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For easy cleanup without fear of tearing, no matter the mess. For trusted protection, trust Pampers, the number one pediatrician recommended brand. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. Whatever you're doing, whatever you are or wherever you're at, whoever you went, I hope you're safe. I hope you're well. I hope you've had a tremendous Tuesday. I'm going to be hanging out with you for one more hour. This is a four-hour show. I get started every single weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. So whether you happen to be at work, at home, on the road, you're relaxing, you're rolling, you're chilling, you're holding it down, you're helping, maybe you're doing something you got no business doing.

I can't see you. I don't know. I'm just assuming. Either way, I'm here to have fun. Thank you to super producer and host Ryan Hickey.

He is holding it down for us on the boards in New York City. We've had a busy show. We've had fun.

And I'm going to have more fun before I leave. Of course, at the end of this hour, I'm going to share with you quite a few things that took place this day in sports history. Earlier on in the show, we've had a lot of fun. Thank you again to our guest, Bill Lindsey, former player for the Florida Panthers, current analyst for coming through and talking about what it means for a team that has only been in existence since 1993. Took three trips to the Stanley Cup Finals. Finally walks away with it last night. Thank you, Bill Lindsey, for joining us.

If you missed that conversation, just hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. Of course, we talked about the Panthers victory, the Oilers loss, Connor McDavid walking away with the Khan Smythe. Only the sixth man to do it is basically the MVP of the NHL postseason.

Despite losing in the Stanley Cup final, only the sixth man to do it. We talked we talked about Klay Thompson. The Warriors say they want him back. And Klay Thompson, he's like, where's my offer? We talked about the Lakers being all in on LeBron James. And do they have a choice?

Why wouldn't they be? The Boston Celtics were at Fenway Park last night. A shout out to Kristaps Porzingis. No Olympics for him. He needs surgery on that dislocated ankle ligament, whatever.

Kristaps Porzingis is going to have no legs by the time his NBA career is done. Just the facts. And then also the Carolina Panthers, they're winners too. They're a 20 billion dollar owner. He's chipping in 150 million for an 800 million stadium renovation.

And the taxpayers pay for the rest of it. Same thing in Jacksonville. Congratulations, that rat dump you got out there. No offense to Jacksonville, but I've been to whatever the hell they call that place. It changed the name so often. It is a rat dump.

Literally, there's rats everywhere. Ask the players. The taxpayers are putting up some money to fix that too. Can the Khan family put some money in to fix Jacksonville? I don't know, whatever.

People talk about these teams like it's God's gift to a city. Just put some money in next time. Put some money in. Anyway, 855-212-4227.

That's 855-212-4227. Before we went to break, I made a joke, because I don't think it's going to happen, about LeBron James potentially moving on from the Lakers. It's not going to happen. LeBron James moving on from the Lakers or staying with the Lakers and taking a pay cut. It's not going to happen. Well, let me just say these are highly unlikely things to happen.

LeBron is probably going to cash a major check and try to sign a short-term deal and still put the pressure on the Lakers to bring on help, even though his contract might eat up a good portion of the cap. But I guess that's for Rob Palenka to figure out. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. I'm going to get to your phone calls and then I must, I absolutely must tell you about a liar, someone who lied to college students.

It's the worst of the worst. I'll tell you who in a second. 855-212-4227. Let's talk to someone.

He is not a liar. His name is Cedd. Cedd is calling from Chicago. You're on the J.R. sport re-show. What's up, Cedd? What's going on, bro? How you doing? It depends on what you're going to say.

Go ahead. Yeah, so, man, LeBron's going to get up out of L.A., man. You know, he's going to take my guy Lil Durk up on his offer. He's going to come out to Chicago. He's going to pay half his salary.

And, yeah, we're going to bring Lil Bronny with us and A.D. potentially, you know. Yeah, your guy I was talking to who took my car, who is that that be talking? Excuse me?

Who takes your calls? This is so disrespectful. Hold on a second.

Hickey, what do you want me to tell this man? I mean, look, I guess I'll take that. I wasn't confused for Shep at this point. We've gotten past that. We have. That was one guy. You know, I want to make sure I said, were you were you talking this whole time? I just was talking to him now. OK, well, you were talking to yourself.

We didn't we didn't hear anything you said. This man's name is Ryan Hickey. Not only is Ryan Hickey here with me throughout the course of the week, Ryan Hickey also broadcast here on the weekends on the Infinity Sports Network.

