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The JR Sport Reshow here on CBS Sports Radio. Happy Wednesday night. I hope you're well. I hope you're safe. I hope you're having a great evening, a great whatever it is. Thank you for tuning in and coming to you live from Atlanta.

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He provided me with an opportunity to tell you about some other terrible contracts in the world of sports. You know, Wednesday, every Wednesday I give you a top six list, and this past hour I shared with you a top six list inspired by Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson is so inspiring. He is. He really is. A matter of fact, let's listen to how inspiring he was at his introductory press conference with the Denver Broncos.

You listen to this, and you tell me if Russell Wilson doesn't make you want to run through a wall. I'm excited about wearing the blue and orange. I'm proud to be a Bronco. It's an honor.

It's a gift. I'm super excited about it. I'm super excited about winning. I came here for one reason.

I came here for one reason, and that's to win. That's what I believe in. So every day, what you're going to get from me is that mentality. You're going to get that juice. You're going to get that energy.

You're going to get that focus. And we're going to do it together. All the guys back there, we're going to do it together. That's what it takes. But we're here for one thing, and it's to win.

It's to win at the highest level often. And I'm excited about it. I'm excited about the journey and Broncos country.

Let's ride. No, no, it didn't happen. Sorry. Now, yes, one of the worst contracts that we've ever seen in the history of sports sucks. Well, maybe you can turn things around. There's still time, right? Maybe with Atlanta, maybe with the Raiders. We'll see. We'll see. Thirty five years old, played on a bum ass team. Let's see.

I don't think he's cooked. Anyway, we did talk about some other bad contracts that we've seen in the world of sports. And if you've missed the top six and the full explanations, it's why you have the Free Odyssey app. You can listen to it.

We just played it last hour. Here, let me give you a quick recap. And number six, I gave you Jamarcus Russell. And number five, I gave you Albert Haynesworth. And number four, I gave you Alex Rodriguez, who tried to sue the Yankees for his money back. And number three, I gave you Steven Strauss, Burke from the Nationals.

At least you won a World Series. And then they gave him a crap ton of money. Two hundred and forty five million dollars in his arm didn't work after that. And number two, this guy brings guns to work. Gilbert Arenas. Thank you, two chains. Anyway, and number one, I gave you Bobby Bonilla.

Yes, Bobby Bonilla, who sucked for the New York Mets, they traded for the guy instead of just cutting him. They said, oh, we'll pay him an interest in deferred payments instead of paying him six million dollars. Oh, we're going to make buckets and buckets of money. Let's pay the dude until twenty thirty five. Excuse me.

It is twenty twenty four. Bobby Bonilla is still going to get played, paid another decade plus. You can't make this stuff up. The New York Mets, their brand new owner, Steve Cohen, is on the team now. Wow.

I can't believe it. He's basically on the team. What for now?

Three or four years. He's making a joke out of this. He's like, we need to bring Bobby Bonilla to the team and parade him around. And you know what? This is what this is what this wealthy owner said. He's I don't care about paying this guy a million per year. Let's let's make a let's make a celebration out of it.

This is what Steve Cohen told the Mets up podcast. You know, I'm still thinking about Bobby Bonilla if I can get him. What would that what would that entail? You know, I just go with my instincts and, you know, let's let's just have fun with it because it's become almost an iconic day. You know, become something that just became viral.

And so why not just go with it and then, you know, enjoy it and and, you know, make it fun. Is Bobby on the same page with that if he can make it? Yeah, I think Bobby. I think Bobby is thinking about it and considering it. And I've had good conversations with him.

So we'll see. Steve Cohen has a net worth of 20 billion dollars. He is worth three times more than the next wealthiest owner. In Major League Baseball, he's one of the richest people on planet Earth. This guy can afford to say, hey, I'll make a joke about paying this guy a million dollars a year. Bobby Bonilla's contract is ridiculous. And there are plenty of other guys who have ridiculous contracts that did not live up to them. I'm going to tell you about an athlete who I think is he might be in a little bit of trouble, especially this upcoming season, if he doesn't turn things around. By the way, we also talked about Zion Williamson. Thank God he's actually playing right now.

