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It is all so easy. What a busy day we've had. We've also had some damn good guests already. Last hour, Sam Amick from The Athletic.

He came through and joined us to talk about the Los Angeles Lakers and their hiring of the inexperienced J.J. Redick. We also had Katie Wu of The Athletic come by to talk to us about this game taking place at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants. Yeah, they're honoring the Negro Leagues. This is their first game ever at Rickwood Field, which happens to be the oldest ballpark in the entire country.

So thank you to Katie Wu for coming through and joining us. And speaking of that game. Damn it. St. Louis, they are off to a hot start.

Already three to nothing in the second inning. Obviously not just honoring the Negro Leagues, but paying homage also to Willie Mays. We learned of his passing early this week, Tuesday night, Tuesday afternoon at the age of 93 years old. So thank you to Katie Wu of The Athletic for joining us. Thank you as well to Sam Amick. We've been able to talk about some basketball, been able to talk about some some college basketball and some baseball. And we're going to get into some some NFL. We're going to do that as well. If you want to be a part of the conversation, like the people who've called us up already, you can do so. It's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

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I am at JR Sport Brief. Let's get to the phone lines and then I want to talk some some football, because hilariously, before the break, one of our callers, Manny. Many from New York pretty much said the Los Angeles Lakers hiring J.J. Redick is something that the Dallas Cowboys would do. The Dallas Cowboys take the approach of let's be all glitz and glam and let's not actually win anything. I mean, the Lakers have won more recently than the Cowboys have. My apologies to the Cowboys fans out there. And I have some thoughts about the Cowboys and their owner, Jerry Jones. I think Jerry Jones might be leading a charge to put a cap on how much money quarterbacks can make.

We'll get into that. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. David is calling up. He's from New York. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up, David?

Well, I got to tell you, man, you should have went over to Rickwood because the old timers, they really, really have some stories. And you have Reggie Jackson sitting in the middle between Alex Rodriguez and Big Poppy. And he was asked a question by Rodriguez about what it was like coming down here and playing. And Reggie had to think about it and said, you know what? It's a very, very bittersweet question that I have to ask that I have to I have to respond to because he said that he would never want to do it again. And the reason why he never wanted to do it again is because he was told when they used to go out to eat, they would point to him and say the N word or you can't eat here or go to a hotel and say you can't eat here or eat here. They would come to the hotel. So they're going to burn the hotel down with all of his teammates in it if they don't bring this.

And we're out of here. Bill Connor was the sheriff then. And it's fascinating because you don't hear these stories from the old timers. You hear about the stats and what was it like. But what what it was what it was really like when the game was over. They couldn't even use the locker rooms with their own teammates down there. You got to really read between the lines besides how great they play and how great they were.

What was the lifestyle like? It was these are these are these are a lot of stories. Yes, that it may be a surprise to some.

And there's a lot of folks and not just in the sports space. And thank you, David. Call from New York. Yeah, these are realistic stories, you know, and God bless Reggie Jackson. I can hear these stories and God rest their souls. I would hear these stories from my grandparents. And so for some people, there is a little bit of a disconnect in reality, like a lot of the misfortunes that we've had in this country have taken place.

Oh, my God. Oh, so long ago. There are people in this country that that still get treated that way, whether it happens to be at the forefront of one person's life or it's a daily reality for somebody else.

So it's a faraway dream for another person. Yeah, it's not a fun thing to discuss. And there's a lot of people want to cover up history and not talk about history and talk about how history makes people guilty. Man, how the hell do you move forward from anything unless you readily accept and discuss atrocities that have taken place? And yes, through sports.

And we talked about this earlier on in the show. You know, sports is I always say this is a microcosm of life. You can take a look at sports and you can learn so much about history and society and where things were and where things are going.

And yeah, you can listen to Reggie Jackson. Man, I could I could walk into somebody's house for dinner. You know, I remember conversation with my grandparents, as I said, and whether or not you played Major League Baseball or whether or not you were the postman down the block or you were the mechanic or whatever the hell you were. Man, I can tell you my entire life has been dotted with stories like that, not just from from baseball players.

