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Anyway, we talked about a lot so far. Atlanta Hawks decide to trade DeJounte Murray from Atlanta to New Orleans. Yeah, he's a pelican now.
No more DeJounte and Trey. 55 and 62 recorders are for losers. Anyway, what a week it's been, a wild week. And as I sit here and well, I stand up in the studio, as I stand in the studio, there's even more things going on. I had to lose my mind watching the NHL draft.
Damn. We talked about a lot. You missed a minute.
Hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. We kind of ran down everything. Kyle Filipowski, the Atlanta Hawks trade, a DeJounte now going to the Pelicans, and we talked Lakers, and man, we even got into Paul George and his free agency. We talked about the future of the NBA. Somebody like Cooper Flagg expected to go number one overall next season. If he lights it up at Duke, we talked about Klay Thompson.
It looks like he might be done in Golden State. What? Maybe.
It's possible. And then right before the break, as I told you about the NHL draft, it is so cool. It's taken place at the Spear in Las Vegas. You know that ridiculous thing that James Dolan bought or had built? Big old ball.
Well, it's a spear. Home of the NHL draft. Not too bad, not too shabby. Looks pretty, looks pretty cool.
I mean, you got all them lights and screens that makes the Barclay Center look like a dungeon. And so thinking about what we've had so far in the draft. I've only seen one person named a Genla in my whole damn life. His name is Jerome.
He played for the Calgary Flames. And I'm standing here in the studio getting ready to go to commercial. And I'm saying to myself, I see a guy get drafted. His name is a Genla. And I'm like, wait a minute, this has to be. He's got to be related to Jerome. And it's his son.
This kid's name is Tij. And he just got drafted to the latest franchise here in the NHL. Or franchise that move. What a stupid name they got. The Utah, Utah Hockey Club? Are you kidding me? I know it's a temporary name, but you couldn't come up with better than that for a year.
Congratulations to the again list. That's that is crazy as hell. Not quite LeBron James esque.
Jerome's son is only 17 years old. Congratulations to him as he applies his trade in the NHL whenever he makes it over there. Shout outs to our producer holding it down in New York for us. Colton. Yes, sir. What a day. What a day.
I didn't expect to see that, Colton. I saw a Genla and I said to myself, does everybody who plays professional sports, does everybody's kid just play? Everybody's kid doesn't, huh?
It sure seems like it that way nowadays, doesn't it, JR? Yeah. Look, Jerome could still play. You think he's still got something left?
No, right? He's cooked. Definitely cooked. He's cooked. Yeah, he's cooked. Now, wouldn't that be something if he, he ain't necessarily Gordie Howe out there, but I guess everybody can't be LeBron James, even though we've yet to see LeBron play with his son.
That day is pretty much inevitable. We'll get into that as the show continues and rolls on. It's just a cool sight to see the NHL drive taking place in the spirit. Have you been out there yet in Vegas, Colton? You've seen it yet?
I have not, no. Yeah, it's just a big ball of light. That's it. A way for James Dolan of the New York Knicks and Rangers, Radio City, another way for this man to just go out there and make money. And why not? It's Las Vegas.
I mean, if they're going to dump this stupid spear somewhere and hold events, there's no, no, no better city, I would say. Imagine having money, JR, like that. It's like, you know what I'm going to do? You know what I'm going to do with all my money? I'm going to go build a big ball and I'm going to go put it out in Vegas and let's see what happens with it. So imagine that, just like having that money, like, I'm going to go do that. Easy when it's your daddy's money, right?
Yeah, that definitely helps again. But then up here in New York, we have the dump of the mall that has now turned into a big mall that used to be an absolute dump next to MetLife Stadium. Oh, well, the American? Yes, the American Dream Mall or whatever. Yes. Have you been in- I have not. No, I'm not interested in all that nonsense. You're not going in that ski thing that took 50 million years to build?
That's right. That's what I'm talking about, the ski life. It was so ugly sitting next to MetLife. It's like, oh, gosh, you have an AC unit here and then you have that dump. I'm like, what are we doing? And then you have a sphere out there in Vegas. Like what are we doing?
