obviously it should be more. But here's where the problem lies. You have to collectively bargain everything with the players.

And obviously those things are not going to fly or or or heftier fine. So I thought it was I thought it was embarrassing. I thought it was insulting what they did and the fine, too. You think that that part of it for the the the team punishment is collectively. Yeah, I think so.

I can't I can't be sure, but I have to think that there has to be some kind of limit that that they're going to go to. Yeah, I think that that's more so to the teams because it's not hitting the players pockets. That's that's that's just unfortunate. And this is we saw this in the NFL a couple of days ago. Thinking David Tepper got fined and punished for 300K is an insult. And even here for the Brooklyn Nets to only be fined 100K is an insult. This is just it's just pathetic.

I'll take it. I'll get to what really bothered me about that incident, though, among other things. Now, load management aside, and I can't stand that. But the fact that they also did it on a on a on a at a time when kids are off from school and can come to the game and have an experience that will not only a they'll never forget, but also bolster the game because they'll be fans for life. They're they're greeted to Trenton Watford. And with all due respect to him. Come on. That's I'd be ticked off.

Absolutely. I mean, you got hardworking ass people in Brooklyn spending their money saying exactly what you said. Oh, man, I have this day, this game, this time off. I can save up, take my kids to the game for Christmas, what have you, the holidays. This is the game we're going to go to.

There is no school. I saved up. This is your gift. And we see who you just said. Yep. It's it's disrespectful. Listen, I'm going to bang on this horn and stand on this soapbox for a long time.

Man of the people, hardworking man. I hate things like this. As you said, Rich, it's the J.R. sport. We show here with you on CBS Sports Radio eight five five two one two four CBS is eight five five two one two four CBS. When we come back from break at the Brooklyn Nets, they don't want to play their name brand players. I don't want to call them stars, but we have an international star. I guess we can call him.

He's officially walking away from the NBA. I'll tell you who it is. We'll discuss it on the other side of the break. You are listening to the J.R. sport brief on CBS Sports Radio. It's the J.R. sport show here on CBS Sports Radio eight five five two one two four CBS is the number that's eight five five two one two four CBS.

We just talked about load management. The Brooklyn Nets only fined one hundred thousand dollars for sitting out four of their starters on December twenty seventh, sending out dudes like, I don't know, Noah Clowney, Trenton Watford and Jalen Johnson. These are these are gentlemen on like two way contracts, G League players. And that's who the Brooklyn Nets sent out there to play against the Milwaukee Bucks and the Milwaukee Bucks beat them one forty four to one twenty two. But the NBA said, ah, you got to pay up even though it's a measly one hundred K. I told you I'm going to fill you in on a player who's actually walking away from the game.

I'll get there. I do want to talk about J.J. McCarthy giving a number of percentage to T. Cheats. Why he's deciding to speak about this right ahead of the national championship game against Washington.

I have no idea, but he is. We'll talk about to a Tonga below and his contract. We got a lot to do. Let's get to the phone lines. Eight five five two one two four CBS.

That's eight five five two one two four CBS. John, he's here from Texas. You on the JR Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, John? Not much. Love the show, man. Appreciate you.

What's up? My buddy and I were actually talking about this a few days ago about team sitting players or even trading players. But you buy tickets to go see those players.

And we came up with two things that are going to change it. One, fans file a class action lawsuit because they're not getting the product they paid for or two, fans are allowed to get a full refund up to game time. The fans are allowed to get a full refund up until game time. And so what does that mean?

I don't know. If you're on the East Coast, seven or anytime, seven thirty, seven forty, like what would be game time? So like I'm a I'm a Blackhawks fan and I actually bought tickets to take my nephew to see Marc Andre Fleury when he was with the Blackhawks. Luckily, my nephew got to see him play. But if he was traded, which he was two games later.

I wouldn't have gotten the product that I was really hoping to go see with my nephew. So up until the time of the game or in this case, puck drop, I should be allowed to get a full refund. Yeah, that that that's tricky. And if there's a lawyer listening to me right now and I mean, there's a million lawyers, I'm sure there's varying opinions. That's why lawyers always fighting against each other.

I don't know if that could be the case. I mean, typically when you buy a ticket to a sporting event, not too many of us sit down and read the fine print. It most times it's like a little bit of a buyer beware. I don't want to say card subject to change, but that's how it is when you get into fighting or boxing. And yes, a little bit more violent of a sport where, yeah, one guy can get hit in practice or sparring and it can alter an entire card. And a lot of cases they will just scrap the card and reschedule and just provide everybody refunds a little bit different in team sports.