And I should really tell you how awful and terrible racism is, because for a lot of people, it doesn't matter how much money you have in your pocket. You know, it doesn't matter who you are. I mean, come on.

We had a story a few years ago of LeBron James moving to Los Angeles and having, you know, words sprawled across the front of his house. Come on. And whether or not people want to be funny about it or be intimidating ain't no lie.

Nothing nice or scary or funny about somebody else's life. It's such a terrible, terrible thing to hate somebody else just because of what they look like. That's the worst thing. Some of these awful, awful things are taught. Everybody out here is breathing the same damn air and bleeding the same damn blood. People just fear what they don't understand.

It's such a terrible, terrible thing. And that's why I give credit to Major League Baseball. They can only do what they can do, right?

Major League Baseball, the NBA, the NFL, they're not going to wake up and fix the world's problems. And in a lot of cases, it's not their job. They exist to make money.

And a lot of times it's social responsibility because of the human beings that wear the uniform, some of the individuals who work for the entity. But at the end of the day, it's all about the almighty dollar, what's going to make dollars and what's going to make sense. And in a lot of cases in business and not just in sports, it's about the dollar first and it's about the human later. And that's one big reason, power, money, why we have so many so many issues in the world. You know, every day at the end of the show, I certainly share with you the things that took place this day in sports history. Well, you want to talk about an aspect, an element of that.

I'm going to make you wait until the end of the show. But, you know, we have had an athlete who was very, very vocal and standing up for other people and, you know, just sticking sticking to what he believed in and not just saying, hey, you know, there aren't too many athletes who make that that sacrifice. And people want to fight him. You know, I mean, shoot, we had Colin Kaepernick years ago, regardless what you felt about his stance or what he said or what he didn't say.

But the man put himself out there and he paid for it with his job, with his career. I haven't heard about him in fact. Hickey, when was the last time you heard anything about Kaepernick?

A year, if that? He had that workout, was that two years ago? Remember that? Man, that was in, you're talking about the one here in Atlanta, the first one? Didn't he have one in Michigan? He had one in Michigan. Or he was at the spring game and like working out in Michigan. Yeah, when Harbaugh, when Harbaugh was still there. In November of 2019, Kaepernick had that that that ill-timed or ill-fated workout here in Atlanta that he kind of scrambled together at the last minute after he wasn't happy with some of the NFL's parameters.

I was actually there at that workout. And you don't hear nothing about him. I haven't I feel like every year you get a Colin Kaepernick. I'm ready. I'm here.

I'm ready to play. Man, that that boat I think has has sailed. When you think about all the young quarterbacks who have come into the NFL and how much they cost. And then the other element of it, whether you feel it's justified or not, he comes as a distraction. Colin Kaepernick could walk into any locker room in the NFL right now. He is the biggest deal.

He is the story. It's no longer about how many games is XYZ team going to play. It's no longer about is this coach going to make it through the season. All that's done. If you bring a Colin Kaepernick into your locker room, you're no longer a football team.

You are a national news story. And that's why I think at this point, yeah, he's he's paid and yeah, he got paid as well. But he's paid for his career. I think I think his days are throwing a football in the league. I think that's done.

I think that's finished. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. This game is taking place out at Birmingham, Alabama. Rickwood Field. The St. Louis Cardinals lead the Giants right now, three to nothing.

Pretty cool as well to see the teams honor the Negro Leagues with their respective uniforms out at Rickwood. What we're going to do is take a break when we come back on the other side of the break. Speaking of quarterbacks, we want to talk about quarterbacks because the NFL has quite a few of them that have gotten paid handsomely over the past several months, over the past several years. And it appears that the NFL, at least the owners. They're not going to take it anymore. The NFL owners are trying to implement a change. To slow down this money, going to the most important players on the field.

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How about this? I blink and two seconds later, the San Francisco Giants tie up. The St. Louis Cards three three at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama.

Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven is the number if you want to give me a holler. It's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven is Major League Baseball is in Birmingham, Alabama, at Rickwood Field. So pretty much honor the Negro Leagues as well as show love and acknowledge Willie Mays.