But we know he is one Twinkie or one dunk away from landing on an ankle and having 300 pounds come crashing down on it. Dangerous 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. Hey, let's talk to Chad. He's calling from here in Georgia on the J.R. sport brie show on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Chad? Hey, buddy.

How's it going? I'm amazing. Great.

Great. What about Chris Davis? Boston Orioles? Oh, my God. The tornado guy, the guy that batted like 150 nothing. And they got to pay him a long time, too. You're right.

Yes, sir. What happened to him? Did did like monsters take his powers or was he a bodybuilder? Like, was he did he forget his drugs? Like what happened to that guy?

Yeah, I don't know, brother. Something happened because one year in 50 home runs and then lands a big contract. Yeah.

Yeah. He led the league twice. I remember watching him quite a bit growing up in the Northeast and looking at the least.

It was a pretty disastrous how this hit home runs and they paid him and he was a tornado. He's like, what's that guy? What's the Italian gentleman? Joey Gallo.

He's like Joey Gallo before Joey Gallo had Joey Gallo. Yes, sir. Yep. Absolutely. Well, thank you, Chad. Appreciate you for calling from Georgia. All right. Thank you, sir. No doubt about it.

Oh, yeah. Chris Davis. They were he was one of these new age baseball players before we really turned the page homeowner strikeout. And so all he did was strike out. It's pathetic that he Chris Davis.

I'm sorry. Not the pile on the guy. He's one of the reasons why baseball has sucked over the years.

And it's not just his fault. A lot of it boils down to the system and what guys are taught. I would love it. Love it. If baseball players from a young age were taught more about contact. You know, when I look at some of these stats because I'm a sports guy, that's what the hell I do. When I look at some of the numbers of someone like Tony Gwynn, where it's just like the guy did not strike out. And now there's such an emphasis on hit home run.

It makes me sick. And I mean, half of these damn ballplayers. Hey, can you lay down a bunt? But what? What is a bunt? Do I smoke a bunt? What is it? No, man.

You put the ball on the barrel and you. I don't know what that is. I don't know how to do that. Makes me sick. Maybe on. Hey, I should manage. Right. What team should I manage?

I need to get this together. How about the Mets? They got a call.

They just got Mendoza. No one heard of him before he was hired. So it's the same thing.

What's the difference? Me and him have the same look. At least he's a bench coach before. Yeah.

You know, come on. I don't have no I don't have no baseball manager. But maybe I can help these guys lay down a bunt.

You watch the game, you can teach him how to bunt. That's I mean, at this point for the manager does anyway. Well, Tony La Russa was falling asleep in a dugout so I can do better than that. Right.

Maybe the White Sox then. Because I mean, like you said, that's anything. A living, breathing human being is a step up from Tony in that tenure. A living. You call him dead.

I call him a crip keeper. He's not even awake during the game. The fourth inning. Tony, what should we do here? Oh, my God.

Out like a light. That is so bad that you know, I've done work with the White Sox and I don't know. Hopefully I don't get an email or call or something. And they've done good by me. But it really tells you what type of organization that you have when you when you hire a dude who he's basically done.

He was doing nothing but running around and consulting with the cards and all these other teams. And and then they go, hey, come here, man. Just just come. And it's like it sucked. The guy was only baseball. Is that a good advertisement for baseball that you got one of your managers, one of your coaches, a Hall of Famer who is on the bench falling asleep?

Let me think about this for a minute. Bill Belichick and these guys are standing up. Bill Belichick can't fall asleep while he's coaching. You can't just have a seat on the bench and fall asleep. I mean, who's the most famous basketball coach, Greg Popovich?

He's sitting down from time to time when he's not cursing people out. Can you imagine Popovich when Benyama is at the free throw line and Popovich is nodding off like you can't do this. The White Sox can.