It's kind of like, hey, you buy this ticket, you bought this ticket. And there's an understanding that somebody might be hurt, somebody might not play. And who's to say whether or not somebody is literally legitimately hurt or not? I think it's all in the fine print, John. It probably is. I've never read it, read the fine print, like you said.

And I also, and I'm sorry to cut you off, I think it's also, here's what it really boils down to. In any sport, in any league, if you don't want to buy a ticket, there's going to be somebody else willing to go ahead and do so. And so there's not that incentive.

I mean, if you want to file class action, A, I don't know if there's grounds to do so. And then B, OK, you get enough folks together. I mean, if we got to think about it, and thank you, John, for calling from Texas, if I just got to think about it from a viewership perspective, like the NFL space, the most watched anything on television over the past year, over the past several years, has been NFL football here in the United States of America. Super Bowl is going to have, I don't know, 100 to 150 million people watching. You might get to the championship games and you're going to have tens and tens and tens of millions of people watching, 50 and 60. Like, it's just football, man. All the way through, people are going to watch.

And so, I mean, if we got stadiums and cities that hold, have a metropolitan area of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 million people, you want to tell me that you can't put 15,000 people in an arena if the seats were reasonably priced? It's tough. 855-212-4CBS, Eric. He's calling from Texas as well. You're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up, Eric? Hey, JR. Good to hear from you again, man. Thanks for having me on your show.

Sure. What city are you calling up from? I always say Texas because I'm in a city that's our north of Dallas called Gainesville, and I don't want people to get confused with Gainesville, Florida. Oh, okay. I mean, there's also a Gainesville, Georgia, if we want to confuse people some more.

Yeah, go for it. Yeah, but I was just thinking about that Brooklyn, that situation. So I know this isn't the same, but like, so my daughter and my wife had these tickets for a few months, and they went to about a month ago, and this is a better reason. Luca Doncic didn't play because he had his first child, and so he missed the game. So it was a hard conversation with my daughter, telling her, you know, that's a pretty big deal.

But I can't even imagine if I had to tell my daughter, like, you know, you had these tickets a couple rows up from the floor to see your favorite player, and it's because he's old and he needs rest. I mean, how would that go? Hey, something that we would hear in 2024, not something that we hear in, I don't know, 1990, 1995.

It wouldn't happen. So do you think that if it is a collective bargaining agreement, so they're kind of stuck, right? If not, because I see it happening like crazy after that $100,000, don't you?

What happened like crazy? Well, if that's the punishment that the league is going to expect, do you see this happening more often? Oh, teams looking at this like, oh, we can afford the little slap on the wrist?

I don't think so. I think teams are going to look at this and go, okay, that's where it starts. But to be honest, like to what you said, I don't think it's going to deter teams from stopping or sitting anybody. I do believe this.

And thank you, Eric, for calling from Texas, like really deep down. I think everyone understands this is a business. I think the league as a whole and its owners, for the most part, understand that you cannot do this to your paying customers. I also understand that for the most part, the billionaires don't care because in the big picture, one fan leaves and we can get another one unless you just kind of bleed out. And as much as I love baseball and as much money as they're throwing around, you can look at decades of declining popularity that can kind of lead you towards a reality of, oh, yeah, we're bleeding out fans.

I don't think the NFL is there. You've got to think about safety issues. They may have to worry about that decades down the line, which they're doing now. I don't worry about the NBA growing as an international product. I think the NBA is healthy whether you love it or not.

But the fact is, there's always going to be some other fans. And so the owners, they're thinking about now. They're thinking about their own potential exits for billions of dollars. And I think they care. I think they care enough to make more money, not enough to really care about your pocket or my wallet or anybody else's except for their own.

And I think that's what it boils down to. So if a team has to really, really take a hit, 100K, I think they'll go ahead and do it. But man, they don't care about the fans. You might as well be fan number 19,000 in the arena at the football game. You could be fan number 71,523.

As long as the ticket clears and it's been paid for, they don't care. It's as simple as that. It's unfortunate.

It really is. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. We got so much to do as we continue on with the show. We're going to talk about an NBA player retiring. We're going to get into the comments made by J.J. McCarthy about cheating. You should be thinking about the national championship. You talk about cheating. We'll talk about Tua Tonga Veloa, the NFL Players Association.

They released a list of the top coordinators. We're going to talk about the Lakers. We're going to get into Eric B. Enemy. He might have a job waiting for him. Because we know Washington, they suck. Anyway, it's the J.R. sport re-show on CBS Sports Radio.