We have, I just don't get it. You have New York. It's all pop. And then everything we have around here is yikes. SoFi is beautiful. Allegiant Stadium's beautiful. And then you have New York and it's like, oof. Are you saying all the stadiums in New York are garbage?
I might get killed for this, JR. I think MSG is overrated. It's whatever. The renovation was just, it's whatever, but keep going.
Yeah, I think MSG is overrated in MetLife. I think it looks like an air conditioning unit, JR. It does. You know what you're right. I've always called it a concrete dump, but it does look like an AC. It looks like an AC unit. And then you have SoFi as beautiful as that is in LA. And then Allegiant Stadium's beautiful.
Like what are we, you would think MetLife is like 20, 30 years old. No. It is.
Allegiant, have you been inside Allegiant? No. Oh my gosh. I wish.
It is. It is sleek on the, it is as sleek and beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside. You feel like, and you know, everything is so cool.
There's an, I don't know, you don't have to be a Raiders fan. Black is cool. Like, like there's a reason why bikers wear black. There's a reason why Darth Vader was out there in black and had the mask, besides being burnt to a crisp. Like black is sleek. It's fashion. There's a reason why people in New York, they always say people in New York, everybody wears, it's just, you just rock black. That's it. No frills, no nothing.
You can fashionize it, whatever. Black is cool. Allegiant Stadium, just to have the, it's like the tiles are black. The lights are black with white lights. Walking through Allegiant Stadium, you feel bad-ass. You feel like you're going to beat somebody up and you feel cool. Uh, Barclay Center is black.
It feels, uh, black. Okay. Uh, Madison Square Garden, as you mentioned, is just a renovation. I miss the old Madison Square Garden.
Sue me. City Field is okay, right? You like City Field? Never been Yankees fan over here.
Oh, okay. I think the new Yankee Stadium is eh. I like the old Yankee Stadium better. New Yankee Stadium is too big.
Yes. It's too big. Massive.
I mean, well, I guess beggars aren't true. The old Yankee Stadium was too small, if you ask me. I hated going. Hated. Trying to walk through the concourse was just, I felt like I was back in the 20s.
And I guess that wraps it up for all this data. I'm not going to UBS so long. I'm not going out there. UBS.
I'm right there, aren't I, JR? Overrated. You think New York, big market. No. No. Stadiums are very overrated.
They're not, they're not great out here. So what did you want? Dolan to put the, he could put the spear in Times Square? He could. It'd be something somewhat, I guess, interesting about New York, huh? Could you imagine if they did put, well. Where you putting that thing? I'm saying, where the hell would you put it? It'd have to be a miniature version. The thing holds what?
15,000 people? Hey, put it on an island. Hey, put it on an island. One of those islands?
Yeah, put it on there and just be a laughing stock. The vacant one with the, with the graves or the one that used to hold like the insane asylum? Oh. Coin flip over, JR.
I don't know. Imagine that. Wouldn't that be so New York-like, you know, something weird like that?
The sphere out here? Just put it on a random island and say, ah, get to it. I don't know if they could, you could, maybe you put a spear in Nash, but that's, it's, I think the spear is tacky for any place that's not Vegas. Oh yeah, absolutely.
It's very fitting. I mentioned this earlier this week, I don't know why I was talking about it, something happened with the spear. James Dolan wanted to put one in Las Vegas, not in Vegas, there's one in Vegas already. He wanted to put one in London. London said no because of the light pollution. Because it's just a big, it's a spear that's lit up.
And I'm sure you could turn the lights off at night and this and that's sure fine. But even when it gets to, the sun goes down, you just got a ball blinking just, just in the middle of the city? I don't know. Maybe they can put one in Hong Kong or maybe, no, not Hong Kong has its own problems, but a beautiful lit up city. I don't know.
I don't know. Maybe another one of these Asian cities with the big lights. Maybe give Tokyo. Tokyo could have a spear, but well, they could do baseball in there or sumo wrestling. I said the only thing that comes to mind would be Tokyo. Outside of that, I think it'd be very out of place.