So he's not just some guy who picks the phone up. He's one of our hosts here, said. Well, hey, Ryan, why not introduce myself? My name is said, you know, I was so familiar with Shep for so long. I didn't get to meet you yet like that.

But Ryan, what's going on? But hello, said. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, bro. But well, yeah. Yeah.

No, hey, I don't think it's going to happen. But it was just interesting to me that it was even a conversation. It was just funny because it does bring me back to whenever Bob should have came the first go round whenever he had the chance to come with him away. But, you know, they decided to go to Miami. I think they would they would have more success out of Chicago with Rose, if you ask me that. Well, we saw how Derek Rose, how his body held up and how it might have held up.

He just played at too much of a breakneck. And I think I think the Bulls days are over. Them days are over. We saw we we all obviously know what took place in the 90s. I think the closest that we got to any of that was Kobe Bryant asking to be traded to the Chicago Bulls. We know that that did not come to fruition. And I don't think where we're at right now.

Let's let's think about this. Michael Jordan's era might be yesterday to me and you. But to the current crop of players who've never seen Michael Jordan play for the 19 year olds who are going to be drafted into the NBA tomorrow, they don't know squat diddly about Michael Jordan.

They probably have more of a familiarity with a LeBron James and the legend of a Kobe Bryant. Is that was that you or is that what's your neighbor? No, it's not. That was me, man.

I have some kids, but it's on a Saturday. He tells me to honk the horn. Thank you. Well, thank you.

Thank you for honking a horn for the children. But then I hate to tell you them days are over, man. Like even LeBron James, who remembers the back end of Michael Jordan, I don't think LeBron James says hey, I want to join the Chicago Bulls.

I know you were just saying, but I hate to paint a bleaker picture for you. Ain't nobody looking at the Bulls saying, oh, man, I need to join the storied franchise. Them days are over.

And when I hate to also be the bearer of bad news. I don't know what's going to happen when Jerry Reinsdorf either sells or passes away. But I can imagine there's going to be some it's going to be a tumultuous time with the Bulls. And I think they've seen their glory years. I'm sorry, Seth. I agree with you. And that's sad, man, because we are one of those charter franchises for the NBA.

Like a lot of a lot of people love the Bulls back in the 90s, but it ain't what it used to be. Them days are over. Well, sorry, Seth.

Good luck. And thank you for honking a horn for the kids. Said love the kids, right?

Like Trick Daddy? Yes, sir. We love the kids.

Yeah, said love the kids. Thank you. Thank you, said. Drive safe. Have a good one, bro. You as well. Hickey, I thought for a minute he was saying that he had the honk to tell the kids to move out the way.

Same. I thought he said that they're getting too close. Yeah.

So, hey, he obliges at least. I didn't know that kids passed people on a highway and asked them to honk the horn. I thought those days were over. I thought it was just truck drivers or fire truck drivers, too.

Well, yeah, truck drivers, too. But uh, I think, man, I think kids are so full of it. I've seen more kids throwing up, you know, middle fingers than anything out of windows. Like, what is that?

Have you ever seen that yet on the school bus? Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah. What are we at in the world?

Where are we? You drive by a school bus and it's just like the little kids, you know, like, hey, here's a middle finger for you. Whoa.

Happy Tuesday. And what can you do? Nothing.

You can't do anything. You just can't do anything but shake your head at society and say, what type of a crap world do we live in? We're a school bus full of elementary school.

I'm talking elementary school students. Just say, hey, instead of waving to the nice friendly strangers outside, I'm going to give them the middle finger. What?

Said, consider yourself lucky, man. The kid asked you to honk the horn. It could have, could have been worse.

And speaking of worse, how about this? Last night, with all the winning of the Stanley Cup that the Florida Panthers did, we talked about this earlier in the show. The University of Tennessee, the volunteers, they won the college baseball World Series. Tennessee beat Texas A&M. The final score last night was six to five. If you're not familiar with the College World Series, they play a best two out of three. OK. And so Tennessee won the series two to one. And for the most part, the last thing that that the volunteers won was like a track and field event back in 2009. So last night was a big deal for the volunteers. Meanwhile, it was also a big deal for Texas A&M. This is not something Texas A&M is used to. And so they had an opportunity to win and they did not. Now, listen to me very carefully. If you know anything about college athletics, you know, Texas A&M in Texas, the Longhorns.

