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Hickey, that's always weird. Are the speakers still in the bathroom? Of course, yeah. Why would they go anywhere? I don't know. Maybe they'd be embedded into the ceiling, right?
Maybe better? You don't like it right on the mirror right there in the corner? Man, the first time I walked into the restroom, I said, is this sanitary? I said, the speaker, that speaker hears everything in that bathroom, bro.
Well, I was thinking the same thing. You got to watch the noises you make. That speaker. Now, who goes in there? Have you heard somebody talk to it?
No, I have not. I've never been in a fortune when they're trying to program it. That'd be great. Like from the stall. Hey, Alexa, put on the JRS Port Brief. Yeah, while somebody's going in there to do a number, whatever, right? Oh, my God. Oh, man. Anyway. This is a way to pass the time, right? Uh huh. I guess. That's why we're here, to pass the time.
We're here to help you pass the time. And so whether you're sitting in your vehicle or you're sitting on the throne, we got you covered. And you could be sitting on a boat, on a plane. Who made a commercial about that, right? Was that the deodorant people that made a commercial about that?
On a boat on a plane? Yeah. Was it? Axe? No. What was that guy? I'm on a boat.
I'm on a plane. Old Spice? Yeah, that was Old Spice, right?
I mean, the way you said it made it seem like it was that Old Spice guy. That's what I think. I'm on a horse. Is that what he said? I'm on a horse. Yes. I'm on a horse. Yes, that's the Old Spice guy.
He says, I'm on a horse. I forget the rest of the commercial, but yes. Man, that commercial, I Googled it quickly. That commercial's like 15 years old.
I'm on a horse. They are creative, Old Spice. Are they? I mean, you clearly remember their commercial more than any other commercial. Yeah.
At least in deodorant-wise. Is that the guy? They also got Terry Crews poppin' pecs. Was that him? Ooh. Nah, I don't know. I don't know if he was. Maybe. I don't remember who he was. I feel like they made a mockery of that guy who was on a horse. Like, Terry Crews, I'm poppin' pecs. I don't know.
Well, he's somewhere with a shirt off at all times. We've had amazing commercials. I mean, do you remember the Budweiser frogs? Budweiser frogs? No.
No? Oh man, famous Super Bowl commercial. The frogs said Budweiser.
They riveted it out. They verbalized Budweiser. Iconic commercial. Budweiser. And the frogs is a classic commercial. It's like the M&M's commercial that they run every Christmas.
Just classic stuff. But I'm on a horse. Why were we talking about that? Oh, why? Because we have a smart speaker in the bathroom in the Odyssey office. That's right.
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Just. He's everywhere. We got Ramona Shelbourne going to join us in about 15 minutes. Senior writer at ESPN. She's a part to help produce this new show.
It's actually a series that's going to be out today on FX. It's called Clipped and it's about Donald Sterling. And so, of course, with Ramona Shelbourne coming through, I got to ask her about some of the news that broke today surrounding LeBron James. And not necessarily LeBron, but J.J. Redick, his new buddy, his new podcast host who sat around with LeBron for the past, what, two months. Hickey, this has to be the world's longest job interview.
Shams is saying that the Lakers are dialing in on him right now. So a two month job interview to hire this guy. That's that's quite a diabolical. Right.
I love that. Right. The report today, it's not that they're hiring him. It's that there was a zoning in on him being the front runner of a candidate when you've I mean, have they even interviewed anyone the last two months? We've heard nothing about that job ever since it first opened. And it's all J.J. Redick is a serious candidate. What have they been doing the last two months?
Nothing. ESPN made them or the NBA made them try to wait till the finals are over to not take another analyst off the broadcast. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's right. J.J. Redick is sitting here.
Who's he going to sit there with? Doris Burke and Mike Breen. Bang bang.
Yeah. What a way they screwed this up, right? They screwed it up like there was nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong with Jeff Van Gundy and having Mark Jackson there. And they decided to give them the boot to bring in Doc Rivers, who most people most people don't want to hear Doc Rivers speak. I don't think it's anything personal. I just think it's a matter of his voice.