And the only place in the US, again, it'd be Hawaii, it was New York, but the only place would be Vegas. No spear in Minneapolis. Oh gosh. Texas, no spear in Texas. Yeah. Vegas is, no, not New Orleans. New Orleans doesn't need no spear. Yeah.
Congratulations. It'd be nice. I like the technology though. NBA has some room to grow. They got to pick a new location.
Stretching a stupid NBA draft out over two days at the Barclays Center of all places didn't work. But you know, for all of these renovations we got going on, the Bears are expected to get a new stadium and Jacksonville Jaguars are getting a new stadium and well, they're getting a renovated stadium. I reeled earlier this week about another renovated stadium for the life of me.
I'm like, man, these billionaires can't pay for their own crap. Like the Carolina Panthers. Yeah.
We've run the gamut. Like a lot of stadiums all over the country are, they're new as hell. Minnesota has a new stadium. And I guess at this point, Foxborough is kind of old. I guess they'll be looking to fix that up.
And I actually think they are. How long before MetLife gets a facelift? How long you think they don't wait?
Another 10 years? They won't fix the turf. They won't fix the grass. But don't worry, they're going to bring in new sod for the World Cup. In Copa America, don't worry, they're bringing in grass for that.
But no, no, no, no. We're not doing it for the players, for our actual NFL players. I was going to ask you, we had Copa America here in Atlanta and everybody from Argentina, they hated the grass because they said they did nothing but find sod and stitch it together. And they had Messi run around on this crap. Like we got the World Cup coming here.
What is it? In two more years? Damn. That time flies. We got the World Cup and then we have the Olympics.
There's a lot of stuff going on in America. They better figure it out, JR. I'm a footy guy. They better figure out this turf situation, this grass situation before the World Cup because it is going to be a disaster in two years if they do not figure this out. You think, well, the final is going to be, and the final is going to be at MetLife?
Yeah, absolute dump. At New York Stadium, huh? Yes, sir. Can't name it, what the hell it's really named because that's, can't call it New Jersey Stadium because if I live in Qatar, do I know what New Jersey is? No. Probably not for good reasons, no. Can't call it MetLife Stadium because MetLife ain't paying FIFA.
What a convoluted world it is. You don't feel confident that they'll have the grass figured out at all these stadiums? You don't feel good about that. Again, we have our own, their own players of their teams that they own going down with the turf. They just won't fix it.
I don't get it. I truly, I will never understand. You have two owners at MetLife and you still can't fix it and put actual grass. There'd be two of you paying for it.
I can go on a random tangent on this. I just don't get it, man. It costs money. They say we run enough events and it costs money. It's cost effective to just have the stupid turf out there. It is so silly, Jer. I don't get it. I mean, again, a lot of people aren't huge into soccer and all of it and watching, but some of these stadiums are absolutely gorgeous in what they do with the turf and how much money they invest into it.
It's incredible. That's why they have the best athletes in the world playing on it and you don't have to worry about injuries. Yet we have Saquon Barkley going down, Sterling Shepherd blowing their ACLs, Aaron Rogers, the last thing forward snaps, yet we will not change the grass here at MetLife and we will continue to play on turf and watch all of our players go down. Now, would Aaron Rogers, he would have got hurt regardless, that could grass or turf.
That old man's legs would have been cooked. But in regard, you don't think two years is enough to get the grass together? I know here in Atlanta, they waited like four days before. They said, let's stitch together some grass, which is a poor idea. But a two year leeway, you don't think FIFA is going to be like, hey, what the hell are y'all doing? They're going to have the grass together by then. I hope so, Jer. I truly hope so, because it's some of the greatest athletes in the world coming here.
So they better figure it out, Jer. Well, I think if these these football players ain't going to play on that crap, if it's garbage. Look, I have confidence. I have faith that the stadiums and the teams and the cities here will have the grounds together.
Nobody wants to be the embarrassment. Nobody wants to be the team where XYZ player, you know, blows out his knee because he's playing on some crap that they stitched together three days before. We'll see. I got faith.
I got confidence. At the same time it's FIFA. I guess they'll bribe somebody to get the job done. I expect it.