They hate each other. Well, yesterday. Texas fired their coach. OK, so there's a vacancy there. Now, the Texas A&M manager. Jim Schlossnagle. You heard what I said.

You're damn right I said it. Jim Schlossnagle, the manager of Texas A&M. After the defeat, after the loss, the media asked him what I think is a is a justifiable question, a justified question. They asked Jim Schlossnagle whether or not he would entertain leaving Texas A&M. So go join the Longhorns and Jim Schlossnagle. He took issue with this question.

Listen to this man, have a fit. Coach, with respect to the difficult outcome tonight, but with the rumors circulating today about a specific job opening, what do you have to say about your future in Aggieland? Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty selfish of you to ask me that question, to be honest with you. But I left my family to be the coach at Texas A&M. I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again, and that hasn't changed in my mind. And that's unfair to talk about something like that.

That'd be like you asking Montgomery if he's going to sign in the draft. But I understand you got to ask the question. But I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job, and I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job.

And I've given this job every single ounce I can possibly give it. Write that. What a jerk. I'm going to tell you why he's a jerk. Icky, what did he say at the beginning of that statement?

I got so upset. He said it was disrespectful or rude or what did he say? The word he used was selfish. A selfish question. It was selfish to ask him that question? That's right.

How selfish is this? Because last night, after you just heard what he said about he moved his family and he's away and all of this and he never wants to take another job. Multiple reports say he is leaving Texas A&M to become the baseball coach at Texas. Come on now. Well, has he been looking in the Bobby Petrino handbook?

Has he been looking at the Tommy Tuberville handbook? I'm going to leave my team. I'm going to leave my college athletes.

I'm going to leave everybody high and dry. I'm going to leave them hanging at lunch? Selfish? The guy asking the question sounded like a college student and my bad if he's not, he sounded like a young dude.

I mean, damn it. Him asking the question was selfish? Well, what about you leaving? How is everybody at Texas A&M supposed to feel about you? If you're going to say that that was a selfish question for him to ask, then what are you?

You're acting like a jackass. You just changed your mind overnight. That offer was too big. That call was too great.

That phone ringing, that text message was too massive. I can bet you one thing that Jim Schlossnagle probably doesn't have. Does he have it in him to apologize to the reporter? Does he have it in him to apologize to the school?

If this is true, does he have the cojones to go, I lied, or is he just going to feed us a whole lot of, well, things changed over time? Well, things happen so fast. Oh, things happen so fast. Oh, next time, just relax. I get it. Yeah, you just lost at Texas A&M, but don't feed people the garbage.

Sitting up on your soapbox about asking you about your future is so selfish when you decided to leave Texas A&M high and dry. Jim Schlossnagle, do better. Don't be a jackass. 855-212-4227.

855-212-4227. He's grinding my gears. Hate people like that. Yeah, things change, but you don't got to be a jackass about it.

You know what a lot of people say in those cases? I'm here at Texas A&M. We just lost. I'm not talking about that right now. Done.

We got to chop somebody down to cover up your own ass. The JR Sportbree Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. At the end of the hour, of course, I'm going to share with you some things that took place this day in sports history. How about a hint? I told you the Chicago Bulls, their glory days are behind them. I think today might have been a special day in Bulls history.

When we come back on the other side of the break, speaking of leaving, there's a guy on the Toronto Blue Jays who says he wouldn't mind if he moved on to be a Yankee. What? We'll talk about that. Plus, whatever the hell you want to say. It's the JR Sportbree Show, the Infinity Sports Network.

Jim Schlossnagle. Plug in a Hyundai EV and the extraordinary happens. It's not just the ultra-fast charging capability and long range in the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6, or the adventure-seeking spirit of the Kona Electric, or the groundbreaking 601 horsepower IONIQ 5N. And it's not just the comfort in knowing that every Hyundai EV is backed by a 10-year, 100,000-mile limited electric battery warranty. Hyundai's EVs transform a low hum into a loud adventure. They bring color to your journey and turn energy into main character energy.

So forget everything you thought you knew about EVs and turn the extraordinary into something truly electrifying. There's joy in every journey. You're listening to the JR Sportbrief. It's the JR Sportbree Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Right before we went to break, I told you about the former, soon to be former head coach and manager of Texas A&M Baseball, Jim Schlossnagle. Jim Schlossnagle basically scolded a reporter last night for even asking whether or not he was going to stick around and possibly take another job with a rival like Texas.