He has a coach's voice and then he gets he gets brutalized online on the Internet. And so why? Why exchange that every now and then? Jeff Van Gundy caught crap, but they were they were entertaining. And so this is a matter of why.
Why are you trying to fix something if it's not broken? And so now Doc Rivers goes to coach the Milwaukee Bucks. They put in J.J. Redick as a replacement. And in less than three years, they've gone through three different analysts. And it's just like y'all screwed up, like y'all should be begging Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson to come back.
I'd be shocked that they want to. Hickey, by the way, you want to know who's doing a podcast, I think. Who's that? Mark Jackson. Really? I think Mark Jackson is doing a podcast.
He hasn't said anything stupid like Patrick Beverley yet, so maybe that's why we don't know about it as much. Interesting about the NBA, I'm guessing, right? Yeah.
Like the current doings. Yeah. I don't know what else Mark Jackson would talk about. Maybe I know wasn't he a pastor at one point? Maybe he could. Maybe it's religious in nature.
I don't know. True. Or go back to the olden days when he played.
You know, talk about the good old days. Do we need that? Do we need more more guys doing that? We don't.
But a lot of people don't listen to that advice and still do it anyway. We got Rashid Wallace and Draymond Green beefing about which team would beat which. I'm like, come on, what are we doing here? Was that based off of Maggie and pro loss discussion this morning? Was it? Or yesterday?
I don't know. I feel like this this is like a couple of days old between the two of them. OK. Rashid is like, we'd beat the I don't know what year, 17, 18 warriors. And Draymond is like, oh, you know, 2004 Pistons, you couldn't score if you needed to. It's like, what are we doing? Who cares?
It's like, exactly. Let's just see Rashid Wallace. If they were in a fight, I'd take Rashid Wallace.
Hundred percent. I'm taking Rashid Wallace over Draymond Green. Rashid Wallace has the length. And I think he'd get him with one good one.
And that would be curtains. Old guys with podcasts. Yeah, Rashid. I don't. Paul Pierce pops up. I don't know what he does. What is he on? I think just his own thing, right?
Him and KG. I can't fire from ESPN after that one, you know. With the he was on a Disney property, a Disney employee with the strippers and the marijuana.
That's right. Just having a good old Tuesday night. Not yet. Not going to. Not going to. Not on my own. Not on my watch. Mickey Mouse says, hey, you're going to do the strippers.
Do it on your own time. Don't don't put it on video. Mickey. Miss.
What's her name? Mickey. Minnie Mouse. Minnie Mouse would be offended. Yeah.
No mascots get down, though. Have you seen Mrs. Met? I have. If you haven't seen Mrs. Met, I would Google it. I've seen Mrs. Met hanging out with everybody. But Mr. Met, when they when they do the video.
Well, they're not the videos. See here in Atlanta, they do it a lot. You know, we got mascots. We got Freddie the Falcon. We have Harry the Hawk. Stupid blooper.
Oh, yeah. We got blooper. Bloopers a cool guy. We got blooper.
Yeah, he's here. And so every now and then the mascots just they all end up at one game and then they import like 50 other mascots from another city. And then every time I see Mrs. Met with the other baseball mascots, is she the only female mascot? Has to be right. There's no.
And baseball doesn't doesn't. Does Bernie the Brewer have like a wife or something? I don't think there's a Mrs. Brewer. Maybe it's his mustache. Sometimes he looks he looks like. What's that guy's name? Yosemite Sam. You lost me there.
Yosemite Sam is from Looney Tunes with the beard, except for his beard is red and the Brewers is yellow. No. Is he like the guy with the gun? Yes. OK. Yeah. Yeah.
Blasting off. Yeah. Yeah.
All right. I could see it. Yeah, I could see it. The long mustache. I think Bernie the Brewer has a wife.
I think he does. Hmm. Well, I'm not around as much as Mrs. Met. Oh, Mrs. Met is around, of course.
Anyway. No, Bernie. Bernie the Brewer doesn't have a wife. He just he just looks like Goldilocks.