This is what the White Sox did. Thank you, Jerry Ronsdorf from the man who brought you Michael Jordan. Here he is.

Tony La Russa. Just pretty sad. Eight five five two one two four CBS. Edward is calling from California on the JR sport show. What's up, Edward? JR, great topic today on the worst sports contracts of all time. Well, thank you. What's up?

I have one for you. Organizations that dish out the worst sports contracts and have a candidate. That's the Los Angeles Angels with contracts like Gary Matthews Jr. Oh, my God. Oh, Vaughn.

Oh, man. Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton. The list goes on. Oh, and everybody for different reasons. I mean, we can go down the list.

Fat, drugs and old. That's right. Yeah.

Just come on. I just named Albert Pujols. Pretty sad, though. Just to think of what they give Albert, he got was it 10 years to 250. He left St. Louis for maybe more than that. That's right. Oh, 10 years.

Excuse me. I was off 10 years. Two hundred and forty million dollars. And he basically got that money from L.A. And he's I'm going to say he stunk, but he got older. And that's that's what happens, man. It's just and it's crazy to think how he ended his career with the the the Dodgers.

It looked like he's going to stick around, but he's like, no, I'm out of here. My time is over. Mm hmm. You're right.

Right. It's hard being an Angels fan, Jr. I was going to that I was going to ask you. You are an Angels fan. Yeah, I grew up here in Southern California, but my wife, she's a Dodgers fan. So I'm probably going to lean toward the Dodgers if you're a special full time being on the squad. So wait a minute.

You're going to switch from being an Angels fan to a Dodgers fan just like that. Yeah. It's hard. You're a tourniquet, a front runner.

Uh huh. Are you a Clippers fan? So you're a Clippers fan.

No, I'm Lakers fan for sure. Good for you, Edward. Well, why do the Angels exist?

Can you help me out? Why do they exist? This is a movie. Good question. I was actually hoping Artie Moreno would sell the team. But unfortunately, he changed his mind.

Yeah. What type of loser change? He's like, I'm a sell the team.

I don't know if I want to be here. It's the Angels. Are they they haven't reached Oakland athletic levels, but they're going to get there, right?

Exactly. If they were in a different division with the athletics, if the A's weren't in the same division as the Angels, the Angels would be getting more heat. But given that they're in the same division, the A's absorb a lot of the heat that should be directed towards the Angels, I think. Yeah, I see that the the Oakland Athletics, I'm still calling them that for now. I see they've they've unveiled renderings of what their new stadium will look like in Las Vegas. It looks like it's been ripped off of the Sydney Opera House, so it's going to be fun. Yes. Sports in Southern California.

Hey, good job on you leaving those Angels behind. What's going to happen first? Rendon gets hurt or is it going to be Trout? Rendon for sure. He's probably hurt already.

He doesn't like he doesn't even like baseball. So here you go. Hey, thank you, Edward. Take care, man. You too.

No problem. Yeah. Yeah. Now, before we went to break about 15 minutes ago, maybe longer than that, I told you there was another individual who I said would probably line themselves up to have a terrible contract. And he's going to have to prove himself this year to turn things around.

It's Deshaun Watson. Do I need to explain? Do I need to go into detail why this man needs to? I don't want to say I can't even say shape up or ship out.

You just got to be healthy. They got broke his shoulder the year before that he suspended because he was getting the massages. It's just. They're going to look at him crazy. You know, when I say the Browns was stupid for giving him that money, I got people calling me go, oh, no, Jr, not being nice to Cleveland. Well, when I get a massage, I'm respectful. I'm not like him. Picky, what's the last time you got one of these professional massages? I've actually never gotten one.

So I've never got in trouble either. Well, good. I can I can send these things as gifts. You want me to like book you an appointment? Sure. I would love one. I mean, I guess I never got around to booking my book. It's like I'm anti massage. That'd be great.

So it's like a nice back massage. When's your birthday? June. So coming up.