And Jim Schlossnagle basically chopped this reporter down and said his question was just just selfish and kind of rude and all of this stuff. And why are you asking me this question? And I left my family and all of this and I'm here and I don't want another job.

And then today we find out he's going to be the next coach at Texas. Come on. Did we need the whole theater? Did we need the theatrics?

The only thing we were missing was a real script. I can't stand, can't stand people want to bully other people. I can't. Like if you want to sit up there and lie in your response, then fine. You got to raise your blood pressure at this person. And I get it.

Everybody's a human. You just had a big old loss. But man, you were sitting around likely big old lying. Learn how to control yourself.

Learn how to control your emotions. Anyway, enough of this Jim Schlossnagle speed of controlling themselves. I guess things do change. People change their minds, right? Jim Schlossnagle changed his mind in, I don't know, eight hours, five hours.

This is very interesting to me. The New York Yankees are currently getting smacked around by the New York Mets nine to one. Oh, this is a beat down in New York City taking place in Queens, New York.

It's a beat down. There's another baseball team that's taking a beat down all year long. It's the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays this season, they suck. We know that the New York Yankees, even though they're on a little bit of a downswing right now, the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles, they're pretty much sitting at the top of the American League East.

Now you take a look at the Blue Jays and they're sitting at the bottom with a record of 35 and 43. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is pretty much the star of the Blue Jays and has been since he pretty much came into the majors. And of course, he's the son of one of the greatest hitters that I've ever seen, Vladimir Guerrero.

That's the real one. This man would stand there like an oak tree. No batting gloves, no effort. Vladimir Guerrero never looked like he was trying. This man hit home runs. He hit for average. He patrolled right field.

He threw you out with the laser of an arm. Vladimir Guerrero is one of the best baseball players I've seen in my life. It's like he might as well have created the game of baseball. And so his son, who's the opposite of him, a little smaller, a little more portly, a little rounder, is still damn good himself.

He's not his dad. This season, he's having what you would consider to be a disappointing season. 10 home runs, 35 RBIs.

OK, fine, whatever. His contract is up at the end of next year. And unlike Jim Schlossnagle, who changed his mind overnight, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., as these Blue Jays have kind of just stunk a little bit. For years, he's talked about how he would never sign with the New York Yankees. He'd never play for the New York Yankees. He says even dead.

I mean, those are some tough words. I don't know how he'd play baseball dead, but he said he wouldn't. Well, last night, he was playing for well. Last night, he changed his tune. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. said. Sometimes one says things. It's not that I'm trying to take back what I said about the Yankees, but this is a business. I sat down and spoke with my dad and my family, and this is a business. And I said, I would never talk about this topic.

And lots of people have asked me about it. OK. Toronto Blue Jays said we ain't moving him anyway. Why this is a topic, why he's bringing us up at this point, I have no idea.

Does he want to move on? Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has never been shy about hitting home runs against the Yankees and just showing them up in the process. Here's the deal. News flash. I think a lot of people understand not everybody wants to play for no Yankees.

Not everybody wants to play. Hickey, when are they going to get rid of stupid facial hair policy? Never. Right. Great question.

Probably never. Unless the Steinbrenner's one day sell, maybe that is still one of the dumbest things. I think in this in this era, in this year, like you can't have the Yankees facial hair and not even facial hair policy. And this goes back to George Steinbrenner wanting to have, you know, coming from a military family, wanting to have his players who he's paying have a certain look. Yankees can't have hair past their collar. Yankees can't have hair below the lip. So you can have a mustache, but you can't have a goatee. You can have a mustache, but you can't have a beard. You can have hair, but don't let it flow past your collar. Now, if you're asking me, that's it's antiquated. And I can certainly understand wanting to maintain a camp to look a kept look.

But can you not have a beard and look kept? I mean, Jason Giambi joined the New York Yankees. And now I mean, everybody in Oakland.

Which is soon to not have a baseball team. Everybody in Oakland. Look at this guy as a sellout. You got this long haired steroid using the hippie. Mustache and beard and long hair. He goes to the Yankees and Jason Giambi cut his hair. Jason Giambi had a mustache that made him look like a particular star. And even the Yankees fans didn't particularly care for the guy.

I think it's past due. One day, Hickey, one day the New York Yankees need like a guy, a star who will say, I want to go play for the Yankees, but I need to keep my hair on my beard. What happens if the Yankees get a guy who says my hair is part of my religion? What happens if the Yankees get a guy who says my hair is part of my religion? What happens then?