So maybe I mistook his mustache for like long locks. But anyway, let's get away from the the mascot issues. We don't we don't need problems here. Anyway, congratulations to Christian McCaffrey. He has no issues because today Christian McCaffrey got himself a brand new contract or at least a contract extension with the San Francisco 49ers. They tacked on two years, 38 million bucks. If you can do math like me, that's 19 million dollars per year at the back end of his contract. He is signed through 2027 when he will be 31.
Years old. He is still he was already the highest paid running back at 16 per. Alvin Kamara is now way behind him at 15. Jonathan Taylor's at 14. Hickey, how many games is he playing this year? I'm going to say 14. I'm going to say eight.
Damn, I'm sorry. I think he's cooked. Saquon Barkley is making twelve point six and Josh Jacobs and people forget this. Josh Jacobs isn't on the Raiders anymore.
People. Josh Jacobs is on the Packers. He's making 12 million dollars a year. And so Christian McCaffrey. Is making five million dollars more, almost five million dollars more than the next dude in Alvin Kamara.
Christian McCaffrey, he spoke today. I'm thankful to be here with the Niners for the next forever. I really appreciate the players on the team. I think, you know, anytime you sign an extension, obviously you're individually really happy. But then you also have to think about the other guys on the team who helped you get there and who are a big part of your individual success. So I really am very thankful that I'm on a team with guys like that with a great staff. Just an overall great organization takes care of the players. And so I've had nothing but an amazing experience in my time here.
And I'm really fired up that I'm staying. It's in the family's genes. I feel like this is the 20th McCaffrey here in the NFL. I know his dad with the Broncos and then his grandfather. And then, I mean, dammit, he just got a brother who just got drafted as well.
This is nuts. Luke, what team did he end up on? Let's see. Washington.
Yeah. How many more McCaffrey's does the NFL need? And then you got a running back here. Everybody knows that you get a running back.
You run him into the ground. The usage for Christian McCaffrey has been ridiculous. I remember when he initially signed the contract right out of the gate with the Panthers. It's like he signed a deal. And the next thing you know, he was dealing with a high ankle sprain for almost the next year in its entirety.
And so is there concern that having him sign until he's 31 is going to stink or mess him up? And his head coach, Kyle Shanahan, said, I worry about nothing. Christian is one of the more talented people I've ever been in my life. But if I didn't speak about that, I'd say he's almost the biggest overachiever I've been in my life.
It's been around in my life in terms of how obsessive he is with every little thing and just because I've heard us talk about him. But that's where he's extremely unique. And I mean, as you get older with age, you lose a step or something. That's not what makes Christian great. That's how he is the same player down in and down out. And yeah, it's great to have all the talent that he does have.
And he takes care of his body as good as anyone. So you don't picture him losing any of that because of a number. But if that stuff does happen, Christian's always going to be a good football player until he decides not to be. And we're not really concerned with that at all with this type of personality. They should pay him more money.
They should. Nineteen million dollars a year. That's because they had to plug him in as a running back. OK. Justin Jefferson, man, is making thirty five million dollars a year. I mean, we can we can talk about who's more valuable or less valuable running back versus a wide receiver. Christian McCaffrey last year rushed for about fifteen hundred yards with 14 touchdowns. He had another five hundred and sixty four yards receiving to go along with 70 days. There's a reason why he's the highest paid, quote unquote, running back. Hickey, you could argue he should make a little bit more than that. I mean, there's a real argument for if you kind of just eliminate health for a second that he's the most valuable player in the league or maybe should be the highest paid player in the league, maybe behind Mahomes.
Look, yeah, I think so. It's just that it takes one hit for him to be done and be cooked. That's it.
That's the only reason. But all things considered, it's like Brock Purdy when he gets paid and they got to pay him. I guess at this point, Brock Purdy is going to get 50 million dollars a year. Brock Purdy better give a commission over to Christian McCaffrey. He better. I mean, he owes everybody on that offense. He just fell. And I give him credit because a lot of people don't give him credit. It's only the weapons around him.
It's only the weapons around him. Man, he ended up in an ideal situation. I mean, who would be shocked if the Niners were back in the Super Bowl next year? Nobody. Nobody would. Congratulations, Christian McCaffrey getting a two year extension, almost making 20 million dollars as a running back.