And this was a plan prior to his passing. Just I don't want to say ironic timing. Coincidental timing might be more appropriate, but it's a it's a beautiful scene of what Major League Baseball is doing.

Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. I'm going to get to your calls. And then I told you that Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys.

Well, I think they're behind an initiative that is going to or could potentially change the payment to quarterbacks in the NFL. But let's talk to Greg. Greg is calling from Alabama. Greg, you're on the J.R. sport show. What's up? Thank you, sir.

Appreciate you taking a call. The thing with Willie Mays and everything they're doing at Rickwood Field, I call about my dad was a World War Two veteran. His life work with the principal and a school superintendent and post World War Two. He saw like all the great New York Yankees play. But the one thing that he talked about, probably as much as anything, is he got a couple of buddies and they would drive to Rickwood to see the Birmingham Black Barons play.

And he used to talk about Willie Mays being the greatest thing he ever he had ever seen because the ball sounded different coming off the bat. He could fly. He could track down anything. And he made it look easy. You know, he would come back and he would people tell people where he was.

You know, we would see the Birmingham Black Barons play. And of course, some of them were like kind of incredulous at that. But even well into his life, because of the times, because of the times. And but well into his life, he would just talk with amazement about what he saw Willie Mays do at Rickwood Field.

So I wasn't able to get down there. But it's just I just think it's one of the greatest things ever that they're they're doing down there. And I just I just appreciate the opportunity to share that.

No, thank you so much for sharing that. I can tell you, anyone that I've ever spoken to or heard, I didn't meet I didn't meet Willie Mays. I did have the pleasure of meeting Hank Aaron prior to his passing a few years ago. But anybody you talk to, any of the older folks, they all tell you about Willie Mays being one of the best.

And that is just flat and period. And it's a cool thing. Not a lot of people are learning about what he meant to the game.

And I don't think a lot of people still have to have the grasp on what he meant as a figure in the United States of America. So thank you, Greg, so much for it, for coming through and sharing that story. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We'll keep you up to date on the game. And of course, Rich Ackerman will come through and give us an update in about 10 minutes on everything going on in the world of sports. And one thing that has gone on amongst all of the news between, you know, the game at Rickwood Field, the Lakers, who they were going to hire, we now know it's J.J. Redick, Kaitlyn Clark.

Also in the news, I feel like once a week there's a new controversy or something with Kaitlyn Clark. The NFL, for the most part, at least for this week, they've kind of been underneath the radar. No huge news when it comes down to the NFL. I mean, last week we learned about Trevor Lawrence and his massive contract. And then a few days later, we hear that there are some NFL owners who want to take the approach of. Now the players are making too much money.

Now the quarterbacks are pocketing too much coin. Trevor Lawrence signed a ridiculous deal, a five year contract extension that's going to pay him two hundred and seventy five million dollars. Well, today things were official. Trevor Lawrence put pen to paper. He took his fancy photos. Trevor Lawrence spoke to the media.

And Trevor Lawrence, he told everybody the goal. He says this to bring. We're heading in the right direction and I want to be the quarterback here. I want to bring a championship to Jacksonville. That's my goal. And I really know that we can accomplish that. So I'm excited for that.

And, you know, it just pairs up to where we happen to love living here, too. Oh, that's good. That's good for him. Mac Jones can show him around. I feel bad.

I'm sorry. If anyone who's not familiar, we know Mac Jones back in Jacksonville after the Patriots said goodbye. And now he's from he's originally from Jacksonville.

Yeah, we know he played at Alabama, but Mac Jones is from Jacksonville. And now he has to play behind a guy who's making picky. I don't know if I could do that, man.

I mean, I could if I had to. This man had to go home. He basically got fired from the Patriots. He has to go back to his hometown and a quarterback who he basically competed with for a spot in the NFL is now in front of him, making two hundred and seventy five million dollars. And here you are. This is this is like some kid who had to leave town to chase a big dream.

And now he came back and everybody's in front of him. You're right. It sucks. I guess the only thing I look at with him is just like, what's the alternative? Right. You know, where's he going? He can't obviously was not a free agent. I mean, I don't know what place would make him a starter anyway.