What do they do? Say no? I guess so. We get a lawsuit?

Could you imagine if Shohei Ohtani had a beard and didn't sign with the Yankees because of that? I wish. I wish.

Maybe they get rid of the policy. I get it. Baseball players are known, you know, to you know, sometimes they let loose. You know, we got guys that run around looking like werewolves and what have you. Let me ask you this.

What's the difference? The Yankees got a pitcher, Luis Hill. He has tattoos everywhere. He has tattoos on his neck, on his back. He has tattoos everywhere.

If George Steinbrenner was alive, what is he going to do? Scrub his tattoos off? So what's the difference if the whole idea about being a New York Yankee is being cleaned and no facial hair and no long hair, then why is Hill pitching? Tattoos are OK? I never saw nobody on a Yankees mound in the 50s with tattoos on their whole body, but would that have been OK?

I think the Yankees got to change with the times. I mean, shoot, give it a length. Fine. No hair past the collar so we can see your numbers. Fine.

No facial hair longer than, I don't know, an inch. So at least it stays neat. I don't know something. This is old to me. I just we haven't had a player to fight over it.

I mean, why? You got guys like Aaron Judge making 40 mil a year. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27, Marco Belletti is here, Marco, you like the Yankees. I like the Yankees in this kind of old.

I need one player. At some point over the next 10 years to go, this is this is stupid. What are you doing? This is the dumbest rule. I've been barking about it for a long time. It is so I mean, even the idea that like, well, no, no, no, you want to be clean. Stop. You want a certain look that really is just unjustifiable.

It really is. And there was one guy and it's a shame that he didn't take the bait on this. But when the Yankees signed Wade Boggs back in 92, I remember this vividly. George Steinbrenner said, if you need the beard to hit, you can keep the beard. And Boggs was like, no, not going to be any different than anybody else. And he shaved it and went with just a mustache and said, it's OK, I want to be just like everybody else. Now, at the time, it felt like, all right, look, he doesn't want to be twenty four and one like the whole A-Rod thing.

He wants to be part of the group coming to the Yankees from the Red Sox, wants to fit in. But looking back, it's a shame that Wade Boggs didn't take that and was like, you know what? Yeah, I'm going to keep my damn beard, give me my chicken and I'm going to get three thousand hits for you.

It would have been really nice because at some point we need a player to do that, to look at it and go, you want me, you're going to pay me and I'm going to look however the hell I want to look. Because since when do we go to work and somebody looks at you goes, cut your hair or shave your beard? Like, I'm a grown man.

If I want a beard, I have a beard. What are we doing? This ain't the military. I'm sorry. It's really it's so over the top. Again, like I understand if you look at it and go, look, you're you're uncleanly where it's like you stink.

You're a problem. Like you can't walk in here and just be unkempt. I get that concept.

And that's like a one on one where you look at him and go, look, you're a little out of control, but you're a grown man. And this is not a job where, you know, you're working with food or you're you know, there's a problem with you can play baseball with in the dirt. You can play baseball with a beard. You're allowed. It's OK.

It's not going to cause somebody else a problem. There will there will be a player. It's just a matter of one. Just a matter of one.

That's it. Would it have been Luis Castillo if the Yankees would pull the trigger on that trade? He had been talked about it. He didn't want to get rid of his dreads.

He went to Seattle. Didn't matter. Well, his locks, I think he keeps them up. Ours is his hair hanging low.

Does he have it up in a bun in the back? It wouldn't matter. Technically for the Yankees, it wouldn't matter. That was I forget who it was.

I think it's below the collar. I know McCutcheon came over, but I think his hair was cut by the time he went from Pittsburgh. He was already a Yankee.

Can't have a chair according to the way the Yankee, you know, whatever. And look, there's also been times to like during the 70s, there were guys that were like, you know, Lou Piniella had long hair. There was, you know, stick Michael did. It was almost what it was convenient. And it was where, you know, they wanted to be. But there are certain time in ninety five.

Jack McDowell had a goatee for a while, sort of Mattingly. And then everybody was like relaxed. And then, you know what, let's let's fix this again. So it depends on if you're winning or not. So I feel like this is all just nonsense. It really is.

And nobody wants to fight it because you're getting paid and they don't care. Aaron Judge needs to grow out a beard. What the hell would he look like? I've never seen this guy. No, you know what? I think I did. Did you see that photo in the offseason of him with a beard? I did not. I did not. I mean, most guys do. If you watch the Yankee players, it's almost like to a man because it's it's almost childlike where it's, you know, you can't do like why can't I do I'm a grown man.