That's nuts. I don't think anybody's getting that close. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. It's time to have a conversation with ESPN senior basketball writer Ramona Shelburne.
Of course, we're going to talk about the finals. Talk about the show she helped produce on FX as well. It's called Cliff. You're locked in.
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That's 855-212-4227. Getting ready to track down Ramona Shelbourne and see what she's doing. Probably getting scoops or something. I don't know. Telling us what we don't know about.
I don't know. What's this guy? J.J. Riddick. Who's thought that the some of the great NBA players were playing alongside firefighters and plumbers. And in an interesting twist. And I feel like we get this news fed to us about once a week now at this point in time.
I get it. We're a couple of days from the start of the NBA Finals. We don't want to have breaking news.
And even though we have coaches like Bickerstaff who have been given the boot. But would the Lakers just jump the front of the line when it comes to news breaking? Because it feels like week after week, all we hear about is that J.J. Riddick is going to be the newest head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. And that the Lakers are narrowing things down.
Well, as Hickey and I discussed privately here. I mean, we got to look back at at least three weeks or two a month is when we heard Sam Cassell's name as somebody who would come by and be a possibility. We haven't heard a peep since.
And this is like one of the biggest diabolical ploys I think we've seen in sports. For LeBron James to sit around since what, February at the All-Star break? And pretty much decide that, hey, I'm going to sit down and do an X's and O's podcast. With J.J. Riddick. Like, what are the odds that they sit down and do a podcast? And then all of a sudden, J.J. Riddick becomes like the leading candidate to give this man or to take the head coaching position away from from Darvin Ham.
It's wild stuff. I guess everything LeBron James wants, LeBron gets. We talked about this last hour. LeBron James already taking an approach of how much he misses Kyrie Irving and is jealous to not be running up and down the court with him. Take a listen to what he said on this podcast Mind the Game with J.J. Riddick. Sitting here watching it, you know, I'm like I'm playing like fucking happy and so proud to watch him and continue his growth or whatever the case may have been. At the same time, I'm so fucking mad at the same time that I am not his running mate anymore. So I'm like, I just remember those times to have a guy like Kyrie Irving as the ultimate wildcard.
That's like having a it's like having a draw four in your hand every time someone deals you cards in Uno. Yeah, well, LeBron James can't always get what he wants, right? We're going to find out soon enough about his son where his son gets drafted or not drafted. Reportedly, now he's in the space of the Los Angeles Lakers second round at the end of the second round. LeBron James typically always gets what he wants.
You know, right before we went to break as well, we talked to you about. Well, somebody got what they want, Christian McCaffrey getting almost a 40 million dollar extension, a lot of NFL players ain't necessarily getting what they want. LeBron wanted Kyrie. They're not together. C.D. Lamb. Is not at work. Justin Jefferson just got a contract paying him 35 million dollars a year.
C.D. Lamb decided not to show up to work for the Dallas Cowboys. He's not doing it. He wants that deal.
He wants that money. And so now that Justin Jefferson got paid and they were selected in the same draft and they have similar career numbers. Adam Schefter was on Pat McAfee and he talked about how Jefferson's deal could affect C.D. Lambs.
Listen to this. Jerry Jones made a reference earlier this offseason to the fact that the Cowboys wanted to get a deal done with C.D. Lamb. But C.D. Lamb was in no rush to get that deal done. And the reason that C.D. Lamb wasn't in any rush to get a deal done was because the deal today.
Well, the deal today is now done. And if you look at their numbers side by side. Yes, C.D. Lamb played more games due to Justin Jefferson's injuries, but the numbers are comparable. Do I think C.D. Lamb is as good as Justin Jefferson? No. Do I think he's going to get that contract?
No. But how far south of Justin Jefferson is C.D. Lamb going to get? And I think that's why he was waiting for this deal to come in. Thirty five million dollar a year average. Hundred and ten million dollars in guarantees.
I think all of us could sit here today and debate what we think the value of C.D. Lamb should and would be. And again, I think we'd all agree it will be south of Justin Jefferson. But how much south?
And that's the question. And that's now left up to C.D. Lamb and the Dallas Cowboys to go figure out.