855-212-4227. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back. Speaking of money, I want to talk to you about the NFL because the NFL might owe you money.
I'll explain on the other side. It's the JR Sport Reshow, the Infinity Sports Network. We were talking about stadiums and arenas and grass and fields and the good ones, the bad ones. Jacksonville's getting a new stadium. That place is a dump. It is.
Rat's Nest. MetLife, as Colton pointed out, looks like an air conditioner. It does. It does.
Well, I can tell you this. These things cost money. In the case of the NFL, building a stadium costs you a couple bills.
Buying a team costs a few billion dollars. Well, it looks like the NFL might owe you and or me some money. It's been a lawsuit.
It's been kind of hanging around for the past six or seven years. As a small sports bar in San Francisco decided to go ahead and file and start a class action lawsuit against the NFL because of NFL Sunday Ticket. And what's the problem with NFL Sunday Ticket? Well, if you buy NFL Sunday Ticket, you know how much it costs.
Almost 400 bucks, depending on when and where you buy it, how long. 400 bucks is ridiculous. You get every game. Every game that's not in your neighborhood. If you live in one part of the country and your favorite team is on the other, you can still watch them. The 400 bucks, though.
I can't just buy my individual team. And if you're a sports bar or restaurant like the place that started the class action lawsuit, you got to pay thousands of dollars just to put the games on in your establishment. And tough going, right? And so the NFL, apparently for right now, is in a little bit of trouble. No big deal if you ask me, but I think they were in a little bit of trouble.
Take a listen to this report, courtesy of the folks at CNBC. Well, a jury, the jury has reached a verdict in the class action lawsuit against the NFL for this, the distribution of Sunday Ticket. And the jury is ruled in favor of the NFL Sunday Ticket in favor of the plaintiffs and against the NFL. Damages awarded total about $4.7 billion, $96 million for commercial subscribers to Sunday Ticket and $4.6 billion for residential subscribers to Sunday Ticket. The NFL issuing a statement saying that they're disappointed with the verdict and quote, we continue to believe that our media distribution strategy, which features all NFL games broadcast on free over the air television in the markets of the teams and national distribution.
The most popular games supplemented by many additional choices, including red zone Sunday Ticket and NFL plus is by far the most fan friendly distribution model in all of sports and entertainment. Here's the key piece here. They say they will certainly contest this decision as they believe the class action claims in this case are baseless and without merit. What that means is this will be appealed and could go all the way to the Supreme Court. Man, that means you ain't getting no money. Don't hold your breath.
This is going to be in litigation forever. If you like me have paid crap ton of money, a crap ton of money for NFL Sunday Ticket. And I've got I've gotten Sunday Ticket. Why? Because I talk about sports for a living, man.
I wasn't sitting here talking about, I don't know, the Los Angeles Chargers to the Ravens to the Dolphins. If I didn't need to know what the hell was going on, I wouldn't be paying for no Sunday Ticket. Least I can expense it for work. Sheesh, 400 bucks. How many games can you really watch at one time on NFL Sunday Ticket? I actually know I could put four games on a screen on a digital screen. I can't pull up Sunday Ticket and watch four games on my TV.
Come on. It is robbery. It is. It's also been said the price is overinflated. Why can't you pay for a singular team? Why do I have to pay for all 31 franchises that are outside of my local market?
Why do I have to do that? It sounds like robbery to me. And the NFL is trying to delay this, delay this, delay this. And now they could be on the hook for upwards of 13 billion dollars. That's about 500 million from each team. Y'all can afford it. You can do it once you take away the lawyer fees and I don't know, more fees and whatever to have you. Maybe you get two bucks that's if this makes it to the Supreme Court and doesn't get chopped down.
But this is this is robbery now. OK, 400 bucks. I know the NFL has a monopoly on everything. Before YouTube got a hold of NFL Sunday Ticket, it was reported that another entity wanted to offer it to fans for $70 a year. NFL said, hell no, we're going to YouTube. They're going to charge 400 and the fans are going to pay for it.
It's one of the greatest flim flams ever. It should be no reason why. Of 400 bucks, is it that was it worth that much? I can't pay to watch one team. I get it. The NBA runs games every day.