No place. Right. So this, you know, rehab, you're kind of be like, you know what, if I was him, enjoy being home. Look at Mitch Trubisky when he backed up Josh Allen for a few years in Buffalo.

That got him a gig eventually, short lived, albeit in Pittsburgh and hoped, I guess, in a way to be Mitch Trubisky 2.0. So do you think he's living at home? Oh, doing the old overplayed story of Tommy Cutlet's DeVito. Yeah. Oh, you're living at home story.

Mom is folding his underwear and stuff. That's a great question. They probably got a nice big house in Jacksonville. I guess.

Why not? Right. I guess it depends if your friends are still there. Well, we'll see how long we'll see how long he sticks around in town. We know his hope is to maybe play good soldier for a little bit and then maybe end up on another team because we know Mac Jones is not playing unless Trevor Lawrence goes down with some some ridiculous injury. And I mean, that's pretty much what happened last year. He didn't have a ridiculous injury. I did think his season was over.

One of the times he went down on his leg. But the Jacksonville Jaguars, they started six and two. And the minute that Trevor Lawrence started to get knocked around, they ended the season three and six. And so the Jags.

Yeah. There's an expectation for them to start climbing into being one of the best teams in the AFC. That's why you heard Trevor Lawrence say, hey, we want to bring a championship to Jacksonville. And you think about some of the other additions to the Jags. Come on, Nate. They resigned Josh Allen to a contract extension.

The Josh Allen who knocks people over. They added a bunch of help on the offensive line, bringing in guys like Mitch Morris from Buffalo and Trevor Lawrence said he did his contract. Two hundred and seventy five million bucks so they could actually add more talent and listen to him. Obviously, there was a certain amount that as a player, you know, you want to make and you want to be in the market value, all those things. But you also want to keep the team in a good position to where we can, you know, pay other guys and have players around me and do all those things. And from a salary cap perspective, and I don't know, I don't know how that works, but just felt like my agent and Trenton, the whole front office did a good job of maneuvering all those things where it felt like felt like we all won in the end. And it puts us in a position to where we can still have a lot of talent here.

We can bring guys in or we can keep the guys that we have. That was something that was important to me because I didn't want to. I wasn't worth it to me to sacrifice, you know, being able to have a good team just so I can make some money. Yeah, I don't I don't know how all this salary cap stuff works, but I heard I gave the team a discount.

Hickey, that's stuff that like wealthy people say. Just give him a discount now to help us to help us to be in two hundred seventy five million dollars. Yeah, I took a discount.

All right. So where is so much of a discount at fifty five million dollars a year that that Trevor Lawrence is now the highest paid guy? His extension doesn't kick in until the following season, but he's only making fifty five a year. Joe Burrow only right. Oh my God. Only what is he going to how is he going to eat at night? Right. Oh my God. Team player.

I know which vacation he has to choose between vacations. What a world. Joe Burrow's making fifty five. He's making fifty five.

And so we've entered into a space where the bar has continued to raise. We got Daniel Jones on the New York Giants. He's making 40 mil a year. The same amount as Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott, despite his own postseason record. He got a little bit more juice than Trevor Lawrence.

He may not have the same type of upside. That's what the Jaguars are paying for. But if you're the Dallas Cowboys, you got to be saying, well, damn it, I can't pay Dak fifty five.

I got to pay Dak. What? Right. Like fifty eight. I mean, are we now rounding that up? Do we got to pay Dak Prescott 60 mil? It was crazy enough when Dak Prescott actually got paid and agreed to a contract.

I believe it was twenty twenty with the Dallas Cowboys. People were like, oh my God, he's making 40 mil. Patrick Mahones is making forty five and then Dak is making 40. It made no sense.

And then everybody jumped right in front of Dak. And so when you think of a guy now with a playoff record of two and five. You're going to hand him over 60 million dollars. Ouch.

There's a report out right now. That NFL owners want to put a cap on how much money a quarterback can make on a team. Let's think about this. The highest paid quarterbacks in the league right now, Burrow and Lawrence, they're set to make fifty five per average annual value. The next highest. And we got to think about somebody like like Justin Jefferson making thirty five. That's a 20 mil. That's 20 mil jump. You look at some of the cap in the case of Joe Burrow. This man is making almost a quarter of the entire salary cap for the team.