Can it be any further south? I mean, if I'm C.D. Lamb, I'm looking at the numbers and I'm saying, yeah, they're too close for the most part. C.D. Lamb drafted 17th in that COVID draft of 2020.
Justin Jefferson goes 22nd overall. C.D. Lamb has the same amount of catches as Jefferson, three ninety five to three ninety two.
C.D. Lamb has more receiving touchdowns, 32 to 30. Jefferson has way more yards. OK.
Almost fifty nine hundred to fifty one. And this is only because C.D. Lamb has played in six more games because of the injuries due to Justin last year. Justin Jefferson is the better wide receiver. But why? All things considered. Why should C.D. Lamb say, hey, just I'm durable.
I can actually play. What is he going to wake up and settle for thirty four million while the guy who was drafted behind him is making one million dollar more? Is that the type of semantics we're going to get into?
It might be. I mean, yesterday we had a great conversation. With R.J. Choppy co-host morning show and one of five three the fan out in Dallas. And I asked him about how the Dallas Cowboys do business. And he pretty much told me these Dallas Cowboys, they operate like a mom and pop shop, even though they're worth what?
The billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars. Listen to R.J. They operate in their own world, man. It's like they Jerry's got his own schedule. They sign guys on their own time.
They don't really believe in market value. It's a wild it's a wild organization. It's the world's biggest mom and pop. This organization really is all between all that. They've somehow won 12 games, three three or four. They put a really good product on the field, a really good scene. Every year is a good thing.
You go back to Parcells and the only years they've been below 500 is when they lost their quarterback to an injury. That's crazy. Hey, we hit the same damn thing all the time. Mom and pop about the Los Angeles Lakers. The two biggest franchises are just mom and pops out here. They selling bagels and cookies, which is crazy. If you want to include a third with the Yankees and, you know, some of their purse string, you know, holding on to and not really getting ready to spend the big bucks. Three of the most viable brands in North America.
We're all running on some sort of lower level system. It's bizarre. That's like the that's the trifecta for front runners. If you run into somebody, hey, what are your favorite teams?
I like the Lakers, the Yankees and the Cowboys. They are front runners from the 90s and stinks. Don't don't trust that person. R.J. Choppy continued on, asked him about what the hell this means and the deal. And he says, well, he's a Jerry Jones, really? Ain't ain't no GM. He's just the GM for the big dudes because he's a boss. He only wants to hang out with the top players. Listen, listen to what R.J. said. Jerry doesn't. He's not the GM GM. I mean, he he has the final say, but he's not running things the way we think that a lot of the common people think that he is. He's the GM for Dak Prescott, C.D.
Lamb. And then there's other guys or that was always the joke when it was even 10 years ago. He was Romo's GM and Witten's and DeMarcus Ware's and T.O. and Dez and everybody else.
They went to Stephen. And I think that's kind of what it is. Like, you know, he's he's he's the GM over the top guys and everybody else filters down.
Everybody else filters down. Jerry Jones, he doesn't have time for the the plumbers and the firemen on the back of the roster. That's a that's a nod to Mr. J.J. Redick, who's soon to probably be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. I cannot wait for that story. That is going to be drama over the next year. It's not official, but, you know, it's likely going to take place. I can't wait. It's pretty funny.
The Lakers, Cowboys, Yankees. Oh, they know drama and they know how to spend money to even if they're their mom and pops. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to see what the hell is going on with Ramona Shelbourne. And then speaking of big money, when we come back from break, we already told you about one knucklehead who screwed up his money in his life big time by betting on baseball.
Ipe Mizuhara decided to bet big with somebody else's money. It didn't work out. We'll talk about that on the other side of the break.
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And I can't even say going down without a fight. They're just they're in trouble. They got caught. Let's start off with the I guess the more famous of the two. It's kind of crazy when you think about somebody's interpreter being more famous than a baseball player.
It is Ipe Mizuhara. And why is he famous? Not because he was Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, but because he was Shohei Ohtani's interpreter who was robbing from the man. Well, he got sentenced today. And well, no, he pled guilty. And we know what he's facing. He could be facing a 33 years in prison. I don't know if you're going to see that long. Just take a listen from KCAL.