Is it really how many? What month are we in March? We're in March.

I mean, yeah. Mark looking ahead, but beginning of March, March, April, May. OK, you got three, four months.

All right. OK, it's on the horizon. Is it right there in front of your face?

No. But it's like the sun rising all the way. You know, you can see it. I'm going to get you a massage.

And then if you're not here the next day, I know it happened. No, no. Come on. I won't ask any question. Respectful. OK. Touche. Hey, by the way, is there anybody that you think got like a terrible contract?

Well, the Rendon mentioned is perfect. I mean, the guy got paid a ton of money. Hates playing the sport. He's getting paid for. Not a priority.

Not a right. Can we let me ask you this question. Can we include coaches in this? Mm hmm. Yeah, sure.

Why not? We can do what we want. I mean, you look at the Jaguars in Urban Meyer. I mean, given them what, ten million dollars a year to kick players to bring in a racist strength coach to bring in Tim Tebow at tight ends.

And then he put the blonde on his lap. Get the team playing home after a loss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, hey, I know we just lost the game, but I'm going to stay here close to my house and hang out with a woman who's not my wife. I'll see you guys back down in Florida.

Like I got bigger fish to fry. OK, fellas. I see you practice on Monday.

You can't make this stuff. Oh, my God. What is he's he's back on TV now. Right now. What are you doing? Back on TV. Fox took him back after the year hiatus.

What if these owners are just getting conned by everybody? At least shot. Khan got a son, Nick.

Like I thought the two of them just I thought between. Well, at the Jerry Jones. Well, the Jones family as well.

I guess they got a little competition anyway. Eight five five two one two four CBS. That's eight five five two one two four CBS. And we'll take more of your calls here on some of the worst contracts that we've ever seen or witnessed in sports history.

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Ten dollar minimum per order. Additional terms apply. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief on CBS Sports Radio. It's the J.R. sport brief show here with you on CBS Sports Radio talking about some of the worst contracts that we've ever seen handed out in professional sports. I told you Bobby Bonilla's contract with the New York Mets.

Well, dammit, the guy. The guy hasn't played for the New York Mets since 1999. New York Mets are paying him until 2035. They've been paying him about a million dollars. One point one million dollars.

I don't want to shortchange him. It's actually closer to one point two million dollars. They've been paying him this money since July of 2011 and they got to pay it out until 2035 because the previous Mets ownership group said, hey, instead of buying this guy out of his contract and just giving him six million to disappear off the face of the earth.

Yeah, let's just nickel and dime it and just pay him interest because we're going to be swimming in dough. The Mets weren't swimming in dough. Their owners got caught up in a Ponzi scheme by Bernie Madoff.

You can't make this stuff up. And then also right before we went to break. Took more of your calls.

Ryan Hickey came through with an interesting answer. Hickey, tell everybody your your option or not your option, who you think the coach that you think just sucks. But his contract, Urban Meyer, 10 million dollars a year, didn't make it all year number one. And I mean, every decision he made was scandal ridden and the wrong one. So I'm going to take your Urban Meyer and I'm going to up you on a general manager slash president. Oh, let's hear it.

Yeah. His name is Phil Jackson, a former coach, a guy who never held a managerial position ever. But the New York Knicks fans were getting ready to basically hold a rally outside of Madison Square Garden. Literally, the New York Knicks fans were organizing a rally demanding change at the Garden. And so the owner, James Jim Dolan, the guy who owns the spear in Vegas, owns Madison Square Garden. James Dolan said, here's Phil Jackson. Shut up.

Like he was supposed to be a six foot 10, six, eight, however tall he is right now because you get an older pacifier. This man got the job. Hated Carmelo Anthony. Drafted Frank Nielekina. I don't even know where he's at. Is he on the bench in Dallas right now? Don't know.

Don't care. Wanted them to run the triangle off. It's like, dude, what the hell did you coach the bulls? We get it. Are you bringing Michael Jordan out with a time machine? Are you signing him to the Knicks? And then you got all these these silly photos and videos of Phil Jackson. I'm not joking.