What the hell are you talking about? And the one that I remember struck me. And again, he's a he's a marginal player. I understand that when the Yankees picked up Rugnett O'Dore, he had a shave and he had a big like, you know, one of those old school, like big giant, almost Santa Claus beards. He looked like a different human being. He did to the point where his daughter didn't go near him for three days because she didn't recognize him because she was like four years old. What are we doing that this man has to explain to his daughter that I'm still your father? I just look different. What the hell? Who the hell are you that you have to tell him that he can't look the way he wants to look?

And his daughter's now afraid of him for, you know, she gets over three or four days. It's fine. But it's the idea that like, you're just an employee. You're not an overseer.

It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Soon. Maybe it could be you, Marco. Maybe. Right. No, maybe. Well, I mean, I'm old and fat and I suck, so I don't I don't think it would be me, but. Oh, OK.

I would have thought that again. Like, look, you say that, but it's just the idea that like you're dealing with men, you're not dealing with children. These are not little kids. This is not a little league. This is not like I know we think about like, oh, when I play you were 14 when you played.

These are grown men that have kids of their own, the wives, families, mistresses, whatever you want to call it, whatever. They're allowed to grow facial hair. I mean, I'm sorry.

Like it's just it's really it's mind blowing when you stop and you go, this guy's 37 years old. He can't have a beard. What?

Well, not not for the naked faced New York Yankees. Soon enough, Marco in check. I sent you an Aaron Judge with facial hair so you can check that out later. OK, Marco. I got it.

You're welcome. It's the J.R. Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I got a beard. Marko got a beard. Hey, you got a beard right now. I know you every now and then you keep something up there.

What's going on? I do. I do have a beard. It's not very full, but it's I guess it technically counts as a beard. Yeah, we got beards here and we're not Yankees.

We're men. Unlike the hairless New York Yankees, I got some other words, but I'll keep it there. You are listening to the J.R. Sport Brief, the J.R. Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network, eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We're going to pick up the phone lines and I'm going to tell you about a few things that took place this day in sports history.

And then I have a moment to be sad. But before we do any of that, let's talk to Sean from Michigan. You're on the J.R.

Sport Reshow. What's up, Sean? Well, let me turn my radio down, brother.

We're talking about beards and mustaches. All right. Not me here. Yeah, I'm this. Yeah, I'm paid to be here. You called me. Go ahead. OK. Yeah. It's all part of the infiltration system of your inhaling system.

And people don't understand this. It's no different than a hair. Everything catches bugs. Everything catches all kinds of germs. And your your mustache is your first protectant against anything you're inhaling from anything.

It's your first protect. And you keep your beard and your mustache clear. You're going to breathe for you. You know, you shave that away. Your nose and your nose, your sinuses are catching everything. OK, Sean, what I mean, what I need you to do is to write this to the New York Yankees.

They are at 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, New York. I don't have a pen on me right now, brother. I can't get back. I'm sitting in my truck and OK, I'm sitting in my truck in heaven right now listening to you. Well, thank you. I literally am just sitting in heaven right now. Oh, me too. Well, listen, that's not the first time someone said an interaction with me was like heaven. So thank you, Sean.

I appreciate it. No, I mean, I completely don't. But they don't. They understand this.

No, I don't know. Listen, Sean, there's some people that don't want facial hair. So, I mean, to each his own.

Right. I just think the Yankees forcing it upon people is little, little wild. But thank you, Sean. Oh, they don't watch your good sports shows with everything.

You know, they want everything prim and proper and blah, blah, blah. We know, Sean. You should also tell the military who also doesn't want facial hair.

But thank you, Sean. You know what? I got another question for you with the military. You have a question for me?

Oh, my God. You haven't asked me a question. You made a statement.

Go ahead. Ask your question. Excuse me? All the girls in the military have or will get away with long hair.

How come guys can't? Man, I don't know, bro. I'm not paying attention. Have you told have you watched G.I. Jane?

I don't know. I haven't been in MEPS in a while, Sean. Thank you. Were you in the military? I tried to get in there. I had flat feet.

Oh, I've heard that before. You didn't make it past MEPS. Hey, Sean. I didn't make it past.

I didn't make it past the steps on the scale. I heard. Well, thank you for calling from Michigan. Appreciate you. OK.