I'm California. Let's get to our number one story. Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter just pleaded guilty to stealing nearly 17 million dollars from the baseball star to pay off illegal gambling debts. KCAL news reporter Tina Patel is live outside Santa Ana federal court with how it all happened. As expected, Ipe Mizuhara pleaded guilty, entered guilty pleas to two criminal charges. During the hearing, the judge asked Mizuhara if he could explain what happened in his own words.
Mizuhara did not use Ohtani's name, just said that he used the access to victim's bank account and falsely took money. Then he entered two pleas, one to bank fraud, another to filing a false income tax return. He could face more than 30 years in federal prison when he is sentenced. That sentencing date has been set for October 25th.
In addition to the years in prison, Amy, he could also face deportation since he is not a U.S. citizen. Oh, yeah. Oh, no.
Oh, my God. Hickey, why are people making these? Do people not think?
I get it. People make mistakes. I make mistakes. You make everybody makes mistakes.
You just got to make a big mistake and just just keep on digging deeper into the hole, man. This is crazy. I mean, that's why gambling is so dangerous, because like this sounds nuts, right?
Like he's going to be in jail for what, 30 years maybe and get deported. So your life is your life is over. But. When it comes to illegal gambling and the people you're working with. What's the other option?
What do you mean? I'm saying he right. He was stealing Ohtani's money to pay off the debts he had. That was the only option, I guess, to pay off the debts was to steal money.
So if he wasn't going to steal the money and commit the crimes, they'd break his legs. And that that could be I mean. Oh, my God.
And that could be honestly the best case scenario. Oh, my God. You don't pay up. We're going to break.
No, if we if you don't pay up, we're going to break Ohtani's legs. Well, then. Yeah. Yeah.
I didn't think about that. That could be really. Now we're really getting into some.
Oh, my God. This is this is some dirty stuff, but that's that's the alternative, right? I don't I don't want to I don't want to have a drink anymore.
I don't want to have a cigar. I want to cross the street. I'm going to button my shirts all the way up to the top button.
I'm going to help old ladies cross the street. Could you imagine that pressure like you don't dug yourself? So this is a hypothetical. I don't know. But I can only imagine like you have to.
Well, there's two things here. If you are extending Ipe Mizuhara a line of credit because, you know, Shohei Ohtani got lots and lots of money, like you can pressure him into debt to continue gambling. And then if you really, really want to be a jerk, I don't know if it would get that far because it's just like, are you stupid? You're going to you're going to hurt Shohei Ohtani. You're going to hurt me. Do you understand how much scrutiny that's going to bring to you?
It's going to take your whole operation. But it's not that far off. And maybe the stakes are too high just to say, well, bro, you need to pay up.
Otherwise, something bad is going to happen for you or him. This is this is nuts. I don't know how all this works with the immigration and what have you.
But 33 years in prison, the possibility of being deported. Yo. He screwed his life up.
This is nuts. Ipe Mizuhara, I don't even think he's like 40 years old. I think he's in his late 30s, I believe. All you had to do was translate words and you would have been good for your whole damn life. He's 39 years old. All he had to do was, was, was translate words from English to Japanese and Japanese to English. He would have been good.
I'm sure he didn't have to pay for anything. This gambling stuff is nuts. And that's a translator. Earlier today, we learned that a former pirate, a former Padre. He's a former Major League Baseball player because they gave him the boot. Listen to this report, courtesy of CBS Sports HQ. Following that breaking news from Major League Baseball, where the league has issued a lifetime ban for San Diego Padres infielder to compete that Morricano. The league also announced a one-year suspension for Oakland A's pitcher Michael Kelly, along with three other minor leaguers as well.
Take a look at this. The league says that Morricano made more than 200 bets related to MLB games with the legal sportsbook back in 2022 and 2023. When he's with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, the league says that those wagers of MLB games sold more than $87,000. That 25 of those wagers were made on Pirates games while he was assigned to the ballclub there. The league also says there is no evidence that the outcome of any of those games were compromised or influenced as well as manipulated in any way. Well, it doesn't appear to because that guy sucked and he wasn't that smart.