In the course of the season, just about every day, multiple games a day, basketball here, basketball there. Man, they don't charge 400 bucks. I get it. It's not the NFL. But then at the same time, the NBA actually says, hey, you only want to watch this game. You can pay to watch this one. You don't got to pay for the whole damn thing that you got options. The NFL has refused to do that. They say you pay for everything or you have nothing. It's like, well, shot me down at the legs, why don't you take my left arm, take my right arm, take my left one, my left leg, just just leave me with nothing. I hope the NFL loses.
I don't think so, but that's what it is. Colton, what are your thoughts on these ridiculous prices? Don't even get me started on how much people have to pay for streaming. You got to pay for the Internet. Now you got to pay for this. And it's impossible to watch all these games.
What do you think about this? It's ridiculous to be paying this much. I'm a fan. So I, again, of course, have to pay for Sunday ticket to watch the games being in the metropolitan market. So clearly, the Steelers are not on local TV for me. And then on top of a J.R., you have Amazon Prime. The Steelers had two games on the last season.
So what? I'm paying for YouTube for the whole season. And oh, by the way, I'm already, then I have to go pay for another entity to watch Netflix or to watch Amazon to watch the Steelers for two games.
Oh, then this year they're playing on Christmas. So now I have to pay for Netflix. So I'm paying how much for Sunday ticket? But then I don't get all the games. I don't do not get every single steer game for that price. I have to go then pay Netflix. I have to go pay Amazon.
What are we doing? It's I get it. People are paying the money for it.
So shoot, do it. But my goodness, they don't care about their fans. Like how much do we have to pay to watch these games and get them?
They know the they know the fans will pay for it. Now, let me ask you, when it comes down to the Amazons and what have you, can you not get that like on a free preview type thing? Oh, J.R., trust me, we do that. Oh, OK. I was going to ask. All right. You order it. You sign in. This is your free month. All right.
Then, OK, now my fiance, it's your turn. You sign up. It's your free month.
And we somehow get through the season. But my goodness, I think there was a report that said if you wanted to watch every single NFL game, I think it would cost a fan a little more than like a thousand bucks, I think. Or maybe I'm bugging. I feel like that's correct. That's like a thousand bucks, right? Yep. You're correct.
What NFL fan like and I'm I'm not I'm not B.S. Is it possible? Somebody there are people who are doing it, but is it possible to watch every single game? It's impossible.
You can't. I think I saw I think I saw something, J.R., I think it's cheaper to go to every single Carolina home game like a lot than it is to pay for Sunday ticket. I can imagine. Weren't they selling games for like a penny last year?
They sure were. And I forgot on top of all that peacock. I forgot. There's another one.
What is that? Like playoff games or Christmas, Black Friday, international. That's right. It was Black Friday and playoff game. They had the bills and bills and dolphins on there and people paid for. And then the Steelers game. Like, yeah, I think the results.
I believe the Brazil game is going to be you got to pay to see that. I believe, I think. I think you were correct here.
I don't know. That's what I'm saying. So you're paying how much for Sunday tickets? So if you're paying for all that, it should cover for every single game.
And it's like, oh, wait, there's more. You have to go buy three other networks to watch. No, because you are giving the NFL 400 bucks and Amazon is giving the NFL.
I don't know. How much are they paying for these individual games? Couple mill right off the top.
Correct. And Netflix is paying so much money. The number that came out for that was absolutely insane for just for Christmas games. Yeah, well, they get they're getting a couple of bill every year from from the television distributors for single games.
They're charging up more than a mill. There are two hundred and seventy two NFL games. Two hundred and seventy two games. That's the regular season.
Two hundred and seventy two games. Who's watching every game? How can you watch every game? I have Sunday ticket and if I'm in my house, I may say this game is a blowout. I'm going to check in on this one or I'm going to I'm flipping back and forth. I'm not watching a game.
I feel like I'm just looking at highlights. And then I also believe because I refuse to pay for that. Like, Red Zone is more money to just pay for what I just described.