And I get it. The money keeps going up and up and up and up and up and up. But at what point do we just say, hey, quarterback, take all the money and everybody else get pennies.

This is nuts. I mean, I'll take some NFL pennies, but this is ridiculous. A matter of fact, take a listen, because on Rich Eisen's show, Tom Pelosaro, he basically said that some of these owners, I think Jerry Jones. I think maybe Stephen Ross with the Dolphins, who has to pay two a ton of a lot. Tom Pelosaro, he got the dish.

Take a listen. There certainly has been discussion within the league, Rich, among certain owners about even the idea of a quarterback cap. That at some point you want quarterback numbers to not go over a certain percentage of your salary cap. To my knowledge, that really hasn't gained traction, in part because so many teams have paid their quarterbacks. And if you went to suddenly an NBA model where all of a sudden you have the max and the supermax, there's really only a couple of levels that guys can get paid at. It kind of changes the dynamics in terms of how you set yourself up salary cap wise and whatnot. NFL will do anything to just try to hoard the money. How about y'all just do a better job in evaluating the quarterbacks, in developing the quarterbacks. And then you have a better chance and an opportunity to say, hey, I want to keep this guy or I want to get rid of him because we got NFL teams.

Come on now. Do you think the New York Giants want Daniel Jones? They basically had to pay him because he had one good season where he stayed healthy. And if he's any type of average this year, they're probably going to give him the boot anyway. Who wants to pay 40 million dollars to somebody who's not going to help you win a damn thing?

The answer is nobody. This is going to be real interesting because what takes place, I feel, over the next 12 months in the NFL. What type of contract Dak gets, what type of contract that to a tongue of a lower gets.

It's really going to set the future. For what a quarterback can make. Now, we've seen market manipulation in the past before. I mean, look at Major League Baseball. I mean, we got Scott Boris clients who can't get long term deals because the owners, I don't want to say they sit in their dungeon.

They sit in their cave. They have their secret meetings and they go, well, stop giving out the pitchers a 40 million dollar contract. Like, stop doing that. And then nobody gets a deal. And the Players Association cries collusion. The owners are trying to suffocate the salaries and the future earnings of the players. Collusion. Dangerous for free market space for athletes. Collusion. Well, it looks like the NFL might be trying to do the same.

This is victims of their own work. Do better. Don't pay anybody that doesn't deserve it. Stop throwing around this ridiculous money.

And you know what? Maybe we are reaching a point in sports where the salaries are going so high. Maybe the owners actually realizing, like, damn it, we want results. Like, we have to split the money. That's what we collectively bargain.

But we actually we need results. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Speaking of an NBA salary, when we come back, the phone lines open if you want to give me a holler. We're going to talk about Paul George.

We talked about him earlier in the show. Paul George has an option to pretty much go wherever he wants. Get paid whatever he wants. But is a guy like Paul George worth it? Everybody's making money.

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Oh, man. St. Louis scored an hour. The sun is setting in Birmingham, Alabama. The St. Louis leads San Francisco 5-3. I wish I felt like I was in a time warp. But thank thank God they're not wearing a bag of uniforms. I don't think the players could deal with it. Anyway, right before we went to break, we talked about a variety of things. We talked about NFL quarterbacks. The owners in the NFL are looking at this going, man, we need to put a salary cap on the quarterbacks because the spending is getting out of control. I told you that we would talk about Paul George and what his future might look like.

We've obviously talked about JJ Reddick. And so I'm going to hit the phone lines right now. It's 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27.

It's 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27. Let's get to some of your calls and let's keep on talking about everything going on in the world of sports. Right now, Rick is calling from Nebraska. You're on the J.R. Sportbreeze show.

What's up, Rick? Hey, let's put a cap on these quarterbacks that can't get to the Super Bowl or can't get to the league championship series. If they can't make it that far, the farthest they can cap out is $35 million. If you can't get to the Super Bowl or can't get to the league championship series, you don't deserve more than $35 million.