And you think about all of this. There's a gentleman by the name of Chad Knight, played college baseball at Duke. Duke was eliminated from the college baseball World Series. His college career was over. Hickey, the first thing that he tweeted. Goodbye, college baseball. Hello, DraftKings.
This is what he tweeted. CSK Knight 27. Let me look this guy.
CSK Knight. Not good timing, man. I don't know what his baseball status is. I've never heard of this gentleman. I just don't think that's.
I don't think that's a good idea. Let's see if it's still up. Westport, Connecticut, former Little League World Series two way player. Uh huh. Oh, my God. Former Little League World Series player in his bio. He's going all in.
And maybe maybe he knows he's not playing in the major. So that's fine. Right.
Do what you want. He said an hour ago, he tweeted this. My friends and I are looking to place our first bets tonight.
If any platform is willing to provide some preplay, some free play, I will post my picks right here. Oh, my God. Wow. How many followers does he have? Not a thousand.
Nine hundred and eighty seven. I'm pretty sure a lot of them just kind of popped up over the last like today. Yep. It was six hours ago he tweeted this. One million people have seen the tweet.
Goodbye, college baseball. Hello, DraftKings. The comments. Oh, man. He's he's a he's a funny guy.
I'm looking to create generational wealth in one night. Wow. So are a lot of people. Well, that's what happens, right?
Yeah. He I guess he's not a major league prospect. He wouldn't be there saying anything.
So I guess why not try to make some money and garner some attention on your way out the door? Just pretty hilarious. Given some of the dire circumstances, we have other individuals in baseball dealing with life altering changes here. Tusa Peter has been given the boot forever. And then Ipe Mizuhara might be deported.
And this is this is really just the start. We got people everywhere. And you could look at it like alcohol. Like me, I got no problem with gambling. I don't care what you do with what you do or what you have or what you don't. It's your business.
Everybody has a choice. Nobody's making anybody do anything. We can talk about peer pressure. You get in pressure to have a smoke. You get in pressure to have a drink. You get in pressure to gamble. People can pressure you to anything. But as an adult, like, where do you draw the line?
Like when and where do you make your own decisions? And we've seen gambling really take some people out. And it hasn't been kind of baseball. We got Ramona Shelbourne.
She's going to join us at the top of the hour. It is just a it's a sad, sad state of affairs. I mean, we had a Porter Junior's brother get popped for gambling. He was banned from the NBA. Hickey, I think in the world of sports, they're going to have to start.
You know, you got like an honor roll and you got detention and they put like the names up on the board. I don't know if this is going to be so frequent that we have to just list names like Adam Silver can't come out. Well, I guess he can every seven months and say a guy is bad. Like at what point is he going to get sick and tired of doing that? Instead of just saying, hey, we're going to release the names of the band guys in August and just keep it moving from there. Because I know in baseball we spoke to David Sampson. He said not a big deal. He thinks this is like one in 100 years, but they didn't have virtual sports betting 100 years ago.
And if we got one idiot, we're going to have more. They might as well just wait until one dedicated time and put out one big release on a Friday night and keep it moving. Friday night news dump every every Friday. Yeah.
Let what's the man who wants his wife in the kitchen? Harrison Buck. They can have Harrison Buck or put out the release on a on a Friday night. I just don't I got no problem with gambling. I actually think that for all the money that gets put out, I think they're like like here in Georgia. Georgia won't legalize, you know, sports betting and gambling in a physical casino to save our lives. They're worried about the ethics and the destruction of families.
And it's like, when do you care about ethics? Aren't you all a business? Like, don't you want some revenue in like all the people that be gambling here in Atlanta? People are legally gambling all over the damn place, ruining their lives one penny at a time. So just do it and and take the money. Build something nice for us. Somewhere else for me to have a smoke and a drink. Why not? Anyway. Make gambling legal.
And do it responsibly. It's the JR Sport Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. We found her. We come back on the other side. Ramona Shelbourne is going to come through and chat it up with us, a senior writer, all things basketball for the NBA. Also, there's a new show she's helping produce on FX. We'll talk about it.
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