He was falling asleep all over New York. I'm not joking. Here's a photo. Google Phil Jackson's sleep on the bus. Do it. Do it safely.

Don't do it while you drive. Phil Jackson is the president GM of the Knicks. He's falling asleep on the bus.

They got him knocked out at the bus, on the bus. Phil Jackson was asleep somewhere at some airport. Like this is the guy that they're paying 60 billion dollars to to fix the Knicks. And he's getting advice from Tony La Russa. It's like, hey, when you're tired, just take a nap. Like, oh, OK, sure.

Well, they mutually decided to part ways, as you can imagine. This man got five years, 60 million dollars to do nothing to take people off and take naps on New York City public transportation. I guess Phil Jackson.

People take naps all the time on us. At least Phil Jackson didn't get robbed. That's good. 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS. Marcus here from Tampa. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up, Mark?

Hey, I have an obscure one for you. In the late 70s, JR, Mr. Steinbrenner sent Dale Barra's kid or Yogi Barra's kid, Dale Barra and Steve Kemp. We used to play for the White Sox in my hometown of Tucson. And the contracts, they never got out of AAA and they were both making nine hundred thousand dollars a year.

Oh, in the 70s. Well, that's a favor. Can we call that can we apply that money to Yogi? I mean, for a time they hated each other, but can we apply that to Yogi?

Maybe. But still, 900 Grover in the late 70s is a lot of money for guys who never got out of AAA. That's that's that's thank you, Yogi Barra. That might have been apology money to Yogi. Oh, yes.

And before I go, we have to remember, if Jerry Colangelo would have called heads, Lou Alcindor would have been a Phoenix Sun and not a Milwaukee buck. Thank you. Well, well, thank you. Pigs. Well, what is the what is the phrase, Mark? I'm sorry.

What is it? What is the phrase? If pigs had wings, they could fly. Right. But they don't.

So they don't. But you mentioned Kevin Durant earlier, but the coin slip of all time was when Colangelo called tails. Yeah, but the difference is, is that I can take a look at Greg Oden and just say, hey, oh, you know, this guy got broken legs.

He got terrible knees. And the other element here when it comes to Kevin Durant, there's a history, unfortunately, of him just, quote unquote, being number two. You know what I'm saying?

No matter where he goes, what he does somehow, some way, as great as he is, this is like, hey, there's number two over there. You know, it's true. But then and then when you were talking about Mr. Cohen, who's worth 20 billion. Bob, there isn't a banker in the world that won't look at Bobby Boney with open arms. His credit rating is good. Oh, yeah. You know, that money is coming easy. I need to hit him up for some myself, you know, every banker is like, oh, my God, Bobby, Bobby is walking. Yeah. Come park some of that money over here. We know is good.

Yeah. Thank you, Mark. And shout out to Mark in Tampa. Shout out to everybody listening down in Florida. 855-212-4CBS. Derek, he ain't in Florida, but he's calling from another beach, Myrtle Beach. You're CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Derek? Hey, I was calling to talk about Deshaun Watson, but I'm sure you're going to get much more in detail about that later.

So I'll throw it on. I'm not I mentioned him already. I know. Well, I feel like the problems with him are going to be the implications that it's going to give for other teams thinking their quarterbacks deserve 100 percent of their contract. Because we've already seen the wedge that it's driving between the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. But I was going to throw a different one. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Hold on. The other owners hated the fact that the Haslam's gave this dude basically a fully guaranteed deal. And Lamar Jackson last year, his deal was pretty much done and set on the day of the NFL draft. It was announced that day.

So I'm a little confused. I feel like from the player standpoint, a lot of their agents are going to see that money and think they can get that money for their clients. And there's there's this look that I feel like is going to come out when the next big contract comes up and it's not 80 percent guaranteed. I think we I think we might be in a new cycle of the CBA before we get there.