Instead of having to flip around, Red Zone will do it for you. And so instead of watching individual games, you're just watching highlights live as they happen. You're right. The NFL doesn't care about the fans. They care about the fans. They care about their money.
That's it. And for years, they've got away with, hey, give us four hundred dollars. You get every game. Nobody batted an eye.
But I mean, the way the world is right now with streaming and a la carte, it seems like there's a natural expectation now of. I live in Miami, but I like the Jets. Why the hell am I paying all of this money for all these other games I do not care about? I don't give a damn what Deshaun Watson is doing. I don't care what Gino is doing in the Pacific Northwest. I just want to see Aaron Rodgers get hurt or throw a touchdown or talk about ayahuasca.
I don't want to pay all this money for all this extra stuff. NFL sure knows how to hustle people and for a class action lawsuit. I just they got enough money, they will they will kind of stretch this out in litigation for the next forever. If you think you all see money, don't count on it. And if you do see money. Three dollars, there's your cut. That'll make up for the 400 that you spent every year for the past, I don't know, 10 to 15 years.
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Well, unfortunately, I'm going to tell you about an all star in that league who just got voted to a damn all star game and he got hurt. I'll explain on the other side of the break. Right before we went to break, we complained because that's what we do, right? Especially about the price of things. Cost this much and this cost this and this is too much. We talked about the price of NFL Sunday ticket.
Class action lawsuit. The NFL might have to dole out 13 billion dollars after a small mom and pop restaurant bar in California said, enough is enough. You're going to charge us thousands of dollars to display NFL games like this is robbery. Y'all are screwing us over. Well, the court agreed and now the NFL is likely to appeal so they don't have to pay nothing. Who wants to pay money?
The answer is nobody. Colton brought up a great point. He's like, the NFL doesn't care about the fans.
I'm like, yeah, you're right. They care about the money because they know the fans are going to pay it. Speaking of not caring about fans, I'm going to tell you about a league that typically, they care about the fans money too. I don't think they always think about the fans.
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Atlanta Motor Speedway isn't too far away. Maybe I hit up. Let's see what they're doing. Maybe around Labor Day. Anyway, holidays are all rolling so damn fast. I cannot keep up. We're staring in the face of the Fourth of July less than a week away. I feel like we were just at Memorial Day. I don't know where the time goes, but it just it's here today and it's gone tomorrow.
Can't make the time go backwards to save my life. Anyway, this other league that I was telling you about for all these they want the money from the fans. They don't necessarily care about them. It's Major League Baseball. And the summer classic is on its way. The Major League Baseball All Star game is going to take place in Arlington, Texas at Globe Life, home of the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers. It's going to go down July 18th.
So you will blink. An All Star game will be here. But with these new All Star rules that I cannot keep up with. Everything is just always changing to me. Just keep things the same.
I can't keep up. They're rounds now when it comes to voting, and so players have to pass through multiple rounds to make the team. And so right now they're getting ready to go to the second round.
Now that we've pretty much had the first round established and done. And the guys who got the most votes in the first round, they automatically make the All Star team is rather prestigious. And so those two individuals, one representing the American League and the other representing the National League are Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees. There's your American League representative. And then there's Bryce Harper of the National League of the Phillies.
There is your National League representative. And Aaron Judge, no shock. This man, oh, he basically already has a season's worth of numbers. Like baseball is too easy for Aaron Judge. It is not an exaggeration to say that Aaron Judge is a man playing amongst boys. He's six foot seven, 270 pounds.
Man will crush you if he needed to. He has a season's worth of numbers. He is batting 300 with 30 home runs and 77 RBIs. I would say 90% of Major League Baseball players, maybe 95% of Major League Baseball players would sign up to have those be their numbers for the entire season. And if he continues going at this pace, maybe he breaks his own American League home run record.
I don't know. Do the math. It's 60 home runs, you know, 100. And damn it, if he gets 150 RBIs, like, bruh, just relax a little bit. I'm not even going to push him to the 160, 180.