Well, how do you do that? I mean, you take pay away. I just arbitrarily come up with that. Hey, create some incentive for these guys to get protected, for other teams to go somewhere, and for big market teams. If Jaren Jones thinks that Dak's so hot to try, then why hasn't he won more than one championship series? Well, he's only he's only won two playoff games.

And Rick, I'll tell you this much. If you want to think about. So, hey, in the NFL and thank you for calling from Nebraska in the NFL.

Man, ain't no ain't no big market, small market like the money is everywhere. Come on. This is and this is a matter of fact, all sports, but much more so in the NFL.

I guess it don't matter where you play. Jordan Love might be the next big quarterback getting a payday. He plays in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Come on now. Shea Gilgas, Alexander, if he decides to spend the next, I don't know, million years of his career in Oklahoma City. This man is from Canada. I believe he's from Toronto.

He's in Oklahoma City. He could wake up and say, hey, I'm making 60 and 65 million dollars a year in Oklahoma City. It's not so much about the markets, especially in the NFL.

Throw that idea out the window. And in a league where the guys already don't have guaranteed contracts. These NFL players are trying to get their bonuses up front and right out of the gate in case of injury. That's tough saying, well, we're going to further incentivize you as a quarterback. If you don't do this, then you're going to be capped here. The rest of it is incentive based. And so what happens if a guy, I don't know, just goes to an NFC championship game? We're going to lock him up for the next four years because he went once. We're only going to pay you this much for this year and the next year we're going to pay you less. That's tough, man.

Don't work that way. The union would like to have a conversation with you. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Alan is calling from Toronto. You're on the J.R. sport show. What's up, Alan? Hi, J.R.

Thank you very much for taking my call. Sad he was only two days away from going to Rickwood Stadium in Birmingham. I know the spirit was willing. It's just a question of the body could do it at the advantage of ninety three.

I doubt very much if it could. Well, with Willie Mays, Willie Mays told everybody that he wasn't going to go. And we've also learned that he was and has been in hospice. And so it was it was not going to be a case of him heading out to Alabama.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was inevitable. This man was a five to a player speed defense stole three hundred and two bases, powerful throwing arm and he played in Candlestick Park and it was which was that was a very windswept stadium. And if he only played in Tiger Stadium or Fenway Park or Connie Mack Stadium, these were hitter's parks.

He probably would have cracked the 700 home run barrier and probably broken the Babe Ruth's 714 mark. I still remember I was a little kid of eight years old and I in nineteen and nineteen fifty four World Series, the catch was just unbelievable. On the dead run in deep center field, he put his head down and galloped at the crack of the bat.

Took a fast peak, put his head down and gallop some more. And the center field was four hundred and eighty feet. And he caught it at the four hundred and forty foot mark. So it brought the the Giants off on the launch pad. They were 14 games in arrears of Cleveland Indians, and it was the biggest upset in World Series history. They won the next four games.

This was in the eighth inning. How how old were you? Five? Eight.

Oh, you were eight. OK. Hickey, look at me. Hickey, I'm good. Oh, not you, Alan.

Hickey, I'm good at math. Look at that. Spot on. Look at you.

I'm in the I'm in the area. Well, thank you, Alan. Appreciate you. Yeah, he's it's sad, but may God have may God have mercy on the soul. Yeah, this man was a he was a real gentleman. He was very ingenious and very dope. I met him once.

And OK, he could like he could light up a room. He was just that kind of. What did you what did you have? Was it just the hello, Willie? Like, what did you say to Willie Mays? No, I was in Connie Mack Stadium in 1961.

The Giants were playing the Phillies. And he was just roaming around the field. I said, hi, Willie. And he came over and talked to me. He described everything.

He had a four home run game three weeks ago. And he told me all about it. And we talked about his famous catch. So I met him and he led up my life. So you you meet everybody, Alan. Man, you just all over.

You meet everybody except for me when you come through Atlanta. Yeah. Well, one of these days we're going to meet somewhere. Somehow I can. There you go.

So, OK, Alan. Well, thank you so much for calling from Toronto. You looking forward to tomorrow's Stanley Cup?