If you think about Joe Burrow, who is now making fifty five million dollars a year, he's at the top of the totem pole. I'm sure at some point in time, Patrick Mahomes is going to rework his contract that's been talked about. But when you think about some of the more well-established quarterbacks in the game, I don't think we're going to have a quote unquote reset until we get to some of the the incoming guys. You know, what does a Stroud deal look like in three to four years? So I think for right now, I think we're OK. I think the market has been set and only dude who I think can really push it further is Mahomes.

And I don't I don't know if he wants to. So we'll see in due time. I agree with you there about Mahomes not being as selfish.

And I wanted to give you another one. The teams that continue to give Kyrie Irving a chance, knowing that he doesn't want to be number two, knowing that he gives up on teams three quarters of the way through the season, but they keep giving him ridiculous amounts of money to do so. Yeah, I mean, the Dallas Mavericks were between a rock and a hard place, you know, in the contract they gave him.

And I'll say this. I don't think Kyrie Irving is walking around saying I need to be the number one. I think Kyrie Irving has just had a history of it.

So I'm just saying I ain't showing up the word. So I think that's a larger issue. Is he, by the way, is he winning anything with Luka Doncic? The answer is probably a hell no, but I don't think he minds his current standing. Would he rather be in L.A.? I'm sure he would.

But I don't think he's yearning to be the top dog. I think those days have gone. Hey, Derek, thank you for calling from Myrtle Beach, man. You take it easy. Anytime. Keep up the great work. No problem. Thank you, Derek. 855-212-4CBS. It's 855-212-4CBS. Man, on the other side of the break, I'm going to tell you about some things that have taken place this day in sports history.

But before I do that, it's not a newsflash yet. Hey, Marco, simple question to you, man. OK. Any any terrible, awful contract that you just always remember? Terrible, awful contract that I always remember. Yeah. Mm hmm. There's got to be a million of them. But now I'm blanking on exactly. I know for a Nick fan, the Andrea Barnyani trade to pick up that garbage contract. But that's the first thing that's coming to mind. There's got to be somebody else that was just.

I mean, again, locally for me as a Yankee fan, Carl Povano and Kay Ogawa, which were roughly. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Didn't Carl Povano have like he had a sore butt, right? Yeah, he pulled his ass.

Excuse me? Yeah, he did. He pulled his ass, which is impressive. To do that in a spring spring training start, he pulled his ass. It's hard to do.

There's a there's enough. Well, I guess if you're a pitcher, there's a lot of muscle back there. You can pull an ass, right? But sure. It basically cost him a year.

So I don't know. That's impressive. Didn't now we're talking about injuries, didn't Glenn Allen Hill. He had like a he's afraid of spiders and he woke up and he fell into a glass table, right? Yeah, he had a nightmare, which is one of my favorite because there's all these ones that are the IR or the DL or whatever. He supposedly had a nightmare about spiders and was so scared.

Walk through his like glass coffee table and was on the shelf for like two weeks. Jeff Kent broke his hand washing his motorcycle. Yeah.

Ricky Henderson supposedly got frostbite falling asleep in the with an ice pack on in the sauna in August. Yeah. Got put on the aisle. Who's the guy that recently cut his hand on the apple? Right.

Somebody else opened up a box. It's just. Yeah. When their guy with the drone to that slice his hand up not too long ago. Oh yeah. That's the guy trying to get back into the big leagues. It's that guy.

The guy who was accused of just rough being too rough. Oh, it was OK. It was him. I didn't realize that. OK. It was Bauer. OK.

It was OK. All right. And he said it was a drone, but we don't. Well, that's the other thing.

That's why some of these are so much fun. I mean, did you really fall down the stairs because you were trying to carry a couple of boxes? We're a little tipsy.

Like, we don't know. Listen, these are these are world class athletes. They're supposed they can't even walk through that house without getting hurt. Look, me, I fall down the steps. I stub my toe.