Let's relax, OK? Bryce Harper on the, well, first, this is Aaron Judge's sixth All-Star appearance. Sixth. Bryce Harper, on the other hand, this is his eighth All-Star game. He also got about three million votes. Aaron Judge got three million. Aaron Judge had more than him. Bryce Harper, 20 home runs, 58 RBIs, batting 303, the new first baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies. He's going to the All-Star game, right?
Well, last night, because it is Bryce Harper and something has to go wrong. Is it his elbow? Is it his knee? Is it his neck?
Is it his back? Last night, Philadelphia was playing against Miami and Bryce Harper was at the plate. The game is pretty much done. Bryce Harper's trying to leg out a single just to try to get on base. The score is seven to four, Miami, and they're basically going to lose. It's like, man, if I can get on base, maybe we can get a rally going.
Otherwise, the game is over. Things didn't work out that way last night for Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper, well, this guy.
Take a listen to NBC Philly. He hit the bag awkwardly. He grabbed that hands right away. Quick.
Come on, man. Like, can Bryce Harper stay healthy ever? So he had to leave the game and now he's on the 10 day disabled list with a hamstring string. Kyle Schwarber is also on the injured list 10 day with a left groin strain. And I'm just, I'm like, damn it. Is it, is there always going to be something wrong with Bryce Harper?
Always? He's 31 years old. I feel season after season after season. He can't make it through a season. Last year, 126 games, 2022-99 games, 2021-144. And by the time he was finishing up in Washington and just getting to Philly, he played in most of the games. But, you know, I will give Bryce Harper credit because Bryce Harper is not Mike Trout. I will give him that much. I mean, if you would go back 10 years, you would say to yourself, oh my God, between Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, these are going to be the two biggest stars in Major League Baseball for the next 10 to 15 years.
Not so much, right? This is like Shohei Ohtani's time. Aaron Judge, 32 years old. This man's power. They're going to slap him at DH one day and just say, bruh, just hit the ball. He's like, I can do it.
I'm 6'7", almost 300 pounds. If you thought Frank Thomas was a problem, what the hell is Aaron Judge? You know, that's some fantasy booking right there. Colton, could you imagine a home run derby? Who else would you put in? If you put Frank Thomas and Aaron Judge in a home run derby, who else would you put in that? Barry Bonds.
Oh my God. With or without the drugs? Either way, either way, Barry Bonds is in there. Oh, I think it'd have to be the drug version. I mean, you want a show, then quit with the drug version. It'd be the drug. I mean, if we're going to do the drug version of the home run, we got to get Jose Canseco in there as well.
Mark Maguire. Oh my God. Well, that just feels dirty now. This feels dirty. Well, you mentioned the drugs part of it. You like Barry Bonds with the drugs, so you know, there we go. No, Frank Thomas is clean. I hear you.
So then you want an all clean version? Ken Griffey Jr.? Yeah, big natural fellow, okay? No druggies. Hey, Barry Bonds was a show.
Yeah. Well, I mean, if we want the druggies, Manny Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, Mark Maguire, Rafael Palmeiro, you put him in there. Who's some other drug? I still remember that. I think Luis Gonzalez one year had 57 home runs.
Am I making that up? I think Luis Gonzalez, listen, all bad speed, of course. All bad speed.
Yeah, that's right. All bad speed. I see one clean, Josh Hamilton. Josh Hamilton could put on a show on the home run. Josh Hamilton? Clean?
I mean, he was on some other type of drugs. That poor guy. See? Yeah.
Oh my God. Where is Josh Hamilton? I don't know where Josh Hamilton is. Oh, is he in rehab? I hope he is.
I hope so. I will never forget that home run derby, man. Wow. He was cranking. Wasn't that, was that in Yankee Stadium? Yes, it was. It was in Yankee Stadium.
Put on a show. Yeah, Josh Hamilton is 43 years old. Giancarlo Stanton? That's about the only thing he could do. He's clean. Yeah, he can't run around the bases.
No, don't ask him to do that. He's gonna pull something like, oh, wait. Yeah, he's out again. Yeah, a baseball player cannot. Well, listen, we've had a lot of baseball players that can't run, but damn, I think Giancarlo Stanton takes it to another level. Man, he needs a leg transplant.
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