Yes, I am. Game six. Who do you got? Who do you have winning? You have Edmondson or do you have the Panthers? I have the Panthers. The Edmondson is going to be there. They've given it all.

They have nothing left. All right. Eight goals, five goals. OK, no more at home. OK. All right. OK. The only thing you can expect is the unexpected. You know that is a better question. One of the Toronto Maple Leafs is going to win something.

Eleven years in county. OK, we're selling Rangers. All right.

At least you have the Raptors and the Blue Jays. Thank you, Alan. Yeah. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you so much. Of course, Alan. Thank you. Thank you. Hickey, that wasn't too bad, right? The Raptors won in twenty nineteen. That's something.

I mean, look, any championship is you can't, you know, push your side or try to knock down. You'll take anything. Man, the Blue Jays are pushing. Oh, yeah. Like almost thirty five. Thirty five years by now.

Almost the ninety two. Yeah. Pushing it.

Wow. At least you got the Raptors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got the Raptors. There you go.

Twenty nineteen that banner still hanging. Kawhi Leonard loved it so much. Hey, bring him back. That's another guy. You know, we talked about Paul. If I'm Paul George, why the hell am I why am I going back there? For what?

And I get it. He went home to play with another Los Angeles guy in Kawhi Leonard. I don't know. I don't know if he stays. And Sam Amick talked with us about this earlier in the show. He's an L.A. guy. He went back from L.A. We thought that he was going to be the guy in an OKC. And it is like, no, I want to go home to L.A.

I don't know. I feel I don't want to say I feel bad. But when you play for the Clippers, it feels like you got a little bit of stink on you. It's not like being a Laker, at least a Laker.

It's glorified, glorified stink. Right. You have an opportunity to win with the Clippers.

You just go to a fancy new stadium paid for by Steve Ballmer and the fans have more toilets. And Paul George is pretty funny. I want you to listen to him. He talked about what he's looking for with his next team.

This is what he said on his own podcast show. I mean, for sure, contributing to winning basketball. But I mean, at this point, I'm not even necessarily like it's not even about like, you know, people saying chasing the championship. Like it's not that. But it's playing the right style of basketball is what I'm chasing. Hickey, I don't know. What does he want?

What does that mean? The right style of basketball. I mean, would you say the Celtics play the right style of basketball?

I guess I would. They ain't got no room for him. Nuggets. They play the right style of basketball. They do.

They do. But do they have room for him? I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean, the Sixers are basically taking themselves out of the the PG sweepstakes.

Yeah, I don't know what that's about. Would you say the Magic play basketball the right way? Oh, well, they're young.

They got a lot of young talent. I think Paulo Bonquero is not a jerk. So no, no, he's not. I think that I think that could work out. OK. So Paul George to the Magic and Klay Thompson back to the Warriors.

What about this one? What about PG stays in L.A., the other L.A. No, no. Once the play with former Clipper legend J.J. Redick. Oh, no. At this point in time, wouldn't Paul George and LeBron be kind of redundant?

Very much so. But for the Lakers, it's almost a little backup for Case LeBron. I mean, I hate to say inevitably, but at this point, his career inevitably gets hurt. Look who's waiting in the wings. You mean LeBron James is not going to average, I don't know, twenty five, eight and eight for the next 10 years?

Some days are over. He still might. But will he play in, what are you playing, 72 games this past year? Will he be playing in that many games next year? I would definitely say I doubt it.

I doubt it. So Anthony Davis, you may need PG out there. It's so interesting to look at LeBron and just say you need to babysit him now throughout the entire season. Just in case you make the post for whatever postseason run, you know, late season run you're going to go on.

You can't run him into the ground. Remember, at the end, the beginning of last year, they had him on a minutes restriction. And then that lasted for what, like one game? And from there, Darvin Ham had to do damage control about, oh, LeBron is going to play.

It's just it's a drama show. I would say this is more of a drama show with the Lakers, with LeBron than than even like like Kobe's years, because at least you know, Kobe was going to show up and just ball out and play until the wheels fell off with him with that Achilles. But then LeBron.

He's the boss of the Lakers, man. That's J.J. Riddick. It's the J.R. sport pre show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network.

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