I can't get out my chair. Like, I don't I don't play for the Yankees or Washington. You know, but hell, I guess even world class world class athletes are entitled to, I don't know, pull an ass muscle or fall into a table at their home. Hey, you know what?

Again, it's impressive if you can pull an ass and miss a season, if you can fall through a glass table because you're scared of a nightmare of spiders. I'm all in for all this kind of stuff. That's the stuff I want to hear about and still get paid by the Yankees.

How about that? What a world. Anyway, it's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. We're going to take a break. We come back. Yeah, we'll get some more your calls. And then I want to tell you about some some occurrences on this day in the past in sports history. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbree on CBS Sports Radio, the J.R. Sportbree show here on CBS Sports Radio. Thank you to everybody who contributed. Call talk to us about tonight's top six list. Some of the worst contracts that we've ever seen in the world of sports. We even got some coaches and managers and presidents into the mix.

I had Bobby Bonilla at number one on my list here. If you missed the conversation, you can listen on the free Odyssey app if you don't have the Odyssey app on your phone. What the hell are you doing? You can hit pause, rewind. You can take the show from your pocket to your house to work. So that's whatever you're doing.

You can ignore somebody if you want to. It's the Odyssey app eight five five two one two four CBS. That's eight five five two one two four CBS. Before we keep things moving, I need to let you know about a couple of things that have taken place this day in sports history.

Today being March 6th, I want to take you back first of all to nineteen sixty four on March 6th, 1964. There was a gentleman by the name of Cassius Clay. Who changed his name. Ultimately, we knew he was going to become Muhammad Ali. At this point, he had already won the championships from Sonny Liston. And let's take a quick listen via NBC at the time as to why Cassius Clay became Cassius X, ultimately becoming Muhammad Ali.

Listen to this. Why don't you like to be called Clay anymore? No, Clay was not my name.

Once we. Follow the belief here to understand the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and come into knowledge of ourselves that we want to be called after names of our people. Names that fit us black people. And Clay was a white man's name. It was a slave name. And I'm no longer Clay. I'm no longer slaves on now.

Muhammad Ali. Do you answer to Clay anymore? Well, some people, they still say Clay.

Sports writers still call you Clay. No, I stopped them because they know better. But some people who don't know better, they say, how you doing Mr. Clay? I mean, I say nothing because the intention was nice. It didn't mean no harm.

Then some woke up. How you doing, boy? How you feeling, Cassius? Meet Mr. Clay, fine boy.

And I have to straighten him out because he's agitated and smart and bossy. But it's according to how they approached me. And we know just a legend. A legend. Nothing else to say about Muhammad Ali.

Something else that took place on this day, March 6th, at this case, it wasn't in 1964. It actually took place in 2019. There's a basketball player who is still playing, who in 2019 passed Michael Jordan. In all time points, his name.

The guy who just has the most points ever now, it's LeBron James, because on this day, March 6th in 2019, LeBron James, he decided to pass Michael Jordan for fourth place on the NBA's all time scoring list. Let's take a listen to the action. This is courtesy of Dave Pash on ESPN. Yeah, we know he ain't fourth no more. He's numero uno and he keeps going and going and going like the Energizer Bunny.

Like he don't stop. Oh, then, by the way, in that game as well, when he passed Michael Jordan, that was also a game against Denver. OK, Lakers ended up losing that one, 115 to 99. 855-212 for CBS. It's 855-212 for CBS.

Lee is here from Cincinnati. You're on the J.R. sport. Hey, thanks for taking my call, J.R. I just wanted to bring this up real quick because, you know, you're talking about bad contracts.

This would sound like a really bad contract because the guy who was the highest paid player in Major League Baseball one year, only played 28 games, six home runs, over RBIs, batted 180. OK, you're going to leave us in. Yeah, I'm here. You're talking. Don't leave us in suspense.

Go ahead. It was Babe Ruth in 1935, OK? But my point is, is this. He was paid $35,000 was all back then, which translates only into roughly $900,000 now.