Thank you for being in heaven. Appreciate you. Thank you. All right. Hickey, are you ready to like now move on?

Yes, I think so. Now we learned about Sean's flat feet. Let's go back in time.

June 25th. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything.

And it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the J.R. Sport Brief Show.

I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. June 25th, 1997. On ESPN, the NHL said we got more teams. We can't wait.

Listen to this. For a league that just 30 years ago resided in only six cities, the Millennium will see NHL frozen ponds and glowing pucks in 30, including the capital of country music and the home of the Buckeyes. The order for joining the league begins with Nashville in the 98-99 season. They will join the Central Division with three of the original six, Chicago, Detroit and Toronto, plus St. Louis. Phase two begins in 1999 when Atlanta, not the Flames, join the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference. By the turn of the century, expansion will be complete with Columbus and Minnesota, not the North Stars, entering the league.

Back to Canada. Anyway, also this day, June 25th, 1997, there was a giant man from the American Virgin Islands who was selected number one overall in the NBA draft. His name was Tim Duncan. With the first pick in the 1997 NBA draft, the San Antonio Spurs select Tim Duncan from Wake Forest University. Tim Duncan has some fans up here in the Carolinas, the big All-American, the first pick in the draft, making the walk that so many players dream of making.

It's crazy. Two years to that day, June 25th, 1999, Tim Duncan helped the Spurs beat the living hell out of the New York Knicks. They won their first title.

This is NBC. And how often have we seen teams say, Avery Johnson, you have to make shots in the fourth quarter? The San Antonio Spurs have won their first NBA championship.

Yeah, that's crazy. A bunch of guests that we typically have on were on that team. Antonio Daniels, Avery Johnson. The Spurs beat the Knicks 78 to 77, won the series four games to one.

Let's hit the fast forward button. June 25th, 2009. Some guy out of Oklahoma was the number one pick in the NBA draft. With the first pick in the 2009 NBA draft, the Los Angeles Clippers select Blake Griffin. Blake, for the last six weeks, you've known that you were going to be picked by the Clippers. The moment that you heard your name called, what was the first thing that ran through your mind? Man, just relief, man.

It's great to know exactly where I'm going and to have it set in stone. Blake Griffin was exciting as hell until his knees stopped working. And Blake Griffin just retired. That's crazy.

And now he's doing comedy. What a world that we live in. Anyway, those were a few things that took place this day in sports history. What's today? June 25th. It's time to talk about the future.

Hickey, we're going to be gone for, well, I'll be here the rest of the week, but we won't be together until like after July 4th, man, the week after that. That's crazy. Yeah. Wow. Long time. I guess I don't think about that.

July 9th. That's ten, two weeks, basically, almost. Wow. Yeah. Don't miss me too much.

Yeah. Well, I'll be here the rest. I won't. Well, I will miss you, but I won't. I will, but I won't. I want you to enjoy yourself.

Yeah. This is our last day for now. And it will be back following the holiday. I'll be here the rest of the week. And then I will be here Monday and Tuesday of next week. And then I also will be disappearing off of the face of the earth until the following week. That's just called life, folks.

That's just what it is. And so, Hickey, thank you as always for an amazing time. You're going to miss the top six tomorrow, man. You're going to miss it.

I know. And I don't want to give it away, but it's a good one. So I'm very excited for it. I'm sad I won't be here to listen to it.

You don't have to give it away. The NBA draft is tomorrow. So you're going to have a bunch of dudes who get drafted, expected to change the world for their respective teams. Meanwhile, I'll be here on the radio telling everybody about the top six busts in NBA history. So there you have it, Hickey. We're going to talk about people that suck. That's going to be fun.

Yeah. Today we talked about champions like Tennessee and like the Florida Panthers and the Celtics. And tomorrow we'll talk about the guys that that didn't work out. OK, Hickey, where can people follow you and social media and all of that stuff?

Ryan underscore Hickey and the number three on Twitter will be posting a good amount from Italy the next few days. But good, man. Enjoy it. Enjoy it.

Me, I'm at J.R. Sportbrief. I'll be back with you tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. We'll be talking about the NBA draft, plus a top six list of some of the biggest busts that we've ever seen in NBA history. You'll be safe, be well, be smooth and be cool. Thank you to Bill for joining us from the Panthers earlier in the show. If you missed a minute, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. I'm going. I got to leave. Hickey, have a great time, but don't leave anywhere here on the Infinity Sports Network.

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