That shows you how. But he was by far the highest paid player that year. You know what I mean? Is that one of the worst contracts in sports history? Come on, it was Babe Ruth.

What is it? What's your point? Go ahead. Well, though, imagine the highest paid player in the major leagues were to do something like that now. That would be considered, obviously. But my point is that shows you just how kind of out of whack, you know, pro players are getting paid now. You see where I'm coming from?

No, you were spot on with your list, by the way. Thanks. The money's there. The money's there.

So you got to pay the guys. You know, I get it. Bobby Bowe was smart. That's all I have to say. I wish that were him. Yeah, well, I don't know.

Maybe he got lucky a little bit, too, but maybe the Wilpons were dumb. I'd probably go with that one a little bit more. I think even more so. You're absolutely right.

But I just wanted to show that, though, also. Pro players, they were just paid. Wow. Are they worth what they're getting paid, in my opinion? Nah, they can bring it back a little bit. They're generating the money. So let's see what happens if the money ever is to dry up. Thank you, Lee, for calling from Cincinnati. The only thing that'll dry the money up is if the fans stop watching, stop going, and if the TV distributors, they stop paying.

Then the money dries up. Billy Ray calling from Chicago. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. Yeah, this is Billy Ray. Listen, first of all, I'm going on my weekly poker game, and I just want to know what's your favorite poker hand when you play and hold them. Oh, Billy Ray, I'm not much of a gambler. I'm not a card player. I'm not a fan. Okay, so you don't have a favorite hand.

I get you. No, you said about Muhammad Ali, one of my favorite athletes of all time. JR, I don't know what is the JR stand for in your name, and if you ever wanted to be called by a different name. No, it's JR Jackson, and I'm very happy with who the hell I am. I wouldn't want to change a damn thing, Billy.

I'd love to hear that. Okay, my last thing is a sports question. Look, man, I'm from Chicago. Can I ask you a question? Why don't they just draft Marvin Harrison and throw to him and DJ Moore and maybe make a run for the Super Bowl, let Justin Fields stay right where he is?

Where's the problem, JR? Thank you, Billy Ray, because wide receivers don't throw the ball. They catch the ball. And the last time I checked, hey, what wide receiver led a team to a championship? Help me. Anybody, please.

What wide receiver led a team to it? I can ask, uh oh, maybe I don't want to ask. Hey, Hickey, what's your name? Giselle, right?

Giselle. There's so many rumors out now that she was like, she was with somebody else while she was with Tom. Is that, am I, have you seen that too, or is it just me?

No, I've seen those. She was cheating, allegedly cheating. Wow. Is Tom Brady now a sympathetic figure? I think so.

Well, look, for our last caller, if we want to, uh, what's the word? If we want to take advice from the great Giselle Bunchen, she once said, in trying to win a Super Bowl, this was directed at Wes Walker, I think, my husband cannot throw and catch the ball at the same time. He can't do it. I know Lamar Jackson did it by mistake a couple of months ago, but you can't do it. There's no wide receiver, no Jerry Rice, no Randy Moss. Yeah, they can help you almost go perfect in the season and help you win championships and all that.

Yeah, they can help you do that. There's no wide receiver winning you a championship. It's a quarterback.

So I let Marvin Harrison go play wherever. Go ask his dad. He can ask his dad. His dad has an answer.

Dad has a ring and dad didn't really even play in that year. Anyway, you've been listening to the JR sport re show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. It's time for me to roll. It's time for me to boogie. Hey, my hickey, I've made it. My voice made it. It's getting sore now, but I made it a lot better this time. 24 hours ago, that's for sure.

Yeah, you're damn right. And hopefully the next 24 hours will be better. If you missed a minute of the show, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. Thank you to hickey. Thank you to everybody who's been listening. I'll be back tomorrow.

6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific. We have so much more to do. Can't wait to see what wild and wacky things happen in the world of sports since I'm gone. Since I'll be gone. I'll see you tomorrow. Or you'll hear me tomorrow.

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